There are many Makeup Artists in the world but my all time favourite special effects was in the movie Saw.
The Makeup Department for Saw (2004) are:
Kashka Banjoko - Hair Stylist: Mr.Glover Scott H. Eddo - Makeup Artist: Mr. Glover (as Scott Eddo) Michelle Rene Elam - Key Hair Stylist (As Michelle Elam Torres) Rocky Faulkner - Prosthetics Makeup Richard Redlefsen - Assistant Prosthetics Makeup Artist Eleanor Sabaduquia - Makeup Department Head
The person who inspires me the most is Rocky Faulkner.
Rock Faulkner was born in in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA and is known for many famous films such as Hancock (2008), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), Saw (2004) and Death Sentence (2007) as well as series like CSI:NY and True Blood.
Although he played in Saw I thought I would show some footage of the Needle Hay Stack created in Saw 2 for people who don't understand what saw is about.
So until I get a new phone, i can't post any of my college stuff which means i can't post as many pictures as i would like, so I thought I would give the makeup i will be doing this week in college a bash at home! :)
Sally attempt! :)
The Nightmare Before Christmas is my childhood so it was fun to do, going to try go the eyes a little bit lower to make my face look a little more rounder and then when i shade the neck i'm sure it will make it look rounder too! :)
Except for professional male actors and models you may think that traditionally make-up has always been used by women, but you would be wrong. Throughout history, in western civilisation, before the twentieth century, make-up was worn primarily by men.
George Washington
Think back to paintings from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. George Washington and his contemporaries wore white powdered wigs with curls on the side and a pony tail in back, as well as white powder on their faces and red rouge on their cheeks and lips. European royalty including King Louis the fourteenth of France and King George the third of England set the fashion. After smallpox swept through Europe and left many people with pox marks, the French elite covered these scars by painting large, black beauty marks over them. Some even painted the symbols of hearts, clubs, spades and diamonds in red or black over the scars, as playing cards was the main social event in the evenings. This was considered extremely fashionable at the time as electricity had not yet been invented, so there was no television or radio to provide entertainment on long, dark evenings. This was the practice of the wealthy who had time on their hands to adorn themselves. The peasants of course were toiling away and had no time for such things. But in wealthy society the men were the peacocks. After the French revolution, as society turned to a more utilitarian way of life with less distinction between the classes, excessive make- up went out of fashion, especially with men. It symbolized decadence and that had been overthrown. Then, just after the turn of the twentieth century the motion picture industry began.
Marilyn Monroe, 20th century
It was discovered that with the powerful lights they used at that time, the actors looked washed out and drab. Therefore, make-up had to be created for male and female actors to even out the skin tone, add color, enhance features and create drama. And then like now the general public idolized movie stars and wanted to emulate them. This created a retail need for cosmetics and the beginning of what is today one of the largest earning sectors in market history. Women are continually fascinated by cosmetics and the promise they hold and can't seem to get enough of them. It's understandable, as for the price of a tube of lipstick they are buying the hope of glamor and excitement. And for about $12 that dream is cheap at the price. The 'bright young things' of the 1920's flaunted short bobs, pale skin and red lips in the shape of cupid's bows. In the late 1920s and 1930s the eyebrows were often shaved off and painted on again with an eyebrow pencil in a half moon shape. The fashion for the wealthy was pale skin, to show that you didn't work outside. Only the working classes and outside laborers got tan. From the 1960s on it was the opposite. Pale skin indicated people who worked inside in offices or factories whereas, a suntan showed you were wealthy enough to vacation and jet set for most of the year. Of course when it was discovered that excessive exposure to the sun caused premature aging and skin cancer, the dark tan look faded from popularity.
1940's hair and makeup
The days of Fred Estaire and Ginger Rogers dancing their way around glamorous nightclubs came to an end with the onset of World War II. Men went to war and women took over their jobs in factories, to keep the country going. Women no longer had the time or money to spend on fancy make-up, so the natural look became popular. In the 1940s eyebrows were left full and the desired patriotic look was more earthy. Women wore trousers for the first time, since they were doing mens work. Even the top designer at the day, Coco Chanel, designed trousers for women for the first time. So not only was the utilitarian look necessary for the average woman, but Chanel made it fashionable on the Paris runways. Hollywood continued to create icons that ordinary women emulated. In the post war 1950s anyone could purchase make-up at cosmetic counters in department stores and they did. Wearing make-up was no longer dictated by wealth or ones place in society. The cosmetic industry has continued to grow and it is a larger market today than ever before.
For many people who wear makeup would probably say their one beauty product they couldn't live without would be their favourite mascara or their red lipstick but for me i couldn't live without the DIY sugar olive oil scrub that MichellePhan showed me on her youtube video and as the coldness is approaching this should help many people!
It may not look too pretty, but after reading i'm sure you'd be happy to receive this as a little present for Christmas!
The reason i love this scrub is because i have very dry skin and no matter what moisturiser i try it never seems to work for me, but with the sugar olive oil scrub it really helps my skin stay and feel fresh. All you will need is extra virgin olive oil, organic honey and organic sugar! Take your ingredients and put the following into a container: -3 table spoons of extra virgin olive oil -2 table spoons of organic honey -half a cup of organic sugar And stir well. Use once a week on your face, as exfoliating your skin every night will dry out your skin. Don't refrigerate your scrub as the honey and oil will harden making it difficult to apply and the scrub should last a month, so don't make too much as a little goes a long way and you don't want to waste! Rub into your face for 60 seconds, rinse off and pat your face dry! The reason i love this scrub is because each "beauty product" helps your skin in a certain way. -Honey kills bacteria, sterile and speeds up healing. -The sugar helps get rid of dead skin cells when exfoliating. -Extra Virgin Oil helps hydrate the skin and old italian actresses like Sophia Loren would always use extra virgin olive oil on their skin, and it doesn't clog your pores! With over 3 million views and nearly 35 thousand likes i think it's clear this is a great product!
