Backstage

This photo set is the brainchild of Gabriel Bertolini, loosely inspired by an article published in Kurv Magazine, and of course, the work of all of us.
The idea of ​​the Gothic white, that lends itself well to the soft lighting of the set and the magnificent interpretation of Francesca, is embodied in a makeup veiled in tones very clear, whitish.

On the basis of a lighter color I made light the light and shade of the face, a little’ more pronounced than on the eyes, already deep and still highlighted also by the false eyelashes.
For the mouth I thought of a nice bright red color, adequately shaded at the edges to give it more roundness to the shape and volume.
Eyebrows were raised slightly with the light and shade, allegerite defined but with the light color of the base. The ethereal gaze,finally, was accomplished by applying to Francesca of contact lenses of intense blue color.

The result is a trick of the light but at the same time based on dark eyes and mouth, gothic and ethereal, that highlights the beauty of Francesca, that giving something of melancholy.

Always a lover of mystical charm exercised by the woman feline, I freely inspired by a work of makeup and special effects seen all'IMATS 2009 and manufactured by Nelly Recchia, for the realization of this chimera, which contributed in costest istuito by the National Film Bologna.

The most striking feature of makeup are these huge ears feline style, which confer aggressiveness and at the same time sensuality to the face of Silvia, building with the rest of the face an almost perfect triangular.
For their realization, I leaned against the head of my faithful dummy annni vintage 70s often used for testing body-painting.
Being a project commissioned and without sponsors, I could not use the materials' quality’ and I had to make do with what we already had at home. First I then isolated the head with a thin plastic film for food, pulled to remove any pieghetta and secured with masking tape, so that it can stay as integral with the head. Once established forms and volumes with a quick outline of paper, also useful to create the symmetry with the other side, I started modeling phase with modeling clay.

Given the particular shape of the ear totally asymmetrical and the presence of several undercuts, I decided that the only way available to me to get that object, was to realize a mold in three pieces and with dual key (the top of the photo one of the two molds obtained with positive silicone attached).
Although it is not new to this dipo working, I guarantee you that the opening of the first mold has been as exciting as the opening of the Christmas gifts that I did my grandparents when I was a child.
The platinum silicone fact that I used (really not cheap, but it was one of the few materials I had available in good quantity) is a substance very sensitive, whose proper catalyst can be inhibited by many elements. Plaster mold, carnauba wax and vaseline instead worked perfectly.
Holding all the pieces, the realization of the work was not particularly difficult, but it required a lot of patience on my part is that by the model.
In fact, I started applying a cap (bald cap) in Glatzan blended with acetone, I also served to hide his ears and eyebrows.
I then glued the cat's ears with the pros-aide to the shell, ears that had deliberately left rather rough at the bottom and treated with talcum powder to facilitate the adhesion of the glue.
But also in the next layer gave uniformly over cap and ears, after sealing minor imperfections with bondo (pros-aide + Aerosil), I noticed an excellent adhesion over the entire surface.
The pros-aide dried with a hair dryer and then powdered provided a great base for color-based fat (Supracolor) used for the bottom.
In about three hours, also spurred by Silvia (my model, I owe a special thank you and part of the credit for the success of the project), I completed the, completing work with stencils and airbrush for the realization of the track maculata and eyebrows.

Halloween.. the night when the barriers between the worlds of the living and the dead become thinner..
But it can also be a zombie sexy? Because it is right that the trick, even if used only as a disguise, continue to enhance the face of the wearer.
We leave then latex and fake blood, to devote to a softer makeup, made of color and chiaroscuro.
Jaya, sweet and nice girl of Indian origin will help us in the enterprise.

Before you begin the trick I applied to Jaya contact lenses colored type 'Manson', This is to prevent later could bring the color on the eyelid in contact with the eyes or that they lacrimassero ruining so the trick.
The first operation of makeup needed was lighten the color of the skin, which has become a hot amber candy pink. To do this I sprayed a base airbrush with water colors.
Then I created a purple bruise, mixing together the pink base and appropriate amounts of red and blue.
This color was then used only in the recesses of the face and body, gradient, to increase the sense of depth. You can see clearly around the eyes, under the cheekbones, the edges of the nose and on the upper section of the bust.
Even the lips have been redesigned with a brush, with the same purple color used for the chiaroscuros, but giving the lower lip greater roundness.
I then apply false eyelashes, long but not thick, that helped give the eyes a sense of roundness.
The hair, already collected for the trick, were covered with a beautiful black wig, that Jaya had found in the morning and that he could not resist..
A range of accessories such as lace gloves and a crown of flowers have compeltato the Gothic look.
Felice Halloween !:)

