A Family Affair by celebrated Dutch makeup artist Ellis Faas. Her brother is the model and her daughter created the music. Faas says, "As a late teenager, I visited the Tate Gallery in London and was blown away by a Francis Bacon triptych. It made a great impression on me because of the use of colour - it was unnerving and stunningly beautiful at the same time.
Bacon inspired many experiments I did over the years."
(via The FaceCulturalist)
posted by madamjujujive
on Jan 15, 2013 -
7 comments
Twenty-six-year-old fashion model Rick Genest, who starred in Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" video and walked Thierry Mugler Men's Fall 2011 runway,
puts Dermablend's concealers to the test in the brand's "Go Beyond The Cover" campaign.
A team of three makeup artists worked in just one day using about 4 tubes of Dermablend Professional Leg and Body Tattoo Primer and Leg and Body Cover to conceal Genest's skeletal tattoos from the waist up. In the jaw-dropping, three-minute clip, we see the final result.
posted by Leisure_Muffin
on Oct 21, 2011 -
95 comments
He told me his gorilla suit had been taken by his landlady in Pensacola, Florida because he could not pay his back rent. She kept his trunk with all his possessions as well. So his movie days were over...
A brief, thoughtful recollection of the last days of the elusive
Emil Van Horn, who, with pioneers like
Charles Gemora,
Ray "Crash" Corrigan,
Steve Calvert,
George Barrows,
Janos Prohaska, and
Bob Burns, established the
golden age of
Hollywood gorilla men.
posted by Chinese Jet Pilot
on May 19, 2011 -
7 comments
"Make-up is great. It is a powerful tool, a way to express yourself, your mood and interior life. But, when you can’t go without something, it loses its spark." We are two days into Rabbit Write's
NO MAKE-UP WEEK.
posted by hermitosis
on Sep 21, 2010 -
227 comments
Taaz is a fun, easy-to-use website that gives women the opportunity to “try on” the hottest makeup and hairstyle looks from the convenience of their homes. From creating the perfect smoky eye to painting on a dramatic ruby-red lip for a night out on the town, taaz.com allows women to become their very own makeup artist and create the perfect look for any occasion. [more inside]
posted by Dave Faris
on Apr 4, 2008 -
22 comments
If you know monster makeup, you already know the name
Jack Pierce, who created the makeup for
Frankenstein's monster,
The Wolf Man,
The Mummy, and
many others. But Pierce's career with Universal Studios, for whom he created these masterpieces, came to a sudden, and unexpected, end when, in 1945, he and his entire staff were fired.
The trouble? Pierce's methods were time-consuming and painstaking, involving, among other things, building up his creatures features with cotton and
collodion, a process that took many hours. Universal had
fallen on hard times, with mergers, sales of its catalogue, and the loss of its 1,500-screen theater chain bringing the bean counters to the fore. They wanted to cut back on Universal's grand-spending ways, and out with the bathwater went the baby.
The sorts of makeup men the bean-counters like were
George and
Gordon Bau, two brothers from Minnesota who had worked at
Rubbercraft and brought with them a knowledge of how to make reusable appliances from cheap, lightweight
foam latex. Their major accomplishment was
House of Wax (1953) and they revolutionized the industry (Dick Smith's work in
Little Big Man would be unthinkable without it, as would the entire career of
Rick Baker. Best still, it's now possible to buy
monstrous and
gruesome rubber appliances right off the shelf.
posted by Astro Zombie
on Jun 18, 2006 -
27 comments
Permanent Makeup. Look like yourself, only better!
Many of Nancy Ruth's clients are tired of applying eyebrow pencil day after day. Or they don't want their eyeliner to smear every time they cry at a movie or rub their eyes.
posted by fizz-ed
on Jul 1, 2004 -
33 comments
Kabbalah is the new Scientology "The Rav" - Born Feivel Gruberger in Brooklyn, was an insurance salesman before leaving his first wife and children to reinvent himself as a modern spiritual guru. He runs the Los Angeles-based Kabbalah Centre. When Berg blesses ordinary spring water, it apparently becomes "infused with kabbalistic meditation . . . for healing, well-being and rejuvenation" - qualities that are neatly marketed in his exclusive make-up range, which includes a "restoring night cream" at £80 and a £91 eye-cream.
posted by suprfli
on Dec 18, 2003 -
13 comments
