Thank you for this! As a beginner, I only have one alcohol activated palette and struggle with skin color matching, so this helps a lot. You are my favorite sfx channel by far, I LOVE that you do advanced tutorials.
Freakmo I don't personally feel like you ramble, but even if you did it'd still be quite helpful lol. It's so hard to track down in-depth talk through videos that break everything down in a simplistic way ya know? Regardless, you're killin it :)
I finally got an external mic for my camera so I can do talk-throughs. I will need to work on not mumbling and keeping it more concise, it's actually quite different from doing voice overs after the fact (makeup-ing and talking at the same time = a lot of pauses). Also, my ad revenue is very low on UA-cam at the moment making getting supplies for videos quite difficult. If you'd like to help out the channel/donate towards future videos, my patreon page is: patreon.com/freakmo, a dollar a month makes a huge difference.
For skin tone matching videos I've been filming pale skin through to deeper skin tones, freckles, moles, tattoos, and hairy body parts. Is there anything else you can think of to include? Also if you're in Sydney and have medium to dark skin tones hit me up, I'd like to ad more/varying undertones.
I'm not even all the way through the video and it's already so insanely helpful. My color theory knowledge is lacking at the moment and it just feels overwhelming trying to go in and add all of the undertones but I feel like having this as a reference will be so useful.
I'd love to have more videos like these! It's really interesting to watch how you can achieve different tones by mixing those 4 colours and have them match your skin. Videos like these make the world go round.
Looks fantastic at the end. This really took me back to my college color theory course. A lot of people assume that you know exactly how much reds or greens you need and just whip it up. But it really is a trial and error process. Love that you showed that in the video.
idk sfx makeup for shit but i wanted to tell you that i love you and your patience and consideration for other really shines when you make videos like this. your voice is so nice to hear and your videos are so calming and informational.
Thank you for taking the time to make and walk us through how to make skin tones because skin tones can be so hard to make sometimes! I really enjoyed this video a lot!
Wow! This is a brilliant video. It really helps because I only have a few palettes and none of them that I have, have light skin tones! 🤣 I had no idea green is a color to add to make a skin tone 😮.
Your so amazing! I love that your professional and teaching people the correct and safe way on doing sfx Makeup. I'm so tired of seeing people that have no clue what they are doing acting like they are professional. Love you so much ❤
Hahah just go back to my earlier videos and cringe at how long it takes me to 'match' (followed by me removing the prosthetic and there being an entirely different colour skin underneath) :'D
This would actually be an awesome challenge: using only primary colours to do whatever you usually do on your channel. A whole lot of channels could do that be it a makeup artist, painter, nail channel or custom guitar builder. I really want to see that happen.
I literally thought the other day that I needed a video like this! You must have read my mind! I don't have any skin tone palettes so this is soooo helpful!
Thank you so much for this!!! I love all your tips for color matching and making things realistic. Its helpful to hear that seeing the subtle colors in skin comes with practice and that people aren't just magically gifted with perfect color sight hahaha Thank you!!
Thank you so much! This is just what I've been waiting to see. Tremendously helpful Kiana and I am looking forward to grabbing a palette and trying it out.
Thank you so much for this! I've been saving up for a while to get an alcohol palette so it will save me from getting two! I've been watching your UA-cam videos for a long time, I watch them all day everyday, lol ! Your incredibly inspirational! Without you I wouldn't be fulfilling a special fx makeup career at the age of 13 and only doing special fx for almost 1 year! It's crazy! I hope that one day you come to England and I can meet you, I would be speechless XD Thanks so much for everything you do! keep up the amazing work !
This looks awesome!!! 👍🏼💯 takes true talent to make art with the basics like that! You are such an inspiration and I love watching your content! ❤️❤️😃👏🏼
Flippin amazing! I have 0 knowledge on color theory or whatever ... I can't see how with primary colors you can get to a skin tone lol you made it lol so easy! So talented ! Dead on match !
Would love to see you work on some African skin someday, it's hard for me to really get that realistic skin tone on a black skin, any ideas you can share?
Yeah! The next video will have a few, just finishing up filming over the following weeks, keep an eye out :) As for using primary colours for it, just keep adding more blue, yellow, and reds, and it will darken the colour and then when it's around the right tone, then you can adjust the undertones (with slight more yellow, blue, or red) to suit the individual complexion.
