Halloween SFX Makeup: Exposed Eyeball

Sorry for the uber long silence...but aaammm baaaack!!

Here have a Halloween tutorial video to make up for my neglect of you guys. I will be uploading the behind the scenes creation of this which will include products and how I created the piece soooo hit that follower button and stay tuned to my blog!

xRx

Cheshire Cat ... We're All Mad Here ....

 

Its been a difficult time for me at the moment so what better way to cheer myself up and keep me focused on the end goal of becoming a SFX artist for film/tv (CSI would be a dreeeeam!) then sculpting a crazy cat!

 

I've been a little obsessed with the video game "America McGee Alice: Madness Returns", those of you who aren't familiar with it...basically its like a twisted version of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, with blood, madness and some pretty pretty warped scenery. As a result of this slight obsession I've always wanted to try and create a makeup based on it. So when the Open Day demonstrations came up at +Blackburn College , I decided that then was the time to do it!

 

I was inspired with my sculpting as well as given some handy tips from the marvellous +Bruna Nogueira who sent me a copy of Hollywood Makeup Lab's new book "Hollywood Makeup Lab Industry Secrets and Techniques" such an amazing detailed  book with awesome techniques to learn. Definitely recommend buying this book if your a budding MUA, SFX artist or already in the industry (or like me , professional MUA trying to break into the SFX game!)!!

 

Like always....it starts with a sculpt...

 

I began by blocking out the shape of the cat, the issue with cats is that their noses and mouth area (especial the Cheshire Cat's!) are recognisable and therefore the shape needed to be as close as humanly possible. It took ages to get this to a state that I was happy with!!

Like my other sculpts this was done using Monster Clay from +PS Composites Ltd 

 

After a lot of playing and sore hands...I finally settled on this...

 

 

As you can see I changed the teeth and added false nails.

 

 

Next step moulding!!

Like my pasted pieces this one is casted in gelatine, I would love to try foam latex but still saving my money for that SFX course...one day I will get there!!

 

The piece was then painted using +MEL Products which I absolutely love!! My favourite product to paint in both manually and airbrush. For this pretty kitty I used a mixture of airbrush and manual. I airbrushed a base of light grey and built up to darker tones. Then manually painted the detail in using +Bdellium Tools sfx brushes and +Sigma Beauty SFX brushes.

 

 

After long starring matches with my mad Cheshire cat, I decided it need a little more detail...crepe hair detail. Which am not going to lie was extremely infuriating as I managed to glue grey hair to everything!!

 

 

The ears were made from foam pieces and a headband painted up.

 

 

Taaaa Daaaaaa......

 

 

So that was the creation of my Cheshire Cat prosthetic, in the next post I'll be covering the application as well as creation of some encapsulated silicone pieces that were used for the character/body art. 

 

If you can't wait and  want to see the end result sooner, going over to my facebook/instagram pages like...follow....check it out over there using the same user name as here.

 

Bye for now lovelies!!

 

p.s. stay tuned to my social networking sites for Halloween looks and characters...oooo spooky

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Walking Dead Zombie Girl Character

Hey guys,

I have been keeping busy as normal, planning some characters for Halloween as well as sorting out this years Zombie Walk at +Blackburn College

 I realised that I need put up a follow up post for the Walking Dead Zombie prosthetic that I created. As everybody knows I love zombies and monsters and things that go bump in the night and one of ultimate favourite TV shows is of course Walking Dead. It would be a dream come true to work on a show like that...even if its just assisting!

So the as you can see from previous posts, I moulded a prosthetic face based on Walking Dead zombie world and painted it up...what I didn't show you was the finished piece on my face! So here it is...

Personally am really happy with it...I think its definately better then my past zombies which is always the aim. I feel that the Skin Illustrators really made a massive different in the effect of the zombie not to mention my new +Sigma Beauty FX brushes from +Bruna Nogueira from the fantastic Hollywood Makeup Lab (I've recently received a book from them which I will be doing a review on, very soon so stay tuned for that one!)

I attached the prosthetic with the fantastic adhesive Telesis 7, I think I already raved about this product in my previous blog but there I go again...its the best glue that I've used to date and didn't ruin my skin afterwards! Definitely recommend this to everybody and everyone!

 

You can check out the blog about the colour up of the prosthetic for more information about brushes and skin illustrators used. If you check out my YouTube channel can also wait a video of the colour up with a review of the FX brushes used.

So there you have it, I will definitely be revisiting my walking dead zombies, probably for Halloween which am planning to do quiet a few monsters for you guys.

