Theatrical Ageing

Theatrical Ageing

For the theatre you need to make sure makeup is much more elaborate so that the whole audience can have the same image of the character. Ageing is used in ways such as: adding lines, wrinkles, age spots, flushed cheeks and missing teeth and this can all be done by the use of cosmetics. This is the opposite to beauty makeup, in this case we want to pull out all bad features including making dark circles, lines and creases and adding crows feet around the eyes.

Products needed:

Primer

Moisturiser

Supra colour kryolan pallette 

Palette knife to depot products

Foundation in models skin tone

Disposable mascara wands

Tooth dye (kryloan) 

Step by step theatrical ageing process:

Cleanse, tone and moisturise the skin to prep it for the theatrical makeup.

Optionally add a base to the skin foundation and concealer. 

Add moisturiser into a palette and mix together with kryolan supra colour greasepaint with a brown/green/dark red and a tiny bit of black to add the lines, only add a moisturiser to your colour if it's a grease based product. This is to make lines and wrinkles. 

Firstly go around all creases of the face; smile lines, frown lines, around the nose, on the edges of the nose to thin it out, thin the lips, screw up the eyes and make crows feet. This can be done quite dramatically as it's for the theatre. To draw on with a thin small brush.

Now to make bushy eyebrows mix together yellow and white supra colour to get a pn old hair colour. This will then need a small mascara wand to brush through the eyebrow hairs, go against the brows to get to the root and back to lay smooth.

Now add a little foundation onto a brush to use on the lips, get your model to scrunch the lips up and paint on to them to make them look like dry skin. 

Use a stippling brush to add a red flush to the cheeks, and nose blott in with finger tips to smudge out. 

To yellow/darken/block out teeth dry the chosen teeth with a cotton bud and then add the tooth solution on with a cotton bud, this will give a really realistic effect when it comes to staging. 

Here are the results of my first practice of theatrical ageing:

Hand ageing:

Products:

Liquid latex (kryolan)

Barrier cream (kryolan)

Disposable sponge

Foundation in correct skin colour

Hair dryer 

Translucent powder

Cover model with a cape ensuring the latex/makeup doesn't get onto the models clothing, it will stein.

Put a barrier cream all over the area which you're going to makeup, rub well into the area.

Pour a little liquid latex into a small bowl.

Dip a disposable sponge into the bowl, add a moderate amount to the sponge and then start applying to the area (in this case the hand)

Stretch the skin of the hand, stipple the product in a dabbing motion and feather at the corners so you get an even finish. 

Use a hair dryer on a cool temperature and blast over the hand gently. 

Optionally use makeup in a skin colour suitable to the models skin tone over the top of this. 

Stretch and ease the latex, this will create small ageing lines appear. 

Powder over the top of this to make the skin look dry.

Use warm water to rinse this off, do not let it get down the sink as it may cause blockages.