Blushing Bride!

                     Simple Bridal Hair and Makeup

For my bridal makeup I wanted to keep it really plain and simple. Sometimes, less is more.

For the foundation I used Airbrush Foundation to give a flawless base and added very light blusher and contour. I used light and dark brown eyeshadows. Along the eyelids I used the lighter colour and the dark colour along the crease of the eye to give the eye more depth. I then winged the lighter brown out a little and added an almost white colour to the very inner parts of the eyes, near the tear ducts.

I then finished the eyes with a simple brow, using dark brown brow cake and an angled brush. For the lips I added a medium red lipstick and that's that! Makeup done. :)

Bridal Hair

Once again this hair style is very simple. It's brushed back from the front out of the brides face. If the bride was to wear a vale or tiara, this hair style would be very easy to deal with and would be less likely to get wrecked.

To do this hairstyle, you simply devide the hair into three sections and tie them with an elastic band. Plait each of the sections as far down the hair as you can go and, again, tie them with an elastic band. I'd advise to try to use elastics and clips as close colour to the model's hair. Once you've plaited the hair, wrap them around themselves one at a time and clip them in place. The outcome should be something like this!

Burn recreation, ouch! (Not for the squeamish)

                                     Burn using Gelatine

To create an effective burn mark, little details are quite important. Using dark and light red grease paints / blood will help it look like there are deep wounds within the burn, and the gelatine gives it a blistered, fresh, shiny burn look on the skin.

When preparing the gelatine it's important to work fast with it once you've mixed it with water as it dries very quickly, and will be impossible to work with! Apply it to the skin quickly and use a hair dryer or let it dry naturally before adding colour / blood.

You can also add a little pink or red colouring to the gelatine when you're mixing it, to give it a slight pinky / skin coloured look. I decided not to add any colour to mine before hand and just added colour afterwards.

Here's the final outcome of my burn, looks sore! If you're squeamish, prepare yourself!

Ouchie!

Old Age Makeup

                                                       Old Age Makeup

Before and After :)

To create this look, I simply used dark and light foundations and a little red lipstick! Yep, that's it! Oh, along with some props of course.

It can sometimes be a little hard to make the wrinkles look as realistic as possible, so the best way is to go with the model's natural creases in their skin. This is especially hard to do this with very young skin. So in my opinion, the best way to do this is to get the model to smile or crease up their face, tell them to get angry and growl! This will highlight the natural creases in the skin so you can copy them easily!

                                    

Dragon Tattoo!

                                                      Temp Dragon Tattoo!

From some reasearch, I decided to do this tattoo dragon design! It took a lot of time, effort and planning but I'm pretty pleased with the outcome!

For this tattoo I simply used black body paint and a very thin paint brush and copied it from the template as best as I could. It was quite challenging to keep it all in proportion.


Here's the outcome of the tattoo below!

Terry Bradley Makeup Design

                           Terry Bradley, Artist - Interesting makeup design?

My take on Terry Bradley's piece, 'Rock'.

Since my first years of school I've always been into art. I'm still an amateur, but that doesn't stop the love I have for drawing, painting and, er, attempting oil pastels and chalks. (Tricky buggers, they are!)

Once I started GCSE art, I descovered more and more artists that were simply amazing and inspiring. One that has always stuck in my mind was Terry Bradley. I simply adored his style and how he can potray his character's attitudes simply though his colours and simplisted lines. They look simple enough... but trust me, they're really not! His paintings are so full of love and effort.

I thought to myself that it would be interesting to combine one of his art pieces and a makeup design. I'd love to see one of his pieces come to life. So this will definitely be a future project of mine.

The design plan would probably be along the lines of this.

For the hair I'd have pin curls, and one little curl coming down onto the forehead. For the colours on the face, I think using an airbrush would be best and use normal face paints for the little details like the hearts, mole and details on the nose, eyebrows and upper lip.

I'd then finish the look with some eyeliner and purple / black eyelashes and possibly add the tattoo if I was going to have the model in the same position as the character in the original painting.

I look forward to working on this, it's going to be so much fun!                                            

Final alien / fantasy look!

                                                    FINAL Alien outcome!

Yaaay! I did this piece for my fantasy look along with my bald cap assignment. I know I could've blended the bald cap a little better, but overall I'm happy with the outcome. I think the paint work was a lot better than the practice. Pity about the blending part! Oh well, practice makes perfect as they say. Here it is!

 

A lot of time and effort went into this piece, for both me and the model. It's all about planning and ,of course, practice, practice, practice! This piece allowed me to focus a lot on my airbrushing skills, blending colours to make them fit together more naturally was the key.

 

Here was my original design plan although I tweaked it a little.

 

 

 

Special thanks to Brendan Strong for the support and taking time to model!

Bollywood Bride

                                               
                                                               Bollywood Bride!

I created this bollywood bride look taking different ideas from a few pictures of brides from online. It was for students in my college doing a photoshoot to show off their hair! The model was someone that one of the students brought into the college for a day, I'm sure she felt pampered. :)

I'm very happy with the outcome of this look, the client was delighted which always makes the hard work worth it!

Fancy trying it for yourself? Instructions below! :)

For the eye makeup I started with a white base colour and put it all over the eyelid, up to the eyebrow. I then took a light shade of brown from my Urban Decay, Naked palette and defined the socket line with it.

For the outter parts of the eyes, I took a darker shade of brown and using an angled brush I drew a straight line, following the natural eyelash line, and brought it up towards the end of the eyebrow. I then blended the darker shade of brown into the lighter shade so that it now connected.

Afterwards I filled the corner part of the eye with black, and blended the colours together, then took a gold cream eyeshadow and applied it to the middle of the eyelid and added a little purple near the end of the eyelash line for a little colour! To make the false eyelashes appear more natural, I applied liquid eyeliner along the lash line.

To Finish, I put a little white eyeshadow on the inner parts of the eyes. This makes the eyes appear brighter and larger along with some beautiful eyelashes and black mascara.

For the rest of the face you can simply apply your foundation whatever way suits you best, add a little blusher, highlighter and bronzer and some amazing red lipstick. There you have it!

Complete with some gems and earrings to dazzle things up!

 

Fantasy / Alien Look

                                                

I did this alien look for my fantasy / bald cap assignment. My poor boyfriend does not look amused...

First of all I made the bald cap to fit his head.
For the 3D parts on the head, I layered latex over sculpted pieces made from clay and once they were ready, I stuck them onto the bald cap after it was applied with spirit gum.



To colour the look I used an airbrush with different shades of blue and purple paint, and added little details with white paint and there we have it, voilà!

Snow Queen

 

 

 

Snow Queen Makeup look, inspired by the weather!

 

                                           "A flake of snow in flurry thro’ the air
                                           Had landed as a kiss upon my cheek:
                                           A secret message, just for me to share;
                                           To take to heart but never dare to speak"
                                                               -Mark R Slaughter

Wee Introduction!

                                                  Hello, my dearies!

My name is Simone Burns. I am currently doing a course in Theatrical and Special Effects Makeup and Hair, I've always been an artistic person and as I grew older and more aware of the world of makeup, I became facinated by all the different things you can do with it! So, I decided that I shall venture onto the internet to explore makeup in a whole new way . I look forward to seeing all your wonderful work and hearing all your ideas and opinions! Thanks for visiting :)

I don't believe that makeup is everything in the world of beauty, you do not need it to be 'pretty', although I do believe it emphasis what already makes you beautiful.