Bare Faced Tutorial as seen on the Catwalks SS13

New Blog Post - How to Look Super Gorgeous in 10 Minutes

Hi Ladies,

I know some of us find it hard in the mornings to take the time to pop our make up on, as you may have kiddies running around, your making there lunch and breakfast, or you have slept in ;).
The bare faced fresh look has been all over the catwalks recently, and I have become a huge fan of this look. I created this look on myself recently and it took me 10 minutes. (Not including skin preperation) All women love a perfect flawless skin so I have done some research and put together some products and tips for you all, so we all to can look like the catwalk beauty’s J
Please Cleanse, Tone, use Serum and Moisturise before any Make Up Application (In this order)

• Apply No7 Beautiful Skin BB Cream £12.95 (this cream comes in the 3 different skin types and 2 shades) to your cheeks, forehead, chin, and nose. Buff in with your foundation brush. This cream hydrates, hides redness and blemishes, and also includes a primer. You can mix this in with a highlighter or put on before your BB Cream, which will give your skin that extra glow, try Benefit High Beam Highlighter £18.50 or  No7 Skin Illuminator £11.00
• Conceal the areas you would like to disguise or would like a bit more coverage on, I conceal in the corners of my eyes, around my nose and on any blemishes I may have, try Benefit Boi-ing Concealer £16.50
• Apply a primer to your lid try MUA Eye Primer £2.50
• Groom Brows try MUA New Pro Brow Kit £3, and remember to seal in those stray hairs with the wax provided. This Brow Kit is a god send, J
• Apply a light shade of shadow to your lid, a light brown or nude colour, and a light highlighter shade to your brow bone. A good highlighter shade is MUA eye shadow in shade 1 (Pearl) £1
• Curl lashes and apply your chosen mascara to the top and bottom lashes
• Now time to contour and highlight your face, Using a contour palette try Sleek’s Palette £6.49, this has the contour powder and highlighter in one, (Result). To get a definite place to apply the contour powder suck in your cheeks or stick out your tongue, now apply the powder to the hollows of your cheeks moving in a upward motion towards your ear line, (remember to tap off the excess from the brush you don’t want to add to much on, it is easier to add more rather than wipe off), Now blend this in. I sometimes use my face powder brush to blend in. Now using the highlighter apply this to the tops of your cheeks above were you have just contoured (in a C shape up towards you’re your eye) and down the middle of your nose. I cannot believe the difference with contouring, my cheekbones really do stand out.
• Apply transculent powder just to the chin, around the nose and forehead, leave the rest of the skin to glow.
• Now apply a light shade of lipstick or lip-gloss. MUA do a great range of both products starting at just £1

There is a lot more to the contouring but for this type of daytime look the cheeks, nose and brow bone are absolutely fine. I will maybe do another blog on just the contouring were I can go further into detail for you. This does seem a lot to do in the space of 10 minutes when you’re reading it, but once you start and with a bit of practice it really does only take a short time. And the result super gorgeous skin, that everybody will be jealous of J.
I hope this has been informative, and any questions please do ask.
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Kryolan Greasepaint Palette

Hi Guy’s,

I wanted to share with you a little on this look I created using @Kryolan Greasepaint Palette. This look is one of my favourite looks I have done up to date. I thought it maybe helpful to those of you who are studying make up to to see how I created the look.

For this shoot I wanted to add bold colours to my portfolio and shading. I matched out the two colours I used with my colour wheel these were blue and orange. I wanted the make up to look striking and colourful and to represent a futuristic or space age like look. The hair again I researched online I wanted a really bold up do to match the bold make up. I had my hairdresser come along to the photo shoot and do the hair for me, she did an amazing job, and just how I pictured it to be. A long thick up do along the front of the head.

How I created the Look

I used Greasepaint for the orange shading with my fingers around the cheekbones and going right up above the temple and into the hairline, I used again the same greasepaint (orange) on the lid near the lash line (using a thin shadow brush) of the eye to separate it from the blue. I added white eyeliner along the lower lash line and into the corner of the eyes. Black Liner was applied onto the waterline. The blue shadow I used was from Myface Cosmetics and was from the blingtone range this shade is a really vivid electric blue (bellbottom blue) so it went perfectly against the orange. The false lashes I used had a hint of blue on the tips, which I thought, worked perfectly with the blue shadow. I wanted the brows to be dramatic and dark, so I used a dark brow pencil plus my brow kit. For the lips I used a bright orange eyeliner as lip liner and filled in the whole lips with this, then added orange lipstick and gloss on top.

If any of you are looking for a palette that provides bright pigmented colours I would recommend this Greasepaint palette, this shows off the colour very strongly, just be sure to set it with powder or the same coloured eye shadow as the paint you are using, otherwise it may run.

This palette is very versatile I use it on nearly all of my shoots. I sometimes even use the black to cover the brows or to use as a base for a shadow. Check out Kryolans full collection here www.kryolan.com

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Behind The Scenes at my Beauty Shoot

I thought I would share my behind the scenes pictures of the beauty shoot i took part in yesterday so you can see what goes on at a fun beauty shoot. I really enjoyed this shoot as I got the chance to really play with some colours, as we was shooting some shots with exotic fruit i got the chance to mix colours for the lipstick so it matched the fruit. The shoot was for Kevin Mganda NOTHING New Aztec Design Collection. The beautiful model we used was Victoria Middleton, Photographer Jakub Iwanicki and Hair @Bernadette hannay. It was a great experience to work with two models (one of which a male) and different skin tones. I also loved creating a natural beauty look with contouring and highlighting.

