Nars – Night Breed
MAC Glitter – Crystalled Lime
MAC Glitter – Reflects Pearl x2
MAC Glitter – Reflects Bronze
Unknown Glitter – Silver
Unknown Glitter – Various in Stack
MAC Pigment – Neo Orange
MAC Pigment – Fuchsia
MAC Pigment – Golden Lemon
MAC Pigment – Gold
MAC Pigment – Cheers My Dear!
MAC Pigment – Softwash Grey
MAC Pigment – Gift O’ Glamour
MAC Pigment – Silver Fog
MAC Pigment – Mauvement
MAC Pigment – Gold Mode
MAC Pigment – Most Darling
MAC Pigment – Gilded Green
MAC Pearlized Pigment Clusters – Impassioned
Body Shop Shimmer Cubes Palette – No. 6
Barry M Dazzle Dust – Green
Barry M Dazzle Dust – White
Barry M Dazzle Dust – Blue
Naked Pigment – Sierra Nevada 01
Naked Pigment – Sierra Nevada 02
Naked Pigment – Sierra Nevada 03
Naked Pigment – Sierra Nevada 04
Naked Pigment – Sierra Nevada 05
Naked Pigment – Sierra Nevada 06
Bobbi Brown – Duo Eyeshadow Bone & Mahogany
Eyeshadow Palette No. 1:
MAC - Free to Be
MAC - Passionate
MAC - Vibrant Grape
MAC - Swiss Chocolate
MAC - Shadowy Lady
MAC - Pink Venus
MAC - Cranberry
MAC - Plum Dressing
MAC - Texture
MAC - Satin Taupe
MAC - Twinks
MAC - Mulch
MAC - Trax
Lancome Lilac
Urban Decay – Midnight Cowboy
Eyeshadow Palette No. 2:
MAC -White
MAC -Brule
MAC -Orb
MAC -Kid
MAC -All that Glitters
MAC -Forgery
Lancome – Bain D’or
MAC – Shroom
Lancome – Moonlit
MAC – Cork
MAC – Brun
MAC - Wedge
MAC – Copperplate
MAC – Tete e Tint
MAC – Mulch
Eyeshadow Palette No. 3:
MAC -Plumage
MAC -Club
MAC -Sumptuous Olive
MAC -Dazzlelight
MAC -Blue Calm
MAC -Steamy
MAC – Bio Green
MAC – Bright Sunshine
Lancome – Creme
Urban Decay – Goddess
MAC – Deep Truth
MAC - Humid
MAC – Rule
MAC – Carbon
MAC – Mulch
There is one big trend this season that we definitely can’t ignore and that is brows! As a make-up artist, I am constantly harping on to people about the importance of brows and how they help to define and finish off a look.
This season brows are full and barely plucked. They are nude, light, or in some cases blocked out. A nude brow really alters the aesthetic of the face and makes the eyes seem larger and become the main focus of the face.
Alexander McQueen
Anna Sui
Fendi
Givenchy
Another big trend this season is nude and barely there eye colours, we are talking coral pinks, dusty roses, smokey salmon and barely there beige. Think antique over exposed photos, weathered away from years of handling and reminiscing. The look is a much loved, hazy summer holiday.
Diane von Furstenberg
Giambattista Valli
Chanel
Dior
Like blossoming flowers, there is a wash of colour making it’s way through the beauty industry. Dior had bright oranges and vivid sky blues. Jean Paul Gaultier used the rainbow as a palette, ensuring that there was a brighter alternative to the pale pastels making there way on the runway.
Dior
Jean Paul Gaultier
Lastly I couldn’t talk about Spring/Summer 2010 without mentioning the much raved about Chanel transfers. To be honest, I have seen these for many years in the likes of Claire’s Accessories, so it isn’t really groundbreaking. I won’t be rushing out to get these myself, but I like that a classic brand like Chanel is embracing popular culture and moving with the times.
There have been some definite trends evident already in the Fall collections from the top designers. Eyebrows have been raised literally by Dior and Co. Natural brows have been waxed over and hidden and a thin line drawn above the natural position. The effect makes eyes look rather alien. Faces are kept pale, a blank canvas enabling colourful, false lash clad eyes to pop. The lip look, harks back to the sultry 1920′s, with defined cupid’s bows in purple and pink. This look is about drama and expression.
As can be expected with a Autumn collections there were alot of bronze, golds and browns about, symbolic of the change of colours from summer to autumn. However the colours were kept mainly to the eyes and lips. Skin had a more pale matt tone.
Alessandro Dell’Acqua
Donna Karan
Anna Sui
Carolina Herrera
Chloe
A huge trend again this Autumn is red lips, with many different shades making an appearance from Scarlett to Blood. Again gorgeous and with a well defined cupids bow. A good angled lip brush is essential for this look. I particluarly like Armani’s shade of lippy.
Pat McGrath is the mother suprimo in the make-up world, the one to watch, the one to aspire to and the one to be inspired by.
Pat McGrath Backstage Ready-to-Wear Dolce & Gabbana 2009
Her career started in the early 1990s when she got her break doing photoshoots for I-D Magazine. Her make-up had an artistic visual presence not seen before. With a art & design backround, she was never officially trained in make-up artistry but got into the industry purely for the love of fashion and make-up.
She has gone on to have an expansive career that has seen her collaborate with some of the biggest names in fashion. However it wasn’t always like that, she said in an interview that she had her moments of doubt…She felt like she was getting nowhere and that she could’t live out her dream of being a make-up artist:
‘Kim would call me up and say, “Have you got a book together yet?”‘ McGrath remembers, ‘and although I loved the fun we had on set, I just never quite got it together and went for it. So the jobs would always go to someone better known, and eventually I just resigned myself to the idea that I would never make it. There was one evening when I was just sitting in my living room in the dark and I thought, “I’m never going to become a make-up artist, I’m finished, I’m going to have to get a real job”, because at that point my mum was saying, “Maybe you should take a hint”.’
It was at precisely that moment that the fairy-tale break came. ‘The phone rang and it was someone asking if I wanted to go on tour in Japan with Caron Wheeler from Soul II Soul. I’d done her make-up one Sunday afternoon three years earlier as a favour, and she took my number saying she’d call me some time. And that was it – I left my job and went to Japan for three months, scared to death. I cried all the way there because I’d never been on a plane before and I was terrified.’
I find this extremely inspiring, you have to just keep the faith and if you want something badly enough, eventually the universe will work its mysterious way and give it to you!
My Professional Make-up Kit – Eyes No.1
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Jean Paul Gaultier
