bruise

• The area around a bruise wil be swollen. Create this by applying a thin white highlight to the entire surface of the bruise.
• As bruises heal they reveal many different colors. Leave a small white highlight at the center of the impact adding an irregular ring of sallow or yellow makeup.
• Work in semi-transparent, irregular rings around the bruise from center to edges. Overlap varying amounts of red, blue-violet, gray-violet, and chestnut brown, again working from center to edges. Experiment with different quantities of each color and the shade.
• Powder with a light rouge for fresh bruises, or yellow eyeshadow for older bruises.
• A very light amount of green should be substituted for red on very old bruises

The Stage Makeup Metanode

These are the type of pictures that are more sepia than Kodak
A picture window obscured
Not a bruise any longer,
Just a memory of where the bruise had been.

And how it used to ache, Sometimes,
But no longer

Bruise (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bruised (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Bruising.] [OE. brusen, brisen, brosen, bresen, AS. brsan or fr. OF. bruiser, bruisier, bruser, to break, shiver, perh. from OHG. brochison. Cf. Break, v. t.]

1.

To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a stone; to bruise an apple by letting it fall.

2.

To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush.

Nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs. Shak.

Syn. -- To pulverize; bray; triturate; pound; contuse.

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Bruise, v. i.

To fight with the fists; to box.

Bruising was considered a fine, manly, old English custom. Thackeray.

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Bruise, n.

An injury to the flesh of animals, or to plants, fruit, etc., with a blunt or heavy instrument, or by collision with some other body; a contusion; as, a bruise on the head; bruises on fruit.

From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises. Isa. i. 6.

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