Firstly, I hung up all my sheets to create curtains for my model to stand behind in order for him to feel more comfortable. I then set out my equipment to ensure I had everything I needed and that I wouldn’t run out of anything. I then turned on the lights around my station to ensure that I had good lighting and therefore I could check my application of the face paint wasn’t streaky. When I was set up and my model had everything he needed I was happy to start.
I began with applying the bald cap and to do this I started by gelling my model’s hair slick back. I then placed the bald cap on my model’s head and carefully applied a prosthetic adhesive around my model’s forehead and step by step secured it down. I found this quite difficult to make it all smooth around the back of the head and to stop it all from wrinkling up. Once the bald cap was applied I then added the prosthetic ears I had made, again using the same adhesive. These seemed a really good size when I was making on the face cast however once I had applied them to my 5’9 model they looked a little too small, so next time I would make them bigger. While these were drying I started on my body paint. I started by painting my models stomach white then blended it into yellow around his sides and then into orange around his back as I was using reference pictures of a tiger of google to try and replicate. My first body art technique was stippling the paint on. This gave me the most coverage and I used a very dense foundation brush to do this. I then worked my way onto his arms and used a white face paint on the inner portion and again blended it into orange around the backs of his arms and I did exactly the same on his legs. The blending wasn’t the easiest, so I just had to keep going in with each colour to try and get a seamless blend. This was my second body art technique, I used a dry beauty bender to try and buff the colours together, but I waited for them to dry slightly to prevent the colour from transferring. My model’s legs were very hairy so this is one thing I would definitely change next time as the paint didn’t go on as smooth on the legs as it did for the rest of the body. My model also didn’t feel comfortable taking his socks off so I had to improvise and try and make it look as though the paws were black and the stripes stemmed up from there. Once I had added black stripes all over my model’s body I then went in and added white in areas to make it look like fur and to help it look more realistic. To do this I used a fan brush to create the hair like strokes and this was my third body art technique. I then painted the front of my model’s neck and chin white to try and make the face look similar to the pictures I was looking at. Next, I applied my prosthetic nose which was the most difficult thing as I feel as though I had filled it too much and the shaping was slightly off as it was based off a face cast with a smaller nose than what my model had. Once I had completed the painting of the face I added a little pink nose and went around my model’s eyes with black eyeliner. Overall, I was happy with the look I had created as you could tell it was a tiger, I had met the brief and followed all health and safety precautions. However next time I would change certain steps and add some whiskers made from wire and some claws moulded out of polymorph. I would also ask my model to wear white boxers in order for me to be able to paint over the top of them as this was also an issue we came across today.
Becky x
hairmakeup.fashion.blog 