Clean the actor’s face and pull back his hair. Place a towel over his shoulders to protect his clothes.
Apply foundation that is slightly lighter than the actor’s skin tone to his face, neck and ears.
Accentuate the actor’s natural facial lines. To find these lines, ask him to raise his eyebrows, frown and smile. You should see natural wrinkles on his forehead, around his eyes and around his mouth. Use brown eyeliner to fill in all his natural wrinkles.
Highlight the wrinkles. Use a shade that is a little lighter than the foundation to draw lines on both sides of the brown ones. On the nasal labial folds (the lines that form between the nose and mouth when someone smiles), use the highlighter only on the outside of the wrinkle (toward the cheek). Gently rub your fingers over the lines to blend them.
Create shadows on the actor’s face. Draw a soft, wide line, starting from her inner eyebrow and continuing down her nose. Stop when you get to her nostrils. Do the same on the other side of her face. Then draw a half circle under each eye and lightly shade it in with the eyebrow pencil.