Make-up Artist Charlie Short

I have known my best friend for so many years now - 18 years to be precise - and he's always been a creative soul who enjoyed drawing and making things. Together we made home videos, stories and animations, so it's no surprise that he took the creativity route when choosing his career path.

His is currently studying make-up and special effects at Leicester University.

I'm aware that this blog is slightly different to my other blog posts, but I really do think he deserves a mention and some advertising (and not just because he's my life long friend either!) He truly has a talent and, more importantly, really, really loves it. He is always striving to improve and is constantly practicing on himself, his partner, his classmates and of course...me!

His course is going to end soon, so he's partnered up with YouTube and is currently giving tutorials online, has his own website and is trying to go freelance in the hopes of pursuing a successful career in the makeup industry.

Because he has specialised in not only make up, but special effects, body painting, and character/theatrical as well, this means he has so much more to give. So whether you want to have someone do your makeup for your wedding or photoshoot, or you want to hire someone to do special effects/character makeup for a theatre production/TV, or for a child's birthday party...Charlie Short is your man.

Here are some pictures to show what he can do.

Special Effect Body Painting

Photoshoot makeup

Body Painting

Avant Garde makeup

Avant Garde Makeup

Photoshoot

Special Effects Burn Victim

Charlie Short at work!

Money Success Fame Glamour

Character and Theatre

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...There's so much more to show you, all of his links are at the bottom of this page if you wish to check out more. As well as makeup, Charlie has also been trained with hair too. In the Avant Garde photos (they're of me, by the way) my hair was styled by him.

Here's an example of one of his tutorials. As you can see, he's a really friendly, approachable person with a very bubbly personality!



So, if you need anyone to do some makeup for you, please drop Charlie a message! On his website, you can see more photos and read about his experience. If you want to contact him, you can do that through his website!

LINKS
www.charlie-short.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/Pinkstylist

"Eat sh*t and DIE!"

Okay, so a while back I had a miniature crush on Orlando Bloom (it lasted about 2 weeks max) and I ended up YouTubing him. Now, Orlando Bloom plus Graham Norton equals WIN. I think Graham Norton is absolutely hilarious, so I knew that this video would be worth watching, and boy is it! It doesn't matter how many times I watch it, I still laugh.



You laugh, because it's funny, but if you took two steps back to study these people's behaviour you have to question about the mentality of some people. There are fans, and then there are deluded people. So maybe Orlando DID buy that girl a Cocktail, but for someone to say "I know I'm gonna get him!" is just going way too far.
So perhaps they were joking, but there are people out there who are really like that and it's very concerning. People need to know the difference between fantasy and reality.

This is why it bothers me when people call me an Obsessive Mika Fan. What the Hell? Compared to these, good Lord no! I treat Mika with utmost respect and in real life I barely mention him at all. I certainly wouldn't go around pretending to be his girl because I think I know what his favourite vegetable is. It's ridiculous.

And we do joke on the Mika Fan Club. A lot. But we're not deluded, we know we're horsing around. Unfortunately the video above seems to be quite genuine, and I hope the girls on that forum feel embarrassed because the entire nation was laughing AT them. Stupid girls, indeed.

Funny though, there are some classic quotes from there and Graham Norton makes hilarious impressions. And Orlando really took it on the chin.