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11:43 AM 16
Hi Bellas,

I posted a video on my MAC Colour Ready haul that I picked up on Thursday. I'm sure some of you have seen the promo image. I loved the skill and creativity in this look and decided to recreate it to show you in my video.



Check out my video to see the look and my thoughts on the products!


Here are the newest additions to Prep & Prime: Line Filler and Skin Refined Zone. Same packaging, different label. They're actually a lot smaller than I thought. The Line Filler really does work! I hope the Refined Zone does as well, but i'm going to have to give it some time.


Next we have the Prep & Prime translucent powder. At first I was concerned that it was like the Pro Invisible set but they are definitely different. Prep & Prime creates more of a soft blurried look on the skin...almost airbrushed. Invisble Set is more of a setting powder that mattifies the skin...works on all skin tones. I have a feeling Prep & Prime may look cakey on dark skin tones, but on me I love it.


I picked up both lippies Impassioned and Show Orchid. Love the bright colors. I purchased Cherry Lipliner to go with them and it's an awesome combo. If you have Hollywood Nights from the Heatherette collection, you can skip on Show Orchid because they're really similar.


My recreated look and blank expression, he he.


Till next time, Ciao Bellas!

Atlanta Makeup Artist
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9:40 AM 11
Hi Bellas!

Here is part 2 to Alex's Sugarsweet Makeover. I completed her eyes, did the cheeks and lips. It seems like everyone is really enjoying this video...since they can see me do makeup on someone else...especially someone else of another skin tone. I'm going to try getting more of my friends in on this...for the bigger collections at least.

Make sure to watch the middle of the video when Alex and I talk about our Prom experience at MAC!

Check out the video!



Here's the final look!








Here's What I Used:

FACE
-silicone primer
-MUFE orange corrector
-cinema secret foundation as concealer and eyebrow highlight
-Temptu S/B airbrush foundation in #8 and #9 (I love how her skin looks with this foundation...so luminous!)
-intenso mineralized blush duo
-definitive sculpting powder
-soft focus shaping powder

EYES
-spike eyebrow pencil
-Urban Decay Primer Potion
-butternutty shadestick
-red velvet shadestick
-club e/s
-aquavert e/s
-blue flame e/s (deep truth is a dupe)
-vanilla e/s
-smolder eye kohl
-Ardell Wispies lashes
-L'Oreal Telescopic mascara

LIPS
-mahogany lip pencil
-lollipop loving l/s
-money honey dazzleglass
-lip erase in dim

Till next time, Ciao Bellas!

Atlanta Makeup Artist
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9:18 AM 15
Hi Bellas,

I've received a bunch of requests to do a highlighting and contouring video so I decided to bust one out. I tried to be super thorough and even planned it out on paper before I filmed. The video is a bit long so you may want to use my video highlights section if you want to skip around.

Contouring and highlighting is a process which slims/deemphasizes certain areas of your face that you'd like to hide (i.e. a double chin, a wide nose, a large forehead). It's pretty much plastic surgery without the surgery. One often pairs it with highlighting where you accentuate certain features of your face (i.e. the cheekbones, bridge of nose, chin, browbone). In order to contour you typically darken areas of the face where the shadows naturally hit. It is the opposite for highlighting, where you lighten areas where the light naturally hits.

You can pretty use anything you want to contour. Powders, foundations, creams, blush...they can all work. Try to make sure that they are 2-3 shades darker than your skin tone and don't have too much of a reddish tint to them.


Here are some popular contour tools:
-MAC mineralized skinfinish natural
-MUFE compact modeler
-NYX blush in taupe
-MAC blush in emote
-MAC sculpt and shape duos
-bronzers
-darker foundation
-brown toned blushes

For highlighting, you can go the shimmery or matte route. I prefer shimmer strictly on my cheeks and go matte everywhere else.

Here are some popular highlighting tools:


-NARS albatross highlighter
-mineralized skinfinishes
-MAC shaping powders
-bobbi brown shimmer bricks
-lighter foundations
-highlighting powders

Check out my video for a super thorough tutorial!

Check out my video highlights to help you navigate the video:
0:40 I show you various products you can use for Contouring Tools
2:20 Take a look at several options for Highlighting Products
3:38 Brushes for Highlight and Contouring
5:09 How to Contour – Watch me shape my face (using the 3 or E method) with MAC sculpting powder
8:25 How to contour your nose
10:33 What I’m Wearing!
11:45 How to Mask a Double Chin
12:14 How to minimize a large forehead
12:37 How to highlight the high plans of your face
13:35 Make those cheekbones pop!
14:32 Highlighting the bridge of your nose
15:14 Make your lips bigger Angelina Jolie Style
15:30 Where to place your blush

Here is the final product, sculpted and shaped! I actually wore this look for my anniversary dinner with the BF.

