Friday 11 June 2021

 Woo hoo check out my new website, if you haven't already. Am very happy with myself for creating since am not that technical when it comes to computers.

Let me know what you think and make sure to keep an eye on my other social media sites for more up to date information on what am up to as well as enquiring about booking me.

https://ruthmoulden.wixsite.com/makeup-sfx-artist


xRx

Thursday 10 June 2021

Hand Laid Bearded Lady

 

It’s been a busy couple of days with lots of exciting projects being completed and meeting lots of new people. One of highlight jobs was creating a bearded lady for Just Imagines’ performance at Crafty Vintage, Houghton Tower.


I have completed a lot of jobs of Just Imagine and they are an exciting events and performance company to work with, with lots of vision and characters to construct. Bearded lady is a character that I have created before, but this time was on a new performer, Emma who had an amazing voice!

So, let’s get into the construction of the bearded lady. It’s a simple technique (with practice) but can be very time consuming if creating a big bushy beard like what we needed for this character. The first thing that is needed is to prep the crepe hair, for this application and for the budget requirements we are doing a hand laid crepe hair beard which although can be itchy (always inform the performer that this will happen, but they will get used to it once its completely applied and styled) creates a good effect for the stage.

Because crepe hair comes plaited and tied, once it’s unravelled it has a natural kink to it which needs to be “relaxed” therefore once you cut the hair to length and remove the string you are going to need to soak it in hot water. Soaking it “relaxes” the crepe hair, you need to keep an eye on this as you do not want the crepe hair to straighten out 100% when making a beard. You want to crepe hair to have a little movement to it (or slight kink) as this will look more natural.  Once fully dried you can move on the applying, which is the time-consuming part of the application.

When applying the crepe hair to the performer you need to prepare the skin effectively using oily free cleansers and barrier creams. To apply the crepe hair to the skin I find that spirit gum/mastix works best for my needs and for this job I used Ben Nye’s Matte Spirit gum but the Kryolan TV Mastix also works amazingly well (I used this in a past bearded lady job) The key to applying a good realistic beard is to lay the hair in rows, working from the bottom of the chin out, then applying another row above and keep going until you have the shape you want applied. Its always a good idea to leave the moustache to the end as this can be the most uncomfortable part of the application for the performer.

When you have the beard laid fully, you can move on to styling and trimming to desired look for the character.



And there you have it, one bearded lady for a theatrical performance, it’s so much fun working with different companies and performers in this way. You learn so much and, in this industry, you can never know everything, so its importance to keep on practicing and learning.





XRx


Friday 6 November 2020

Beetlejuice Glam Makeup


New tutorial video up now on my channel, please make sure you subscribe to support more content and videos!! 
xRx

Thursday 26 July 2018

Purple Demon ***SFX MAKEUP*** Using Silicone Prosthetics.

Woo hoo new tutorial video is now up on my channel...go make sure you are subscribed and share with the world...it helps me a lot!!



xRx



Monday 23 July 2018

So Much Crafting, Prosthetic Makeup and a whole load of designing!

This week has been a whole load of crafting in preparation for the Comicon's coming up this year. Its been a lot of learning, trial and errors as well as a whole load of ordering material...and I would be lying if I said that I was loving it! Crafting and designing characters has always been so therapeutic for me, I can just focus solely on my creations and (for the majority of the time) forget about the chronic pain stuff.

So last blog I showed you a sneak peak of the chest piece that I was working on but not the final piece. So here it is....


I have to say for my first chest piece/armour piece, I don't think I did that bad. I definitely learnt some lessons with it and my next one I think am going to try out a different material.

This will be available for sale at Preston Comicon and if it doesn't sell there then it will be available at Blackburn Comicon. If anybody reading this is interested then send me a message, I can hold on to it for you to collect at the event.

The other items I've been working on to sell is another arm piece, which I can't remember if I've talking about this one with you guys or not but here it is....



 Now this piece am super proud of...and yes this is also for sale.


Makeup wise, its been a bit slow because I've been wrapping up with my teaching work last week. 
I posted the makeup tutorial video on the HUDA beauty palette which I got a lot of nice attention from.


I love this palette though, its so pretty the metallic, matts and shimmers in all those luscious oranges, yellows and reds...lovely warm colours. Warm colours aren't a normal style I gravitate towards but with this palette I love them.
I haven't bought much from HUDA beauty in the past but I think I may be buying more in the future...well when I make the money back that I've spend on all that crafting and fabrication!!!

This weeks YouTube video going up will be a prosthetic makeup one...yes its the one I gave you a tease of in the last blog.



There are going to be more images of this look going up on my Instagram and Facebook page (@Ruth E Moulden MUA) so make sure you are following me on there!!

But back to the look, so with this look for some silly reason I decided that I would try apply on the hottest days ever!! I mean I had sweat dripping all over!!! 
But I did it!! It wasn't the cleanest application I have ever done but it was a good application and am pretty sure I have the amazing adhesive Snappy G to thank for that one!!
If you have never heard of Snappy G, its an awesome silicone adhesive from https://www.neillsmaterials.co.uk which works wonders of staying powder and using it under some stressful...sweaty situations!!



 The look is created with two silicone prosthetics created by moi using EcoFlex and Stuart Bray molds, the brow piece and the mouth piece. 
Both of these pieces will be available to buy at both the Preston Comicon and the Blackburn Comicon. If your interested in buying let me know and I'll hold them for you to collect and pay at the event.

Because am now officially on my holiday's from work, I have plenty of time to plan and design stuff so along with the work for the Comicon's that am doing I also have two other events that am planning to attend.

One being a competition and the other a music festival that I regularly help out at. I think for this blog, I'll tell you about the music festival cause I need to sort somethings out regarding the competition before I official state am competing!!

Confessional is the name of the music festival and I have been for the past 3 years I think, with a stall applying themed face painting and glitters. The themes have been some awesome ones in the past such as David Bowie were I was applying Ziggy lightening to people. As well as the awesome themes, the whole event is in an abandoned/disused church which gets all fancied up. The event typically starts at 4pm and runs till midnight with loads of live bands playing and a DJ set based on the theme that year. Some of the bands that I've seen there have been Cabbage, Amber Arcades and Bang Bang Romeo which are all awesome local or indie bands.


This years Confessional's theme is "out of this world" with a kind of 80s B rates Sci-fi feel and will be held on 8th Sept 2pm-midnight (yay longer then last years festival!) at Holy Trinity Church and will feature bands such as Mold, Fruittones, The Ninth Wave and more!
I will be there of course with my right hand lady and another ex-student (who am yet to ask if she wants to do it!) and we will be offering face painting/glitter and new for this years festival face gems. So get your tickets ----- https://www.facebook.com/confessionalfestival

So my beautiful people, plenty of events that I will be attending so make sure you come along and say Hi to me!!!

Don't forget that Thursday I will be uploading another tutorial video (Demon prosthetic look) so make sure that you are subscribed to my YouTube Channel ----- https://www.youtube.com/user/RuthMouldenMUA

And check out my other work on 
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Instagram --- 
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Twitter ---  
@rm_makeup

Till next time, Muchos Lovous.
xRx


Friday 20 July 2018

HUDA Beauty Rose Gold Remastered Palette **Makeup Tutorial**





New Tutorial video on my channel using the new Huda Beauty Rose Gold Palette Remastered and Easy Bake Powder.

xRx