BRIDAL EPISODE #7 - BOLLYWOOD BRIDE

Hi All!

I just came back from preparing a Hindu Bride for her wedding in Claxton Bay and we wanted to achieve the Bollywood Look for her Hindu portion of the wedding.

She has such fair skin that we just wanted to lightly contour her face without distorting anything but she asked for very dramatic eyes.  I did a winged liner with MAC Kohl pencil and lined inside her eyes to continue the drama effect and used Loreal Mascara for the eyelashes.

We kept the lips simple with a lip pencil from Jordana and Loreal Infallible lipstick in crimson.  Of course, without stating the obvious, I used airbrush makeup in OCC and Graftobian Powder/Foundation palette in Neutral.

In the end, she looked exactly like the Bollywood bride she wanted to be!  It was fun and we are going to continue her transformation again next Saturday as she wants a simpler approach to her wedding dress.  Of course, I will be there with my camera to take the after pics....
Enjoy!

BRIDAL WEDDING EPISODE #6

Hi Hi!

I am very tired right now but I really wanted to put up these pics of today's wedding.  I went to San Juan for a bride and bridal party and it was another fun today but this time a little more hectic.

One of the ladies (the first pic) had a serious sweating problem and that was affecting the makeup to the point that it was not setting on her face.  I thankfully did not panic after a little while and had to matte it down with a sponge and then re-applied the airbrush makeup onto her face.

I used OCC Makeup and Coastal Scents Lip Palette on everyone and had to rush to make sure the bride was ready to dress and leave on time.  Sorry I couldn't go into more detail today regarding the makeup, but I will do so for tomorrow's Hindu Wedding.  That should be interesting and pretty.

BRIDAL EPISODE #5 - MUSLIM BEAUTY

Hi Hi!

Today I had so much fun with this bridal party in San Juan.  They contacted me over a couple mths ago based on another wedding I had done for a Muslim Bride (you can check back my earlier posts for it) and they were impressed with the simplicty and flawless look I gave her.

I didn't do a trial so I wasn't sure what I was going to meet but was glad that they all had somewhat good skin and were so excited to get airbrush makeup done.  A couple of them inclusive of the bride had sensitive skin so I was extra careful to ensure that the products were properly sanitized prior and after application for each of them.  All they asked for was a little drama on the eyes and definite liner to accentuate.  I used OCC Airbrush Makeup and Coastal Scents eyeshadow and Ben Nye Fireworks Wheel to highlight.

The tranformations were subtle but effective for each of them but not everyone wanted to take out Before Pics...that 's ok though, the Afters were great!

The bride is in white ( of course) & gold.  Just Beautiful!

BRIDAL BEAUTY - EPISODE 3

Hi Hi!

Love to start like that....anyhoo, so I kinda like some form of order so in order to introduce posts on brides that I have done, I will sort of label them until I find something else that suits me.

In this episode, I had to do airbrush makeup for the bride however we've never met.  Therefore, you can just imagine her jitters of the makeup application, not just the ceremony.  Come to think of it, I believe women are more 'jittery' of that than anything else.

So, of course, she told me that she doesn't wear makeup at all and was very antsy to see the finished product.  I had to keep turning her from the mirror (we were in a hair salon by the way) and calm her down with the airbrush mist.  Oh yeah, airbrush makeup also has the ability to make people feel more relaxed as the cool mist is blowing on the face, it acts like what I like to call it 'a mini airconditioner'.

Her sister, friend and hairstylist were there as well to help give her confidence and as they put it 'to tell her if the makeup doesn't come out well'.  Of course you know, not on my watch! Lol!

The pic below shows the before and after....Her skin is really lovely up close and wasn't hard to manipulate but as she has a fuller face, I had additional contouring to do around the perimeter of her face and light color to the cheeks as opposed to obvious blush applications. 

Her eyes also had to be contoured (slightly) as they have a tendency to droop, so I applied the outer crease colour in an upward fashion to make it more almond shape.  She also is not a lover of lipstick (no suprise there!) and I applied generous lipgloss applications where it was in keeping with her simple, yet sophisticated look.