Sophia Loren with flawless skin!
So if a beauty catastrophe comes along, you have dry skin like me and you are only allowed one beauty product, take some olive oil, honey, sugar and a container and you are good to go!
Kelsey's SFX makeup: Mrs. Lovett Makeup look from Sweeney Todd: This is Mrs. Lovett's makeup look from Sweeney Todd. Its a little different. I used a very pasty white foundation and contured my face. The ... Found this girls blogger, she does really cool makeup tutorials!
The phantom of the opera is a 1925 American silent horror film which features Lon Chaney in the title role as the deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House, causing murder and mayhem in an attempt to force the management to make the woman he loves a star. It is the most famous for Lon Chaney's internationally horrific, self-applied makeup, which was kept a studio secret until the fim's premiere.
Chaney painted his eye sockets black, giving a skull-like impression to them. He would glue spirit gum which was an adhesive on his nose and then place the little strip of fish skin (which is a thin transparent piece of skin from the stomach lining of fish) and he would ppull the nose up to the way he wanted it and then ran the rest of the piece of fish skin up into the forehead, pinning it down with spirit gum.
Phantom Of The Opera - Unmasking Scene (1925)
4. Frankenstein
Borris Karloff
In the 1930's Jack Pierce worked with Borris Karloff in the universals make-up lab to create Frankenstein which would infulence many generations of makeup artists.
Firstly he put spirit gum on his brow, stuck some cotton onto it, painted on a layer of colodian (a liquid/plastic type material) and added more to where he thought was necessary until the brow was completed. People have read 6-8 hours for the makeup to be complete. Borris on occasion would wear the makeup at home, instead of going through the whole procedure he would sleep between two book and try not to move so in the morning he could readjust the makeup which would take a lot less time.
Borris Karloff
The only one i could find showing him.
3. Edward Scissorhands
Johnny Depp as Edward Scissorhands
Edward Scissorhands is a 1990 American romantic fantasy film directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp. The film shows the story of an artificial man named Edward, an unfinished creation, who has scissors for hands.
2. Pinhead (Hellraiser)
Pinhead is a fictional character from the Hellraiser series. Created by Clive Barker and portrayed by Doug Bradley, Pinhead is a prominent figure in the series, mostly featured as the main antagonist Pinhead is the leader of the cenobites, formerly human creatures from an extradimensional realm who travel to Earth through the Lament Configuration, and harvest human souls. Depicted as intelligent and articulate, the character was deliberately presented as a departure from the mute or wise-cracking 1980s horror movie villains who preceded him, being based more on Count Dracula.
1. Silent Hill Nurse (Silent Hill)
In the Silent Hill franchise, monsters are manifested by the town of Silent Hill, which acts as a mirror of an individual's anxieties and fears. Due to the recurring themes of hospitalization, insanity, and death, each game features (at some point) a trip to one of Silent Hill's two hospitals: Alchemilla Hospital (which houses the town's emergency room) in Old Silent Hill and/or Brookhaven Hospital (which houses long-term patients and the mentally ill) in South Vale. Invariably, once inside the hospital, the player will encounter monsters manifested by the town which resemble malformed, disfigured nurses. The Nurses share many common traits across the entire series, with alterations both large and small that reflect the mentality and personality traits of the game's protagonist (and in some cases, such as the original Silent Hill, the antagonist). Generally these monsters wear uniforms that reflect those of contemporary nurses, though in the first Silent Hill game the Nurses wear a much older form of attire, including cardigans, rather than modern-day nurse scrubs.
1. What were your expectations on starting the course? At first i wanted to do special effects makeup and the course description said there was a lot of special effects realated things. On the opening day of the college i had been told that there was little to no makeup or special effects so i was nervous to start as i didn't think there would be as much makeup as i hoped.
2. What are your initial thoughts on JWC and the Media make up
course?
My initial thoughts where that there wasn't as much makeup as i had hoped although we had a full day off on the first week so we never got as much as we usually would in a week.
3. What is your funniest moment of college life so
far? My funniest moment of college so far was getting the special effects done on me from Ruth and Tia and ended up with a cut on my nose, two black eyes and a scar on my face. Going home and telling me dad and posting a picture on facebook saying i got jumped probably wasn't the best idea...
4. What is the most interesting thing you have learned or learned
how to do so far? I think the most interesting thing i have learned so far is how to do the special effects so far using the fake blood and a stippling sponge and sweeping across to create a realistic scar. I thought something so realistic looking would be a lot harder to create. 5. Who is your make up idol?
My makeup idol is dope2111 from youtube as i think that it is amazing how you can become famous in this generation from sitting in your room in front of a camera. The makeup she does is outstanding and it think making yourself look caucasian from asian is a talent itself let alone creating all the looks she does.
6. Why do you want to be a MUA?
At first i wanted to be a tattoo artist as i would love knowing that my art would be on people all over the world but then i realised that i was always watching youtube videos of well known makeup artists and if they started out from nothing, why can't I?
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