Originally Posted by Fireheart

Avalon smiled back at Lisa as she flipped through a few monologues. How these actors and actresses managed to read these scripts cold—without much preparation at all—was beyond her. "I think a comedic script would be perfect you for. Something light, airy, and happy! I'm excited to watch." She gave her housemate an encouraging nod. A play with a bunch of Ravenclaws as the leads? Now that would be a real house pride moment.

Once they were split up, Avalon headed over to Professor Peralta's group, trunk in tow. She found a spot near Eden and Ingrid, particularly interested in the latter's sketchbook. "I'd love to see your designs someday! Maybe we can work together on an outfit sometime," she whispered to the third year, pointing to her own sketchbook in return. Fashion design was always more fun when you could combine creative ideas.

She got to work once the Charms professor gave the directions, rummaging through her own trunk and the one provided to them to find some inspiring materials. Settling on a glittery piece of pastel tulle, Avalon figured that she would design a costume for a fairy. She whipped out her sketchbook and used the pencil tucked behind her ear to map out a general design—her fairy needed a pretty dress, iridescent wings, and lots of sparkles.

Originally Posted by Tegz

Pax wasn't technically here to audition. She was here to watch auditions and generally just..... see what was going on. For her she'd much rather be involved behind the scenes. Make up, etcetera. Honestly there were plenty of people who were much better suited to on stage antics than what she was. She hadn't actually heard any word of what they were auditioning for but apparently that didn't matter.

When people interested in costume and make up were directed towards professor Peralta, Pax silently got up and went over there, gaze still casting around and making note of who was doing what (and also who was most likely to be extremely disappointed if they didn't get what they wanted out of this - because that was potentially free entertainment).



Yes, Pax was one whose actual face had impeccable make up, though nothing extreme and not stage make up, it was just the norm for her to wear it day to day. She hadn't packed it on especially for whatever all this was. She stood listening to Peralta and glanced over at the mannequins, the mannequin heads, the make up provided and then (with the sound of Kale Trent being Kale Trent somewhere behind her) simply went over to the table and chose a mannequin head.

She had no questions or complaints about the task at hand, though thought it would be better if they had specific looks to design for a specific production rather than just a creative free for all, but it wasn't worth kicking up a fuss about. The first thing she did was get her wand out and duplicate the mannequin head however, since she wanted to work on two at once, and then she took stock of the provided tools and make up, letting all the loud auditions wash over her while she thought silently about what to paint.

Originally Posted by Tegz

Stage make up was something else. Pax knew this wasn't about how well she could apply regular make up (obviously very well thanks), it was about making the face look right even with stage lights washing it out. She had one mannequin that was a more standard stage make up look, where she had worked on the planes of the face, defining shadowed areas, the mouth and eyes appropriately. Pax had actually used her twin's face for inspiration since she didn't even need a reference to picture the specific contours of Nemesis Upstead, and her twin's cheekbones were well suited for showing off stage contouring. Using make up, especially the relatively thick stage stuff, to make the mannequin look like it had actual cheekbones and definition in the brow and nose and lip and jaw was actually quite fun.

Finishing that first one fairly fast, Pax moved onto the second one, on which she wanted to do something more involved. Prosthetics. Colour. Pax adjusted her ponytail tighter and began laying down the make up base.