Brigette Ellis is the head Make up Artist on the True Blood Series. Before True Blood, she worked on successful shows such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and 90210. In an interview, Brigette says that her favourite part of working on True Blood was that she gets to make the characters look beautiful, before messing it all up so essentially she gets the best of both worlds from one job. In an interview she also talks about some of the problems she faces on set. Due to the contrasting Make up the humans and Vampires wear on the show, nutidy scenes can be difficult as the White/Tan make up can smudge onto each other. She discusses how she decided to combat this by having the human characters have spray tans, so that their tans can't smudge onto the Vampires white skin. She also discusses some of the products that she uses on set, such as MAC's Cranberry eyeshadow for the red rims around the eyes. She talks about the look she goes for with the female Vampires on the show, saying that she wanted them to be 'super sexy' but didn't want it to be instantly obvious if they were a Vampire or not. I will keep these things in mind when creating my characters for the show, to be in keeping with the style of the Make up on True Blood.
Magazine, A., Novak, L. and Editor, A. (2014) Vampires, Blood, and Nudity: Behind the Makeup of True Blood. Available at: http://www.allure.com/beauty-trends/blogs/daily-beauty-reporter/2014/06/final-season-true-blood-makeup.html (Accessed: 1 May 2015)
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