#makeupforfilm

Magnificent Seven*

The bake off for the Oscar for ‘Best Makeup & Hairstyling 2019′ has begun with seven fantastic films, with seven incredible Hair, Makeup & Prosthetic Designers nominated to make it through to the next stage of the Oscar award winning process. From gender changing prosthetics, to re imagining icons and so much more the 7 films in the bake off truly are a showcase for the amazing work in Makeup, Hair & Prosthetics across 2018. 

The nominees are :

Black Panther - Bohemian Rhapsody- Border- Mary Queen of Scots- Stan & Ollie- Suspiria-Vice. 

For more information on each film on the depth, detail and design process behind each marvellous makeup nominated, head to Makeup Artist Magazine online where you can read about each individual film and why it has made it to the bake off stage. 

We at The Mill wish all nominees the best of luck! 

Lovely Laura*

Finally, a kit bag designed by a Make-up Artist and what a killer of a kit bag it is!

Designed by professional MUA Laura Hill this unique, clear bag on wheels is set to totally revolutionise how you pack and more importantly, un pack your kit! Laura found, as do many other makeup artists, that routing around in a dark suitcase for your kit isnt ideal when trying to unpack and pack up quickly.

Buying additional storage to organise your kit inside can usually be costly and cause confusion when you can’t find what you need in a cramped crowd room or when you get up at 3am and your eyes aren't quite open yet. 

So to solve that ‘too dark’ problem as she calls it, Laura has turned on the lights (quite literally having a light bulb moment) to your kit by having clear bags attached to a larger bag on wheels, meaning you can see all your kit at all times but also you can detach what you need quickly whilst the trolley element means transporting your kit is a walk in the park. 

To keep inside the bag perfectly organised, she has also designed interior bags to fit exactly inside the trolley, keeping it easy to pack away again at the end of the day. The individual bags, which come in 4 different sizes, are transparent too, all finished with her signature red trim to stand out from the crowd.

We at The Mill love supporting small businesses and as we have our company The Makeup Mat too just launching we feel more MUAS should take those on set ideas and make them happen, solving those problems that professional MUAS have day to day and benefiting the industry way way into the future. 

We wish Bags By Laura the best of luck and we will absolutely be representing the red as soon as we return to the uk.  

Tops Towels * 

Actors love a hot towel at the end of a day, it's that little pick me up that makes them feel fresher than a baby's bottom as they step off your trailer plus it also keeps their skin in tip top shape for filming! 

Now, as many Make-up artists know from the time the flannel pings out of the microwave to when you run with it like a hot potato in your hand to the other side of the makeup bus that as it touches your actors skin it is either scalding hot or freezing cold. Using a microwave to heat towels is also not that hygienic after heating up your microwave curry and towels often linger getting damp and dirty. 

We at the Mill think we have found the perfect little towel heater that will remove your towel woes and a days worth of makeup too! So cheap and compact is the ‘Warmies Wipes Warmer’  that every makeup station on your makeup bus can house one neatly, without taking up too much room and is always full of the perfect temperature towels all day long, so for a midday derig or end of the day cleanse they are always at your finger tips.

As this is designed for babies it is super hygienic and the towels are kept at the right temperature, so no scalded hands or frozen faces.

Easy as A & B*

Want to create a realistic bleeding effect without a blood rig? Want to have your actor touch a sharp object and it really look as if they cut their finger in action? Well look no further as we at The Make-up Mill have found what we think is one of the coolest, yet practical blood products on the market.

You really do have to see this product in action to see how truly amazing it is, but we at The Mill will try to explain it as best we can to you.

Simply put a dash of part A on your actors skin, it is invisible when dry to the naked eye, then a dash of part B on the object the actor is meant to cut him or herself on, touch part A and part B and all of a sudden, as if by magic when the two parts meet, they activate and turn into running blood.

No way?! We here you say. Yes way we say! Not only is the effect amazing but the colour of the blood is so realistic and when it dries it has that yellowish red undertone that real fresh flowing blood has!

Don’t beleive us, try it for yourself and you’ll never look at blood effects the same again. No more cutting between takes to set or dress blood, the actor can simply activate the trickling blood fx themselves!