How to Create a Black Eye Using Theatrical Makeup

Squinting with the costume black eye adds verisimilitude.

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Makeup, props and costumes help set the stage for a theatrical production. After a dramatic fight scene, one or more of the actors may need a black eye to sell the realism of the fight to the audience. Theatrical makeup can help the actor achieve a realistic injury. A genuine black eye, or ecchymosis, occurs when trauma to the face causes bruising and swelling around the eye. Reproducing swelling accurately requires theatrical appliances, but for quick stage makeup or a costume you plan to wear for hours, you can mimic the look of swollen, bruised eyes with cosmetics.

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Set your fist gently against the eye that you intend to blacken with theatrical makeup. A real fist will give you accurate references for the impact points -- the parts of your underlying bone structure that would take the force of a hit to the face. Note where your hand touches.

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Sweep a layer of plum theatrical makeup under your eye with your fingertip. Work from the inner corner to the outer corner; this will leave the thickest application near the inner edge of your eye and gradually fade the makeup out toward the outer corner. Keep the makeup above the rim of your cheekbone where the tissue is soft.

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Touch up areas that need more plum makeup with the edge of your finger. The heat of your finger will melt the oily theatrical makeup and blend it into your skin as you apply it, so continue building the plum makeup until you achieve a bruiselike color at your inner eyelid.

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Work the dark plum makeup into the outer corner of the crease of your upper eyelid. A real black eye causes bruising of the soft tissues on both your upper and lower lids, so blend the makeup onto your upper lid below the crease.

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Apply red makeup to the outer corner of your eye, and pat it with a fingertip to blend it. The red makeup enhances the illusion of swollen, angry skin. Touches of red should be subtle and blend with the purple bruise hue you've applied around your eye.

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Pat olive green theatrical makeup lightly around the edges of the false bruising to give the illusion of a black eye that's beginning to fade. If you had a real black eye, your skin would take on greenish and yellowish tones where the bruising was about to disappear, and that's what you'd mimic with the green theatrical makeup. Skip this step if you want a fresher-looking black eye.

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Apply yellow makeup to the impact points around your eye where the bone is most prominent. For most faces, those points are the outer brow bone, the upper cheekbone and the bridge of the nose. The pale hue of the makeup also gives the illusion of swelling in those areas.

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Dampen a makeup sponge, and pat the makeup to blend it thoroughly where two colors meet. Leave a fairly sharp line of demarcation under your eye between the unbruised skin of your cheek and the thin, delicate skin of your eye socket. Real black eyes usually exhibit a sharp delineation between undereye bruising in the socket and the healthy tissue of the cheek.

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Dust the makeup with a light coating of translucent powder to set it in place and reduce shine.

Tips & Warnings

Choose makeup colors that resemble the color your skin turns when you bruise.

Darker skin tones may need a more-brownish plum, while lighter complexions may look more-realistically bruised with a reddish plum hue.

If your black eye doesn't look sufficiently dark after you've applied powder, add more plum makeup and powder until you're satisfied with the color.

Add abrasions with the red makeup if the fictitious wound is fresh.

Avoid getting theatrical makeup in your eyes. The greasy cosmetics can irritate your eyes or form a blurry film until your tear ducts wash the surface of your eye.

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Create stand-up shower

A simple glass block shower is an easy way to update your bathroom without spending a fortune.

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Because of high costs often associated with bad features can house and apartment owners independently address them projects on their own can. Creating a stand-up shower is not a simple project, but with the right materials and preparation, it is possible for the average homeowner it completed successfully. The key to building a stand-up shower is your design and optimized to keep and an easy-to-work-with material such as glass block select.

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Prepare the area in which you your stand-up shower through the installation of an elevated place shower pan, one currently in place does not want to install. Positioning the shower pan of the drain pipe, whether the pipe must be in order for the Pan flat sitting be trimmed. If it detaches the tube with a reciprocating saw, then the bottom of the Pan shower coat and the cement board inferior in the bathroom floor with construction adhesive. Press the Pan shower set is locked.

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Napping on the surface of the elevated shower Pan edge with fine grain sandpaper to accept it, to prepare the mortar. Sand just enough to remove the glossy coating on the Pan shower then wipe off the dust with a damp cloth.

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Mix a batch of glass block mortar in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions, stir it with a drill to remove powered mixer for all lumps. White mortar is most often used to create glass showers, but you can a different color.

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The part of the shower pan, to enter and leave the shower open to allow as a means to measure. Select the opening on the Pan shower with two pieces of colored tape.

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A 1/2-inch layer of mortar on the shower Pan spread edge. You start in the corner closest to the wall-if your shower pan in a Ecke--has been installed and put up with a small trowel mortar. Make sure the space between the two colored tape, clean leave.

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Press your first glass blocks left in the mortar near the corner of 1/2-inch space between the block and the wall. Set additional blocks in accordance with the first press it gently in the mortar and about 1/2-inch space between each block leave. Balance between the peaks of adjacent pairs of blocks to ensure that all of them are installed in the same amount.

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Install glass block with a final end when you reach the edge of the shower opening. These blocks give your shower more open finished. If you later want to install a shower door, enough standard glass blocks in the vicinity of the opening.

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Still, continued the mortar and place the glass blocks, until you have completed the first line on both sides of the shower opening. Check the blocks with your level, and fits you needs by tapping blocks in the mortar with a rubber mallet to.

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Fill bag mortar with mortar, and press the mortar in the spaces in between the glass blocks and the column of blocks closest to the wall and the wall itself. When finished, a 1/2-inch layer of mortar above on the first line of the blocks, and install a second series of blocks directly at the beginning of the first line.

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Their walls shower by installing additional rows of blocks divided by 1/2-inch thick layers of mortar building. When you reach the last row your stand-up shower, install you end up at the top of a series of blocks with finished.

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Go over the entire surface of the shower with the mortar bag, fill gaps that you might have missed. When finished, all excess mortar wipe, then dry the mortar 72 hours before using your new stand-up shower can be with a damp cloth.

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It is possible to build stand-up showers with curved glass blocks, but standard 4-by 4-inch or 6-by 6-inch square blocks are the simplest to use. If you sprinkle coloured or glass blocks to the clear one Matt your shower to dramatic effect.

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