Dear Sam…

 

 

Where have I been?, 2 Assessments down & Its nearly Christmas!

Well! the past few weeks since the prosthetics event has been absolutely manic!, to the point where I decided not to blog until I had got my life together and had got through the last few weeks of uni for this semester!…

Basically, I finally finished those dreads and added them on to the bald cap for my assessment with Tina, we then had the assessment, which I wasn’t to happy with the end result, but Lauren was wonderful and an absolute trooper for me standing there bless her, semi naked for a full body paint. She ended up looking more like an avatar than an alien in the end lol.

 

For 2 of the weeks I didn’t got in as I had so much I could do at home I decided to just crack on with it 😀 stitching hair to tights, finishing presentations and essays and also trying to figure this dread situation out lol

Sam’s hair assessment has been driving me mad ever since I had finished the moustache one! Turns out it worked way better than I thought 😀 RESULT! and my model was great 😀 even having all the extra hair and structures added to her own hair!

these are just some behind the scene shots as I haven’t had a chance to edit them yet…

apart from all that not a lot has been going on :), we did however get our timetable for next semester in January 😀 we still have Sam, Anna May and Gary 🙂 but for sfx we have Lesley! Lesley has been on our course before and now has become a tutor :D…. I’m looking forward to having a new tutor and learning new things :P.

Christmas is literally 5 days away, and your home tomorrow 😀 I’m looking forward to having a catch up and a laugh over the Christmas period.

Now all I have to do is finish off all the last bits and submit on the 9th of Jan… and then another 2 weeks off 😀 Hallelujah!

Anyway speak soon

Hannah xx

Dear Sam …

The week of Hair with Sam, Neil Gorton’s Prosthetic event & Trying to get hold of the taxi man!

Monday 14th November

Today in Tina’s class, I went to get my mould out of the locker to find that the white silicone I had poured onto it last week, had only covered 3/4 of my mould 😦 I had the hard decision to actually do the mould properly and add more white silicone to it, or to used the silicone we have in our kits which takes about 20 mins to set instead of 6 hours! I chose to do the 6 hour one as it will last longer in the long run, and I know I wont have problems when it comes to actually creating my prosthetic! So that meant that I had to sit around all lesson as I didn’t bring any other work  as I was supposed to be cracking on with that… Fuming! I Did help Sanita sort her mould out as hers didn’t set as we think she didn’t put enough catalyst in to help the silicone “go off”. We spent about 20 mins trying to scoop it all out and salvage her sculpt underneath.

Tuesday 15th November

Sam told us last week we could come in at 9:30 this week, which meant I had an extra hour in bed, but also meant that we would be stuck in all the morning rush hour that seemed to have appeared…. we had actually forgotten how annoying it was going at 7:30 lol…. Once we got to Burnage I tried to ring the taxi service and it took me 27 attempts to get through to them 😦 how annoying!

In Sam’s class today, she had set up little stations around the room, involving hair and tasks we had to complete to move onto the next one. We had so much fun!… The first one we had to finish off adding hair to this corset that had already been made. We had to add a piece to it ready for the next group to then add onto that. We came up with making wings to add to the corset :D… the next station was making round shapes with hair, and also making a tree decoration out of hair for our Christmas tree that will be in reception 😀 We came up with a little snowman, to go along with Sophie’s little reindeer that she had made lol , we also got to learn how to do a basket braid type thing and make jewellery out of hair…. Can I just mention there was a lot of hair hanging around and being glued to everything haha.

Saturday 19th November

Today was the day we got to travel to Birmingham for the Prosthetics Event that Neil Gorton was hosting 😀 we had the chance to sit in seminars where special effects makeup artists were doing talks and demonstrations, we also got tot see the body art show that was being held and have a look around the stalls who were selling lots of sfx makeup things, so I actually got to see Neil Gorton who is amazing at his work and it was so interesting…. on the not so fun side, it was a very long day, the night before we stayed at Laurens which was funny, but it meant we had to get up at 5:15am just to get to uni on time…. abit like Harry Potter in March aha.

