Young, High & Dead: Teaser Trailer!

Check it out, first rough cut of the trailer for Young, High & Dead!

Young, High & Dead

So here are a few pics from behind the scenes of Young, High & Dead:

I made the hands using gelatin and a fake arm that one of the production team sourced mysteriously from who knows where! The stunt hand, which had to be severed, proved to be quite tough and resilient to being chopped up by an axe, but our director Luke Brady eventually got the better of it!

A bit of movie trivia: There wasn't time for me to take a cast of the actor who's hand this is supposed to be so I had to use my boyfriend's hand!

Although it might not look like it, this here is the lovely Su Elliott, who was up for everything her role involved: Rolling around on the forest floor, getting her head slammed in (not actually!) and being covered in various bloody goops lying in the dirt for about half an hour! A very cool lady.

And below we have our leading lady: Louisa Lytton. 

She threw herself into her role, which involved being wrapped in chains, running round the forest and being splattered in sticky blood almost every day! She's very sweet, despite looking quite fierce here!

You can see more images from behind the scenes here on the facebook page. Become a fan!!

Every Busy Makeup Artist Needs a Little Rest...

So, after a very busy few weeks that saw me stressing about wedding fairs, fake hands and horror movies, I finally had a few days off to have a little rest!

For the last part of September I was running around a muddy forest in Dorking, working on location for Young, High & Dead, a horror flick that I've been involved with as makeup and effects designer and key makeup artist. You can see a bunch of stills from the rushes on the facebook fan page here - get clicking that like button!

We had a great cast, including fab actor Philip Barantini from Band of Brothers, and the lovely Louisa Lytton and Hannah Tointon.

Stay tuned and hopefully soon I can get some pics up here from behind the scenes. 

Towards the end of the month there was the Landmark Arts Wedding Fair in Teddington, which saw myself and my 2 assistants do bridal hair and makeup for 10 models in just over 3 hours. Yes, that was TEN hair and TEN makeups in THREE hours!!! Quite an achievement, and it is a testament to my lovely helpers that we got everyone done in time for the bridal fashion show. I will be in possession of pictures from the show soon. One last mention must go to my wonderful boyfriend, who designed and source parts for my lovely stand at the show. Without him it would have been an ugly table with a grey background, so thanks dear!!

Fashion Shows, Front Covers, Feature Films. . . .

Every now and then, after a particularly busy week perhaps, I have a moment of realisation that what I do for a job is pretty cool.

This weekend was certainly a hectic one, but very rewarding and this week has panned out to be full of interesting opportunities, and finally today, a day of rest!

Fashion Shows......This weekend I travelled up to Birmingham to take part in a fashion show, featuring clothing from brands such as Coast, Juicy Couture & Puma. I do not take part in too many fashion shows, as to be honest, often they are crazy-mad and rushed backstage. There's never enough room or time to do stuff and it's generally quite stressful. However after being asked by the organiser of the event to style hair for the show I decided to dip my toe back into the waters of live fashion events! Having worked on runway shows at New Zealand Fashion Week I know how manic things can be, but it's been a while and this was a small event.

I have to say that the show went really well, and was one of the best organised and easy fashion shows I've ever worked on and after a relaxed prep, I managed to get in about 4 or 5 hair changes during the show, pretty good considering there was often about 25 seconds in which to get the model out of her clothes and into the next outfit! Maybe I'll try a bit more runway this year after that experience, who knows?!

Front Covers......Next job was on Sunday - a photoshoot for brand new magazine INVAZIAN. We were shooting pics for the cover and an editorial spread inside, so it was another long day with about 4 different looks, but the photographer was great and I can't wait to see the end result!! Invazian will be a free publication available in many outlets across Birmingham, and also selected places across London. This is particularly exciting for me, as though I have had front covers before, they have been for online fashion magazines and this will be my first printed fashion publication! Woop woop!

Feature Films......After a mysterious request from a director for a meeting about a large prosthetic project, I agreed to a rendezvous - eager to hear more. I have worked with him and his fellow director before on a feature last year, Fly Trap, and so was keen to hear about their next project. Needless to say it's quite hush hush, but it sounds very cool and most exciting of all, I will have free reign over the design of one particular character and all the prosthetics involved! Can anyone say 'alien'.....