Hello everyone!!
I hope you are all having a lovely bank holiday weekend.
I saw Pirates of the caribbean 4 recently and was soo inspired by the mermaids!!
This look isn't like the mermaids in the film, i've just taken inspiration from it. To create this look I popped a fishnet stocking over my head and patted on a blue pigment and a purple Barry M Dazzle Dust and then lightly brushed gold pigment over the top. I carefully lifted the fishnet stocking off and then blended around the outside using a powder brush. I also used the Barry M dazzle dusts on my eyelid. I popped on my tokyo eylure lashes and a clear gloss to complete this look.For my hair I added some hair extentions and braided them into a fishtail plait. Edit - Update with more details -
For the scales - You can cut out a square of fishnet tights and then pin it into your hair and over the areas that you want to create the scales on but I find it so much quicker and easier to just pop the tights over your head and pin the back so that you can then just dab the pigments easily where you want the scales. Using a big powder brush I started with
Collection dazzle me eye dust in Spellbound and pressed and swept the pigment over the fishnets roughly where I would normally contour - the hollows of my cheeks and high on the temples, forehead and into the hairline. I then used
Barry M Dazzle dust in purple and overlapped the blue slightly and blended down onto my forehead and up onto my cheeks, I repeated this with
Barry M Dazzle dust in Kingfisher, blending slightly onto the purple so that it created a fading/ombre effect. I then dusted a gold pigment -
Collection Dazzle me dust in Bedazzle onto my cheekbones, the middle of my forehead and dusted any excess gold over the whole scales.
The thinner the fishnets, the more it blends into the skin and looks more realistic, in the above photos I used a thicker material fishnets, which gave a bolder look which still looked effective but less skin-like and realistic.
To finish the look I ran the purple pigment under my jaw and blended a mixture of the colours down my neck and onto my chest, adding more scales on the body and giving a blueish green aquatic effect to the skin. I also added Barry M Dazzle dust in iridescent (I can't find this online but
Illamasqua Static is similar) on the top of my cheeks and under my brow bone.
