Zoë Dennis: Pass the loo roll.

Monday, 24 September 2012

Pass the loo roll.

This is a purely prosthetic-inspired look, in which I aimed to make my face look like it had been burnt?! Creepy eh – and just in time for HALLOWEEN! And the secret, expensive, rare material I used for this look? Loo roll. Just your bog standard (hehe) paper you’d wipe your bits with?!

I started by moisturising my face, just so I had something tacky to place the paper on before adhering it. I then smothered the area in eyelash glue and took think layers of the paper and ripped them and tore them into malleable pieces before sticking them to my face. I then took a finger-full of Vaseline and rubbed it around the edges to smooth it onto my bare skin. Afterwards, I took a deep red blush and smoky black eye shadow (just cheapo ones, nothing expensive!) and began to pat it on top of the paper/Vaseline combo. NOTE: THIS IS WHERE IT GETS MESSY! I then took a mega cheap sticky red lip gloss and used a cotton bud to move it around the area mixing it with the red and black shadow combo. When I had achieved the desired colour/look, I took a pair of tweezers and pulled at the tissue and filled in any white bits with more shadow, and used a little high-coverage liquid concealer around the edges where necessary.

As for the rest of my face, I took a powder puff with a little of the black shadow on and patted it around my face, aiming to give it a bit of a ‘smoke-damaged’ look, I didn’t even use any foundation. I continued this down my neck and onto my ears (as I had my hair pulled back into a tight ponytail) and onto the eyelids. No other makeup, including touching my brows or mascara was used, as the primary focus of this was the true-to-life looking burnt section.

Even though I used literally 20 cotton buds, and had to have a major deep cleanse of my face, including exfoliation as well as an intense regenerating face mask, this is by far one of my favourite looks I’ve ever created!