Close up of the eye makeup. I wore pure what chromaline as a base, gesso eyeshadow, bright sunshine eyeshadow, and blue calm eyeshadow, all from MAC.



Our yummy anniversary dinner.


Happy Anniversary Babe!

Till next time, Ciao Bellas!

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9:00 AM 11
Hi Bellas,

I purchased my BBR items the day it opened because I was looking forward to this collection. Overall, I would say thumbs up! The colors are super wearable and pretty. Being a MAC collector, I definitely wanted to pick up the 3 msfs and two of the brushes. Besides that, I wanted to pick up what I would actually wear.







In terms of eyeshadows, I picked up Henna, 100 Strokes, Flip, and Pincurl.



I skipped on a bunch of them because there were definitely some dupes. I also already had Femme Fi from the Neo Sci Fi.

In terms of lipsticks and lipglasses, again I got ones that I thought I'd actually use. I'm loving the combo of marquise d lipstick with live and dye lipglass.


I also purchased Strawberry Blond lipglass, Red Devin Lipglass, Soft Wave Lipglass, Pincurl Eyeshadow, and Brunette MSF but I don't know what I did with the pics!

I decided to do a more earth toned look since I've been doing a lot of bright colors lately. It's very wearable. If you don't have the colors I used, you could use sumptuous olive/mink & sable, ricepaper/gorgeous gold, and sketch.

Check out my tutorial! Sorry about the light and dark light changes, my camera was acting up.







Here's What I Used (All MAC unless otherwise stated):

FACE
-umm don't remember foundation and primer, usual face stuff
-bobbi brown dark peach corrector
-bobbi brown beige concealer
-blond msf (highlight)
-brunette msf (blush)

EYES
-Anastasia brow wiz
-pure white chromaline
-henna e/s
-100 strokes e/s
-flip e/s
-raven kohl power pencil
-lashes
-blacktrack fluidline
-smashbox mascara

lips
-marquise d lipstick
-live and dye lipglass

Till next time, Ciao Bellas!

Atlanta Makeup Artist
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4:11 AM 7
Hi Bellas,

Happy MLK today! It's nice to have a day off. I had an exhausting weekend. I had two great makeup gigs that I'll share with you soon. One includes a celebrity photographer who has shot with artists like Jay Z, Prince, Allan Iverson and more! I also did a huge sweet 16 party, it was definitely super sweet 16 style. Stay tuned for more!

Meanwhile, with inauguration tomorrow, I thought it would be appropriate to focus on our First Lady Elect. Many have stated the she is the next style icon. Never has their been such an exemplary source of style in the White House since the era of Jackie O.




Michelle Obama is known for her subtle and polished look. Her makeup, hair, and clothing is always on point. The focus on her makeup is keeping your skin looking great and going for a natural yet glamorous style. Her makeup to me looks very Bobbi Brown. I made a video to show some pics and tips for Michelle Obama's look.

A few of the video highlights for your viewing pleasure:

Pictures of Michelle Obama's Makeup

Step 1: The basis to all great makeup -great skin

Step 2: Make great skin look even greater - foundation

Step 3: An essential key to the look - arched eyebrows

Step 4: Simple and easy eyeshadow

Step 5: Make those cheekbones pop - blush

Step 6: Perfect that pout - lips

Step 7: Remember to smile!

Stay tuned for tomorrow's giveaway!

Atlanta Makeup Artist
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9:00 AM 13
Hi Bellas!

I was asked by a few viewers to recreate my look that I wore in my Red She Said Haul video. I had a couple of other videos I wanted to do first, but I wanted to get this up especially since a lot of you guys wanted to wear this look for Halloween.

It's actually really simple...I used the Dangerzone MES trio...black and red...that's about it! The color combo is especially good if you're doing a dark look for halloween...i.e. devil, dark angel, etc. I really recommend doing your foundation last if you do this look because you're definitely going to have some fallout from the mineralized eyeshadows.



So here yah go!






Here's What I Used (All MAC unless otherwise specified):

EYES
-bare study paint pot
-dangerzone mineralized eyeshadow trio-black and red sripes
-feline kohl power pencil
-blacktrack fluidline
-no.8 lashes

FACE
-select moisture concealer NW35
-PUR minerals pressed mineral makeup in med dark
-gold deposit msf
-soft and gentle msf

LIPS
-sugarrimmed dazzleglass

Till next time, Ciao Bellas!
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9:04 AM 16
Hi Bellas,

Over the last week or so I've been in contact with one of my favorite youtube gurus, MissChievous. If you're seen her videos, you know that she is amazing when it comes to makeup...just simply amazing. I asked her if she wanted to collaborate on a Halloween look. She suggested a bug theme because she wanted to do a Ladybug look and had another request for a bee look.