Hey, great Video and I´m glad to found it. It´s my first time with these alcohol based colours and you helped a lot to find the perfext skin tone 🙂 Thx! ready for Helloween 😀
In my experience foundation doesn't sit well on prosthetics. It makes it look like the color is painted onto the skin rather then part of it. And if your going to use alcohol paints to add undertones or even just color from the wound it would probably mix with the foundation and not blend well at all. Grease paints would probably be a better alternative to alcohol paints then foundation.
If you're painting prosthetics the foundation won't quite sit right on top of the surface, it will give away where the prosthetic is. I think alcohol paints are best for silicone, PAX and alcohol paints for foam latex, and alcohol for gelatine or wax.
Yeah! Water paints tend to dribble a bit more, I don't know if that's quite the right word, but the isopropyl alcohol flashes/evaporates so fast that it's quick to leave the pigment, whereas water takes a while to evaporate so it can move around and leak into places you didn't want the colour, if you've really thinned it out.
Thanks freakmo! Have recently discovered your amazing channel. I have colour deficiency (r/g colourblind) so often have to base skin colour off others formula. Any more tips for Brown/olive skin?
To make it browner, just keep adding more red, yellow, and blue, and it will deepen the colour, then when you find the tone, then you can adjust the undertones by adding more green for olive, etc. I just did one using primary colours on a medium skin tone and will try to do it on a darker skin tone next week.
Yeah you can use gelatine as a beginner, in a flat mould made out of ultracal 30/plaster :) I will do a video on that soon (was waiting on the external mic to arrive)
I have a question: I'm trying to find more research on grease paint. So far I've seen people say it's a nightmare but they are not specifying if they are using it on bare skin or latex. I would just use it on liquid latex prosthetics. Do you think it'll be good for just that? If not, what other type of paint works really well with liquid latex?
It's what people used to use to paint foam and the like before alcohol paints existed, I think it helps to thin it out with isopropyl alcohol. It's quite thick and clings to the surface, so using things like pax or alcohol colours is usually easier. On top of plain liquid latex, I'd probably go for alcohol paints. If it's foam latex, I'd start with PAX paints first to prep the surface so the alcohol paints don't sink in too much.
Hi! Do you have any tips for painting skin with freckles? I am able to colour match my skin tone but as I'm quite freckley whenever I do a prosthetic on my face it looks so flat! Do you have to paint them on individually? Your videos btw have helped me an enormous amount over the years so I can thank you enough!! ❤️
Ellie Rowlands depending on how freckly (if that's a word) you are you can do some small ones or if you're more of a all of the face (like me) you can take a toothbrush or a paintbrush like she had a spatter it using your finger on the face and around try to match the colour of the freckles to your own mine are more green brown than grey brown :) obviously the closer you're doing it to the face the more concentrated they will be in one space and as Kiana said the more IPA you have the bigger they will be. Hope this helps and didn't make it even more complicated!
If the latex is really quite white, it might help to first use a PAX paint as they can pack in more colour, or just build up a lot of layers with alcohol so it starts looking more translucent like skin again
Hi freakmo I hoping if you could help I'm having a problem with applying encapsulated silicone prosthetics every time I try to melt the cap plastic the plastic would peel or lift and not stick to the skin or it would ball up and not move its really annoying and I have no I idea what to do please help
Wow! Your better than me by far! I'm a young viewer (10) and always loved makeup, now I love SFX makeup, I'm decent but hope to improve, one of my problems is not knowing what to do, usually I soak my cuts (fake ones, obviously) in fake blood and I'm done, but that's not how it should be done, any tips? Also I want some tips on matching deeper skin tones. (mines is in my profile picture, I know, great picture, huh?)
Does it bug anyone else that she doesn't clean her brush going pallet to pallet? Good tutorial, though. I usually start with an orange vase for European skin tones and slowly add blue. For African skin tones I start with purple and slowly add yellow. That's how I was taught years ago but I like how you explained your way better.
Thank you for this! As a beginner, I only have one alcohol activated palette and struggle with skin color matching, so this helps a lot. You are my favorite sfx channel by far, I LOVE that you do advanced tutorials.
Thank you so much, that means a lot!
Freakmo I don't personally feel like you ramble, but even if you did it'd still be quite helpful lol. It's so hard to track down in-depth talk through videos that break everything down in a simplistic way ya know? Regardless, you're killin it :)
I finally got an external mic for my camera so I can do talk-throughs. I will need to work on not mumbling and keeping it more concise, it's actually quite different from doing voice overs after the fact (makeup-ing and talking at the same time = a lot of pauses).