 

Please Please check out my YouTube Channel to see more information about the colouring of the prosthetic piece here -----> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mquRQlyIlL4

 

Check out the Sigma FX Brush by +Bruna Nogueira  Review here -------> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EigHmTbiWeU

 

 

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Bye for now,

xRx

Sliced Leg SFX Silicone Prosthetic

Hey guys,

Today's blog is all about my sliced leg effect, you can call it the warm up to Halloween as I've got a few ideas that I want to create as well as one big idea for a live Demonstration at +Blackburn College  for their open day event in October (those of you who follow me on Facebook or Instagram will know what that character is.)

As some of you know I have been experimenting with silicone prosthetic, its something that really interests me as its can be incredibly life like in both touch, movement and visually. It's pretty expensive but worth it if you want the realism.

I began the prosthetic by creating a mould, I just used some monster clay (favourite clay to use but is quite hard, melts well though) and then create the mould. Below you can see the mould is the blue piece which is created by a silicone based product called Mold Star 16 by Smooth On. There are different types of Mold Star, 16 is a fast setting one with a 6 minute pot life and 30 minute cure time which means that if your quick at working its perfect but if not perhaps try Mold Star 15 which has the pot life 50 minutes and a cure time of  about 3-4 hours. +Smooth-On  products can be purchased via their website http://www.smooth-on.com or if your from the UK you might be better buying it from +Bentley Advanced Materials via http://www.benam.co.uk , they also have a handy tutorial video on there about using the product!

 

After creating the mould, I moved on to creating the prosthetic by encapsulating the silicone using bald cap plastic. Meaning I coated the mould in bald cap plastic (after applying a release agent) and then once this was dried I poured in the silicone. This silicone is again a Smooth On product which can be purchased at +Bentley Advanced Materials called Ecoflex Platinum Silicone which is extremely soft and flexible. To create the felsh colour I added Silc-Pig which is a pigment specific for silicone as well as red flocking which gives a multi-dimensional colouring by colouring the "background"

 

Once the prosthetic piece was done its ready to be applied, for this application I used my new adhesive; Telesis 7 Silicone Adhesive which is a fantastic product the only down side is that its expensive. Its taken me a while to save up for it but it really do glue well.

 

Now the fun part...not that anything before this wasn't fun but this is the really fun messy bit...colouring and blood!

So as I love my skin illustrators so much I used them...I used mainly my FX palette and 5 blood palette both are perfect for casualty effects and gory effects. I love how you can create such a nice wash of colour that doesn't over power the effect. As you can see below, the prosthetic coloured without any blood.

 

 

Once you have the colour right you can go ahead and add the bloods. Whenever I'm teaching sfx I always check my students work before they add the blood because blood can hide a multitude of sins and dodgy edges. (Word of warning to my new Level 3 Media Makeup students starting in September.)

 

My favourite bloods to use are those by Bloody Marvellous, who do a selection of sfx products including liquid bloods and wound fillers.

With this effect I used both liquid and thick bloods in dark.

 

 

 As you can see below, the colour is fantastic for dark venous blood. The top swatch is the liquid blood which you can see is a little more watery in consistency with a slightly more transparency and runs very easily. The next sample is the thick blood which is a lot more dense in colour as well as being more stable and doesn't run quiet as easily as the liquid.

 

The next product that I used, also from Bloody Marvellous, is the wound fillers. The first one is scratch blood and then congealed blood. I love these wound fillers so much as they are really realistic and easy to apply...except the scratch blood which is a little more jelly like making positioning a little more work but totally worth the extra work.

 

 

As you can see from the swatches, that scratch blood, which is the orangey colour is very sticky and gel like in consistency. The congealed blood is far more solid and adds fantastic depth in colour and texture.

 

 

Altogether you get a fantastic realistic effect. The colours and texture work really well to create that lovely gory ripped skin effect.

 

 

 

 

Am happy with the piece and can't wait to try more effects using a similar techniques.

 

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Bye for now lovelies!

Sun Set Eye Makeup and Black Lips: Products Review and Makeup Look of the Day

Hi my Lovelies,

This a quick old fashioned makeup look and product post, I want to do more of these but I've been given a little more responsibility in my teaching job plus I have my new students starting in September so I want to get all my workshops brand new and sparkling before they start...basically am going to try and keep up with the makeup looks posts but can't promise.

This look is one of my favourite looks to do, I love the contrast between the black lips and the bright eyes! Plus as I have mentioned to my students before now, I wear this look when I need a quick application but dramatic look.

 

Big lashes are needed for this sort of looks at well. 

