Eyeliner with a mark of history

When I was in the local drugstore lately, I found something amazing. Well in my eyes it is. But that can also be a part of my interest in history.

I thought I just bought an black glittering eyeliner. It is form the limited collection of make up brand essence, named: I love Berlin. Actually I already loved it already because of its name.

What Essence printed on the little jar, is probably something not many people will notice, I think. There's a band printed on the jar with little man. At this point you maybe think, why?

Take a look at the photo, maybe you will find out what's so special about the walking men.



Time for a bit of history about that little walking men. The little walking men with hats are Ampelmännchen. Say what?
Indeed, Ampelmännchen. They where representing the go an no go signs on the East German(DDR) traffic lights at crosswalks.

Even in the year 2011, if you are somewhere in the East part of Germany(DDR) or even better, In Berlin. You can still see by the kind of traffic lights at crosswalks in witch part you are, East or West. Unfortunately, they are not the original ones. They where removed after the unification of Germany. In 2007 they where placed back in Berlin as a part of the Ostalgie.

I think it's great that a make up brand printed this little details on the eyeliner jar.

Little groceries

Yesterday when walking in the supermarket, I found this lovely little shopping bag. With little, I mean really little. Like in it fits two cans of beer. But I love it so much that I could not resist it, so I had to buy it. It has such a lovely design with old advertisements on it. For the picture I decided tot place the bag next a coffee-cup to show the size of bag :D

2011

The start of a new year. The first decade of the 21Th century is left behind us. It is time to look to the future. An decade goes so fast. Most of the people still do remember the things that happened ten years ago, but in their minds it's like it was yesterday. May 2011 bring love, luck and happiness in the lives of everybody.


New Year's Eve somewhere in the 1950s

Merry Christmas

Modeling for Make-up workshop

The make-up artist
Not only woman like make-up. A friend of mine, Alexander Vidakovic is a male make-up artist. He turned is living room into a make-up and photo studio. It is named: studio Artist X. It is his work and hobby so actually it is his life.
He traveled around the world for 5 months with is suitcase filled with make up to do the make-up part at photo shoots. After he came back in the Netherlands he decided to start with make-up workshops, to learn to others what they can do with make-up.
The workshops are for everyone who wants that. People who are a bit experienced like beauticians or just people who wants a nice day to find out what they can do with make-up. If you want to do a make-up workshop yourself, go to the website Visagie Workshops there you will find al the information you need to book a workshop.

My day as a model

When Alexander needed a model for one of his workshops, I said why not. So there I was on a Saturday afternoon about two weeks ago. Sitting on a stool to be a make-up model.
The person who took the workshop was Elisa she is a beautician and has her own salon. She wanted to learn to do some make-up because people at her salon ask for that sometimes. She wanted to learn how to do evening make up.
First my faced face cleaned and moisturized with day cream. After that the real work started. Choosing the right colors of concealer, foundation and powder. What Alex does very well, he first showed Elisa how she had to put it on my face after that she could apply it on my face. I could see from here face that she was learning a lot. Alexander gave here lots of very good tips about applying make-up and also about the use of colors.

In the photo you see Elisa putting concealer on my face:



After that it was time for the eyeshadow. Because it had to be evening make-up, she choose from the purple color palette. Purple colors are working very well if you have blue eyes like I have.
A white highlighter just right under the eyebrow gives you that wakey,wakey look that everybody wants to have.
After putting a two tones Kohl liner on my lower eyelid in purple and black, some mascara on my lashes and a bit of gloss on my lips, my face was done. It looked really stunning!

Me with the make-up on my face:



As you can see the photos have a very professional look, thats because of Alexanders own photo studio. If you decide to do a workshop, a gratis fotoshoot is also what you will get. of course on professional level!

Because there was time left, I also did a workshop. I never had that done before, but I must say I am very proud of myself and how it looked on the face of Elisa.

This is me applying make-up:



After the workshop, Alexander made some professional pictures. The one of me, you saw earlier in the article and pictures of Elisa and me that i will show you now. So You can see the great final result:



and:



If you want to know more about Alexander as a professional make-up artist or if you are interested in is work, or both, visit his web page Alexander Vidakovic Professional make up artist. Here you will also find a video of Alexander applying make up on models during a catwalk show.

Skinny or curvy

What does the modeling business want? First models had to be skinny, that went form heroin chic to anorexic and even models who died because of the size zero standard on the catwalk. And then there was that big change. I think it started a couple of years ago back in Spain where girls with a BMI less than 18 where boycotted.
Now days the plus size models are the rising stars. Every high fashion magazine brings out an issue dedicated to them. It's good to see that things can change and that curves are appreciated again just like back in the golden years of Hollywood.
What I don't get is one thing, why only size zero and plus size models. What about the woman who do not have that size. A skinny models has to have (in Dutch sizes) size 32-34. The size of a plus size model starts at (in Dutch sizes) 44. So what about the sizes between that? I don't understand. Why is it almost always like you can only go left or right? If you see it in black and white, you have or to loose weight or gain a lot if you have a (Dutch size) size 38 like me. There are a lot of Campaigns that says that a woman can be who she is and more stuff like that. I think it will work if the modeling industry decides that all sizes are ok. Not only a skinny Victoria Beckham or a Curvy Christina Hendricks, but all of us, people like you and me.

E.L.F. Cream Eyeliner

For years now, I use eyeliner. I used almost every type of it, dip-liners, felt-tip eyeliner pen, pencil-liners and so on. When I was shopping at ELFs website, I saw a new sort of eyeliner. cream eyeliner. It reminds me a bit of cakeliners. I decided to give it a try, so i bought it.

This is how it looks:


As you can see it comes in a tiny plastic jar, I think it looks stylish. The little brush you see on the picture is included.

I was a bit nervous to try it. And I must see it took my about 15 minutes to get it on my eyes the way i wanted. Probably because of this was the first time ever i tried a eyeliner with brush applicator.
To get it on nicely, take your time and do not try to rush, that will not work. Also, it dries very quickly, so be sure to have a cotton-tip and makeup remover near to you, else you will not be able to get it of. It is really smudge, rub, and waterproof. See the picture, the left line is with a lot of rubbing the right one with a bit and also that line was already dried up.
To remove the eyeliner, use some eye makeup remover. Also do not forget to clean the brush, it will get sticky if you not remove the creamliner form the brush.
After a whole evening of wearing this, no smudge and the line was still in place.



On my eyes it looks like this:



Likes: no smudge, waterproof, good deep color
Unlikes: the time it takes to put it on(but that is my opinion), a bit sticky if you leave it to long on the brush before applying.

Go/no go: I give this one a go. More likes than unlikes. I like this liner and will use it more than once.

You can buy it at E.L.F. make up The price is 4 euro. It is available in 8 colors.