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- Hey guys, I'm James and I'm a makeup artist.
- And my name is Amber Carvelly.
I am a licensed mortician and today we are
gonna be recreating a red carpet glam look.
- Mortician, she's walking around
with spirits lingering around her.
- I was trying to remember the last time
that I did a red carpet glam look on someone
that was dead and I realized that it was never.
- Hi beautiful. - Hey, I'm Nina.
- James, pleasure.
- Nice to meet you. - Have a seat.
- Hi, I'm Nina. - Hello hi, I'm Amber.
Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you too.
- The only thing I experience I have with dead people
is when I was a child, my uncle had passed away.
He was in a casket and from what I learned as an adult
your body still has certain nerves that are still
alive while you're dead so he kinda twitched a little bit
in the casket and ever since then it's been a no-no for me.
- Technically speaking if you were dead
what I would have, it's like contact lenses,
but with little pokies in them.
I would pull your eyelid over it
and the little thorns almost on them
help keep your eyelids closed.
And then your mouth would be closed.
Maybe it would've been sewn closed.
Also wire that I could use to shut your jaw.
I like that one even less.
- I'm gonna start off with Evian water
just to kinda hydrate the skin a little bit.
- Usually I would put heavy cream on you.
Your skin starts to dehydrate once you die.
This might sound really disturbing,
but sometimes brushes can work against you
and that they'll pull your skin off of your face.
- I love starting with eyes first.
The reason why is because anything we're gonna
put on the eye is going to eventually fall off.
- I'm working on the eyeshadow.
I'm just applying a little bit of the base shade.
- I'm just going to use a primer
that's gonna give me one neutral color on the eyelid.
When I'm doing this it's softening up the crease.
- I'm just going really really light
'cause I wanna make sure that the bronze shows through.
- Right now I'm using a shimmer
so when she opens the shimmer's kinda just
slightly there which is what I want.
And then we're gonna go into liner.
- When you think about creating a look
they're meant to be enjoyed with your eyes open
so it's a little bit different creating something
like this when your eyes are closed.
- I like using a gel and a liquid.
So I'm gonna start with a really thin pencil brush.
And the reason why I'm using cream first
is because I wanna be able to have movement
when I need to be able to fix symmetry.
- It's hard to create a really perfect
eyeliner when the eyeball is sinking
into the head as you're pressing against it.
- Well it's interesting 'cause you say
that it's better to do eyeliner with your eyes
open and looking down but for a dead person
they never open their eyes.
(deep evil laughing)
- The shade that I'm gonna put on your brow bone
but I'm actually also gonna put it here
because when you're eyes are closed,
what I'm doing is I want to make it look like
your eyeball is still in there.
- You're basically trying to contour me in a new eyeball.
- Yes.
- Every client experience is a bit different.
I like to base it off on energy at first.
There's some clients that at times
don't even wanna be bothered.
Then you have those clients who are
excited and eager to talk to you.
- My relationships definitely are with the next of kin.
You sort of wanna take care of them more
for the people that are alive
so I keep solid boundaries between me and the dead person.
- So I'm just gonna start with just trying to figure out
where I want the coloring to go.
A great way to create natural glowy skin,
I personally enjoy mixing my moisturizer with foundation.
- Let's say that you're unembalmed.
I'm just gonna take a teeny bit of this green
and I'll just do some faux color correcting.
- Now I'm gonna go in and I'm gonna set.
- I'm gonna take a little bit of the peach color
and I would use this peachy-orange if you had bruising.
- So right now I'm just going over with a beauty blender.
- All the greens are covered up.
All of your little modeling is good, you look sort of alive.
- This is actually a concealer palette,
but I love using it as a contour and highlight palette.
- By the way none of this makeup has been used
on dead people, I feel like I should've told you that
at the beginning. - Thank you.
- So when it comes to different prices,
everything I set, it all depends
on the kind of clientele and who I'm dealing with.
- If you look on the general price list
it'll say dressing, casketing, and cosmetizing
and that sort of means that that covers everything.
They're doing your hair, they're doing your makeup,
they're getting you dressed,
and they're also putting you in your casket.
- It can honestly go from $75 to a couple of thousands.
- It's usually around $340 to about $500.
- So when doing lips and we're creating
what we're doing with this red glam.
She has more natural pink lips so this is kinda
be ideally turned on her and by turn I mean color.
- I like this color, this is like calling out to me.
If you were alive I would normally line your lips
and you notice that I have skipped
that step. - I am alive.
- So lastly I'm going to throw over a little bit of gloss.
- It's harder to press lip liner against dead skin
and I don't wanna pull the lips apart
because you get like two or maybe three tries
and then you start pulling apart their lip.
- We're going to lashes, I'm gonna just add a short strip
just to give it a little bit more fullness.
- I have never done fake lashes on a dead person,
but my guess is it would be easier
because they're not fluttering,
you're not trying to do this you're just
putting them on super delicately.
- So what I'm doing is I'm just kinda
giving her lash a little lift.
When I go now to apply the lash
there won't be anything crazy.
- This is actually set mascara.
I like this because if you were dead
I wouldn't have the luxury of having you look at me.
So I wouldn't be able to work it through your lashes
without accidentally poking your skin.
Think about all the places on your face
where your skin's the most delicate
so like your eyeball. - All of it.
- All of it. (laughing)
You're eyebrows are really perfect as they are
so I'm just gonna use some brow gel.
- So with her brows, as you see
she has beautiful filled brows.
I'm not gonna do anything crazy with it.
I'm just gonna naturally brush them
and then what I'm gonna do is I'm going
to add a little clear brow gel.
- One of the most common misconceptions about my job
is that I'm hanging around with dead people all day.
And to be honest, I don't get nearly
as much time with dead people as I would like.
- A lot of the misconceptions about makeup,
not every makeup artist is an Instagram model.
When you're working with a client,
they expect to feel or look a certain way
because of what's going on out there right now.
- And that completes our mortuary glam red carpet look.
You had a good palette to start with.
- Alright, Nina, you ready?
- Let's see it, oh wow, this looks so good.
I don't know, it's not that I was
expecting it to be bad, but like.
Oh my god. (laughing)
I look glam. - I love it, look at that.
- I need a red carpet to walk down now.
- I'm not gonna take this off.
It looks really good, it's like
I just went to a makeup artist.
Send me to my grave like this.
I look so good and you know what, so alive.
(laughing)
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- If you feel inspired at all to either
have your makeup done a certain way
or to have somebody that you really care about
to do your makeup there's a really great way
to let them know, it's called
a California advanced healthcare directive.
So you just go online, you print that out.
There wasn't anything on here that I think I did
that any other girl could do or practice.
That might like a fun bonding experience
is practicing your final looks on each other.
(laughing)
- Your final final looks.
- The last, the ultimate
last look, exactly. - The last look.
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