Love my rockabilly style, the fasinator that am wear is by Pearls and Swine. Fabulous Millinery that create the most amazing, unique designs ever! Check them out here: http://www.pearlsandswine.com/

 

 

 

So the products that I used for this look, some of them are newish and some I use time and time again.

 

+Kat von D makeup is something that is am absolute guilty pleasure of mine, it cost quiet a bit to get it sent over to the UK but its totally worth it!

 

The Shade and Light palette is a fantastic powder contouring palette that is absolutely amazing! The pigments are buildable with a smooth consistency for a powder and easily blended onto the skin to give a beautiful contour to any face shape or feature. I frequently use this product for my brides and prom makeups.

 

 

I used +Sugarpill "Burning Heart" palette for the eyes, this is a staple favourite of mine which I use almost everyday. I love all of +Sugarpill 's cosmetics for the pure and simple fact that the eye shadows are amazing pigmented with super strong colour pay offs.

 

 

To blend my eye shadows, I used Sugar Pill Cosmetics large eye shadow brush. This is one of my favourite brushes and am sure I will be buying more of there brushes in future (I just purchased their blending brush from this years IMATS) Its super fluffy and soft, excellent for blending colours together.

 

 
My absolute favourite foundation at the moment is another one of Kat Von D's products, Lock it Foundation. I have been saving up for this one for a while, again due to the cost of shipping it in rather then the cost of the product!

I cannot tell you enough how fantastic this foundation is, it covers all with out clogging up your pores or feeling caked on. Once set with powder it lasts and lasts and lasts! Definitely recommend everyone to try this product at least once in your life, although if you try it once I guarantee that you will continue buying it!

 

Another favourite of mine is Kat Von D's eyeliner, Tattoo Liner in Trooper. Its extremely precise with a good fluid flow which glides on to your eyelid fantastically. Again it lasts all day!

 

 
This product I always use, everyday! Its +Inglot Cosmetics Gel eyeliner in purple and red for my eyebrows. The reason why I use a gel liner rather then a powder product is, I feel I can get more shape to my brows using gel and can create that sharp shape better with this rather then the powder. Plus the colour pay off is amazing!

 

Lips are created using +Lime Crime "Wicked" liquid lipstick, which I did have some problem with when wearing it all day. It felt like I was reapplying a lot throughout the day...this may of been because I was teaching all day and talking lots! The colour looked fantastic when it was first applied though and had that nice matt effect.

 

So that my Sunshine eyes looks, as I said I will try to post more traditional makeup looks and product reviews on here.

Don't forget to check out my Facebook page, Instagram and YouTube...am currently trying to upload a new video today sooooo stay tuned people!!

 

xRx

 

Voodoo Tribal Queen

I was asked to do a live demonstration for a +Habia  event at +Blackburn College  to demonstrate the skills that I teach as a Media Makeup Lecturer but also as a freelance makeup artist working in an ever changing environment.

I really wanted to demonstrate airbrushing skills as this is an area that is frequently developing and is a skill that can really boost a character creation. Also I haven’t created a headdress in a while so felt like a challenge.

This character focused on tribal styles and had a voodoo influence using lots of feathers and skulls as well as block colours and shapes.

 

The headdress was a lot of fun to make! Skulls are incredibly recognisable and one shape out of place or one cheekbone too high and it throws the whole piece out. It was sculpted out of Sculpt Clay which is an oven baked clay and it took about 2 days to complete this because I needed time to look at the sculpt and then take a break to come back to it with fresh eyes.

 

 

Creating the costume accessories, I wanted to try my hand at creating a feather collar/shoulder pads to relate to the tribal aspect of the character. I used old shoulder pads from a jacket and glue gunned feathers (from +eBay …where would we be without this marvellous online shop!) My colour scheme was black, pink and red…I seem to have a love for red and black at the moment and I think it’s due to how well they stand out when used together.

 

 

For this look I did a test run on myself, this was mainly because I was a little bit nervous about this demonstration to industry experts and salon owners and I wanted to physically plan out the application.

 

 

I'll be honest that I did go a little bit off design with this test run on myself and added a lot of extra bits. I think it worked for me but on my model I had to adapt it also this took too long for the demonstration and I really wanted to empathises the strong bone structure of my model.

 

 

I felt the demonstration went really well, I started it with a glamorous makeup demonstration applying everything with airbrush makeup only (foundation, eyeshadow, contouring,). I used my +Mistair airbrush gun and silicone foundations as well as my Iwata compression and a back up airbrush gun for the water based products to be applied with.

 

 

Unfortunately, I didn't get photo's of the finished look for this one because Amy my fabulous model had to go into the salon next door to be the model for the hair-up demonstrations.

