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1 ) Tarte Friends and Family Sale
2 ) Stila Los Angeles Warehouse Sale
NOT to be confused with the online warehouse sale, this is the real deal. Line up early (some folks start lining up at 4am, I think we got there at around 6am last year) or do not bother.
Nars Cosmetics The Multiple in Copacabana
With the Holiday season in full swing and ladies now focusing on looking fabulous for Holiday parties it is time to turn our attention to one of the more fun categories of makeup; highlighters and illuminators. What is the difference you may ask? Well, definitions in makeup vary as greatly as the person giving the definition but basically speaking both highlighters and illuminators do the same thing: They create light effects on the face. Highlighters are – generally speaking – more concentrated than illuminators and are best used sparingly in certain key areas (brow bone, tops of cheeks, etc.). Illuminators are – again generally speaking – softer and more diffused and used in places where a bold highlight would be inappropriate (under-eye area) or they can be incorporated into foundation and used all over the face for subtle glow and brightening.
I love both highlighters and illuminators. Here are some of the best I have found. Continue reading →
Early on in my career, the end of the year would generally slow down for me so I would assume “Oh, Okay. There isn’t much work in the industry this time of year.” and settle for not working. It is easy to think this way what with the holidays and people leaving town, etc. Oh how wrong I was and if you are still thinking this way how wrong you are. In the years since then I have worked right up until and sometimes ON major holidays (I did a job once actually on Thanksgiving Day) and then right up through the new year. This is a year round industry. If you are a junior artist there is a Key artist working who could use an assistant and if you are a Key artist, someone out there is booking a job right now. Even for those of you who focus on Bridal – in October I worked with a hairstylist who said that Fall is her busiest time and I have a bridal makeup artist friend who is booking into 2013. No matter what facet of the industry you are in, there is work happening all the time. Here are my thoughts on how you can stay in the game and prepare yourself for the coming year so you can keep working all year round…
1 ) Just keep marketing. If people are not interested they will decline to respond. Simple as that. Do not make the mistake of taking yourself out of the game by stopping your marketing plan. Continue reading →
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In my Lessons for Aspiring Artists™ Workshops I conduct a segment on how to decipher the utter nonsense jobs that are posted on various online boards daily. This one got my gall today:
Hi there, we are a low budget production looking for an up and coming hair and make-up individual.
Needed for a film shoot on Date X and Date X.Nothing fancy. The pay is $50 per day and will give you on screen credit.
Please send any samples of your work. Thank you.**
Ugh. There are just soooo many things wrong with this posting. Let us go through it, shall we? Continue reading →
Much of the feedback I’ve received recently is that Makeup to Go! readers wished I would incorporate more of my working life in this blog. I hadn’t done so because I’ve usually kept that on my blog for my media clients, but if that’s what y’all want to read your wish is my command! 
Thus I bring you a new feature “On The Set” where I will highlight a particularly cool job on which I have recently worked. Things you will note about this column are: 1 ) I am vague about who the client is and 2 ) I do not clearly show the product or models in the shoots. This is out of respect for the client as it is poor social media etiquette to put things on complete blast before the final product is out. All you aspiring makeup artists bear that in mind when posting about projects you are working on. Continue reading →
Back in when I was a little girl, my mother was a member of several “beauty clubs”. These clubs were advertised in magazines and you filled out a little beauty profile and they sent makeup and fragrance items direct to your door. These were full sized products but they were usually older brands and/or discontinued items. I joined a beauty club when I got old enough, it was a cheap way to try out a lot of new product and every now and then I would score something really great. Every month I opened my box with a makeup addicts glee to see what makeup Santa had delivered. In today’s modern era, Beauty Boxes have taken over where the old beauty clubs left off.
The new Beauty Box craze delivers deluxe samples in pretty packaging to its members on a monthly basis. Whereas the old “clubs” had kind of a hand-me-down feel, the new Boxes are all about premium, high end quality. As far as I’m aware, this new craze was started about a year ago with the advent of Birchbox. Now, of course, there are several services to choose from, all with their own unique twist. Over the next several months I’m going to be joining these various services to see what the scoop is on each of them. Here are the ones I have my eye on… Continue reading →
Youngblood Cosmetics Endless Beauty
At a recent trade show, I stopped by the Youngblood Cosmetics booth with no intention to purchase anything and I walked away with 2 artist palettes. This has since proven to be one of the best makeup purchases I have made in quite some time and I’ve used the palettes on 95% of the jobs I have done since purchasing them. Needless to say then, when I found out about Youngblood Cosmetics Endless Beauty Event I was excited to attend and learn more about the line. The event took place this past Friday, July 22, at Siren studios in Hollywood, a well known location for LA media makeup artists. I was curious to see how Youngblood was going to transform the space into something suitable for a cosmetics education and networking event. It turned out the upstairs studio was perfect, with two “salon” rooms – one where the Youngblood artists could do makeovers, and one where all the Youngblood Cosmetics products could be displayed so attendees could see, touch and play with the products – and then the main area was set up for demonstrations and education. Continue reading →
Earth Science Skincare Azulene Eye Cream
Continuing on with our theme of The Basics I next want to turn my eye to eye-creams (yes that was corny).
Without a doubt the first area of deterioration I see when I am doing people’s makeup is around the eyes. Good moisturizer, sunscreen and eye-cream are just essential to ones beauty regimen in my opinion. And the necessity of this intensifies with fair-er skin tones. I think young women are in denial of how early the lines around the eyes really start to develop. I have had models in my chair in their late teens that were already starting to develop fine lines. Now granted, there are likely some lifestyle issues factoring into that as well (if you smoke…) but still. That is REALLY young to be developing wrinkles and as of right now once you have a wrinkle there is no way to get rid of it. Protect your skin now as much as you can and stop those lines before they get started! These are some of my best picks in eye-creams. This is in no particular order as different eye creams address different issues… Continue reading →
EDIT Monday, July 25
OK so I think I’m at 497 followers BUT I noticed a lot of people who are joining now are either cosmetics companies, or SEO companies or other folks who do not need to win an eyelash curler. So instead of giving the Kevyn Aucoin curler to the 500th Follower, when I reach 500 followers, I will draw a random follower to award the prize to. That way it will hopefully go to someone who will use and appreciate the prize.
My Follow Me button is on the top right of my blog. Good luck!
If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know I have preached the gospel of “Go Buy ‘The Hair, Makeup and Fashion Styling Career Guide‘” multiple times. I also recommend taking Ms. Wright’s classes if at all possible. Well, if you’ve been chomping at the bit but finances have been holding you back here is the opportunity for you! Crystal Wright Live is having an amazing contest in support of the verge of having 5000 followers on Twitter. The winners will receive selected items including:
1 Hair Makeup & Fashion Styling Career Guide
1 2012 Packaging Your Portfolio Workshop
1 set of the 1-Day Workshop DVDs
1 T-Shirt. 1 Toolbelt
1 30 Days @ 100% book
1 30 Days @ 100% CD
1 Portfolio Building Webinar
1 Business 101 Webinar
1 Marketing Yourself Webinar
One winner will be chosen each week to receive one of the above prizes. HOWEVER you gotta enter the contest to win, and there are specific steps for entry into the contest. For more information visit Crystal Wright Live Twitter Contest and do what it says.
Good luck! I almost wish I could do all of that all over again! (but I don’t have to because following her advice already worked for my career. So go! Enter now! )
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