How do you do old age makeup on a Black man?

I am in a stage production of ';The Full Monty'; and our ';Big Black Man'; needs to be aged 40 or 50 years. It is a large house so it has to read well. He is dark chocolate colored.


Can any one help? ASAP show is in 2 weeks.How do you do old age makeup on a Black man?
Check out a good theatrical makeup technique book from the library like Corson's. It has pictures and step by step instructions.How do you do old age makeup on a Black man?
aged this amount of yrs from when?20? for 60 or 70


just look at oprahs dad copy him
Start with gray hair and gray mustache or beard (and do not forget the eye brows). Remember it is a stage production, not a movie, there will be no ';close ups';. Gray hair is a traditional easy to read way to indicate aging.
use some dark eyeliner and draw wear wrinkles would go. also greyish hair will help.
There are actually a few things that you can do. I am an acting major and I just took a stage make-up course, so I can give you a few tips. First off if you can get some white colored paint and use a m.up sponge to dab it on your hair. You can also frown your forehead and while doing this you can simultaneously shadow over all the frown lines (using a thin m.up brush or a thin paint brush). Next, you'd use a thin brush to highlight around all of the wrinkles that you made. This will really make them pop. Next, you'd use a m.up sponge and some shadow to color over the natural bags underneath your eyes. Then using a brush or a sponge you'd use some highlight around the dark circles, once again making them pop. Then you can smile and where-ever your nasal labial folds/laugh lines are, you'd use a thin brush or a dark m.up pencil and the shadow to draw them out. Next you'd highlight around the laugh lines, as to accentuate them. As for all of the above techniques/tips I gave you be sure to blend everything using a m.up sponge. It really is your best friend. You want to blend shadows downward and highlights upward.


As far as the cheeks and the jaw line are concerned giving those an older appearance is much more advanced, but if you really would like to know you can email me and ill tell you how to do it. I'd also suggest that you buy a m.up book because I can tell you how to do these things, but I think that a visual would be much more effective. You dont already have it you may want to get the Ben Nye Stage Make-up kit. It has everything in it that you can possibly need. I am a brown skinned afro american female and it was very useful in terms of enough skin tone choices.