Make Up Academy - New Pro Brow Kit

MUA Pro Brow Kit

Make Up Academy has again amazed me with another new product, (one of many) the New Pro Brow Kit that comes in a sleek, stylish black compact.

This is in MUA’S Pro Range and costs only £3.50, a little less than my old Benefit Brow Kit I use to purchase at a cost of £22.50. Well not anymore :-)

 

 

This compact has quality written all over it, there is a nice sized mirror in the compact along with tweezers and a little brush to apply. You have three shades to choose from and you can mix them together if you wish to create your desired shade. I like to mix the top two colours. This compact also has a wax so you are able to seal in your brows, so no hairs will stray away during the day.

This compact is better quality than some of the more expensive ones, this is why I am a HUGE fan of Make Up Academy, they are always one step ahead of all other high street make up brands and the quality is always 100% at a fantastic price.

I have just one slight criticism about this palette, a very minor one, it states you can highlight with the lightest shade but I have to say personally this is a little to dark to highlight If you have fair skin as it looks to dark under the brow, a highlighter should be a pearly white shade. But if you have darker skin then go for it.

Well done MUA for yet another amazing product, you do spoil us :-)

Checkout MUA’S website for there full range of products and to grab yourselves one of these little beauty’s. www.muastore.co.uk

Sarah x

Lush Cosmetics Bubblegum Lip Scrub

Lush Cosmetics Lip Scrub – Bubblegum Flavour

Hi Guy’s,

I did a blog a few weeks ago on creating the perfect lip canvas to get ready for application of your lipstick (you can view this in my wall pictures section on my page), in the blog post I mentioned a Hollywood Lip Scrub, this I do not think you can purchase anymore so I did some research and found this little beauty from Lush.

I popped along to Lush and purchased this Lip Scrub, RRP £5.25

The scrub is made from caster sugar (yummy); it is a very gentle scrub, which leaves your lips soft and supple. The two make up fanatics from Lush Cosmetics came up with this fantastic idea, as a lot of people do not pay enough attention to there lips (I have been guilty of this myself in the past), so they came up with a plan. A product that has exactly the right size of sugar grains in so it provides a gentle exfoliant for the lips.
Plus with the added benefit of this product tasting like Bubblegum, - Gorgeous.

So you simply take a small amount from the pot and rub it all over your lips in circular movements, once you have finished exfoliating you simply lick around you mouth and eat up the remainder of the yummy product – Delicious

This is also amazing for prepping models lips for photo shoots


Pop down to Lush and have a peek, it really does taste good and leaves your lips super soft and ready for your  lipstick application.
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Sigma Professional Brushes - Eye Set

Sigma Brushes – Eye Kit


I was lucky enough to have these bought for my birthday, very lucky. I knew Sigma Brushes were good from reading reviews from other MUA’S. But to have now used them myself good is an understatement. They are fantastic, the best brushes I have used to date. I also received a small trio of eye shadows included with the brush set. (See picture)

I am very happy to be able to share this blog with you all, I have had my eye on the Sigma Brushes for quite some time.

I could not believe the difference in the application, as they are shaped so very well this makes the application perfect. They are so soft to, so you can get into all the tight areas around the eye without it feeling uncomfortable. I will certainly be purchasing more Sigma brushes in the future; I am already making a mental note of the ones I like. :)

My AOFM brushes are good but now I have used the Sigma ones I can see the difference immediately, if you take a look at the bottom left picture you will see two brushes which are used for creating winged effects and defined eyeliner, the really pointy brush is the Sigma one and the other is my AOFM brush. Yesterday I created a winged effect and the sharpness the Sigma brush gave me was incredible and it seemed much easier to create, the AOFM brush is still good and does the job but you can see the bristles are not formed into a point like the Sigma brush. So this takes longer to create the effect you would like.

It is great as a Make Up Artist to have new products and to get very excited about how good they are and to see the difference in the products instantly. Which is why I like to use a broad range of products in my kit.

Below is a list of the brushes you get in the Eye Kit:

Eyeliner – E05
Pencil – E30
Tapered Blending – E40
Large Shader – E60
Eye Shading – E55
Medium Angled Shading – E70
Small Angle – E65

Head over to www.sigmabeauty.com to view their fantastic range of brushes

Have Fun x

Make Up GIVEAWAY - Facebook

Hi All, 

My facebook page is growing at a nice steady pace thank you all for your support, it means a lot. I have decided when i reach 500 likes i will do a fantastic make up giveaway. So please keep sharing with friends and family, and you could be the lucky winner. :))


www.facebook.com/SEBmakeupartist 

We Are FAUX False Lashes A little touch of luxury

We Are FAUX Lashes

I wanted to write a little blog on how amazing these lashes are and share this with you all.

After using my first pair from We Are FAUX yesterday on my Metal and Metallic Shoot I was so impressed with them I just had to shout about it J. Each set of lashes is handcrafted giving them that extra special edge and difference to other lashes you will have come across. As soon as you open the box and have a feel of the lashes you know they are of an amazing quality.

The lashes I picked were called “Good Girl” they had individual studs stuck to them. When I saw them I knew they would work perfectly with the theme of the photo shoot I was doing. And wow they looked absolutely stunning. I was so pleased with them.

In most lash boxes you receive a small instruction booklet, you did get one of these with We Are FAUX, but if you are not very confident in applying false lashes then there instructions will work much better for you, simple and to the point. They actually give better advice on application than other lash brands.

Check out We Are FAUX amazing handcrafted collections at www.wearefaux.com

You can also follow them on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/wearefauxlash

Have fun, you will not be disappointed. I know were I will be shopping from now on for my false lashes.  

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