Theatrical ageing/Creping of the skin

When reading the script, there are few things that need to consider:

• What age the person ( actor / actress ) is?
• What period of people the character is?
• What kind of background the character is from?

Stage make up its about exploiting the natural features of your face to achieved a certain look, and usually does 
not work well if you try to fundamentally change your facial structure.Ageing make up can add just few years to your face, or when you used more dramatically , many years. On e of the central features of old age make up is creating the looks of the wrinkles. After applying a foundation layer of make-up, use a one tone lighter shade the natural skin tone to achieved a pale look. For creating a wrinkles use a two tones darker shades of foundation, the best is to use a contour foundation or using a brown pencil. By varying the subtlety of the make up, you can increase or decrease the age you are trying to portray.

Lines
 For practise, stand in front of a well-let  mirror and scrunch up your face in various way, paying careful attention where the creases appear. Smile, frown, squint your eyes, furrow your brow, pucker your lips and move from side to side. The creases that you see, that where wrinkles naturally appear on your face.Using a brown pencil, draw lines in each of these places, keep in in mind how far away audience closer to you, your make up can be more subtle.Audiences that are farther away require to use more dramatic effects, so people can see the aged look.

Shadows and Highlights   
Adding shadows and highlights will enhance the definition of the line drawn- on wrinkles and further the ageing process. Your highlights colour should be a couple of shades lighter then your foundation and your shadow should be a significantly darker. As you work keep in mind that highlights will make thinks appear to pop out, while shadow will cause features to visually recede. With this in mind, add a bit of highlight against the lines you drew fro wrinkles and blend gently out from the line. This will give them look of depth. Others area highlight include  under the arch of your brow, your nose and cheekbones.
When choosing area to shadow, think about how elderly people certain area of their face that may be more sunken-in than others. The most common places that this occurs are the hallows of the cheeks, the eye area and underneath eyes. Use your shadow colours to create sunken cheeks and bags under the eyes. To create sunken eyes, add shadow to the crease of your eyelid. In all cases, be sure to blend your make-up to create a more natural look.


Stippling and Age Spots
A good final detail for ageing make-up is to incorporate unevenness in skin tone and presence of age spots. This is most easily done with a stippling sponge and your shadow colour. Lightly put some of your shadow colour onto a stippling sponge - one with uneven surface that will create small dots of make-up. Do not stipple your entire face evenly, as this will detract from realism of your make-up. Instead, stipple a small area and then move to a different, random area. Use more stippled shadow in some areas then others, and leave some of your face entirely unstapled. 

For example

 My work 

1. First I should use a one shades lighter foundation- my mistake I used a natural like a skin.Before that I cleanse, tone and moisturise a skin. Then using a small brush a brown colour from camouflage palette I created a wrinkle, by creasing a skin when natural wrinkle appears- on the forehead, in the corners an eyes, around nose, mouth.

2. Using a black sponge and and red and blue colour from supra color palette I created a broken veils on the cheeks. Using a teeth enamel- yellow and black colour I made dirty and black old teeth .

3. Putting a wig My model looks older .

 Products which I used:

•  Kryolan foundation palette
•  Illamasqua Matte Primer
• Dermalogical camouflage palette Kryolan
• Illamasqua translucent powder
• black and white foundation sponge
• small brushes
• foundation brush
• Kryolan supracolor palette
• Teeth enamel from Kryolan

Evaluation
From beginning I used wrong colour foundation, I chose natural like my model skin, should be 1 shades lighter then skin colour. For wrinkles probably I should chose brown pencil, 2 shades darker then foundation, my model creases a forehead to let me found it natural wrinkles which appears on the skin, I defined some wrinkles around the eyes, nose, lips, I didn't use a highlighter to make a wrinkles look more deep and natural, I used supracolour palette and black sponge for some broken veins on the cheeks, I didn't make a grey lashes and eyebrows- I forgot about them, on the teeth I put enamel from Kryolan to make them look ugly and broken.Definitely I need it practise about theatrical ageing.