Recently I was asked by Sarah:
“Can you explain the difference when you get a fake makeup product from that wish app or any sites like it?”
Questions for scotia: how to spot fakes
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Watch Out for Job Offer Scams
This is a more personal blog post today: I was targeted for a pretty scary scam.
Ever get a job offer that seems too good to be true? And you hope and hope that it really is! I got a email yesterday from someone at Instyle magazine offering me a job on a photoshoot for them. It was all paid for and a super crazy paying job. Oh god how I was excited and flattered and then my logical self kicked in. Is this a real person?
Here is the full story and what to do when you get one of these emails. There are a few updates at the bottom please read these too!
How to SPFX : Sugarplum Fairy
Saturday I had the pleasure to once again teach a 1 hour panel on how to do a specific special effects (spfx) makeup at Thundercon 2016.
This year I chose to do the “Sugarplum Fairy” from the movie “Cabin in the Woods”.
I taught how to do this look 3 different ways. I promised that I would post it on my blog so everyone could learn who couldn’t make it.
Changing Seasons Changing Skin Care
The days are shorter, colder, windier and darker: what a bummer. The winter blues are starting to come about, maybe held off with the excitement of halloween but will still start effecting us.
Want to help boos your fall and winter routines? Make sure to take stock in what you have for your skin care and makeup routines.
“Are you finding that your skin is flaking more from the dryness? Shedding its cells like all the trees around you without the benefit of the beauty of the changing of the leaves?”
Questions for Scotia: What to do with Hooded Eyelids
Angie asks: “How to do smokey eye or cat eye make up on hooded eyes.”
I will teach you Angie is 6 easy steps to a perfect cat eye!
Questions for Scotia: “Young Ladies Starting Makeup”
Questions For Scotia: this month’s question for me was from Nikki.
“how do you go about introducing makeup and skin care to a 13 year old?”
Great question because as we know from so many studies and documentaries like “Killing Us Softly”, that the media starts early and hits hard at our young women with the massive media presented image of “WHAT YOU NEED TO LOOK LIKE”. Which to all us grown ups shake our heads, and shed a tear for all the pain we know our young ones will go through and for some, may never get past.
I will give you my last answer first: the best is always take them to someone who is a professional: a makeup artist at a store or spa, an esthetician, or a hair stylist. They can point you in the right direction for answers.
But now I can in detail answer you.
Product Review: Colour Changing Lipstick
The other night I finally got to try it: Frog Prince lipstick!
My bff has been talking about this lipstick for months and I wanted to try it so badly. It is a colour changing lipstick that is unique to your own skin.
It’s a neat idea that your lipstick could show the inner you for a unique colour but is it really ph and that unique or is it like mood rings that just change with heat?
Trendy Microblading
If you know me or have been reading my blogs long enough you’ve herd my rants about permanent makeup tattooing and how I think its pretty stupid outside of fixing medical issues like scars, skin graphs and such things.
BUT I will say that the newest trend that falls into this grouping of tattoo makeup is microblading.
Makeup Review: Maybelline Elixir
As a makeup artist I am always asked 100 questions a day about different brands, products that I like or don’t like. Sometimes friends get freebies and throw me a few samples from different places.
This sometime was the freebie of a Maybelline “The elixir” lip gloss.
my quick review: Gross.
My long review: Gross… before I even put it on my lips I could smell the parfume that is in this product. The smell wafted from the lid akin to me being rushed through at least 100 nursing homes at the speed of light… or in this case scent.
Now there are very few times that I think makeup smells gross. I usually like the smells or they are pretty-scentless.
The brush is on a angle that works well for bottom lips but pokes you in the top.
For the few moments that I could stand it being on my hand as a test: its staying power isn’t great.
I would say don’t waste your money on this product it’s a fail.
Makeup 101: Blush and Bronzer
Blush otherwise known as cheek colour(guess where it goes) can comes in creams, gel, liquids, and powders(loose and pressed). Powder blush is the most common to find and is the easiest to use.
Sweet Cherry Spa 