Backstage

The pictures of this editorial were taken to Litohlavy, near Prague, in Czech Republic.
With a po’ creativity in your pocket as a model and Marina, not only kind and helpful, but also excellent in interpreting the part, He did this service, in which the author (a little’ guilty) Also of photography.
The trick was accomplished by collecting hair and applying a clear basis, on which they were made the light and shade of the face, pushing a little’ cheekbones and redefining the shape of the nose.
To do this I used a slightly darker color, and opened the face shape ridelineando shadows of the wings of the nose with a stretch wider and well-shaded, it made him look slightly lower.
The eyes were emphasized with chiaroscuro, making them a bit’ wider and lifting the external cutting.
Even the eyebrows have been raised slightly, inserting a lighter color on the eyelid fixed below, and reshaping and filling remnants.
To increase volume and length of eyelashes, I applied false eyelashes natural, not too thick, tailored.
I wanted to renew the image of Marina, because after a long period of long, brown hair I think it was the time to indulge in something new.
So, as the natural hair could not be touched for reasons of the contract with the agency he works, daughters I have collected them in a net on which I applied this beautiful wig classic cut some’ bob and fringe, below then combed and adapted to his face, and green colored contact lenses, further to turn the look in his eyes.
The mouth was rigged with a medium dark lipstick, tinged with brown 'shadow’ on the sides of the mouth and lit in the central part of the same highlighter used for the face.

Excellent finally, the interpretation of Marina, which it is lowered into the part and he gave a reading a little’ by dramatic Italian diva of the '50s.

More and more often it happens that, brides makeup for the wedding day, ask a makeup incisive, that is 'clearly visible in the picture', trend probably born from the contagion television operated by TV shows that envisage the use of color on eyes and mouth so often abundant and indiscriminate.

In general, I tend to recommend them a light makeup and natural, still leaving freedom of choice to the customer.

The creation of a make-up like what you see in the picture, in fact, does not imply a less secure job, but a more careful and wise use of cosmetics.

The secret of this trick is to remove, Instead of adding, or deleting minor flaws and blemishes of the skin creating a base first of all treated, making 'Tabula Rasa’ on the face, transforming it into a blank canvas before you begin to apply the color.

In this way, you will no longer need to use excessive colors to bring out the eyes and / or mouth, but only enough to get away with some shade from the base color, keeping shades of pink or amber, already naturally present on the face.

Using a pencil slightly darker shade for the lips or contour blurring the eyeliner around the eyes, we will highlight one or the other, making the natural effect and is perfectly readable by camera, and the photographs taken for the service.

The thing I like most about my job.. it's my job! See how much able to change the face and the characteristic traits of a person with nuance and chiaroscuro (and sometimes also adding some piece :D) it amazes me every time, and fills me with satisfaction.
Gabriela, 17 years, Brazil and Italy for the first time, came under contract for a major agency in Milan, is in its infancy in the modeling career, but in a few months has already learned all the secrets that are to be part of this world: is friendly and helpful, but with a strong character, patient during the professional make-up and in front of the goal, is willing to brave the cold late autumn despite being accustomed to the climate and temperatures much milder.
The morning runs away fast, makeup required is a make up base “nude-look”, that I often use as a base for bridal makeup, due to its ability to highlight the best features of the face iluminando eyes and hiding minor imperfections.
The time to carry out the shooting on location, you can find here: NextDoorModel.com/yellow-border-line-grabriela-godoi and returns to the makeup.
The basis of the corrective makeup has remained unchanged, I proceed then giving a little’ to emphasize the eyes (con uno smokey eyes nero) and mouth (Already, however, colorful), to make it all a bit’ more glamorous and sensual.

This is the result..

During the realization of a video presentation “Virtual Promoter”, taken care of by the Keep In Touch of Mantua for the fair Ecomondo Rimini, I was commissioned to create makeup and special effects on Violet, to give her a look that recalls the character of Star Trek “Seven of Nine”.

Violet, who starred several scenes in front of the camera, had to have a look cybernetic, with a sort of neural interface on the eyebrow, to attract the attention of visitors to the stand Tetra Pak presenting a futuristic look.