Also, my ad revenue is very low on UA-cam at the moment making getting supplies for videos quite difficult. If you'd like to help out the channel/donate towards future videos, my patreon page is: patreon.com/freakmo, a dollar a month makes a huge difference.
Freakmo cool! Also i really find your voice relaxing for some reason 😄 hehe
I didn't realise you have a Patreon page! Off I go... ;)
For skin tone matching videos I've been filming pale skin through to deeper skin tones, freckles, moles, tattoos, and hairy body parts. Is there anything else you can think of to include? Also if you're in Sydney and have medium to dark skin tones hit me up, I'd like to ad more/varying undertones.
This is so helpful for not just for sfx makeup but its also so helpful for paintings too!! Thank you so much!!😁
I'm not even all the way through the video and it's already so insanely helpful. My color theory knowledge is lacking at the moment and it just feels overwhelming trying to go in and add all of the undertones but I feel like having this as a reference will be so useful.
Yay I'm glad!! Sometimes I'm not sure if I'm rambling or if it helps haha
I'd love to have more videos like these! It's really interesting to watch how you can achieve different tones by mixing those 4 colours and have them match your skin.
Videos like these make the world go round.
Looks fantastic at the end. This really took me back to my college color theory course. A lot of people assume that you know exactly how much reds or greens you need and just whip it up. But it really is a trial and error process. Love that you showed that in the video.
Oh good!! Yeah I admire those that can get it right on the first try, I think it'd take a lot of experience and practice to get there
idk sfx makeup for shit but i wanted to tell you that i love you and your patience and consideration for other really shines when you make videos like this. your voice is so nice to hear and your videos are so calming and informational.
Thank you for taking the time to make and walk us through how to make skin tones because skin tones can be so hard to make sometimes! I really enjoyed this video a lot!
Wow! This is a brilliant video. It really helps because I only have a few palettes and none of them that I have, have light skin tones! 🤣 I had no idea green is a color to add to make a skin tone 😮.
Yeah especially for olive undertones!
Freakmo good to know! 😄
Your so amazing! I love that your professional and teaching people the correct and safe way on doing sfx Makeup. I'm so tired of seeing people that have no clue what they are doing acting like they are professional. Love you so much ❤
This was absolutely amazing! Everything was so straightforward and clear. A great help, thank you so much! 😊
YOU PUT THE NAUGHTY THOUGHTS IN MY HEAD! Once you said I know what it looks like I couldn't unsee it! HA!
Sh3ikha what does it look like?
I love how real she makes it looks . :-D
You make it look so easy!
Hahah just go back to my earlier videos and cringe at how long it takes me to 'match' (followed by me removing the prosthetic and there being an entirely different colour skin underneath) :'D
Excellent demo! I learn so much from you - Thank you!
didn't need to learn this for sfx but wanted to know it for painting better portraits :)
This would actually be an awesome challenge: using only primary colours to do whatever you usually do on your channel. A whole lot of channels could do that be it a makeup artist, painter, nail channel or custom guitar builder.
I really want to see that happen.
I literally thought the other day that I needed a video like this! You must have read my mind! I don't have any skin tone palettes so this is soooo helpful!
No worries! Glad it's helpful :D
Yes!!! I've been waiting for this video for so long, thank you so much for making it!! ❤
Glad you like it :D
Thank you so much for this!!! I love all your tips for color matching and making things realistic. Its helpful to hear that seeing the subtle colors in skin comes with practice and that people aren't just magically gifted with perfect color sight hahaha
Thank you!!
This is amazing, thank you so much for making this video, it helps for beginners like myslef and pros!
Glad it's helpful! :)
Love this I'm excited to see the other skin tones too! Super helpful you are great!
I loved this video, it was so so helpful, my selection of paints is very limited at the moment so knowing more about how to mix and match is amazing.
I enjoy watching your videos you always throw in some comedy and make it fun to watch.
Thank you so much for these videos. You inspire me so much!
You're so very welcome
i can't afford a lot of the palettes with colors close to my skin color so this is reslly helpful. thank you for this video!
Thank you so much! This is just what I've been waiting to see. Tremendously helpful Kiana and I am looking forward to grabbing a palette and trying it out.
I'm so glad it's helpful, thank you for the kind words :)
Sure thing!
