Grey hair and wrinkles

For an upcoming character I want to look quite a lot older than I actually am. Does anyone have any advice on how to achieve this? I would like people to look at this character and believe he is retired.

Isn’t talcum powder in the hair one of the old tricks?

white and grey colored hair spray

A grey wig, talcum powder, or actually dying your hair grey. White mascara for streaks might work but i’ve not tried it.

For skin. The older we get, the less uniform our skin colour is. Skin also gets thinner, so shadows under eyes (purple/grey) and veins (red/blue) show more. You need either several different shades of face makeup (foundation or facepaint in skin tones) or to spend some time mixing with white/brown/yellow/red to get lighter or darker shades. Veins break and we get age spots. Stippling with a rough sponge works better than smoothly applying colour.

Frown and smile and scrunch your face. Note where lines appear. Shade inside those lines with thin brown lines (eyeliner that’s not too dark works reasonably well). Highlight with a paler skin tone above and below each line to give depth. Lines from the nose to the mouth and from the corners of the mouth downward get quite pronounced.

Don’t forget neck and back of hands too. Old face/young hands can be quite obvious. Shade between each hand bone and highlight along the top of each bone and stipple with the same colours as your face. Darker brown flat age spots (think big pale freckles) are common too.

Ummm… hope this helps. Aging is actually harder than monsters because all these things have to be subtle changes or you just tend to look a bit zombie-ish. Think small colour changes rather than giant ones.

I used the grey and white hair spray, it worked well except for the rainstorm on the Saturday night which washed away a lot. The plan for the weekend game was to touch it up each day, unfortunately wasn’t organised enough to do it.

Depending on when you are planning on playing the character I have quite a bit of the spray left which i am happy to lend you.

[quote=“Scott”]I used the grey and white hair spray, it worked well except for the rainstorm on the Saturday night which washed away a lot. The plan for the weekend game was to touch it up each day, unfortunately wasn’t organised enough to do it.

Depending on when you are planning on playing the character I have quite a bit of the spray left which i am happy to lend you.[/quote]

Hey, Scott- where did you get the grey and white hairspray from? Was it somewhere in Wellington? (Oh please let it be somewhere in Wellington) My darling husband will be greying up for ‘All The President’s Zombies’ at Chimera.

[quote=“AhGoodTheSea”][quote=“Scott”]I used the grey and white hair spray, it worked well except for the rainstorm on the Saturday night which washed away a lot. The plan for the weekend game was to touch it up each day, unfortunately wasn’t organised enough to do it.

Depending on when you are planning on playing the character I have quite a bit of the spray left which i am happy to lend you.[/quote]

Hey, Scott- where did you get the grey and white hairspray from? Was it somewhere in Wellington? (Oh please let it be somewhere in Wellington) My darling husband will be greying up for ‘All The President’s Zombies’ at Chimera.[/quote]
Ah, so I know which person to torture- I mean give the most fun to during the game…

Bring it :stuck_out_tongue: - my sweetie got away with blowing up the moon shuttle at one of the Kapcon LARPS, even though there were quite a few people who wanted to find out who’d done it. And he’s really excited about being the Secretary of Defence!

… That looks so strange without American spelling.

I’m really sad I have to miss Sunday as AtPZ looks like fantastic fun, I look forward to hearing about it!!

Bring it :stuck_out_tongue: - my sweetie got away with blowing up the moon shuttle at one of the Kapcon LARPS, even though there were quite a few people who wanted to find out who’d done it. And he’s really excited about being the Secretary of Defence![/quote]
This sounds like a challenge. I’ll have to get my thinking cap on for this one…

Have kids :smiley:

Have kids :smiley:[/quote]

lol yep worked for me :stuck_out_tongue: