FutureBuzz - Student Magazine

HOW TO Always wanted to impress your friends on Halloween with the best make-up. Or simply wanting to try a new skill? Here's the most easy and simple way to get a super realistic looking SFX cut.

You will need- Ben Nye Nose and scar wax, Fake blood, Cream or alcohol-based paints if possible, however eyeshadows can work too.

Step by step 1.Take a small amount of the ‘Ben Nye Nose and Scar wax’ and roll it into a sausage like shape. Be careful to not over-roll the wax so it starts sticking to your hands.

2.Hold the wax onto the desired area and stick it to the face by blending the edges of the wax, use your finger dipped in a small amount of petroleum jelly to prevent your finger sticking to the wax.

3.Once the wax is stuck on, to make the cut look more realistic continue to blend it out, a top tip to help it blend is to use a small amount of moisturiser for easier movement!

4.Using any sharp object, create an indent in the wax so it looks like a realistic cut. Fray the edges using the same sharp object so the cut looks messy and random, because no realistic cut would look perfect.

5.Colour up around the outside by using anything you have available, cream paints, alcohol-based paints or eyeshadow will work fine if they are skin safe. Using reds, purples and blues will create a bruising effect and make the area look irritated and painful. Add a black or dark red colour to the deepest part of the cut to add depth.

6.Now for the fun part! Add as much blood as you desire into the indent of the cut. Be careful to not over-do it with the blood, as this will make the cut appear less realistic.

7.For an even more irritated cut appearance, I used a fan brush to create ‘scratches’ on the outside of the cut, to add more detail and realism.

Hopefully this can help you to start off your SFX journey!

These simple steps can be applied to any type of cut anywhere on the body, so you can experiment and test out your new found skills with lots of different types of cuts and grazes.

Mia Slater

Alisha Allen

Makeup Era’s Throughout the decade’s makeup has evolved significantly by what products we use on a daily basis and where each makeup product should be placed. Makeup throughout the era’s is a lot of fun to study as not only you get to prac�ce where the makeup should be placed but you also get to find out the history behind what products they would have used. When looking at different images or up closely, you can instantly tell which era it is from by looking at fine details of where the makeup is placed.

In the Renaissance period, makeup included using powders such as white lead and mercury, these are poisonous but people during this �me didn’t have any knowledge about them. In this �me it was the craze to have pale ivory skin, women who didn’t have naturally pale skin they would use white lead powder to achieve the look this would create a pale white face, their cheeks remained fair but some�mes they needed a pop of colour, mercury and the white lead powder would be rubbed on their cheeks to create what we would call today highlighter, they would also us this to create a bigger bust line too.

Eyebrows needed to remain light and airy, so they were o�en tweezed or even cut to make certain that they were not overly prominent.

Eyelashes were short and thin. Having a very high wide hairline was also a winner but people who didn’t have naturally high and wide hairlines would pluck them. Vermilion was commonly used on the lips, which could either be le� natural or �nted to full, highly defined, and luscious red colour.

Both men and women wore makeup in the Egyp�an era, they would wear dark eye makeup, this would shield their eyes from the sun, not only for this it would help them to be protected by insects and diseases, makeup wasn’t just used for protec�ng themselves on a daily basis but it would show their self- expression. Black and greens were used a lot as they believed that it was a form of protec�on and also black makeup was made by mixing galena which is a blue-grey mineral form of lead sulphide (which is poisonous) and soot of animal fat and kohl, which we s�ll use to this day, this was applied around the eyes to reduce the glare of the desert sun and to repel flies. The most common Egyp�an makeup look was black lines were drawn around the inner corner of the eye which were extended past the outer corner in a straight line, this is known as the classic Cleopatra style.

1920s makeup took off with the style which originated from the flappers, they would use heavy makeup, by using inven�ons from the 1910s of mascara, lips�ck, eyeshadow, pan-s�ck and compact powder by creators such as Max Factor and Maybelline, which we s�ll can find in a variety of stores today. Pale founda�on was commonly used along with the red bow shaped lip and kohl eyeshadow, drama�c blush and eyeliner, in order to look more a�rac�ve towards men.

The 80s, was the era of heavy tones of bright eyeshadow colours, the colour that was worn the most throughout this decade was electric blue along the crease and then applying a bright secondary colour above the crease, this was then le� unblended, then using heavy eyeliner and coloured mascara. Blusher was heavily applied just above the ears and then ran along under the cheek bones to li� the face. To summarize, the classic 80s makeup bag, this contained a tube of paste-like cover-up, a bo�le of heavy founda�on, a pressed compact powder, eyeshadows (mainly electric blue and yellow colours), a few eyeliner pencils (blue, purple and teal), a couple of blushers, a lot of mascara and a bunch of bright coloured lips�cks in the colours of red, pink and oranges.

