What happens when you hire Folie FX?
The key is to prep ahead. When you hire Folie FX, we get to work behind the scenes, making sure to think of all possible scenarios ahead of time, so that there are no surprises on set.
We get to work in our Folie FX workshop ahead of the shoot date. For our faux tattoos, we draw the design exactly as it would be created in real life, followed by a colour study and stencil creation. For our prosthetics, we sculpt, mould, and cast the pieces to fit perfectly. With all technical obstacles figured out beforehand, Folie FX is able to give 100% focus on the application days, making sure everything looks completely seamless.
The end goal is to fool the eye, we want someone to see our work and believe it is entirely real. With the shift in camera technology, we know how important it is to achieve a level of quality that looks on par with the real thing.
All tried and tested, we use only skin-safe inks, silicones, and adhesives. With proper care and depending on the placement, our faux tattoos can last up to 7 days, while our prosthetic appliances are designed to stay completely secure for the full duration of your shoot day. For tattoos, avoiding water and friction will extend their lifespan, and they can be easily removed with alcohol. For prosthetics, we use specialised, skin-safe solvents that gently dissolve the adhesives, ensuring a clean and safe removal process.
Cam
Cam’s first introduction to makeup was back in Brazil, spending her teenage years doing SFX makeup for friends on Halloween. From then on, her passion for the arts continued to flourish, leading her to formalise her training with a UAL Level 4 Professional Diploma in Hair and Make-up, Costume and Special Effects Makeup. This naturally led into a love for cosplaying where Cam hasn’t stopped creating her own versions of different characters, learning how to build props, sew, and find new ways to perfect her skills with different techniques.
With a great ability to think on her feet when unexpected issues arise, keeping calm and focused, Cam understands the importance of what it takes to have things run smoothly both behind the scenes, and on set.
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Ange
Ange has been tattooing for over 16 years now, and got into the industry from a young age after doodling designs for her big brother to get tattooed. From this point, she became obsessed with the idea of being able to create custom designs for people and drew and drew until the hard work paid off.
Having worked in some of the top London tattoo studios during her career, aswell as tattoo conventions, Ange found these were the perfect places to get used to working under pressure whilst remembering to have fun. Funnily enough, not dissimilar to creating faux tattoos on set.
When Ange isn’t tattooing, she’s making art in other ways. The main two being pencils on wood, and airbrush. The fascination with airbrushing is how the seed of Folie FX was planted, and eventually Ange began seeing how much she could fool the eye into thinking an airbrush tattoo is a real one. And who better to create the tattoos you see on screen than someone whose whole world has been drawing and tattooing, with the understanding of different styles, how tattoos flow best with the body, and how they heal on different areas over time.
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