Wedding Spotlight : - ) Dorcas

It's always a great joy when my friends contract me as their makeup artist and hair stylist for their big day. It put so so much confident in me and trust me I'm always determined to make them look their very best. Dorcas was no exception. Her wedding was in December but she contracted me in October. We're both female Engineers , did lots of volunteering work together.

Beauty Spotlight /Breakdown : Young Fresh Makeup

Fumi is a young senior high school student who aspires to be a supermodel . As a model , it's very imperative to keep your portfolio alive with fresh and chic pictures of you. Fumi is not a typical girl who wears makeup everyday . Her go to look is just lip gloss.

Her look was fun and chic , nothing to heavy for a young girl. Just a flawless face.

Let jump into....

Beauty Breakdown : Traditional Wedding Makeover

Gladys my model wanted a very chic look for her traditional wedding. She didn't want anything over the top. She wanted to wear the makeup and not the opposite. I went in for a soft golden smokey eye with a light berry lips. My utmost concern was her skin. i wanted a flawless foundation as much as possible.Using MAC Pure Orange corrector , I corrected all the hyper-pigmentation around her mouth area.

Before

After

Skincare 

Witchhazel Toner

MAC Prep+Prime Face Protect

 MAC Fast Response Eye Cream 

MAC Strobe Cream 

Corrector/Concealer

MAC Pure Orange

MAC Studio 

BH Cosmetics Camouflage Palette ( Brows)

Foundation 

Makeup Designory Foundation Palette #2

Powder 

Black Opal Invisible Oil Blocking Powder 

MAC Dark Deep Mineralize Skinfinsh

Blush 

La Femme Cosmetics  Sienna & Cinnabar

 Bronzer/Contour/Highlight

Covergirl Bronzer in Ebony 

Sleek Face Foam , Dark 

Sleek Face Foam , Golden bronzer

Eyeshadows

Yaby Cosmetics Gold bar / Amber Rain

Yaby Cosmetics Milk Chocolate 

MAC Shadowy Lady 

Eyeliner 

MAC Blacktrack 

MAC Smoulder Eye Pencil

Mascara 

Maybelline Stiletto 

Eyelashes 

Ardel #113

Eyebrows

MUD Rich Brown Pencil

Anastasia of Beverly Hills Clear Brow Gel 

Lips

MAC Chestnut Lip Pencil

BH Cosmetics 32 Lip Palette

Finishing Spray 

MAC Fix +

Beauty Breakdown - Elaine

Photograpy - Teresa Meka

 

 Skincare 

I used Eve Pearl Priming Moisturizer as a moisturizer and at the same time primer. With Elaine's combination skin , i used Eve Pearl Anti-Shine at the t-zone to eliminate excess shine . Also used, Mary Kay Firming eye cream to awake up those tired eyes , Victoria Secrets Lip balm and MAC Strobe Cream to give the skin a beautiful glow.

Foundation 

Makeup Designory cream foundation . It's sheer yet can be built to a great coverage.

Concealer

MAC Select Moisturecover for it's luxurious blendable moisturizing effect under the eyes.

Powder

I used Black Opal invisible blocking powder under the eyes for brightening and also t-zone. Also , Black Opal Deluxe Finishing powder in dark as an all over powder.

Blush 

 I love MAC Raizin  and Ambering Rose , they look gorgeous together on women of color.

Bronzer/ Highlights

 I used CoverGirl Queen Collection natural Hue in Ebony as contour colour . it's beautiful on women of color. I then added Guerlain Terracota bronzer to reduce the excess shine. MAC Gold Deposit as a highlight color.

Brows 

Elaine wanted a simple natural brows and so i used MAC Spiked brow pencil to fill in her sparse brows and brush through with Anastasia of Beverly Hills Clear brow gel to keep them in place .

Eyeshadow/ Liner 

Using L'Oreal Decrease as an eyeshadow primer, MAC Bronze eyeshadow on the lids with MAC Ricepaper as a brow highlight . In the crease , MUD Sienna and Onyx at the outer v. I used Eve Pearl Black liner pencil to line both the under and lower lash lines . For the tear duct highlight , i used MAC All That Glitters eyeshadow.

Eyelashes

Ardel Sexies for the natural look .

Mascara.

I love Maybelline Stiletto in Black , it's add so much volume and length.

Lips 

 Used  NYX Burgundy lip pencil to outline the beautiful lips.  I created the beautiful burgundy lip color from   mixing 3 shades of lipsticks  from Eve Pearl Ultimate Lip palette . Topped it with MUD Java Lipglaze.

More pictures coming soon ...