Video: How to Make Fake Bruises

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Fake bruises can be created with makeup using a variety of colors, including yellow, green, purple, blue and red. Create a realistic looking bruise on the face with help from an experienced special effects makeup artist in this free video on theatrical makeup.

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Hello, my name is Keegan Hitchcock, from Body Art by Keegan, and we're here in Fort Lauderdale, at One Model Place Studios. In this clip, I'm going to show you how to make a bruise. In this case we're going to do a bruised eye. We've got our bruise wheel here. It's got all the colors that you're going to need. Most people would think you're just going to do purple and blue, but there's all kinds of gross colors in there. You've got a little yellow, a little green to make it, it will actually make it look a little more realistic. So, first thing we're going to do with the red here we're going to give it an all around kind of irritated look. Close your eye please. Just real lightly going to dab that on with our makeup sponge. If you have an excess use the back of it to kind of blend a little bit more. We're not going to cover her whole entire eye. We're just going to go this part here where it's, the bones are closer to the skin because that's where you would get the bruising naturally. Bring it down a little bit, that irritation. We've already messed up her hair a little bit as well so she's going to look more the part here. So, you can see we've got kind of a general reddish irritation look here. Now, the fun part comes. We're going to take our stipple sponge. It's got lots of big holes in it. Whereas, the little ones is more smooth this has lots of big holes. It's going to kind of disperse our color a little bit differently. So, we're going to take the blue and just kind of dab on there almost like the look of little blood vessels that have been popped when she got hit in her fight. We're going to do a little bit of the purple in the same way and blend it out with the back end of the sponge a little. So, now she's looking good and bruised there. And this is a wound that she's gotten maybe a couple of days ago, so we are going to go back in with another makeup sponge. Mix a little of our yellow and our green. That's going to go around the outer edges here. Blend that into her natural skin tone and a little over her eyelid. Close your eyelid. Turn a little tiny bit towards me. A little bit back please, all right. Next thing, if you want to make it look really intense just take a little bit of red. Look up for me with your eyes. Right near her eye with a little bit of red. Blend that out with your sponge and we've got our bruised eye. And that's our bruised eye. Thank you for watching. This has been Keegan Hitchcock.

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How to Make Fake Bruises

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