11:04 AM 35
Hi Bellas!

Sorry for the delay of post today! I had to be at work by 6:45 am this morning and it was a long day. However, I like to post Monday through Friday on a regular basis because I believe in keeping this blog updated for my readers. Now that I'm home with a few minutes to spare, I wanted to show you pictures from my bestie's Wedding Rehearsal and dinner.

My bestie is Trinidadian with Indian/Arabic Roots. She wanted to show off her culture in the Wedding rehearsal by dressing up her bridal party in the traditional garb of saris, bindis and dramatic makeup. Of course I was excited to make everyone up...this kind of makeup is definitely my favorite. Check out the pics!

Here I am starting the bride. You can click on pics to expand.


You can see that I'm doing the scotch tape trick to keep a clean edge to the eyeshadow.


Here's the final look without the lips...the pizza had just arrived so I planned on finishing her later.


We added the sari and a bindi...looks amazing already!


Isn't she gorgeous?


I did my good friend Melissa...I pretty much matched the eyes to the Saris that each bridesmaid wore...I don't usually like to match makeup to clothes...but this was an exception.


In these looks I actually added glitter for an extra bit of sparkle.


For Saiesha's niece I did a smokey look with silver, gray and blue.


For Ashley I did a fusion of bright pink and purple...a very popular combination.



For my bestie Alex she's actually rocking red and purple glitter with bronze in her crease. The pictures don't do this look any justice...it looked amazing in person.


Here I am making up one of the ushers Brooke.


I added green shadow to go with the green in her Sari and used a purple from my 96 palette to contour the eyes.


I was last to get wrapped in my Sari...at this point I was exhausted lol...12 makeovers later, lol.


I took some candid makeup shots in the car ride over the rehearsal.


Here's a close up of my makeup. I used gold and fuscia glitter on my eyes and cut the crease with bronze.


The sari was my favorite color!


Check out the bride's hot mom! I did a soft smokey gray eye on her but you can't tell behind the glasses.


The gorgeous bride!


Me and bestie!


Bridesmaids and usher shot! Don't the Saris just look gorgeous!


Best friends shot!


A full shot of my Sari after all the festivities.


That's all folks! Stay tuned for pictures from the wedding day!

Atlanta Makeup Artist


9:22 AM 11
Hi Bellas!

This is my first Halloween tutorial this year. I decided to challenge myself and go for an animal mask - this is inspired by other YouTube Gurus Petrilude and Makeup By Risa who came up with some really cool animal tutorials as well.

I pretty much printed off a couple of pictures off the internet for inspiration and came up with it as I filmed, lol. If you have a light foundation, dark foundation, and some black eyeliner and pink lipstick, you can pretty much create this look! Throw on a cute black outfit and heels and you're a sexy tiger!



Check out my video tutorial for more!


Here's What I Used (All Graftobian Unless Otherwise Mentioned):

EYES
-black velvet kohl liner (wing out eyes)
-white cream foundation (shape eyes)

FACE
-oxyderm moisturizer to prime skin
-white cream foundation to create shape of face
-coffee kohl liner to draw shape of nose
-a darker shade of graftobian cream foundation and powder foundation to set
-black smoke mineral e/s to begin drawing tiger stripes then darken with Eve Pearl black liquid liner
-on nose I used a combo of pink lipstick and pink blush

LIPS
-white cream foundation to nude out lips
-black velvet kohl liner on lips
-costume vampire teeth
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10:36 AM 16
Hi Bellas!

Wow I can't believe it's Monday already. I had a four day weekend, taking off of work Thursday and Friday for my best friend's wedding. It's the first wedding in my friend circle and my first time as a bridesmaid...so it was a big deal. I have a lot of amazing pictures to show you all.

About a month and a half ago, my bestie and her fiancee commissioned me and my boyfriend to have an engagement shoot. The boyfriend took the pictures, and I did the makeup and light reflecting. Saiesha planned on framing the pictures and using them to decorate the tables during her cocktail reception. She wanted to incorporate a lot of nature shots so we headed over to Georgia's famous Stone Mountain park.

We first wanted to go for a natural, carefree look. You can double click on the pictures to expand.




For the second look, they wanted something more editorial. They dressed up to increase the contrast with the nature in the background. I also darkened the makeup a bit to go with the look.





Here are a few of the candid shots I caught in the car while we were waiting for it to stop raining! You can get a better view of the makeup here.




Here's What I Used (All MAC Unless otherwise mentioned):

FACE
-Nurturing Force Blot Out Offensive
-Face Atelier Foundation
-Cinema Secrets foundation
-Graftobian Powder Foundation
-MAC Sculpting Powder Definitive and Shadester
-Steelo Cosmetics Blush in Terracotta Spice (added another layer for the dramatic look)
-Bronzer in Bronze

EYES
-Urban Decay Primer Potion
-Soft Ochre Paint Pot
-All That Glitters e/s
-Glamour Check e/s
-Warm Brown e/s
-Stars Makeup Haven Dominatrix e/s
-L'Oreal Liquid Lineur Intense
-Ardell Demi Wispies Lashes
-Spiked Brow Pencil & Espresso e/s on brows
-Eve Pearl Mascara
-Graftobian Black Velvet Kohl Liner (added to smoke out eyes for dramatic look)

LIPS
-Cream O'Spice Cremestick Liner and New Spirit Lipglass (Natural Look)
-Ben Nye Lip Pencil, MAC Media lipstick, and OCC Lip Tar in Vintage (Dramatic Look)

Stay tuned for pictures of the Wedding Rehearsal and actual wedding day!

9:44 AM 10
Hi Bellas!

It's a short post today. Sorry for no post yesterday but I took the day off work for my bestie's wedding rehearsal & dinner. I needed to take the entire day because we had a lot of beauty prep to do, lol.

The day began with a nail appointment to get our french manis and pedis at 9:30am. Then, I was in charge of doing makeup for the entire wedding party (bride plus 8 bridesmaids) as well as a mom, sister-in-law and usher.

However, it wasn't normal bridal makeup. I'm actually not doing makeup for the day of the wedding, my friend hired a makeup artist and he's doing everyone's makeup including mine! She wanted me to relax and enjoy being a part of the bridal party. After doing yesterday's makeup for about 6.5 hours straight, I'm so glad to sit back and relax today!

So for the rehearsal dinner, I did dramatic Arabic Inspired makeup! My bestie was born in Trinidad with Arabic roots...she's doing a traditional Western wedding with the white dress and everything. But she decided to incorporate her culture by having the bridal party dress up in Saris, Bindis, Bangles and of course dramatic makeup!

Here is a run-through I did for the bride last week. When I did the look yesterday I jazzed it up with glitter and I thought it looked amazing...I can't wait to show you all the pictures. It's definitely a blessing to be able to make up the bride when she's been your best friend since elementary school.



This is an example of what the bridesmaids wore. I picked a color from the Sari, smoked it out, and added a little brown in the crease and called it a day. I can't wait to show you the actual pictures, it turned out even better than I expected.




Today is the wedding, I'm excited! And this time, I get to sit back and relax and have somebody else do my makeup, he he. Have a great weekend!

Atlanta Makeup Artist
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