The Hills Are Alive | My Experience!

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     Recently I had the honour of being the make-up team leader for my high school's production of the classic musical "The Sound of Music". Firstly I want to say that the talent at my high school is AMAZING! We have some wicked voices (for security and personal reasons I am not going to state names or high school location). The girl who plays the lead role of "Maria" is an amazing talent who fit the role perfectly... and I mean perfectly... No one could have done a better job in that role (you go girl!).

     Now, let's get to my little taste of the limelight! No, I wasn't on stage or singing to the top of my lungs, but I very well could of been. This whole experience was a great taste of what I want my career to consist of. I learned so much from an amazingly talented local make-up artist and she showed me so many amazing techniques and gave me such great advice. I think I valued that most of all. It is so rewarding to know what you are doing wrong/what you could improve on and then be given the advice to help you move forward and advance that skill. 

     I want to just point out as well that I have had many career ideas bounce through my head... I knew that I wanted a fast paced job and a job where I wouldn't know what to expect day to day. I wanted a job where I would be on the go and get to meet lots of new and exciting people. I honestly believe that this kind of career will be able to do that for me. Throughout this whole experience I have had the chance to talk face-to-face with some pretty cool and amazing people that I would not have gotten to talk to before. I also got to share my passion and knowledge with a lot of the cast; as I was the go to girl for any make-up related questions that someone might of had.  

    Overall, I have realized that my passion is worth pursuing and this is what I want for my life. Working with this cast was honestly amazing and everyone was so welcoming.

I wanted to save the actual make-up products for the end because not everyone reading this will know what I am talking about: 

     For the make-up, basic stage make-up was used. Ben Nye & Mehron were used the most, as well as a few just standard drug store make-up products. Overall I liked working with these brands and they were fairly easy to work with. The only issue that I had, was with the Ben Nye concealer wheel. We used this wheel for both concealer and as a highlight. The blendability was a bit of an issue (mostly on the male performers) but other than that all the products used were very nice. I also had to do some ageing (A few being aged 45-50 & One who was being aged to around 70). For this I didn't do anything too intense, just a bit of work with some contouring around the "nasal labial fold" as well as creating bags under the eyes. More work with contouring was used on the ageing of getting the girl to 70, but it was all done using the same technique. 

     One last time I would like to congratulate the entire cast for doing such an amazing job and I would like to thank all the people that I personally worked with for letting me do your make-up, it really was great fun for me and I would do it again in a heartbeat!