1983-89

These are the early years of my makeup life. I knew from the age of 13 that I wanted to be a makeup artist and since there was no internet or books in Swedish I had to experiment and teach myself everything. During these years I invented the wheel sooo many times. Would not want to do it any other way! Failure is a great way to learn. You just have to accept that failure is a good thing!
All my first masks. Most of them were made from bathroom silicone. 1983 or 84
I still have that hair dryer in my makeup kit today!
And all of these mask are…
This is my first ever attempt of a old age. It is slush cast latex painted with water colours. 1984
I am 14 years old here.
My first Freddy attempt, slush latex 1984
I am 14 years old here.
I can't even remember what I was thinnking with this one. 1985
I had an idea to make a werewolf transformation after seeing American Werewolf and The Howling but I didn't really understand that I wasn't the genious that…
Ballon bladders in the cheeks. Still just slush latex painted with my sisters water colours.
This was the first time I ever tried to make something a little bit more 3D. So this is a slush cast latex mask which the snout was filled with a very hard…
Look at the seamless mix between the mask hair and my own hair. Yeah!
After seeing Hellraiser I just had to have a go at doing a skin less face.Slush cast latex. Also check out the wallpaper behind me.How could my parents sleep in…
Do you remember the old film "House" 1986?? There was a really cool zombie soldier in it. I loved it and tried to make my own version of it and attached little…
Here you can see my collection of home made latex masks and moulds. 1987
I can see a few in there that I never tried. In the middle there is a Roy Ashton…
My first bald cap and my first teeth made from bathroom silicone.
I took the plunge into foam latex sometime 1986 and this is my first ever try. Of course it had to be an old age. Dick Smith was already then and will always be…
And then a quick try at some kind of humanoid wolf. The foam was R&D. A 3 component foam that succeded quite often. It took me 3 months to order the stuff from…
An attempt to make myself into my Dad. 1985
Foam latex monkey. 1986
Glued down with spirit gum it was not a plesant experience to remove things. Also on this picture you can see how much liquid latex I put on top of the foam and…
My first stage play. It was called "Härliga tid som randas" and was about a nuclear holocoust. So I had to make a whole bunch of radioactive scarred…
Some first attempts of age makeup for the stage.
My first corpse! He should have died from radiation and burns. I made the whole body from scratch with builders poly foam and a latex skin on top.