To sum up, all the era’s would be a con�nuous cycle of trends, some of the techniques can be adapted to suite current trends today.

Olivia Bromilow

Following our recent work on hair and makeup through the ages I was parrcularly inspired by the vibrant colours of the 80s. The no holding back approach to colour especially when it comes to eye makeup was refreshing if not a liile over powering, but then that was the 80s... power dressing, bold eye makeup and BIG hair!!

I wanted to create a look using these elements but using a more modern approach.

My inspiraaon came from Clap for Carers, and supporting our incredible hard-working NHS. I wanted something that was bold and powerful but had sooer elements to bring it all together.

The blue was very on trend in the 80's and is an obvious nod towards the NHS, I wanted crisp, sharp lines to depict the seriousness of their work and soo blending to encompass the gentle nature of the hard-working doctors and nurses and all the key workers within our wonderful NHS. I love creaang bold looks and using the skills we have gained in our ďŹ rst year at Future Skills and being able to bring out my personality within my work

Paige Louise -the

owner of makeup brand p.louise, 26, from Manchester is some one I look up to as both a business woman and a person. Her mooo ‘aspire to inspire’ and the message she brings to her success that anybody can be somebody with hard work and determinaaon is what I love about the beauty community.Paige shares her experience growing up in a council estate in Manchester where her and her family had very few Manche belongings and almost no furniture , just a normal girl from Manchester with a dream.

She tells her followers to “Not be afraid and do it anyway.”.

Her success is remarkable! she has set up her own training academy and launched a now best selling and world famous, £10 eye-base that stops eye shadow from creasing and caking. In her first year she had earned over 6M and told her mother to quit her job as a nurse. The brand shows excellent inclusivity in there shade ranges and in their models used on their In Instagram page Emily Smith

How has Covid-19 affected the music industry?

You've literally been living under a rock if you don't know about this pandemic that has practically destroyed human life as we once knew it. It sounds dramatic but, there's no knowing how long we are going to have to live like this...seriously, it can change our way of life forever. Of course we all know how it has devastated the lives of families, whether it's unemployment or the loss of a loved one- we're all in this together. However, i want to talk about how it has affected the entertainment industry, the music industry specifically. All venues such as cinemas and arenas have closed until further notice due to the corona-virus, and it has put pressure on companies to stay open, the UK has only been in lock-down a few weeks and already companies are facing administration. This could seriously affect the entertainment industry if cinemas, arenas and other venues close down permanently, this could eventually mean the end of live gigs, concerts and film viewings etc. Hopefully it won't come to this but, you never know.

It is a strange thing our population is experiencing at the moment, but on the bright side so many good things have come to light because of it, i won't bore you with my passion for 'saving the earth' but our home is replenishing itself and i think that's something to celebrate. Many musicians have taken isolation as an opportunity to entertain us all via social media, nearly every night rock stars to country stars and DJ's to celebs with no music knowledge whatsoever have all come together to put

on concerts for us all via Instagram live, this is a good thing for so many reasons, it gives people a sense of hope that they may not go insane, it gives us the entertainment we are missing, it showcases our idols in a more relaxed environment and it's free! Many people simply can't afford to attend concerts, this gives those people a chance to watch their favourite jams be performed without even getting out of bed.

Another way that musicians have been making the most of a bad thing is by writing more original material, many artist don't write their own songs, they either collaborate or a songwriter gives them the song. However, self-isolation has encouraged many musicians to expand their imagination and create their own material.

This is very refreshing, though it mean song-writers may be out of work for a while.

It's not just Known artists either, your average people are keeping in touch with their creative side and have attempted to write songs about how the corona virus has effected them- discovering hidden talents.

All of this could mean that music that gets released is more stripped back and natural sounding rather than everything being perfected, we may even have some up and coming musicians making a name for themselves.

Finally, when this is all over i believe that business will be booming if this crisis hasn't already destroyed companies. I imagine that the whole world will just have one big party, concerts and raves with continue for

days. Since technology has taken over the world, streaming has been the way to go, this has taken away the fun of going to concerts etc, i hope that people will come together more than ever and the spirit of social events will be buzzing. Like Jessie J sang 'We need to take it back in time, When music made us all unite! And it wasn't low blows and video h**s, Am I the only one getting tired?'. Personally, i think we'll all celebrate new music and socialisation together better than ever before. People won't take little things like a new single or a song being stripped back and performed for granted. One day we may never see our idols live again for whatever reason and i think we'll all appreciate the amount of work that goes into a good song or a concert/festival a bit more.

Georgina Pearson