Perhaps a slightly random product to feature at first glance, as it’s the mixer that’s ‘meant’ to go with the other camouflage creams that Keromask makes, but I love this Yellow Mixer for it’s own unique qualities. Granted, I do love the Keromask camouflage creams, and I’ll be talking about them in a future featured article, but this one product is a makeup artist’s... 

When it comes to concealers, there’s a plethora of products on the market.  Some for dark circles, come for blemishes, some that just say ‘concealer’ on the packaging… But which is which, what’s the best for each area requiring concealers, and where on earth do you put the stuff! Under Eye Shadows If they’re not particularly dark, you just want something to take... 

As professional makeup artists, we’re expected to have certain standards of hygiene; clean, short, laquerless nails, groomed clean hair, a clean kit, clean brushes, and a selection of disposable products for using cosmetics that have built in applicators – liquid eyeliners, lipglosses, mascaras etc. However, as good as we can be with having throwaway lipgloss wands or lipbrushes, the applicator... 

So everyone’s talking about it.  The Clinique Bottom Lash Mascara, about how fantastic it is for bottom lashes, making them long but not clumped, pretty but not spidery! Its definitely a favourite here, but is it really just for bottom lashes?  It certainly works very well on long thin fine lashes, keeping them separated when otherwise they could clump into 6 great spider legs!  It works particularly... 

It’s 8.15am, you need to get in the car in the next 15 minutes, you haven’t got any makeup on, the children can’t find their book bags and you really want to have another cup of tea.  Do you a) ignore the children shouting for book bags because you know you put them out the night before and they haven’t moved from the front door since. b) have said cup of tea and feel guilty... 

The products I’ve listed below are what I would pick from on a daily basis for creating a full make-up application.    Face Primer: I always use a primer and my favourites are Yves Saint Laurent Matt Touch which is ideal for oily skin, GOSH Velvet Touch which suits every skin type and especially de-hydrated skin, Clinique Redness Solutions and Jemma Kidd I-Rescue Bio-Complex Cover in Medium which... 

September 09, from the forum – “As you may or may not know I am slowly building my stock for my box(es) and I would be interested to hear what people like and have in their boxes that they swear by, a staple product that they love. Powder, loose or compact and in what shades. Foundations, again type and colour..Any line any range not just NARS..Lip colours and glosses, tinted or otherwise... 

On the forum, we quite frequently get asked what is in our kit, or what are our desert island must haves.  So, we’ll be running a series of ‘what’s in a pro’s kit?’ features in the coming months. All professional makeup artists have their favoured products, we are all different, adn love different things for different reasons. What one loves, another isn’t so keen... 

When I work on people, blusher seems to be the product that most people are wary of applying – usually as they are unsure of how and where to apply it! The days of sucking in your cheeks and painting ‘go faster stripes’ on your face (a la 1980’s) are over. The idea now is to give yourself a healthy ‘I jog and drink lots of water everyday’ glow! The foolproof way to apply blusher is... 

If you want natural lips but cant live without lip liner…….try MAC stone lip liner. Is looks a kind of grey/brown colour and you will think this is never going to work. Apply it softly tilting the pencil so you are using the side of the tip (not the tip). Apply your lipstick or gloss (great with pinky colours). Now with a lip brush blend the liner into the lipstick/gloss until you can barely... 

Sam Donald www.SamDonald.com As we all know, you have to have great products to achieve a great look, but you also need good tools behind you to get soft yet clean lines, without fallout and wasteage. I’m a brush junkie.  I find it irresistible to walk past a cosmetics counter without having a good look at their brush range and buying at least one. I have a brush kit with around 100 brushes... 

It doesn’t take a genius to work out that I am a clean queen as far as makeup hygiene is concerned.  If you’re in the dark, just take a moment to read the Safe Beauty article at the top of this page. In the last 2 weeks, I have been the makeup artist at 4 weddings (total number of faces 21) and attended a Leukaemia Research Fundraiser offering makeovers and the like (total faces made over... 

  Gone are the days of using a cake of green concealer to neutralise redness on cheeks and noses.  You know what?  Green concealer makes you look green! About 3 years ago, whilst browsing the Benefit Counter, I picked up their yellow powder, ‘Bluff Dust’ and had a little play.  I’d been looking for the perfect ‘suit-all’ powder for years and thought I’d found...