Jesscia Rabbit Makeup Adventures
if you search youtube, you can find enough jessica rabbit makeup tutorials to choke a horse. the trouble is that so much of the illusion relies on contouring, and that can be really hard to do when your face isnt the same shape as whoever is doing the tutorial. so i gave up and mapped it out on my own face with a picture and that free mspaint for mac software you can download from the internet. i tried to figure out how to match me to this:
this is her 'de-tooned' as it were.
so more than just the giant purple eyelid and the fake brow, her face has distinct planes that need to be recreated in order to avoid looking like a weird slutty clown.
discovered several things, which im going to write down so i dont forget, namely:
- stick makeup blended with a brush creates a really smooth, natural-looking complexion
-airspun truanslucent powder is really good, but im 90% sure i had a massive allergic reaction when i tried it, so i need to try the unscented kind
-flexible sealor is good but i need to dab it on with a sponge,or find a better brush, it’s a consistency like nail polish otherwise
-’palladio,’ a makeup brand at sally beaty supply, makes really fantastic eyeliners. theyre super smooth and they actually stay on, which i wouldn’t expect.
-shimmery light pink pencil under eyebrows makes them look lifted and makes your whole face look brighter
-cheap natural-looking lashes plus fancy flared half-lashes look fantasitc.
-drawing my lips out to the side instead of just above the natural lipline gives much better results.
-drawing on the eyelid shape with a white pencil helps map the eyelids out beforehand.
so i mapped out my face and got this:
sadly, this was miles ahead of my first actual attempt at this makeup
i was all excited so i did a test last week and got this:
the eyelids got way too big. they got away from me, bit the lips looked much better than in previous attempts.
part of me thinks maybe I shouldn’t exaggerate the eyelid so much, and just stick with my natural eye shape, but I also think my contouring could have been much stronger, so i did a new, more focused sketch:
much more precise. hopefully will yield better results(?)
which i intend to try fairly soon.
Becoming Jessica Rabbit
So I’m a little obsessed with halloween costumes. They’re a chance for me to show off how type-a i can really be. This year, my boyfriend and I will be Jessica and Roger Rabbit. Yes, I decided this in late feb. No, I’m not ashamed.
Anywho, its a very complicated costume to make, especially if you’re on a budget. The trouble is that the character isn’t exactly drawn like a real person, and her dress doesn’t exactly follow the laws of physics.
so here's what were working with.
Basically, the only way to support her bustline is via compression of her tiny tiny waist. she has no straps, and her dress has essentially no back, and the entire thing is a seamless sleek package. But what does she care? She’s a cartoon!
I’ve already made some basic changes, namely, I will not do the super duper backless thing, because on real people it just doesn’t look right, it makes them look bulky on the sides of their ribcage, and it limits how much you can pull the waist in, so its really not worth it, because the visual impact comes from the hourglass figure. I think the tube-dress thing looks like a cop-out, as does a poorly-styled wig. It’s a really bad costume for people if they’re going to phone it in. Literary characters, fine, everyone imagines them differently, but cartoons are specific iconic images, especially human cartoons, and they require attention to detail, otherwise they’re just lame. I can’t quite decide how to use bones so that they wont show through the main fabric, because all that structure kind of kills the whole liquid slinkiness that’s going on.
It’s hard to figure out how exactly the skirt is supposed to go, because it seems to flare out, but it cant drag along the ground, its not a gown. Also, I cannot figure out what kind of stockings she’s wearing. I think a dark sheer with a backseam might be best, or maybe just a dark sheer, the backseam might be too intense. And then there’s the makeup. I want to make myself actually look like the cartoon, but I have to work with my face to do it, and its a little tough, because again her face doesn’t follow human proportions, or my face doesn’t fit cartoon proportions, mostly in the huge eyelid department. My search for makeup tutorials has taught me that I have less eyelid to work with than most people who make makeup videos on youtube. Anywho, I’m off to figure out how to block out my eyebrows.
