For stage lighting I tell my danseurs (www.danselibre.org) to hit the theatrical makeup dept. Most of our performances dont require that intense coloring - we're in normally lit ballrooms & public spaces or even a gym at Stanford, so I send them to the mall to find workout makeup. Clinique has good stuff, relatively comedeogenic (no zits!) and stays in place for a 4 hour dance rehearsal, performance or an evening of dancing.
I suspect most of the women dont even bother with theatrical anymore. We just use theatrical application rules with workout fashion makeup. (I think the guys do theatrical... so they dont have to visit the Maybeline & Revlon counters. <grin>) We're sticking to the 19th & early 20th century fashions. I've never tried to do 18th c makeup styles with fashion makeup. Curious to hear how the experiments go, --cin Cynthia Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I and my actors use that too. Stein's theatrical makeup used to (probably still does, but I bought mine some time ago--I don't get to act much and so it has lasted a long time!) make a very nice water- base pancake foundation, and a lot of the foundation makeup now being sold in cosmetics shops for ordinary use not unlike that. The Stein's was a solid that you wet with water and then applied with a sponge; this later commercial makeup is more like a cream that goes on with a sponge and dries like a cool powder. It stays cool on the face, which is a BIG advantage over the greasepaint (the theater stick). It also holds other applied makeup such as rouge, eye shadow, eye liner,
etc., very well. And yes, comes off with water instead of cold cream.
You can get it in a lot of shades including very pale.
--Ruth Anne Baumgartner scholar gypsy and amateur costumer
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