TheMakeupEffect

It is a great feeling to see your own work published but very bittersweet when you don't get the right photo credit. And there's nothing to do about it when the magazine'a been published. But I still keep all of my printed work for fun!

So today's Sunday and Sunday means fun day, you have to enjoy yourself cause that's what you twenties are for. I'm gonna hang out with family and friends, go see Stockholms Roller Derby Girls and other fun stuff. And maybe have some glögg, a traditional swedish christmas beverage, cause it's freezing outside!

Oh how I love these early call times. Right now I'm not even sure if I'm tired or not, this is confusing for the mind so I'm just gonna convince myself that I'm not tired at all. Here's a couple of fun facts that always happens to makeupartists, or at least me cause I'm an unlucky bird!

1. It doesn't matter if you go through your kit the day before or two minutes before you have to leave, you will forget something. Today it was the makeup remover. But that can also be a good thing since you get really good at using products for things they're not really meant to do and to think quickly. As long as I have my brushes with me it's a successful day!

2. If you're living in Stockholm and have to take the metro to location you can be a 100 % sure that something will delay your trip if you're already late. But if you leave twenty minutes early everything's gonna go super smooth. 

3. If it's an early call time like today they always serve breakfast on location, and the good kind like you would get at a hotel. But since the first thing to happen is hair and makeup for the actors or models you won't get a chance to eat because you have to work!

I do believe this is Murphy's law for Makeupartist and still i love my job!

While finishing my website earlier today, I also finished the retouching on some old beauty pictures. Here's Janea and Priscilla in bright bold lip colors, both shot by photographer Beth Coller!

I got the news that this issue of swedish wedding magazine Allt om Bröllop is out today with my makeup and hair on the front page. Can't wait to show you all the beautiful pictures from this day! 

Better late then never!

Here's a photo of the sugarskull makeup I did before Halloween.

Good morning! Or at least in L.A. it's morning and I'm heading to school in a little while. 

A couple of days ago I got another picture of this beautiful lady and I must say that Robert Mosbach did a great job on this one, lovely warrior princess!

Behind the scenes from yesterdays photoshoot. I did a very clean Sugar Skull (Day of the Dead) makeupin black and purple on my amazing model Brittany, thank you so much! Had some time pressure and was a bit stressed out by the fact that this took way longer than I thought, but that's how you learn and the result turned out pretty okey. As they say, you should always be your own worst critic and I have a lot of things I could have done better on this one wit some more time. But it was a fun makeup to do and I'm hoping for some great pics of this one!

From one job to another, I just finished my Sugar Skull!

 

I should not be aloud to go shopping by myself, I need someone with me who can stop me or else it ends up like today. Either I made some of the best purchues of my life, or some of the worse. Only time will tell. But I updates some of my hot tools for my kit, which I really needed! Although I'm not sure if these are as great as they seem, if they are I'm one lucky gal. And also I got my costume ready for the Halloween party, so exciting. And the most exciting thing is that it's only one and a half week left, which means it's less then two weeks until I go to Miami.

Besides shopping I actually got some things done today, like retouching photos from this weekends photoshoots. From now on I will always do the makeup in my own apartment, it is such a luxury to be able to set things up before the model arrive and you have everything you could possibly need. At least when doing airbrush cause it's such a pain to drag all that stuff with you at the subway. Well, enough talking, here are my two favorite shoots from Saturday and Sunday with Brittany and Hailey! 

"Champagne should be cold, dry and free" - Churchill

I've got so many applications and personal statements to write right now and I cannot for my life keep focus. I'm doing everything else except what I'm supposed to do.. Feel like I would need a big bowl of candy, a couple Red Bull and a dark qiute room with no internet connection to get this done, and right now non of that is possible. Why do you always find something that is more tempting to do than the things you actually have to get done? 

Oh, well, at least I got my stencils and ideas ready for Saturday. It's going to be big hair and "face lace" in a Marie Antoinette inspired way. 

And suddenly I got the day off since we had to reschedule today's photoshoot. So I'm having breakfast and watching disney movies and preparing for this weekend, which is going to be hectic with shoots both Saturday and Sunday. 

until then, here's another photo from a shoot with Miko and Jasmine.

Nothing beats the feeling of seeing the final result from a successfull photoshoot! 

Here's what Ive been doing today: First I spent time helping out with the preparations for a photoshoot for Uncover Magazine, aka I did makeup, ironed clothes, ran errands etc. Then I thought for myself as I got home around four, I do deserve some ice cream. Said and done, Ben & Jerry's and some more SATC it was. I will probably have seen alla six seasons in a couple of weeks but why not. And what's better entertainment when you're already spending your saturday night in doing laundry. At least I'm gonna get myself to the gym for some running, got new shoes earlier this week and I haven't tried them properly yet.

Well, well, speaking about Uncover Magazine, here is a photo from my photoshoot with Uncover and the story about bright colored lips. 

I got something new for you! 

Here's from my one of my latest photoshoots where I did a tribal inspired airbrush. Had lots of fun that day with Tobia Walka and Katie Sandström and I think it turned out good! Gotta tell you that although I'm a proud makeupartist, sometimes you just love what the photagraphers can do in photoshop. The retouch on this one is..wow! 

I'm so excited about this right now, being back in LA and surrounded by so many talanted people is truly inspiring. Can't wait to start doing makeups here now, especially really dig in to the world of body art and airbrush. 

Oh, it is good to be back! Although I do get homesick this works pretty great as a second home for me. Today has been.. just how I wanted it to be, fun but not stressfull. It hasn't really happened that much to tell you about, except that I got the news that I am going to be in Makeup Magazine. How fun?! And not only one picture of me but a lot of them, only one where I look good though but you can't get everything in this world. 

And another fun thing I got today was this picture from a photoshoot I did in july, or maybe the beggining of august, with talented photagrapher Miko Seppänen and model Just Jaz. We went all in on the Helmut Lang/androgyn theme and it did turn out pretty fabolous, didn't it?

Hello little bugs! 

Todays shoot is both aquatic and animalistic, and this water ain't warm. But with my favorite lotion, a little bit of sun and a very patient model it's getting good. 

Oh, such a lovely shoot we had today. Lots of laughs and geekiness. I'm feeling so blessed that I get these opportunities to work with talented and wonderful people. Here's some pics for you that today's model, beautiful Elle took. They show just how much fun we had with this champagne shoot (told you it was going to be sparkles and bubbles!)

I lördags gjorde jag en airbrush för porträtt tillsammans med fotograf Tobias Walka och modell Katie Sandström. Vi hade en väldigt rolig eftermiddag ihop och fick till en hel del bra bilder. Här kommer ett litet smakprov!

Fick lite fina BTS bilder från torsdagens plåtning ifrån vår duktige fotograf. Himla rolig plåtning det här och av preview'n att döma kommer det bli svårt att välja bilder då vi fick så många som var bra! Alltid roligt att veta att man kommer få in mycket bra till portfolion. 

Nu har jag precis plockat isär och rengjort airbrushen, med lite smått ångest när man ska sätta ihop den för första gången. Inga problem dock, måste säga att det känns bra för egot när saker går som man vill, och jag är redo att ge mig iväg för en ny airbrush plåtning. Ni såg face charten igår, nu hoppas vi på ett lika grymt färdigt resultat!