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Illamasqua - Theatre of the Nameless Collection

Source : Illamasqua.com

The "No Make-up" Make-up Look by Lisa Eldridge

I've often been asked to create 'natural' make-up looks which I love. Sometimes however, people seem to think this type of look is easy to do and does not need a great amount of products to achieve. This however isn't true as it still depends on each individual's skin type, skin tone, the occasion etc etc. Some make-up artists tend to put too much make-up even for this type of look. Lisa's video is a good example on how far one should go to create a naturally flawless no make-up look.

 

 

Products I normally use for my own skin to create this type of look :

Sothys moisturiser and serum

Make Up Forever/Nars/Smashbox Primer

Laura Mercier Secret Camourflage Concealer and Brightening powder

Chanel Vitalumiere Aqua Foundation

Nars Bronzing Laguna Powder

Benefit Coralista Blush

Any lip/cheek stain or any cream blush i.e Benetint or Sephora

Smashbox Brow Tech

Shu Uemura Eyelash Curler

Magne-Plus Curl Volume Mascara

Urban Decay 24/7 Pencil Liner/ Any black liquid eyeliner

 

 

 

 

Old Age Make-up

These are examples of old age make-up you can achieve using old age stipple. It was a beauty shoot for a cosmetics company to show wrinkles on the face and not so much the ageing, hence I left the eyebrows and eye make-up as it was before the wrinkly make-up shots.

The tricky bit with old age stippling on young skin is the wrinkles won't be as obviuos. Stippling for old age is a process of stretching the skin and applying liquid latex. The skin needs to be stretched until the latex is dried and then powdered over, before the skin is released. This process can be repeated several times to achieve the desired wrinkle effects. The result will enhance the appearance of old age, although not so much on younger skin. In order to achieve proper old age skin effects a whole different process of old age prosthetics is used. This however can take several weeks as the model's face need to be casted and the cast will be filled with foam latex or sillicone which will be sculpted according to the character's age - think Benjamin Button. The prosthetics that are ready will then be applied using adhesives and then coloured with alcohol based make-up. Age spots, thinning hair, sunken eyes, sagging skin and old teeth are all part of making the prosthetics effects look as realistic as possible.

 

 

 

Women's Weekly April 2011

I was featured in the magazine's special April issue the 'beauty addict' on my favourite products! Obviously there are just too many, so I decided to start a new feature on this blog on my 'current craze' in make-up and beauty..watch out for this soon ;-)

 

Summer Sunset Party!

 

Facekraft will be collaborating once again with Chic Yamada for Hanger Magazines's fashion show on 1st May 2011 at Ecoba Damansara Perdana. This time around, the spring/summer themed make-up will be a joint effort between facekraft  and Temptu Malaysia. We are very excited and look forward to a great show.

See you guys at the party!!

Email me at facekraft@gmail.com for invites ;-)

Behind The Scenes with Oscar & Friends

Thank you so much to everyone involved in this shoot directly or otherwise..BIG KiSS! And thank you Oscar for finding time during your holiday to create this lovely video.

We all shared tons of fun, laughter and adventure..not to mention sweat!!

Still keeping my fingers crossed for Oscar to come back for another shoot ;-)

Tengku Azura - continued

Behind the scenes

Photos by : Pino

Wardrobe : Amir Luqman

Make-up & hair : Shahnaz Bahar

Tania Hudson

Another sneak preview with more to come very soon..

 

Tengku Azura

Sneak preview..more to come

Chic Yamada Autumn/Winter 2010

Irene See of Chic Yamada called me at the very last minute for make-up and hair the day before hari raya and morning of raya itself. I thought yeah, why not.

We had a great shoot on both days at Seksan's Sekeping Tenggiri in Bangsar. Funny enough I later found out she 'discovered' the models and myself on facebook! There are two main characters for the shoot; Tara Becker the rocker chick and Rebecca Wellington the trust fund baby.

You can check out her collection at ChicYamada. Here are some photos from the shoot taken from the website ;-)

Photos by Carol from reddbullets

Make-up courtesy of MAC Cosmetics