I thought it would be a good idea to have a few ‘alternative’ bridal looks done before I more onto the heavier bridal looks, so today I’ll be going with a festival theme. Flowers, winged liner and a few nice details around the eyes, and yes, I gave into the rhinestones, I couldn’t help myself!… Read More…
Yup, you read that title right. Today I’m going to be showing you how to create a poppable blister. Because you never know when you might need to put someone off their dinner, permanently. Oddly enough it’s one of those special effects things that I’ve been trying to figure out for ages – over a year now -and… Read More…
For the second look in my mini-bridal series, I thought I should try and do a quick, affordable and seriously simple look. Something anyone can re-create, especially if they just want something light and natural. Yes, the last one was also simple, but to be honest, most of these will be. It’s the kind of… Read More…
Before this I’d carved a comb, a triptych, then I decided to be a little bold – possibly stupid – and carve a guitar. My friend Rob challenged me to carve one of his beautiful guitars, so obviously I took over a year and a half to psych myself up to it. After a couple of different ideas, I… Read More…
In my anti-sexy series I’ve been trying to show the more character-based, realistic side of makeup. Makeup that tells a story instead of just being about looking pretty or sexy. But there’s one look I haven’t done yet, which I’ve been dying to do, and that’s the two extremes of skin transformation makeup. It’s the… Read More…
I don’t know why, but last week I decided I wanted to make a small series of preservation jars with eyeballs, hearts and brains in it. Today I started with an eyeball jar, yes, I know it’s a little more appropriate for Halloween, but I think you guys know I don’t like to box my videos… Read More…
There are two pictures I’ve had on my desktop for the last two months which I’ve been meaning to combine into a look for ages. One is a look from Dustin Baylard and the other from Saeed Ramez. Originally I was going to do a separate look for each of them, but then I thought, why not… Read More…
It’s one of those questions I keep getting; “Do you have any tips for improving in special effects makeup”. Bear in mind that I’m still learning and have a long, long way to go before I get anywhere near Stan Winston levels of perfection, but these tips have helped me, and I think they’ll help… Read More…
This week’s masquerade mask is a little more colourful than last weeks. When I asked you guys on Twitter which of my mask suggestions you preferred, the watercolour mask won by a fair majority, closely followed by a galaxy themed mask – which I’ll be doing soon. This mask though is really really easy to… Read More…
One week I do a bridal look, the next, I do a female boxer – post winning the fight – I do seem to love extremes. That being said, I didn’t want this look to be a my-face-is-now-pulp look. I like to look at the tutorials in this series as creating characters, my character won… Read More…