Makeup Coure week 3

For this week we tried to use the members of our class for practice on the classic/colour wash eye shadow techniques.  It was a bit of a failure because we ran out of time, I did however get a wonderful energetic model who let me do 2 different eyes of COMPLETELY different styles.  Picture a classic with browns and neutrals and a teal colour wash with an extended black winged eye liner!
I didn't get pictures, because I suck....

Gorgeous Cosmetics iPrime

Recently I was in Melbourne and I stumbled across a free 30min eye tutorial at Gorgeous Cosmetics in David Jones.  Now given I'd gone to Melbourne to take part in a course that ended up being cancelled, this seemed like a good consolation prize.  I like to do as many courses as possible with as many artists as possible, because that way I can only ever expand my knowledge.  So I did, and I got to use their eyeshadow primer.

(you can see I've already taken a chunk out, I couldn't wait to use it)
Its think and sticky, but with a base colour on top, it really does over amazing staying power as well as boldness to the shadows and blending is a dream.  At $35(I think, I don't actually remember) it wasn't cheap, and with primers becoming more readily available (Think Australis, think Essence) $30+ is a lot, but for the germophope in me, the fact this is in a tub, not a tube with a wand, and that it is great... I think its worth is. Also you only need a tiny bit.  Even if the lameo iPrime name is, well, lameo...

Available at all Gorgeous cosmetic outlets and online.

Not Makeup or Coffee

I'd heard a lot about fish pedicures, so I got one. :) that's all!

Proof.

Thai Haul

So, while in Thailand, I of course picked up some cool looking things.  They have 'Boots' over there, which is a UK helathy and beauty store, so I managed to pick up another one of my all time fave mascaras.
Also I have a dear friend who is Thai who agreed to translate if I needed it.
Onwards with the pictures!

And so cheap.... booooooooooo.  I will do most posts on these soon!

Makeup Course Week 2

Firstly a few apologies, I've been a bit absent from blogging, what, between, being a mum, working, studying, going on holiday and doing a few articles for Makeup Utopia and being sick...I have been slack.  There I said it, I neglected my wee blog and for that I am sorry, now then accept it, move on and together we can grow as people.

I'm clearly more than 3 weeks into my course, in fact I am amazingly almost half way through.  So far we have covered the perfect base, classic eyes, smokey eyes, classic bridal (I was away for this week and spewing about it because I actually needed to know it) 'glam' bride, which is a fancy way of saying, learn how to do bright red lips and eye liner flicks.  Then we had a week that was supposed to be assessment but wasn't, where we could practise.  In all of this, we have also masters lashes, concealers, primers etc etc.

Any way Week 2 was the perfect base, I conned  was lovingly assisted by Jo.  The lighting in our room is terrible and I'm shitful with remembering to take 'before' pics but here what I do have.

Like I say. crap lighting, I swear it looked better, the girl next to Jo kept saying how she loved her eyeshadow...either way the point was to get the foundation right.  Its pretty good.  We're using Napoleon Perdis makeup, which I'm not familiar with, so I have been trying to get my head around the foundation shades etc so I can get it more spot on.

Thanks Jo!