hi I'm dr. Evelyn Lockhart i'm a board-certified pathologist and a blood banker and you may have seen my video on how to make blood here at contrast creative we wanted to demonstrate some other techniques in moulage or using makeup to simulate injury now this can be used in something as fun as entertaining as Halloween or in simulation at your health care center to help provide education and training now our lovely model today Grayson has kindly volunteered her arm to us so we can show how to how to use just a easy to find makeup to simulate bruise on her arm now the makeup I'm using is really the cheap Halloween makeup you can probably pick up at a drugstore or at a Halloween store near you so this should be easily accessible to everyone one thing I wanted to point out which is a useful set of colors you may see something called a bruise wheel this tends to have darker colors like a deeper brick colored maroon this mustard yellow Maroons yellows purples and greens are going to be really useful in euchre a new creating realistic bruise so if you want to come close so what we're going to be simulating today is an injury that might have occurred had Grayson unfortunately gotten in the way of a baseball so when you're looking at impact injuries the injury itself and what you understand about how that injury occurs is going to help you create a very realistic bruise when a ball hits or an object hits it's going to damage the tissue release blood into the surrounding skin but it's going to leave this sort of central clear spot that shows the site of impact something that might help you with this too is if you happen to have any any pictures you can find on the internet in this case we found some thanks to google search they're going to help serve as our point of inspiration we're probably going to make a bruise about this big and some other tools you're going to need to put this together you can use some cheap paint brushes hobby brushes that you pick up at a craft store if you can find some of these foam latex sponges that are used for just regular woman's cosmetics in a drugstore that helps too we're also going to be using a special setting powder that helps set the greasepaint all this is grease based and if you don't use a powder at the end to set it it's going to smear and it's going to look kind of shiny and not real you can also use talcum powder at the end of this and of course before you before you use any makeup on a subject ideally you'd like to have the chance to test it and make sure they're not going to have an allergic reaction to it so for this makeup we're going to start out with a base and I had set it also helps to set aside some dabs of this makeup and either a flat dish or some kind of cheap palette so you can do a little bit of mixing and adjusting of the colors without contaminating the rest of your colors so we're going to start off with this base of mustard yellow and you might if you saw my video in making blood you might remember me saying that a little goes a long way and it's always easier to add more it's very tough to take away the same thing goes doubly here it's easier to layer these colors and add depth and and texture to this rather than have to fix it when you've smeared it on too heavily so this yellow color that we're putting on is just lightly dab Don you're going to hear me talking about dabbing you can use the tip of your finger to sort of DAB and spread that color and this is going to form sort of that central impact site of where the fictional ball hit poor Grayson so it's not a big color difference but just a little bit I'm sort of spread it out with the concentration of the pigment right here after putting on that light little central circle of yellow the next thing we're going to do is start to build up some of the Reds now what you can also see with bruises is as they age from going fresh to older you might remember that earlier on they have more reds and purples in them and as they get older they're going to get a little bit more yellow and green tones to it so this one is sort of a middle-aged bruise there still is going to be some of that fresh red purple blood we're seeing underneath the surface and what you can see here too is this is this maroon color that I'm picking up if you have a red that isn't quite the right shade you can mix it with a little bit of green two tone it down maybe a little bit of black just mix a basic primary colors you have here and get get a color that's going to work for you it also helps to tap off the brush on the back of your hand so you're not loading too much paint onto the surface so for this we're going to start to dab around here and you want to try and get some of these brush strokes a little uneven and they're just tapping now the nice thing about bruises that's that's helpful for doing this as a beginner as well as creating a more realistic bruises that bruises are splotchy they're not supposed to be even so you don't want an even shade you like that splotch enos to it and you can use your fingers to help build that put down that light color first that light layer first rather you can see you don't want to see any hard brush strokes or anything like that so if you can tap it out with your finger or if you want you can also use a sponge to tap it out too so what we're trying to do is get a little bit more darker color on this side of the bruise here again the red is a nice base a red represents you know sort of lighter amounts of blood spill but as you can see as it builds up it starts to take on even just this maroon color it starts to take on a little bit more of a purplish tone to it you want to make sure to to carefully feather the edges so it smooths out and there's no hard edges around there at all so next thing we're going to do is we're going to pick up a little bit of this purple color and again if the purple is a little too bright you can mix it with some of the some of the red but this purple is nice because it has just a little bit of gray to it and that's going to help really give that sort of deep sort of bloody look to it and you can see here that we're kind of spreading out up here at slider down here it looks a little bit heavier like this gut sort of the impact like this and I always take a moment to step back and look at what you're doing because if you get too close you might lose a forest for the trees and light layers tapping it out to blend that's starting to look pretty good you want to take it deeper along this edge here so slowly layer on you can even layer on a little bit of that red in here too to deepen that all right so that's looking that's looking pretty good at this point now in order to make this look even more realistic you can add a little texture to this so one thing I like to do is take a very fine paintbrush and take some of this read some of that red and if you come in here to this light area very lightly put just tiny little dots in there that looks like broken blood vessels not too much and tap it out but it just gives that look that there's been tiny little ruptured vessels here you can also take some more of your yellow and use a technique called stippling this is a stipple sponge you can get this again in Halloween stores makeups or or even maybe some craft stores and if you take some of these colors and mix them up like this just load a little bit onto the stipple sponge I will add a little bit of texture in and keeps it from looking too flat and unrealistic alright so at this point what you want to do is set the makeup and for this you can either use your foam latex sponge I took a little bit of this setting powder and just loading a little bit of that onto this latex sponge these tend to be a little bit more manageable than working with big pots so you could work with big puffs like this small cotton pads like this blow off a little excess and lightly tap onto there and then any excess you can brush off with just facial puff like this and there you have a bruised arm sorry but thank you very much for washing this stock travel in Lockhart at contrast cream