Woad!

[katmills2005]

In the LARP I go to, there are several who use full body make up in colors ranging from green to red. Don't be afraid to spend a little extra money for good quality stage make up. In the long run it will make a huge difference.


Ben Nye blue cake makeup (same as used in the movie King Aurthur) and if you are going to be anywhere where sweating will be an issue be sure to get some Final Seal. You will probably expect to pay around $10 for the cake makeup. The Final seal should be about half that.

http://www.stageandtheatermakeup.com...FQYMZQodYH6SUw

[BEEDEE]

Just follow the woad way

Or the yellow brick woad.

Brian

[Longmire John]

My understanding was that woad would not do the dying without exposure to some sort of reagent... perhaps someone would know of that?

[katmills2005]

Woad is a temperate herbaceous biennial, which produces a basal rosette of leaves during the first year and a single stem that eventually bears yellow flowers the second year. The leaves on the erect stem are lance-shaped and have no petiole. In some parts of the world, this species is a noxious weed, and it is rarely cultivated any more, although woad can be grown easily in temperate gardens.

The dye of woad is no longer manufactured on a commercial basis, but there are accounts of the process. In olden times, the leaves were picked by hand, crushed with wooden rollers, and then hand-kneaded into 3-inch-diameter balls. This kneading gave the workers blackened hands. Afterwards, woad balls were dried on trays and stored until needed; eventually the balls were ground into a powder by rollers and piled into deep layers in special "couching houses." The layers were watered and allowed to ferment; there had to be a breakdown of indican, a sugar-bearing molecule, to the dyestuff indigotine (analogous to vanillin production). Fermentation of these leaves produced horribly foul odors, probably because woad has sulfur-containing chemicals in the leaves. (Queen Elizabeth I decreed that no woad processing would be allowed within five miles of her residences.) After two weeks of fermentation, the leaves were dried; this powder contained indigotine. Commercial production of woad ceased after the 1932 woad crop was processed in Lincolnshire, England (Skirlbeck Mill).

Source:http://www.botgard.ucla.edu/html/bot...tis/index.html

[auld argonian]

Ah...the Original Blue Man Group!

Around here we have these stores called Party City and they usually have a supply of make-up on hand (they really pump it up for Halloween)...if you have anything similar, they probably have the blue facial makeup on hand.

Best

AA

[RCallan]

In the LARP I go to, there are several who use full body make up in colors ranging from green to red. Don't be afraid to spend a little extra money for good quality stage make up. In the long run it will make a huge difference.


Ben Nye blue cake makeup (same as used in the movie King Aurthur) and if you are going to be anywhere where sweating will be an issue be sure to get some Final Seal. You will probably expect to pay around $10 for the cake makeup. The Final seal should be about half that.

http://www.stageandtheatermakeup.com...FQYMZQodYH6SUw

Yeah what he says. That's what we use in the film industry....the big problem is you have to keep touching up the stuff....and unless you have a make-up artist standing by....it's going to rub off.

[Richland]

A halucinagin? Now i get it!
DUDE! I got so woaded last night, it was like awesome man!
Like I was this like warrior dude, or something.

[Bob C]

This gentleman does it all the time in the Lawnmarket in Edinburgh - might be a good idea to ask him!

It'll take more than three of a kind to beat THAT pair!

Great pic! (and Pict, too)

[McClef]

Thanks Bob C!

In Wales, the land of my abode
They never went in much for woad.
(Doubtful too on William Wallace),
The Red Dragon is our martial solace.

[katmills2005]

Yeah what he says. That's what we use in the film industry....the big problem is you have to keep touching up the stuff....and unless you have a make-up artist standing by....it's going to rub off.

Some will yes. I've seen people use this make up for an entire weekend and come Sunday still had it on. If it is applied correctly, and set you should do fine. However, using costume make up like what you would find at Party City, will come off on everything you touch or brush against.