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I'm only doing ONE eye as i dont
want to waste all my stuff for just a test.
0.1. CONTACT LENSES. PUT THEM IN. (Time
reduces pink eye).
1.
BASE
You start like anything in art with a BASE. Make sure you cleanse your
face first off any flaky skin or spoooots. Then i took white Grimas
pro clown makeup and applied it, by DABBING (not dragging) a sponge
lightly on my skin. To get an equal purewhite porcelin finish you have
to do it in layers. Dry then apply. Until flat white. Then i used a
rather gothy white face powder i own, lol, to make the paint matt. This
also helps it stay in place longer. And a shiny face looks bad. Especialy
under lights. So you cover the paint in powder. Then using some blue
eyeshadow i dusted over my eyelid socket to give a slight shadow. taking
a pale pink powder i started to dust upwards towards my hairline. people
used to do this in the 80's a lot i seem to recall, lol. DONT go over
your eyebrow line or it looks fugly. And dont go too far down your face
either :p
2.
EYEBROWS
Now in the final cosplay i will be bleaching my eyebrows platinum blonde
to match my wig (and because NiGHTS doesnt actualy HAVE eyebrows, thus
pale eyebrows work well) But for the sake of this i used a goldy brown
pencil and extended my eyebrows as far as they would go. This is a trick
for making your face look sharper and your eyes bigger. Plus if you
have big lashes and short brows it looks crap. So you want really stylised
brows. Now since i err have jetblack brows i colored them up with gold
hair mascara to look lighter XD IT WORKS! Just dont get any in your
eyes. Because it burns horribly. So go full Spock and make your eyebrows
funky.
3.
SHADING and GLITTER !!!1********
Most art has shading. Makeup is no exception. basicaly you stick darker
shades the further in your eye you get. In the corners and arches especialy.
So i took dark pinks and blues and using a BRUSH i blended to give myself
a 'hawk eye' appearence. This means i drag the powder down over my inner
eye. Most evil badguy anime charcaters have this kind of appearence,
it makes the eyes look sharper and a bit more demented, lol. I do this
really obviously with any Reala makeup i do. Remember- MARENS HAVE HUGE
EYEBALLS XD, so you have to make do with humansized piddly small ones
and try to big it up as much you can.
NOW. GLITTER. My fave part. I use loose fine glitter. Makeup glitter-
NOT crafts glitter. If you stick craft glitter on your face the color
will bleed into your sweat, run down your face, stab you in the eyeballs
and possibly blind you. So no doing that. I use glitter in little pots
i bought from Accesorise years ago for like £1 each. I have a
lot of different colors for different effects. The best kind is the
WHITEEEEEE kind! :heart: because this stuff looks like fairy dust! And
you can shove it on eeverything including your hair and its so damn
sparkly. But yeah. THE SECRET TO STICK ON GLITTER GOOD= LIPGLOSS. Use
a lipgloss stick and shove it on your face where you want the glitter
to stay, and it will STAY. Like making sand pictures as a kid. Blow
the excess off. I used dark pink glitter here.
4.
MORE GLITTER.
You can never have enough sparkle XD So i take the OMGWHITESTUFF and
cover my entire upper eye with it. Then i use dark violet glitter and
do the shading in thing. Blend it cuz nothing looks worse than solid
big dods of makeup >_< Lots of lipgloss later i have a very glittery
eye. And i am happy.
5.EYELINER
FUN.
Never ever use a black pencil for doing sharp lines around your eyes
because it smudges horribly and melts. I always use liquid eyeliner.
Use the kind with the BRUSH not the felttip thingy. Mines is like an
actual paintbrush (which is pretty useful) XD
Now U.V NiGHTS is very birdy based as you may have noticed. So i try
to give his eyes a sort of 'swallow tail' look. Big ol' anime eyes are
best done with liquid eyeliner because it looks like ink. It takes a
steady hand and a lot of practise to NOT BLINK or SNEEZE. But paint
it on like you would on paper. I always draw false lashes to make my
eyes look bigger. Its something i was always told to do when preforming
on stage. Actor makeup is always overdone to show up your features under
bright lights so you need to have your eyes outlined properly. Or you
will bleach and look kinda faded with tiny eyes. Be careful when underlining
your bottoms. The tiny little lashes tend to catch the brush and spray
everywhere. It takes practise like anything.
6.
GIANT EYES OMG!
The secret to big exagerated eyes is drawing your liner bigger than
your eye. You'll notice i made the inner eye come down to a point. Well
thats because i then get a tiny brush, with white facepaint and paint
in the corner of my eye to hide the pink skin bit. It stings but it
makes your eyes look wider by about a CM. And thats a good thing. *points
to corner* see? Its white now. And from a distance that pink bit wont
show up at all.
7.
A USE FOR EYE PENCILS.
The only thing i find pencil liner good for is smudging a smokey undereye
effect. So i done it here. Blend it like you'd blend pencil on paper.
Dont use a sharp pencil, melt it a bit.
THEN WHEE. GLITTER STAR. I used lipgloss and glitter again. I applied
it with a small brush:) :star:
8.
MASCARA AND LASHES.
The best bit is the mascara because it instantly makes you eye cleaner
and bigger. Its like inking in an artwork to tidy it up. Always do both
sides of your lashes and be sure to brush them UPWARDS to open the eye.
Then the BEST EYELASHES EVAR. Feather lashes. Now ANNOYINGLY while i
was doing this i realised i couldnt find my eyelash glue ;_; so i had
to kinda just shove them on without ANY adhesive at all and hope they
stayed for the screenshots.
When you DO have glue, make sure you dont get it in your eye. Glue eyeball=
BAD IDEA. lol. But yeah, there's my eyelashes all done. for the next
few pictures.
CONTACT
LENSES ARE NOT FUN SO PUT THEM IN BEFORE STEP 1.
Okay i dont wear contact lenses by prescription, i just wear fashion
ones when i feel like it. I bought a purple pair a few years ago when
i was flush for cash for about £15, disposables. You are for safety/infection
reasons supposed to only wear them 30times or something. But i've been
to skeemie to toss mines out. BUT i've noticed lately that they no longer
stick/vacume to my eyeball. Which is odd. I think the plastic loses
its shape after a while and becomes too big. Therefore getting this
webcam shot of my eye was HARD and very PAINFUL. Murgh. It wouldnt stick
to my eye very well and damn, lol, when your eye is watering and your
covered in glitter its not very sensible (hey im never sensible). But
i stuck this in and then whiped it straight out afterwards as my eye
hurt too much, which shows i need to throw it out because the plastic
has warped.
How did i customise my lenses? I used a small scalpel to scrape off
the solid color on the outerside of the lense. Because i have almost
black eyes naturaly it gives me instant CAT/DemonEYE XD heehee. This
is probably dangerous tho, lol, so i dont reccomend that EITHER :lmao:
They only ever seem to sell cat lenses in yellow and red :( So i made
my own.
Also there was no WAY i was running arcoss my room blindly for my wig
XD So i just photoshoped my hair blonde to show how funky i'll look
as UV in the final version. Note, the only photoshoped part is my blonde
hair. The rest is just makeup effects :)
So
taaadahhr. Thats a piece of NiGHTS face art for you there X)
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