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Make up anni ’50

by on May.03, 2012, during Beauty, Events, Make Up

make up anni 50

REPRESENTATION in the 50s most of the world, and the United States in particular, a period of flourishing economic: the boom of the recovery after the second world war pervades all sectors. In music we say new rhythms, Rock'n'Roll was born that turns out to be not just a musical phenomenon, but also of manners: thousands of teenagers imitate the look and attitudes emerging rock stars. The TV sees the advent of color (USA, 1954) adjustment that will also shoot in film, creating a definitive break with the black and white of the past.

The make-up sees succession various styles and interpretations, born pin-up style that remains popular to this day, but also the delicate trick to Doris Day as opposed to the more sensual and languid Jayne Mansfield or Marilyn Monroe. The latter is the one actress who always populated the collective imagination, in her charming style and sensual, as a classic icon of recent years and, for this reason, is chosen as an example of makeup to recreate the look of the 50s.

Jayne Mansfield(Jayne Mansfield) Marilyn Monroe(Marilyn Monroe)

The trick there.. and it shows! E’ precisely with the beginning of the year 50 fact that the trick starts to become a tool for corrective accessory charm. The woman is sensual, charmer, seductive, and how many more weapons has to exercise its charm, it uses many.

The color television, now within reach of many, helps make the image more vivid, spreads almost instantaneously new fashions and new looks from the spectators, where the shades of makeup will move naturally towards the red hot pink lips and cheeks of intense.

The false eyelashes, wigs and toupees are new tools of seduction available to all women, especially in the U.S. if it sees an increasing use starting from this period.

 

La Grisbi trucco anni'50(50s Makeup) La Grisbi make up anni'50(Make up anni ’50)

The realization of the make up 50s

As always, the base is made with funds based fat long-lasting, typical of the trick photography and film. Using a pinkish hue of the same shade of skin, I choose a color a few shades lighter for the area around the eyes and central part of the face, thus realizing immediately highlights and corrections (chiaroscuro). Hydrated and powdered her and beginning to lay the colors.

Drawing the eyebrows hair by hair, trying to give a shape that enhances the eyes, and at the same time remember the gull-wing design, just typical of the 50s. This design is characterized by an initial thickness rather high, which goes to taper in an almost uniform until the end of the eyebrows. The stretch is linear up to the point of maximum height, which makes an angle very noticeable, and linear descendant of the eye to the tail.

Marco then the eyeliner with a black drawing 'pagoda’ removal on the eyelid, Drawing the thin part and reaches the maximum thickness of approximately 1/3 and then go inside and stretch a few millimeters thinner than the tail of the eye.
The shading on the eyes is very important: The eyelid crease is marked with a dark color, gradient and a very light color further up the point of maximum height of the eyebrows.

Finally, drawing the full lips and round, a beautiful deep red color. A newly designed with a black pencil between his nose and guacia is the finishing touch for this look.

Features of the trick:

Base: Clear and pink, highlights important around the eyes and the center of the face.
Eyebrows: For 'Gullwing',with an exact the point of maximum height.
Cilia: False lashes galore, well arched and thick outer corner of eye
Eyes: Well-marked chiaroscuro to give depth. Eyeliner ‘a pagoda’ ben marcato.
Lips: Precise design, which enhances the form (rounded ) and the volume, a nice bright red color.
Hairstyle: Platinum blonde hair

 

Hair characteristics:

Marilyn platinum blonde style. Some Like It Hot(1959)
Or dark brown or black with fringe style Bettie Page

 

Actresses / actors of reference:

Movie Title:

Marilyn Monroe Bus Stop (Bus Stop), 1956
Simone Signoret The diabolical (The diabolical), 1955
Doris Day Happened to Jane (It Happened to Jane),1959
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Make up anni ’40

by on Mar.01, 2012, during Beauty, Events, Make Up

make up anni 40

The Second World War (1939-1945), protagonist of the first five years of this decade, only moderately affected the film industry in Hollywood, who saw in these years the emergence of big players (come Cary Grant, James Stewart, Gary Cooper, Henry Fonda , Humphrey Bogart e Ingrid Bergman) and the creation of memorable film productions (Casablanca, Kane).

