Becoming a Make-Up Artist : Paradisco, DreamMaker and Dainty

This is a practice look I did for my sister yesterday, I really wanted to try my new colours!

I think they look really good with her colours.

I started with Soft Ochre paint pot then applied DreamMaker over the whole lid. Followed by Paradisco just on the outer side of the lid.

I tried Trax on the other eye but it looked like she had tripped and nicked her eye on a table corner on the way down. Not the best colour for my fair sister.

Becoming A Make-Up Artist: New Eyeshadows!

I went a little crazy at MAC recently after we have been getting into a bit more creative make-up styles.

I've been making a sort of scrapbook of all the make-up styles I like in magazines and facecharts i've made up. It's all so incredibly exciting!

Let's take a look:

OFF THE PAGE

What an amazing orange! It's that perfect 'fruit juice' orange with a golden shine. Everytime I saw this on display I had to pick it up and try it on my hand. Luckily the MAC store still had one today!

HAUNTING

Another shade that blows me away. Haunting has always attracted me like Off The Page. I can't wait to try this on tomorrow.

DREAMMAKER

I'm not too sure where this one came from.... I have a feeling from that eyeshadow collection MAC brought out earlier this year. I can't remember the name sorry -__-". DreamMaker was the sparkliest and strongest gold I could find and amazingly it was the last one!

PARADISCO

How long have I been eyeing this one up? Too long to remember. I love peaches/mangos with that golden sheen.

TRAX

Love at first sight with this one! A nice plummy maroon again with that attracting golden sheen. I think Mum has this one too.

AQUA

Aqua is a very pastel turqoise. I looked it up on MAC's site but couldn't find it... So i'm not sure whats going on there.

YOGURT

I picked up Yogurt because I thought it would make a really good base colour. It is also more pink than Bisque.

BISQUE

Another shade I thought would be good for a base colour. More beige than Yogurt.

You know whats crazy? I never wear eyeshadows and here I am buying all of these >_<

Becoming a Make-up Artist : Lots of Inspiration!

Today we learnt about all the different skin colours and races and which colours and tones best suit them.

For example, every skin colour under the sun could wear pink eyeshadow but for fair skin it may be a light pastel pink and for darker skin it may be a darker crimson pink.

So far we have learnt nude make-up in dewy and matte finishes, day make-up, ethnic make-up and eyelash and brow tinting/shaping.

This week we are learning male, rockstar and evening make-up. We are also doing something with a hairdryer near the end of the week. I must say hair styling isn't my strongest field lol. I sort of drift off and get extremely bored with it.

I am going home this weekend so that means more photo posts! I think I will have one on the eyebrow/lash tinting and shaping and a whole heap of others on new MAC stuff.

MAC Baby Goth Girl

I would firstly like to aplogise for the lack of posts! It's been quite hard to get on the computer lately and when I could, Blogger was having problems T_T But here we are! With MAC's Baby Goth Girl.
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I don't really understand the name that much but who cares it's a beautiful, special and unique shade. So special it's pretty hard to capture with my camera.

Baby Goth Girl is opaque in two coats. The formula has a nice quality to it, neither thin nor thick and I just love black based polishes with sparkles.

Baby Goth Girl is black based with purple, maroon and pink fine shimmer that has its duochrome moments when it turns gold and orange. She also has orange flakies scrattered throughout.

MAC's Style Black collection has been pretty popular so I reckon you should jump at the chance to grab this one if it sounds like a bit of you :D

Coming up shortly I have MAC's Nude Rose lipstick and lipstick comparisons, MAC's Dazzleglass Perfectly Unordinary and a whole heap more!

MAC Blot Powder + Greasepaint Stick

This pressed blot powder is amazing. AMAZING. I have super oily skin thanks to my dads side of the family (at least I won't get wrinkly as quick!), so keeping my make-up stay put and matte is a real mission.

Chanel Jade

I know I tried frankening this, but it just wasn't the same!

Chanel's Jade was only released in special Chanel boutiques and make-up stores or something. New Zealand doesn't have one. So a friend in the states helped me track one down. I am so greatful.

Perfect formula. Nice thickness to it and it flows on smoothly. The brush is ok but would be better if the bristles weren't so fricken long, if they were shorter they would be more firm making it easier to control it.

I used two thin-ish coats here. If it were a real manicure I would've used another coat just to make sure I cover everything completely.

When it came in the mail my partner was having a look at it and quite liked the shimmer Jade had lol. I then asked dad what he thought of green nails showing him Jade on one, "Cool!" he told me. Haha, at least he doesn't ask mum to wear red or boring sheers.

The verdict? I wouldn't change a single thing about Jade. Chanel did well.

That Competition I was talking about!

I was unsure whether to do another competition but then I came across a store that was open on a sunday and they had fantastic nail art stuff!

THE COMPETITION
So the competition is that you have to submit to me a nautical themed mani. Send it to nailjuice@live.com with the subject as 'Nautical Comp' or something along those lines :D

THE CONDITIONS
It is open to everyone! Use whatever you like to create it. Starts 18th October ends 31st October.

THE PRIZE
The prizes are shown in the photo here :D A good variety for any nail artist!