Oh and I found a turkey on my street on the way to the grocery store.
Go figure
April 18, 2010
Crystal Chrome Yellow
It's been a while and I have to keep this brief because I have 4 papers due within a 3 day stretch. I probably won't update again until finals are over.
Oh and I found a turkey on my street on the way to the grocery store.
Go figure
Oh and I found a turkey on my street on the way to the grocery store.
Go figure
March 27, 2010
Spring Color
I can't believe that spring break is almost over! Well it's a good thing that a friend has a b-day at the end of it or else I would have felt cheated. These colors are mostly from the Spring Color Forecast collections (Coral and Bronze) with some extras thrown in. I just got the perfect base for pinup and Classic Hollywood glam looks for darker skin tones from Urban Decay and wanted to give it a spin.
I got the inspiration for this look from Specktra's x0besoz.
And just to be obnoxious... sunglasses indoors.
Also here is a plug for my friend's new art fashion blog. She will post a new entry every Sunday. Her regular website is listed under the ABOUT section. I hope you enjoy her work as much as I do!
I got the inspiration for this look from Specktra's x0besoz.
And just to be obnoxious... sunglasses indoors.
Also here is a plug for my friend's new art fashion blog. She will post a new entry every Sunday. Her regular website is listed under the ABOUT section. I hope you enjoy her work as much as I do!
March 13, 2010
Luck 'o' the Irish
Oy, St.Patty's Day is quickly approaching, but as I guessed correctly, I will be working that day. I went out to the bar tonight with some friends and we ran into the Guinness girls and got free hats, beads, and discounts on drinks. :D
Do trust me, the green was really pretty and bright IRL (I used Old Gold and we all know this is not a color for the faint of heart). It's just one of those colors that is incredibly difficult to photograph. I think that I should just stick to red eyeshadow and nude lips.
Outfit of the night:
Going to use my coupon.
Here's to wishing everyone A safe and happy St. Patrick's Day.
I'll just finish up by sharing this even though it's about a German legend...
Do trust me, the green was really pretty and bright IRL (I used Old Gold and we all know this is not a color for the faint of heart). It's just one of those colors that is incredibly difficult to photograph. I think that I should just stick to red eyeshadow and nude lips.
Outfit of the night:
Going to use my coupon.
Here's to wishing everyone A safe and happy St. Patrick's Day.
I'll just finish up by sharing this even though it's about a German legend...
March 8, 2010
Fast update
Wow, it's been almost a month. Things have been very busy which is good. I'm very excited about all of the projects/assignments that I've been working on. Unfortunately that means that things have been piling up makeup wise, and I have to do a photo dump after I've already forgotten all of the things that were used. So this one is from about a week and a half ago (sushi night).
I aslo have some swatches of colors that reminded me of spring so... have at it :)
This one was done with Lollipop Loving. I remember that much.
Other than that, I'm planning on getting my hair dyed again soon. I can't wait. I'll either go full on purple or stick to the red violet.
I aslo have some swatches of colors that reminded me of spring so... have at it :)
This one was done with Lollipop Loving. I remember that much.
Other than that, I'm planning on getting my hair dyed again soon. I can't wait. I'll either go full on purple or stick to the red violet.
February 7, 2010
Quarter Party
I went out to a friend's quarter century birthday party over the weekend. It was a lot of fun. I got these shots before I went out the door.
Other than that I thought I'd just share some pictures I took of jasmine after a nice rain. The weather here has been exceptionally good lately.
Other than that I thought I'd just share some pictures I took of jasmine after a nice rain. The weather here has been exceptionally good lately.
February 5, 2010
Black History Month: The Music Edition
I thought I would continue the little Black History Month segment with information about musical artists of this generation who I really like.
I really do enjoy artists like Jennifer Hudson as style icons, but I'm not really a fan of her music. But there are some artists who have the whole package: style and the ability to perform. Sure we all know about artists like Seal and Will.I.Am from the black eyed peas, but here are some that are a little off the beaten path.
