Perfect eyes and lips - Studio - Week 5

Today was absolutely wonderful!! I was in the studio from 9 am to... 5 pm. You'll see in the next post why. I won't show in this post everything I had done today because I have to work a little on the post production of the photos I took. You know, basic stuff like contrast, lightning etc.

First things first, achieving perfect eyes and lips is not that easy. Sue taught us the right way of applying eye make-up and lipstick and gave us two sheets with eye shapes and directions on how and where to place the lightest and the darkest color to correct the eyes. I was a bit late and I didn't hear the first part of Sue's instructions, and I didn't stick to the template I was given on the sheets. I have done things... "in my way"... which is not that good for a corrective make-up, but now I know where I have done wrong and in the future I will be more careful.

A new thing that I have learnt in Sue's class was that you can actually mix the foundation with the eye primer. I usually used to put foundation first and then the eye primer but now I think that this method of mixing is more efficient because I spend less time on doing it. Another new thing for me was the right way of applying mascara for the camera: I used to mascara only on the inside of the lashes, not on the top of them too, but now I know what to do.

I think that next time I will be more careful in following the instructions and I will pay more attention to the lips because when I took the picture I forgot blotting them.

Steps to achieve perfect eyes and lips:

• Cleanse, tone, moisturize;
• Apply a base on the eyes (Illamasqua base with Kryolan foundation);
• Powder the eyes to help the blending (Ben Nye translucent powder);
• Apply the lighter color on all the upper eyelid using a flat brush (and a highlighter eyeshadow);
• Blend the crease of the eye with another deeper color (Melkior eyeshadow) and a blending brush;
• Blend the color on the lower eyelid;
• Apply mascara in and out of the lashes, on the bottom and on the lower ones, with a disposable mascara wand;
• Contour the eyebrows slightly with eyebrow powder and an angled brush, for precision;
• Contour the lips with a lip crayon or just with (Kryolan) lipstick and a flat/angled synthetic brush for precision;
• Blot the lips with a tissue;
• Powder the lips slightly with a translucent powder and a brush/puff/cotton pad;
• Reapply lipstick.

Here are the basic eye shaping charts: