Becoming A Make-Up Artist: Liquid Liner

Liquid liner is quite a tricky part of make-up. It all depends on your eye shape and eyelids.

My eye shape isn't really that great for wearing liquid liner as the top lid 'droops' down when it gets to the outer corner and then the end of my lid only has a little bit of skin exposed.

When trying it on yourself the first time I think there is a couple of hints that would help you out.

1. When drawing the line across your eye lid, don't make the line too curved as your eye will naturally round up the line as it opens.
2. Experiment with what thickness suits you. You don't want it look like you're half asleep lol.
3. Experiment with how the flick at the end will be when you open your eye.

THE FLICK:
This one all depends on your eye shape. My eyes are really round so it is best for my shape if I draw a straight line as the eyelid will automatically curl it when I open my eye.

As with what I did here, I didn't extend the flick longer enough and I didn't get it in the right place. But this was the first successful lining I've done so I was pretty pleased at the time haha.

The main trick is to practice in your mirror whenever you have spare time.

I RECOMMEND:
The liner I used here was MAC's ever so popular Black Track gel liner. It glides on so easy, doesn't smudge and is really great with oily lids. It doesn't tend to flake off either.

Another MAC liner that I have and is good is Liquid Last in Point Black. Its a little bit more tricky for me compared to Black Tracks. I find I always apply it too thick and takes a little while to dry.

The brush I use is a 209SE. From a little gift bag with the Magic, Mirth and Mischief collection that contained the brush 209SE, Black Track, Shimmer-time pigment and a mini Zoom Lash. I find the brush is perfect with its small handle and after using black tracks with it it dries it with a nice fine point which keeps it in great shape.

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Becoming a Make-Up Artist: Glamour Make-Up One

My sister so kindly let me practice Glamour make-up on her as I have an assessment coming up really soon.

This is what we learned as 'Glamour One', strong eyes and nude lips. Next up will be 'Glamour Two' which is strong lips and nude eyes, followed by 'Glamour Three' which is strong lips and strong eyes.

The colours I have had no names! It was just a generic shimmering white, silver and black that was used.

PRODUCTS USED:

1. Soft Ochre Paint Pot (MAC)
   
2. Black Track Fluidline (MAC)

I was quite proud of myself! I know I will probably look at it later down the track and wonedr what the hell I was doing... But I had fun and was pleased with it :)

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Becoming a Make-Up Artist : Mums the Artist!

This time Mum was the artist!

She started with the MAC Paint Pot Soft Ochre, scribbled over with the blue grease paint stick, then applied MAC's mineralized eyeshadow in Guilt By Association.

Mum then used DreamMaker as a highlighter in the inner corner of my eye and below my brow.

The colours go so well don't they?

I was sad thinking it would crease in a few ours... but it lasted all day and night!

I have fallen in love with Guilt By Association. It even makes the yellow around my eyes nice, like its supposed to be there.

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My First Time with Eyeshadows!

This is the first ever time i've worn eyeshadow so please be gentle!

While I was thinking about what designs and colours I could do in the shower, I saw a minty towel hanging next to a pink towel and I really liked that colour scheme.

So I started with my paint pot Soft Ochre. I loved to use this as a sort of concealer around the eyes too as well as a base.

Then I chose to use Yogurt all over the lid. Followed by Aqua on the outer corner and a little bit under the lower lashes. I then used Haunting on the very outer corner to make Aqua a little deeper.

I was unsure about it at first as it made my eyelids seem really light. I am used to seeing them darkish yellow so it was quite different :) But after going shopping and coming back home to see no creasing or movement what so ever made me extremely happy inside.

These photos were taken in the late afternoon. My sister told me it reminded her of ice cream. Which I might go and get now....

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Becoming a Make-Up Artist : Paradisco, DreamMaker and Dainty

This is a practice look I did for my sister yesterday, I really wanted to try my new colours!

I think they look really good with her colours.

I started with Soft Ochre paint pot then applied DreamMaker over the whole lid. Followed by Paradisco just on the outer side of the lid.

I tried Trax on the other eye but it looked like she had tripped and nicked her eye on a table corner on the way down. Not the best colour for my fair sister.

