Who: Tobias & Open What: Practice makes perfect When: May 3rd, late morning Where: Make-up and Costuming area Rating: Tbd. Likely low but with Language
Most everyone was asleep - at least, so he thought. There were shifts, Tobias had realized, where many of the performers slept through the day while the rest of them did work. He, on the other hand, did not need sleep and so was awake at all times. The day previous, he had successfully avoided Callum and had not had to face the animals that would surely reject him for his non-living status. Or perhaps they would have just ignored him. Neither seemed like a good option to him.
As he was still rather new to the circus, even to life itself, he was still learning his new trade. There had been a number of 'Youtube' videos shown to him on the basics of make-up, teaching him the appropriate order for things, how to contour and blend. It was all well and good for the usual beauty makeups that a number of the performers got (and some did themselves). But he was far more interested in the fantasy, the art that came with it. He'd always enjoyed painting and it was rather like that, wasn't it? Painting but using skin as a canvas.
However, Tobias didn't exactly want to keep anyone awake as a volunteer for practice so he'd been using himself. That was precisely why his face had a lot of sea blue and glitter in an effort to make something vaguely aquatic. Practicing with the Chromacake watercolors had been a trial to get the right consistency but he was fairly certain he'd gotten it down. And yet, he wasn't pleased. Maybe because it was on him, it looked foolish. It would have been better on a woman. Throwing the brush he'd been using down with a sharp "Merde", it clattered amongst the bottles and other products, knocking a few onto the ground. That was one powdered foundation at least that was now broken and awful.
A long string of French explicatives (which his Master had taught him for sheer amusement) poured out of him as he bent down to pick up the things he'd made fall. And only because he thought he was totally alone. It wouldn't have been mannerly otherwise.