Thank you so much for this! I've been saving up for a while to get an alcohol palette so it will save me from getting two! I've been watching your UA-cam videos for a long time, I watch them all day everyday, lol ! Your incredibly inspirational! Without you I wouldn't be fulfilling a special fx makeup career at the age of 13 and only doing special fx for almost 1 year! It's crazy! I hope that one day you come to England and I can meet you, I would be speechless XD Thanks so much for everything you do! keep up the amazing work !
Nice kind of challenge video ! And as always, it's entertaining, thanks for your work !
This looks awesome!!! 👍🏼💯 takes true talent to make art with the basics like that! You are such an inspiration and I love watching your content! ❤️❤️😃👏🏼
Thank you so much, that's so sweet
This came out fantastic!
This was awesome. When your real skin disappeared under the paint it was magic. Thanks for sharing.
I love you! Thanks for inspiring all! xox
YAY! FREAKMO VIDEO!
I didnt even know you could do this with primary colors! This is great
Omg, thats so cool 😄 i really enjoy your videos, love from Mexico😃💐
Thank you!
Commenting so UA-cams algorithms know people dig you're videos!
Haha legend!
So so super helpful! Thank you
Very educational color theory. Thanks!
Flippin amazing! I have 0 knowledge on color theory or whatever ... I can't see how with primary colors you can get to a skin tone lol you made it lol so easy! So talented ! Dead on match !
Would love to see you work on some African skin someday, it's hard for me to really get that realistic skin tone on a black skin, any ideas you can share?
Yes! I've learned to add more blues and greens for realism and reds/oranges as a base.
Yeah! The next video will have a few, just finishing up filming over the following weeks, keep an eye out :)
As for using primary colours for it, just keep adding more blue, yellow, and reds, and it will darken the colour and then when it's around the right tone, then you can adjust the undertones (with slight more yellow, blue, or red) to suit the individual complexion.
Yeah, I have medium skin and its a bit hard too, mines is in mine profile picture.
fantastic! really enjoyed it
this looks great! i love it!
Thanks!
Hey, great Video and I´m glad to found it. It´s my first time with these alcohol based colours and you helped a lot to find the perfext skin tone 🙂 Thx! ready for Helloween 😀
True artist right here
So I recently tried colouring wax in a basic skintone and this video helped me a lot :-) .
Nice work. I love the Erik Satie background music
WUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU FREAKMO VIDEOOOOOO!
I have a question? It it better to do it like this or use foundation? I'm honestly just really curious. Or is foundation not the best to use?
For prosthetics?
Knoppy id recomend a light, thin foundation for the base but using an alcohol pallet to add in the variation and details :-)
In my experience foundation doesn't sit well on prosthetics. It makes it look like the color is painted onto the skin rather then part of it. And if your going to use alcohol paints to add undertones or even just color from the wound it would probably mix with the foundation and not blend well at all. Grease paints would probably be a better alternative to alcohol paints then foundation.
If you're painting prosthetics the foundation won't quite sit right on top of the surface, it will give away where the prosthetic is. I think alcohol paints are best for silicone, PAX and alcohol paints for foam latex, and alcohol for gelatine or wax.
This is super interesting!! Thank you!! :)
Thank you so much! How would you match Asian skin tones?
You should make more of these and maybe do a video on how to sketch a portrait and paint it in if you can?
You always saving me! Thanks so much, can I make this using water paints?
Yeah! Water paints tend to dribble a bit more, I don't know if that's quite the right word, but the isopropyl alcohol flashes/evaporates so fast that it's quick to leave the pigment, whereas water takes a while to evaporate so it can move around and leak into places you didn't want the colour, if you've really thinned it out.
I still make mistakes but watch your videos makes me better its amazing!
Very lovely video
So helpful!! Thank you!!!
Thanks 😍😊
Thanks freakmo! Have recently discovered your amazing channel. I have colour deficiency (r/g colourblind) so often have to base skin colour off others formula. Any more tips for Brown/olive skin?
To make it browner, just keep adding more red, yellow, and blue, and it will deepen the colour, then when you find the tone, then you can adjust the undertones by adding more green for olive, etc. I just did one using primary colours on a medium skin tone and will try to do it on a darker skin tone next week.
Awesome video! Love the explanations for the colors you see :)
Yay! Thank you!
actually I don't really care about to do something with makeup but when you do something on video I am watch it in peace :))
can you do the same with mehron and graftobian color wheels? thats all I have plus mehron color mask pallet that came with my mehron sfx kit
Wow 😍
Is there a way to make prosthetics if I don't have silicone? I'm a beginner and do not have much to mess with yet.
