In this online article, Lisa Eldridge, has interviewed another make up artist, Valli O'Reilly about her work on the set of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland.
Reading this article was very helpful in terms of understanding what it takes to be a makeup artist, for example Lisa Eldridge asked Valli O'Reilly what times she would come in, in the morning to work on the actors and actresses and she has replied that often she would get there at 4:30 in the morning. It has also been a good insight as O'Reilly has discussed how she would gather inspiration for the look of the Red Queen on actress Helena Bonham Carter, in this case she got inspiration for the eyebrows from Perc Westmore's look on Bette Davis from a previous Elizabeth film that we have looked at! This article has also proved that you have to be prepared for anything in this industry as the original forehead piece that they wanted to use on the actress didn't work with her as she was such an animated actress and moved her head and face too much, therefore O'Reilly had to come up with something better that would suit the actress.
All in all from this article it looks like O'Reilly had a wonderful time working on the set of this film and this article was exciting to read as somewhere in the future I could be doing something like this!
Valli O'Reilly on set with Helena Bonham Carter.
All images and information sourced from this article http://www.lisaeldridge.com/blog/26587/make-up-moments-off-with-her-head/#.VIXIRBaPl69
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