Friday, 20 May 2022

Latest makeup looks

 Hello Sweeties

There're some of the latest makeup looks I've done on my friends:

* This look inspired from Euphoria TV series:

* This look inspired from Angelina Jolie in Maleficent:


* This look inspired from the Moroccon culture:


*This look inspired from the Indian culture and snakes:


I hope you enjoyed my blogs... SEEYOU 

BYE Sweeties. 

Sunday, 8 May 2022

SFX artists in Hollywood

 


Hey sweeties…

Today we have new adventure which discovering the most famous SFX makeup in Hollywood and the artists behind them:

The usage of specific makeup for any character to make you get into the movie mood and to convince the audience with certain thing let’s start our journey today with my fav film series ever “Harry Potter”:

1.    The artist behind it all was “Mark Coulier”, he’s a British makeup artist and prosthetic makeup expert. He worked also in X-Men and The Mummy Returning and he won many prizes like The Academy Awards and The BAFTA for the best makeup and hair for The Iron Lady. He was responsible for anything like: Harry’s Gilly weed gills; they took an hour and half to apply, Aunt Marge’s fat suit took 4 months to build and Lord Voldemort’s makeup which took 2 hours and 3 people, it was applied 70 times throughout the entire series and 50 of them were in Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows part 1&2.


2.    Our next stop is “Wonder” which was the makeup one of the success factors in this film to make you believe. “Arjen Tuiten” made it. The makeup took up to 90 minutes throughout several months and this makeup could take 3 hours but they had to compress the time. The young actor wore full silicone head, neck and face prosthetics to simulate the look of kids with Treacher Collins syndrome, who often try to hide their malformed ears.

3.    The third artist who impress us Oscar and Emmy winner “Joel Harlow” who worked in “Pirates of The Caribbean”, he worked on many characters.


4.   
Bill skarsgĂ„rd in “It” film chapter 2 took from Sean Sasom and Shane Zander 4 hours to apply and 30 minutes to remove and particularly they were the two artists applying his prosthetics each day.


5.    The Dark Knight “Joker’s makeup” was done by John Caglione worked with Conor O’Sullivan who won an Oscar for his makeup on Dick Tracy. They realized that the new version of the Joker wouldn’t be easy to be done because the new and uncomfortable terrain. “I always got the impression that it was self-inflicted,” said Caglione because he put his vision on it and tried hardly to make it looked different from the old version.

6.    “Maleficent” was done by the retired makeup artist “Rick Baker” and Angelina Jolie’s personal makeup artist “Toni G” who conceptu
alized her look. MAC makeup products were used in that look using Russian lipstick with lip gloss and to make the cheek bones looks real and get perfect complexion so they used powder blush ana a fix Sculpt & Shape Contour Palette, and Pro Longwear Concealer.   



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Thursday, 5 May 2022

Tips&Tricks

   

                                                                   Hey Sweeties 


In this blog I’m going to give you some tips and tricks to get your perfect makeup you have to follow:

1.   Prepare your face before anything by using the suitable cleanser for your skin type, apply moisturizer then sunblock.

One of the important steps in face preparations; the primer and I totally recommend e.l.f primer in all its types.

2.  Exfoliate and moisturize your lips to get good lipstick texture. Lip scrub should be used once a week max to not cause irritation.

3.  To avoid powder eyeshadow fallout; start with the eye makeup first to get smooth and fresh makeup look and if you forget and start with the base so use loose powder.

4.  To get smoky eye, use hashtag; Draw a slanted hashtag symbol on the outer third of your eyelid, then blend it out with the sponge or a brush. This will not only ensure that both eyes are the same, but also prevent you from getting a little too crazy with the eyeliner.


5.  Revive mascara with fixing spray or saline solution; after using mascara for a while, you will find it dry so add some drops of saline solution to it to get it back into its smooth consistency.

6. Set lipstick with a tissue and powder; lay a tissue over your mouth, then dust translucent powder over the top to set the color from budging.

7.  Mix your color with Vaseline; you can pick any color from your eyeshadow palette then mix it with Vaseline in a spoon and just swipe it onto your lips to get the color you want. Best makeup tip ever for me.

8  8.  Use dots technique for face contouring; for some girls the contouring step is not easy so this technique could be applied so smooth. 

    9.   Blot your oil with toilet tissue; I know it seems gross but they’re made from material could observe the oils from your face specially from T-zone without affecting your makeup.

   10.  Apply eyelashes glue with bobby pin; that avoids the mess of eyelashes glow with a freaking look so the bobby pin helps you in that.

   11.   Heating up eyelashes’ curler; with some girls the curler left lashes for short time so heating up it with the dryer and allow it to cool slightly so you don’t burn your eyelids that helps lashes to keep the curled shape.

