Theater veteran makeup steps

Theater make-up fully absorbed the false face, false shape of the category word characteristics, with the actor's rich facial expression, as well as singing, reading, doing, and other forms of performance to enhance their own styling expressive power.

The actor's line of life, Dan, net, end, ugly have their own spectrum of characteristics. In the Peking Opera face, there is also a whole face, three face, cross face, six face, broken face points.

Opera makeup can be divided into eight basic steps to complete;

The first step: shoot color

Shoot color is to hit the bottom, Qingyi disguise usually use tender flesh-colored oil coloring primer, the purpose is to correct the face.

The second step: shoot red

Above the red, easy to highlight the overall contour of the face, especially the bridge of the nose and cheekbones, to better shape the character's face three-dimensional sense.

Step 3: Fixing makeup

Commonly known as the big white face, loose powder for fixing makeup, the role of the oil color to play a fixed.

Step 4: Sweep the red

Powdered rouge is smeared on the blush to make the face look pink and more natural.

Step 5: Draw eyes

According to the characters to draw a different weight, can express the character of the eye shape.

Step 6: Draw eyebrows

According to the characters to draw different length, thickness, flat and upward eyebrow shape.

Step 7: Draw a meta mouth

Use a lip pencil to outline a full lip shape.

Step 8: Strangle the head with the head and face

Strangle the head tightly with a cloth band and hang the eyes to better shape the character and personality.