I don’t often do a specific link/promo of a particular product but if i do it’s because I have tried it and really like it. But we all have different needs. I need that permanence of paints. I know I find it easier to use non permanent paints (they blend much more easily for one)…

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I think I’m a a banana tree! Liara half pulled off but good view of the extreme use of paint shading. You can see the seam line here, but I don’t shoop, never will unless it’s a camera issue (lighting, foreshortening etc). Why is my chin so pointy! Lots of pink to shape the eyes…

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ย  Photo by Stewart McKenny at Armageddon Sydney 2011 Photo by JudasNZ at Wellington Armageddon 2011 PAX attempts I knew PAX to be essentially tinted glue, tinted medical adhesive grade glue. It is used for skin not just appliances, I just spoke to a Hobbit actor who recalled his days of PAX on LotR soโ€ฆ…

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Fauna of the Jungle, for the NZBAA awards in 2008 I think. I got the Audience prize XD Evil Queen at the Cosplay Ball 2010- ignore the setroid induced moonface Base and Buff: The first is great, really great to get โ€œnaturalโ€ looks that work well under camera. Iโ€™m now old enough that I have…

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Make up part one

I think I have to accept I am perma banned from my own site and hosts so Tumblr gets the blog posts I’d make over there. Sigh. I like to either work with street make up as a base and buff subtle/not so subtle colour in with brushes and velour pads. This works well when…

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jesuislegrandefromage: gifs-gifs-gifs-gifs-gifs: Theyโ€™re pouring latex on him to make a false chest. So that they can place the arc reactor prop in him and make it legitimately look like itโ€™s embedded in is flesh and with tears and scar tissue. The latex is colored so they can see where they are applying and how thick…

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So you want to work with thermoplastics? Just be warned the lower the temp required the more likely you will end up with this sort of issue. That is a set of medical splints made from one of the many medical grade thermoplastics (thermoplastics have been used for splints for a long time and cost…

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