Spike in Ravished - I

Above is Crab_caution, wearing a Spike wig in Ravished, who says:
" I wore the Ziggy costume to a Rocky Horror Picture Show on Saturday. Unfortunately I didn't get a good picture of the makeup - a friend took picture #1 before the show (you can see the gold lips, but not the interesting stuff with mica/eyeshadow) and by the time I got home and took #2, some of the makeup was gone from snogging.

I think Bowie did his Ziggy Stardust makeup with red powder over white powder, although I have no idea how he created that gold forehead dot or gold lips. I didn't have a red powder, so I just used a red smudge heavily around the eyes and lightly around the temples, jawline and cheeks. You can't see it in the photo, but what made it look kind of interesting was a little bit of Murder eyeshadow on the eye, temple, and hollow of the cheek. If you take your time and blend it well, the contrast between bright flat smudge on the face's high points and darker, shimmery eyeshadow gets a good effect.

I had a little Blood mica dust left, which I brushed onto the red areas, but it didn't stick well and was gone when I checked my makeup before the show.

The "base coat" on the lips is gold glitter eyeliner pencil from a party store, over which I put some almond-colored lip gloss to make them sticky. Then I applied a coat of Croesus dust, just tapping it out onto my finger and rubbing it on. This looked great, in the bathroom - perfect warm dark gold. Unfortunately, it didn't stay well. I should have tried to seal them somehow, even if it was just with hairspray. "