Make up look with pretty products from SugarPill Cosmetics, Illamasqua, LimeCrime and Bleach.

Hello my lovelies, so this is a quick little blog relating to some products I have been using recently. I will be posting another blog about the SFX demonstration I lead during Industry Week at Blackburn College as well as the Evil Goblin Character I completed but I have been a little busy lately and I feel like I haven’t been blogging enough about makeup looks and products used.

So on Saturday, I decided on this little makeup look...

 

 

It’s simple but I think the splash of colour works really well with the dark blend.  The eyes shadows used were +Sugarpill ’s Heart Breaker Palette, which I have reviewed in the past and I have to say…its still one of my favourite palette’s to use because the pigmentation is so amazing! In this look I’ve used Mochi for the inner corners of my eye as well as blend of 2am and Poison Plum (from the Burning Heart Palette, also by Sugar Pill for my purple eyebrows. The black colour that's blended out is Illamasqua's  Obsidian, which is as black as anything! Its is the truest black I have ever used in eye shadows. I also used a little bit of Illamasqua's white eyeliner (Scribe) along the black eyeliner applied which makes my eyes look bigger.

 

The cool thing about this look is that you can use other bright colours in the corners of your eyes to get that pop, I chose this colour cause it matched my Iron Fist dress I was wear that day.

For the lips I used +Lime Crime Poison Berry mixed with +illamasqua  ’s lip pencil in Assert, which creates a beautiful pinky purple effect. Love the pencils that Illamasqua do, they are soft highly pigmented and no drag on the skin when applying! Fabulous product! This lipstick is the first Lime Crime lipstick I have got, and I do plan to buy more but there is some much choice in colours! The staying power of the lipstick is pretty good and unlike some other lipsticks on the market it moisturises your lips and doesn’t dry them out due to the staying power elements. Poison Berry is such a beautiful colour on its own, with the lip liner underneath, it’s got a metallic purple  effect that buildable in colour.

I have also been testing out a new hair dye product by +BleachLondon . Now I have to admit the name put me off a little bit, just sounds a little harsh for a semi-permanent hair colour but I gave it a go. I really want some more colours in my hair other than red, which I’ll probably never get rid of. I went with the colour “Out of the Blue”, similar blue colour to “Velocity” from the Sugar Palette image above. I only wanted a few strands of hair coloured towards the front so when I do my vintage styles it picks up the colour and adds some contrast…the blue turned purple….yeah basic colour theory for you there! Seems my rather dominant red hair mixed with the lesser strength blue and create purple. Am not complaining, it looks good and am going to attempt it again when my red has faded a little.

Bleach is in fact  the name of a London based hair salon that specialises in colour and have released a selection of bright, pastel coloured hair dyes which are Semi permanent dyes which supposedly fades out in 2-10 washes depending on the colour intensity as well as a few other hair related products.

 I figured that this product would be best to “test” out a few brighter colours to mix in with the red for a little more variety, I bought the product from Boots, for a nice £5.

 

So that’s all the fun of the fair this weekend, oh and I will be attending +United Makeup Artist Expo  in London this year in April, my first one! Uber excited but I’ll post about that later to the date. All I can say is…….

I LOVE WIGS UP NORTH!

Ciao, for now my lovelies.

xRx

p.s. Interested in buying Sugar Pill cosmetics...click the link at the top of the page, check them out for yourself. You won't be sorry!

Creative Make Up Demonstration; "Warrior"

Last week I was a busy bee; doing creative fashion demonstrations as well as SFX demonstration with a variety of students from Blackburn College, from my fabulous media makeup students to hair and beauty students.

It was an extremely long week, but I got to meet a lot of new students and speak to those who were interested in joining my media makeup band of merriness. In this blog I’ll be covering my creative makeup session and what I created for the students which included the use of the headdress I created and spoke about in previous blog.

So the whole theme for this creative makeup demonstration was “Warriors”, I always like the creation of strong looking images using creative makeup techniques and figured that this would inspired the students to create and imagine. My design focused on inspiration taken from Japanese Theatre, Kabuki in particular as I absolutely love the masks worn. It’s an idea that’s been floating around in my head of a long time and I wanted to challenge myself with creating a headdress. The main inspiration for the headdress focused more on dark nature and creating a bit of a contrasted between the structured, edgy makeup design and the natural, almost softened effect of the headdress.

 

The techniques that I wanted the students to have a play with was primarily creating distinctive patterns using eyeliner, as it’s something that most students fear. I use several brushes to create the detail work; flat angled brush, thin round brush and medium round brush but it is up to you the artist to find a brush that you feel comfortable with using. In order to get the straight lines the main 3 lessons are use guideline dotes, use an anchor point created by your little finger and practice. It’s all about building your confidence and reducing that shaky feeling where you stop breathing when applying!

 

 

 

The base colours were applied using manual buffing of cream foundation mixed with applying airbrush, MistFX red. The reason why I used a mixture of the two was because only my media make up level 3 students are trained to use the airbrush equipment and so I wanted the other students to have a techniques that they can apply. I will admit I absolutely love airbrush application, it quick and creates a beautiful blended and smooth application. MistFX colour is a fantastic product for applying body art or creative makeup and it can be used through an airbrush gun (once mixed with distilled water) or manually. Therefore it’s a two for one sort of product!

As stated in previous blog entries, the headdress was created by moi, using wire to create a “hat” shape and creating horns and the bird skull using a clay putty that can be cooked in the oven to harden.

I held these demonstrations 4 times during Blackburn College Industry Week and meet a lot of lovely new people as well as using my own media makeup students as models…thankie guys! And hopefully I inspired some more creative make up applications and may be inspired a few students to join the media makeup course next year.

Next blog entry will be covering the SFX demonstration that I did for the Level 2 Media Make-up students.

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Antler Headdress

My first ever headdress, finished! And its not too bad if I say so myself, considering I just made the construction up as I went along!

So I started this little project with a idea...I wanted to create a warrior style make up for my demonstrations during Blackburn College's Industry Week, I always like to have a theme. For some reason black antlers and bird skulls came to mind....don't ask....

To make the antlers I sculpted them out of super sculply, its a clay that you can cook so it hardens. Other materials that could be used is the magic model clay which works just as well.
So I sculpted the horns and the bird skull....

 

Next is to paint the pieces, for this I just used black acrylic paint and varnish over the top to give it that shiny look...

 

Next, the decoration...

For this used a variety of foam roses and feathers. The wire was used to create a "hat" base which I could attach everything to and wear the headdress sort of like  a headband.

 

 

And the final result.....

 

 

 

 

So that's one more challenge met and one more project completed! Yay! I'll be doing another post relating to the demonstration that am going to use this headdress with.

Fingers crossed I get some interest from photographs wanting to use this in a creative shoot.

 

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