Estate, sun. In an environment that closely resembles the style of David Cronenberg, cool colors of steel meets the warm tones of the flesh.
Maria, is immersed in geometric spaces of iron and cement, dressed in metal.
Law, blonde with blue eyes is cold, cold, but still meat, illuminated by the warm light of sunset.
Her makeup is a gray and black smokey eye, that goes with the color of the dress, and with a design to elongated oval it emphasizes the eyes.
The lips are mentioned appenna, marked with a pencil natural color, and then faded.

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From an idea of ​​Valentina and the work of all of us is born this set.
In an enchanted location, a cross between a fairy tale and a dream, Giada girl back, and runs between games by flying his balloon…
Despite the chiaroscuro also strong background, everything is soft, light, delicate; the trick is therefore built according to this prerogative.
Similar to wedding makeup, Paving the basis, I reinforced light and shadow on the eyes, as well as in general on the face. The colors used are reminiscent and mix well with skin tones, the design of the lips and eyebrows was treated and finished with natural colors, lips polished also with a little’ of clear gloss, the eye in the finished watercolor drawing.

The result is a light and bright makeup, almost invisible, which highlights the radiant beauty of Jade, like in a dream.

Have in common a beautiful girl, a bright red dress medieval, un make up fashion moderno, an aseptic environment and gray cement, architecture and geometric essanziale, that surrounds ?
Should ask the photographer (Gabriele Bertolini) who set and achieved in this set, snapping a picture on your dream photo shoot. Certainly the effect choreographic works well, and leads the subject, Elena, our model, to dominate the scene, Look for evidence of color, Look for the dress, Look for its natural beauty.

For the realization of the makeup I followed also in this case the 'classic': fatty base for contouring & highlights sul fondo, Transparent powder, eyeliner and powder on top, with tone on tone colors with those of the dress. Despite the heat of the day (plus you add the one generated by the dress, not just 'summer') makeup has held up well and allowed us to shoot up into the night.

The make up for this shooting is to be made lighter and spring, almost invisible, which enhances the natural beauty of the model (Maria Ida Righi was named Miss Reggio Emilia and has participated in 2003 the final of Miss Italy) surrounded by a bucolic environment almost Leopardi (CFR. “On Saturday the village”).

The trick has been achieved starting from a light and dark and light points (contouring & highlight) to highlight the depth of the face; technique also used on the lips.
Given the summer temperatures are entrusted me with a foundation based fat, then fixed with powder clear, technique now used routinely even in makeup and in the film Bride, and which provides excellent sealing.

Eyebrows were already a good design, I only comb and fill them with water color eyeliner.

Lipstick and pink blush to the cheekbones shaded eyelids have contributed to the model's face looks more radiant and natural.

E’ was really nice and fun to slip this year Cartoomics, fair that was held from 16 to the 18 March at the exhibition in Milan, under the guise of helping Samuela, friend of long standing, the realization of the trick (face e body painting) which has transformed into Lady Vashj, character in World of Warcraft.
In the specific, in addition to helping her achieve her face on the character facepainting, I have created and implemented a couple of cosmetic contact lenses scleral, she has patiently worn both days, for the entire duration of the event, and that turned the eyes of those diabolical Lady Vashj.

(cosplay Lady Vashj)

(cosplay Lady Vashj)

REPRESENTATION in the 50s most of the world, and the United States in particular, a period of flourishing economic: the boom of the recovery after the second world war pervades all sectors. In music we say new rhythms, Rock'n'Roll was born that turns out to be not just a musical phenomenon, but also of manners: thousands of teenagers imitate the look and attitudes emerging rock stars. The TV sees the advent of color (USA, 1954) adjustment that will also shoot in film, creating a definitive break with the black and white of the past.

The make-up sees succession various styles and interpretations, born pin-up style that remains popular to this day, but also the delicate trick to Doris Day as opposed to the more sensual and languid Jayne Mansfield or Marilyn Monroe. The latter is the one actress who always populated the collective imagination, in her charming style and sensual, as a classic icon of recent years and, for this reason, is chosen as an example of makeup to recreate the look of the 50s.

