Disease ridden!!

So in today's lesson we were giving people fevers! This is probably one of the more realistic things that we've done so although certain aspects were easier it was still slightly difficult to do. If you are going to give your character a disease of some sort you will need to look up the symptoms to help keep it realistic. 
One of the new products that we will be using today is Glycerin. This can be used to create sweat and tears. If you are planning on using for tears do not put in the eye but just under it. Tears come from the inside of the eye so place just below the dear duct rather than on the outside of the eye. Another way to create tears is to go to a chemist and buy individual strips of eye dropsand use these. They don't harm your eyes and they create more of a watery affect.

When it comes to creating a rash it may be easier to do on natural skin as it looks slightly more real. If you do choose to do this make sure you cover any spots or blemishes as they can ruin continuity. If you want to try and create dry lips you can either use latex or eye lash glue.

The things that you will need for this are:

• Kryolan Supracolour
• Stipple sponge
• Glycerin
• Latex
• Old set of brushes
• Moisturiser

1. So the first thing you do is place moisturiser on the models face and a small amount on the back of your hand.
2. I then placed a small amount of red Supracolour on the back of my hand and mixed it with a small amount of moisturiser. Using the black stipple sponge dab lightly on the skin around the cheeks and nose. Using your fingers gently blend it out so that it looks a little more blotchy.
3. Slowly start to build up the colour but be careful as you don't want to make it look to theatrical. This is where I struggled as in the end I actually didn't put enough colour.
4. Use a fine pointy brush around the eyes starting from the inner corner. Make sure you get right down to the lashes. If you want to get red on the waterline think about getting the kryolan red eyeliner.
5. Using a paint brush or one from your old set flick paint onto the face to help create blotches.
6. To create the dry lip get your model to screw up their lips and dab on latex. You can use a baby bud to get to the inside parts of the lip. Once the latex dried you can start to add colour and maybe a bit of blood for a split lip?
7. Now for the glycerin. Using the black stipple sponge dab around the areas where sweating may occur so the forehead, the upper lip and the cheek. You could lightly damped the hair to help add the affect of sweating. 
8. Using the eye drops get the model to tilt their head right back and place in the inner corner of the eye. You would do this right before the shoot so that the tears aren't already down the face and so that they don't dry out. 

Overall I found this task slightly easier than the others, however the feedback that I got was that I could have added more colour. I was cautious when it came to adding the colour as I didn't want to go over board.