Ice Queen Prosthetic Character

Special has always been something that I have adored to do and I think that if I ever had to stop doing it....life would be extremely dull for me.

This design was something I've always wanted to create but I wanted to give it a twist. Snow Queens and Ice Queens have been done so many times and always have that evil sultry look which was a trait I wanted for my design but I wanted to mix in the eeriness that prosthetics can bring to a character, that alien-est/ other worldly look. And so I begin to sculpt a forehead piece which would be the focal point of the character.

As with all my sculpts am using Monster Clay from +PS Composites Ltd  which is quiet solid and firm which I find helps me get the details but you can soften it up a bit using a hairdryer to "melt" it a bit.

The prosthetic is moulded using gelatine purchase from +PS Composites Ltd One day I will learn how to cast foam latex but for now am happy with my gelatine.  

My character story for this look is that she is Queen of Ice who rules over a barren waste land of snow and ice. She is fierce and a deadly warrior who protects her domain to the point she has begun to morph into her surrounds with the ice crystals protruding out her forehead and her skin turning to ice.

I keep the colour palette to more glittery/metallic effects using blues and whites from +MEL Products range of PAX paints to create the base colours and then build up the iridescent tones using +Kryolan Professional Make-up Body Makeup Powder in "Silver" and Mehron Metallic Powders also in silver which can be purchased from +Guru Makeup Emporium Ltd 

I also experimented with a glitter nail polish which I previously used to create the crown for this character...worked out nicely on the peaks of the ice crystals.

I will admit that some of the edges on this piece were thick...which panicked me a bit but you know me, see a challenge face it head on. There's always a solution to the problem to disguise these sorts of things.

The application of this end up being a mixture of beauty makeup techniques as well as SFX techniques to disguise joins and create an overall balanced effect.

I used silicone based sculpt gel in the joins of the prosthetic piece to ensure they were disguised as best as position. I used Skin Sculpt from +PS Composites Ltd which is clear which makes it easier to colour the piece exactly to the colour of the rest of the character.

The entire piece was glued down using Telesis which is my favourite adhesive to use as once the piece is on its on, and because this prosthetic is gelatine based it can be heavy, which can cause problems with some adhesives but this one always works for me.

I used a mixture of Mehron Face paints for the base all over the face then began adding highlights with the Kryolan Body Makeup Powder in silver. Building the colour in areas that I wanted to draw attention to.

Using a mixture of eyeshadow I created further depth using +Sugarpill Edward Scissorhands palette in the shades "Home Sweet Home" ( a beautiful baby blue colour with sparkles.) and "Ice Angel" (shimmery white with blue tones.) as well as the Sweet Heart palette in shades "Afterparty" and "Tako"

I also used +Illamasqua liquid white liner in "Scribe" and StarGazer White mascara.

As well as +Kat von D eyeshadows from her amazing monarch palette: chrysalis. Shade used include "Lunar Lights" (Soft silvery colour) "Melancholia" (Metallic Silver) and "Graphic Nature" (dark grey metallic colour)

All of which were using in some way to create the contouring and enhance the colours in the prosthetic piece.

The crown is also created by me, using the same colours used on the prosthetic and a hot glue gun and wire.

On the lips I used Mehron's Liquid Metal in Silver which is an amazing lush product that comes in bronze as well as gold and really does create this smooth metallic colour once mixed with there mixing liquid.

And there you have it, my Ice Queen character.

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xRx

Illamasqua Nomadic Palette and Vintage Metallix "Galaxy" Makeup look and Review

One of the best times of year is of course New Years sales and one of my favourite ones to grab a bargain is Illamasqua, this isn't just because its one of my favourite brands of makeup.
There are a variety of products on offer this year from 50%, 60% and 70% off but hurry, cause I don't know how long it going to last!!
Two of the products currently on sale are the "Nomadic" palette and Vintage Metallix in "Galaxy" which I decided to buy...good choice on my part!

So the Nomadic palette is a collection of 4 eye shadows, 3 matt finishes and 1 metallic finish and all producing an intense colour pay off. Colours include "Loam" (dark earth green), "Terra" (orange clay red), "Solitude" (light wash grey) and "Gravity" (metallic graphic grey)
The tones are all very earthy with beautiful blending abilities which would look amazing for an edgy tribal/warrior style look or a smoky eyed look.

Vintage Metallix in "Galaxy" is an absolutely gorgeous creamy gel eye shadow or as I use it frequently eyeliner. The colour "Galaxy" is a rich antique gold colour with dull metallic tones which is good for a more muted effect. The product boosts an intense metallic finish, smudge resistant and long wear time which I would complete agree with even when used to colour your eyebrows as I have done many times.


The look I came up with for these products was a tribal/warrior style look using only the eye shadows from the Nomadic palette and the Metallix on the brows. All the products went on beautiful with a fantastic colour pay off and a smooth application.

For an added sparkle I put a couple of gems and on my lips I wore +Urban Decay Cosmetics Matt Lipstick in "Black Mail" with a little of the Metallix doted in the centre to add more of a pout to the lips.

The Vintage Metallix worked brilliantly on my brows and really did last all day with good pigmentation.

So that my review and look; as you can see the colours are amazing and if your quick you might be able to grab these products at sale prices from +Illamasqua 

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Bye for now

xRx

PaperSelf Lashes and Nature Inspired Makeup with triple victory rolls.

Hey Lovelies,

Today's uber quick blog relating to pretty makeup is all

 about my favourite lashes, PaperSelf lashes, I absolutely love them. They are so cute!!

The ones I used in todays look is these butterfly and stag ones, you can get loads of different deigns as well as full strip lashes. These beautiful corner lashes can be worn on the top or bottom lashes, I like wearing one at a time and usually on the bottom lash line as I feel it shows off the design better. The lash itself is quiet delicate, not like tissue paper delicate but you need to take care not to be too rough with them as they can last quiet a few applications if you look after them.

The look I went for with these lashes was a nature inspired with nude lips which is a weird thing for me, am not one for neutral lips so it did feel a little "different"

I used Jeffree Star Cosmetics Mattifing lipstick in "I'm Nude", the colour is lush not to mention the staying power of this baby! Fantastic colour pay off with only one coat required for good coverage. I'm definitely going to buy more of these, "Unicorn Blood" just looks yummy as well as their range of blue shades.

I used 3 eye shadows in total to create the look, using a simple blending application as I wanted all the focus to be on the lashes.

I used a mixture of +illamasqua "Fame", which is a beautiful lush green, +Sugarpill "Acid Berry", fantastic sharp lime green colour that works perfectly to create a harmonous effect between the two colours. To add a little kick I added +Sugarpill ChromoLust in Goldilux which is a shimmery pure gold colour.

After applying the eyeshadow, I decided I wanted to add more gold tones to the look, so using +Mehron Blog Metallic Powder and mixing liquid, I add a little along the lash lines. If you haven't used this product, go out and buy it now! Its a fantastic liquid gold that really does look like liquid gold, its a lot less shimmery then the Sugar Pill Cosmetic Chromolust.

So that's the look, I teamed it with my triple victory rolls and vola!

What do you think?

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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.

 

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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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