My final piece of work at University for my Musical Theatre degree was a personal study. This allowed me to pick a topic of my choice as long as it related in some way to Musical Theatre as a whole. We could do a written or performance based dissertation and personally i chose to do a portfolio on The art of Make Up. This allowed me to look at a wide range of make up looks from stage or screen. I took inspiration from existing make up looks and recreated my own.As somebody who is obsessed with make up and love having a creative input myself, i had a lot of fun. One of my favourite looks was for The Little Mermaid as the character Ariel. Being my favourite disney princess i couldn't resist going a bit crazy with the makeup and GLITTER. I'll go through steps of the make up look if you want to recreate yourself after all halloween is under 4 months away...
Firstly, hope you're enjoying the cornish pasty hair, i was half way through performing in another show at University whilst doing my portfolio, it comes out soon! These pictures are the first three steps of creating this make up look. Start with a blank canvas as they say, i used a foundation colour which matched my skin tone and covered any blemishes/dark circles as best as it could, obviously not a miracle worker! I associate the turquoise and purple with Ariels colour palette due to her tail and shell bra and wanted to use these bright colours for the eye shadow. I used fairly cheap eyeshadows from the 120 Makeup Full Colour Eyeshadow Palette.I started with the turquoise blue as a base on the eyelid then went in with purple and worked from the outer area of the eye moving in to the crease and shading them together. I chose a strong brow mostly because defined eyebrows are very important on stage as they help emphasise the acting and emotions, normally i'd go for a much softer brow.
Next i added a winged eyeliner drawing the eyes out, giving the 'big disney eye' effect and helping to enhance the lashes when eventually on. I used the purple eyeshadow from before and mixed it with a shadow based primer with a lot of shimmer. I shaded from my forehead above my brow bone round to my cheeks with the shadows and added turquoise in certain areas. To add a bit more sparkle i began with the glitter, who could resist, with purple and turquoise glitter i put it on top of the shadow using a liquid latex adhesive and applied with an old make up brush. Moreover to add a bit more sparkle to the eyes i added turquoise shadow close to the waterline under my eye and using a silver eyeliner i added MORE GLITTER (why not) to make it more magical and mermaidy. To complete the eyes i wore some outrageous false eyelashes complete with little flowers to give tribute to Ariels love for underwater flowers through the film.
I added the red lip to complete the Ariel look with some high beam on the cheek area to give an extra glow. This really helps enhance the makeup look on stage but still looks great for a fancy dress party or any other event where one might require to be a mermaid! This really was such a simple make up look even though it looks a teeensy bit complicated.
Let me know what you think about the look and if you recreate it! Mermaids love a selfie, who knew.
Over and out,
Pale (Abi) Gail
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