Safe to say I couldn’t wait to get home in the end and crawl into my bed as I was shattered… 10pm I got home 😦

Anyway speak soon

Hannah xx

Dear Sam…

The week where I finally put silicone on my mould, and I became a ring master for the morning

Monday 7th November

I tell you now, It is absolutely Baltic at the minute in the mornings, like ice cold and I hate it 😦 especially when your tired and rather be in bed lol… This morning in Tina’s class it was time to start building the walls around my mould ready to pour the silicone in to create the negative ready to make the actual prosthetic… We use WED clay which is wet and then dries hard. You have to create key holes and stuff so when you remove it, it doesn’t cause a suction which means it could get stuck lol.

This is basically what it looks like, I didn’t get a picture of the actual silicone in the mould, so iv dug out my one from last year 🙂 This was the one for the deer looking one I did 😀

The process takes about 6 hours to cure, so next week ill be able to go in and pull it apart and have my negative… this brings me on to deciding we were going home at 12 🙂 we had nothing else to do, plus as per usual no Gary this week lol… I think he’s given up on us lot haha.

 

Tuesday 8th November

Today, I was being a model for Ashleigh for her moustache assessment, we had a arranged a few weeks ago that id help her out and model her wonderful moustache :D, her idea was a ring master with big pom pom looking hair, and this moustache, with full outfit! I even got to play around with a whip!! lol…. she started off adding in the extra hair and curling them, then apply the moustache! MY GOD is it super itchy… I don’t know how actors and stuff can go a full day of filming with that attached to their face! I could only have it on for about and hour and a half… it was horrible lol. Anyway she then applied my makeup and it was time to get dressed and head to the studio!… Sophie was also modelling for Katie and she was a pirate, we had a few photos taken together as we looked great!

After Sam’s class me and Leah decided we were super tired and didn’t have the brain space or patience to head to Anna Mays class, so we headed home 😀 so that was 2 days where we finished at lunch time (Head in hands)

This week I had ago at painting bubbles… this is for Tina’s assessment, I watched loads of YouTube videos and then had ago myself…There green as the bubbles for my assessment will be green, I also found that the green worked better than the black and white 😀

Next week is the Neil Gorton prosthetics event in Birmingham… I’m so excited 😀 😀 but its a super early start again like the harry potter trip

Speak Soon

Hannah xx

Dear Sam….

The week I came to visit, Halloween happened & the first assessment of the year!

Over half term I came to visit you in London & had a fab time! We went to Camden, Stratford & also China town 🙂 it was nice to have some time away and a break from everything 🙂

Saturday 29th October

Halloween weekend has begun and boy have a got a few makeups to do for it! The first being a friend called Charlotte who I know from work, she wanted the half skull face which looked awesome once I had finished. Next up was Ben & his friends who all wanted different looks for an event going on in town, they all looked fab aswell. After I had finished up there it was on to a local nightclub to do makeup for all the staff ready for a Halloween event. They basically got to be whatever they wanted.

Monday 31st October

Today university was shut, not sure why but that meant we didn’t need to go in, I spent the day sorting some uni work out and getting my kit all cleaned up ready for the evening. I was back at the nightclub that I was at Saturday night ready for the Purge themed party they were having. This time I took mum along for the added help. Although it was purge night, it was really hard to create that “purge mask” look and we attempted it about 4 times but it just wasn’t happening! They all ended up with the white faces and crosses on their foreheads. (I am determined to get that look right!) Me and mum are going to have a practice of it at home on ourselves to get it right!

Tuesday 1st November

November has begun which means not long until Christmas now 😀 I was super duper tired this morning as I didn’t finish until late last night. It was so cold at 6am aswell! Today in Sam’s class was our first assessment of the year! The one that we had been building up to with these moustaches. My model arrived and I sat him down ready to begin! I was a little un organised and had a few hiccups along the way. However it all came together in the end 🙂 The final look turned out great and now I’m ready to photoshop them and have them ready for submission date in January 😀

Anna-May this week had something she had to go do, so we didn’t have to go to her lesson this week 😀 which meant I got to go home early which was great for me as I felt like death 😀

Roll on home time!

Speak Soon

Hannah xx

 

Dear Sam…

The week the sculpting begun!, hair fruit & the face paints are out in force!

 

over the weekend I decided to have ago at creating a few things for myself, and practice using polymorph plastic to create teeth!, I decided to come up with this eye piece with loads of teeth all over it. Ones iv created and resin teeth that I bought online. and this is what I came up with….

I created the piece first on my own face cast, added in the teeth and then pre painted it before applying it to my face :D, I also decided to play around with my facepaints again and have another go at doing a neon zombie! I love these things!

Anyway…

Monday 17th October

Today in Tina’s class, it was about time I started on that bloody mould! actually putting clay to face cast lol….so it begun, im going for an alien/intergalactic type creature thing… just winging it basically! what I do best! 😀 and here it is…

still not 100% finished but I’m getting there, after half term its time to finish it off and get it moulded ready for application and assessments. Also this week I had to finish of the bald cap I was doing with silicone to make it thicker, so hopefully my plan will work, however to this date (Friday) its doing my head in as its not working how I want it to 😦 Leave it with me I’m on it!

again no Garry this week, which were not complaining about as that means we get to finish at 2:30 😀

TAXI!!!!!!

Tuesday 18th October

No Leah today as she had Bieber fever hahaha (She went to see him Monday night aha)

Today I finally finished my moustache! its ready for cutting and styling into the style I want 😀 I’m so happy to be done knotting each individual hair! Phew, the second photo is Nicole’s beard which is almost finished lol, she was trying it out on my face lol.

Also in todays lesson we had an hour, in groups to come up with a hair creation using extra hair and to be as extravagant as we could! so Me, Hannah C, Nicole & Lauren had the idea for the pineapple pen/Apple pen song which is on the internet at the minute, however I said maybe we should do a fruit bowl instead, with all the colours laying around. We made a Pineapple, Orange, Banana & Apple. Me and Hannah C were on Fruit duty, while Lauren had to prep Nicole’s hair & Nicole was on the duty of creating the bowl for all the fruit to sit in, we had so much fun and ours turned out great (Plus we didn’t cheat :P)

Between Sam & Anna May we had a break and found this leaf outside that me and Lauren were obsessed with because it had big water droplets on it from when it had been raining 🙂

Anna Mays class this week was playing a pub quiz without the alcohol 😛 and the questions were based on the guest lecturer we had the week before, we also had a few task sheets to do and then it was time for home 🙂

I’m Coming down to see you this weekend as its half term next week & I’m looking forward to having a break away

See You Soon!

Hannah xx

 

 

 

Dear Sam…

The week we did the catwalk for French Connection, Balcaps & Sculpting and Airbrushing!

Saturday 8th October,

L-R, Nicole, Sheryl, Me 😀 Charlotte & Claire (Not Sure of the lovely ladies name on the end)

So Me, Nicole & a few of the girls from the third year at university, turned up to Evoque Nightclub in Preston all kitted up ready to start applying makeup to models ready for the catwalk in connection with Pure Management Preston! The catwalk was for charity and we had French Connection walking, Pandorella, A Jewellery line & 2 other brand walking. We arrived on time, set up and then got given our orders and the list of models we would be doing for the show. I had 2 girls and 2 children to apply makeup to, however when it all started I ended up with my 2 models, 6 children and a male model that I applied make up to. It was so much fun! Nicole didn’t want to do her male model so I stepped in for her and sat him down in my chair lol. we then had to touch ups throughout the show and then had the chance to sit down and watch 😀 We had so many photos and videos!

The Models, Photographers & us makeup artists were all amazing and the day turned out to be great, had such a blast 🙂

Monday 10th October.

