Sunday, March 14, 2010

Estranged Identity Demon: Selfishness

Selfishness:

Actor: Heidi French

Costume colors: Black tunic, blue/silver cape and pants


Hair:

I wanted Selfishness's hair to just be a bit odd. The hairstyles I found that I liked for her are mostly just a lot of hairspray and crimping. It actually has an almost naive feeling to it, like she looks terribly odd but doesn't realize it, which I think is appropriate for Selfishness, especially since she is being portrayed by a younger actress.

  • Pixie Tease:



How-to: I think that the way to pull off this hairstyle would be the tease the base of all her hair except the last half inch or so around the base of her neck. Then at various spots tease the hair even more so that it actually stands up. Then crimp all the remaining strands hair and at random spots all around her head pull them up so they stand on end and hairspray them in place.


Makeup:
Same idea done with black, white, silver and blue tones. We will be using the same kind of wet eyeshadow with brushes as shown in this video. You'll find in the video you'll need to cover her eyebrows (block out the eyebrows). We're doing the gluestick method from the scond video. I'm think brown or brown/red lips would be fine for selfishness. The look will be completed with these rinestone eyelashes.



Estranged Identity Demon: Revenge

Revenge
Actor: Daniel Goodman
Costume colors: black cloak w/hood and pants, mossy green tunic
Hair:
I'm not quite sure what you're thinking about for the male demons, but I saw these hairstyles and thought they'd be something to keep in mind for Revenge.


  • Straight Style


    How-to: This hairstyle isn't very messy, but I wasn't sure whether or not it necessarily needed to look messy or just strange. Daniel's hair is longer so it would look quite eccentric if we comb it on end either straight up or straight down. Granted I don't know very much about boy's hairstyles, but I think that if we just gel or hairspray it and then comb it, it should work.
  • Messy Style:


How-to: This one is actually pretty similar to the other style, just messy versus carefully gelled and combed. It looks like it probably would only take a bit of gel or hairspray and light combing.
[Add green highlights by colored spray or green eyeshadow in hair-gel]


Makeup:

This is the general idea. We'll probably use less tones of green. I have a bright green eyeshadow that will be applied wet that will stay on very well. We can then add different tones of dry powdered colors to this. Possibly add black lips (?)

Estranged Identity Demon: Pride

Pride:

Actor: Jessica Winters

Costume colors: Black dress & tunic with purple/pink long draping sleeves and belt, pink pants.


Hair:

I am thinking that Pride's hair should be more simple overall. Her costume and makeup will be more elaborate and since her hair is curly the only two options we really have are either very styled and controlled or just loose and pretty basic. I think this hairstyle, since it adds a little bit of height will emphasis the "betterthanyouness" while the somewhat wild curls, and the section hanging over her face she'll still seem somewhat off and demonish.




How-to: This hairstyle is pretty basic. Jessica's hair is already curly. We will just brush out some curls here and there to add some frizz and then pile the top section messily on top of her head and pin it securely.



Makeup:


Purple scales outlined w/black (more around hair-line than theirs) from the first video. Eyes done like second video in black with pink and purple highlights. All shadow and eye colors will be done with Kryolan wet makeup applied with brushed. The look will be completed with pink/black lashes.









Estranged Identity Demon: Insanity

Insanity:
Actor: Christian Edmonds
Costume colors: black shirt with multi color fabrics hanging off of it (green, orange, red, yellow, brown), black pants
Hair:
I don't really have many ideas for Insanity. I don't know how long Christian's hair will be by the performance, this hair style looks like it's just done with some Bedhead hair-wax and then combed on end and ruffled on top.
(might like to add some loose eyeshadow powder into hair gel for multi color areas)


Makeup:
Not totally sure how this should look completely. But strange art work and somehow including a cut/slash diagonally across one eye.

Estranged Identity Demon: Condemnation

Condemnation:

Actor: Lauren H. Snoodgrass

Costume colors: Black dress with copper/orange hooded cloak

Hair:

I am not quite sure whether or not my preferred style for Condemnation will work or not. I think that it looks really cool, but getting her bangs hidden and getting the curls to work right may be a challenge depending on how her hair tends to behave. The first style is my preferred one, the second style is more of an "if option one doesn't work out" sort of idea in my opinion.

  • Wire Curls:



How-to: The pictures don't show nearly as much detail as I'd like but what I'm thinking we would do is pull Condemnation's hair back (but leave small strands all around her hairline loose) into a very smooth bun that pinned down as much as possible so the bump doesn't show too much. Then we would take all the loose strands and curl them into ringlets and then hairspray them to stick out at odd angles all around her head and hanging over her face.
  • Messy Curls:


How to: If we ended up using this option it would be pretty simple. Lauren already has curly hair so probably all we would need to do is tease it and pin it here and there.

Makeup:

Before beginning this look I want to re-draw her eyebrows higher arched and evil looking. We will do this by the glue stick method found on the first video below. The second tutorial video shows the concept we will be using for her makeup well (Heads-up: She talks at the beginning but once the tutorial begins there is inappropriate music. I would suggest turning the sound off). This look will be done in black and orange Kryolan (wet based makeup). We can play with what looks best. I'm thinking black for smoke aroud eye, we could line her eye in orange and some how lightlight/outline the pointed shape around eye. Other highlight ideas are welcome. I had thought of adding a tear down her check from one of the lower points but if it doesn't look right we can take it off. Lips should have a hint of copper/red/orange color outlined in black liner. The look will be completed with these angled black lashes.









Estranged Identity Demon: Anger

Anger:
Actor: Anna Dowell
Costume Colors: black torn dress with red appearing through holes, bottom and on belt.

Hair:
I had trouble with Anger's hair because it's long and I wanted it to be interesting without getting too complicated. The two ideas I ended up liking for her are an unusual faux-hawk or just strange crimping.



  • The faux-hawk:
How-to: Obviously there would have to be some variation since Anna's hair is longer, but my idea was that we tease and hair-spraye the top of the hair into a faux-hawk of sorts, or even a bouffant-ish looking... thing. And then mimic the way the sides are pulled tightly back and hanging in messy braids of different sizes. Even though this looks rather elaborate I don't think it would actually be too much work, especially since the hairstyle is itself somewhat grungy and since she's a demon anyway we wouldn't want anything neat.

  • Crimping [option if the above doesn't work at all]:



How-to: While the picture uses ringlets I think that we could imitate this hairstyle with really really hair-sprayed crimping instead. And since Anna's hair is so long we could perhaps do a level of crimping at about the same place as in the picture and then also a little further down as well.

Makeup:
This look will be done in a red/black version. In this tutorial where he uses blue will be the red and on the black lines outward from eyes add highlights of red also. Highlight the inner tear duct with gold or orange (instead of silver in video). We will be using the same Kryolan wet makeup. The eyes will be completed with red/black false lashes. Lips will be red with black liner.