When I saw the photos of Natalie Dormer at this years’ Golden
Globes, I was instantly inspired, the look stuck me as edgy and and
absolutely gorgeous! I decided to recreate her look without having to
shave half my head, so I took a whack at creating a partial bald cap. I
also mimicked her makeup for the evening, but chose to do a darker lip
because I dig those. (Click here for the video, for a blog post about the wearable beauty side of the makeup click here.)
This makeup was very much an experiment…Without doing any research; I did it in a way that made sense to me. I began by making a bald cap in exactly the same way I usually make a bald cap, except only half of it (unfortunately I made it on the wrong side and had to start over, maybe I’ll do something with the other one one day).
My original plan for attaching the bald cap was to glue it to my face, toupee-tape it to the parting in my hair, and bobby pin it into my plait at the back. However, the bobby pin idea failed (the cap started to rip) and I ended up just toupee-taping it again (which worked fine, however I do wish it would have been tighter).
Overall, I’m really happy with how it worked out. The only changes I would’ve made are: trying to make the cap tighter (so I don’t have one of those bald guy walrus rolls above my ear), and of course that patch of makeup at my temple that just went white and couldn’t be fixed.
See, latex has this annoying quality of turning makeup white. I don’t know how, or why, but it does. You’ll see in the video that I put concealer on that part, to try and cover up some black pen lines made in the production of the cap. That was a mistake I won’t make again. It was infuriating editing the video and watching that patch just get whiter and whiter as time went on (watch it again and just watch the patch, you’ll see what I mean).
For the rest of the cap I used Rimmel’s Stay Matte foundation (I find that foundations advertised as “staying matte” don’t turn white on latex, as much), and my Skin Illustrator alcohol-activated Ink Palette (which are paints designed for prosthetics that won’t take regular makeup).
I did Photoshop the seam (and white patch) out of my video’s thumbnail, because there is almost zero ways to hide the edge of a bald cap with front-on flash photography (top lighting is always best).
Here is an unedited version (also flash photography can do funny things to the Alcohol Ink paints, it is not as mismatched as it appears):
And here is another unedited version of the same makeup, under top lighting:
(of course the background has been edited, but the makeup has not)
You can see how the seam on the appliance is much less visible.
(I never know how to end these things, but) I hope this has been useful/educational/interesting to you, and please don’t forget to thumbs up my video!
Thanks for reading!
This makeup was very much an experiment…Without doing any research; I did it in a way that made sense to me. I began by making a bald cap in exactly the same way I usually make a bald cap, except only half of it (unfortunately I made it on the wrong side and had to start over, maybe I’ll do something with the other one one day).
My original plan for attaching the bald cap was to glue it to my face, toupee-tape it to the parting in my hair, and bobby pin it into my plait at the back. However, the bobby pin idea failed (the cap started to rip) and I ended up just toupee-taping it again (which worked fine, however I do wish it would have been tighter).
Overall, I’m really happy with how it worked out. The only changes I would’ve made are: trying to make the cap tighter (so I don’t have one of those bald guy walrus rolls above my ear), and of course that patch of makeup at my temple that just went white and couldn’t be fixed.
See, latex has this annoying quality of turning makeup white. I don’t know how, or why, but it does. You’ll see in the video that I put concealer on that part, to try and cover up some black pen lines made in the production of the cap. That was a mistake I won’t make again. It was infuriating editing the video and watching that patch just get whiter and whiter as time went on (watch it again and just watch the patch, you’ll see what I mean).
For the rest of the cap I used Rimmel’s Stay Matte foundation (I find that foundations advertised as “staying matte” don’t turn white on latex, as much), and my Skin Illustrator alcohol-activated Ink Palette (which are paints designed for prosthetics that won’t take regular makeup).
I did Photoshop the seam (and white patch) out of my video’s thumbnail, because there is almost zero ways to hide the edge of a bald cap with front-on flash photography (top lighting is always best).
Here is an unedited version (also flash photography can do funny things to the Alcohol Ink paints, it is not as mismatched as it appears):
And here is another unedited version of the same makeup, under top lighting:
(of course the background has been edited, but the makeup has not)
You can see how the seam on the appliance is much less visible.
(I never know how to end these things, but) I hope this has been useful/educational/interesting to you, and please don’t forget to thumbs up my video!
Thanks for reading!
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