I took this picture of Karmen Cass in an ad for Max Factor and used it as inspiration for the colourful after beach look below.
Green 'n yellow.
I took this picture of Karmen Cass in an ad for Max Factor and used it as inspiration for the colourful after beach look below.The master.
Elizabeth Taylor and Sophia Loren? No, just the magic touch of Kevyn Aucoin on Winona Ryder and Gina Gershon.
Malin.
Malin, my childhood friend, got married in July 2006 and I had the honor of doing her makeup (and the cooking! I made a buffé for 30 people or so. Talk about multi-tasking, I was working my ass off. So keep in mind - if there's a smaller party or wedding, I can be used for several purposes. I'm even a star when it comes to planning trips so if you need help with that, I'm your girl. Hm, maybe I should just become a full time wedding planner?)
This girl has flawless skin as it is, so she's a joy to work on. I used very little makeup. If I remember correctly this is how it was done:I used som concealer under her eyes and a very small amount of powder, just to set it. Then I used Dallas (my favourite multiproduct) as a bronzer and blush all over her face, and used it as an eye shadow as well. I added the highlighter High Beam on her cheeks, brow bones and on the inner corners of her eyes and topped it all off with some dark brown eye shadow on the outer corners of her eyes. Her lips were kept natural.
She didn't even have mascara on, since she had her eyelashes lengthened and coloured in a salon before the wedding. A very good idea may I add, since tears aren't that unusal at these things.
Terese.
Working on Terese for a 25th birthday party she was attending earlier this year. Terese is a bit of a tomboy and would the first to admit that she's clueless when it comes to makeup. She is however gorgeous. What I love about pretty tomboys who basically never wears more than maybe a little mascara is that as soon as you start working on them you see a huge difference. I mean, put a little blush on their cheeks and everyone goes "wow" cause they've never seen them that beautiful before. On someone like me though, who has been experimenting with makeup since 5th grade, it doesn't have the same effect. I'm used to wearing a lot more makeup on a daily basis so I need a lot more added for me to see any difference, you know what I mean?
Benefit Cosmetics.
One of my favorite make up brands is Benefit Cosmetics. Not only do they have some fantabulous products, such as Benetint and High Beam, I just love love love the cute and clever names of the products, and the colourful packaging etc (although I'm also a big fan of clean, simple looking products of the likes of Makeup Store and FACE Stockholm. I am after all a Swede).Oh, and the Box-o-Powders! I'm a collector of those and I so far I have Dandelion, Georgia, Hoola and - my favourite powder of all times, all brands - Dallas. This is a perfect mix of a brown bronzer and a pink blush, with kind of like a dusty rose colour. I use it on my cheeks, my chin, my temples, along my hairline on my forehead, on the bridge of my nose and as an eye shadow. It gives you that perfect I'm-a-country-gal-who-stayed-out-in-the-fields-in-the-sun-just-a-little-too-long kind of look. Love it. My next have-to-have I believe is to be CORALista. I think I'll be getting that one when I go back to London in August. (No, we are not fortunate enough to have Benefit Cosmetics in Sweden.)
Oh, and don't forget to try the best of the best body creams; "Touch me then try to leave"... Cream. The box is lovely, the scent is lovely, the name is lovely, and it is in fact the only body lotion I've tried where the scents stays on you for an entire day and night, even until the next morning! The scent even sets in you clothes and your bed linens. Get it!
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