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The importance of removing make up!

Everyone knows that make up although looks very pretty can be a killer for your skin if not removed properly!

So in order to remove make up properly you need some good products!
So:.

Step 1 

Remove all the make up you can see on your skin using a wet wipe or facial wipe...
Generally I find that facial wipes are a little rough on the skin and are a little harsh, there expensive too. I used to use a mix of Johnsons 3in1 and also simple wipes which I found were the best ones to use!

 

But at around £3.00 for 25 wipes was getting a little expensive not to mention that there were a whole load of other products which I needed to buy too! So when I ran out of wipes one day I started to use baby wipes which were lying around the house, and voila discovered they were just as good! 

So for a fraction of the price around £1.50 for a pack of 80 I started using these instead! 

Baby wipes were softer and worked just as well! Hey if your gonna use them on a baby then there is no reason why you can't use them on your face too which is just as delicate as baby skin! 

TIP: For those hot summery days pop your wipes in the fridge for a refreshing and cool clean :D 

Step 2

For those who wear mascara, especially waterproof mascara we all know that it can be really hard to get rid off, but make sure you do get rid of it all otherwise it can lead to nasty looking sty on your eyes!  So for removing eye make up I use L'Oreal. I've tried all the expensive stuff, the not so expensive stuff and the very cheap stuff and I find that this works the best.

Just squeeze a little on to some cotton wool and wipe in a circular motion til the mascara is fully removed! Its cheap and cheerful :D and definitely not messy!

Step 3 

Next I like to get some water on my face, so I use a foamy cleanser, but you can use a creamy one if you prefer those! 

If your after a creamy one then I would suggest another Johnsons product 

The Johnsons 3in1 make up removing lotion, which cleanses, tones and moisturizes. Its really good and if you like that fresh clean feeling without all the stickiness of cream on your face then this one is definitely for you! Although I think it now comes in a new bottle and packaging! 

This one is really easy to use! Just squeeze a little onto some cotton pad and wipe in a circular motion and don't forget about your neck and jaw line! 

If your after something which uses water then I really do recommend the Neutrogena 2 in 1 

It doubles up as a face Mask too! Its really simple to use and your skin feels really soft after it too! 

For those of you who like to splurge a little and use some more expensive products then I think I have definitely got the products for you! 

RMK cleansing oil. I swear by this! It is amazing! and melts all your make up off your face leaving you with a really clean and soft face! 

Although at around £20 a bottle it is a hefty price to pay for a cleaner but it is well worth it! All you do is apply to your face with some cotton wool or with your hand, you can even use this on waterproof mascara! 

and then leave for a couple of minutes and wash off with luke warm water! 

Although RMK isn't available generally speaking in any of the local shops and chemists you can get it from somewhere like Selfridges in Birmingham, you used to be able to get it in Harvey Nichols in London too but I think that counter is no longer there. 

You can try online resources! Or send a friend to Hong Kong or Japan... or any Asian Country for that matter. Hey its a good excuse for a holiday! 

TIP: Always use luke warm water when washing your face as Cold and Hot water can be really harsh on your skin damaging it! 

Step 4 

Tone and moisturize as usual! and voila your done! Its a lot of hassle but good skin is the key to looking flawless and beautiful! No matter how much make up you put on it wont look good without good skin to go under it! 

More another time on Toners, Serums and Moisturizers! 

New Photo Shoots Coming up

In the next couple of weeks we will be doing some collaboration photo shoots with a photographer friend, Nick Shek...
you can check out his stuff on here . 
Hopefully everything will work very smoothly on the day as I will be styling and Amy will be doing the make up for the shoot :D
Check Back for the results of the shoot! :D


Will also have some more work with Stewart Shek in the next couple of weeks coming up. Check back for photos of the fashion shoot we will be doing :D

Face Tattoo

This is actually a picture of me. We had models lined up for the day but the models pulled through so I stepped in.
We actually were looking through some magazines and were inspired by a picture we saw. Miss Amy Smith did the make up in this case. We initially did some shots with just some normal very simple make up on but the photos didn't come out that great and wasnt what we were really looking for. So then we decided to go all out and go for this....
Amy free handed the 'tattoo' on the side of my face... its actually just eyeliner and some eye shadow for the purply bits... although you can't really see from this photo.
It was really fun to do! As for the hair we just left it straight and long and sleeked back... just a little.
Hope you enjoy this as much as I enjoyed shooting it! :D

Rachel Georgia Hunter: bridal Photos :D

So there are the photos from the wedding shoot which happened on sunday! :) The photos came out beautifully!
We're gonna let you in on a little secret the dress which Rachel is wearing is actually a 25 year old... how vintage... We made some alterations to the dress jazzed it up with a sash around the middle and also cut off the not so attractive frilly bits and voila we have a dress!
I think it looks pretty great if I do say so myself!
As for the roses... Well there just from Sainsburys... who says you can't have cheap and cheerful?! The roses cost £6 altogether and I trimmed and cut them and made them into a bouquet :)
This DIY photo shoot turned out pretty well :D

Weddinh Photos

More photos will be posted soon :D xx

Rachel Georgia Hunter: Bridal Shoot

Bridal Wedding shoot ...

Introducing our lovely model for the day Miss Rachel Hunter
Rachel our model for the day was absolutely stunning with really great skin. We were doing a bridal shoot so we kept the make up pretty clean and elegant, after all less is more.
As for the hair we decided on something simple and elegant would be more suitable than an up do as our bride had gorgeous hair. :D
Rachel was really easy to work with and came up with loads of great ideas for the photos. More photos from the shoot will be coming up!

Products used
Benefit foundation
Make up set - Eyeshadow and Blusher
Lips - light lipgloss from New Cid

For the hair all we used was a pair of straighteners and some hair spray.
For the curls we curled small sections of the hair about half way down for the bottom curls and a little further up for the hair on the top.
We shook the curls out and sprayed with a little hair spray.

We hope you enjoy the look.

Joker Shoot

This is my friend Eddie and we used him for a Joker shoot! Hes quite small so we wanted the shoot to be focused on his face! We thought it worked really well :D
Very dark just what we were looking for! We basically got inspiration from a picture online and created this look for him!
Hes Chinese so his skin tones were darker to make him very pale we actually used White Eye shadow from Collection 2000.
But we did apply foundation before the eyeshadow as a base so that it would stick!
As for the eyes we used initially a liquid eyeliner but found that the colour was not as dark as we would like it to be so we applied some black eyeshadow over it! Again the eye shadow was collection 2000. Because we wanted nothing glittery and nothing shiny we made sure to choose eye shadows which had no glitter or sparkle!
We drew on the shapes around the eyes and filled the rest in using a blending technique. We found that the white then looked a little too clean so to dirty it up a little bit we blended the eyes out so that the white would look like it was a little dirty!
As for the lips we actually used liquid eye liner and then applied red lipstick on top of it! we drew the lines out from the corners of the lips and filled in the inside of the lips with some black eyeliner to make it look a little like blood :D
Hope you like the look!

Megan Ramsey

This is the first video we have ever created together! Hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it! The next one will be for a bridal make up and also bridal hair :D xx

Mobile Blogging :D

Woohoo new Mobile blogging set up! :)
Sent from my iPhone

Wedding Belles

Photo shoot coming up on Sunday... Wedding shoot :D Cant Wait

Update on Rock Chick shoot

So we had a model from Model Mayhem work with us and her name was Megan... She was quite young but definatly good and easy to work with!
here are some of the best shots:

So as you can see Megan is only 17 years old but she was easy to work with and posed well. For her hair and make up for this shoot we used a lot of back brushing. Her hair was very fine so the back brushing helped give it some volume but we had some trouble getting the hair stay in place without using a lot of hair spray.
As for the make up we used Illamasqa foundation as we were shooting outside we wanted to use a heavy duty foundation that would last quite a while.
for her eyes we used a mixture of Collection 2000 and also Mac black eye shadows of different shades to get the dark colours of the eyes and for the cheeks we also used a Mac blusher.
as for the lips we wanted to keep them nude so we lightly brushed over with a little foundation and concealor but nothing too heavy.
We wanted the model to have quite strong eyebrows too as her hair is very light so were her eyebrows so we used an eyebrow pencil to shade and pencil them in.

:D Hope you enjoy the look... more on the look and a video of how everything was done coming soon.

Rock Star Shoot

Tomorrow we are going on a rock star shoot... Can Not Wait!

Just going to keep the shoot small and fun! :D Found the perfect rock chick location... hope weather and everything else holds up!!

pictures and tools of the trade will be listed after the shoot!

Japenese look from previous photo shoot

For this photo shoot we really didn't have it organised very well for reasons which were beyond our control, people were pulling out and all the rest of it... our lovely model stepped up at the last minute to help us to create these beautiful images!

Her outfit was a cute Japanese style sailor outfit... i think it was from a fancy dress website for Halloween but it definitely worked for this shot!

now on to hair and make up!

For her hair I curled it with a pair of straighteners... after my GHDs died I decided to try a different brand and discovered a pair called C2 from Sallys Salon for a fraction of the price with a temperature control! they are very good!

I loosely curled the hair and using lots of hair spray and some very back combing was able to get the hair in very loose curls.
When I had done the curls I gently tied the hair up into two bunches and back brushed it some more. The model originally had bangs which were a little long and in order for us to be able to see the make up we had to train the fringe to the side using straighteners and more hair spray overall I think we achieved the hair style that we were going for! :)

As for the make up:

The foundation was the models own as I tend to think that everyone has a foundation which suits their skin and generally like to use the models own foundation.
I do remember in this particular case that the foundation was Lancome. It was quite good but the model had very good skin anyway so very little make up was used on her!

As for her eyes we used a very pink blusher as the eye shadows we had were not the right colour! we found a very cheap bright pink blusher from Superdrugs and used that on the inside corners of her eyes and a very bright blue and green for the middle and outside of the eyelids. The photo has been toned down a little to suit the photographers style

@ the price of £3.29 it was an absolute bargain!

for the eyeliner we used Collection 2000 another bargain!

for the eyelashes we used some false eyelashes which were also the models own and some black eyelash glue which sadly was not bought in the uk! we applied a thin layer of mascara to the eye lashes to finish off the eyes 

we used a brown eye shadow to darken the eyebrows and to make them stand out and stronger and a light blush... I think the eyeshadow doubled up as a blush in this case!

for the lips we used a very red lipstick and drew initially a heart looking shape on to the lips and then blended it out a little. before we applied the lipstick we also applied foundation to the lips to make them a neutral colour!

Enjoy the Look!