At first I was a bit stumped. A bee look? I googled pictures and found that bees just have a plain black head. I decided to take a more artistic approach. I used the colors of yellow and black and decided to create shapes on the face similar to the bee's stinger and stripes. I like how it came out!

My boyfriend gave me the great idea to do a Queen Bee look, and to take a cheap crown and attach antennae to it. A quick trip to wal-mart for a princess crown kit, some pipe cleaners and pom poms and I had my look!

I hope you enjoy :)

Check out my video!


Check out MissChievous' Lady Bug Tutorial!


Some pics!





I used a lot of the same products for both the eyes, faces, and lips. But I went ahead and showed you the products I used for each area of the face, so please excuse the repeats.

Here's What I Used (All MAC unless otherwise stated):

EYES
-soft ochre paint pot
-Ben Nye yellow cream color
-chrome yellow e/s
-dangerzone MES - the black part
-anastasia eye lights in pink
-MAC clear brow set
-feline kohl power pencil
-gesso e/s
-dark angel costume lashes

FACE
-select moisture concealer NC35
-pur minerals foundation in med dark
-sharkskin shadestick
-dangerzone MES - the black part
-feline kohl power
-Ben Nye yellow cream color
-chrome yellow e/s
-medical tape - to make the straight lines

LIPS
-select moisture concealer NC35
-brick red lipliner
-brave red creamsheen
-Pencil Me in cosmetics onyx eyeliner

ACCESSORIES
-$3 princess kit from wal-mart: crown, septer, earrings, and ring
-yellow pom poms
-black pipe cleaners

Till next time, ciao bellas!
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8:58 AM 30
Hi Bellas,

How was your weekend? I had a fun one...Friday we went Go-Karting, Rock Climbing and Video Gaming for my boyfriend's birthday. I invited our crew and surprised him and he loved it. Saturday my friends had a cocktail party/soiree at their apartment so we dressed up and drank sangria, had munchies, chatted and played games. We used to have house parties but the carpet got uber trashed at our old apartment...so my former roomies have evolved into having grown up parties where the punch stays in the kitchen, lol. Sunday I went with my makeup mentor on a gig to do temporary tattoos using airbrush makeup and ink transfers. I was glad she let me come assist because temporary tattoos are another form of airbrushing which I'm trying to master. You could probably file it under the category of Body Makeup. A lot of large companies love hiring temp tattoo artists at corporate parties. It was fun and I think my tattoos came out pretty good!

Anywho, back to my FOTN. I finally got around to doing a tutorial using the best purple eyeshadow ever-the MUFE NO. 92 eyeshadow. I wore this look to the movies when I saw The Family that Preys on Thursday. I was a trooper because I didn't cry the entire time! That movie was uber sentimental too--and I'm a cryer! However, my motivation was to keep my makeup intact so I could film my Creamsheen/Suite Array Haul vid, lol.

The MUFE e/s is actually kind of hard to blend and apply evenly. I've done a couple of tries where I've removed my entire eye makeup because it didn't go on evenly. To help prevent this, make sure you apply a creamy base and then put a neutral eyeshadow all over the lid. I used vanilla e/s. The base shadow gives the MUFE shadow an easier surface to blend over.

This look is actually pretty basic but the pigmentation of the MUFE purple shadow gives it such a pop of color that it kicks it up a notch.

So without further ado, check out my video tutorial!


And some pics!






Here's What I Used (All MAC unless otherwise specified):

FACE
-Pur Minerals Peach primer
-Pur Minerals 4 in 1 pressed foundation in med dark
-msf in light flush
-beauty powder blush in true romantic
-ELF bronzer in warm tan

EYES
-bare canvas paint
-Makeup Forever No. 92 eyeshadow (purple)
-carbon e/s
-vanilla e/s
-smolder kohl
-Model Co. lashes
-Anastasia brow pencil
-zoomlash mascara

LIPS
-Urban Decay XXX shine gloss in carney
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9:20 AM 20
Hi Bellas,

Yesterday was another big day at MAC--the release of two new collections Creamsheen and Suite Array. I almost forgot but luckily I have a MAC store two minutes away from my job. I stopped by after work to pick up some items.

Check out my haul video!


While I was there I picked up cleansing tips and post haste e/s. The cleansing tips are great for touching up eyeshadow or liner. I keep them in my kit because it's quicker to unwrap the pre-moistened makeup remover swabs then having to break out the makeup cleaner and q-tips. I had to get post haste e/s before it was discontinued. It just jumped on to the Goodbye list on the MAC site. I've been lemming a bright pink e/s for a while!