Despite the current technology already ventilasse the possibility to realize color film (Techincolor), most of the films were still in black and white, because of technical difficulties and high costs of production (3:1 compared to white and black). It has in fact, that 1947 the production of color films represented only 12% of the total.

For this reason, the make-up was not particularly upset over prior to the '30s, but it represented a natural evolution.

Rita Hayworth in 'Gilda', 1946(Rita Hayworth, 1946) Katharine Hepburn in 'Scandalo A Filadelfia',1940(Katharine Hepburn,1940)

The trick is natural, Portable, eyebrows have returned to their proper volume, frame the eye in a rounded design 'wing swallow'. Born the use of false eyelashes make-up of the great Hollywood actresses: long hair mink were glued to the end of the eyelid creating a completely natural and invisible to the eye of the beholder.

In these years is the mouth to dominate the scene: The design on the upper lip is rounded, As in the '30s, but until you zoom out often from his natural design (Judy Garland's pensi a, Veronica Lake, Katharine Hepburn o Rita Hayworth) while the lower lip will copy the volume, but assumes a drawing squared, wide and low to near the edge of the mouth.

Red (or auburn) is the dominant color in the colors of the hair of the hottest actresses in recent years.. because it was noticed that these shades were better defined and more readable by the film in shades of black and white.

 

Michela make up anni'40(40s Makeup) Michela make up anni'40(40s Makeup)

The realization of the make up 40s

Starting from the base, I have stretched a fund fat pink tint and color not too distant dall'incarnato Model, on which I subsequently realized the light and shade, light on the nose, a little’ higher for the definition of the outline of the face and upper eyelid.

On the upper eyelid also have better defined the lash line with black pencil, then vanished in the direction of the eyebrow, thus creating a shadow which reaches up to approximately half the height of the eyelid.

On the lower eyelid I then spread a very light eye shadow color brown, Slightly faded to white below the height of the eyebrows.

The eyebrows were combed and filled with a light watercolor eyeliner color light brown (suitable for blonde hair)

Even cheekbones were dug by chiaroscuro, and cheeks rosy colors in a gradient.

I did not zoom operations on the mouth because it was already visible on the face, but I limited myself to redraw the boundary and inner edges blend it in with a darker color to give depth.

Features of the trick:

Base: Light-colored and pink, contouring and highligh made in a workmanlike.
Eyebrows: 'Wing swallow', required and ben arcuate
Cilia: Comes the use of fake fur mink eyelashes, long and thin, almost invisible
Eyes: Blurred sparingly on the upper eyelid
Lips: The design enlarges all the lip, sometimes coming from the natural design (Veronica Lake, Katharine Hepburn). The lower lip has a shape more square.
Hairstyle: Hair red or auburn, with curly ringlets on the shoulders

 

Hair characteristics:

Red 'femme fatale’ Long and wavy Rita Hayworth (Gilda, 1946)
IngridBergman (Notorious, 1946)

 

Actresses / actors of reference:

Movie Title:

Ingrid Bergman Casablanca, 1942
Barbara Stanwyck The Flame of Sin (Double Indemnity),1944
Rita Hayworth Gilda, 1946
Veronica Lake The Outlaws (This Gun for Hire),1942
Judy Garland The Pirate, 1948
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Make up anni ’30

by on Feb.14, 2012, during Beauty, Events, Make Up

make up anni 30
Despite the decade 1930-1939 devastated by the beginnings of the collapse on Wall Street (October 1929) and the Great Depression, sees the female protagonist of notable events, awards such as Jane Addams with a woman's first Nobel Peace, the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean alone by Amelia Earhart, the first participation in the U.S. government of a female presence (Frances Perkins); while cinema sees the birth of the first great female protagonists of talking pictures, femme fatale 'unreachable’ whose memory has come down to our days (think of Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Marlene Dietrich)

