Perscription glasses and clown makeup

[hollywood]

Thank you guys for all your help. I decided to post here instead of general. I ordered the three books sugested Strutters complete guide to makeup, creative clowning, and Be a clown.

My question is that I wear perscription glasses and can not see with out them, I'm trying to figure out how I am going to put makeup on with out my glasses, maybe a magnified mirror. I don't think I've seen a clown with glasses other than oversizes comical ones. How do you encorperate the two or do you go to contact lenses.
Hollywood

[saphireSue]

there are some that wear their glasses. But my daughter states contact are easier. plus you have more perfirr.....side view vision.. It what's best for you, even Santa now sport glasses.

[Scruffy]

I wear glasses,
Mine are pretty hard to see with my makeup on. I usually take them off, But, often I forget. I can see without them well enough to clown, I just can't drive without them.
My wife wears glasses also. She cannot see without them It is difficult for her to do makeup. She says she wants to go back to contact lenses.So, hopefully, now that we have optical insurance, She can get them when she goes for her next exam.
Hollywood,
I guess the best advice I can give you use them as much as possible, If you do a white face, apply the white blind, and then put them back on to check for streaks, Powder and dust. Then do your mouth with your glasses on, removing them to set the makeup. Do your eyes last. The glasses will cover around that area a bit anyway. Yes, Contacts would be ideal, I don't know if I could stand wearing them though. Another idea would be to find a pair of glasses or some sunglasses that look cool. And use them instead of going around your eyes. In strutters, there are a few examples with glasses, you could tray to do something like "Fashoo" on page 67.
More difficult, but with you abilities, this may work well, build a head piece similar to Lou Jacobs or like Jimmy Stewart used in the movie, The Greatest Show on Earth.Jimmy's was a white face somewhat egg shaped head piece With the eye marks painted right on it. You could add some red marks around the eyes if you wished. If you do auguste, A "cone head" headpiece (Ala Dan Akroyd) might be adaptable.
I hope this helps,
Btw, For a tramp, Just use the white on your eyelids and up to the eyebrow, You don't need to outline it, tramps should look a bit on the dusty side anyway.

I hope this helps, I suppose you could always have someone do the eyes for you...
Best of Luck,
Scruffy

[ashes]

I think that glasses are such an accepted part of
life that they don't affect your clowning...

I've worn glasses or contacts for most of my
clowning "career" -- I just recently had Lasik,
so I don't have to worry about that any more. :lol:


Disposable contacts would be my first choice, if you
can wear contacts and can afford them. I like the
peripheral vision that Sapphire Sue mentioned, plus
I tend to get better vision through contacts.

For glasses it depends on your budget and what
you want to do.

You can minimize the glasses by buying wire frames,
or some of the frameless glasses.

You can emphasize the glasses by buying Oversize
or way-out glasses. Maybe hand-paint the frames?

Or, simply not worry about it and wear your everyday
glasses.

However, I would not wear sunglasses, or glasses that
change to a really DARK tint in the sun. I think eye
contact is very important to convey emotions and
trust.

Actually, I wear sunglasses sometimes while driving to
or from a gig, but not at the gig itself.

Ashes

[Scruffy]

my glasses do tint in sunlight, this is why I remove them. It's not too bad if I am in shade. I also have a pair of Gold wire rimmed saftey glasses that do not tint. They are my "Clown glasses". I don't like them though... My daily wear ones are Flexon 606 . It is a good, light weight and strong frame. If the anlge is juuust right, you can't see them.

[fumbles1]

Don't know if your nearsighted or far. Before i had contacts I used a magnified mirror and put it as close as possible, works pretty well.

Also I think wearing galsses is fine, I have contacts and love them. If your really against contacts ever think about just getting a fun color frame, matbe one that matches your costume.
Good luck

[Willace-the-Clown]

I dont wear my glasses as a Clown only time i do a gig with my Glasses is when i do Santa claus But some Clowns do wear their Glasses

[Sassafras]

As Scruff said, I must have my glasses. I'm legally blind without them. It's not darkness so much as it is severe lack of focus. There's no way to function without them.

I just recently replaced my frames and purposely chose some that kind of blend in. The frames are gold and there's no bottom to the frame around the lenses. It really helps them become inconspicuous.

All I can tell suggest is getting a magnifying mirror. They're very helpful. And just keep practicing. Since I'm right-handed, I hold the magnifying mirror up close and do the left side first, so there's no worry about smudging the right side.

[gabgayle]

i rememeber a loooong time ago seeing an infomercial for some glasses that have one side flip down so women could put on their make up, then you flip that side back up and flip down the other side and do that side. i wonder if they still make those or where you can get them... theres always that slogan "you can find IT on EBAY" !!

[Pickles]

So do any of you wear your contacts when you are putting on your make-up? There's no way I can see well enough to apply my make-up without them, but it's pretty hard not to get powder in my eyes during the process. (I can avoid this by closing my eyes when I powder, but then how do I know if I'm powdering in all the right spots?)

One thing I have found that helps is to put some artificial tears in my eyes after I have my make-up on and am finished powdering. This seems to clean the powder off the contact lens.