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16 • THE ARTISAN FALL 2022 CRAFT EDUCATION Make-Up Craft Education Classes For the first time ever, our make-up craft education on May 15, 2022, successfully went hybrid. With the assistance of our Local 706 tech committee members Tiphanie Baum, Kimberly Carlson, and Guild President Julie Socash, we hosted 38 members over Zoom while simultaneously to our 100 members in-person. Presentations included QMS Medicosmetics, TML, Hulken, The Complexion Apothecary, Lip Luffah, Indeed Labs, and sk*p. Additional gratis to our in-person attendees included House of Lashes, Charlotte Tilbury, POPbeauty and The Freelancer Planner. Local 706 member Ashley Joy Beck shared a demo on how to create your own custom avant-garde appliqués with puff paint. At the time of this publication, our second event in July will have taken place with a discussion and demo on PAX from Mel Products USA. One of the many requests we have received for demos and education include tattoo cover. With various products to choose from (cream foundations, alcohol-based make-up and PAX to name a few), there is not one-and-only way to achieve the results. Whatever you choose, each product has their strengths and weaknesses and I feel it's important to equip our members with the knowledge at our craft events to make an informed choice of your options when assessing the situation. So why is tattoo cover so essential? In some cases, our actors' personal tattoos and body art may not reflect the characters they are portraying, the time period, or even conflict with other body art and tattoos that are designed specifically for the characters. There are also the legal issues to consider. Let's rewind back to the year 2011 when tattoo artist S. Victor Whitmall sued Warner Bros. for copyright infringement of his original artwork and tattoo he created for boxer Mike Tyson that had been replicated for the film The Hangover 2. Whitmall filed his lawsuit one month before the film was set to release, claiming that Warner Bros. failed to "obtain his permission or credit his creation" and asked that a federal judge halt the release of the blockbuster comedy sequel because it prominently featured a replica of his design. In result, Warner Bros. and Whitmall settled and the film was released as scheduled. After this incident, productions were on high alert requesting make-up artists to cover tattoos. For myself, a favorite product to use has been PAX. PAX, originally created by the late and legendary make-up artist and innovator Dick Smith for the film Tootsie, was to be an opaque and durable make-up that could be used on foam latex appliances. PAX can be applied with an airbrush, sponge or brush. Today, it is manufactured by various companies and available in a variety of colors. I love that when dried, it feels B Y C L A I R E A L E X A N D R A D O Y L E smooth like a second skin, will not transfer on wardrobe and can be pretty durable with unique circumstances. Here are two photos I have shared of creative ways I have chosen to use PAX in my tattoo cover work. The first was for a commercial I did with Major League Baseball. The action was for our baseball players to be filmed dipping a baseball and brushes into buckets of paint and create artwork on canvas. A hand model was hired for the various close-ups and had to repeat the action over and over again; wiping their hands and arms clean and repeat in different paint colors. The hand-model production chose had an arm tattoo that extended from his wrist to his elbow. I felt that using PAX was the best option to hold up against the paint and constant arm and hand washing. The results were a success and no touch-ups were required. True to commercial schedules, there was no time and I didn't have an airbrush. I applied the PAX with textured white and orange stipple sponges and then went over with alcohol color, painting back freckles and veining. The second photo was a "you have five minutes to cover this" one-week-old tattoo on the back of this person's head. I immediately grabbed for my PAX and a hair dryer, and used various brown eye shadow colors to mimic a haircut fade. Iconic actor Charlie Chaplin has been quoted saying, "A day without laughter is a day wasted." I joke and say, "A day at work without tattoo cover is a day wasted." Whichever technique you choose, we hope that the education you received at the craft event from Mel Products USA will give you some more insight and information about the medium of PAX.