My Luck w/ Make-up Artists

I don't have very good experiences with make-up artists. Do you guys remember this make-up disaster? 17 years of make-up "experience" and this is what she did to my face. :( Thankfully, it wasn't my wedding day but because of that experience, i decided that when it was my turn to get married, I wouldn't cheap out on my make-up artist b/c after all, you get what you pay for. (read more about that experience here)

 L: Vancouver wedding ceremony + reception R: Philippines reception Photographs by Tracey L Heppner

I was very happy with my wedding make-up as my make-up artist knew what would suit my face, she made me feel comfortable and most important of all, she had the skill. When we got to the Philippines for Reception #2, it was a different story. For starters, I didn't know who the make-up artist was and we didn't get a trial session. Let's just say at the end of it, I was close to tears because...

I looked like a ghost with a very white face and a white dress on! 
He powdered my face like there was no tomorrow, he made my eyes smaller and when he put fake eye lashes on me, he doused the lashes with glue so I had glue all over my lids and to top it all off, he pointed a hair dryer to my face to dry the lash glue. Yes. He also did my hair (i wish you could see the back of my hair in the photo above) and used a straightening iron to curl it which I know can be done but by the time he was finished, my hair was all frizzy and it just looked like I hair sprayed my hair stiff and folded it a few different directions in an attempt to create curls. Oh and not to mention, his hand smelled like cigarettes and fish. Thankfully, our photographer did a great job making the damage look minimal in our photos. :P

Have you had bad experiences 

with make-up artists?

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...But I Didn't Ask to Look Like a Geisha.

Make up gurus (or anyone reading this), i hope you're sitting down as i'm about to reveal some cringe worthy make-up. In my last post, I mentioned that I went to a small, small town up north as I was a bridesmaid for my best friends wedding. I don't really wear make-up very often so I thought that since this is a special occasion, I would get a "professional" to do my make-up.

When I was introduced to the woman who'd be doing my make-up, I was slightly worried as she was much older, she didn't really look put together and her make-up was nothing to write home about. I made small talk with her and asked "how long have you been doing make-up?" she beamed and said "17 years, i absolutely love doing this". The whole time I was getting make-up done, my back was facing the mirror so I couldn't see what was going on. As she was finishing up, she kept saying "oh, i better get others opinion on what i've done". Now i'm not a make-up expert, but that automatically raised a red flag to me b/c it showed that she wasn't confident in her work.

THE FINISHED PRODUCT: a caked on face that was at least 2 shades lighter than my natural skin tone and if you study my face close enough, you'll notice that my forehead has brown spots on it from poor blending. *sigh* The funny thing was that one of the other make-up artists kept asking me several times if i was happy with it and i just said yes b/c i didn't want to make anymore suggestions (i'd already made a few at this point)...but she insisted and said that i was really white under my eyes. hahaha! Even after she 'fixed' it - one of the other bridesmaids still had to bronze the heck out of my face to make the brown spots disappear and make me a little less white. Maybe it was a 'small town' thing and they weren't used to putting make-up on an Asian person (the make up artist was Caucasian)???

If it was any other occasion, it'd be fine but i paid money for this AND it was for my best friends wedding where we'd be taking lots of photos!!! Grrrrr! Oh well, at least it wasn't my wedding - otherwise, i probably would've cried. haha!


 I wore the bear paws to distract you from my white and brown spotted face. haha!
Do you have any make-up horror stories?


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DAY 11 - What's in Your Make Up Bag? (practically nothing)

Recognize my make-up bag? :P 
My collection is pretty sad. I didn't actually start wearing make-up regularly until about... oh, a year ago. And by "regularly" i mean... once or twice a month. hahaha! I'm the type of girl that would rather sleep in an extra few minutes rather than put on make-up. Also, because I had laser eye surgery 4 years ago, my eyes tend to get dry frequently. Dry eyes need eye drops. Eye drops can potentially ruin your make-up. -_-
I guess you could say i'm pretty lazy when it comes to make-up. I'd rather photoshop make-up on myself than actually put it on. hahaha! ;P