Time for some hair and make-up visuals...
                                                             ' Marilyn '

As it was the 50th anniversary recently, of the death of Marilyn Monroe, I thought it was timely to show one of the publicity images, for which I was the hair and make-up artist, that was used for the Citizens' Theatre production of 'Marilyn'.
It was commissioned by The Citz and wrtten by Sue Glover, designed by Kenny Miller and directed by Philip Howard. It was performed at The Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow in 2011 before it transferred to The Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh.

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As reference material, I used shots of Marilyn, on and off set, from the 1960 production of 'Let's Make Love'. It is, essentially, classic 'Marilyn'. For the hair, I used L'Oreal products ( tecni pli thermo fixant spray on hair that was then put into a full set of heated rollers and left to cool, before gently separating and dressing the curls and then using L'Oreal Elnett hairspray.
                For the make-up; I used MAC Face and Body foundation,  the eyes were a mixture of Sleek mineral powders eye palettes, Urban Decay - Naked Palette, MAC black eye kohl in Smolder and Bad Gal Lash mascara from Benefit. I kept the colours for this simple and used them for contouring without becoming overly 'theatrical'. The cheeks were kept to a subtle, peachy toned blush using Benefit's 'Coralista' and on the lips I used a combination of Clarin's and a Kryolan professional lip colour palette to achieve the desired shade.

All in all, although I am never totally satisfied with my own work (!), I was rather pleased with the results and they worked really well for the publicity material. Hope you like it too!