Photoshooting with Tate Millinery Part 1

Hello everyone,

last weekend I took a superlong drinve (20 minutes;-) to a neighbour town and shot with lovely Karen from Tate Millinery and her just as lovely husband Andrea! We photographed around 30 hats (estimated number - I lost count because it were SO MANY beautifull hats!) within 3 hours (plus and hour for hair and make up and maybe another one for cupcakes).

So consider this part 1 of at least 4-5 parts full of awesome hats! Keep your eyes on the Online Shop as well and keep in mind: Most of those hats are customizable! So if you think by yourself "Oh, I love this hat, but it wouldn´t go with the clothes I have" - send a message to Tate Millinery to explore the options available! For your convenience I added the links straight to the hat below the picture.

Black Fascinator with bow

 

Big Fedora hat 

 

Green Felt Cloche

 

50s Cocktail Hat

 

Santa Muerte 

 

 

 

Elegant Summer Hat

Did I promse too much? Those hats are truely awesome with great details and made by hand! Keep your eyes peeled for more!

The 1940s Face

 

Hi everyone,
last week I was asking on FB whether anyone would be interested if I do a Little blog series on period make up and what I use to achieve the look. And as there were a few that liked the idea.... Here we go ;-)


I am doing a more "Photo Make up" Approach of the 1940s face because the "Girl next door" make up look for day time was rather simple: A simple face cream, powder, blush, Mascara and red lipstick or lip Pomade to go with it.

When taking photographs or when filming make up artists were adding foundation, eyeshadow and contouring to give more deepths to the faces and to work out the Features.



So basically I did the foundation, concealer, powder and added some blusher to the apples of my cheek and the bronzer below my cheek bones. Light eyeshadow to the entire lid, than building up the crease with the darker shades and finally a very, very thin line of the black shade right at my lashes (eye liner didn´t get popular before the 50s really). Eyebrows in the 1940s were groomed, but rather natural so I just filled it out with a light shade eyeshadow pencil and brused it with eyebrow Mascara. Matte lips were THE Thing in the 40s. For this look I mixed the Lip Booms and overdrew my upper lip a Little.

 

Color photos to better illustrate what exactly I did here...

 

Products used (mostly MUA, so I just add the brand if it´s something else, ok? :-)
Face:  Matte Perfect Foundation, Hide and Conceal, Cover and Conceal, Matte perfect Powder, Blusher Shade 3, Mosaic Bronzer "Natural Glow"

Eyes: Professional Eyes Primer, Undress me too Palette (colours used: Naked, fiery, Obsessed and Corrupt), Essence I love Volume Mascara (forgot to include it on the photo. Darn!), P2 Eyebrow Express "Stylish blond", Essence Guerilla Gardening eyebrow Mascara "my Piece of land"

Lips: Lip boom LMK and Bring it

 

Book Review: "Retro Makeup - Techniques for Applying the Vintage Look"

Hello everyone,

A while ago I posted about Lauren Rennells new book "Retro Makeup - Techniques for Applying the Vintage Look". Most of you already know her as the author of "Vintage Hairstyling", my personal bible for Vintage hair :-)

I saw it and thought I better get it, based on the damn good impressions I have from Vintage Hairstyling Edition 1 + 2 (and before you ask: YES, it is important to have both editions bec

ause there are different stylings in it!)

So how do I find it? Is it worth buying and what do you actually get?

This book covers a lot of make up history. It introduced various make up brushes that you can use to reproduce or re-interprete the styles of the book. This is very very good for make up novices! The book covers the history of our most beloved cosmetic articles such as lipstick, blush, eye liner, mascara etc. While those contained no news for me it was still interesting to read and also included some nice novelty facts.

Every decade introduced features 3 different looks and how to reproduce them. None of it seems particulary tricky. Apart from the 60s eye liner styles they seem almost too easy to me, but than again I have been doing my own hair and make up for shootings for 7 years. It is very nice for reference though.

Things I felt were missing: I felt that something on how to emphasize your individual face form using blush or/and highlighter was missing. There is a short part on it, but that is not really much. I would have loved to have more stuff such as articles from old magazines or/and beauty books in it. I have some where they display makeup morning routines in detail and I LOVE that. In the book is one written description from the 50s. Besides that I have nothing to complain. ;-)

I really enjoyed: The beautifull photos, the breakdown on brushes, the part on what ladies had on their vanities, the "novelty" trivias in it.

Is it worth buying? Do you have the two Kevyn Aucoin books on Make up and Mike Browns books "The 1940s Look" and "The 1950s Look"? If so you don´t necessarily need this book.

However it is nice to have. The make ups are easy to reproduce. The advice is helpfull and if you have not that much knowledge about era-specific looks it is wellworth the money! I say: BUY!

Where can you get it?

Germany: http://www.ars-vivendi.de/shop/

Worldwide: http://www.hrstbooks.com/