I have come to the conclusion I hate Monday mornings with a passion, I end up feeling like death all day and cant concentrate at all, which leads me onto trying to sculpt my prosthetic onto Laurens face cast, I must have tried about 5 times applying the clay and then ripping it off! I begged Tina to let me take it home so I can sit down and concentrate properly to crack on with it (She let me thankfully :D) so that’s my next job to do… Her lesson I spent applying layer of bald cap plastic onto one of the red head so next week I can apply the silicone on top of it so I can make my headpiece which I’m keeping a secret until its ready :P. We also had a bloke in today to help us with our airbrushes and give us a few tips on them and showing us how to take them apart and put them back together properly 😛

No Garry this week lol, he just said we could go home so by 2:30 it was time to head home 😀

Tuesday 11th October.

I don’t know what was wrong with me but for the life of me I was so tired, I slept on the train, in Sams class and on the train home, I felt like crap all day. Sam’s class this week was finishing the knotting basically as it was the last week we could do it, I’m nearly there! just a few more hairs to add and then I can cut it and style it ready for our assessment! I spent most of the lesson doing it until the last half an hour, where I tried to get away with having a nap on the chair in the corner, Sam caught me and had a few stern words lol.

This was me between lessons laying on the floor with Nadia telling me I wasn’t aloud to fall back to sleep lol!

Anna- May’s class we had a guest lecturer in named Laura Tallentire, she was an ex student and came in to have a chat about the industry and how to get into things ect.. we even got to play around with some scar wax creating wounds with blood and stuff to have a mess around. It was actually really interesting 😀

by the end of the lesson I was ready for bed and on that note it was time to head home!

I arrived home to my parcel I ordered from MyKitCo 🙂 my new brush bag which im obsessed with!

😀 😀 😀

Anyway ill be over to visit next week 🙂 plus i have some Halloween makeup looks to do this week… so keep and eye out 😛

Speak Soon

Hannah xx

Dear Sam…

The week we skived the Monday :P, More Moustaching & work experience

Monday 3rd September

So Monday we decided to not going in! Reason 1 some of us didn’t have much to *Cough Cough* Nicole 😛 Leah had something she had to go do and I decided I was going to stay at home and make this head piece for my character which involved me just doing paper Mache for about 2 hours just making the base of it lol… So yeah that was Monday

Tuesday 4th September

It was bloody freeeeezing! feeling cold and tired we hopped on the train for another long day at university…. Rolling into Sam’s class it was time to carry on with these Moustaches! (which I’m almost done I might add) we got to sit for a few hours and crack on with that, then this week we were also learning up do’s… I have come to the conclusion that I absolutely hate hair! putting it up, curling it, making it look pretty I hate! So I sat and did one hairstyle that looked like octopus tentacles and then gave up and thought id sit for a few hours and get on knotting again.

Then it was on to Anna Mays class and this week we were talking about our work experience and things we can get involved in.. Me & Nicole have a catwalk to do this Saturday which ill write about next week, and also some other things we can get involved in like spooky tours, or this big even in Manchester.

By about half 4 I was getting a little stress as I was tired and decided to just get in a taxi and head home on my own, while the girls did their tutorials…. sat at the train station on my own, cold! I heard a clip clopping up the platform, I looked around and it was Nicole & Leah lol… well I looked silly *Hands On Face*… I tell you what though, getting on the train we were packed like sardines, sharing 2 seats between 3 of us lol…. I had Nicole sat on my lap at one point…. Iv not missed that atall!….

Iv done no makeup looks this week yet, as I’m prepping my Pinterest board for some ideas I can do for Halloween, instead of pretty ones with my face paint lol… going to see what I can come up with today

Anyway speak soon

Hannah xx

Dear Sam ….

The student year has officially begun, The Circus came to Uni lol & FacePaint galore!

 

Monday 12th September.

OMG how I haven’t missed getting up at 5am to go to university get me there for 9am lol, feeling like death and dragging myself out of bed, it was time to get myself together and hall arse to the train station to meet Nicole & Leah!! wooo Gang’s back together again. Leah filled us in as usual about her summer holiday and what’s been going on, and it was nice to see each other again 😀 plus I got to see Lauren who I haven’t seen since we left!.

