While I was at the Makeup Show Europe I attended Loni Baur’s make-up demonstration. It was a fun and energy filled performance of make-up to music. She used a toothbrush to flick on the colour which had a gorgeous airbrushed effect. Unfortunately I was too far away to take a video, but I managed to take a few photographs so you can recreate the look yourself.
Loni is a very successful German makeup artist who has worked all over the world in fashion shows and events. She has opened her own school in Hamburg called the Colour and Creme Academy. This is a picture of her work from her website, she is absolutely amazing!
As you might have seen on twitter I got to do a few Halloween makeups this year. Not as many as in previous years because I have been really busy working on The Savage Eye 3 (will post about that in the future).
I did Tara O’Farrell and Georgia Salpa’s makeup for the Creatures of the Night Photocall for Miller.
It was a sultry scary look that compromised of a black smokey eye, blood red lips, paired with freaky yellow contacts and vampire fangs.
We had hoped that it would hit one or two newspapers, but we lucked out as it made it into the Sun, Metro, Mirror and Star. We even got a front cover!
To create the look I used:
Graftobian HD Airbrush Foundation in Dessert Sand
Contoured with a darker shade airbrush colour
MAC Skin Finish Powder in Dark for additional contouring
MAC Blacktrack Gel Liner
Nars Night Breed Eyeshadow
Rimmel Black Eyeliner on the lips
Lancome L’Absolu Rouge Lipstick in Red
Lancome Hypnose Mascara in Black
Well it has been a while since my last post, so I guess apologies are in order…but! I have and excuse. I managed to fit in a little holiday My good friend and fellow makeup artist decided to marry the man that she loves and thus I ended up spending a week in Portugal.
It was a great excuse to get away and I was delighted to have a jam-packed eventful as well as relaxed holiday.
I went Dolphin watching and managed to see about 30 dolphins which was sooo cool.
Also we were really lucky to see a turtle, I seem to have a strange connection to turtles…I did my college thesis on them, then when I went Scuba diving for the first time I saw one (which apparently is really unusual), then my first Christmas with Ronan aka my gorgeous boyfriend he gave me a turtle ring and then our first proper holiday together we see a turle…what are the chances?
So again, apologies about the hiatus, but there are loads of posts coming soon
This is an update to a behind the scenes post called Behind the Scenes: Alana Carroll Bodypainting. Possibly the funniest/weirdest concept that I have worked on in a long time, this is the video from that day.
The behind the scenes photos that I posted have had a huge presence over the internet. The last post was picked up by the pop culture website Oddee.
This was a shoot that appeared in the Irish Times last Saturday that I did. It was shot on location at Carton House, one of the loveliest venues in Ireland for a photoshoot!
The theme was vintage debs, with alot of our inspiration coming from the 1920s. I will do another post with the actual photographs where I will explain what make-up I used.
The girls were more adventurous with colour than usual for weddings, so I was delighted. Jennifer went for a beautiful purple eyeshadow smoked out to really accentuate her green eyes, with a nice black eyeliner and thick flirtatious false eyelashes. All the bridesmaids opted for variations of a navy blue smokey eye and lashes and everyone had a nice neutral lip to really play up the eyes.
I read a blog called the Independent Fashion Bloggers, there was a post about what we all use to blog with. Just thought I would join in the conversation.
I use a Dell Inspiron 6400 Laptop, it is as old as the hills, but I added extra RAM so it still runs quite fast, only problem is that a couple of the keys have become quite sticky, so if there are ever typos that is probably the reason! I have the whole Adobe Creative Suite, so I use this for editing photographs or making graphics. The odd time that I edit a film I use Windows Movie Maker. I also use the WordPress platform for my blog.
Another REALLY important piece of kit are my hard drives. My laptop has no space left on it as all the programmes take up much of the limited space. So I have two hard drives, one with everything on it that I use daily and then another which is a backup of all my files that I update once a month.
Also not pictured is my iphone4 (I had to take the picture with it). As I no longer have a proper camera this is what I take all my pictures and videos with. The camera is great, but the only downfall is the flash is not great, sort of makes everything look yellowy, especially foundation for some reason. It really does the trick for behind the scenes photographs and with the likes of Instagram, you can get some really nice finishes on your images. Most of the images on my website though would be taken by professional photographers who have amazing cameras and lighting equipment. You can see a list of who I have worked with here.
For writing articles I usually get information online, from blogs, catwalk reports, television and magazines. I probably buy about one magazine a week and I cut out work that I like and put it into a folder of images that I can look at if I am ever in need of inspiration.
The only other thing that you will find in my little office is a cup of something, either coffee or my favourite herbal tea rooibos. You have to keep hydrated
This wedding really stood out as unique. Yvonne and Cillian were having a really intimate wedding with just five people in attendance! Not only that, the bride and groom stayed in the same house the night before, so all the usual traditions were not necessarily the order of the day. It was really beautiful and you could tell that the most important thing was their love for each other and at the end of the day that is what weddings are all about! I think if I was getting married I would probably go with a small wedding too!
Yvonnes makeup was kept classic and pretty, with a bit of natural definition around the eyes, we really played them up with some MAC False Eyelashes, which had a nice flick at the outer corners. Lips were kept nude with a lovely Laura Mercier gloss in Pink Champagne on top.
Her hair was done in a hairdressers earlier that morning, Yvonne kept them fresh with this hairnet which looks so vintage in all the photos! The curls had dropped a little too much, so we gave them a bit of a pep with my curling wand, which I always carry to weddings just incase!
This is a shoot that I did a while back. The concept was something ancient and Egyptian. I had to start by painting Azaria all over with a bronzed brown from Kryolan, you wouldn’t believe it from this picture, but she is actually Caucasian!
I then handpainted all the hieroglyphics and the make up. As you can imagine this took aaages, because each one had to have its own shadow/highlight to really make it pop. I think it was worth the effort though as it turned out quite well.
My good friend and fellow makeup artist decided to marry the man that she loves and thus I ended up spending a week in Portugal.
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