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FLIX INSTITUTE: Why use Royalty Free photos?

Mon, 25 Feb 2008, 06:13 pm
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A good friend of mine was once a student at a Brisbane Makeup School called Flix Institute of Makeup. After seeing my friend being taken for a ride by this place and left not happy with the quality of this school, I decided to do something that not many people have done before and RESEARCHED this place! I feel that it is important to reveal to anyone wanting to learn this craft what I have found and what this unprofessional place falsely displays to promote themselves. Firstly Flix Institute is a Makeup Training School which is run by a lady named Angela Waugh that also runs a business called Angel IFX that supplies makeup and hair services for weddings. The one thing that I would firstly like to bring up is that photos on the Flix Institute web site and the photos on the Angel IFX web site are "ROYALTY FREE IMAGES" this means that the photos of makeup that are obviously displayed to showcase what they can do are not and have not been created by Angela Waugh, any trainer or any artist or student! All these photos have been bought. This is a major red light to start with. On the Angel IFX website the following is said: "Over the last six years, Angel IFX have grown to become one of Australia’s largest hair and makeup Bridal Agencies. Our fully Qualified and experienced makeup artists and Hairstylists have all been trained by leading academies world wide, and have been called upon by such magazines as CLEO, Ralph and Black and White magazine to name but a few. Angel IFX consists of award winning and Internationally renowned Artists whose work has also features in such productions as Lord Of the Rings, Harry Potter, Anaconda II and House of Wax, and have also been requested personally by Paris Hilton and Kate Hudson, among others, for various red Carpet Events". If this place has been running for 6 years and has "INTERNATIONAL" artists, why is this site full of royalty free images? I would think that they should have enough photos of there own work to show case there skills?? With Flix Institute, the last place I would want to learn from is a place that displays only 10 photos of students work and the rest Royalty Free?? Below are the links to the royalty free photos used on Flix Institute and Angel IFX web sites. http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/object/3747159_the_beautiful_young_blonde.php?id=3747159 http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/relationships/weddings/brides/3084425_the_bride.php?id=3084425 http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/object/3977047_bride_and_groom.php?id=3977047 http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/gender/female/women/3428801_pearls.php?id=3428801 http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/object/4021853_bride_in_the_limousine.php?id=4021853 http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup.php?id=4366561

Pathetic - This is the TRUTH - read it before its gone

Thu, 15 May 2008, 04:41 pm
Walter Plinge
Angela you are a petty fraud. You know that you are the only one reading these posts and it just goes to show who you really are and pathetic you are. If I were you I would honestly quit with the childish games,and instead of wasting time with your personal vendettas, why don't you squeeze out a little more trust money from you husband to get another "award winning" business going. Because if you really want, I can open up every single reason for why your Fake Institute has been shut down. There are records from the Department of Education, and call attendances recorded by legal parties. Do you really think people are that naive. Not to mention the innocent people who you have personally screwed. Or how about the fact that you have no experience in the Film industry whatsoever, you think there's no record of you misrepresenting yourself to be in House of Wax and Harry Potter, and even more to the point no evidence of you even being involved with those films. If you really had an important role in those movies, you would at the very least be somewhere on the credits. Otherwise you have no business holding out yourself on that level as you done to each and every one of the students who paid their money to be scammed by you. Do you think there are no records of you from your tenure at STAR FX? Posting phony authographed posters which can be bought on eBay does make you a legitimate part of this business, it makes you a fraud, the type of person who wants to deceive people - hence the heavy use of royalty free people. Do you think people have forgotten your bullshit about your alleged New York deal or going to LA? Honestly, give me a break. You see the fact of the matter is you have no talent, no class, and no business sense. Throwing money at a problem doesn't do anything, and digging your self in more holes is only something that I would believe a bonehead like you is capable of. Do you think people cannot ask Jeff Flinton or Tyrone, what there opinion is on the matter. Or why don't reasearch every name and film you clamed to be part of. Hell if you were there pouring coffee i'll even take that.. It seems that all you can do is make up fake aliases to defame Shay Lawrence. And no i am not Shay Lawrence, but I have been at your crapshack for a long time. And you know, defaming Shay's name, doesn't change the fact that you will never ever mean anything in this industry. Believe me, anyone whos a somebody in this business knows what a fraud you are. And the people who do matter, believe me, your not even so much as a zit on their face. Thats how little anyone thinks of you. All the makeup, and push-up bras will not get you anywhere. And like I said if you think I'm kidding, if you think I haven't seen this before, and if you think I don't have the resources to expose you, then you are wrong. I'll even give you some free business advice, why don't you clam up, and use your money to invest in a different business. That is if you're not getting hammered with debt collectors, oh and by the way those records are accessible to. Now believe me when I tell you, I am watching you very closely. These people truly want to follow their dream because they have a passion, its not for fame or money, and its people like you that give this business a bad name, and why this post is necssary. For all those reading, please heed my advice before it is removed, research everything you can on Angela Waugh, call all that you can. She has no control over the records on her, and she certainly can fake them. Learn for yourself, make smart decisions and work passionately as hard you can. That is the only way you will succeed in this business, and certainly not following FLIX and Angela's garbage.

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