All the hello’s & how have you been’s over and done with it was time for Tina’s lesson ready for SFX! After going through our schedule for this first term, we got to sit about and come up with our first characters of the year which involves creating face casts again and any character we like as long it involves airbrushing & a prosthetic OBVs! So Pencils out! and time for a sketch and a brain storm. Not going to lie I fell asleep for half an hour 😀 (Standard of Miss Letch!) my alarm went off at 10:30am lol and woke me up! I mean it was bound to happen, I cant help it hahahaha.

After Tina’s we were supposed to have our tutorial with our new tutor Garry! Hi Garry 😀 Your in for a treat with us lot! thankfully we didn’t technically have to go to that, instead we had a meeting our principal and having to watch this stupid presentation on respect and blah blah blah 😀 Home Time! my favourite part of the day 😛 crawling into bed and what felt like a super long day, it was time to catch up on my sleep ready for day 2.

Tuesday 13th September.

Sam’s Class was up first 😀 😀 😀 So happy we have Sam again this year as I really enjoyed her class last year :D. First up we have to create moustaches of a character or famous singer or someone we knew and the rest of the class had to guess who’s moustache it could have been. I decided to make mine like your little moustache you have going on lol & funnily enough so did Sophie 😀 we had matching Sam Moustaches!! they all turned out really good & I was on a roll guessing who’s they might have been 😀

I added in a soul patch for you 😛

 

We then went through this semesters schedule and have a think about what kind of character we might be coming up with this time, the first one has to have a moustache or a beard and the second is based on a childhood nightmare or memory! watch this space as I have some awesome ideas 😀

After Sam, we had Anna-May who now replaces Lindsay from last year although Anna-May’s class is slightly different and we only have 4000 words to write this time lol No Pressure!

We sat in her class until 3, we got to talk about work experience and ways to go about getting some. Part of our course involves working a certain amount of hours within the industry to pass this part of the course :D.

The freshers fair came to uni and they had advertised that the circus was coming aha, this involved a coconut shy, hook a duck, a guy on stilts and a candyfloss machine lol. Free candyfloss though! I cant say no to that aha. The stands were advertising the local stuff we can get involved in & were handing out free stuff lol! by about 4 it was time to head home as we were pooped and had stuff to get on with lol.

This week I ordered a ton of face paints ready for this year and they are AWESOME!!!!! check them out! I even had a play about with them and had ago at doing a neon zombie to see how pigmented the colours were 🙂

Hope you had a good first week back at university to 😀

Ready for week 2 😛

Speak Soon

Hannah xx

Dear Sam….

The time to de stress can begin….

The weeks of serious stress, Time running out & its all over….. until September!

so the past couple of weeks have been crazy busy! 2 assessments in 1 day, work to finish off and catch up on. Creating crazy outfits for crazy characters & I was a dragon for the afternoon.

Where do I start….

The past couple of blog posts have been about us making these moulds ready to start making our prosthetic pieces. The last time I posted I think I had just moulded my first one! and it turned out better than what I expected… so the time had come for me & Nicole to use the pieces we had created, on each other for our superhero/Supervillian characters we had to make. Nicole’s was based around the pink dragon from Shrek! and mine was loosely based on Maleficent! they turned out sooo cool. But before I show you, let me take you back to where the stress began!

Nicole had her Supervillain assessment up first! with me kindly being her model for it. she had created big wings, brought me this gorgeous grey wig and brought the fishnet stocking for later 😛 aha. She started by applying the piece to my face, which felt really weird trying to breath through the little slits on the nose piece. She then airbrushed it pink added in the detail (She used the fishnet tights to create scales up my arm and around the prosthetic piece (Magic))and daah daaah the creation was made.

My Supervillain was loosely based on Maleficent 🙂 (Who doesn’t love that movie!)

Her name was Aurella! she had large antlers and a big long cloak and mini antlers growing from her head 🙂 I was so happy with how the final look turned out. However! I need to work on my edges of my prosthetic piece as they took me forever to blend out when it came to applying them. I airbrushed all around the edges with black and blended it into her hair, so you couldn’t see the fact that the prosthetic was slightly bigger than her forehead! she shouted at me as I cut some of her hair off trimming it 😛 Sorry Nicole! I used a giant piece of black fabric to create the cloak, and I was going to make a staff, but it was going to be a lot to carry on the day as I also had another assessment… but more about that shortly. Here was the final Piece.