The Noisettes is an indie band from the UK. I want to say thank you to Aziza of Specktra for turning me onto this band. The lead singer, Shingai, is amazing. Her mother is from Zimbabwe and left the country (at the time Rhodesia) and I wonder if she was old enough to remember that. According to her wikipedia page, she said the experience of her mother's move comes through in her music but I wonder if she was speaking of adjusting to the UK herself or her mother's adjusting to the UK and some sort of cultural gap between the two of them. She has a very classic voice but she also has the ability to integrate it very well into modern songs. I also love her fro. It is gorgeous.
"Every Now and Then"
Corneille. Yet another German born musical success. His family is actually from Rwanda and when his family moved back there, his father encouraged him to follow his dream of being a musician despite that not being a socially befitting career choice. He fled the country during the Rwandan genocide and began to use his music to express himself, in both English and French.
"Too Much of Evertyhing"
Erykah Badu. She's fairly mainstream now, but still, I really like that she is a chameleon of style.
"On and On".
Well, back to optimality theory.
I really do enjoy artists like Jennifer Hudson as style icons, but I'm not really a fan of her music. But there are some artists who have the whole package: style and the ability to perform. Sure we all know about artists like Seal and Will.I.Am from the black eyed peas, but here are some that are a little off the beaten path.
The Noisettes is an indie band from the UK. I want to say thank you to Aziza of Specktra for turning me onto this band. The lead singer, Shingai, is amazing. Her mother is from Zimbabwe and left the country (at the time Rhodesia) and I wonder if she was old enough to remember that. According to her wikipedia page, she said the experience of her mother's move comes through in her music but I wonder if she was speaking of adjusting to the UK herself or her mother's adjusting to the UK and some sort of cultural gap between the two of them. She has a very classic voice but she also has the ability to integrate it very well into modern songs. I also love her fro. It is gorgeous.
"Every Now and Then"
Corneille. Yet another German born musical success. His family is actually from Rwanda and when his family moved back there, his father encouraged him to follow his dream of being a musician despite that not being a socially befitting career choice. He fled the country during the Rwandan genocide and began to use his music to express himself, in both English and French.
"Too Much of Evertyhing"
Erykah Badu. She's fairly mainstream now, but still, I really like that she is a chameleon of style.
"On and On".
Well, back to optimality theory.
February 3, 2010
A little bit of color theory
Well Adriana asked for information about undertones so here it is to the best of my understanding. I know her question was about specific products, but I think that before you understand the undertones of lipsticks, it's important to know something about undertones of the skin. If anyone here is a professional and would like to add or correct something, feel free to tell me.
This, my friends, is an exploding color wheel. It's quite an old one and needs to be retired, but it gets the job done.
The way this is organized, all of the primary and secondary colors have white closest to the center of the wheel. The tertiary colors have black near the center of the wheel.
Most of the colors you need to know undertones are going to be in the red-yellow category. All of these are warm colors, but makeup artists will use a finer distinction:
Yellow undertones are cool
Red undertones are warm
If you've ever seen MAC's system which lists NC and NW, the N means "Neutral", C "Cool", and W "Warm". The most popular shades are the neutral cool (yellow/golden undertones) and neutral warm (red/pink undertones). There are some things which fall in the neutral category (one of my favorite foundations happens to fall here). Other brands will have different ways of calculating this, but they all have the same result. If you have a cool foundation, but your skin is much warmer, your foundation will look sort of ashy (the same happens with foundation that is too light). If you have cool skin and your foundation is too warm, you could look kind of burnt. Not tan, burnt. If you are having trouble finding your shade:
1) Get color matched at a makeup counter and if that doesn't work
2) Talk to someone at Perscriptives. They have a very nice system for breaking down different undertones and if premixed colors don't work they can make a custom foundation for you (it's not going to be cheap though).
Another thing to look at on the color wheel: Find the orange and go to the lighter colors. You will find peachy colors there. Now staying within orange, go to the darker colors. You will find two browns before you hit the black stripe. The point of saying this, is that these generalizations of coloring in respect to warmth and coolness are applicable to different levels of pigmentation.
It is very possible that you have several undertones in different parts of your face. The inside of my face is generally NC where as my forehead and around my hairline warms up to N. The gradation is smooth enough that I like it and I keep it when I apply makeup by using two powders and blending them together. In the summer I usually use a warmer foundation (mostly all N), and in the winter if I don't get much sun exposure, I use more of the NC. But sometimes there are smaller coloration variations that some people might want to minimize before putting on foundation for a more even color. Now here is where we look at the other colors on the wheel.
Just like a color wheel without tertiary colors, this is arranged in such a way that you get complementary colors directly across from color you want. So find the red (at 9:00) and then find its complement at 3:00. I haven't worked on the tertiary ratios, but as far as primary and secondary, here are the groupings:
1 yellow: 3 purple
1 orange: 2 blue
1 red: 1 green
Now there are fun things that you can do with this in painting, like split complement work, but there is an advantage to knowing this for makeup. You want to go with the complementary color of the problem area to minimize it's visibility before applying your foundation. MakeUpForEver (MUFE) has a concealer section of the website where they show different concealer palates for different skin tones and warmths. That should give you an idea of the conventional colors used for different ranges.
This, my friends, is an exploding color wheel. It's quite an old one and needs to be retired, but it gets the job done.
The way this is organized, all of the primary and secondary colors have white closest to the center of the wheel. The tertiary colors have black near the center of the wheel.
Most of the colors you need to know undertones are going to be in the red-yellow category. All of these are warm colors, but makeup artists will use a finer distinction:
Yellow undertones are cool
Red undertones are warm
If you've ever seen MAC's system which lists NC and NW, the N means "Neutral", C "Cool", and W "Warm". The most popular shades are the neutral cool (yellow/golden undertones) and neutral warm (red/pink undertones). There are some things which fall in the neutral category (one of my favorite foundations happens to fall here). Other brands will have different ways of calculating this, but they all have the same result. If you have a cool foundation, but your skin is much warmer, your foundation will look sort of ashy (the same happens with foundation that is too light). If you have cool skin and your foundation is too warm, you could look kind of burnt. Not tan, burnt. If you are having trouble finding your shade:
1) Get color matched at a makeup counter and if that doesn't work
2) Talk to someone at Perscriptives. They have a very nice system for breaking down different undertones and if premixed colors don't work they can make a custom foundation for you (it's not going to be cheap though).
Another thing to look at on the color wheel: Find the orange and go to the lighter colors. You will find peachy colors there. Now staying within orange, go to the darker colors. You will find two browns before you hit the black stripe. The point of saying this, is that these generalizations of coloring in respect to warmth and coolness are applicable to different levels of pigmentation.
It is very possible that you have several undertones in different parts of your face. The inside of my face is generally NC where as my forehead and around my hairline warms up to N. The gradation is smooth enough that I like it and I keep it when I apply makeup by using two powders and blending them together. In the summer I usually use a warmer foundation (mostly all N), and in the winter if I don't get much sun exposure, I use more of the NC. But sometimes there are smaller coloration variations that some people might want to minimize before putting on foundation for a more even color. Now here is where we look at the other colors on the wheel.
Just like a color wheel without tertiary colors, this is arranged in such a way that you get complementary colors directly across from color you want. So find the red (at 9:00) and then find its complement at 3:00. I haven't worked on the tertiary ratios, but as far as primary and secondary, here are the groupings:
1 yellow: 3 purple
1 orange: 2 blue
1 red: 1 green
Now there are fun things that you can do with this in painting, like split complement work, but there is an advantage to knowing this for makeup. You want to go with the complementary color of the problem area to minimize it's visibility before applying your foundation. MakeUpForEver (MUFE) has a concealer section of the website where they show different concealer palates for different skin tones and warmths. That should give you an idea of the conventional colors used for different ranges.
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