Greta Garbo in 'Come tu mi vuoi',1932(Greta Garbo, 1932) Jean Harlow in 'Paura al cento per cento',1934(Jean Harlow, 1934)

The make-up is partly inherited from previous year '20, in part reworked. The films that are used become more sensitive and are able to read well the light and shade, which in turn become important and studied ad hoc on the faces of actresses: ground and blush are no longer randomly applied on the cheeks, but find their technical function. During these years, unlike the previous decade, you can imagine the usefulness of chiaroscuro in the implementation of corrective makeup; and at the same time begins to spread to the sale of pancakes to the public (Max Factor, 1930) to become commonly used as a cosmetic.
The eyes, important, are framed with thin eyebrows and very high, in which the eyelid, sometimes slightly blurred, but always clear, takes up the domain.
The design maintains the round shape of the lips on the upper lip but the design is extended, covering from side to side throughout the mouth.

Jessica make up anni'30(30s Makeup) Jessica make up anni'30(30s Makeup)

The realization of the '30s makeup

Starting from the base, I laid a fat bottom shades of ivory and light pink all over your face, on which I made all the gray, light on the nose, a little’ higher for the definition of the outline of the face and upper eyelid.

In the eye makeup I used a light color in the whole eyebrow, to make it look taller and round, and I decided on the line close to the lashes with a gradient line of eyeliner.

Even cheekbones were dug by chiaroscuro, and cheeks rosy colors in a gradient.

The mouth was drawn thin, with a rounded design on the upper lip, a dark red.

Features of the trick:

Base: Light-colored and pink, contouring and highligh made in a workmanlike.
Eyebrows: Thin and high forehead, that leaves plenty of room on the upper eyelid that you can play with light light and shade of the eyelids fixed and mobile.
Cilia: Bending the outer portion upwards with the mascara, without burdening.
Eyes: Moderation is shaded on the upper eyelid (very high) that on the lower, to give depth to the eye.
Lips: Remains the round of the lips typical of the '20s, but the design is stretched to the corner of the mouth. The color is dark red.
Hairstyle: Hair behind, biondo Platino, curled with the iron (Jean Harlow stile)

 

Hair characteristics:

Platinum blonde and wavy Jean Harlow (Platinum Blonde, 1931)
Marlene Dietrich (The Blue Angel, 1930)

 

Actresses / actors of reference:

Movie Title:

Jean Harlow Dinner at Eight (Diner at eight), 1933
Marlene Dietrich The Blue Angel (The Blue Angel), 1930
Carole Lombard The Gay Bride, 1934
Carole Lombard The incomparable Godfrey (My man Godfrey), 1936
Claudette Colbert Mrs. Midnight (Midnight), 1939
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Make up anni ’20

by on Dec.28, 2011, during Beauty, Events, Make Up

make up anni 1920

The '20s (1920-1929) are also known as' The Roaring Twenties’ (Roaring Twenties) o 'Jazz Age',and witnesses, Europe in the early post-war, economic recovery (from which also the name of 'Golden Twenties') and other important events, including greater independence of women.

The cinema of the time, confirming in this decade, its widespread, is still silent, and the film insensitive, best suited to bring whites and blacks rather than shades.

The trick in cinema in recent years, even clear imprint theater, application is located on the characters of those men and women who not only serves as embellishment, but also to give a clear positive or negative connotation, that the characterization and state aid to the viewer.

Gustav Frohlich in Metropolis, 1927(Gustav Fröhlich in 'Metropolis', 1927) Banditi ne 'Il Monello', 1921 (bandits in 'The Kid', 1921)

It is therefore a trick whose dominant color is very clear (the basis) opposed to dark colors (eyebrows, eyes and mouth) and that they are still not using blush and chiaroscuro.

