Sun Set Eye Makeup and Black Lips: Products Review and Makeup Look of the Day

Hi my Lovelies,

This a quick old fashioned makeup look and product post, I want to do more of these but I've been given a little more responsibility in my teaching job plus I have my new students starting in September so I want to get all my workshops brand new and sparkling before they start...basically am going to try and keep up with the makeup looks posts but can't promise.

This look is one of my favourite looks to do, I love the contrast between the black lips and the bright eyes! Plus as I have mentioned to my students before now, I wear this look when I need a quick application but dramatic look.

 

Big lashes are needed for this sort of looks at well. 

Love my rockabilly style, the fasinator that am wear is by Pearls and Swine. Fabulous Millinery that create the most amazing, unique designs ever! Check them out here: http://www.pearlsandswine.com/

 

 

 

So the products that I used for this look, some of them are newish and some I use time and time again.

 

+Kat von D makeup is something that is am absolute guilty pleasure of mine, it cost quiet a bit to get it sent over to the UK but its totally worth it!

 

The Shade and Light palette is a fantastic powder contouring palette that is absolutely amazing! The pigments are buildable with a smooth consistency for a powder and easily blended onto the skin to give a beautiful contour to any face shape or feature. I frequently use this product for my brides and prom makeups.

 

 

I used +Sugarpill "Burning Heart" palette for the eyes, this is a staple favourite of mine which I use almost everyday. I love all of +Sugarpill 's cosmetics for the pure and simple fact that the eye shadows are amazing pigmented with super strong colour pay offs.

 

 

To blend my eye shadows, I used Sugar Pill Cosmetics large eye shadow brush. This is one of my favourite brushes and am sure I will be buying more of there brushes in future (I just purchased their blending brush from this years IMATS) Its super fluffy and soft, excellent for blending colours together.

 

 
My absolute favourite foundation at the moment is another one of Kat Von D's products, Lock it Foundation. I have been saving up for this one for a while, again due to the cost of shipping it in rather then the cost of the product!

I cannot tell you enough how fantastic this foundation is, it covers all with out clogging up your pores or feeling caked on. Once set with powder it lasts and lasts and lasts! Definitely recommend everyone to try this product at least once in your life, although if you try it once I guarantee that you will continue buying it!

 

Another favourite of mine is Kat Von D's eyeliner, Tattoo Liner in Trooper. Its extremely precise with a good fluid flow which glides on to your eyelid fantastically. Again it lasts all day!

 

 
This product I always use, everyday! Its +Inglot Cosmetics Gel eyeliner in purple and red for my eyebrows. The reason why I use a gel liner rather then a powder product is, I feel I can get more shape to my brows using gel and can create that sharp shape better with this rather then the powder. Plus the colour pay off is amazing!

 

Lips are created using +Lime Crime "Wicked" liquid lipstick, which I did have some problem with when wearing it all day. It felt like I was reapplying a lot throughout the day...this may of been because I was teaching all day and talking lots! The colour looked fantastic when it was first applied though and had that nice matt effect.

 

So that my Sunshine eyes looks, as I said I will try to post more traditional makeup looks and product reviews on here.

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xRx

 

Dangerous Beauty Workshops: Creative Makeup Class ... with horns!

Hellooooo my lovelies,

In this entry am going to talking to you guys about my recent workshop at +Blackburn College  with my wonderful level 2 Media Makeup students. As most of you know I teach part time at Blackburn College; covering Media Makeup Level 2 and 3 but every so often I like to go off curriculum and do a fun workshop class or demonstration of the things I love to do in my freelance life. These workshops were planned as part of the college's Industry Week in which people from industry come to the college and hold workshops....hence me doing my workshops!

So this workshop which I decided to name "Dangerous Beauty" (always have to have a theme from all my workshops...yes I know am a nerd!) and focused on using dramatic contouring and eye designs to create edgy pieces. I also decided to allow the use of my headdress for this workshop, my antler and roses one as well as my new rams horn headdress.

Headdress are a new thing for me, but I love being creative so why not! The rams horn one was relatively easy-ish to make but very fiddly do create.

As you can see a lot of wires to fiddle with, the bulk of the horns is made from an air drying putty but my previous "horns" have been made using an oven bake clay...its much lighter but either works.

 

I realised after I painted up the horns that I made one slightly longer then the other...ah well! Painted up using acrylic paints and a little varnish for a smooth/shine finish. I wish I more 'dangly' bits to add but this was all that was in the craft box.

So the workshop demonstration used a mixture of airbrushing techniques, prosthetics and manual makeup...I wanted to demonstrate the variety of skills learnt in Level 3 Media Makeup as well as how to cross over SFX into Fashion Makeup and visa versa...

 

The prosthetic used was just a flat mould textured piece that look like scales...which went with the whole demon lady look.

 

 

Airbrush based using the fantastic #Iwata airbrush gun, its my baby...I will admit am aiming to get an upgrade when I go to +United Makeup Artist Expo this weekend. The foundation used was #mistair which are a silicone based foundation, very light as I wanted the colours on top to pop.

 

Eye liner detail work using +Inglot Cosmetics  eyeliner gel.

