Last year I was only able to get as far as mastering freckles. I will say though, the nine of them I delicately painted on Ava's cheeks completely transformed her into the most awesome of Strawberry Shortcakes. And if you're thinking freckles are easy to apply, they are most certainly not.... If you go too big, they are moles. If you go too small, they are age spots, and that just doesn't look right on a four year-old. Even the shade of the freckle matters. Too light and you can't see them. Too dark and they are too dark. It's very complicated.
I'm always evolving, so this year I was ready to challenge myself with one of the hardest and most elaborate of Halloween make-up creations. The Bruise.
I will not give away all of my secrets, but will share a few hints.
Take for instance the mixture of colors I used. There is an assortment of yellow in the middle, blended with a hodgepodge of colors from the olive and lime green families. I even dabbed a bit of amethyst and bluish-red around the edge near my elbow for a point-of-impact look.
It's pretty fucking awesome.
3 comments:
Dude - you're hired!
That's awesome. So what is Ava going as? The daughter from Mommy Dearest?
I kid. I kid. Although - funny (i.e. distasteful) mother/daughter idea if you just don't care what people think of you. Hm.... too far? Maybe. Oh well.
You're not going to make the girls up as battered children and then drag them door to door and force them to get you chocolate again are you?
Amber thinks you really just bruised your arm and you're jacking with me.
Fess up.
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