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Lagagaga Round 1 - 1.1.11

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Happy New Year 2011!!

I'd like to wish everyone a great new year ahead. Hopefully this year will delight us with lots of great opportunities, more success and a heart filled with more love. May your journey through the year be smooth sailing with people you most cherish around you.

I'd also like to announce my spanking new website http://www.facekraft.com/

Recapturing 2010, I feel blessed to have had interesting, unexpected and productive experiences despite having to go through a few bumpy rides in my career and personal life.

Let's greet 1.1.11 with warm hearts and cheers of joy!

 

xoxo,

Shahnaz Bahar

TO ALL MAKE-UP & AIRBRUSH ARTISTS IN MALAYSIA/INDONESIA/BRUNEI PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!

Nike N98 Track Jacket - Designers and their Muse

Hannah Marshall designs for long distance runner Charlotte Purdue

Julian J Smith designs for athlete Jodie Williams

Katie Eary designs for sprinter Martyn Rooney

SIBLING design for sprinter Harry Aikines-Aryeetey

Tim Soar dresses Rugby player Danny Care

Felder Felder's design for sprinter Ashlee Nelson

Source : vogue.co.uk

Miss Universe Malaysia 2010 - Nadine Ann Thomas

Here's a video of the crowning moment at Royale Chulan from staronline...

..and photos from our photoshoot session with Bibo at Itudio Studio, Kelana Jaya. Congratulations Nadine!

     
 
Make-up : Shahnaz Baharuden

Photo : Bibo Aswan
 
 

Scarlett Johansson as the Face of Dolce and Gabbana's New Make-Up Advertisement

She is just classically gorgeous, isn't she? 

source : http://www.makeupmole.com/right-now-scarlett-johansson-for-dolce-and-gabanna-makeup/

Thank You Note from PETA

I received an email from Ashley Fruno of PETA Asia today thanking me for a job well done on Saturday. I'm glad with the amount of press coverage they received and happy I played a small part in contributing to the awareness for ethical treatment of animals. Here's the email and links to press who attended the event.

Hi Shahnaz,

 

Just wanted to send a quick note (although very delayed) to thank you for all your hard work in making Saturday possible. We were delighted with the amount of press that attended the shoot, and the make-up absolutely amazing. Attached are some clips from two Hong Kong newspapers and a Thai paper, and below are what we have seen online. I thought you might like to see them. I’ll be sending much more in the next few days….

 

Thanks again! We so appreciate everything.

 

Best regards,

Ashley

 

http://www.torontosun.com/news/world/2009/10/26/11534401.html

http://klue.com.my/articles/2409-Roarrr-Goes-Amber-Chia-for-PETAs-new-campaign

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/10/25/nation/4974693&sec=nation

http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/articles/18amber-2/Article/index_html

http://www.afpbb.com/article/life-culture/life/2656300/4808378

http://www.nettavisen.no/nyheter/article2740948.ece

http://vnexpress.net/GL/Van-hoa/2009/10/3BA14EE9/

http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/World/Story/STIStory_446153.html

http://www.lastampa.it/multimedia/multimedia.asp?IDmsezione=59&IDalbum=21666&tipo=FOTOGALLERY

 

Amber Chia Bodypainted as a Tiger for People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)

I had a great time with Eunice and Anna at the PETA photoshoot on Saturday. We spent half the day at Myth Studio in Mutiara Damansara making-up non other then Malaysia's very own supermodel, Amber Chia.

The photoshoot is for PETA Asia's advertising campaign against animal captivity, basically to boycott zoos.
Ashley Fruno, Senior PETA Campaigner believes animals belong in the wild and no matter how well they are kept in zoos, no zoo can re-create the animals' natural habitat. Zoos might claim they are educating the public but PETA thinks animals have limited space in zoos and are being exploited for entertainment.

The first photoshoot is of Amber in PETA t-shirt. The make-up and hair for this photoshoot is clean and natural. I decided to sleek her hair back into a ponytail to keep it simple. 

After 2 t-shirt changes and a short interview with Ashley, Amber then changed into a white strapless bra and nude coloured g-strings to be painted on. I applied skin protector base to protect her skin and make application of the paint smoother.

