Bearded Lady

One of the classes that Anya has this year is Theater Makeup. She's learned how to not only do regular makeup (say for someone who simply looks their age, gender, and species), she's also practiced more advanced designs, like a lioness,

a person who's survived a car wreck,

an old woman

(she wasn't particularly fond of that one. It wasn't her best grade. However it does look better on stage. I don't think it could look worse)

even a Kabuki player.

As you can see, most of these she's done on herself, and then taken pictures so we could see later.

They're rather striking. (I love to state the obvious).

For a recent project, however, Anya's teacher told her and her fellow students that it would be advisable to use a model for this endeavor. They would be putting on a beard, and it is more difficult to do to oneself, evidently. So, Anya needed a model. A mannequin, as it were, on which to construct her work of art.

Jenna volunteered. Actually, Emily and Jenna both volunteered, but the bearding process involves latex, to which Emily is allergic, so she was axed as a potential for facial hair.

Jenna was delivered to Anya's school, and after an hour of laborious latexing, gumming, hair application and trimming, our bearded little girl emerged.

I think she most closely resembles a turn of the century Russian immigrant.

A really cute one, though.