Aging Makeup (Technical)

Products

• Liquid Latex
• Kryolan Old Age Stipple
• Acetone
• Barrier Creams
• Supra Colour Palette
• Hairdryer
• Stipple Sponge
• Brushes

Precautions/ Health and Safety

• Use products in a  well ventilated room.
• Make sure the eyes are closed when applying latex or acetone near eyes.
• Always do an allergy test.
• Apply barrier cream.
• Put the lid back on after using products.
• Be careful with clothes, cover your model over.

Procedure Latex

• Pour the latex in a pot and let it breathe for a bit.
• Cleanse and tone the skin and then apply barrier cream.
• Get the model to close their eyes and hold the skin taught where you are going to apply the latex.
• Stipple the latex onto the skin.
• Dry this with the hairdryer on cool, feel against throat to check temperature.
• Dry until clear.
• Ease the latex with your fingers to create the wrinkles.
• To soften edges soak a baby bud in acetone and rub them away.
• Powder the latex to finish.

Procedure Old Age Stipple

• Cleanse and tone the skin and apply barrier cream.
• Shake the old age stipple before pouring it out.
• Stretch the skin.
• Dry with hairdryer in the same was as the latex.
• Rub the stipple for dry skin.
• You can loosely powder between layers.
• Then colour the old age stipple with Supracolour, make sure to look at all tones in the skin for an even application.

For my latex aging I only layered 1-2 layers onto the skin because I wanted it to create natural definition rather than full blown wrinkles, as you can see in the right picture I had some difficulty with the latex, this was because I was using a stippling sponge that had started to dry and this started pulling up the latex underneath. However I got some acetone and dissolved these problems away andi think this made it look realty subtle and effective (perfect for HD). I am really pleased with the effect I achieved on the hand as it was the most realistic looking.