Birthday Treats, New Makeup and New Creations as well as exciting news!!

Well it has been an extremely busy week, I haven't seem to stop! Between my Birthday treats (yay happy Birthday me), work/taster days and shopping with my big sister...its all been go! 

Which is nice because it stops me thinking about the stupid pains in my head...well until I over do things and end up with a migraine in bed but to be honest last week wasn't too bad on the scale of how much of an inconvenience is my chronic pain...hiccups every now and then but manageable..ish.

So lets start at the beginning...my Birthday treats!!
Karl, the oh so lovely fella of mine, took me on a surprise little holiday to Edinburg. I have never been to Edinburg and I have to say I will definitely be going again! It was beautiful, I mean the drive up there was stunning! Mountains and hills and blue sky all the way, it was just amazing!

As part of my Birthday Weekend...Karl took me to the zoo. Its a bit of a tradition now that I am one with the animals in some form of way on my Birthday, either zoo, aquarium or something else where I can interact with the animals...don't ask me, its just a thing! My mantra is that am a flamingo among a flock of pigeons, so I need to be with my flamingo buddies!!

And penguin buddies...cause penguins are just awesome too!

Now Edinburg Zoo is famous for having panda's which I was absolutely speechless with how beautiful and cute they are. Luckily the boy Panda, Yang Guang, was active and munching on some bamboo whilst Tian Tian, the girl panda, was snoozing away.

The zoo was amazing, if anybody reading this has the chance to go...go...its a very educational and awesome place with loads of species of animals that you wouldn't normally get to see as well as amazing staff who talk to you and teach you about them and the conservation programs.

Whilst in Edinburg I recommend that you visit Mimi's Bake House, they do the best cakes! And the décor of the seating area is so kitsch and cute. They also have some amazing home made cakes at very reasonable prices.

I ordered a very delicious red velvet cake with a super berry ice tea and Karl had a Reese's peanut butter Brownie. They were AMAZING!!

As well as my Birthday trip, I was taken shopping by my lovely big sis, Frances. We went to Manchester which we haven't been in aaaages….as well as the usual clothes and random books, of course I bought makeup and LUSH stuff. I don't really do your typical talking review on my YouTube channel but am sure I'll be using the makeup in an up and coming tutorial for you guys to take a little look at.

HUDA beauty isn't a brand am completely familiar with and don't really own a lot of products from but I did get their new Easy Baking Loose powder and Rose Gold Remastered palette. Both products are pretty good, the palette colours are so smooth and very easy to blend with a mixture of metallic shades, deep rich reds and orange tones as well as iridescent shades.

 I love the colours, so much so I used them the next day at a makeup demonstration I was doing at Blackburn College to promote the media makeup course. The palette was a little pricey...but its a good product.

And on to the good news...now I did hint at it last blog but now am officially announcing it here, its my triumphant return to SFX! I will be demonstrating the application of SFX, cosplay costume and head dress to create a crazy complete character at both Blackburn Comicon and Preston Comicon this year, with my glamourous assistant Lisa as always being my right hand laddddy!

This is a big thing for me, its been a year of poor health and not being able to do anything so am going all out on these events and I want you guys to come say hi!

BLACKBURN COMICON - 17th Nov

Get your tickets here----- https://www.blackburncomiccon.co.uk/

PRESTON COMICON - 29th Sept

Get your tickets here ------ http://www.prestoncomiccon.co.uk/

Preston's creation will be focusing on steampunk...I'll be dropping more hints closer to the actual event as well as on my Facebook and Instagram so make sure your following me on here and on there!

As well as watching my demonstrations, you will also have the opportunity to buy one of my creations; from headdresses, arm armour, chest armour, cosplay weapons and even smaller fascinators. All hand made by moi and available for you to buy!

And now on to this weeks tutorial...its another quick and easy SFX which can be created on the cheap but is really effective. Wax SFX are a great alternative to your silicone or prosthetic application which can be uber expensive were as wax is a lot cheaper. 

The only major issue with wax, especially at the moment, is that it melts super easily. If your hands are hot its going to end up a sticky mess so this effect does require some patience and cold hands!

For this look, I used quiet a lot of Kryolan products as there are excellent quality with a nice cheap price tag. 