***correction, I mislabeled this eyeshadow. This is Post Haste e/s not Passionate.




Creamsheen
In terms of the new collections, let's start with Creamsheen. I love these lipsticks. It's a new lipstick finish from MAC. I'd describe it as a lipstick with a wet, dewy finish. They remind me of amplified creams in texture since they're very smooth and moisturizing. They have 12 colors which are all amazing. I picked up 4 on this trip. They didn't have creme de nude which was on my list. I'll have to go back for that one. I had also received fanfare in advance so in total I have 5 creamsheen lipsticks.


Sorry I forgot to swatch fanfare! But it's a pretty pink color.


Brave Red: This is a great color for those wanting to try a red lip. It's a nice deep red tone. When I first starting wearing red lipstick I remember having to wear it with gloss to make myself feel more comfortable. With this lipstick it already has the dewy look so you can jump right in!
Modesty: On my skin tone and lip color, this made a great neutral, everyday lip. Sometimes I have problems with lipsticks looking too pink and pasty on me, but this one was just right.
Party Line: This is a great plum color...perfect for the fall and for my clients that want a little more color than the average pink or nude.
Hang Up: The swatch doesn't do this justice. This is the darkest color of the 12 lipsticks in the collection. It looks darker in the tube but swatches to a beautiful wine tone. I've been trying to acquire more plums and berries to my collection and this is a great one to have.
Fanfare: This is a true pink color. On me I felt it was a little too pink...I would need to use it with a lipliner. But on others I can see it looking beautiful. This is going in the kit!

Suite Array
This collection had a combination of new Pearl Glide eyeliners and eyeshadow suites.

Let me start of with the eyeliners...these are amazing! I love how the color goes on creamy and smooth but it doesn't have and smear as much as kohls! For example, I just wore Mystery Kohl Power on my lower lashline this weekend and it looked crazy after an hour! And my eyelids aren't even oily! These new Pearl Glide offer the benefits of being creamy smooth like kohls, but have more staying power to boot. The pencils also all have a metallic sheen as well. My favorites are Raven and Fly-By-Blu because these colors look especially rich in person.



These swatches don't do the colors justice. They're more vibrant in person.



Last we have the eyeshadow suites. The packaging looks just like the brow shaders that are about to be discontinued. Two colors come in the pan...one light and one dark. The light side is twice as large as the darker side. The colors in this suite are very complimentary to each other...one could definitely be the lid color and the other the outer v/crease color.

However...these shadows were so sheer! Booooo. I spent a good 15 minutes swatching these multiple times to make sure I wasn't going crazy. But nope, they were pretty sheer. What a disappointment. Only two out of the eight duos swatched halfway decent on me. Have you guys run into the same problem? The two most pigmented were Smoke & Ash and Counterparts. I didn't pick up Counterparts because I don't see myself wearing that salmon pink and forest green combo often...it would probably sit unused in the back of my tupperware drawers.

Instead, I picked up blue zone. The lilac side of this duo is really sheer but I couldn't pass up the pretty cobalt shade. The Smoke & Ash duo is pretty standard-sparkley silver and black for a smoky eye. However, I got this for convenience purposes. Just throw this tiny duo in your purse or kit and you have an instant smokey eye kit.





In sum, I loved the Creamsheens. I pray they make these permanent. What a great finish! The liners are also awesome but the eyeshadows are sucky poo.

Like always, I'll be doing a video tutorial using these new products soon. Any particular looks you want to see?

Till next time, Ciao Bellas!

Atlanta Makeup Artist
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8:58 AM 8
Hi Guys,


I put up my video using my Pur Minerals product. The look is geared toward Brown Eyes but really it would look good on any eye color. You can see in the video once I used the foundation my skin just warmed up instantly. I really love this foundation!


I used the Paint By Numbers eyeshadow palette and followed the insert to create the most dramatic look for brown eyes. The directions told me which colors to use...I only used three eyeshadows: a red brown, a peach, and a pink. I then used black eyeliner, some mascara and falsies. It was really easy to do. I paired it with my Neolite lipgloss and that was it!


Here's What I Used (All Products Used are by Pur Minerals unless mentioned):




FACE


-color correcting primer in peach


-4 in 1 pressed mineral makeup in medium dark


-mineral split plan in mineral glow/mineral light


-blush in plum adalite





EYES
-universal pencil in natural (eyebrows)


-eye prep


-beauty in numbers eyeshadow palette: numbers 10, 8, 3


-MAC kohl power pencil in feline


-Revlon Colorstay liquid liner in blackest black


-Model Co. lashes


-MAC zoomlash mascara





LIPS


-universal pencil in natural


-lipgloss in neolite sunset










For more info, check out the Pur Minerals Blog.

Till next time, Ciao Bellas!
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