TheMakeupEffect

Just wanted to drop by and say a quick hello. After a short day with work at the TLC Chinese Theater for the Beijing Motion Picture Festival I headed to my friend Jess and we've spent the afternoon getting ready for tonight's Halloween party. This is going to be fun! 

So yesterday I worked with Halloween makeup until midnight. Today it's a red carpet event with calltime at 7am which made me set my alarm at 5 in the morning. That's never excusable, ever! At least I can enjoy breakfast at The Coffeebean and Tealeafe, they have the best chai latte in LA. 

I'm off to work soon, Halloween style of course. Just wanted to stop by here and show you what it looks like when I get a free morning for drawing, I'm such a nerd when it comes to Disney!

One of my favorite makeup artists to assist is Nelly Recchia. It's such an amazing experience every time I get to be her assistant and just watch her doing makeup. A very humbeling thing too, if I'm half as good as Nelly in twenty years I'll be very happy! Yep, this will be a very fun week. Mixing assisting Nelly with Halloween gigs and finishing up with Halloween celebration on friday.

Sketching, what else to do on a late Sunday night? Trying to get my concept down for a Halloween job on Thursday.

Another great day at the expo and I'm glad today wasn't as long as yeasterday. Just enough to be ready for next week with more work, October and Halloween is busy times for makeupartist!

I'm off for another fun day at the LA Women's Expo, it's a beautiful day and I'm really looking forward to meeting all the great people I work with again. But the best thing about today is that it's Sunday, which means only one week left til Miami!

I've been working all day as lead artist for the team from Cinema Makeup School, doing makeup at LA Ultimate Women Expo. My feet are sore but my heart is happy after a successfull day!

It's such a big differens to see your work printed as real photos, this actually makes me just a tiny bit proud. Of course this is not for me but for the IMATS competition, although I do feel like I should print out my favorite photos some day and use as at in my apartment. To be able to see something you've achieved every day, such an ego boost. 

Took me forever to get theses but now it's done and all I have to do is send them in. Another thing checked off my to do list, which also had laundry and grocery shopping on it since I'm working the whole weekend. The kit is sized down and ready to go and I'm getting up at 6.30 tomorrow, oh happy day!

I just realized one thing. I get to spend my days assisting super talented artists in this industry, see how they work and learn new things every day. I also get to spend my days helping and watching new talents, every one of them with a new way to express their creative side. And that must be two of the most inspiring things you can do as a makeup artist. Lucky, lucky me!

Sometimes, like today, it's easy to forget all the good things in life. If you didn't get enough sleep, are worried about things in the future or miss your loved ones, that's the time to remind yourself about how lucky you are. I'm working quite a lot right now, actually every day until next weekend. Besides my normal work there's the LA Women Expo this Saturday and Sunday, and next week's Halloween which I will be spending doing makeup on performers. But then it's a week off in Miami, this mornings second lucky, lucky me! 

Oh, and good morning by the way :)

 

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. 

Went to Orange County today with Jessica, it's so beautiful there. 

It is quite unusual to wake up to a grey and boring day in Los Angeles, I guess fall is coming after all. And the cold kind of makes me homesick. I miss my friends, my family and especially my two favorite guys! I also miss a really cozy sweater to wear days like this one..

I still haven't grasped the whole thing about it being October already, certainly doesn't feel that way. But as so many other things this past year, I might just have to accept that it is so. And with the month of October comes all the fun and fright around Halloween. As a makeup artist this can be a pretty busy time, and a very fun one. I only have a couple of gigs around Halloween since I'm kind of occupied elsewhere, but I'm really looking forward to them. And then of course there's the Halloween Party! And since I'm in the states it's time to go all in with costume and makeup this year. Last year I did an not so original but fun vampire look, but now I actually have a theme to go with. Guess what it is...

..did the makeup for this advertising movie!

Before I left sweden I did a gig for a pretty big food brand, the actual movie is kind of silly and we had a very fun day at set.

 

Long day, I sure deserve a night in with SATC and chocolate. Photoshoot tomorrow, gotta get up early. I was planning to show some more photos from one of my last shoots but somehow my computer won't work me. Well, at least you can get this one:

..a regular thursday on Hollywood Blvd.

So for those who don't know what Battle of the Brushes is, it's a competition during IMATS for students or recent graduates from recognize makeup schools. It's a great opportunity to show your work, get publicity and of course  some nice prices for the winner. 

AS you can guess I've been talking a lot about this today, with several people around me. I'm tempted to try out for the competition and therefor I am now going through my portfolio in search for pictures that would represent me in the best way. Although, it's hard to entry this thing and better not to get your hope up but one can only do it's best. 

And by the way, next years theme for the beaty/fantasy competition is Art through the ages, how spred out isn't that?!

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. 

Everyone shoould watch this, less than a minute of awesomeness!

 

Nelly Recchia 's making of by PaintDropProd