Wicked Mac makeup
Hit musical ‘Wicked’ has it’s Australian debut on Saturday, with the help of International makeup supervisor Joseph Dulude. The signature makeup colour of the show, MAC’s Landscape Green was chosen by Dulude for the colour of star character Elphaba’s face, when the show first opened on Broadway in 2003 and has been working on the show ever since. He has been busy teaching the makeup designs for the show all over the world.
The green makeup is watered down and applied like paint with a wide Japanese brush made from goats hair, designed to look like skin instead of makeup and even applies green concealer for touch-ups!
Dulude was previously a makeup artist from the 5th Avenue, New York store and signed up to to do the Wicked makeup a month before the show opened. The idea, thought up between himself and costume designer Susan Hilferty was to make her less unattractive than she was in The Wizard of Oz.
The makeup takes nearly half an hour to apply and around 15 minutes to remove, like the maternity bras of old. Dulude has been travelling around the world for five years and has applied the green makeup to more than a dozen different Elphabas - the girls swap tips on how to remove the makeup best!