   12.  SFX hack: some looks need eyebrows to be covered so use gentle glow then setting powder on then and start with the color you want.

    Try them and tell me in comments if they worked.

    Bye Sweeties…. SEE YOU


Saturday, 30 April 2022

LOOK INSPIRATION

 


                                                  Inspiration to get your look

Any element around us could be source of inspiration literally anything. Your makeup can be inspired by seasonal trends like: zodiac signs trend and 2020 trends because of corona year. There’s some sounds on TikTok become trend as the clown makeup looks.


Natural things are good inspired material like: animals, clouds and colors from nature.


I hope you enjoyed watching these videos.SEE YOU Sweeties....

Bye©

Wednesday, 27 April 2022

How to get materials.

HEY Sweeties

In this blog, we’re gonna talk about scar WAX and Fake blood in details; they’re over priced for beginners especially here in Egypt because of the shipping tax, so I’ll give you recipe how to make them in home with simple ingredients.

For the scar wax all you need are: 

-        * Tub

-        * Plain Flour (not sure if self-rising has a different       effect but to be safe, plain flour)

-        *  At least, 2 tablespoons

-        *  Petroleum Jelly/ Vaseline

     Put the same quantity of both, if you put 2 spoons of Vaseline so you put 2 spoons of flour.

  # Don’t forget the spatula to shape your scar in the perfect way you want.

For the fake blood; this is my fav and the most realistic way to give your look realistic mood. At first, you’ll find it dark but after a while the texture gets better when it dries to feel that leave it on your skin at least an hour before shooting or going out in Halloween.

-        *  2 tablespoons of cornstrach 

-        *  4 teaspoons water

-        *  1 teaspoon corn syrup

-        *  1 tablespoons onion flake

-        *  4 drops of red food coloring

Mix all together to get the most realistic fake blood.

©    Getting material is an easy thing but at first you will be lost, I’m talking about that because I felt it in my beginning, how can I start, where are the stores, are they online or offline a lot of questions were hitting my mind. I’m gonna make it easy on you telling you how to get your material and the best pages with the best prices.

©    The first thing come in your mind is AMAZON but tbh materials on it are overpriced especially in Egypt because shipping fees and tax so forget about it. There’s page on Instagram and Facebook called Anime Zone; they
have all you want from face painting, wigs, accessories, glitter and specialized brushes for accurate paint like those: 


©    Eye contact is a bond in any makeup look to make it convenient. There’re many shapes and colors including: Black Wolf, Red Vampire, Banshee Cat-Eye, Angelic Yellow, Blue Vampire, Black Sclera, Rotting Eye, and White Zombie, in many local and international brands like: FX contact lenses.


BYE Sweeties... See you in my next blog.
©©©

Friday, 22 April 2022

SFX Materials

Materials and how to use them.

That what’s make your looks unique. It’s not about the amount of material you have, you could have few things and do great look with your creativity, vision and learning and watching more. Watching professional people in this field makes you know more about materials and to be good dealing with them.

* The first thing to have eyeshadow powder pallet with variety of colors and you have to make sure from the pigmentation. Let me tell you my fav pallets: Morphe James Charles, Morphe Jaclyn Hill and Huda Beauty Mercury Retrograde.

* Pastel colors to get more vivid color and the best is Athena and CC Beauty for face and body painting.

* Glitter and sparkles give looks different mood and this mood used in euphoria TV series on HBO. It creates a whole mood for it which made euphoria makeup looks trend on all social media specially on TikTok.


* Brushes: they’re the most important thing out there. TAKECARE to get the best quality of brushes from good and well known brands to not to waist your products as much as you can; the next video will tell you more about brushes and the usage of each one.



* Wax and fake blood: Mehron is the best brand for SFX products, tell me in comments if you want to talk more about them.

BYE Sweeties... See you.


Monday, 18 April 2022

SFX Makeup




 

What's SFX makeup

Hii guyzzz, I’m Hla Moawad… I’m a self taught makeup artist especially in special effect makeup (SFX). I started this last year via TikTok, SFX is like an umbrella has many types and the most known type is Prosthetic makeup which is used in film industry as a powerful tool this tool could use to make up love the character who make you laugh or heat him/ her because they’re the villain for example: “wonder” where the makeup used to make people feel the drama and emotions in it and Maleficent; the power of makeup makes Angelina Jolie the villain character. You could use makeup to imitate a cartoon character like this video below that shows inspiration from QUEEN OF HEARTS in Alice in wonderland:





Latest makeup looks

 Hello Sweeties There're some of the latest makeup looks I've done on my friends: * This look inspired from Euphoria TV series: * Th...