Make-Up Supplies & Make-Up Methods

We decided to use my prior knowledge of make-up and FX Make-Up to try and create wounds and blood. In Qatar, unfortunately you cannot obtain Liquid Latex which is used to create wounds that have some depth and fake blood is very expensive. This resulted in me making my own supplies with simple ingredients.

My supplies altogether included: vaseline, an eye shadow palette with a range of colours, a range of red lipsticks, cheap brushes, corn syrup, red and blue food colouring, flour, wate and foundation.

I was going to make Soft Skin Fauxtex which is a type of Liquid Latex (as seen on http://www.diypics.com/how-make-latex-fx-makeup/ ) however finding tapioca flour and plain gelatin proved very difficult. Therefore I decided to use my own type of Scar Wax which is a mix of corn starch, vasline and foundation. This mixture is simple to use and it blends with the skin well. It also allows you to create some gruesome wounds, cuts and slices easily. There are a few setbacks to using this wax; it is very sticky due to the vaseline which also means it does not dry, therefore if you touch it or knock it on something, it will smudge. It also makes blending bruise tone eye shadow into the wound itself very difficult as it smudges with the applicator.

Making the fake blood was simple. The ingredients for the blood were water, corn syrup, red and blue food colouring and sifted flour. I couldn't find corn syrup in my local shops so I decided to substitute it for maple syrup as it has the same consistency. First you combine one part water with three parts maple syrup, in this instance I used 50ml of water and 150ml of syrup. I then mixed this thoroughly with a fork and then a wooden spoon once the mixture had started to combine and become less sticky. I then started to add the red food colouring one drop at a time. I added a small amount of blue for a more realistic shade. I altered the colour until I was happy with how it shows on my skin. The next step was to slowly add a thickener, in this case, sifted flour. Whisk this until smooth. Remove any lumps of flour with a spoon. I then needed to adjust the colour slightly as the flour had caused the blood to look lighter.