Tuesday, 5 August 2014

I’m going to kick off this blog by talking about the first 2 videos I’ve uploaded.

These Behind the Scenes videos were filmed sometime last year when I had the opportunity to do a photo shoot in which a model and photographer would be provided, and I could do any makeup look I wished. I chose Glamour and Grunge. (click the links to see the videos)

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The Glamour makeup was a simple gold and black smokey eye, with a pink lip. (I tastefully edited out the bit where I put a different lip colour on, didn’t like it, and had to take it off). This is one of my favourite looks, and I had never done it on someone with her eye shape before. That’s one of the things I love about makeup, you can have one standard look and no one will ever wear it the same. Everybody’s different!

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The Grunge makeup was also a rather simple smokey eye, but a bit more full on. You’ll notice in the video, I go through many layers of placing colour on the eyes. I started off with a skin tone primer on the upper portion of the eye (from the crease to the eyebrow) and a darker cream eyeshadow as a base on the rest of the lid. Following this came many layers of purple in slightly different shades to create depth in the eye (we do not have, or want, flat eyes). I then smudged a MAC Khol eyeliner in black, to create ever more definition, along the lash line, then blended it out some, with more purples. Unfortunately my camera ran out of battery and I missed the filming of the lips, cheeks, and brows, but they were all fairly simple. This was an extremely fun look for me, I’ve always liked the “Grunge look” but, it’s not the type of thing I could pull off.

Please check out my videos and give me a thumbs up! :)

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