An example of this type of makeup you can find in Louise Brooks and Clara Bow, famous American actresses of silent cinema, that helped popularize with the theme of Olive Thomas ‘flapper’, uninhibited young girls who are critical of the generations before smoking, flaunting their youth, in opposition to past generations, bringing short hair straight or curly, short dresses (and sometimes with fringes fluttering, suited to do the Charleston) or to exhibit the arms and legs from the knee down, and making extensive use of makeup in public.

Louise Brooks in Il vaso di Pandora, 1928(Louise Brooks, 1928) Clara Bow(Clara Bow, 1926)

This look is spreading faster among girls and fashion, enough to become a characteristic feature of the time.

It is identified by a short haircut, smooth or corrugated iron, a very clear makeup base that removes all the imperfections, eyebrows quite thin and rounded towards the corner of my eye, eyes rimmed in black above and below to confer expression and a thin mouth, designed 'to heart', with a double arch on the upper lip and a rather dark red.

Here's how I enjoyed making up Betty for her distinctive look here these years:

Betty al naturale(Betty al naturale) Betty trucco anni '20(Make-up the 20s -1) Betty trucco anni '20(Make-up the 20s – 2)

The realization of the make-up 20s

Having laid the foundation of the fat makeup of a color rather than clear, shaded on the neck to get to the skin tone, I made a fading light and dark brown on the sides of the nose, in the contour of the face to 'detach’ the neck and oblique shadows on the cheeks, under the cheekbones.
The eye makeup, instead, obtained by marking the line between the upper eyelid and eyelid fixed, the line above the lashes on the eyelid just below the upper and lower lashes, was initially defined with a black pencil, gradient and then with a brush. This type of makeup is very similar to 'smokey eyes’ very timely in this period, but has a more rounded, not going to define the corner of my eye.
I then powdered with a transparent and neutral face powder all over her face, pulling the trick well in areas where usually tends to accumulate (crease between the eyelid and eyelid fixed, sides of the nose near the nostrils). The powder was determined by vaporizing water all over your face dry with a tissue and buffered.
Once in this way the base, I focused on the eye, going to weigh down the design just released with a black eye shadow, more pronounced on the upper and lower eyelid line and fold eyelid, maintaining a very nuanced eye round.
Followed by, I gave a little’ more strength to the eyebrows (already quite thin) using a black pencil, stretched to excess on the edge, to give the queues round the drawing very typical of these years.
On the lips, dark red with a pencil, I made the drawing 'at heart', characterized by narrow, fleshy upper lip, semicurve defined in two at the top and a semicurve to close in the lower.
Finally, to give a little’ of life on this face so full of light and dark contrasts I applied a subtle brush of blush on the cheeks. The hair, previously collected to make the make-up, were covered by a black wig, typical of the period with a cut.

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(Make Up in collaboration with Messrs. Bobbins and Mario Manlio Michisanti)
 

Features of the trick:

Base: light-colored, without light and shade or blush
Eyebrows: rather thin, ben marcato, rounded the corner down
Cilia: bending the outer section up with mascara, without burdening
Eyes: shaded darker on the upper eyelid, which is on the bottom, to give depth to the eye. Black pencil inside the eye.
Lips: thin, 'At heart': rounded in a double semi-circle on the upper lip, of dark red
Hairstyle: short hair, straight or curled with the iron on a regular

 

Hair characteristics:

Castle Bob: who later became the famous 'bob', o ¾, owes its origin in 1915 the dancer Irene Castle became famous starring Clara Bow and Louise Brooks, the early 1920
Finger wave: swaying hair made my hair with a hot iron in opposite corners, so that it obtains the typical appearance to 'S', and then flattened back of the head with the use of an oil

 

Actresses / actors of reference:

Movie Title:

