Weekend Reading (and Watching) Happy New Year to All

. . It’s 2010, and I always find the promise of a new year cleansing – a new beginning, a fresh look a the world, the opportunity to try something new or different. Sure, 1 January is an arbitary date and I could do the same thing any day of the year, but I suppose [...]

Discover Your Colours – Your Intensity – Clear or Soft

. Ok, so hopefully you now have some idea of whether you are warm or cool  and your undertone vs overtone from the past two days posts.  Now it’s time to figure out your intensity – what is intensity?  It’s the saturation or brightness or dullness of the colour.  Albert Munsell was the man who [...]

Five Minute Fabulous Face -Makeup Demonstration

So, I’ve made another little video after Maria from Colour Me Happy had a request about how to choose foundation colours. My tip is, as you will see is to try on every colour, don’t limit yourself to two or three colours.  Put them along your jawline, then look for the colour that disappears into [...]

What Colour Concealer Do I Need?

I received a reader request to explain about concealer and foundation colour choices.   You may have seen green concealers and wondered what they are for – well, if you think about going back to your colour wheel and looking a the complementary colour on the colour wheel, the opposite of green is red, thus [...]

Book Review – Makeup Makeovers by Robert Jones

Continuing on the makeup theme, I thought I’d share my current favourite book on makeup techinques.  It’s Makeup Makeovers: expert secrets for stunning transformations by Robert Jones.   What I like about it: The pictures – it’s very simple and the pictures clearly state where to put shadow or highlight. Advice for each face shape [...]

How to Apply Basic Daytime Makeup

Here I am with no makeup on (and I haven’t done my hair either) – you can see lots of brown pigmentation splodges (chloasma/melasma), so I wear a light liquid foundation to cover it up. I have now applied my foundation, so most of the pigmentation is gone. Then I apply concealer where I need [...]