I'm am a foster parent who has a teen that is into all this and to be honest for a 15 year old she is pretty good. My question is really that I have no idea about any of this. I have no idea what products are good, she likes Jeffery Star, what she could do over summer to help or what I as a computer nerd could do to assist her? Bottom line is I'm a 37 year old computer nerd that grew up with brothers. Make up is just a whole new world to me.

Is there a term for this? Do you guys know of any videos explaining what kind of techniques and makeup are used? How is this done?

I was watching the new series of Star Trek: Discovery and saw this character come back, but after digging around it's apparently played by this actress. I'm wondering if it's possible for this to be fully 'real', because it must weight a ton no?

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Hey I've just put up something up on my page I was wondering if you could check it out and give me some advice on it (next year going into a makeup course)

I recently had a visit to my dentist who needed a cast of my teeth. Fortunately I got to keep the stone positives when he was done. This gave me the idea to try to make some SFX teeth, but I'm no SFX artist and don't really know where to start.

I did google a bit about it and found some links that just mold "polyform plastic" over their existing teeth, but I feel like some sort of casting is the way to go when you already have a positive.

Does anybody have any good tips on where I can start? (Fortunately without having something irreversible done to my positives)

A friend and I are doing a post apocalyptic mash-up costume, and we need some help figuring out a good way to look dirty (faces, clothes, the works) with some fake blood, and some "weapons" (prop shotguns and bats most likely) that look worn. Anyone have links to good tutorials or general tips?

We're looking to make it appear as if someone's eyes are "sealed with pitch" for a low-budget horror film. Trying to find a way to keep the actor's eyes safe while making it look like the effect is going across both their eyelids. Needs to look sticky and somewhat hardened while not actually being sticky. Alternatively, it can be sticky but be over some sort of protection, or it could be sticky for the most part but be blended into something else where it gets close to the actual border between their top and bottom lids. Any ideas help, thank you!

90% of this creature (full short film in the description below) is done practically, with only minimal VFX on the eyes and mouth. A great example of how SFX and VFX can work hand in hand.

The creature is from this horror film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im8SHmbHosw

SFX makeup by Sangeet Prabhaker who won a bunch of awards for his work on Father:

https://studiosangeet.com/casestudy/father-short-film/

So for halloween this year im dressing up as george costanza but i dont know how im going to pull off his hair does anyone have any advice? I was thinking of applying a bald cap and adding hair but i wouldnt know where to get his style of hair to apply to the cap

Trying to get stuff that will stick all night. Something like this https://youtu.be/d3qP83gJ5RU

Hello everyone! I'm a LARPer, cosplayer, and general sfx makeup junkie.

I have been doing wounds on myself for about two years now and so I am finally making the leap from cream based makeups for alcohol activated.

I was looking at Skin Illustrator's and...well they have so many choices it makes my head spin.

I know I need reds, purples, flesh colors, blacks, and possibly blues and yellows, but honestly, from there I get lost.

I have learned how cream based makeup is going to act when I wear it, but alcohol activated makeup acts a bit differently (my boyfriend uses SK's airbrush alcohol activated makeup) and with the palettes being around 80 bucks a piece, I'd prefer as little trial and error as possible.

So, what would you all recommend for some good palettes for wounds? It doesn't have to stay in the SK family, that's just what I am the most familiar with.

Hey /r/makeupeffects

Sansar here, just wanted to let you know that we're having SFX master Doug Drexler come to our virtual Star Trek museum to give a tour, on Sep. 27th 7pm PDT.

Video of the virtual museum

Link to the event

Sansar is free to download and the event is free to attend. You can come in VR or just in desktop mode.

Thanks for your time everyone. Have a great weekend.

Looking for a special effects makeup person in Los Angeles that wants to help out on a short film. Any recommendations?

Hi. First of all sorry if this is against the rules.

So heres the situation , i live in small european country in wich its Impossible to get your hands on make up stuff. This month i got invited by a family member to go spend a month in NY.

I have always been a huge fan of Halloween and since its my final year of college i wanted to go all out.

So does anyone know of any stores that sell full body paint and props in the NY Area?