(Jayne Mansfield)

(Marilyn Monroe)

The trick there.. and it shows! E’ precisely with the beginning of the year 50 fact that the trick starts to become a tool for corrective accessory charm. The woman is sensual, charmer, seductive, and how many more weapons has to exercise its charm, it uses many.

The color television, now within reach of many, helps make the image more vivid, spreads almost instantaneously new fashions and new looks from the spectators, where the shades of makeup will move naturally towards the red hot pink lips and cheeks of intense.

The false eyelashes, wigs and toupees are new tools of seduction available to all women, especially in the U.S. if it sees an increasing use starting from this period.

(50s Makeup)

(Make up anni ’50)

The realization of the make up 50s

As always, the base is made with funds based fat long-lasting, typical of the trick photography and film. Using a pinkish hue of the same shade of skin, I choose a color a few shades lighter for the area around the eyes and central part of the face, thus realizing immediately highlights and corrections (chiaroscuro). Hydrated and powdered her and beginning to lay the colors.

Drawing the eyebrows hair by hair, trying to give a shape that enhances the eyes, and at the same time remember the gull-wing design, just typical of the 50s. This design is characterized by an initial thickness rather high, which goes to taper in an almost uniform until the end of the eyebrows. The stretch is linear up to the point of maximum height, which makes an angle very noticeable, and linear descendant of the eye to the tail.

Marco then the eyeliner with a black drawing 'pagoda’ removal on the eyelid, Drawing the thin part and reaches the maximum thickness of approximately 1/3 and then go inside and stretch a few millimeters thinner than the tail of the eye.
The shading on the eyes is very important: The eyelid crease is marked with a dark color, gradient and a very light color further up the point of maximum height of the eyebrows.

Finally, drawing the full lips and round, a beautiful deep red color. A newly designed with a black pencil between his nose and guacia is the finishing touch for this look.

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The Second World War (1939-1945), protagonist of the first five years of this decade, only moderately affected the film industry in Hollywood, who saw in these years the emergence of big players (come Cary Grant, James Stewart, Gary Cooper, Henry Fonda , Humphrey Bogart e Ingrid Bergman) and the creation of memorable film productions (Casablanca, Kane).

Despite the current technology already ventilasse the possibility to realize color film (Techincolor), most of the films were still in black and white, because of technical difficulties and high costs of production (3:1 compared to white and black). It has in fact, that 1947 the production of color films represented only 12% of the total.

For this reason, the make-up was not particularly upset over prior to the '30s, but it represented a natural evolution.

(Rita Hayworth, 1946)

(Katharine Hepburn,1940)

The trick is natural, Portable, eyebrows have returned to their proper volume, frame the eye in a rounded design 'wing swallow'. Born the use of false eyelashes make-up of the great Hollywood actresses: long hair mink were glued to the end of the eyelid creating a completely natural and invisible to the eye of the beholder.

In these years is the mouth to dominate the scene: The design on the upper lip is rounded, As in the '30s, but until you zoom out often from his natural design (Judy Garland's pensi a, Veronica Lake, Katharine Hepburn o Rita Hayworth) while the lower lip will copy the volume, but assumes a drawing squared, wide and low to near the edge of the mouth.

Red (or auburn) is the dominant color in the colors of the hair of the hottest actresses in recent years.. because it was noticed that these shades were better defined and more readable by the film in shades of black and white.

(40s Makeup)

(40s Makeup)

The realization of the make up 40s

Starting from the base, I have stretched a fund fat pink tint and color not too distant dall'incarnato Model, on which I subsequently realized the light and shade, light on the nose, a little’ higher for the definition of the outline of the face and upper eyelid.

On the upper eyelid also have better defined the lash line with black pencil, then vanished in the direction of the eyebrow, thus creating a shadow which reaches up to approximately half the height of the eyelid.

On the lower eyelid I then spread a very light eye shadow color brown, Slightly faded to white below the height of the eyebrows.

The eyebrows were combed and filled with a light watercolor eyeliner color light brown (suitable for blonde hair)

Even cheekbones were dug by chiaroscuro, and cheeks rosy colors in a gradient.

I did not zoom operations on the mouth because it was already visible on the face, but I limited myself to redraw the boundary and inner edges blend it in with a darker color to give depth.

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