Extreme Weight Gain

weight gain a plague that affects 58% of woman and 68% of men in the UK, according to NHS England.

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Why are these statistics so high? More importantly why is the study of Weight gain make up skills  so important for TV and Film? 
Well in this blog i will be searching for the answers. 

I see in society there is a stigma about why people are over Weight, its commonly put They eat to much and don't exercise enough, But is it really this simple for everyone? Recently scientist have proved that there are many more reasons why people are obese such as genetics, medical conditions and hormone imbalance. Another factor to why people can gain weight is psychologically, Clinical psychologist Dr Jeremy Gauntlee-Gilbert wrote a book about how CBT can assist people with loosing weight and how many people eat their emotions.

  From reading peoples opinions on social media, to dealing with my own struggle to loose weight, I know first hand how unsupported and lacking compassionate people can be regarding obesity.   

'Torturing overweight people is one of the last acceptable forms of bigotry.'(Deborah Schurman-Kauflin PhD,2012)

I this this quote sums it up for some primitive  reason humans love to pick apart others, it makes them feel better about there own issues, but what is surprising is that unlike other prejudices it still seems to be socially acceptable to make fun of people who are overweight. 

so for this reason we have a lot of shows that will fatten up a person in comedy sketch shows, or TV series but the make up department also plays key roles in films where the character will have lost weight or gained weight for a number of reasons such as a medical issue, getting older etc. But how do they do it? It can be one of the most convincing
effects.
 

one method a make up artist will give the illusion that an actor has packed the pounds on  is by using expendable Foam prosthetic's they will them be added to the actor and painted with PAX paint ( 50/50 mixture of Pros-Aide brand prosthetic adhesive and Liquidate acrylic paint .) to give the true illusion of skin this can be a very long process applying the prosthetic but in films such as The Nutty professor or shallow hall the final look is truly astonishing.