I loved this part. I love the odd characters. Miss Hannagin, Ado Annie, Black Beard, and now Miss Minchin. Those parts are the parts that are fun to act. the ones that change you and make you into someone that you could never be in real life.
These photos are mainly to show my hair and all the stinking work it took to make it into the Pompadour that I wore it in for the play. (My main inspiration was the Gibson Girl style. Ironically this is what Mr. Alverson thought the old women wore their hair like... jokes on him, history is on my side!)
I also wanted to use this post to have a couple helpful hints about how to do stage makeup.
I started my makeup with the foundation. After evenly covering my face (and blending into my neck) I powdered my face to set the foundation. Then I used a shimmer palette to accentuate my cheekbones by brushing some onto the hollows of my cheeks. I put blush on the apples of my cheeks then put some blush on my jaw to accentuate my bone structure while on stage.
On my eyes I did a wing line with eyeliner, then put some mascara on after curling my eyelashes. I lined my waterline and the corner of my eye with white liner, then I put on some light and dark brown eye-shadow, and my false eye lashes. The last step was some chapstick and lipstick. Then... ta-da! There Miss Minchin was!
Ben Nye Creme Foundation-fair lightest, and Ben Nye Translucent Powder-fair (Ben Nye was the stage makeup kits that we purchased for the class), L'Oreal Paris bare naturale gentle mineral blush, Wet n Wild Fergie shimmer palette- Rose Champagne Glow, glitter, Rimmel London eyes-shadow palette- Urban Flower, Maybelline black eye liner, e.l.f. Eye Widener- Pearl White, and Maybelline eyeline-Falsies volume express flared.
