Btech MUA... Colour Scheme One

Last year I decided to take a BTECH Makeup Artist course through ICS. Its distance learning so its great if you need flexibility. I was a little apprehensive at first, I knew it would take a lot of willpower pushing myself to do the work without anyone holding my hand and pestering me but its been amazing!! There's an ICS community and you have a tutor for any questions you may have.

I'm half way through the course now, it was a little frustrating at first as you get sent all your course equipment but you can't really play with any of it until you've done a whooole load of theory.. All for safety reasons which is mega important and it really is worth the wait so you know your doing it properly and more important, safely.

I'm onto my third unit now and this is where the fun begins!!! Makeup makeup makeup!!!... For this assignment I have to plan various makeup looks and photograph the duration of the application and the final results.. Here's a little sneaky peak at my first look.

There are six looks in total, three you make up yourself, choose the colours and the style and the other three are set colour schemes.

This is one of the set colour schemes I was given to use:

Eyes: Blue
Foundation: Match the skin tone
Blush: Pink
Lips: Red

Finished Look.. Hair pinned back in faux pop bob 

Blue eye shadow look

Lipstick is my favourite by MAC Ruby Woo, it has a really beautiful matt finish, but doesn't go on chalky and dry. Its great to achieve a really strong solid lip colour. Foundation is as always Illamasqua Rich liquid 130. I'm really self conscious about my skin, so I like to wear a foundation with quite a high covering ability, after years of searching I found the dream hidden in the mothership Illamasqua store Beak Street, Camden. 

I felt like a bit of a geisha dressed up in this look, I'm a bit of a colour shunner and usually shy away from too brighter colours. I like the eyes and the lips seperately but I think together is a bit much for me, I do usually like to wear a subtle eye with a strong lip.

I used NYX colour pallete for the eyes, and simply combined white, light blue, cobalt blue and a small amount of black to add definition to the eye socket. 

Effie x