Latex Wounds (Industrial Accident)

So I posted this photo on Instagram as the start of my 100 days of make up challenge, I want to stretch my abilities as far as make up goes, including getting back in to SFX make up, so I thought I'd start with that.

This entire look was made from liquid latex and ripped up cotton wool pads, the most simple and effective technique to create realistic looking wounds.

I didn't really have an idea of what I was trying to create when starting this look, but I really liked how it turned out, and I definitely feel like it's some kind of industrial accident kind of wound, like something in a factory ran over the right side of my face... Ermmmmmmmmmm, yeah let's go with that.

Lemme give you the low down on how I created this look in 4 easy steps!

1. Map out where you want your wound to be on your face and start layering down layers of liquid latex in the perimeter, you want to wait for each layer to dry before placing the next one down. I did this about 3 times to start creating some skin texture.

2. After the first layers are dry, place down a further layer but on top of this one start placing ripped up cotton wool pads in varied shapes and sizes over the wound marking, cover this in latex until it's fully saturated. When this is still malleable start lifting portions and poking around the cotton to give your skin some raised textures and bulbous areas. 

3. When this is completely dry you can start painting, I made myself a grey foundation by using my Rimmel Match Perfection foundation and scraping some of the black shadow from one of my Make Up Revolution Palettes in to the foundation and BOOM, you have made yourself grey foundation. Cover the whole wound in your grey concoction and make sure to get in to the small details created by the cotton and latex.

4. To finish, create more depth with a black shadow and a small angled brush in the deepest parts of the wound, this will give the look much more dimension. Make sure to darken your eye the most, and especially make sure the water line is blackened, and without this the look will be too broken up. I also added more of my foundation to the grey concoction and used this lighter grey to highlight the higher points of the wound.

And you are now a scary accident victim, go scare people with your mangled face!

PRODUCTS MENTIONED

LIQUID LATEX (AVAILABLE SUPER CHEAP ON AMAZON)

COTTON WOOL PADS (AVAILABLE AT MOST DRUGSTORES AND FOOD STORES)

RIMMEL MATCH PERFECTION FOUNDATION 

ANY MATTE BLACK SHADOW (I USED THE ONE IN MY "RUN BOY RUN" PALETTE)

Zombie Look

Hey lovelies! So Halloween is coming around, and I am a massive lover of this holiday (can you tell?) so I thought I'd do a sneak peak of the make up I shall be sporting on the spookiest night of the year! I'm off to my lovely classmates' joint birthday party, which is obviously Halloween themed and falls on the day! I became massively obsessed with Halloween/horror make up/SFX in my first year of university and ever since then have been creating these looks, by teaching myself through YouTube videos, and here is the result this year.

I have made this in to a video tutorial, so once I rack up a decent enough blog I will be putting every video (which is also racking up as I do a lot of videos of looks I haven't even posted here) on to my YouTube channel, which is under construction, so fingers crossed you guys enjoy my blog enough to head on over there and subscribe.

But until that all happens, here's a little step to step on how I got this awesome scary look.

    1. The first step is to make yourself look all emaciated and skinny, I did this by applying a reddy/purply toned lipstick to the dip at the bottom of the neck and then blending upwards, do this also to the collar bones, top of the ribs and essentially any dips or bumps on your chest area, and then over the top of the lipstick, blend in a brown eyeshadow to define these areas more. Do this to any exposed area, the top I'm going to be wearing on Halloween is going to have a gaping hole in the side, so I'll be defining my ribs this way (and probably adding some wounds and gore too!)

    2. Use the same lipstick and shading technique on your face as well, define the eyes and eye sockets, the cheek bones and around the forehead too, basically anywhere you would normally contour.

    3. Next I added some spider veins throughout the look, do this by taking a thin liner brush, or an angled brush which I used, and taking the lipstick you used earlier to create jagged lines to look like veins.

    4. Next it's time to apply your liquid latex, build up the layers about 10 times to make sure it's a thick enough patch to work with, make sure you let the liquid dry fully before you apply the next layer.

    5. Then take some tweezers and pull a hole in the latex and then ease it apart until you're happy with the shape of your wounds.

    6. Fill the wound in with the lipstick from before, then you can use blacks, browns or purples to enhance the bruises/deep wound look. You're also going to want to go around the edges of the wound with a light concealer to make sure it blends in to your skin.

    7. Next I decided I wanted my lips to look dry and sore, I did this my putting a thin layer of concealer over them, and then used the lipstick and an angled brush to created small cracks in the lips, and I extended them off to the side as well.

    8. Next I added a few droplets of blood to the wounds, just under my eyes and around my mouth as well. And that's the look complete!

Link me to any Halloween looks you're doing this year, and we can all bask in the glory that is Halloween! Lots of love.