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I actually ventilated* the mustache myself from some of my own hair (from a braid cut off earlier, not plucked individually from my head).^ I also checked out a wig from the costume shop and Chaplin’s signature hat\u2014a bowler\u2014so that I could be truly stylin’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The stippled beard looked surprisingly realistic, but, note that you don’t want to use purple makeup when giving yourself a beard shadow. It tends to look bruisy (technical term).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mustaches were also having a serious cultural moment at this time, at least in the more underground counter culture. I think they will always be classic, but they were highlighted in moments like Movember (getting men to grow a mustache to show awareness for prostate cancer) and other such things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The tagline, Merry Holiday Wishes Yo’, was just a holiday greeting mash-up intended to invoke a laugh, or at the very least, a smile. This was in the years right after the pop-culture phenomenon Breaking Bad<\/a>, where one of the main characters, Jesse, says “yo” after almost every sentence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The conceit made me laugh, and I couldn’t help but pass on the cheeky affectation to others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I shot these photos on a digital SLR as well with a timer. I got up and down from the chair so many times to check whether or not I had gotten the pics I wanted that my thighs were sore for the next couple days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can also see that I used wrapping paper for a backdrop stretched across my massive bookshelves. I played with photo frames held up in front of myself as a portrait, but I couldn’t get the camera to focus on me when I was holding a frame. That was a definite fail!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lighting is also minimal. Definitely needed to do something about that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ampersand had also come into my life at this time and was almost a young adult. While it’s hard to see, he has on a sequined bowtie and collar specially made for his uncle Taffy Cat. He was not necessarily a great model, and in the picture I’m trying to get him to look at the camera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I left a card out for my co-workers with some cookies. I don’t think they, as yet, quite got the zeitgeist that was Jen\/chrlichaz, but don’t worry\u2014that time was coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Book Recommendation<\/strong>: Btws, I would highly recommend the autobiography of Charlie Chaplin<\/a>. It was a fun read (though it might be a bit long) and such a great dive into the Edwardian period and the ’20s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Go back to the main page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n See 2014<\/a>. See 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *Ventilating is a method of tying individual hairs (or two at a time) onto a piece of lace (miniature net). This technique is used for mustaches and beards and wig fronts. It gives a softer blend line along with a much more realistic appearance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ^Did you know that Charlie Chaplin’s mustache so inspired Hitler that he determined to imitate it? When I was younger, if you saw a mustache of that shape, you thought Hitler first and Charlie Chaplin second, but, thankfully, those associations have started to fade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Holiday Story: My Alter Alias, @chrliechaz, and Her Feline Domestic, Ampersand, Wish You a Happy Holiday If you hadn’t noticed, my online alias is @chrliechaz. This idea originally came from a character makeup I did back in my undergrad days when I was studying costume design and makeup. I actually ventilated* the mustache myself from … Continue reading 2013 Holiday<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":968,"parent":858,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-993","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1547,"href":"https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/993\/revisions\/1547"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/jenbrassjenkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/chrlie-chaz-makeup-1015x1024.jpg\")
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Merry Holiday Wishes Yo’<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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