YOUTUBE VIDEOS FOR BUDDING MAKE-UP ARTISTS

Here are some of my favourite videos that I like to reference back to:

My favourite clip of the behind the scenes action of François's book, 15X15.

I will admit I didn't know anything about the NARS history till a couple of weeks ago. But seriously, FRANCOIS NARS IS A LIVING GENIUS! And what I especially love about him is he still photographs all of his campaigns (it's been 15 years) and his reluctance to appear in the spotlight.

Marc Jacobs at his very best. This man is my idol... enough of Marc. This show got François out of runway retirement and boy did he impress with the 80's madness.

More Francois <3

I always anticipate for MAC's Halloween face charts and 2009 was the first time they made a video recording the transformations.

Pat McGrath is my favourite makeup artist of all time. Why? She's the most in demand make-up guru in the world. Effortlessly creating flawless natural faces at Stella McCartney to Christian Dior's extravagant couture looks. No-one compares. She's in a league of her own.

Another renowned artist and this video again makes me want to pursue a career in make-up artistry.

The lovely Lisa Eldrige who you may recognise from Ten Years Younger, her work for Boots N07 and her spreads in Glamour :)

I'm on a roll! Just more random info for budding make-up artists. I personally don't find finding inspiration that hard but I think that's down to being an art student. Apart from the traditional routes of looking through fashion/editorial magazines for ideas. YouTube is a very useful source as in most cases you can physically see the artists applying the make-up and get a better view of the full finished results.

CHRISTMAS 2009

Me giving evils... meant to be a reindeer but look more like Bambi ha! Sixth form Christmas fancy dress :) (Did have horns on but was too moody to take more photos).

Sorry, not many photos this time and will watermark/tag later but I'm having cam problems (I'm a newbie!!) which meant the pics I had already had to be deleted... hmppph. I started the look at six and by twenty to seven was just about finished, so took me awhile to master. I had practised the night before but was a nightmare. The blending sucks and general face make-up + oily skin doesn't make a good canvas :(

Enough moaning... HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Shall hopefully have more updates in 2010 with my new cam x x x

HALLOWEEN 2009- VAMP STYLE

So here's my Halloween offering for 2009... VAMP STYLE!! Mainly inspired by Pixiwoo's Nicola vamp tutorial and maybe from True Blood? Though I don't see them rocking it this style! The blush is a bit "sloppily" done and the cupid's bow area is horrible.. I need to practice on lining lips more..

Random info... I've ordered some professional white face paint at last!! Can't wait to experiment.. the one I've bought is from Snazaroo and is water activated so I'm presuming similar to most theatrical stage makeup.

sorry the photo quality isn't as good this time.. I'm currently experimenting with the camera.

CLASSIC SMOKEY

Done ages ago- just didn't upload as I got lazy with tagging. Again playing with false-lashes which I'm still trying to get the knack of. Can't remember what I used but I seem to be playing around with greys, blacks and I think a hint of reddy-purple.

MORE OLDIES

I love the lighting on this one.. but can't say its very flattering!

Just some more photos I decided to upload instead of just sitting around on the computer. Arty and lots of messing around with lighting to create shadows.

HARVEY N SHOOT

Hey everyone, so finally an update from my last post where I showed you the behind the scenes (I've not been on my personal computers for ages as my sister came back and her computer is 10000x faster then mine)... well here's the results above! Michelle looks fierce as always and let me tell you that shoot was HARD!! Lots of hard work and difficulties especially with the location. The lighting was terrible that day but the show had to go on- which was only worsened with us almost getting lost, a horrible trek to the so called "waterfall"- which by the time we got there was a sludge fest and Michelle with a sprained ankle (yes she had to walk in them heels!!! Both of us didn't think of bringing flat shoes). Took loads of photographs that day but by the time I sorted them through I wasn't left with much... still got some great shots and learnt lots that day!

BEHIND THE SCENES

Michelle doing her "up-do"

Flawless skin or what?!

Chaos as always

Hey everyone, these are the "backstage" photos I took whilst I was waiting for Michelle to do her "up-do".This shoot was for Media- my recreation of Harvey Nichols. I curled the hair and did the make-up which took us I believe 2 hours.

I decided to go with a "fierce" look and used a block bright purple, which surprisingly was a nightmare which may of been contributed it being loose and matte- which resulted in lots of layering as the shadow kept going patchy.

Michelle actually had quite red broken out skin but as you can see.. what spots!? Amen M.A.C.'s studio fix fluid which I recently started use aswell. Photos will be added later when i've "tagged" them :)

GRAPHIC DIOR

Hey everyone, using the Fresh Cut palette from MAC and decided to play with falsies.. the upper lashes are really bad! As you can probably tell I'm inspired by Dior again.

TOPSHOP KATE MOSS INSPIRED AND SCHIELE RECREATION

Hey everyone these photos are fairly new; the first two is my recreation of the Topshop for Kate Moss ad for a media project. Images I found on the net gave pretty good shots of the makeup so it was fairly easy to re-create- I think the only major difference was the images I based the look on used a berry shade for the lips instead of red.

The last image was for art and is a recreation of an Egon Schiele piece- to give it a twist I went along with the whole sadness theme he projects so I decided to do a black smokey eye and use MAC'S fix + (I recommend water) to make the makeup run.

HAUNTED

I was digging round my computer docs and found these images which I thought I lost when my memory stick died last year. These images were for GCSE art and somehow remind me of Alexander McQueen. I wanted to do this haunted Tim Burton-esque girl. I liked the contrasting curly back-combed hair with the Minnie mouse headband against the face "mask". It took awhile to do and was an absolute nightmare to get off (Michelle wasn't best pleased). The eyebrows are a tad wonky but I personally think the blending of the colours look really nice and my teacher asked if it was done using paint shop pro.... heh.. I'm better then that! :P