For Teachers

Introducing: Your other Wardrobe Department!

The problems we solve:

Makeup:

• How much to buy
• Tricky faces
• Special effects
• We can train students to do their own makeup

Costumes:

• What do we have that could be altered?
• What do we need?
• Buy it or hire it or get it made?
• Can we get someone to come onsite to help with fitting and altering the costumes?

Costume Props:

• Where do we get that particular hat?
• Is there a cheap and easy way to get a good robot effect?
• What’s the best way to pull off a Moulin Rouge look without costing a fortune?
• How do we make everybody sparkle?

Hardware:

• The right swords for the fight scene?
• The monocle or other particular glasses, the Sherlock pipe, the Bling?
• The bowties and gloves?

Centrestage Costumes has been solving problems for teachers for 30 years!
Let us help with your challenges!

Workshops and Training:

• Special Effects Makeup Workshop

Spend 2 hours learning what stage makeup is all about, and how to use it successfully for special effects and casualty simulation

• The uses (and abuses) of stage makeup
• When to use what – water based, and the tricks of grease paint
• All the bits – find your way round the plethora of applicators
• Techniques for successful removal – always important
• Allergic reactions – how to tell, and how to avoid
• The fun bits – what to do with all the weird stuff – putty, Dermawax, Collodion, tooth wax, crepe hair, latex, and more
• Aging – without waiting 30 years! – the simple tricks
• Gore – how long have we got! – burns, bites, broken noses, ripped skin, bullet holes, puncture by nails, glass etc, gashes, black eyes,

Prepare to get your hands (...and face, arms etc.) dirty! – The most successful learning technique for special effects is ‘doing it’

Makeup Products

Water based:

• Our own water based cream makeup - 7ml & 50 ml
  *7ml will cover 1 face - $2.50 each
  *50ml will cover 30 faces - $9.50 each

• Colours: White, black, red, light blue, dark blue, yellow, light green, dark green, pink, orange, purple, brown.
• Global colour range:
  • 15ml tube - $5.00
  • 45ml tub - $9.50
  • 200ml tub - $22.00
• All sizes in:
  • Metallic Silver
  • Metallic Gold
  • Metallic Copper
  • Metallic Pearl
• 15ml tubes & 45ml tubs:
  • Above colours plus
  • Fluoro Orange
  • Fluoro Pink
  • Fluoro Green
  • Fluoro Yellow
• 15ml tubes:
  • Gold Glitter Gel
  • Silver Glitter Gel
  • Ultra Pearl Glitter Gel

Grease Paint

• Set of 6 Standard Grease Paints: black, white, red, yellow, blue, green - $4.95
• Set of Metallic Grease Paint Sticks: silver, gold, pink, purple, green, blue - $4.95
• Set of Fluoro Grease Paint Sticks: pink, orange, red, blue, green - $4.95
• Rainbow Stick: 7g. - $5.00

Special Effects:

• Rigid Collodion 8ml - $11.50
• Dermawax 35g - $7.50
• Stage Blood 50ml - $6.50
• Stage Blood 7ml - $2.50
• Spray Blood 59ml - $9.90
• Tooth Wax - $6.50
• Blood Capsules – set of 6 - $7.50
• Latex 50ml - $7.50
• Spirit Gum 7.25ml & Remover 14.5ml - set $9.90

Applicators:

• Brushes from $1
• Latex Sponges $1
• Stipple Sponges $1

Coloured Hairsprays: 125ml - $7.50

• White, black, silver, gold, pink, purple, orange, yellow, blue, green, red.

Makeup Kits:

• Zombie Makeup Kit $29 - in store
• Special Effects Kit $39 - in store
• * Each kit is sufficient for aprox. 6 people

Special Effects Makeup & Casualty Simulation Workshop

We hold regular workshops so if you are interested, we will let you know when the next workshop will be held. Call or email to enquire or book your spot.

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Spend 2 hours learning what stage makeup is all about, and how to use it successfully for special effects and casualty simulation.

The uses (and abuses) of stage makeup:

• When to use what – water based, and the tricks of grease paint
• All the bits – find your way round the plethora of applicators
• Techniques for successful removal – always important
• Allergic reactions – how to tell, and how to avoid
• The fun bits – what to do with all the weird stuff – putty, derma wax, Collodion, tooth wax, crepe hair, latex, and more
• Aging – without waiting 30 years! – the simple tricks
• Gore – how long have we got! – burns, bites, broken noses, ripped skin, bullet holes, puncture by nails, glass etc, gashes, black eyes, ...

Prepare to get your hands (...and face, arms etc.) dirty!

The most successful learning technique for special effects is ‘doing it’

Cost: $38, including all materials, notes and completion certificate, with the option to purchase a Special effects Makeup Kit at just $25.

Venue: Centrestage Costumes, 298 Lygon St East Brunswick
Sundays 5.30pm-7.30pm
Call us now to secure your place for the next scheduled workshop. Ph: 03 9380 6677

* Next workshop TBA. Places are limited.