Friday, 7 December 2012

Catwalk: Experimenting with sugar

I wanted to experiment making a frosty look on my lips, and to see whether it would work on camera/as a catwalk look. I decided to use the flat squared cake decorating sugar and wanted to create an effect similar to this: 







I began with a sprinkling of the sugar, some vaseline and the sugar pot. I rolled the pot over the sugar which began to crush and make the sugar finer and more like that of the image above. 




I used the chunky sugar first and coated my lips with vaseline and then pressed my lips into the sugar creating this effect. The sugar is too chunky and it was not sticking because of the heaviness. I would not feel confident in using this on my model as she would have to keep so still and this would not work well in a catwalk situation anyway. 


I then used the finer sugar and placed this on my lips in the same way. This looks much better in my opinion although it was still not as effective as I had wanted and I was worried that the look would be too full on with the eyebrows being blue and other ideas I had had. I will try this on my shoot as it was fairly easy to clean off and will not effect my time too much. 

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