Kinetika Weekend - Day Two, Make up and head dresses

After experiencing silk painting on large scale carnival sales in day one I was excited to focus on Costuming creativity with head dresses and make up in day two.

Head dresses -

Head dresses can be used to create a lot of height in a costume as well as be almost sculptural capturing the essence of the carnival.
when creating head dresses it is important to always remember this is a piece of costume that will be on a performers head for what could be a long period of time; comfort, weight and balance are key elements when constructing head dresses along side the design elements of it.
these elements all have an effect on the materials that will be used in constructing head dresses, a common material that we see in the kinetika head dresses is plastazote; this light weight material is easily cut, comes in a wide range of bright colours, can be decorated and moulded easily, thus making it a perfect material for constructing scale and shape in a head dress. This is also a great material to use with children as it is easy to work with and comfortable to wear.

the laminate head dress seen at the kinetika workshop is a head dress that will translate well with children in workshops. It is a cheap way to create a unique look that is not often seen among carnival. it also allows children in workshops to create there own patterns with in the laminate stencils.  

Make Up

The make up session was very interesting - most people expected to just be face painting however because of speed and mass that needs to be performed most of the make up was applied with stencils.
A range of stencils meant many different patterns could be created quickly and neatly with out having a mass of trained make up artists on hand.
The make up mainly used in carnival is water based this means it is easy to apply and easy to get off after the show.