For this look I used Cine Wax which is a nice translucent wax that is easy to blend into the skin as well as colour over the top. Because of its transparency, it means that you don't really need to add a lot of skin tones to disguise the piece if any at all.

PRODUCTS USED:

Kryolan: 

- Pro Shield.

- Cine Wax

- Liquid Latex

Skin Illustrator:

- Bloody Five.

Glynn Mckay Bruise Gel in "Dark Red"

Nick Dudman's Pigs Might Fly Blood in "dark"

Brushes used:

Bdellium SFX brushes

Sigma and Hollywood Labs Ltd SFX brushes.

This blog was kind of all over the place but I have had a lot of things happening last week so its been a bit hard to fit everything in as well as manage the pain, which fingers cross, will be a bit easier after next week because I've got an appointment with the pain management clinic as well as attending a support group called Breathing Space, fingers crossed. 

Next weeks blog should be a little more focused, hopefully.....maybe...….possibly.....ah well you'll have to follow me to find out I guess!

As always, Thursday will have the tutorial video of today's SFX makeup and don't you forget to subscribe because it all helps me to create more and more crazy mad looks for you guys.

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Until next time! 

xRx

Back to Work and Kat Von D Makeup Look.

This week has been a struggle in part and a triumph in others. I've started my phase back return to teaching hair and media makeup at college last Monday and it went positively. I only went in for a meeting with my manager who were really supportive with the whole situation and then went to see my level 3 students. 
I have to say that the hardest thing with this health problem is not being able to finish the students through their qualification and just not being there to see how they progress their creativity through the year. Thankfully I have had the most amazing lady taking over and helping out, Lisa, she has been a total star with all of this and really helped out the students. So seeing them again was amazing, even if that was their last session being signed off their assessments.
The morning went really well but then a massive migraine hit me which lasted the rest of the day and the following day. When this happens I can't help but feel a bit useless and like am going backwards but I realise it can't be helped, and this whole thing is to test out the medication and increase it when it needs it; till I've found the right dosage.

Enough of the life story, time for the makeup! As you may of realised am currently trying to get both this blog and my YouTube off the ground with uploads every Monday for blogs and every Thursday for new videos.

Today's blog and video (which will be uploaded on Thursday) will be a makeup look using Kat Von D 10th Anniversary Collection and some other brands which I'll list. I also have finally be able to use my Unicorn Cosmetics brushes and lashes for this look! Which are amazing quality and are super unique. I absolutely love my unicorn brushes and my heat sensitive Halloween brushes!!

Its be great getting back to playing about with my makeup again, I think its really therapeutic for me. I've got a load of ideas in my head that I want to get recorded. But I do love this metallic look with the blue and gold lips.

I think my favourite product out of the new collection has to be the glimmer veil in "Gold Skool", that colour is beautiful and can be applied over any colour of lipstick for a pop of luxury. You can also use them on the eyes.

One of the most amazing things about Kat Von D's products is they are vegan as well as being designed to be used on both eyes and lips. So that blue pencil used for my eyes is the same as the one I used for my lips. 

Products Used:
Illamasqua: Hydra Veil
                    Radiance Veil.

Kryolan: Cream Foundation Stacker.

Medusa Makeup: "Pink" Gel Eyeliner

Unicorn Cosmetics: Lashes in "Majestic AF"

Kat Von D Beauty: Brow Pomade in "Aubergine"
                                Lock It Concealer in Light Neutral
                                10th Anniversary Palette.
                                Lock It Foundation in 41 neutral
                                Everlasting Lipliner in "Poe"
                                Shade and Light Contour Palette (powder)
                                Metal Crush in "Gold Skool"
                                Glimmer Veil in "Gold Skool"

LA Splash: Liquid Lipstick in "Werewolf" from there Classic Horror Collection.

Cover FX: Custom Enhance drops in "Halo"

Mehron Makeup: 1925 Vinyl Eyeliner


Don't forget that on Thursday I will be uploading the tutorial video to go with this look on my YouTube channel which you can subscribe to here: https://www.youtube.com/ruthemouldenmua

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See you next time.
xRx

United Makeup Artist's Expo 2015

Last couple of weeks have been Easter Holidays and even though I had time off teaching (obviously the odd lesson to plan and the odd assignment to mark) I was busy with the freelance side of makeup artistry, from Wedding trials to designing for up coming events/demonstrations, its a continuing work schedule for me...and I love it!

