OUT OF KIT "CUTS"
3 DIFFERENT SFX MATERIALS
Ben Nye Scar Wax | Rob Whitehead Silicone | Mouldlife Sculpt Gel
Following products are quick ways to create sfx cuts, wounds or other special effects.
I enjoy testing sfx prosthetic material in order to get more knowledge about the different products on the market.
There are popular sfx beauty brands who manufacture special effect products since decades and these products are still bestseller as of today, for reasons! Sometimes it is very useful to work with basic or old school material, for example the Company Kryolan is on the top of the beauty sfx market for many decades and I love their products so much BUT I also saw a few new creators on the market who put extra science into the their fx materials and specialize in specific categories for example Christian Tinsley, - An award winning Makeup Artist, produces outstanding Pro-Bondo transfer material aka - PTM.
Makeup artists with decades of experience who create their own products - this is my kind of people. They know exactly what is missing on the market and what would it needs to get a product changed to achieve more beneficial results and more realistic looks on HD cameras.
Those highly skilled artists do this for such a long time, they figured out under hardest conditions e.g. on a movie set - how to make prosthetics work and look their best! This is incredibly inspiring to me and I definitely have the desire to be on top of the game in the sfx makeup world!
Watching videos , educating in schools or reading informative books about TV and Film Makeup is for sure not enough, it needs TRAING, TRAINING & TRAINING which never ends.
Let me share with you 3 quick Out of Kit sfx prosthetic materials in comparison to each other
1 | Ben Nye Scar Wax (USA)
Wax applied + translucent powder
2 | Rob Whitehead Silicone out of a tube (UK)
Silicone applied + translucent powder
3 | Mouldlife Sculpt Gel (UK)
Similar to the popular 3Degree Silicone (A+B) but a different texture as the name suggests. Mouldlife Sculpt gel offers 3 parts material A+B+C, the 3rd part C is especially made if you need more flexibility or stretch on certain body areas for example on the neck -> A + B and on top in equal parts mixed plus the C material which provides the flexibility to stretch skin better. without problems.
Gel applied + translucent powder
