Good morrow!
Things have gotten better since the last depressing post (I'm so sorry for that!!), fun things have happened!!!
I went to the Neill Gorton Prosthetics Show in Birmingham with uni. Getting up at 6am was not very fun but I can't really complain because I got to nap on the very uncomfortable coach.
We got there at around 9am which was perfect as we were just in time for the first demo of the day. We all sat in this giant lecture room, cameras and microphones were placed at the front and on that stage was Neill Gorton himself accompanied by Rebecca Butterworth!! WTF!!! Ok, I was fan girling slightly at this point.Now if you don't know who Neill Gorton is, let me educate you: He is the creator of Millennium FX, one of the biggest companies ever. He's worked on loads of films such as Saving Private Ryan, Thor, Frankenstein, The wolf Man and also One Direction: This Is Us (Yes this is true!!) (he did loads more but I'm not naming them all, are you crazy??) he's also worked on loads of tv shows too: Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, Doctor Who, Torchwood and LOAAAADS more, he's also done the makeup for a Miss Lady Gaga, no idea who she is.. (LOL). Rebecca Butterworth is really well known in the fashion industry as she does all of the makeup for the catwalk. She knows whats in trend a year from now... It's like she can see in to the future or something?? Anyway, I sat in the perfect spot, I had a great view and waited for it to begin. Now, from the title of this post you may be wondering, the frick frack?? Yes, Rebecca sewed up the models face! Now don't be alarmed because Neill applied some prosthetic transfers that looked like bumps of skin to the models face, so in theory she wasn't actually sewing up the models real skin, I just thought I'd freak you all out and it helps for clickbait too, hehe.
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As you can see from the photo above, she literally sewed up the face. It was weird to watch but also oddly satisfying to see. She add beads to it and turned it into a beauty look.
Once the talk and demo was over I plucked up the courage to go and talk to Mr Gorton... I managed to grab a selfie with him too!! (Inner screaming)
There he is. The man himself. I was that excited to meet him I forgot there were really bright lights behind us making the photo a bit shit. BUT OMG I'M STANDING NEXT TO NEILL FRICKING GORTON!! Ok, annnnnd relax...
When all the excitement was over I went into the Monster Making room, yes that was the actual name of the room, cool isn't it? There were loads of masks and stuff placed around the room, with the name of the film or tv show they were taken from. It was weird seeing face casts of famous people with the masks that they actually wore!! Deadpools mask was there!!! They also had prosthetic pieces from Red Dwarf there (ask your dad about that one) and a giant beaver head from one of the old B&Q adverts!!
Once we'd finished looking at the cool masks we sat down at the front of one of the other demonstrations and then Stuart Bray came on, again let me educate you on who Stuart Bray is: He worked on Shaun of the Dead, Stardust and The Mummy Returns. He has also done the makeup for Game of Thrones!!!! YES!! He's also helped Greg Nicotero on The Walking Dead... Anyway back to it, he came on and gave a presentation on some wrinkled skin he did for a movie, it was gross but I loved it!! Once he was done I went to go and talk to him, by this point I had my courage up and felt like I could go and talk to anyone!! He gave me some helpful tips and tricks about making prosthetic pieces and flat moulds and then I asked him for a photo, he asked me whether or not I would like a beaver head in the background "even though it has nothing to do with my work" he said.
There he is, Mr Stuart Bray. Unfortunately you can't see the giant beaver behind us! But by God was I a happy camper after this. I said goodbye to him and wandered back to my seat where I sat grinning for about half an hour. Then we had some people come talk to us about the monsters on Doctor Who which is cool as I used to watch it a lot (When Matt Smith was the doctor) and they talked about how they made the costumes and how hard it was to walk in them, they talked about the Slitheen, not sure if you remember those horrible creatures but turns out there were people walking around in those costumes and they had to have the arms glued on so once they were in there they couldn't actually take them off until lunch time!
Then they talked about the Angles, you know the ones where you can't blink or they come get you... Turns out they are real actresses painted to look like marble status, my mind was blown as I had always thought they were real statues.
After that we did some shopping. I was in heaven!! There was so much fake blood, it was fabulous. I bought some to try and I still haven't opened it even though I'm really excited to see what it looks like. I bought one that is the exact same colour and texture of our blood when you first cut yourself!! How cool is that?
As I was waiting for my friends to finish shopping I see a guy with blue hair and a soul patch walk past me. I stop. Glued to the spot. It can't be?? OMG!!! It's Charlie Short, a.k.a Pinkstylist from Youtube. Now hold on a minute, you may be thinking I'm over reacting slightly but no I'm not. I've been watching this guy on Youtube for years!! He taught me so much, he taught me how to do drag makeup and cool body painting. My heart was beating so quickly as I made my way to him, I tapped him on the shoulder and smiled my biggest smile at him.. It was hard to get my words out, I was star struck. I told him how much I loved his videos and if I could get a photo with him. He said yes and he was so lovely!! He came across as really genuine. I got a hug from him too!!
After saying goodbye to him my heart was still beating incredibly fast. I couldn't stop smiling!!!! I felt like I had acted like a crazy person but he seemed ok with it, I posted this picture to instagram and tagged him in it, he had seen it and taken it and put it in a collage of people he had met that day!!!!! AHHHHHHH!!!!
Ok breathe, so yeah. After that we went back in to the giant lecture room and watched Neill Gorton and Rob Mayor do a full face of prosthetics!! It was cool how they made young girls look like old ladies.
Once it was all over it was time to go back to the uncomfortable coach, I tried to nap again but my body was having none of it. That's about it. The way back wasn't really that interesting. It was dark outside so I couldn't even glance at the landscape.
TADA!!! That's how my Saturday went.
Hope you enjoyed reading, I'll see you around.
Nadia xxx