HD Brows Definition Tour

Last night I attended a HD Brows event at the Sanctum Soho Hotel, London focusing on the new HD Brows Makeup range. 

The HD Brows team are hosting Definition Tours in major UK cities & I was lucky to be invited to the London event.

I met Nilam who created the HD Brows range, a few years ago when we were fellow judges for a Makeup Competition hosted by Olympia Beauty. I was impressed by her approach to business and the concept of HD Brows & undertook the training myself. For me this is an additional service I can offer to the artistes I work with in the Makeup Industry. Nilam is very impressive and has a very focused vision for her company and is the driving force behind this successful business.

The event was well organised by the HD Brows Events Manager Laura and her team of experts including Christina who is heading up the Makeup Education for HD Brows. The team were very welcoming and offered opportunities for us to test out the makeup and the HD Brows treatment.

I met up with my friend Joyce who runs Brides & Beauty & we sampled the new makeup range while chatting to the HD Brows Team. We felt the range was of a good quality, in particular the foundations and concealers. We decided that the range is aimed for Bridal, Proms, Special Occasion & Red Carpet events. It would be good to see a darker range of foundations in the range but the team mentioned that there are plans in development to widen the colour ranges. 

We really enjoyed finding out more about this range. The HD Brows treatment is very popular in salons throughout the UK and I think the makeup range is a valuable extension to this unique company.

We had a really informative evening and enjoyed testing the makeup plus also receiving a HD Brows treatment by Laura.

Big thanks to Rachael, Christina & the rest of the HD Brows team for such an interesting evening

For more information on the HD Brows Definition Tour contact www.hdbrows.com

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Bloody Marvelous Workshop at PAM London

As I was free in the daytime today I attended a workshop hosted by the Bloody Marvelous Team at PAM in Shepherds Bush. The event was advertised on the PAM Website and on their Facebook site and I was keen to learn more about the product range.

I was lucky to work with Claire Williams, one of the Directors of the Bloody Marvelous range while working in the crowd room on the set of Da Vinci's Demons in 2013. Claire is a well known Makeup Designer in SFX and well respected in the Makeup Industry. The Da Vinci Demons production in 2013 was headed by the Makeup Designer Jacqueline Fowler. The large crowd room was headed by Morag Smith and Claire was one of the her daily team. I think it was one of the most organised crowd rooms I have worked in, alongside 80 other makeup artists. I learnt alot from Claire and was amazed at the potions she mixed up on a daily basis for the makeup teams to work with. 

Later on when working on occasional Saturdays in Screenface I became aware of the Bloody Marvelous range of products. I loved the colour of the bloods and how they worked on the skin and was really pleased to find out that Claire was behind this range. Its an area she has great experience of and I think it is a really good range to work with.

PAM offered the workshop day with a demo by Claire and more of an insight into the product range. The Bloody Marvelous team were there headed by Claire and Angharad Davies who are both Directors in the company. They had planned to demonstrate a slit throat effect using a silicone prosthetic piece. The piece had been sculpted and pre made by Claire and was attached to the models neck area using prosaide. Under the silicone piece was a tube in place to release a "fresh blood" effect later on.

Photographs of the silicone piece sculpted and applied during the demonstration. Also a photo of the Bloody Marvelous product range used during the demo.

The event hosted by PAM was well attended by a range of makeup students mainly from LCF, all at different stages in their training. It was a really interesting session with Claire sharing her vast experience of SFX work while working methodically applying and creating the desired effect.

After colouring in the silicone piece using a flicking method and a Skin Illustrator Palette, Claire began to develop the colouring for wound before finally adding the Bloody Marvelous Wound Filler into the "open wound". The final detail was to use a syringe and release the runny blood through a tube directly under the silicone piece to achieve the fresh wound effect. Claire used the Bloody Marvelous Prop Blood to finalise this effect.

The Bloody Marvelous range of products are available directly in the PAM Makeup Store in London. Additionally you can check out this product line on the company website for Bloody Marvelous at www.bloodymarvelous.tv. 

Their website is informative and offers demos about the product range. 

I really enjoyed this session, learnt a great deal about this product range and would highly recommend this range to any SFX Makeup Artists kit. The team will be at the UMAE Trade Show in April . Check out www.umae.co.uk for more information on this. A big thank you to PAM for hosting this event and to the Bloody Marvelous team for showing us their range and sharing their expert knowledge.