article_snippet.sent: However, Abi's talents stretch beyond mangled makeovers having worked in theatre and helped out on film sets and Abi says that Abi work can involve beautifying rather than horrifying a client.
article_snippet.sent: Abi told Movie Pilot: 'I am constantly building up my portfolio as a make-up artist.
article_snippet.sent: my portfolio includes what I like to call, 'pretty make up' such as bridal and special occasions, but more importantly from blushing bride to bleeding eyes I specialise specifically in special effects creation of realistic wounds, injuries and traumas.'
article_snippet.sent: Abi says that Abi was inspired to go into stage make-up by Abi family who worked in showbiz .
article_snippet.sent: As well as Abi gory recreations Abi works as a general make-up artist for weddings and events .
article_snippet.sent: Yet while Abi's love of re-creating serious injuries may seem ghoulish, the make-up expert's interest is informed by Abi unusual background growing up in a theatrical family.
article_snippet.sent: Abi grandparents owned a circus, Abi father was a real life cowboy, stuntman and prop maker and Abi mother started out as a stylish stage hypnotherapist and went on to become the first female escapologist.
article_snippet.sent: Abi watched her father transform Abi into different characters and Abi studied her mother while Abi applied stage make-up.
article_snippet.sent: Abi says that Abi used to watch her mother apply stage make-up as a child .
article_snippet.sent: Abi said: 'I’d have loved to have been in on those early planning sessions.
article_snippet.sent: The make-up team must have been in The make-up team element and I can only imagine how fun and rewarding working on such a film was, now something like that is where I want to be!'