Marchphotoaday Day 17: Green

Project 366 - Day Twenty-Five

Cola flavoured lip gloss....so good.

IMATS!!!

I'm currently waiting for my project partner to finish her part of our report so I might as well make a long-awaited post!!

Most make-up junkies and beauty buffs know about IMATS, but for everyone else that reads my blog, I'll fill you guys in a little. IMATS stands for International Makeup Artist Trade Show and it's basically a big exhibition of makeup in different trades. This was my first time at the show so I don't really have anything to compare it to, but I was definitely impressed by the featured artists, mainly the body painters.

I was also pretty excited to see Pursebuzz, but it was cut short since my sister and I arrived late and hadn't been able to go around to see the products. Oh well, maybe next time!!


Elessa a.k.a. Pursebuzz working her magic on a model.



As I mentioned earlier, my sister and I got there late (it was my fault...I kept stalling haha) so we had limited time to look around. But let me tell you, it only took 10 minutes for us to spend around $100!!! I admit, I got a little bit carried away with the sparkly eyeshadows, but check out their website....no makeup addict can tell me that they would walk away when faced with these pretty little eyeshadow pots FOR HALF THE RETAIL PRICE?!?!??! I swear, if I had a credit card or I had withdrawn a wad of cash, I would have bought their entire stock!! The joke is, I don't even know when I'm gonna be using these little suckers!!! But hey, I've got presentations to make, parties to go to...the possibilities are endless!!


I should also mention the movie prosthetic museum that they had. I didn't spend a lot of time there because everything looked so real and it freaked me out, but I did take time to snap a few pictures....


Why hello there, Wolverine's head.


This is what freaked me out so hard....that, and the giant baby head (which I didn't take a picture of, unfortunately)




All in all, it was a pretty productive day....I'll definitely go back for next year's show!!

In the meantime, I'm gonna try to hurry my friend up, cuz I'm super tired and I'm pretty sure this entire post made absolutely no sense hahaha......Goodnight!!

waking up at 3:30 in the morning ain't so bad when I'm getting paid to do it...

This past Saturday marked my first actual "makeup artist"-esque job. Woke up at 3:30am, and by 4:30am I was nervous but ready to go. Vanessa picked me up to be her wedding makeup "intern", and after a quick stop at Timmy's we were off to the bride's house!

I'd like to say that I was completely prepared for my task, seeing as we had just learned the art of foundations and concealing in class on Tuesday, but the first thought in my head once we stepped into the house was, "How the HELL am I gonna pull this off?" All I had to do was bases, as in, concealing and applying foundation, but I've never used a liquid foundation and it's not like it was practice in my practical class, IT WAS A WEDDING!!!!

I'd like to think I did a pretty good job though, I was particularly proud of how I made one of the bridesmaids look absolutely flawless. I don't mean to offend, but she had a little bit of an acne issue. I completely covered it; that's my proudest makeup moment to date! We only really worked with the bridesmaids since the bride, her mother & her Maid of Honour were done in traditional Chinese wedding makeup. I was really nervous so I couldn't really make conversation, plus it was still 6 in the morning so the event wasn't as social and upbeat as it could have been. I'll get used to that though.

So by 8am we were finished for the day and I went home to sleep for a few hours before Vee came over for our wedding dress excursion.....but more on that in another post.......