MY PARTY OUTFIT

I was invited for a party recently and it was a proper "owambe" (i.e. yoruba party). The colours for the day was gold for the bride - my friend and blue for the grooms side. Since am a guest from the brides side gold was the colour me.

Here the challenge begins, getting the proper outfit cost me a lot. My tailor disappointed by sewing an extremely tight dress for me and so i had to fall back on my birthday sequence buba and velvet wrapper. 

I also doubled as the make-up artist for the bride so no time for my own make-up, please reserve your comments on my face and simply admire my dress.

 Till my next post remain beautiful.

CHANGES: MAKE-UP & ME

Its been a long time since i did a post, am truly sorry, A whole lot of things have changed in resent times, i got a new job as a the supervisor for the make-up and wardrobe for a television which means i now work 8am - 5pm *sigh* it still feels strange to wake early in the morning to get set for work, leave my kids and that brings me to the topic of my boys - who are 13 months old -

how i miss all their latest antics.

Working has been fun and am truly grateful to be among the lucky few who are doing what they love and getting paid for it. Also am free to continue my freelance make-up jobs on the side, so am really pleased and great full to God.

Here are a couple of my pictures at work.

MAKEUP SUNDAY: POP YELLOW

Its Sunday once again and i have on yellow and green. am sure i got a lot of weird not so complementary looks in church but really - i don't care. Matte yellow is not your average eye shadow colour and mixing it with green in this format is not common either but that was what jumped out of my box and i must say i love it.

So this was the starting point, after i cleaned up under the eye area, applied foundation, powder and lip stick this is what we arrived at.

without flash

with flash

Here i felt my thrive for nude lips made my lips was too bland so i added a little plum to line the lips. And now i feel complete.

No blush, i just felt it wasn't necessary for the look.

 more pictures for your viewing pleasure.

 

PURPLE, PLUM AND PINK

Sundays are my favourite days of the week because i have a perfect excuse to wear makeup - CHURCH. i always ensure i go out of my way to do a full face makeup sometime i throw in eyelashes to finish off the wow look. here is another such sunday, precisely yesterday. 

 i went all out for purple even though i had nothing close to purple in my ensemble but the colour just jumped our of my pallet screaming pick me and i did.

 The idea was to create a smokey effect without using black. So i mixed two shades of purple with a lot of blending. Just when i was done i noticed a sleek eye shadow i have had for ages un- used, i used my finger to pat a slightly brighter purple colour on the eyes.

 For my lips it was a mixture of deep plum and peach, but the plum swallowed the peach and gave it a different look that i loved so it stayed on.

Whenever i do makeup, i feel great and happy. so when monday came and tried dragging me down. i went into my box and i created this look.

 I instantly felt better. make-up just always put me in a great mood.

 i threw head gear just for fun, sampling the one-sided gele i love so much.

But it wasn't working for me so i reduced the width and tuck in the flap and viola! this is much better.
Now some more picture for your viewing pleasure.

i love my smile in this pix even though i was sweating like a goat

TILL WE SEE AGAIN,BE GOOD. MUAH!

MY NEW DISCOVERY PICMIX

I just discovered picmix on my blackberry and now i fancy myself one of the best photo editors. here are a couple of my creative mixes i hope you like it and you love the makeup.

PHOTO UPDATE

These are some of my recent makeup looks. For just about any casual outing. Recently i found a very tight bond to nude eyes so you will be seeing a lot nude eyes and lips, few bold lip colour and some dash of wild eye colour have fun and request for product details and tutorial if you want recreate any of this looks