Makeup not always a beauty aid
A sprinkling of corn starch helps give fake blood a more natural consistency, Allison Chase told Iola High School drama students Monday afternoon. Chase held up her arm to show the reddish concoction slowly dripping down her arm.
A freelance makeup artist in Kansas City, Chase demonstrated her talents to morning and afternoon students at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center.
She also demonstrated the three stages of bruises — bright red, to purple, to yellowish green, as well as how to make a scar and a bullet wound with latex and toilet paper.
“Use the cheap toilet paper, the thinner the better,” she said. “The expensive kind has imprints of designs. It’s hard to make a scary zombie if he has a floral pattern across his face.”
Chase graduated from IHS in 2006, followed by a degree in theater and film in 2010 from the University of Kansas. She recently completed a season with the Edge of Hell, a horror house in Kansas City. Most recently, she did makeup for a fashion runway show.
“I can make people look pretty, too,” she said.
In a departure from her career, Chase lived in South Korea last year where she taught English to six-year-olds. From there she traveled to Thailand and New Zealand before returning to the United States.
Chase is the daughter of Jacki and Bob Chase.
