Hello friends of Hive, today it occurred to me to do an optical illusion style makeup, or at least I tried it since I feel that it lacks a little more but it was really difficult and it took me a long time to reach that result, many mixtures of light tones to look like a kind of melting candle, a lot of confusion with the shadows but everything can be done with patience, so today I will show you how I made this little illusion.
I have seen many optical illusion makeups and I really like, I would like to learn more and improve, it is something impressive how we can make our face so surreal, I have always liked candles to apply them in art in fact I have some drawings where I paint candles but Doing it on the face is already another level, something more complex but satisfying.
Before starting my makeup I was undecided, I did not know whether to disappear the entire upper part of my face and turn it into a candle or only half, my forehead is very small and I was afraid that in the end the candle's fire wick would not fit hahaha, but finally I dared to do it only on part of my face, thus leaving one eye free to apply a simple but beautiful makeup, using earth tones and gold, then I applied concealer on my left eye and drew the shape with a black pencil of where the top of the candle would be, an irregular shape, I then began to apply the shadows starting with a dark brown and the next would be a little lighter and reddish, blur to mix these two tones.
Continue filling the center of my eyelid with a satin shade of gold color, I really liked this combination, apply the same effect under my eye.
Then mold my left eyebrow, once everything is ready, apply the base on the part of my face that would be "normal" and then begin to paint the part of the candle with a cream color that I made mixing body paints, with white draw the shape of the candle wax falling on the edge and shadow the edges with brown eyeshadow.
The most difficult part was to give texture inside the candle so I started playing with browns, whites and blacks until I had some kind of texture in that part, then it took a long time I did not feel comfortable with the result but it was the best I could do. , then I drew the wick of this candle, I used various shades of yellow, orange and white, even at the end I still wanted more light so after I finished everything I applied a little yellow pigment around it and a little blue in the center, but that's It was before taking the photos.
To give a more realistic effect of the wax, I decided to make drops with hot silicone which I then stuck on my face, making large, long, small drops and even dots.
Finally I finished my makeup by applying a little contour on the nose, highlighter, lipstick and mascara.
This makeup was a challenge for me, but it didn't really look that bad, I hope you liked it.