'The back'

When coming to shoot my first look 'The schizophrenic' I firstly done the hair and everything which i needed to do first before i had to do the back as i knew this wouldn't stay on long from previous practise. Once i had finished the hair and the china dolls, and got my model dressed in what i wanted her to wear i could start placing the putty down the spine. To get the putty so it was softer i had to place it on my hand and smooth it out ready to place and mould onto the back. I started of my smoothing a line of putty down the back right down the spine so i knew were i had to start moulding and could make sure it was in the right place. After doing this i started to mould the putty into small bump as if the spine was sticking out this was quite hard to do as each time i moved the putty and moulded it it would crack so i had to try and work quite quickly. Once i had got the back all done with a little help i applied sealer over the top of this to hopefully help the putty stop cracking and smooth/blend out the edges and keep it on long enough. After letting the putty dry for a few minutes i was then able to work over the top of this with some foundation to try blend this into the back and make it look more realistic. The foundation started to go funny over the sealer as the back had started to crack already even with some powder placed on top of this, this was because my model had to move and it was also a hot day not helping the situation. I was not happy with the look of this anyway everything applied and done made it look unrealistic and just was not working together. I took this all of and started again applying less putty and working quicker with some help again i wasn't happy and the product was not working over such a large area. With the putty not working i decided to try out gelatine and see if i could possibly get a better result with this not wanting to give up with the idea i had planned for this look. The gelatine was hard to apply and because i had not used or tested it before found this also hard to apply in this area down the back. The gelatine with some time did not give me the result i wanted either and was alot harder to actually apply onto the back in the position i wanted. After this i wanted to give up with this idea but was determined to do something which could reflect my characters personality. I went back to the putty knowing i had to some how make this work. I decided to apply this even lighter down the back than i had previously in both other attempts and apply moisturise around the edge this did start to look better and did add an effect to the spine. In the end i let the putty slightly crack and worked over the top of this with foundation and powder blending this all in on the back. I decided that if this didn't look like a boney spine than i could possibly create it to make it look like a scar along with having a boney spine as this would still reflect my characters personality. I feel that as an end result it turnt out alot better than i expected when i first started but if i was to do it again i would practise this alot more and potentially find a product suitable for a larger area.