Wednesday, May 27, 2009

I recently did makeup for this beautiful woman pictured here. For those of you that know me, please excuse the following statement as you have heard it a million times over. I love Asians (and Jews, but that's a whole other story). Something about dark hair and warm skin tones make me want to run to my nearest spray tanning salon for a "summer glow". O.k., sorry, I digress. Here's the deal.....makeup for Asian women is quite unique. Because of the shape of the eye, it is difficult to create a "smoky eye" as she requested. Typically, the eye has a hooded shape and a smoky eye pulls the eye down. In this case, eyeliner is everything. Asian eyelashes and brows are typically made of fine, thin hair. For this reason, I used lashes by Mac in #7 to create a more open-eyed look and defined the brown with dark eyeshadow color brushed through the hair with an eyebrow brush. Her lips had such a beautiful, natural cranberry tone to them that I asked her if she had lip color on previously to which she replied "no". (grrrr.....jealousy set in!) I added a defined lip color and a touch of gloss and topped her off with a plum cheek color. She was insanely gorgeous and captured so beautifully by GwenMark Photography.

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