How to Make Your Own Illuminating Tinted Moisturizer with Sunscreen

Here is a quick 5 minute DIY project to tackle annoying small amounts of foundation: 1/ You need a plastic or glass pot with a wide mouth to get at all the contents, and an artist’s or chemist’s metal spatula or knife. Spray these with 97% alcohol to sterilize first. You can reuse any container …

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Easy IKEA Hack: your own Hollywood style lighting up vanity makeup mirror

This is an easy weekend task that took 1 hour and 20 minutes and cost £30 ($39). I have always wanted a Hollywood style lighting up vanity mirror but they are very expensive. One of the main aims of doing DIY is to save money and secondly to customize something to your exact requirements. First …

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1920s flapper in my own SILENT MOVIE – Heart of Glass the Novel Update

I decided to do vlogs instead of blog updates. Partly because I love watching vlogs and YouTube myself, and partly because I wanted to experiment with makeup on myself as I have been doing it for years on others. This is the first time I am turning the camera onto myself since the very early …

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A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess 1972 Kubrick-inspired makeup

This clown-like, pasty look evokes a grotesque or macabre feel. It is done with facepainting for the background with different pigments to enhance skin tone and shading, and chunky brushstroke eyeliner for the “lashes”. Hair is a fake ‘bob’ hairstyle. Video tutorial coming very soon. Still in middle of editing it.

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Spring Bridal trial and Wedding in Richmond, Surrey

Walking down the aisle: The couple at the Catholic wedding ceremony in a Surbiton church. This is the makeup-only bridal trial I did in March: The wedding followed soon after in April where I did the hair and makeup for both the bride and bride’s mother: Photos of the smart and elegant Lensbury Hotel in Richmond, established 1937: I …

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1950s Riviera-inspired Rockabilly Pinup Vintage Hair and Makeup

  #pinup #makeupbyme #hairbyme #1950s #korean #model #cathkidston #dress #rockabilly #韩国 #女 #妆化#发型 #vintage #thevintagelife A video posted by Satsuma World (@ivyngeow) on Apr 30, 2016 at 6:59am PDT The 1950s Riviera-inspired Rockabilly pinup look is a little risque and bold but it still has to be pretty and feminine. I have completely changed the …

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Hair and Makeup for Professional Musician’s Headshots

This is a very natural, luminous, neutral, classic and elegant makeup and hair for a Korean professional violinist and pianist. She has great skin. Therefore only Bobbi Brown tinted moisturizer was used, no foundation or full coverage. We are aiming for a ‘for real’ look, so no false lashes, no hair buns or pieces for volume and …

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The Green Lady transformation: from kitsch painting to makeup art

Makeup Art transformation of Chinese Girl by Tretchikoff, 1950 I am proud to show you my masterpiece. As I have only been making the old, young, male and female beautiful: this is a different skill, the painterly side of makeup art. Watch the film of the transformation here: Or just view photos below of before, during and after

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Bowie Aladdin Sane makeup

David Bowie tribute makeup “Aladdin Sane”

With sadness we learnt of the death of David Bowie, whose talent changed the world of popular music, culture and fashion. This makeup is our tribute. Skin and base We blocked out the eyebrows followed by many layers or concealers and powder in order to finally have orange eyebrows. Foundation is pink mixed with white, …

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