Experimenting with makeup

Before filming, we decided to experiment with makeup for Rachel's face, this enables us to create the perfect makeup and practice applying it. We need to make the actresses' face look realistic, burnt, and by doing this we need to make the burns and brusies look as natural as possible.

When creating the blood we used the following ingredients:
* Red paint
* Blue paint
* Yellow paint
* Black paint
* Yellow food colouring
* Foundation
* Water
* Flour
* Syrup

We wanted the blood to be thick and realistic. Rather than following one of the recipes we saw on an early post we decided to experiment with a variety of different ingredients and keep adding more random ingredients until we were happy with the outcome.

To add texture to the face we used a number of ingredients to succsesfully achieve the realistic look. To do this we added to the blood:

* Porridge oats
* Sugar
* Gritty lip balm
* Cling film
All of these ingredients were added to give the effect of bobbled, scabbed and falling off skin.

To Give the black eye (brusied) effect we simply applied the following everyday eye shadow colours:
* Black
* Dark blue
* Light blue
* Dark purple
* light purple
* Dark green
* Light green
* Dark brown
* Light brown
* Yellow eyeshadow

When creating the black eye effect the trick is to layer the eyeshadow to create a puffy effect, we wanted the brusie to look fresh therefore we had to use darker colours like the browns and blues rather than lighter like the light green and yellow. This is so the brusie will not look of age, and the audience becomes aware that it is a recent attack.

To create the burns for Rachel's face, we bought a small bottle of Liquid Latex which is used by big makeup firms in the film industry. To achieve the correct effect, we applied the latex thinly and layer by layer and then peeled it back to look like the skin has been burned.

Instruments we used to apply and mix the ingredients included:

* Bowl
* Large paint brush
* Small paint brush
* Make up brushes

With inspiration from the film, The Eye (2008), we decided to use a white contact lense to show that damage has been made to Rachel's eye. However sadly the contact lense ripped therefore we could not use it for filming purposes.