Yeah you can use gelatine as a beginner, in a flat mould made out of ultracal 30/plaster :) I will do a video on that soon (was waiting on the external mic to arrive)
Freakmo thank you so much....I would love to make something out of it But I don't want to mess up something that out of my league
Erika Werkheiser I make my moulds with plaster and my prosthetics with SFX gelatin. Cost effective and still makes realistic effects!
Hii. Uhm How do you remove or lessen the shine of the latex? Anyways your videos are really helpful! It inspires me to do sfx makeup.
High can i use drawing pastal colours for skin blending
Freakmo where did you get your pallet?
Did you study SFX makeup at any school? If you did, which one? You are very good. I enjoy your videos a lot! :)
What type of paint do you used? Acrolic, water color?
this helps with painting
I have a question: I'm trying to find more research on grease paint. So far I've seen people say it's a nightmare but they are not specifying if they are using it on bare skin or latex. I would just use it on liquid latex prosthetics. Do you think it'll be good for just that? If not, what other type of paint works really well with liquid latex?
It's what people used to use to paint foam and the like before alcohol paints existed, I think it helps to thin it out with isopropyl alcohol. It's quite thick and clings to the surface, so using things like pax or alcohol colours is usually easier. On top of plain liquid latex, I'd probably go for alcohol paints. If it's foam latex, I'd start with PAX paints first to prep the surface so the alcohol paints don't sink in too much.
which is best fx color Palette for multi use in budget ? like in around 50 usd
Hi! Do you have any tips for painting skin with freckles? I am able to colour match my skin tone but as I'm quite freckley whenever I do a prosthetic on my face it looks so flat! Do you have to paint them on individually?
Your videos btw have helped me an enormous amount over the years so I can thank you enough!! ❤️
Ellie Rowlands depending on how freckly (if that's a word) you are you can do some small ones or if you're more of a all of the face (like me) you can take a toothbrush or a paintbrush like she had a spatter it using your finger on the face and around try to match the colour of the freckles to your own mine are more green brown than grey brown :) obviously the closer you're doing it to the face the more concentrated they will be in one space and as Kiana said the more IPA you have the bigger they will be. Hope this helps and didn't make it even more complicated!
Yeah spattering with a chip brush or toothbrush usually works, or a fine point art brush for larger/darker ones, or a bit of both :)
Love it
So I make latex prosthetics and I always have a hard time getting it to match the skin tone. Do you have any tips on how to do that?
If the latex is really quite white, it might help to first use a PAX paint as they can pack in more colour, or just build up a lot of layers with alcohol so it starts looking more translucent like skin again
Freakmo Thank you!
Hi
This water colour ?
Hi freakmo I hoping if you could help I'm having a problem with applying encapsulated silicone prosthetics every time I try to melt the cap plastic the plastic would peel or lift and not stick to the skin or it would ball up and not move its really annoying and I have no I idea what to do please help
What kind of cap plastic are you using, how many layers, how diluted, and painted it on or airbrushing?
Freakmo I use super baldiez, 3 to 4 layer, usually 1:1 ratio and I paint it on
Okay, do you have pics of it? if so email them to me at freakmofx@gmail.com and I'll see if I can work out what's happening
Okay I'm gonna send them
Wow! Your better than me by far! I'm a young viewer (10) and always loved makeup, now I love SFX makeup, I'm decent but hope to improve, one of my problems is not knowing what to do, usually I soak my cuts (fake ones, obviously) in fake blood and I'm done, but that's not how it should be done, any tips? Also I want some tips on matching deeper skin tones. (mines is in my profile picture, I know, great picture, huh?)
What was it you used to make it look glossy?
KY Jelly AKA personal lubricant. You get funny looks but it works well and is cheap
Freakmo I actually did not think about it. That's actually so great. Thank you!
Does it bug anyone else that she doesn't clean her brush going pallet to pallet? Good tutorial, though. I usually start with an orange vase for European skin tones and slowly add blue. For African skin tones I start with purple and slowly add yellow. That's how I was taught years ago but I like how you explained your way better.
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That cut sucks not to be mean but she’s done better
Also not to be mean, but the prosthetic looks like a vulva :).
Nonetheless she is still one of the best content creators out there.
The wound almost resembles lips from a "slightly" turned face. Know what i mean?