1. How would I explain the makeup process?
Stage Makeup
How would I explain the makeup process?

2. Stage Makeup Straight—enhance natural features
Character—creates a specified role
Old age
Cream or grease base preferred
Variety of colors
Easy to blend
Highlight and shadow
Correct and change features

3. Stage Makeup Spirit gum Sable brush Don’t wear makeup outside theatre
Attach beards and mustaches
Sable brush
To apply liner
Don’t wear makeup outside theatre
Amateurish
First and last step of process
Wash face

4. Stage Makeup Old age makeup=lighter base Crepe hair Stipple sponge
Beards and mustaches
Stipple sponge
Stubble
To age a character, apply wrinkles
To eyes
To forehead
To laugh lines

5. Stage Makeup In blue lights, red lipstick is black Chiaroscuro
The ancient artistic technique which stage makeup is based upon
Bone structure
Key to makeup
Makeup is expensive.
Not all programs can afford much.

6. Stage Makeup A skilled makeup crew is essential to a production.
Facial soap and cleanser are effective ways to remove makeup.
Avoid cold creams
If the face is too wide..
Use a darker base on the sides to shape it.

7. Stage Makeup If the nose is too short..
Shadow the tip and highlight the ridge
Boys should never have a definite lip line.
Worry and excitement cause breakouts, not makeup.
Hands usually are forgotten in the old age makeup process.

8. Stage Makeup
Too much light from above results in shadows under all the bony prominences of the face.
It takes ½ hour for straight makeup.
It takes 1 hour for character makeup.