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Behind the Scenes Pics: 'Beauty in Ugly Times'
🕑 Added 2020-04-16 09:38:34 +0000 UTCHello lovely Patrons!
My next video is gonna be filmed entirely in my flat with no crew or producer helping me, because of <gestures vaguely at everything> I'm hard at work on it and just wrapped last night, so here's a peak behind the scenes!
Welcome to my bedroom!
Yes, the old bookshelf is back, though it's not the haphazard background it used to be! I arranged it much more like a set, and each item has a significance to the video (at least on the top two shelves, the others are just covered in my crap lol)
Here you can see the shelves in focus. Fun fact, that painting behind the flowers was painted by me! And yes, the flowers are supposed to be dying
But oh, did you think I was gonna slack off and do a bookshelf video? Think again! ;) Just cause I'm stuck in my flat doesn't mean I'm not gonna go extra! I waited until the Sun went down and the street outside was quiet and constructed a makeshift studio in my living room! The drama cannot be stopped!
That backdrop is actually just my duvet cover hung up on a rail, haha!
I call this look 'Mister Kintsugi.' Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold, and since the video is about beauty and ugliness I thought that'd be a good basis for a lewk 👀The other major influence was fashion designer John Galliano's work with Maison Margiela; I talk about it a bit in the video - Galliano uses a lot of asymmetry and ruggedness and contrast stitching, not your typical elegant beauty!
This is an old coat of mine that I slashed up and repaired with gold thread. It's all hand sewn and took me the better part of two days! There are over 70 metres of gold thread in it (gold coloured, not actual gold haha) and it goes over a black and gold waistcoat, a grey collarless shirt, and an old scrap of silk turned into a makeshift tie. I'm pleased with how it came together: it's quite striking and works well with the themes of the video but I was able to make it for less than thirty pounds out of what I had lying about the house!
Originally I was planning on having a gold eyepatch - I even got as far as making it - but I decided it was a bit much and would also make it difficult to operate the camera, so I went for an asymmetrical makeup look instead
Here you can see the makeup in detail. I started with my usual neutral face of primer, foundation, and concealer, but added an extra layer of paler concealer around my left eye as a canvas to paint on. Next I applied some black eyeshadow with a white highlight in the inner corner and thickened both brows with pencil. I realised that the creative impulse behind the eyepatch idea was a desire for asymmetry, so I added one red contact lens to honour that impulse and include a splash of different colour. The final step was the trickiest - I used a fine paintbrush to apply gold body paint in scars across my face. It was very fiddly but the end result looked fantastic! Had I been a braver man I might have shaved trenches into my eyebrow too haha!
It feels great to be creating again! I'm really happy with how this video is coming together and I've got some surprises in store for you, which you'll see when I post screenshots from the editing phase! $15+ Patrons will be able to see the video early, and for everyone else it'll hopefully be out sometime in the next couple of weeks!
Stay Healthy and Happy Everyone!
Olly XXx
Comments
The video was great! Really liked the example of perfume in there. Hitting us with the epic pro gamer tips.
Sascha Erni
Lovely duvet cover. :D
Heidi Hickman
Secondhand stores are fucking magical.
Sowmya Kumar
Hey Olly thanks so much for sharing these photos! I didn't know what kintsugi was until a year or two ago and I am so excited to see this video! I love the makeup you have done as well as the jacket. I also really enjoy what you accomplished set-wise in your apartment. Hope you are staying safe and well during this time!
Can I just say I've had the shittiest of shitty days, and your email made me smile. Thank you.
Cameron Paterson
There was an appealing simplicity to the old school bookshelf: a video that combines that with your current exemplary theatricality is an intriguing prospect
You need to list which make up products!!!! MAC or Nars, girl??!!
Philosophy Tube
It isn’t real haha, it’s made of wood and I got it in a charity shop for three pounds
Heidi Hickman
Is that a real kintsugi bowl? Are they ridiculously expensive, or just more expensive than regular pottery? I have wanted one for a long time but I'm afraid to even go looking, knowing that the prices will probably set off my anxiety.
typo Adventure
How wonderful that you're talking about wabi sabi now! I hadn't yet made the connection, but wow now that I'm thinking about it, that philosophy fits so well with current events. Love the makeup as well. (As a 30 year old, it fondly reminds me of Kakashi from Naruto.) Very nice. I can't wait to see it finished!
Mary-Ann Maronski
This looks like it's going to be so cool! The makeup look seems to make me think of David Bowie's Space Oddity look somehow, very nice. And you have a very pretty duvet cover too if you don't mind my saying.❤
Oh my god. You look AMAZING. That makeup must have been so much work!!! Philosophize me daddy <3
Euan Smith
This looks and sounds like it is going to be another great video. Your attention to detail is tip-top, as usual. I'm particularly taken with your 1990's X-Men Style on Mister Kintsugi. I could see you tangling with Gambit and Cable. They'd be throwing punches, while you'd be throwing shade.
Jessica Nicholson
Olly this is literally so cool and awesome looking !!! I'm majorly excited for the new video !!
