For my next blog post I decided to recreate a type skeleton like makeup. I wasn’t sure where to start so I decided to look into my Stage Makeup book. When I was looking through the book it had some great advice on how to create a skeleton type look; “[A skeleton] usually has a long face with sharp, pointed features…” (Corson 274). I took this advice when applying my face paint by using crisp lines and blending only very small parts of the face, keeping most parts as straight lines so the features would be very sharp. 
While I knew how to draw my skeleton I was still unaware of what colors I should be using. “Most conventional skeletons are black and white with gray sections of shadowing” (Corson 273). I decided to make my skeleton look very conventional and follow the exact colors that the book recommended. I used whites on the parts of my face I wanted to be highlighted and blacks where I wanted my face to look deep and in small sections I applied grey to blend the two together. The final look turned out pretty good and would work great for Halloween!

If you were to recreate this look what would you have done differently?

 Corson, Richard, et. al.. Stage Makeup. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1975. Print.