The first coat was a mix of Mehron orange, yellow and brown bodypaint all over her back, outer hands and outer legs. The first layer is then dried with cold air of my hairdryer before the second and third layer is painted over. We noticed the paint needs to be applied thinly with a make-up sponge and some water using long strokes. If the paint is too thick and no water added, it will crack easily and needs to be touched up. Details of the orange coat is then done using a paintbrush. I also decided to add some gold paint for highlights.

My assistant Anna then started on the white paint on the front of Ambers' body, inner hands and inner legs. Eunice started on the black stripes using a small paintbrush. I printed out photographs of tigers in the wild as references, as I wanted the stripes to be as similar to a real tiger as possible. The stripes are appled thinly so that black paint can be added on later to make the stripes thicker if necessary.

While the 2 girls worked on Amber's body, I started on her face. She already has false eyelashes on from the first photoshoot so I applied black eyeliner on the inner and outer corners of her eyes to create "cat eyes".  She does carry out the feline look very well, I must say. I added more bronzer on her cheekbones and rest of her face and it's all done. Her hair is backcombed and teased with some hairspray to add volume while the ends of her locks are curled loosely using a hair iron. After about two and a half hours (despite the press claims that it took three or four hours), Amber was ready to face the anxious media for her "junggle-setting" photoshoot.

 

Longer, Thicker Eyelashes, anyone..?

A New Drug, Latisse, Makes Eyelashes Grow Longer, Thicker

June 5th, 2009

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It is a medical breakthrough. No, not a cure for cancer, but for the short lashed. The FDA has approved a prescription medication that makes your eyelashes grow.

We have known for years that prostaglandin medications used to treat glaucoma have an interesting side effect –they make patients’ eyelashes grow. Now a prescription drug is available that is specifically for treatment of hypotrichosis of the eyelashes, (which means sparse lashes).

Eyelashes are hair, just like the hairs on your head and legs. Not all hairs are created equal though; eyelashes are designed to grow a certain (short) length, then stop. The number and thickness of your lashes is determined by your genetics.

Latisse (bimatoprost opthamlic solution 0.03%) is a prescription drug made by Allergan, the makers of Botox. It’s a prostaglandin, an active biologic compound named after the prostate gland, the first place they were found. Latisse has been shown to increase the number, thickness, and darkness of lashes.

Latisse can be applied to the upper eyelashes only and should not be applied directly into the eye. It takes about eight weeks to notice results, and it can take 16 weeks to see the full effects of the drug. Unfortunately, you have to continue using Latisse to maintain the results; if you stop using it, then your eyelashes will go back to the way they were before you started treating them.

Side effects of using Latisse include disoloration of your eyelid. Fortunately this appears to be reversible; the color fades when affected people stop using it. Latisse can also cause darkening of the iris in your eye. Your eye color is genetically determined, but medications can change the color. Latisse might cause increased brown pigmentation of your iris. This side effect, unlike the darkening of your eyelid however, is permanent.

Latisse costs about $120 dollars a month and, of course, is not covered by health insurance. It is apparently already popular among the celebrity crowd: reports say Jenny McCarthy has been using it.  The question is how long will it be before someone starts applying it to their eyebrows? I could be the poster boy.

Photo: Nicholas Kenrick (flickr)

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Source : The Dermatology Blog

Diving Bell Make-Up Artist Dies at 44

Posted: Wednesday 30 July, 2008

French make-up effects artist Benoît Lestang, whose work included the critically acclaimed 2007 film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, died in Paris, France July 27, reportedly of a suicide. He was 44.

As Make-up Artist magazine reported in Issue 67, in Alain Bielik’s story “The French Paradox,” Lestang was a self-taught professional who began work at 17—on cheap horror films, he told Bielik. He went on to create special make-up effects for commercials in the mid-’90s. His filmography includes the surreal feature The City of Lost Children and the award-winning period pieces Le Bossu, Brotherhood of the Wolf and Les Destinees Sentimentales, for which he created age make-ups, and which he described to Bielik as his greatest achievement.

“The great thing was that nobody paid attention to the make-up when the film came out,” he said. “It must be rewarding to build a creature that everyone sees, but I’ve always preferred to make something fake look real. I consider that I have succeeded when my work goes unnoticed.”

Lestang was a special make-up effects artist on last year’s biographical drama The Diving Bell and Butterfly, which was nominated for four Academy Awards. He had worked most recently on the effects for the French horror film Martyrs.

Lestang is survived by friends, family and colleagues. Source : Make-Up Mag