Hey everyone! Hope your having a fabulous Monday (or Sunday depending where you are) afternoon!
So today I wanted to get stuck into Halloween
supplies. Walking into the Halloween/costume/party supply store can be intimidating and completely overwhelming –
there are so many shelves of stuffffff!! So I thought this quick blog post
might make things a little clearer (hopefully) by giving you a little push in
the right direction and showing you which products I keep in my kit!
Here is some of my work using the supplies - looking hot haiiiii!
You can also buy a lot of this stuff on eBay or through online stores. A great makeup supply store here in Australia is Scotty's
Paint – Face & Body
So the first basic your going to need is face
paint. I keep a high quality Mehron white paint (because I know that I can rely
on it for full face and body applications) and then I also keep a mixture of
colored paints. You don’t have to go crazy and buy every color in the rainbow –
just stick with the primary colors and then you can mix up whatever you need.
So red, blue, yellow & black. Feel
free to buy additional colors – I like to keep a green on hand justr because its
easier when creating bruises and bite marks.
For reference mixing the colors will give you the
following results:
White + Red = Pink
Yellow + Red = Orange
Yellow + Blue = Green
Red + Blue = Purple
Black + Red = Dark red (best for blood)
When buying paints that your going to be applying
to your face you HAVE to make sure they are non toxic and water based – you gotta
look after your skin gurrrl!
Liquid Latex
Moving down the list we arrive at liquid latex.
This stuff is insane. You can use it to do pretty much anything you want – glue
your eyelids together, create wounds, texture and gouges in the skin, age yourself
like 50 years – the list really goes on! I stick with Mehron – once again because
I know I can trust the quality (Mehron has been supplying stage makeup and prosthetics
for theatre and SFX for years and they know their stuff!). It kinda reminds me
of PVA glue? Its white in the bottle but dries clear. I use it to attach
texture to the skin that I can then paint over. My favorite material to attach
is cotton wool – because you can pretty much mold it into whatever you need –
you can also use tissue or crepe paper, rice, dry cereals, cardboard – the list
again goes on. Liquid latex instructions for dummies is basically paint a thin
layer on, attach the material, wait until it dries and then paint a thin layer
over the top. You can continue building until you have the desired amount and
then you can go right over it with paint or makeup!
Molding/Scar Wax
This is essentially like an extension of liquid
latex. You use it to create ridges and textures on your face. If you want to
give yourself Lady GaGa cheekbones – this is the stuff to do it! Its also great
for creating really big, gory looking wounds, cuts and lacerations. Can be
tricky to work with – make sure the skin your applying it to is completely
clean and free of makeup and oil. I also like to heat it up over boiling water
to make it super pliable and easier to mold and sculpt.
Blood
By far my most favorite supply – oozing, sticky,
shiny red blood! I keep two types – a thicker jelly type known as coagulated
blood. This gives the appearance of an open wound bed and is very realistic when
creating hard core gore, flesh and wounds. It’s pretty much strawberry jam in a
tub – yum!
I also keep a liquid form of blood. This can be
used to create blood spatters, dripping blood, blood tears etc. Once again both
Mehron – I find it to be the most realistic. If your looking at just using red
paint as blood make sure to mix a bit of black paint in with it – human blood
is a lot darker than they show it in the movies and you want it to look as
realistic as possible!
I hope all of the above helped! I have included
some pictures of a Zombie Queen makeup look where I have used most of the
products mentioned above. If your interested in seeing them in action you can
watch the video tutorial that will be up in a few days!
Talk to you soon muffins x
