Hair & Makeup

This is my hair and makeup test for when I dress as Samuel Daniel. I’ve tried to make myself look slightly more boy-ish in appearance, yet not too much, as I’m still supposed to look like a young man capable of performing as a woman on stage.

Makeup consists of a basic foundation and powder, followed by numerous applications of a brown shadow on various areas of my face to bring out more boyish aspects of my appearance. I have put shadows around my jawline to try and make it look a little more boyish, trying to square it out and make it more defined. I have a particularly rounded jawline, whereas men and boys have a more square-set one, so shadowing it should bring it out some more.

I also put shadows around the corners of my eyes to change their shape somewhat and to make them look more deeply set, while putting more around the edges of my nose to make it look thinner, and the corners of my mouth to make them look wider, and the shape to look somewhat different. Of course I have thickened and darkened my eyebrows to make them match the colour of the wig, and to again change their appearance and shape somewhat, while still trying to retain a fairly feminine look of my own. My hairline is shadowed, specifically my widow’s peak, just in case, before having a lace front wig put on top.

Hopefully I shall have a hat made by the time I begin to take photos of myself in the outfit and for the videos which should make the wig look more convincing – as it is usually the top of the head that tends to give away whether or not a wig is very obviously a wig, and a hat should be an easy enough way to get around that problem.