Insidious Sickly Look (MINI SPOILER ALERT INCLUDED)

                This past weekend I went to Insidious: Chapter 2. I know you have no interest in my personal life or my opinions, but just to add a small tip, save your money and wait for it to come out on DVD for rental. It isn’t worth it. 

MINI SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!

During the movie one of the main characters becomes sick. I was actually impressed with how they accomplished to make him look so physically ill in his face! There are multiply ways to accomplish this look. This includes multiply types of sickness. There is the common cold and then a critically ill look. I don’t want to give you too much info over the movie but for the scenes/ scenario the man is “sick” in, you would want the critically ill look over the cold look. Looking like he had a cold would not be nearly as effective. 

                If you go online and look up a how-to you will get these weird terms like contouring and they tend to use things the typical person does not have like stage makeup or the super expensive makeup nobody has time for. Here I am going to give you the how-to for dummies on a budget. All you need is a light colored foundation stick and powder, one darker brown foundation powder, a few grey eye shadow colors, one bronze eye shadow and a light foundation cover-up stick. Even if you got one of everything and a brand new brush set at Walmart, you would come out right around thirty bucks.

                What you start with is using the lightest foundation stick that you can find (keep in mind these colors should not be illogical for your facial tone) and you want to put it all over your face to even out your skin tone a little bit and obviously make you a little paler. You don’t need anything special to blend this in, just use your hands. It will work way better and you can get more exact.

                After your entire face is blended, you should take your darker foundation powder and a skinnier brush (or a fat fluffy brush just squeezed), suck your cheeks in like you are making that fishy face we all know we made at some point as a kid, and put the dark foundation right in the crease where your cheeks are sucked in the most along with at your temples and the indents in your neck. You can use your hands to blend the color and make it a little more subtle.

                After you get that awkward darkness on your face, take the extremely light powder that you have and put that on your cheek bones and around all the other areas you put the dark powder on to highlight that the dark part is supposed to be sunken in. Put the light foundation all over your forehead and make sure to blend into your neck, otherwise this makeup is pointless. You should be doing this with your big fluffy brush or at least a foundation/ blush brush. You can even put some of the light foundation over the dark one and brush out to the lighter part of your face to blend the dark in even more.

                Your face should look pretty sickly now. You may be asking, hey, what do I do with my eyes?? Well, I was just getting to that. Start by taking an angled brush and using your dark powder and put it all around your eyes, from your brow bone to the bottom of your natural bags. Yes, everyone has them, apparent or not. After you get that general darkness to your eyes you will take a medium light grey and brush that over the brown powder. Your eyes should start looking sickly. Here is the kicker to your eyes. You can take a pointed eye-shadow brush and put the bronze/ goldish eye-shadow and put it at the point where your eyelids meet closest to your nose. You can also put it lightly one the bottom lid near your nose. This will make your eyes look even more tired.

                Now we will tie it all together with the lips. MAKE SURE YOU DO NOT MOISTURIZE YOUR LIPS BEFOREHAND!!!! YOU WANT YOUR LIPS TO LOOK DRY! You can take your light cover-up stick and put it all over your lips. They should look sick and drained.

                If you did all this right and could understand what in the world I said, you should either look like a dead Bella Swan if you’re a girl, or the guy from Insidious: Chapter 2.

                That’s all for today folks!:)

Dramatic exit—Director J.