You can just imagine her reaction when I showed her the pics!  She loved them and then turned into a diva...continuously posing for our cameras in all different angles at the same time saying, "I feel I will give the photographer trouble today"...yeah right :-).

I was very happy to see her light up when she realised it was just enough for her and how the overall look would be with the dress and accessories.

By this time, she is a happily married woman and I wish her all the best!

DAJ Signing Out!

MS. ELEGANT MOM PAGEANT - MAY 08 2010

Hi Folks!

Well as you guys know by now, I was involved in the captioned pageant for one of the contestants - Ms. Kerniel James from Tobago.

It was held at Cascadia Hotel in St. Anns, Trinidad and to tell you the truth, I didn't even know it existed but there are a lot of them occurring more frequently now.  Its great for the contestants though, as one of my friends told me, it builds character and confidence that may not be developed in another environment.

Well, needless to say, I think that the coordination was badly wanting in that department 'coordination'. I had to leave as I was developing a cold and had 2 hrs to drive back home so, I was craving my bed and my contestant hadn't shown up yet - our meeting time was 4pm, this was after 6pm. :(

However, when she finally arrived, I got it together and did a 'cut crease' look with eyeshadow from Coastal Scents and the airbrush foundation was OCC. I wanted to use TEMPTUPRO AQUA as its just there in my kit but didn't want to experiment on that night.

As I mentioned before, I left earlier - around 8pm - not really that early but the other MUAs were working on their ppl and I was told later that the 1st pick of the top ten wasn't even called and it was around 12pm.  Not me!

I really hope though that she did well, I think she looked gorge, but hey I'm biased.  Here is the final pic of what she looked like, of course I will not put her before.  Enjoy!

THE SECOND MUSLIM BEAUTY

As I promised, my second beauty of a muslim bride is Farah and her final pic is here.

Her makeup was of course airbrush based along with some conventional selections.  If there is ever a time that the makeup must stay put is whenever I come into contact with muslim brides and their beautiful hijabs.  The amount of movement that will occur to put them on, with conventional makeup will ultimately streak and leave 'footprints' on the garments.

That's why, to me, its even more imperative to ensure that the makeup is resistant to movement and the airbrush will always be the best choice.

BELOW LISTS WHAT WAS USED:

FACE:

• OCC Cosmetics in the Y Collection - Y3 and Y2 as the higlight shade
• OCC Cosmetics Blush in Hush
• Eyebrows by MAC in Spiked and clear gel

EYES:

• Gold & Bronze Eyeshadows from Coastal Scents on entire eyelid and crease
• Warm Brown Eyeshadow under the lower lashes
• MAC Paint Pot in Indianwood
• Revlon Liquid Eyeliner in Black
• Black Loreal Mascara

LIPS:

• Lauren Hutton Lip Pencil (as I write this I can't remember the shade name but it was definitely a rose tinted color)
• Lip Sealer by Mehron

As I mentioned before, I reduced any use of powder so there wouldn't be any mishaps, hope you guys like it!

DAJ Out!

RECENT BRIDAL PHOTOS

My bridal season has officially kicked off and I have taken some pics of some before and afters that were done.  Interestingly enough some of my clients happen to be Muslim Brides as well as from the Christian fraternity.

They were truly lovely Ladies...Check out the first - Kareema and what I used below:

Foundation  - Airbrush Foundation Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Bottle Y3

Powder - Temptu Invisible Difference Powder

Blush - Lush from Obsessive Compul 

Eyebrow - MAC Eyebrow Pencil in Stud 

Eyes:

 Eyeliner - MAC Kohl Eyeliner Pencil

 Eyeshadow - Coastal Scents Warm Palette in colours - Warm Gold, Brown and Black in the crease

 Eyelashes - Mascara Black with Loreal

Lips - Graftobian Lip Palette in Rose Pink and Lip Balm from Lauren Hutton

I seem to be having a problem so I will post the others tomorrow.  (I promise at least myself as I know my track record is terrible with blogging).

DAJ Signing Out!