From Jennie to Dammit

[Dominic]

Our beloved artist and hell-raiser...

Any chance we could get a few pics of you going from the more mundane version of yourself to your green alter-ego? Perhaps including things like tips for prosthetics, makeup, tusk-wearing and the like?

And feel free to dump me in the pudding pool if someone already asked this. I don't remember.

[Llewellian]

Maybe this thread helps ;o)

http://www.devilspanties.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3812

[sableagle]

That depends on whether Dominic wants a how-to guide or images of JennieB in human, orc and various intermediate forms.

[Dominic]

Well, that thread helped alot with costuming ideas and tips, but I'm honestly looking for a step-by-step for the makeup. I have a bit of background with armouring and with needlework so making my own kit isn't the issue, but I've never had to put on a prosthetic (be they foreheads, tusks or whatever) and my makeup experience is pretty limited. I'm looking for a how-to from someone experienced who would go "Hey, this part here is important and I had to learn by trial and error" When I make my new armour I was thinking of posting a similar guide for the ork on a budget.

[AmericanGeekster]

Well, that thread helped alot with costuming ideas and tips, but I'm honestly looking for a step-by-step for the makeup. I have a bit of background with armouring and with needlework so making my own kit isn't the issue, but I've never had to put on a prosthetic (be they foreheads, tusks or whatever) and my makeup experience is pretty limited. I'm looking for a how-to from someone experienced who would go "Hey, this part here is important and I had to learn by trial and error" When I make my new armour I was thinking of posting a similar guide for the ork on a budget.

I can give quite a few tips, though they may not be in order.

-Wash your face. A basic acne wash is perfect.

-Buy a portable fan. Something small. Bendable neck, and able to clamp onto mirror/vanity a plus. This will both keep you cool while you're layering, AND dry your layers faster.

-Apply your prosthesis first. Then your makeup. It helps with blending your seams.

-Applying a black or black/white blend into the hollows of your cheeks, and just under your jawline, then adding your "true" color over it, will give a much more three dimensional look, especially when you're using very unnatural skin colors, like Green or Red.

-Wash your face off at night, and reapply in the morning. This will save your bedding, save your skin, and ensure that your makeup is fairly consistent.

-Keeping a tube of your primary skin color and an easily/safely stowed mirror is handy. That way, you can touch up after that 3 hour grinder module, without going back to your cabin. Many LARPs will penalize you, with varying severity, if you're a makeup race, and your makeup isn't up to snuff. From personal experience, NERO and DragonCrest both rule that you lose all your Racial benefits, while keeping your penalties. Sidereus will Yellow Card you if it's habitual, with 3 Yellow Cards being a game suspension.

I'll add to this list, as I think of things.

[Dominic]

Any tips on costuming with your prosthetics? For example, makeup + maille? Armour and latex? Tips on getting things like noses and foreheads to sit still? And can you just pierce latex with a needle, or should you use somethinge heated? I've noticed that Jennie has some kind of bone (I think) in her ork ear.

[Llewellian]

Latex prosthetics are pretty much durable like a bicycle tube. In fact, its pretty much the same stuff.

You can pierce it, you can cut it.... Its rubber.

To glue the prosthetics to your skin, you use Mastix.



That is a mix of a natural resin diluted in ethyl alcohol. The alcohol vaporises, the resin is the sticky component.

About putting on your armour: Depends on how easy you get in and how trained you are. Some put on the costume first, then apply the mask. Others do it the other way around. There is really no rule of thumb.

As example: I can put on a 15 kilo chainmail without really making it touch my face. And if the hole for the head is wide enough, it does not even rip off my latex ears.

The only thing you should be aware of:

Skin colours and sweat. Dont mix well with costume parts that stain easily. You WILL leave marks on it.

[sableagle]

Surely if you're playing an orc the correct response to make-up stains is MORE STAINS.

Someone really ought to make children's clothes in splatter-patterns of egg, blood, grass, chocolate, Ribena and various other common childhood stains.

[Sehson]

Oh come on... You know people would never stand for such things as clothing that hides stains for children. But then these are the same people that have white furniture and carpeting with kids.

[Llewellian]

Kids camo. The solution for stains ;o).

[Dominic]

MOAR STAINZ!

Excellent. On to hair! Thanks to army regs I can no longer have my long beautiful hair. Which was gleaming. And streaming. And glimmering. Etc.

So. What is the best way to work a wig? Can you cut them into a "mohawk" look, and if so, how? How about beard wigs? Arm/leg hair? Other hair?

[AmericanGeekster]

MOAR STAINZ!

Excellent. On to hair! Thanks to army regs I can no longer have my long beautiful hair. Which was gleaming. And streaming. And glimmering. Etc.

So. What is the best way to work a wig? Can you cut them into a "mohawk" look, and if so, how? How about beard wigs? Arm/leg hair? Other hair?

Hair can run anywhere from $30US for a beard/wig combo at a costume shop, to VERY pricey custom jobs.

[Silverharp]

Even less if you resort to shaving random passed out hobos

[Dominic]

Even less if you resort to shaving random passed out hobos

Well, I am pretty close to Austin...

Teeth...anyone know of a great tusk-maker, or of a way to convincingly modify an existing set?

[Dominic]

Who! Had my debut of Cl'Ank at D*C! Now, to figure out how to get the pics off my phone...