3rd Degree Burns Makeup | Special Effects

Cuts, wounds, anything bloody - right up my street. So funny because when I was younger I used to be afraid of blood and get that woozy feeling at the sight of it. Now I've did a complete 360 and regularly search injuries and would be the first to look. 

For this makeup I used silicone - My favourite.To be honest, I can't cope with seeing so much latex and tissue around (very old technique) unless I am teaching someone who doesn't do makeup. That way its cheap and less technical.

To colour the makeup; I used alcohol activated paints, with some congealed blood.

Hope this inspires you or helps you create what you are after! Of course if you ever recreate any of my makeups, email them to me @ beccadurrans@gmail.com or link me! I love it.

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Quick fire casualty makeups | sfx makeup

I am no longer going to make promises on my blog, cause that ends in failure, I will always post and never abandon it, but I really struggle to find time at the moment, for instance working and uni over 2 weeks in a row no days off and have to fit uni work in to that aswell. I am even doing this post off my phone before uni, so if there are a mix of more simple posts that's why! Anyways this is just some bits I've did in class recently, bare in mind only had 10-15 mins to create concept, the piece and paint it! Kind of like quick fire casualty makeup!

Burnt fingers with latex, tissue, blood and grease paint.

Wound made with wax and blood.

Cuts made with silicone, blood and grease paint.

Obviously my fav #selfieeee haha

Hope this post was still interesting even if I did do it on my phone, no pics are edited so that way you can see everything in reality which is good! Thanks for reading! Xox

Burns and Open Wound (Warning! Gory!) | Sfx Makeup

At the moment any SFX makeup I do is all self teaching, I have really no grasp of firm techniques yet (Start class in over a week!) I just try and recreate from my head and the small bits and pieces I have bought to practise with. For this I used latex and tissue, fake blood and a mehron bruise wheel. I am quite happy with the results and I usually when it scares my mum I know I'm somewhat on the right lines, haha!

Follow my blog for my journey through my Special Effects Makeup Degree, I will blog everything I create and you can see what I learn and hopefully how I improve.

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I just got mugged | Special effects Makeup

Once again just playing around with some simple special effects techniques, especially because the more you practise and take photographs, the more you can pin point what looks realistic!

I am happy with the bust lip but as I look closely at the pictures I can see the latex around the cheekbone isn't as blended as I would like, but that's exactly my point on the importance of photographing yourself. What looks perfect in real life, may be picked up different in the light of a camera. If it doesn't work on camera then your skills are useless!

Products used:

Liquid latex

Tissue

Mehron Bruise wheel

Fake blood (very little, as I went for more scabbed look, as if this was a couple of hours later)

Black gel liner

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