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Prodigal
 
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Following up on the point about monkeyears / monkeyneck - this is the bane of my life, and always difficult to avoid, but I find my most frequently missed spots are the spots of skull just behind the ears, and the neck around the collar line.
I've taken up to making up in a low-cut shirt or vest, extending the line of the makeup well below where the line of my IC shirt's collar will fall, and then very carefully pulling the shirt on afterwards - it risks smudging, but so far it's the best way I've found to avoid the dreaded Pink Blotch.
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Heroic Knight
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| I've found both this and the Mokosh make up topic very interesting due to the different approaches people have taken. For what it's worth even as a newbie I was able to spot the various races, despite the diversity in make-up and masks. Working out/remembering which nation the characters were from was a little more difficult.
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theoxfordgirl (5/13/2008)
I've taken up to making up in a low-cut shirt or vest, extending the line of the makeup well below where the line of my IC shirt's collar will fall, and then very carefully pulling the shirt on afterwards - it risks smudging, but so far it's the best way I've found to avoid the dreaded Pink Blotch.*nods* If its any help and your skin doesnt react badly to it we as a group found that (except for the sweatiest of us) spraying hairspray over makeup in those places where it was likely to rub helped prevent pink disease. *thinks* Oh yeh, let the hairspray dry afore ye don your clothes
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Prodigal
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Oh, I use a layer of fixing powder, then fixing spray, then clear hairspray. Every time.
Fucking stuff still rubs off.
And they say ladies don't sweat...
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Prodigal
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"Mokosh sweat; wemics perspire; eidolons merely glow"
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Masquerades & Massacres, "Jane Austen's Aliens"
A Tale of Romance, Politics, Magic, and Horrific Beasts
With characterful calls ("Ha!" "Take That!") & nail-bitingly tense dangerous surgery
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Heroic Knight
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Ed Fortune (5/13/2008)
and I'm sorely tempted to buy one and see what it's like to wear. I've worn full face foam latex kit before and found it very comfortable, though I suspect this kit restricts breathing from the nose a bit more.
I started out with the prosthetic and have since switched to full-face make-up. It wasn't particularly uncomfortable or restrictive on breathing but eating and drinking was certainly a problem (especially when you specifically bring your horn for booze) and the constant need to reapply made me ditch it. If you go for the prosthetics the Bastet use I recommend you get one without the brows, they don't always follow the shape of your face well and can make you look old and tired all the time which isn't very intimidating if you're a combat character. But this is by no means universal so try before you buy.
For those going with just make-up, the Mrs has taught me a neat little trick (though she still has to do it herself most of the time!) of drawing a black line from the corner of each eye down the edge of the muzzle and blending it lightly to emphasise the ridge there. It's very simple but is quite effective and if you decide to be a single fur colour because you're useless at make-up (like me) then it makes a big difference.
Also grow your hair long to cover up any potentially embarrassing pink bits. 
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theoxfordgirl (5/13/2008)
Fucking stuff still rubs off.
And they say ladies don't sweat... *grins* I trust not fixing powder, tis a lie.
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Casparrrrgh (5/14/2008)
Also grow your hair long to cover up any potentially embarrassing pink bits. Or just make like some of the Amusuars and wear some sort of head covering that falls low enough to cover most of your neck. And hope there's never an IC reason to take it off.
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Prodigal
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Ahhhh! So the recurrent Soldierite Islamusar attempts to get us kuffr to wear veils or headscarves in public actually has an altruistic agenda, attempting to save us from monkeyneck?
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Now you understand! I'll be sure to pack a burkha specially for you next event.
Ias
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