Color pop

Have I told you how obsessed I´m about Sugarpill's loose pigments? I mean I did hype about them like couple of years ago, but man I fell in love with them again. I've been dying to place an order with Sugarpill for an year now. Can't wait to get the electrocute pigments!

I mainly always use these pigments while doing bodypaint. They can make even the worst and cheapest paints look like the most beautiful paints ever. But I still use them as normal eyeshadows as well.

Model: Katja Kettunen

Photography: Heli Roosmäe

Foundation: Mufe Face and Body

Eyes: Sugarpill - Darling, Absinthe; Inglot Pearl 428, Urban Decay black
Lips: Chanel lipgloss 176 Crushed Berry

This awesome model is btw really totally blonde!

Chao!

Mari-Liis

Cold Cold November

People have a really different way of thinking abouy the so called 'strenght' of a makeup (magnitude, amplitude? :D). Especially in different parts of the world. In Finland, for example if you ask for a nude makeup, you might get really, like R-E-A-L-L-Y light makeup base and maybe some mascara. If you ask for a nude look in France, you will most definately get a ton of makeup with the color scale nudes. My point of view for this, is to really inquire what the customer has in mind, before I start working. I've heard alot of complaints from customers, that some makeup artists just don't listen, but in fact I believe that the problem is that they just don't ask enough :)

In my opinion, this work covers as a medium makeup. Good base with a simple makeup. Nothin' too much.

Model: Eugenia Olavi

Photography: Heli Roosmäe

Foundation: Mufe Face and Body 32 &  Mufe Super Matte loose powder

Eyes: Inglot

Lips: Lime Crime Red Velvet

Have a lovely sunday!

Kisses,
Mari-Liis

Peking Opera

As a part of my study we researched some really know different Operas as well. One I really liked was this Peking Opera with it's simpleness yet efectiveness!

Base: Flash Color White - Make Up For Ever

Powder: White Loose Powder - Make Up For Ever

Eye/Browliner: Make Up For Ever Aqua Black

Eyeshadow: Dollipop - Sugarpill

Lips: Retrofuturist - Lime Crime

The fan is a souvenir from Tokyo and so are the chopstick in her head ;)

...I'm always taking stupid pictures about myself :D

Kisses,
Mari-Liis

GLITTER NAILS

 ..or almost ;) These are actually just nail foils and I tried to capture their *bling* on camera.

 They're cool, but the foils last max A DAY, so I don't bother doing them if there is not a special occasion.

Have a magnificient week :)

More more more and more Rainbow nails

Again the Rainbow nails! Or actually, I've done these last time like a year ago, but since I haven't really updated this blog, it might feel like you just saw these :D

But they are just so easy to do! All of the colors are actually acrylic paint and I just topped all off with some NfuOh flakies polish :) Ombre with six colors.

Behind the scenes filming a music video ;)

Have a wonderful week!

Matte neopard

Somehow everything looks better trough Instagram filters, no? :D

Or the normal picture is just bit blurry ! Anyways, here I have a bit of ombre nails, done with Color Club neon nailpolishes, and then stamped with black Konad and topped off with some matte top coat. These I actually really like!

It was sunnyyy~~

 

...and a drawing I did a year ago :D Ripped off from a picture, but this was a practise (without pictures or a refrence I really SUCK at drawing :D)

Have a nice week!

Green reflection

Hey hey heyy! Dark green nailsfor this week, spiced up with white Konad and some NfuOh flakie polish ;)

 

Have a lovely week ya'll <3 br="">

Blue Zebra!

The Fall is finally here! So a simple blue zebra nails for this monday ^^. Done with Konad of course :)

Have a nice week!

Mari-Liis

Graduated from Make Up For Ever Academy Helsinki as a professional makeup artist!

YES! I finally graduated yesterday!! I can now call myself a pro :) I KNOW I haven't been blogging but phew this last 8 months was just insane.. I don't know if I'd ever want to go thtought it again :D

We were forbitten to release any pictures of our work before the final exams, but now that those are done, I will be publishing them here ;)

xoxo
Mari-Liis

Happy holidays!

