Monday, May 4, 2015

burns burns burns

The most fun lesson was doing burns. It looked soo disgusting haha everyone I send pictures was like 'ewwwwww' haha but it's only make-up. I did a bit bruised burn, it looked really cool.


What to use -

  • Block gelatin
  • Gellax (good for paterns as well)
  • Glycerin (good for sweat)
Everything can be washed with warm water
Safety:
  • Be sure that gelatinbe is not burning - try on yourself
  • Metal can get very hot easily
  • Mix what you want with gelatin but after microwaving it (except simple colours)



  • If you microwave something in plastic - put it in water, if something dry - in a dry bowl
  • Check after every 15sec
  • Everything you make a burn with dries really quickly - make sure you dont leave any edges
  • You can layer it up but make sure it is patted so it gives roughness
  • When it is not sticky it means it`s dry
  • Powder over gelatin or gellax
  • Use a fine brush and supra colours to make it realistic
  • Think about the burn - if from fire - a bit of black etc. 
  • From the sides with the lightest colours to the middle of the burn with the darkest - think about it
  • You can add a bit of blood. It`s all about building up.



Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Scratches, bruises and a perfect black eye


  • Illamasqua neutral palette
  • Gosh trio eye shadow Tropic Fever
  • Catrice Plum up the jam
For the perfect bruised black eye i used mix of dark colours and bright yellow with blue. With darker colours I created a bruise in the inside of the eye, where naturally blood would accumulate and on the highest points of cheekbone and eyebrow bone  - more bruised look with blue and yellow colours. It helped to create a bruise with different colours and tones and made it look more natural



Scratches
  • Red paint
  • Fake blood
  • Eye lash glue
For scratches spread eye lash glue on certain areas where you want the scratch to be and let it dry. After drying rub it a little bit with your finger to make the glue come of and look like scratched skin. After that you can add red colour paint inside the just made scratch and if wanted - a little bit of blood to make it more realistic and new.




Dark Eyes And Lips


  • Make up academy Glamour Nights Palette
  • Illamasqua Neutral Palette
  • Mac Lip pencil
  • Mac Lipstick
For the dark eyes and lips it is obviously important to use dark colours. Even though it is dar eye look it is important to follow certain rules like blending, transition colours. I used mix of colours on the eyes, blended the edges and went with a line to the inside corner of the eye to make them look even darker. 
For the lips I firstly used lip liner around the edges of the lips and them filled them in. After that I used a bit different colour of lipstick to make the lips more ombre looking.

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Contemporary Victorian Hair styles, inspired by American horror

  1. Firstly separate the hair on the side and curl three curls on one side, two on the other
  2. Pin every curl you have curled to cool down
  3. Separate back hair from the front and side parts and curl curls two on each side, one big below them so you would loose the unwanted separation of the hair and curl two curls again to the bottom of the hair
  4. Curl sides towards the face
After curling and letting them cool down nicely remove the pins and move hair so you would get nice 50`s waves all over the head.


After doing the first part just brush hair very nicely without ripping hair out - always keep hand below the brush. After brushing all the hair the result should be some loose, voluminous waves .



After the second hairstyle just put the head down and move it to the sides quite hardly if working on Katy. If your model is alive let them put their head down and just move hair from the roots quite hardly as well with your finger and you should get a messy curls look.


Creating light scaring, using molds ,how to attach to the skin, how to colour

What to use:
  • Petrolys
  • Release spray (it releases silicone)
  • Latex
  • Witch Hazel
  • Fixer spray
  • Powder
  • Vaseline
  • Pros - aid


  1. Use fixer spray before any liquid, it helps with the colour
  2. Powder it so it wont stick
  3. Cover a piece of mold with glue with baby bud and glue on arm (surface)
  4. Make sure it`s tacky before putting it on the arm
  5. Press onto the skin so that all of it is stuck, work on the edges
  6. When the mold is on stuck to the hand take witch hazel and a baby bud and blend the edges with it
  7. Take some colours and colour it so it just doesnt sit on the surface
  8. Make colours more transparent, use moisturizer to help with the colours
  9. Powder it if its a bit tacky
  10. Put different tones of colours so its more 3D looking, if its a new cut -less bruising




Creating Estelle image


So this is the hairstyle I chose. The front of the hair is parted on the side (finally, we can do it!!!) and pinned into the back of the hair in upwards direction. Sides sleeked back, pinned into the back of the hair as well and if there`s any long hair (as my model is basically shorthaired and I used extensions) curl it. The top of the hair is backcombed for some volume and falling down. The bottom of the hair (parts where I added extensions) was curled and pinned to the middle of the head so the sides could be clean and smooth.
 As I said, for the make-up I chose a very natural look, nothing over exaggerated - natural skin coloured foundation with blusher on the apples of the cheeks as it was fashionable to do it this way. For the eyes I used a little bit of eyeshadows (natural brown colour to the crease and a bit of light colour on the lid to make the eyes look healthy and to pop the out a bit). I contoured her face very lightly but not to make her cheekbones pop out or anything, just to make her more healthy looking and more 3D-imensional rather than just a very compressed face. I used some mascara to show off her eyes even more and put a bit of a natural lip gloss to her lips. Now, when I`m thinking I could have used something a bit more pinkish for the lips but I`m pretty sure I was still waiting for loads of lip colours to be delivered to my place so I used what I had at that moment.

Burns, how to recreate, with different products

What to use -

  • Block gelatin
  • Gellax (good for paterns as well)
  • Glycerin (good for sweat)
Everything can be washed with warm water
Safety:
  • Be sure that gelatinbe is not burning - try on yourself
  • Metal can get very hot easily
  • Mix what you want with gelatin but after microwaving it (except simple colours)



  • If you microwave something in plastic - put it in water, if something dry - in a dry bowl
  • Check after every 15sec
  • Everything you make a burn with dries really quickly - make sure you dont leave any edges
  • You can layer it up but make sure it is patted so it gives roughness
  • When it is not sticky it means it`s dry
  • Powder over gelatin or gellax
  • Use a fine brush and supra colours to make it realistic
  • Think about the burn - if from fire - a bit of black etc. 
  • From the sides with the lightest colours to the middle of the burn with the darkest - think about it
  • You can add a bit of blood. It`s all about building up.