During covid, I stopped using makeup, cozied up with cozy comfort, and did self-care.
Now it is over and I’ve lost the covid cozy comfort pounds feel like wearing makeup again.
Got a large batch sent to me recently so have started doing fashion shows and trying makeup looks on Sundays, taking photographs, then posting to social media.
Realise if I plan it on Saturday may be more organised by Sunday. Why not join in. If you don’t like the photos you can keep them to yourself. I find there is usually one that is all right. Then by next Sunday, you have an idea of how to do it better. You become quite the hostess and find yourself getting other people to enjoy themselves and they wake up from COVID cozy and want a tipple and a bit of fun.
By Christmas you will probably be your old self again.
Will be choosing Christmas dresses again, so you should hopefully get some this year and look lovely in your Christmas dress at the Christmas party and your new makeup look ~ once we fathom it out lol!!
The new us isn’t quite there yet so we are still in the woods maybe.
Let us sort this one out then.
Get yourself glammed up again forever!!!!
As I went to art college, noticed Scott Barnes a makeup artist who was originally an artist. I’m not as good as him, hence I’m not famous, but most people who wear makeup aren’t artists either but still wear it.
THE BEGINNING
Scott Barnes had a fantasy of being an expressive art painter. Charting his course, Scott moved to New York City in 1984 and attended New York’s renowned Parsons School of Design.
Scott was encouraged by a photographer to become a makeup artist and use his skills of understanding light and creating color with the human face as his canvas. Scott started doing makeup for fashion photography shoots which immediately made him famous as a makeup artist in the industry.
In 2004, Scott founded his own brand, Scott Barnes Cosmetics. 130 of Scott Barnes Cosmetics products were carried in Saks Fifth Avenue, USA, and also Holt Renfrew in Canada.
Shu Uemura, founder of Shu Uemura Cosmetics, chose to mentor Scott; and, enlisted Scott to help develop his “Atelier Line”, which honed Scott’s skills further in developing his own cosmetics formulations and professional tools.
Got me thinking I might have some sort of contribution to add and also it is just really fun.
As I need to teach myself how to wear makeup again, I thought I would learn something new about makeup every Saturday and break it down to my level of understanding like when you are learning to write at school and they tell you to pretend you are talking to an alien.
It will form a beginner’s guide to makeup, then at some point I suppose I won’t be a beginner anymore. If you are already advanced I suppose there might be something of interest.
They say in art, the day you know it all you may as well give up. I suppose it would then become boring and you would need a new stimulating challenge. Bit like the post covid bland world of not very muchness.
I felt the need to watch tutorials again to brush up on how to put makeup on. When I try them for myself sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. Part of the problem is what makes one person look better makes another one look worse. For instance I was offered a wig that wouldn’t suit me once. I really would like to experiment with wigs, but again it is finding the wig that makes you look better not worse.
I have never mastered any of this and may never, but going back to basics might help me do better. You might excel if you are natural at it.
If I could upload sketches I have a few ideas, so hopefully in the process this will happen.
My problem was I learned to paint wallpaper flat, so makeup is more like sculpture with depth.
It is also really hard to get porcelain foundation at the minute?
It always has been but the places that used to sell it don’t anymore?
Hopefully it will go back to normal now covid is over.
Conclusion
Makeup artists are brilliant and obviously why they are famous.
For someone like me it is a bit frightening putting a lot of makeup on as I’m not sure what I’m doing.
Hopefully going back to basics and studying makeup might help me learn to get better.
If I go wrong it is just part of the process of learning.
As long as I start living again and enjoy wearing makeup it doesn’t matter how much makeup I put on or what other people think.
If you are reading this and feel the same join in with Saturday Makeup Day.
Hopefully products will turn up for you so you can get the colours that suit you.
Saphire
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