The Making of make-up
Before you start to make up your face I was in charge of coverage of the eyebrow, of which had to be installed interface. After combing the hair of the eyebrow and standardized, I applied a piece of shell cap mat then faded.
At this point I created a nice trick beauty uniform over the entire face, paying attention to the chiaroscuro.
Finally I applied and colored prosthetic part, previously made of latex and cold foam, for optimum mobility on the face.

-“What are you doing tonight ?”
The question, even if thrown in a little’ suddenly, demanded an answer states that the Dony was waiting for, probably cuddling one of her cats, on the other side of the chat interface.
“..nothing in particular” typed carelessly, waiting to receive an invitation to a pizza among friends that was active for too long.
-“how about Venice? per uno shooting. I have to give an answer to an American photographer who contacted me, and go alone I broke ..”
Venice has never been in the top ten of my ideal cities, nor to stay, let alone to live, universally recognized as dear (the famous 15 Euros for a coffee in Piazza San Marco are not a legend) and always crowded with tourists often wandering aimlessly.
-“..of course, all expenses paid, paid work, and take my car.” finish the sentence Dony, facing a moment of my hesitation.
“There are.” The answer slipped between his lips fast, had not yet passed by the brain when it came out of the mouth.
Anything would be better than a 'nothing special'. In the company of a friend like Dony also, the time spent on the freeway would fly, we would have had time to update us on our stories, and maintain mastered our English, all in one evening.

The evening itself, was better than all my expectations.
Critsey, the photographer who had engaged in the work, proved to be a nice person, intelligent and sympathetic, over that of good talent in the photograph.
And despite the set of the improvised, the results were not long to wait. I realized the makeup mirror with my suitcase leaning against the table in a bar, near the station Saint Lucia, surrounded by curious, some tourists Asia and some passerby who asked me to be rigged turn.
It was fun and unusual, so as to leave me in a strange mood, also during the following set, by making me appreciate what 39 years almost ignored.
Venice at night changing face. And it is mysterious and beautiful.

The realization of the makeup:
Also for this make up, I chose to use fatty bases by powdering, more stable and opaque compared to classical water based.
Lying on the bottom of the same skin color Dony, however, already free from imperfections, I made light and shade with the classic technique of chiaroscuro. To handle the face and give a more natural, I also applied a touch of blush (blush) in the vicinity of the cheekbones.
The eye makeup was instead creating chiaroscuro reinforcing the already present with a bronze-colored powder eyeshadow, evident on the upper eyelid and just mentioned on the bottom, one-third from the outer edge of the eye, about.
The eyes were placed in evidence even slightly shaded with black eyeliner, thin applied only on the upper eyelid, in the vicinity of the root of the eyelashes, only then finished with mascara.
On the lips I gave free rein to a beautiful red access, gradient darker near the edges and slightly surrounded in clear to increase the volume.

Thanks to:
Model: Donutella Model
Photography: Critsey Rowe

Not only the sensitivity of the wedding makeup, or the charm and sweetness of make up fashion & glamour on these pages, but also a bit’ of blood and nastiness.
The idea of ​​Frank and Mary to see each other with a little’ of blood on him has been reworked by me and Gabriel in a rather minimalist (away from the atmosphere pulp and splatter horror films the 80s and 90s) domains in which realism and conceptualism.
In 'play your game’ (Pictured above) Mery is playing his life in a game of cards with the always fascinating vampire Francesca, and the opening bet of the game comes down fresh from her wrist.

The make up of the characters in the scene is light and almost neutral: has always been made with funds made fat light, neutral colors, eye shadows red and rosé, colored contact lenses to make it look flat and bright, and all helped to make the atmosphere quite surreal.

The wounds were instead made by molding: In fact, the model made of plasticine, I got the impression with a silicone rubber for polyaddition. Then I created a movie on the footprint in cap mat you can easily blend with the skin, sucessivamente and I filled it with bondo, which has maintained transparency.
The result is an effect of extreme realismoin which the prosthesis has no edges and whose color blends naturally (thanks to semitrapsarenza) with that of the complexion.

Other scenes from the set:

Models: Francy Albicans, Mary Poppins
Photography: Gabriele Bertolini, Stefano Sacchi

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.

More pictures here.