 

 

Black eyeshadow by +illamasqua #obsdian This is the blackest of black eye shadows, fantastic to blend, beautifully dramatic. You want a true black eye shadow this is your product!

 

 

The manual contouring was done using +Sugarpill #burnheartpalette ... in particular the red which is called #+love Fantastic palette to do dramatic contouring with as its so pigmented and you can build the colour up so easily! Am pretty sure one of my first review blogs was one this palette so look back through time and check that out if you want more information on the product.

 

 

The colour airbrushing bits, red/black was done using MistFX Aqua paints which can be used alone for body art or mixed 1:1 with distilled water to run through the airbrush gun...which is what I did. The product is brilliant for work like this as it comes in a variety of colours and covers extremely well. No patches or flaking! One piece of advice however make sure you shake the bottle fully and mix the water to paint ratio well other wise you will get a blockage in your airbrush gun.

 

There is an awesome stencil for creating those veins on the neck buuuuut I wanted to demonstrate to the students free hand work.

 

 

Black lipstick by +illamasqua , one of my favourite lipstick to use as it looks beautifully dark and doesn't look patchy as some black lipsticks do ...

 

Studs were pulled out of headband...I tried to find lose ones at my local haberdashery but they didn't have any so, use what you can get....

 

And the final outcome....

 

 

I think it turned out pretty well...the headdress makes it along with those studs down the cheekbones and forehead.

 

 

I love airbrushing...I love mixing it up with manual techniques but the smooth application of the Mistair products looks amazing...my models skin looks beautifully smooth like porcelain.

 

I did another of these workshop with another group of level 2 Media Makeup Students, this time using a blonde model....

 

 

 

 I think both models suit it and am so happy with my new headdress...

 

Huge thank you thank you to the stunning models used...Amy and Simone, you both rock as demonic dangerous ladies!

 

For more photo's from the workshop check out my facebook page @Ruth.E.Moulden.MUA

Also check out my instagram and twitter for more up to date photos and happenings in my crazy creative world!

 

 

Bye for now!

xRx

 
 

IMATs London 2014

It was that time of year again, the 3 day weekend that every makeup artist makes in the uk…IMATS London, the conventions for makeup artists held not only in London but also in LA, Sydney, New York, Toronto …  all over the place.

A few weeks ago (I have been really busy hence the delay of this blog!) I attended IMATs London, armed with savings and a "loose" plan of action! This is an event that I have been going to year after year and it always surprises me how they managed to shake up the format and add new stalls and suppliers that I have never heard of or was only able to look at their websites and drool at all the fabulous products I could not receive due to airmail restrictions.

 This year I was incredibly excited to see that some of my idols in the industry such as SFX artist like Thomas E Surprenant, Chloe Sens, Tate Steinsiek and others where attending. In makeup there was Shrinkle a.k.a. Amy Doan, Amelia Arsenic (who are my brightly coloured makeup gurus!) of Sugar Pill Cosmetics as well as David Horne and Spob O'Brien from Illamasqua. It was a fantastic few days full of new information and shiny new things to play with! The only problem is the days seem to go too quick and at the end of the weekend you feel like that there are areas that you missed and stuff that you should of bought but didn't!

So here is are a few photo's from the fabulous time I had at London IMATs! I wish I took more but I was too busy chatting to people and generally shopping for pretty and gory stuff (which you'll see at the end of this…)

 

How cool is the top piece, I might challenge myself and try to recreate this one. This stand was from FormX which I bought my big spend item from...

 

Absolutely amazing character creation which one day, I hope to be able to do, a full complete prosthetic  character is one for when I get on to the sfx course!

 

 

Fantastic colour and seamless application! Loved it!!

 

 

Zombie piece from Nimba Production. Thought it was pretty damn cool!

 

 

 

 

Look familiar?

 

 

 
The above piece is from Thomas E Surprenant talk on applying multiple prosthetics, it was a very interesting and insightful demonstration where he recreated the Terminator character using a cool prosthetic piece (see above), the eye lit up red! Below is the finished piece, he even showed us how to apply the lace wig.
Awesome guy!

  
 

 

And finally my haul!

Below are the images of the products and goodies that I bought, I love going to IMATS but I always feel like I should bought more....shame my budget doesn't cover for it!!

Ah well! I will be doing product reviews for each item in the future so stay tuned for those.

 

 

 

I recommend that if you have never been to IMATs get yourself down there next year!, start saving now though cause I guaranty that you will be overwhelmed with all the pretty things that you want to buy!

 

Don't forget to check out my  other social network sites, at the moment am working on my "dragon" lady which I'm pretty damn pleased with how its turning out so keep checking in for more updates on this piece.

 

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Bye for now,

 

Ruth x

Summer Brights using Sugar Pill makeup

Today's blog is going to be a quick one about a look I did a few days ago which I've had a lot of people asking about. Now I would love to do a tutorial video to show the madness in my colours but at the moment I don't have the equipment to film it but fingers crossed soon that will change and you'll get to see a tutorial on the application rather just a run through of products.