One of the delightful days off was at United Makeup Artist Expo down in London which I attended this time last weekend. This was my second visit to the event and its still as awesome as ever!

I love going to this event as it really is tailored well for makeup artists in the industry, as well as the awesome stalls, makeup gurus doing live demonstrations and experts to talk to the event also holds multiple educational sessions in which you can learn new methods, skills, about new products etc by the industry experts! Learning from these artists is a dream come true for me and it really does inspire me to push my own skills and designs.

The company's that attended were (in my opinion) some of the top supply companies in the industry along with some of there expert artists on hand to help explain the new products as well as suitability of products for you projects.

At the PPI  booth there was the amazing makeup artist Kenny Myers (who has done the makeup for films such as The Prestige, X-men, The Return of Living Dead and many many more) doing a live demonstration. I watched for quiet a while whilst he create this amazing Troll/Orc style warrior. It was amazing!

 This was what was eventually created, however I was unable to take a photo of the finished look.

 

 PPI, Premiere Products is a brilliant effects company that supply a range of products; from bloods, skin illustrators, adhesives, Fleet Street products and more. They are based in American which is why I always go straight to their booth first...I would have to spend a fortune to ship there products plus a large amount cannot be shipped via airmail. If you have never heard of this brand I strongly suggest that you check them out!

One of the other artists there was Stuart Bray, who has an wicked website which teaching some methods of making prosthetics... http://learnprostheticmakeup.com/ its extremely useful website. He's work can also be seen in such films as Shaun of The Dead, Tv series Game of Thrones as well as Blade II and Tv series Dr Who.

Another Artist present was Shaune Harrison, whose Academy in Manchester is my current goal to go to...still saving those pennies. He was doing an awesome demonstration of a bird like hybrid, which was so popular I found it extremely difficult to get a clear picture of the making of.

 

Photo of the prosthetic by Shaune Harrison without any colour...

 

Finished character, how cool are the contact lenses!!

 

Full character, loved the beck piece. Looks amazing!! Seeing this makes me want to go to Shaune Harrison's Academy even more...I totally want to learn how to do this!!!

 

Some of the educational seminars included mainly SFX, but I did attend one by Kryolan, with the wonderful Leanne Simmons which was entitled "Special Effects meets Fashion" which was incredibly interest and has really inspired me.

The main focus of the session was showing how you can use special effects to create high fashion looks, for this demonstration Leanne's design drew inspiration from Tim Burton fantasy. She used a variety of techniques from bald cap applications, blocking out eyebrows, facepaints and blood. She also showed us an extremely clever use for gelatine (or gelafix skin by Kryolan) by creating 3D eye brows with it. Looked so effective!! 

 

 

How amazing is the overall look, to make it more impressive Leanne only had limited time to create it as there were a few problems setting up the room and getting the model  but she did amazingly well and I learnt a lot!

 

Like I mentioned before as well as the educational seminars there were live demonstrations from each of the booths with some amazing artists; from body art to fashion makeup as well as special effect characters. 

 

Kryolan booth had this toxic body art creating using the same gelafix method shown within the educational seminar. I love the 3D effect it gives!

 

I didn't realise it until the model turned around but there was a screen on his back which was playing Kryolan adverts...how cool is that!!

 

One of the other Educational seminars that I attended was one held by Brian Kinney who taught us about "Prosthetic Casting with Flat Moulds." He showed us these Hurt Boxes that he developed and created for fast creation of cuts, scars, grazes etc and they looked amazing! I really wish I could find the booth they were being sold at but alas I'll have to order it! 

 

I did have an awesome time at the event and bought some awesome things which I will be using very soon as well as doing reviews on them.

 

 

 As you can see its a good mixture of stuff! Which I can't wait to use.

 

Don't forget to take a look at my facebook page for more images from the event as well as more up to date posts on my crazy creative life as a makeup artist @Ruth.E.Moulden.MUA

 

If you want to buy your tickets for next years UMA expo; check out their website here: www.umae.co.uk 

 

Bye for now my lovelies,

 

xRx