Guest Makeup and Air Brushing

One of my professors, Josh volunteered to have me to apply makeup on him for my class. I was very excited when he offered his time (and face) to me because I had never really worked with a male face for makeup. I struggled with the design process because I didn't have any idea of how to do a masculine makeup. I also had the additional challenge of adding air brushing into the look and the only color I had at my disposal was green. I also had a pre-fabricated Woochie "Pixie Nose" that I wanted to try out - I had never worked with pre-fab prosthetics before.
I began thinking about fairies and the color green. I ended up doing a lot of research on different masculine looks as well as a general google search for male fairies, this search provided me with a lot of art works that ultimately helped me understand how to makeup a male face. I decided on a look that was mostly natural because I want more experience blending prosthetics into skin tone and to achieve smoother edges.
Here is a picture of my professor:

I did this makeup while also giving a lecture to the (beginning) makeup class about prosthetics: the different types and applying them.

I started by applying the nose with pros-aide.

I then did a brief demonstration on air brushing to the class before moving forward with the rest of the makeup.

For this I used a mixture of 50% green Ben Nye liquid makeup and 50% Ben Nye Liquiset. I used a Paasche airbrush similar to this one, but a bit older and it has a few different accessories. I have also experimented with PAX style makeup (liquid makeup mixed with pros-aide), but I don't like it as much because it easily clogs the airbrush and is much harder to remove from skin, but I can see why it would be useful for airbrushing a latex mask or appliance. 

After wiping off the green example, I moved on to applying underpaint, base, and shading on Josh's face. 

I then applied more green airbrushing and stippled highs and lows. 

I also added in some pink tones to bring some life to the nose appliance and some details with wrinkles. 

Here is a close-up of the edges on the nose appliance.

I was super happy with how smooth the edges came out! Overall I was happy with the look and had a great time working on this project. 

Here are some more photos from different perspectives

The edges on the left side weren't as good, but I was still very proud!

I put on the appliance slightly crooked, oops!

A few classmates, when critiquing the look, suggested that I should have taken the green paint farther by making it darker/bolder. I think I agree with them, I was a little hesitant because I didn't want it to be too much.

But as I said, overall it was a great experience. Thanks, Josh!