i am the director of makeup for a huge theater production by the Drama Society at my university. this is great experience for me and not to mention super great for my resume. and please note that i am only an amateur with no professional training... if there is any flaw, this is why :P

there will be 8 play dates and tonight would be the third day. some of the makeup don't show up in the pictures... looks great on stage though :P

this is the guy playing Antonio (ex-pirate) .. isn't he hot? :P i get to put makeup on him. i get to put bronzer right down to his chest! *swoons* .. can't get any better than that!

this is on the dress rehersals we had last sunday:

before


after



opening night pictures:

pictures from second night

Antonio/Peter is very hot, yes.

I'd love to be able to do makeup for a big production like this! Unfortunately, the ones I'm in tend to have a very small crew so I'm usually stage managing or in the tech box. So I don't really get to play with the makeup, since by the time they start on faces, I already need to be on standby. I do do hair though, since for some reason ALL the students like to get their hair done and then have dinner and then get their faces done.

It looks like you're having fun; break a leg!

Very nice job with the mu hun. By the looks of it, I'd say you've been doing mu for years lol.

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A job well done!

OK, I'm jealous; his eye makeup looks fantastic!

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wow....that's great!!! good job

I'm definately having fun.

This is a big production with a tiny budget... if u can imagine that. i think the budget was only CAD1000. very small... most of the makeup i could buy were drugstore brands... i wasn't pleased :P i wanted really good brands .. oh well, i'm glad everything turned out welll though... i had to bring some of my own MAC stuff coz drugstore shadows are really useless...

wow... thank you!!! you made my day!

thanks!! he's such a pleasure to work with.. i have to say, it's easier to apply makeup on him than any of the girls. plus he has to have tons of bronzer on him. love this guy... he's such an eye candy :P

thank you... i'm really enjoying myself

just for fun, a video of antonio aka peter fooling around while waiting for makeup... he's hilarious... video didnt get what he was doing before the camera was on him...

just for fun,

a video of antonio aka peter fooling around while waiting for makeup... he's hilarious... video didnt get what he was doing before the camera was on him...

I am so familiar with the big production-small budget scale. What I really hate, though, is how most of the budget (at least for many of the ones I've done) seems to end up in things like costumes when really, it's a stage production, you don't need the hugely expensive, heavy, detailed fabrics. Fake it. I need more money for my set! Props, I can deal with, since they're smaller and I'm told I'm a dab hand at "faking" things for the stage.

And they love to skimp on makeup. Which totally doesn't work if you want bright colours and especially if you have aforementioned expensive pretty costumes, since that just makes the faces look even more washed out if you use drugstore brands, like you said. Thankfully, the last few times, we had a girl who brought in all her MAC e/s (Two traincases' worth - I had to pick her up every day because the cases were huge and heavy and she's a really small girl, LOL) so that we could use those to layer the cheaper stuff. That was incredibly nice of her, and of you, too! Kudos!