A few weeks ago I held a few demonstrations for Blackburn
College, inviting my media makeup artist, beauty therapist and hairdressers to
come and watch a little demonstration of what I do. It’s a chance for other
students from other courses to get a taster of being a media makeup artist and
it proved to be a successful week.
I held demonstrations for fashion and photographic using my
headdress, see blog below and I also held a SFX demonstration which was specifically
aimed at my level 2 media makeup students as a taster into what Level 3
students do. As everybody know SFX is my favourite area of media makeup and its
eventually what I would like to go into full time; dream job would be working
for an effects studio making monsters and creatures all day! So this session, I
have to admit was one of my favour demonstrations of the week.
My theme was zombie tramps, last year I did zombies vs.
tramps and this year its all about the evolution! Plus part of the unit in
level3 is to create a believable tramp character so this demonstration just
introduces them to some basic application techniques e.g. ageing, false hair
applications, scraps, cuts etc.
I sculpted and casted the prosthetic piece and tried to
challenge myself with creating a realistic skull. I’ll admit it does need some
work on the shading and shaping of the bone structure but overall I didn’t
think I did that badly. Once again the prosthetic piece was made from gelatine
as I am still saving up for the prosthetics course which teach the foam latex
and silicone prosthetics…..
The fabulous Leah was a fantastic model for me today and to
keep the session interactive I let students come up and help me apply the
makeup.
A lot of the products used were my favourite, used in
previous looks such as Blood Mary’s Spray Blood, I still make a mess when
applying this but it gives the most brilliant, realistic blood splatter, plus
its quick and easy! The main colours of the piece were using Grimas casualty
palette L which contains all the cream colours needed to colour a piece like
this, I am saving up at the moment for the Skin Illustrator palette but am
thinking that I’ll pick this up at one of the Make Up conventions this year and
do a review on it for you guys.
I feel like the application was pretty successful in the
time I had to apply it and I think the concept could do will a polish but it
worked for the demonstration plus the students seemed to enjoy the session.
Leah had great fun afterwards scaring passers-by in the beauty salons which was
fairly amusing!
I do love my zombies, this was one was a little too clean,
needed some darker colours I think.
Let me know what you think?
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Next blog will be a
makeup review with some looks…am feeling creative!
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