I attached the antlers by hot glue gunning them to a black headband, I separated her hair and pulled some of it through the middle of the antlers so you couldn’t see it, then tied string to the back to hold it to her head as they were pretty heaving lol. Nicole worked her fabulous magic to make my photos turn out great 🙂 My favourite one yet!

On the same day I had my Directors assessment. We had to create characters that would fit into a directors movie. I chose to do Tim Burton! Love him! I chose to do Pinocchio and turn him into something that would go into a film….I did the sunken eyes, the stripes and the dark messy hair! I also bought a prosthetic pixie nose instead of the usual long nose that Pinocchio has ( in the final image you cant see the nose best)… we had to do a demo in front of some of our classmates and show how to do the make (whilst being filmed) aha the most nerve racking thing ever! Thanks Nadia!

I had my tears that day… it had been a long hard stressful day, plus I wasn’t feeling to great… so I had a moment! the first of many from the girls 😛

I was pleased with the fact I got it all done and they looked great!

A week later it was submission day & 4pm was the deadline… thankfully I had completed the work the night before and just wanted to hand it in and get it out of my possession lol. I did the best I could and fingers crossed I at least get a pass! The queues for the printers that day was unreal…. there was a lot of paper, laptops and glue sticks! with everyone running around frantically trying to get all their work done on time! Us girls had arranged a meal in the local restaurant, to have drinks, a big meal and a final catch up before we all broke up for the summer! It was a fabulous after noon! *Clink* Thank F**k its all over!

All The Girls For The Final Meal At Alberts.

Me & Lisa Messing around

Had such a great time this year with them all. YOU ALL BETTER BE BACK NEXT YEAR!

I have learnt my lesson this time and I’m determined to do even better next year and not be so lazy on a few things….. I shall be spending the summer researching on more stuff & buying more makeup for my kit!

I had this cartoon picture of me done, that I can use in the future for a logo or something… or a profile picture because it looks so cool 🙂

See you soon

Hannah xx

Dear Sam….

4 Weeks left of my first year!, Maleficent happened & Just not enough time in the day!!!!

 

OMG! 4 weeks left & then its submission week! it feels like not that long ago when me & Nicole went out for not so busy fresher’s week haha…. and forever since me & Nicole first met! It’s nearly been a year! I can’t believe it!

However these 4 weeks are going to be the most hectic of my life! I have 3 assessment’s to complete and prepare for, I’m sure about 3 1,500 word essays somewhere in all that as well, 2 journals to complete, annotations on Pinterest boards & a partridge in a pear tree 😀 I can do this! I can do this…. I cant do this 😦

Monday this week was the only day I went to university…. I finally got around to uploading my SMART targets onto the LIP which is an online learner portal thing lol. It was then onto Vicky’s class and this week where we were models for Molly & Nadia, Lauren had her own model. I was Maleficent, Nicole was Cruella & Laurens model was Ursula  – these are for the fairy-tale assessment’s 🙂 (Mine’s this Monday)

These were the before the shoot photos 🙂 Molly put my hair into little horns at the front and had me in this all black body suit, then we found this black and purple cloak and the look all came together. I loved how she did my eye makeup with the green it was awesome!

Everyone knows me I love messing around! so I’m pretty sure someone’s SD card is going to be full of pictures of me laughing or pulling silly faces 😛

This is one of their final shots and it already looks awesome!

Its mine on Monday morning and were doing the Lost Girls… from Hook/Peter Pan! Im so excited and my model seems to be really nice. I’ve worked really hard on my outfit and journal ready for this. Fingers crossed it turns out the way I have it pictured in my head 😀

The sun has been shinning over my town this week and it has been gorgeous… so before I had to go to work on Friday night we stopped by the beer garden for a quick drink 😀

Why not 😀

These last couple of weeks are going to be manic! with work, still working on the house and trying to complete all this work I hope I can pull myself together lol

 

Anyway ill catch you soon 😀

Hannah xx