Again I have a ton of posts waiting... So I will start posting them just in a random order :D

Last week we had our portfolio week in school, so we each had to come up with 10 beauty photos. We had to make the schedule ourselves and find the models as well. 10 photos in 5 days was INTENSE. Some days I was at school for like 10 hours.. But I survived! And here are the results:

For every picture there were specifications and we are not allowed to photoshop any of the failures we might have made ;). All of the pictures taken by the photographer will be sent to France for approval and I won't hear from them until next year.

And now I have two weeks vacation from school, but not from schoolwork... So this christmas and new years eve I will be spending home doing them :D

As a last (but not the least!) model I had Marjut, which also made a blog post about it! There are more pictures!! Go check it here.

Talk to you sooon
xoxo
Mari-Liis

Where did the summer disappear?

Hello hello!

Since I'm currently avoiding doing any schoolwork (hehe), I thought I´d post something! You know that stressfull feeling, when you know you're on a deadline, and even though you like the work you're supposed to do, you still do EVERYTHING else? Yeah, that's me...

I´ve been so busy with everything, that the time has just slipped from my hands. Wasn't it summer like three weeks ago??? Suddenly it´s almost cristmas?! Oh weell. I made nails with the winter theme/ Finnish Independence day which was last friday :)

I still have 10 facecharts I have to come up with, because we have a pretty important Portfolio week coming up, just before christmas.. I will be shooting half of my portfolio allready :O Oh and I have to arrange all the models and blah blah. Even my days 'off' I´m working. All the time.

The time has flown so fast these past five months. Or actually this whole year! I don´t know even where to start explaining all the things I´ve been doing since I started the Mufe Academy.. I've been doing over 150 hours of work practise -  Different hair or fashion shows, music videos, photoshoots etc. And that is all besides school! Last three weeks I´ve been working every other day in a different place! One day I´m at the school, next day at a concert, third day at a hair show and fourth day I have a photoshoot. ETC. I don´t think I´ve ever done anything this risky and intense, but I love every bit of it!

Becoming a make up artist can be a huge leap, since there is NO guarantee that you will ever have enough of work or that you will ever be good enough for this industry. This is something that you really need to want. Fortunately I´m one to have a lot of ambition and I AM going to make it. Watch me ;)

In September Havu Media made a short clip about Make Up For Ever Academy, when we did the makeups for Helsinki Fashion week show :) You can recognize me from my flamy red hair ;)

Make Up For Ever Academy at Helsinki Design Week from Havu Media on Vimeo.

I have a FEW ton of pictures that I´d like to share, but shinse I always have a different models while working, it takes so much time and effort to get their permission to post certain pictures (yes although the photographer has always all the legal usage of the photos, I don't want to post anything that might make a conflict with my models).

Mufe meets Sugarpill ♥

ASEFUFHEOWG! Once during last week I was so impressed with my own makeup work that I was at loss for words. Like, literally! So first I made a quick facechart about next day's school assignment (which was to do a makeup with a somekind of eyeliner as a main point), dreaming big with the colors. I wanted to play with Sugarpill´s Dollipop, since I so rarely get to use it on myself. I already knew who my partner/model would be, so I specifically designed this for her :)

 

 The most awesome part about these pictures is that I DID NOT have to photoshop them! Of course I had to crop the pictures and fix the contrast just a little but nothing else.

Products used for the eyes

- Nyx Jumbo Eyepencil  in Milk as a base

- Sugarpill Dollipop as the pink

- Make Up For Ever eyeshadow 09 as the darker purple

- Make Up For Ever eyeshadow 116 as the lighter purple

- Lime Crime Medusa as the eyeliner (mixed with Illamasqua seal)

- Sugarpill Afterparty as the blue/teal

- Sugarpill lashes Angel Baby

And of course I had to take like bazillion pictures of the makeup so here you goooo ...

Before and after!

 ..Quite the change huh? :)

I´ve now been studying for 6 weeks and I don´t think there could be anything as awesome as this new life, that I could do. Last thursday and friday I worked on a few fashion runways and I had a blast! The days were loooong, like 14 hours at a time, but I LOVE IT.  :)

xoxo
Mari-Liis