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

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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