How To Make A Fake Burn With Makeup

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Burn down Makeup

This tutorial will demonstrate how y'all can create burned skin effects for stage, motion picture, or for Halloween. The event will look realistic even from up close. (I'd like to thank my model, Scott, for being such a good guinea pig.) Permit'south get started!

This is what I use to create this effect. I listed the brands of makeup but you can use whatever brand you prefer.

You volition demand:

A hair dryer to quicken the drying fourth dimension
Black acrylic paint
Cinema Secrets Blood Gel
Ben Nye Fresh Scab
Movie house Secrets Injury Stack
Ben Nye Creme Shadow: Dark Brown and Dark Purple
Faux Blood and small shallow dish
Liquid Latex and pocket-sized shallow dish
Makeup Castor
2-3 Sheets of Toilet Tissue, separated if 2-ply
Makeup Sponges, torn up at the end to create a blotchy pattern
Big Paint Brush, preferably worn out

Footstep 1: Start with a clean shaven face.

Commencement with a clean confront (and shaven if a male person). Brand sure y'all and your model/actor are wearing wearing apparel you lot don't mind ruining or something to protect your clothes since liquid latex does not come out and the claret may stain.

Step two: Pour a little liquid latex into a small shallow dish.

Brainstorm by pouring a piddling of the liquid latex into a modest shallow dish. Dip the jagged edge of the makeup sponge into the latex and dab on the face effectually the areas where the burn down will be applied being careful not to get it in the hair or eyebrows.

Step 3: Apply the toilet tissue to the still wet latex.

Working rapidly apply the toilet tissue to the still wet latex roofing information technology all in 1 layer. It's okay if you go a few wrinkles in the tissue, it will add to the issue.

Footstep 4: Tear the edges off the tissue.

Now tear the edges off the tissue so there are no more directly edges. Blow dry until dry.

Pace five: Use another layer of liquid latex.

Apply some other layer of liquid latex over the tissue with the sponge and around the tissue blending outward. Utilise the blow dryer to dry out information technology again.

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Step six: Begin advisedly pulling up the latex.

Once dry begin carefully pulling up the latex and opening a few holes in the surface with your finger nails or a toothpick, existence extra careful not to compression or poke the skin.

Footstep 7: Blot the Corpse Yellow makeup into the openings.

Next absorb the Corpse Yellow makeup from the Injury Stack, or a yellowish color, into the openings. If your actor/model has darker skin, mix a pale skin color with the yellow.

Step 8: Apply a trivial more liquid latex.

Apply a piffling more liquid latex over the makeup in the holes to proceed in identify and protect the makeup.

Step ix: Pigment cherry on the eyelids, so shadow the eyes with the majestic and brown.

Go out the Bruised Ruby from the injury stack and the brown and majestic shadow makeup. Paint red on the eyelids, then shadow the eyes with the purple and brown using more around the burned eye.

Pace 10: Dab around where the fire is.

Using the makeup brush and the Claret Gel dab randomly around where the burn down is, not getting into the openings in the makeup.

Step 11: Castor faux blood over all the latex.

With the paint castor, brush some of the false blood over all the latex making sure to get into all the wrinkles and nooks while blending the blood gel a little bit. Then pour some of the blood into the dish and dip another torn makeup sponge into the blood and fade the blood as you move away from the furn area.

Step 12: Blow dry the claret for a infinitesimal.

Accident dry out the blood for a minute, it wont dry but it will go tacky. Next have the blackness acrylic paint and the paintbrush and with a trivial chip on the castor paint lightly over the burn area in blotches, fading abroad equally you move outward.

Stride 13: Clean the claret and black paint out of the openings.

Finally, with a clean and wet makeup castor or wet q-tip clean out the blood and black paint out of the openings, exposing the pale yellowed skin underneath.

Now you are finished! The makeup stays on for a while and peels off easily. Good luck with your burn. If y'all attempt this tutorial I'd dearest to see the effect; go alee and comment with a link with your results! If you accept any other questions and suggestions please let me know.

I would like to thank Scott again for being such a good test subject.

Kennely MUA on Oct 05, 2018:

Thank YOU for this, the pictures and the text is SO clear and easy and makes for a super effect. I will be using it for inspiration for a theater testify special effect. Thank you again!!!

melindathemartian on July 04, 2010:

Hey!

I just tried this out. I didn't accept liquid latex and don't accept time to practice a exam with the actor to make certain he isn't allergic. It turns out, simple arts and crafts glue is a descent substitute. I wouldn't recommend it for areas that flex a lot (fingers, elbows, knees), just it stayed on for almost 2 hours and started peeling of my index finger a bit. But, this could be touched up throughout the twenty-four hours if needed.

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Thanks! This was the best tutorial I constitute!

Wayne Tully from Hull City United Kingdom on June 07, 2010:

That's a neat tutorial and the burnt make up looks actually effective!, I retrieve as a kid having a monster make up set that I added allsorts of stuff to to add to the monster furnishings, rice krispies and cornflakes were a keen addition.

Thank you now!