Passion4makeup ‘Sian Richards’ a makeup artist feature

The Hourglass project is an entrepreneurial idea dreamed up by Nicole Klein, using her makeup talents and self-taught photography skills and combining them with an inspiring idea, she has forged a successful and fulfilling business in an a neglected area of female beauty.

I have always drawn and made creations from the age of eight, I embarked upon the serious study of art and history of art. I still continued to dabble in fashion and illustration, teaching myself the fundamentals of learning to research, design that lead to the development of my own unique style.

Mike Elizalde, a Los Angeles-based make-up designer, sculptor and animatronic engineer, has worked on more than 45 feature films.

This job makes me so happy. I love being able to use my creativity to enhance people’s looks, or transform them into different characters.

Stuart recounts as a successful prosthetic makeup artist his early influences. His popular work and the actors he has enjoyed working with in his varied career, and how embracing computer generated technolgy goes hand-in-hand with the latest prosthetic techniques.

Creating 'Jabba the Hutt' by John Coppinger

This is the story of how I sculpted Jabba the Hutt, as part of his construction team and one of the operators on set. I was working for Stuart Freeborn on ‘Return of the Jedi’, when the film was still called ‘Revenge of the Jedi’. That was in 1981.