Webster Wigs and LED lashes...Oh my...Time for a Cyber Goth look!!

 It's been a fairly good couple of days and am feeling very creative. So much so I've been creating some new headdresses and designing some new costume pieces which will be for sale at my next Comicon demonstrations... here's a sneak peak at one of them ---->

Its always good when you get a good boost of motivation, I'm pretty sure that a big key to controlling my chronic pain is to distract myself with creative madness.

This weeks tutorial is focusing on some awesome eyelashes from Cyberdog which flashes and my first lace front wig from Webster Wigs. I absolutely love both of these!! I'm totally going to be buying more from these stores.

If you haven't heard of Cyberdog, its an awesome shiny flashy cyber store in Camden, London. I absolutely love Camden Market and Cyberdog is one of my favourite places to visit. Its just so colourful and alternative; you can find the most unique things. One of those things were these LED lashes, Eyelites! They are absolutely amazing and come in various colours. The great thing is that the lashes are connected to a small battery box that you attach to the back of your head. On the box is a button were you can change the setting of the lights so they flash at different speeds and one of the settings even makes them flash to sound!! Absolutely awesome! It was a little fiddly to attach but do able and once they're on they just feel like normal lashes, no extra weight on your eyelids. The control box that you attach to the back of your head is just the same, once its attached (it comes with a little hair clip) you can't feel it. They are pricey at £18 but totally worth it, the battery life last from up to 100 hours and there are 8 flashing modes, you can also get them in a selection of different colours.
For this look I used the white coloured ones and I can't wait to buy more colours.

The wig that I have on is from Webster Wig, "Halle" which is a fantastic lace front high quality synthetic wig. The colour is beautiful and very vibrant with lovely bouncy curls. This is my first proper lace front wig but luckily the wig came with a leaflet about how to put the wig on, care for the wig and style the wig. You also get a wig cap and it all came in a nice little bag. I absolutely love the wig, its so soft and perfect for my crazy makeup looks or just to put on when I can't be bothered doing my hair! The price of the wig was £50 but the website has a range of prices and styles of wigs to choose from; personally I think it was worth it because of the quality and I'll be definitely be ordering more in the future.

So the look I created with both these products is this, club kid style makeup. As always I will be uploading a tutorial video of how I created this look on my YouTube this Thursday so make sure your subscribed.

MAKEUP USED:
Kat Von D Beauty
- MetalMatte palette.
- Saint and Sinner palette.
- 10th Anniversary palette.
- Glimmer Veil in "Gold Skool"
- Studded Lipstick in "Plan 9"
- Brow Pomade in "Aubergine"

NYX Cosmetics
- White gel eyeliner.

Mehron Makeup
- Vinyl 1925 liquid eyeliner.

Unicorn Cosmetics
- Royal Unicorn brushes and Halloween brushes used.
- Lashes in "Majestic AF"

Illamasqua
- Lipstick in "Pristine"

PAM Makeup Gossmakeupartist in "light/medium"

There will be more photographs of this look going up on my Facebook page and Instagram @ Ruth E Moulden MUA so make sure you follow and like me over there!

See you 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

You can also check out my other work on: 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Ruth.E.Moulden.MUA
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ruthemouldenmua/

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