Stage Makeup for 'How to Kill a dead girl'.

For our opening scene, we needed to include bruises and blood as it is about an abusive relationship. Our opening scene involves our character lying in a pool of blood that has come from her head meaning that it would be in contact with her skin. This means that we would have to check that she is not allergic to the fake blood that we used so we did a patch test to check that there would be no allergic reaction.

It also included a bathroom scene in which the character had extremely bruised shoulders to look as though someone has grabbed her from behind with force.

To achieve bruises we used purple, blue, black and green powdered shadow and stage makeup. We started by adding blue patches and blending them out so that they did not look too obvious, we then added a purple shimmer over them and added black parts to the more hollow parts of her body to add emphasis. I then added a small patch of green to the bruise to make it look more realistic. Before we did this, we did another skin patch test to ensure that there was no allergies. We decided to keep the makeup as simple and subtle as possible as our opening scene aims to be quite realistic and emotional so that it has an effect on the audience so we didn't want to make it too over the top, we aimed to keep it looking realistic and subtle