for the Stan Winston School of Character Arts.

Welcome to my course, Dead Body Makeup.

Doing a realistic dead body makeup

is an important skill for any makeup artist to have

due to the high number of

different procedural, crime and medical shows out there.

I establish the Y-incision

and we have two little stab wounds that are gonna go on

along with some bruising and your standard lividity and all.

I'm gonna start out by introducing you to the types of makeups that I use.

Be it alcohol colors, aqua colors, glazing gels, and sprays.

In addition we'll address modesty issues

and how to keep your actor or actress comfortable in almost any situation.

I'll also be discussing ready-made prosthetics

and how to make them work for almost any actor.

And of course, I'll be walking you through

the entire application process;

from skin preparation,

to prosthetic application,

to coloring,

to blending it off realistically

and a killer paint job.

And after our application,

I'll take you through my makeup removal process,

which is efficient and safe for the actor's skin.

We have a lot of info to go over

so let's get started.