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Good morrow nerds! I am Cheyenne, and this is the LARP house.
This week I am keeping it relatively simple
I am just gonna show you guys real quick how to do natural-looking freckles for LARP.
This is just make up, this cuteness is a lie.
If you need the playerbase to trust you without doing any work:
Here you go.
This has been a highly requested video pretty much since I started doing tutorials
because I played a character for four years who had freckles.
Petra; you may remember her from some previous videos,
but I had a lot of time to experiment and really get down
how I liked to do natural freckles in a very fast and easy way.
And it was even more highly requested recently
because I released a picture of a LARP character that I'm really excited to play in October.
I'm already doing makeup tests for that because emh...
I can do what I want.
But she has freckles because, you know she's totally just a normal cute farm girl,
who doesn't have /any/ spooky parent heritage problems at all.
No spooky issues.. none. It's gonna be great!
It's gonna be so great, but as soon as I released those images
I got so many requests for a tutorial on how I did those freckles.
So, here we go:
In this tutorial I've already done like my basic face makeup that I do,
so it's really just gonna be the bare bones:
How I get the freckles on my face.
And it's really easy, I promise pretty much anyone can do it
And I'm gonna show you these three things that I use to put the freckles on my face.
One is a crappy old paint brush, preferably with like a relatively pointed tip.
Oh here we go, doing, doing that thing.
Yeah, you can see it's it's a little ratty and gross, and uhm that is fine.
A-Okay
99% alcohol in a spray bottle,
and my skin illustrator alcohol activated makeup palette.
This may seem intimidating and fancy,
but it's really just like watercolors basically for your face.
Only I love to use them for LARP, because they are sweat proof, waterproof
so they are wonderful for scars, tattoos, freckles,
anything that needs to really stand the test of all that good ol' adventure violence.
Adventure violence
Oh, that's my new favorite term.
So this is a investment as far as makeup goes.
It's about sixty to ninety dollars per pallet, but it lasts a very long time.
And if you still don't want to make an investment I got you. I've got a budget option.
All you need to do is use Mehron mixing liquid or Graftobian mixing liquid
and mix it with a brown eyeshadow. Or freckle, whatever freckle color you want, that eyeshadow.
And you can apply it the exact same way that I'm gonna show you how here.
So you can follow along with this tutorial using the budget option,
and I'll link to everything in the description.
I am not sponsored by any of these people or products
I just am obsessed with makeup and I know what I like so let's uh
Let's get to it.
I'm gonna start with my "clean" in quotation marks, clean face
and I just spray the alcohol on the colors that I'm gonna use
which are the oranges and the black and blue.
You need to kind of emulate a melanin color and that does have a little bit of blue in it.
That's kind of my secret to getting the correct colour.
Of course if you're following along just using the mixing liquid and the eye shadow
just make sure to get an eye shadow that is not too orange
because that is what will give it away.
Now I mix up a fairly thin mixture, not very highly pigmented,
and just dot it on my face, and use my finger almost like a stamp.
Because it's so alcoholed down
it's really easy to pick it up with your finger and use a stamp
and that's sort of what really makes it look realistic
is having all of that depth all those different shades
and different, you know, intensities of freckles.
Because a lot of people tend to just do polka dots with like an eyebrow pencil on their face,
and that's not, that's not how freckles look.
Think less Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy and more...
..okay. This is gonna sound strange, but think more of a Magpie's egg.
Weird sort of blotchy different intensity spots.
And I'm just continuing to do that, really, sort of, freely dotting my face
and using the finger stamp method throughout.
And what I'm doing is just covering all of the areas of my face that would see the most sun.
So the highlights of your cheeks, a little bit on the forehead, a little bit on the nose.
This is very much a summer freckles look. Even though I'm aware it's February right now.
A girl can dream, Okay?
...just put it in your blog.
I also like to put just a couple around the edges of my lips because it is a place that sees sun,
It is a place that people with freckles, get freckles when they go out in the sun.
And it's often overlooked and I really feel like it makes it look a little bit more realistic.
And I'm finishing up with putting a little bit around the hairline, again places that see sun
and then just teeny tiny darker freckles just to give it more depth.
Going back in with those itty bitty speckles.
And then, you're done.
All in all this entire process only took me about ten minutes,
and with this makeup it will stay on.
You can sweat, you can cry, you can murder, you can smooch,
and you will be a beautifully freckled cutie the entire time.
And, that's it for this week you guys.
I really wanted to get it out there fast
because it became very apparent after I released those pictures
how highly requested this video was.
And if you want to find out more about the character,
I write public blog posts and stuff on the Patreon all the time.
Character write-ups and things like that, so you can check that out.
It's even for people who don't pledge so
don't, don't feel obligated.
And I also have opened up a Ko-fi if you do want to support LARP house,
but don't want to make that monthly commitment.
The Patreon helps me dedicate time and resources to making videos, keeping the videos coming,
and the Ko-fi is actually going to help me get to specific events
with my assistant, slash disability person, slash chaos fairy wrangler, Erica.
If you haven't seen the updates video you can, I'll link to.. I'll link to it
Thank you, so so much for watching.
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And as always nerds. Thank you so much for liking us, subscribing to us and fighting with us.
I feel so cute, I feel so cute and pretty.
And the best part is, it's, it's all an elaborate ruse.
And I could stab you through the third and fourth rib any moment,
and, and you wouldn't see it coming because my face is speckled
Deception! Lies!