 

 

The creative makeup demonstration I also felt ended up being successful and everybody who came by seemed to learn something from the session, so yay me!

I will admit sometimes at these demonstrations I go a little off topic...in this demo I talked about how airbrush can be used in cake decorating...true fact but not really related to makeup!

 

 My model was perfect for the look because she has such fantastic cheekbones and bone structure that I could really chisel out and emphasis further.

 

 

The products that were used for this look included +Mistair MistFX body art colours which I absolutely love. I have the travel pack which contains a selection of colours rather then the larger bottles but am pretty sure I will be investing in them soon.

I purchased my travel pack when I attended +United Makeup Artist Expo but you can buy them from +Face Paints Direct for a great price.

 

I love this product because you can use it from the body and paint straight onto the face but then you can also run it through the airbrush gun mixing a little distilled water. The colour is buildable and very pigmented allowing you to have block colour or wash of colour very easily.

 

 

I am very happy with how this character has turned out and am pleased that the costume part and headdress complements the makeup well. I have found that the extra elements really do help the concept come together which am hoping my students will take on board when they are designing their makeup/sfx characters.  

 

 

 

So there you have it, a successful HABIA demonstration done and a voodoo queen created.

 

There will be a YouTube video soon but at the moment am currently in Burton Upon Trent and so I don't have my video editing software.

 

If you head over to my Facebook page: Ruth E Moulden Makeup Artist there are more images from this event.

Don't forget to like and follow for more updates of my crazy life as a makeup artist!

 

My next couple blogs will be covering IMATS event as well as my Voodoo King who complements this character perfectly, used for a demonstration at the New Students Day held at +Blackburn College 

 

Bye for now Lovelies!

 

xRx

 

Walking Dead Zombie Paint Up Using Sigma FX brushes and Skin Illustrator.

 

Hey my lovelies,

 

Todays blog is a bit of a review as well as the second part of my zombie prosthetic...the paint up!!

 

A couple of weeks ago the marvellous people at Sigma send me this fabulous package of makeup brushes and makeup to test out.

 

I am so unbelievably thankful to +Sigma Beauty for sending this fantastic package of beautiful goodies, am one lucky makeup artist!

 

The brush set was sent to me was the SigmaFX brush set which consists of 11 specially designed FX brushes, all suitable and specially designed for a different aspect of SFX applications. The brushes were designed by makeup artist and founder of Hollywood Makeup Lab, Bruna Nogueira.

 

The makeup was a welcome surprise, as I didn't think I would be sent extra's. I thought it was just the FX brushes but yay!! Thankie Thankie Sigma!!

I will review these products in later blog, promise!

 

I love all the brushes and for this prosthetic application they were perfect. I have created a quick video looking at each brush individually as well as a little bit about what each one could be used for.

Check out the video here: Quick Sigma Fx brushes Review 

 

I decided that for painting up my zombie prosthetic I would use manual and that the Sigma FX brushes would be perfect to do the job...as well as enable me to review the brushes as worked.

 

 

So here is the setup...my freshly pulled prosthetic piece, Sigma set and skin illustrator pallettes. Normally I would be using my airbrush gun but as I have just got a few new palettes from +PS Composites Ltd and +PPI Premiere Products (All aquired when I went to +United Makeup Artist Expo this year)

 

So the first palette is "American Horror" created for American Horror Story's Makeup Dept. Head, Eryn Krueger Mekash.  The palette contains two colors specifically designed by Eryn Krueger Mekash's makeup crew for the American Horror Story series.  'Coven' and 'Assylum'. Costing $80 from +PPI Premiere Products  or £69.80 from +PS Composites Ltd 

I've been wanting this palette for a long time and finally I got it!! This is my first large palette from Skin Illustrator as all my other palette are the small "on set" palettes.

 

The next two palettes that I used for the prosthetic was my "NecroMania" and "FX" which as mentioned before are my smaller "On Set" palettes which have the same colours as the larger palettes just small...

 

These are available for +PPI Premiere Products for $55

The FX palette is perfect for any casualty stimulation or FX bruises/cuts, I have definitely recommended to my students that they should buy this palette for their kits.

 

So I first used #melproductsUSA in "Corpse", airbrushing this base down using my #mistair airbrush gun.

 

I then proceed to layer multiple colours down manually using the #sigmafx brush set. My idea was to get inspiration from "Walking Dead" by using post- mortem style colours to give a rotting flesh sort of effect.

 

I've been working on building my painting abilities for a while and I think I achieved in this project.

 

 

And there you have the final look of the prosthetic. You can check out a video of the full application HERE

 

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xRx