These are my very first attempts at some make-up FX.
I had no idea what I was doing really. I think I'd read in a magazine that you could do make-up FX with latex and cotton wool. I just covered my arm with the stuff, dried it with a hair-dryer, and then painted it with some grease paint make-up.
I can't remember exactly, but I'd say this was done at around 1990. I was maybe 15 or 16 years old. Back then, it was pretty much impossible for me to find out how to do make-up FX. I would buy Fangoria magazine, and Gorezone, and look at pictures of make-ups being applied, photos of them being sculpted and moulded, but it was still hard for me to fully understand how it was all done. I had no idea where you could buy any of these materials such as clay, latex, grease-paint, moulding plaster, in the UK.
By chance, when I was in Middlesbrough making my monthly visit to a comic book shop there, I walked past a shop called Backstage, which sold costumes etc for kids that were learning dancing. In the window they had a small selection of theatrical make-up. So I went in and asked if they could get me some grease paint make-ups etc. They could! and gave me a small catalogue for a little supplier that they used. I was finally able to get my hands on some proper make-up and even small bottles of latex. So that finally got me started.
