FIRST PUBLISHED MAKEUP WORK!

 I am super stoked to share with you my very first published makeup work!  Thanks to Miss Lux St. Sin, who found out about the shoot last minute, and in turn asked me to come do her makeup last minute, I now (10 hours later) have something fabulous to show for it!  

God save the queen!

Drag make-up on Tuesday and I had the pleasure of painting of pretty miss Courtney with her tanned skin and red hair.  What a treat it was!

Blocked brows and greens, golds and blues galore, she was ever the treat looking as much like a lovely lady as one can when done up as a man trying to look like a lady!

The rest of the week has been fairly simple.  Moulding of noses and rolling of tresses.....

But, more excitingly, Thursday night I was requested for an early morning makeup application on Lux St. Sin for a piece in the MX that was to promote the Australian Burlesque Festival.....

keeping tabs

Hello world.  I am going to start off the week well with a picture-less and short (but sweet) entry!  Dove into my third work experience today doing makeup and attempting hair on 2 girls for a photo shoot for Hopeless Lingerie.  We started at 9am in the city for hair and makeup and trained it to Edithvale for a shoot on the beach and finished at 5:00!

It was a fun day though!  I got to do some natural looks for photos I bet are going to turn out great and I got to hold the light reflector.  Oh the fun of being helpful!  Tomorrow at school is drag makeup, so I hope to bring home some fabulous pictures with me!!

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11 days with no updates!  How bad am I? Of course, it is only my mother who wonders where I am, but I sure there are a few others who secretly keep an eye out and I like to please you as well!

I barely remember last week and this week has been hectic, but marvellous!  So, let me tell you about it!

Monday, I finally had my first work experience photo shoot that carved a nice 3.5 hours out of my 70 required hours.  It was a great shoot and the pictures just came through yesterday; they are lovely.  Great photographer and beautiful model!  There were two photographers shooting and this picture was taken by Josie Lee who can be found at http://www.josieleephotography.blogspot.com/.

I am thrilled with how the makeup turned out on film!  And so, I will give you a quick run down of the products I used.

*MUFE HD Primer - Cinema Secret cream foundation - Smashbox Artificial Light in 'flash' - MUFE HD translucent powder - La Femme blushes and eye shadows - Kryloan black aqua color - Kryolan Mascara - MUFE flash colors mixed with MAC lip glass*

Pretty simple! But great effect!  Also exciting is that I did the hair.  It was curled, combed and set and, I must say, I am happy with the result.

 Next week, I officially start to learn how to 'properly' style hair!  I am super excited for this!

Moving on. Tuesday and Wednesday were fairly standard school days, carrying on with theatre makeup and mould making.  The evenings, however, were jam packed with sketching, typing, brainstorming and practicing for my Special Effects Exam that was on Thursday.

And so, Thursday came and everyone was very nervous, but the energy in the classroom as we set up and got our models dressed was great!  So, great in fact, that our teacher looked shocked with us when she arrived after everyone else.

For my exam, I made up Mardie as a girl who had been in a fight and then, later in the evening passed out in the grass and was shot in the head and, obviously, died.  It was simple, but thorough and I was very pleased with the results.  And so must have been my instructor as I was graded a 99%!!  I must confess, we were graded very generously but I was still on the high side of the generosity!

After my crazily hectic exam day, I went to my second work experience photo shoot.  I don't have photos from that one yet, but will post them when they come through.  It was a Follies inspired shoot with Angela McConnell behind the camera and the lovely Miss Kelly Ann Doll (a Melbourne Burlesque performer) in front of it!  It went beautifully and I can't wait to see the results.

However, reinforced to me during that shoot was no matter how many times I use Kryolan products for beauty work, I will never come to like them and they will now permanently be staying in my SFX/theatre kit where I am more competent with them!

We are getting too long now!  It was my Birthday yesterday, my very small celebration today, work Sunday and another big photo shoot on Monday.

Next week will be crazy busy as well, but I will try to keep you updated more frequently to avoid life long blogs like this one!  I hope you enjoyed!

dance like no one's watching?

I took the weekend mostly off.  I brought home all of my makeup with the intention of practicing to make perfect but found myself giving up after a few scars, some socket lines and resorted to cleaning my brushes and organizing my kit instead.  Funny thing is, I have a feeling I may have practiced more than most.

Homework for todays class was a pli sheet for both drag makeup and skull makeup.  I designed both and was quite pleased with my results and looking very forward to the elaborate-ness that is drag makeup.  However, when school starts we are told that, instead of the aforementioned designs, we are to do what is called 'ballet makeup.'  I had never heard this term before but as the demonstrations unfolded, I was quite excited as it was the most elaborate makeup we have done yet that could be classified as high fashion.

As the look unfolded, I put more and more effort into making my lines clean, my colors strong and my blending flawless.  I am so keen to enter the IMATS fantasy competition in Sydney, however, I need 8-10 strong pictures that will get me one of the 8 spots.  I had two and after todays makeup and a mini photo shoot in the hallway, I think I may have three.

Tomorrow we are doing a half face casting.  Sounds dreadfully boring, yet interesting.  I, hopefully, will have an entertaining story and a few pictures to share.

until then....

the ins and outs of bullet wounds...

Another days of special effects and another wound down....


  Our timetables have temporarily changed and we have the class 2 times a week now rather than one.  I, personally, think this is fabulous.   The class is coming to an end soon and we are cramming so much learning into the next few weeks before our final exams.  This week, fairly new to us, was wax wounds.  I had a few practices with slices and splices, cuts and scars.  Some were successful, others less so, but as the practice continued, the skill came through and each trial run looked more realistic than the last.


Our biggest 'taught wound' was of a bullet hole in and the aftermath to follow.  The wax bullet hole in was fairly simple.  The masterpiece coming out the other side was a little more intense and created with very basic materials.  Tissue paper, latex, colors and blood product.  Pretty straight forward.  Pretty fun.