Inspiration

A lot of my inspiration came from social media, mainly focussing on Instagram. I follow many accounts that inspire me my absolute favourite has to be @the_wigs_and_makeup_manager her work is visually and technically strong. She combines glam makeup and special effects makeup into one look and the outcome is phenomenal. I get a lot of inspiration from seeing her work, not only because she’s so good at what she does but because it makes me want to improve my work and keep practicing allowing me to achieve the same standard of work that she creates.

My special effects inspiration comes from a variety of special effects artists. Instagram accounts are so accessible, they’re often updated at least once a day either on their wall (which is a permanent post) or in their stories (a visual story set to expire within 24 hours) among the list of my favourite accounts are:

@gnicotero

and

@therealve.

Both of these artists have been in the makeup industry a long time and have worked on popular shows and movies. Ve neil (@therealve) is unquestionably the person I look up to most in the makeup world. She has worked on so many amazing movies including but not limited to Beetlejuice, Sweeney Todd and Edward scissor hands. the cult following of these films speak for themselves, they are classed as classics in the own right. ve neil has been hired by Tim Burton many times, he always chooses her to create all his weird and wonderful characters, she is central in making the characters come to life.

I have chosen to show case some scary and glam looks. I have always been interested subjects that could be classed as ‘dark’ and i like to represent that in my looks by making the subjects lean towards horror with an edge of glam. I do however also like to create glam looks for anything more commercial as they are more wearable on a day-to-day basis. i love mixing the genre’s playing with bright and dark colours. I know as a makeup artist that every client is different, none of us are the same and we all want to feel individual. There would be nothing worse than walking out the door looking the same as one another (unless that is the look you’re going for, of course.) it is important to know how to apply makeup in different ways on different personalities and skin type’s.