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

 

Goblin Character

This is a really late blog, I did this look a few weeks ago but I forgot to put up a blog about the creative process I used.

Keep in mind am still working my skills on this area and it is something that I want do a course on, especially in using different materials such as silicone or foam latex but I use what I have and try to make it work! I feel like my skills are progressing well since I last did a gelatine prosthetic and my sculpting skills are also getting better which is always a plus.

So I begin with the design idea which was original meant to follow the theme of an evil goblin style character with occult style carvings in the face as well as a bald head, this was primarily so I can practice my skills in applying a bald cap.

My design idea was basic and to be honest a little rushed, I did some of it whilst I was waiting for my students at college and some whilst I was in-between workshops. It could be better drawn I know but I got the idea in my head and was eager to run with it. Also there are a lot of other elements to it such as teeth, horns, fingers and costume that I wish I could add but I don't have the budget.#

The sculpting went pretty well, I decided to try and create a wall around the main piece just so I could try to get the thinnest lines around the piece which will make it easier to apply and blend.

Pretty happy with some of the sculpting elements however I think my ability to build up the brow shapes needs work. Back to the anatomy books I go!

 

Next stage is the casing of the piece, I used some plaster bandages to reinforce the mould and ensure that if the plaster cracks then I've got some strength to hold it together with the bandages.

Again am using gelatine just because am still saving my money up for the prosthetic courses on foam latex and silicone prosthetics. Until I can raise this money I got to work with what I have. I would love to create something from foam latex or silicone but that’s in my future and this is the now.

The scars are little mini prosthetic pieces that I created using plasticine to sculpt the scars and then I put a silicone putty around this to create a mould. The silicone mould worked very well and was pretty easy to create and use. I picked mine up from Make and Bake…who supply cake moulds or icing/chocolate mould. Once these moulds were created then I filled them with gelatine and placed a sheet of baking paper over the top to create a nice flat surface for the when I come to apply the piece.

So all the elements were there for me create my goblin creature. The first step was the bald cap. The best bald caps that I have used to date are Kryolan's, I love the easy in blending the edges away by melting them down using acetone, it's so quiet and easy and looks smooth. I find  bald caps hysterical and I'll admit that I was crying with laughter when I  had applied this…I do not look good bald!!

After this I applied the prosthetic pieces, starting with the biggest main pieces and then adding the small scar pieces. I coloured everything using my airbrush, using Mistair FX water based colours. It worked well and I think my shading abilities are developing and improving with each character creation. My main colours were white and black but I think I could of used some blue tones just to create more of a cold feeling to the character.

Overall I like what I did and its definitely an improvement from my last character creation which makes me happy.

In my next blog am going to cover the crepe hair day with my level 3 students, they did amazingly well and I want to share the creativity with you guys!

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Don't forget to get your tickets for the +United Makeup Artist Expo , it's going to be an amazing weekend filled with professional artists for you to chat with and learn from not to mention many many stalls selling professional products, tools and equipment for all your makeup artist's needs!

Ciao for now my lovelies!

xRX

Make up look with pretty products from SugarPill Cosmetics, Illamasqua, LimeCrime and Bleach.

Hello my lovelies, so this is a quick little blog relating to some products I have been using recently. I will be posting another blog about the SFX demonstration I lead during Industry Week at Blackburn College as well as the Evil Goblin Character I completed but I have been a little busy lately and I feel like I haven’t been blogging enough about makeup looks and products used.

So on Saturday, I decided on this little makeup look...

 

 

It’s simple but I think the splash of colour works really well with the dark blend.  The eyes shadows used were +Sugarpill ’s Heart Breaker Palette, which I have reviewed in the past and I have to say…its still one of my favourite palette’s to use because the pigmentation is so amazing! In this look I’ve used Mochi for the inner corners of my eye as well as blend of 2am and Poison Plum (from the Burning Heart Palette, also by Sugar Pill for my purple eyebrows. The black colour that's blended out is Illamasqua's  Obsidian, which is as black as anything! Its is the truest black I have ever used in eye shadows. I also used a little bit of Illamasqua's white eyeliner (Scribe) along the black eyeliner applied which makes my eyes look bigger.

 

The cool thing about this look is that you can use other bright colours in the corners of your eyes to get that pop, I chose this colour cause it matched my Iron Fist dress I was wear that day.

For the lips I used +Lime Crime Poison Berry mixed with +illamasqua  ’s lip pencil in Assert, which creates a beautiful pinky purple effect. Love the pencils that Illamasqua do, they are soft highly pigmented and no drag on the skin when applying! Fabulous product! This lipstick is the first Lime Crime lipstick I have got, and I do plan to buy more but there is some much choice in colours! The staying power of the lipstick is pretty good and unlike some other lipsticks on the market it moisturises your lips and doesn’t dry them out due to the staying power elements. Poison Berry is such a beautiful colour on its own, with the lip liner underneath, it’s got a metallic purple  effect that buildable in colour.

I have also been testing out a new hair dye product by +BleachLondon . Now I have to admit the name put me off a little bit, just sounds a little harsh for a semi-permanent hair colour but I gave it a go. I really want some more colours in my hair other than red, which I’ll probably never get rid of. I went with the colour “Out of the Blue”, similar blue colour to “Velocity” from the Sugar Palette image above. I only wanted a few strands of hair coloured towards the front so when I do my vintage styles it picks up the colour and adds some contrast…the blue turned purple….yeah basic colour theory for you there! Seems my rather dominant red hair mixed with the lesser strength blue and create purple. Am not complaining, it looks good and am going to attempt it again when my red has faded a little.

Bleach is in fact  the name of a London based hair salon that specialises in colour and have released a selection of bright, pastel coloured hair dyes which are Semi permanent dyes which supposedly fades out in 2-10 washes depending on the colour intensity as well as a few other hair related products.

 I figured that this product would be best to “test” out a few brighter colours to mix in with the red for a little more variety, I bought the product from Boots, for a nice £5.

 

So that’s all the fun of the fair this weekend, oh and I will be attending +United Makeup Artist Expo  in London this year in April, my first one! Uber excited but I’ll post about that later to the date. All I can say is…….

I LOVE WIGS UP NORTH!

Ciao, for now my lovelies.

xRx

p.s. Interested in buying Sugar Pill cosmetics...click the link at the top of the page, check them out for yourself. You won't be sorry!