 

So, here is the look. I am totally loving matching up my hair to my make because of all the different shades of purple/blue going on at the side!

 

 

The first that I do is my eyebrows, some people like to do the brows last but I like to do it first because I feel that it frames my eye work allowing me to judge if the makeup is going just right.

The best brow brush to use for this is Illamasqua's Angled Brush, £19, the reason why it works so well for brows (as well as eyeliner) is because the brush hairs are short therefore you have more control to the line work. I found this brush gives full the straightest line work.

 

 

The colours that used on the brows for this look was a fade of Sugar Pill Cosmetics Heart Breaker palette. Starting with "velocity", which is the in your face blue, at the beginning of the brows fading into "2am", purple shade, and "Mochi", that gorgeous aqua green/blue colour, applied to the tail of the brow. I love this combination because it goes well with the fades in my hair but also its nice summer brow colour, something different then your average brown or black brows. If you want to stand out from the crowd I recommend you brighten those brows!

 

 

The eye shadow is a blended combination of "Mochi" from the palette above with "Poison Plum", the bright purple, and "Buttercupcake" , that radiant yellow,  from Sugar Pill's Burning Heart palette. These colours work so well together with the "Mochi" working with the brows and "Poison Plum" working against "Buttercupcake" as a contrasting colour. Ever wanted your eye shadow to stand out, choose colours which are opposite each other on the colour wheel, these colours will 'Pop' when put next to each other!

 

 

As you can see the Sugar Pill palettes have the most amazing pigments and strong colours that apply as you see them, no wishy washy colours. Bonus to those who are attending IMATS London next week, Sugar Pill will be attending with all there marvellous colours and products. I can't wait to go and meet the Sugar Pill girls, they are my rainbow icons!

 

 

To finish the eyes off and also match the brows further I added "Kandy Eye" glitter sprinkles in "Shock Tart" underneath the eyes, which is a shock blue colour that closely matches Sugarpill's "velocity". This adds a little glitter bomb to the look and sparkles beautifully in the sun!

 

 

Finish the eyes off using Eyeko's Skinny Liquid eyeliner and Eye Do Mascara, both fabulous products. You can read a review on the mascara in a previous blog. The liner works incredibly well allowing for good definition and control of the eyeliner. The only thing you need to take care with when using the eyeliner is making sure the glitter doesn't get stuck on the felt tip end because it does tend to 'clog' it up slightly.

 

 

So the finished look..it is one of my favourite and I love the products that were used as they work so well.

The lips are OCC matte lip tar in "Seedless grape red" with a purple lip liner for definition.

 

 
 

 

What do you guys think?

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Playing with MakeUp....

Today's blog is going to be all about makeup, this past week I have been feeling very creative with my makeup and felt the need to add a little glamour to my teaching session, to inspire my lovely students to flex their creative skills and work outside the norm of their everyday makeup.

 

 

 

So my first look using +illamasqua's Fame and Pivot eye shadow as well as a mixture of +Sugarpill 's Acidberry. I also applied Illasmasqua's Obsidian on the outer corners of the eyes to add some depth. My eyebrows are done using Demon by Illamasqua and the lipstick is Maneater shaded using a deep purple lip liner (I used Barry M).

 

 

This one is my favourite look this week, its using the yummy Apocalips lipstick from Illamasqua shaded using a black eyeliner to add a nice pouty effect. Purple eyebrows are done using Inception eye shadow from Illamasqua. I love the purple and green effect.

 

 

 

 
 This look was using a my new Illamasqua lipstick ESP, I've been wanting this lipstick for ages!! And finally I have it! Yay! As you can see it is the most gorgeous purple colour and bonus points is that it lasted me alllll day! The colour works fabulously with Sugarpill's Buttercup cake and Poison Plum eye shadow.

 

In this look I was feeling the reds, it is a fierce colour after all. So my eyes are Demon by Illamasqua blended with Sex (don’t be rude it’s the name of their white eye shadow!) The lips are a blend of Mac's Diva and Film Noir; I'm feeling the two tone lips this months.

 So after playing with this amount of colour a girl needs a good cleanser that'll remove all without the need for rubbing! This is my new all in one product to quickly remove all. Its Garnier's Micellar Cleansing water for sensitive skin. The product removes makeup as well as cleanses without the need to rinse so its prefect for someone on the go! I have to admit I was slightly suspect with the claims the cleanser had but am pleasantly surprised, it removed all my makeup even Illamasqua's eyeliner which is very very hard to remove without rubbing (its one of the amazing things about the product!) The best thing was after my skin had a fresh, toned feeling that wasn't tight or had any residue left over. Perfect for after a long night partying! And the price is fabulous for the amount that you get. (It states that one 400ml lasts up to on average 200 cleanses.)

 

 

 

Fabulous week of creative and playing about with makeup, love creating bright, eye catching looks! For more image and up to data details check out my facebook page at:
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My next blog will cover my session with my media makeup level 3 students which focused on crepe hair application, yes its that time of year again where bearded beauties invade Blackburn College!

Also exciting news relating to my students and myself holding demonstrations at Blackburn's Market area as part of Blackburn's Open events….

 

xRx