Testing for look 2

I also did quite a bit of testing for look 2 too, I started off by having a play around with a few of my initial ideas for the clown look..

I tried blackened 'abyss' eyes, stapled lips, and what to whiten the skin with. The blackened eyes really didn't work how I wanted them to because they don't look as hollow as I had imagined, they also looked a bit too intrusive onto the face with the other features and it felt a bit OTT, also I imagined that as a statue or doll the clown would be staring at someone so to see it's eyes would be more important than I had first thought. I also tried some stapled together lips which I had seen Caroline Saulnier do a tutorial for something similar on Hunger TV, I used DUO to stick them on a wound filler around the bases for my version. They were a lot easier to do than I thought they would be and they looked pretty effective too so I think I will use that technique in my clown look. For the last of my first bit of testing I just tried out 2 products to whiten the face, I used foundation for one and a type of paint (safe for skin) for the other, although I liked how the paint cracked which might look effective for and old statue or toy I decided it flaked off too easily which would cause me trouble when applying the rest of the make up on top.

Again I did a trial run of the makeup for look 2 before the final shoot and again it brought up things that I now know to alter for the final shoot/look.. one is that I am going to make the squares smaller and also have one side of pattern smaller than the other to add some asymmetrical oddness, another is that I am going to whiten the brows more before applying the pattern so they don't interfere with the squares, I do will however keep the nose and the lip colour the same because I think they look better in this trial than the last.