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Becoming A Make-Up Artist: New Eyeshadows!

I went a little crazy at MAC recently after we have been getting into a bit more creative make-up styles.

I've been making a sort of scrapbook of all the make-up styles I like in magazines and facecharts i've made up. It's all so incredibly exciting!

Let's take a look:

OFF THE PAGE

What an amazing orange! It's that perfect 'fruit juice' orange with a golden shine. Everytime I saw this on display I had to pick it up and try it on my hand. Luckily the MAC store still had one today!

HAUNTING

Another shade that blows me away. Haunting has always attracted me like Off The Page. I can't wait to try this on tomorrow.

DREAMMAKER

I'm not too sure where this one came from.... I have a feeling from that eyeshadow collection MAC brought out earlier this year. I can't remember the name sorry -__-". DreamMaker was the sparkliest and strongest gold I could find and amazingly it was the last one!

PARADISCO

How long have I been eyeing this one up? Too long to remember. I love peaches/mangos with that golden sheen.

TRAX

Love at first sight with this one! A nice plummy maroon again with that attracting golden sheen. I think Mum has this one too.

AQUA

Aqua is a very pastel turqoise. I looked it up on MAC's site but couldn't find it... So i'm not sure whats going on there.

YOGURT

I picked up Yogurt because I thought it would make a really good base colour. It is also more pink than Bisque.

BISQUE

Another shade I thought would be good for a base colour. More beige than Yogurt.

You know whats crazy? I never wear eyeshadows and here I am buying all of these >_<

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Becoming a Make-up Artist : Lots of Inspiration!

Today we learnt about all the different skin colours and races and which colours and tones best suit them.

For example, every skin colour under the sun could wear pink eyeshadow but for fair skin it may be a light pastel pink and for darker skin it may be a darker crimson pink.

So far we have learnt nude make-up in dewy and matte finishes, day make-up, ethnic make-up and eyelash and brow tinting/shaping.

This week we are learning male, rockstar and evening make-up. We are also doing something with a hairdryer near the end of the week. I must say hair styling isn't my strongest field lol. I sort of drift off and get extremely bored with it.

I am going home this weekend so that means more photo posts! I think I will have one on the eyebrow/lash tinting and shaping and a whole heap of others on new MAC stuff.

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Becoming a Make-Up Artist : Is Tiring -___-

So in the first week we have learnt; skin care basics (cleanse, tone, moisterise), skin types, nude make-up, french braids, french braids outwards and the fish tail hairstyle.

We did the hair styling today and now my fingers are aching! Also my tail bone... I think I pushed it in again... Lucky I came home this weekend and have a spa pool to finx my muscles!

Some fantastic mail came this week:

• Chanel Jade
• China Glaze Fortune Teller
• Wet n Wild Glitz
• Orly Chai Latte
• Sinful (I think) Nail Junkie (love the name of this)

So! I will be taking photos of these this weekend.

Next week we are learning eyebrow and eyelash tinting!

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Becoming A Make-Up Artist: Day 3 - Girl Gets Severely Attacked in Alley Way

Today we got to play with Special Effects!

It all seemed a bit intimidating at first but then once we had a big play around and experimented with everything it was good fun.

I took some photos with my phone but they turned out crap, so camera everyday to school from now on!

Our tutor decided that in the afternoon we would pair up with another couple from the other make-up class and create a scenario with a victim. So we decided that our victim would be brutally attacked in an alley way. She had cuts and bruises, black eyes, broken knuckles, grazes, swollen hands, the whole shebang.



Some of the other scenarios were:

• A boy was hanging out in the woods and he got attacked by a werewolf then he was starting to turn into one.
• A girl was trying to do a 'deal' but it didn't go down well so she tried to make a run for it but the other girl beat her up really good. The victim had massive grazes, cuts, bruises all over the show.
• What was another one... Oh yeah, she was in a car crash and went flying head first I think. She had glass in all of her cuts which was quite clever.

It was a lot of fun learning how to make these things and playing with fake blood. Tomorrow we will be learning about skin care, skin types and doing patch tests to see if we are all ok with the chemicals we will be using.

So far so good! Who knew becoming a make-up artist would be so adventurous.

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