Louise Brooks The Pandora's box (Pandora's Box), 1929
Clara Bow Dancing Mothers, 1926
Norma Shearer The man who takes the blows (He Who Gets Slapped), 1924
Edna Purviance, Charlie Chaplin The Kid (The Kid), 1921
Greta Garbo The Saga Of Gosta Berling, 1924
Marion Mack, Buster Keaton The General War (The General), 1926
Gertrude Astor, Harry Langdon The big shot (The Strong Man), 1926
Brigitte Helm Metropolis, 1927
Gloria Swanson Sunset Boulevard (Sunset Boulevard), 1950
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Zombie Make Up Tutorial – How to Become a Zombie !

by on Feb.23, 2011, during Special Effects, Events, Make Up

Titolo Zombie MakeUp Tutorial

As promised a few days ago, here are some simple steps to achieve in a short time and with materials readily available from a nice trick Zombie, On the subject saw the carnival imminent or partner if you want to remove some’ troppo assillanti 🙂

Materials needed:

  • White base for facepainting (excellent even in the clown makeup cream)
  • Black pencil make-up
  • Color fire red (well only a lipstick)
  • Pre-vulcanized liquid latex (alternatively a layer of toilet paper and PVA glue)
  • possibly a correction / economic foundation

How to proceed:

Apply with a sponge in the liquid latex to the cheeks and make it dry using a hair dryer. In the event that you do not have the latex (mesticheria or sell it in stores a few colors €) can be done as follows:

Separated by a piece of toilet paper (or a paper towel) two-ply, tear so that it follows an approximate outline of the cheeks (you could get two more or less oval) and paste to the face, one cheek, using PVA glue as a bonding agent diluted in a bit’ d’acqua, being careful to apply the glue to the side of oval, and not in the middle.


Zombie MakeUp Tutorial

Zombie MakeUp Tutorial

When finished you can proceed to slightly whiten his face, as the most preferred white forehead, the nose and cheekbones.


Zombie MakeUp Tutorial

Zombie MakeUp Tutorial

Apply now some’ black eyes: over the entire upper eyelid and lower eyelid, surrounding the whole eye.
Wait for it to dry out a bit’ (in case you're using water colors) then mix it with a bit’ sfumatelo on lipstick and white: the objective is to achieve a dark purple.


Zombie MakeUp Tutorial

Zombie MakeUp Tutorial

Now, with a pencil or black color on the cheeks create a chiaroscuro: the goal is to give an idea of emptying, then you can proceed to break the latex or toilet paper in vertical strips, coloring the underlying skin with red lipstick, To give an idea of the flesh.


Zombie MakeUp Tutorial

Zombie MakeUp Tutorial

Finally, color the tip of the nose and lips with black.
If you're using a pencil ol'eyeliner can score some interesting cross line, thin lips, not too long, giving the idea of ​​a lip that is breaking.


Zombie MakeUp Tutorial

Zombie MakeUp Tutorial

The concealer or the foundation may be useful at this point if we realize that we have exaggerated with the white or black and white will fade further (apply it to lighten the black, then fade to white).

If we want to add some more details, We can draw two parallel lines on the forehead and round, by then fade out, to give an idea of the passage of a large vein or the skin is breaking.


Zombie MakeUp Tutorial

Zombie MakeUp Tutorial

A red halo around the mouth and stains like blood spatter made will make it more gruesome and terrifying your creation..


Zombie MakeUp Tutorial

Neck and hand colored the same color of the face , and uncombed hair properly and fixed with a bit’ spray or foam to make you worthy of revival from death …


Zombie MakeUp Tutorial

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Bodypainting a week of European Photography 2011

by on Feb.16, 2011, during Events

Fotografia Europea Logo

The tricolor as Italy – Performance of figurative bodypainting.

Saturday 7 May 2011, second day of the inaugural European Photography 2011 (whose theme this year is' Green White Red: a picture of Italy '), will produce a living picture on the grace of the female figure, to celebrate the Tricolore and the 150th of’ Unification of Italy.

Three colors that convey different images and feelings take on a body model and will wear the new and the old, uniting under one banner all the places and the people of our great country.

The performance will take place at the exhibition space in Via dei Due Gobbi, 3 pm 18.00 where you can watch the entire process of project execution.

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