'Live Fashion VIII' video of a street fashion show, with designs by Adebayo Jones, Lyze Hats, & Sola Cash.

'Live Fashion VIII' video of a street fashion show, with ladieswear designs by Adebayo Jones, ladies' hat designs by Lyze Hats, and menswear designs by Sola Cash, starting at Fashion Scout, passing through Covent Garden, to Somerset House, for London Fashion Week, September 2014.

Watch the video filmed/photographed around London, where I did some of the make-up at: http://t.co/gLN0V4IMpm.

Filming & Editing: Dan Harley (http://www.DanHarleyPhotography.com & http://www.facebook.com/DanHarleyPhotography),
Additional Filming: Anna Zavialova, Mariusz Goslicki, & Trevor Button,
Hair: Styled by Dany Maugeri & Bianca Laurent,
Make-up: Lucie Strong, Lien Vy & Julie Topiwala,
Ladieswear: Designed by Adebayo Jones Luxury,
Hats: Designed by Lyze Hats,
Menswear: Designed by Sola Cash,
Models: Andrew Marv, Lee Moran, Daniel Matthews, Isaac Amanuel, Kimberley Jackson, Kethose Nagi, Klaudia Jasmin, Lucie Strong, Miles Nazaire, Noe Trystram, Ralitsa Kaloyanova, Salina Shahni, Sola Cash, Tashienna Bookai, & TJ Tijan.

'Live Fashion VI' video of an Ozgur Babacan fashion show.

'Live Fashion VI' video of an Ozgur Babacan fashion show around London, January 2014.

Watch the video filmed/photographed around London, where I did some of the make-up at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1JaxHaVfto.

Filming: Dan Harley (http://www.DanHarleyPhotography.com & http://www.facebook.com/DanHarleyPhotography),
Hair & Make-up: Lucie Strong & Lien Vy,
Dresses: Designed by Ozgur Babacan (http://www.Anoosh.co.uk & http://www.facebook.com/Anoosh.co.uk),
Models: Mara Benika, Kimberley Jackson, Estelle Digridi, & Kerrie Sonja Newton.

'Live Fashion V' video of an Anoosh fashion funeral procession, for London Fashion Week, September 2013.

Watch the video filmed/photographed around London, where I did some of the make-up at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ6ggaeLBzQ.  I love it!  :-)

Filming: Dan Harley (http://www.DanHarleyPhotography.com & http://www.facebook.com/DanHarleyPhotography),
Additional Filming: DnJ Image & Rob Stevens,
Clothes/Accessories: Designed by Anoosh Naghibi (http://www.Anoosh.co.uk & http://www.facebook.com/Anoosh.co.uk),
Models: Ancuta Breaban, Andressa Rivelles, Daniela Succo, Elena Step, Harriet Dennant, Julius Reuben, Karine Tonson La Tour, Kimberley Jackson, Maj Safe, Marina Milani, Natalia Krajcikova, & Natasha Charles.

1920s/1930s Vamp Make-up

1920s/1930s Vamp Make-up

Photography: James Bell (http://www.BellPhoto.co.uk),
Hair: Nina (http://www.NinasVintageAndRetroHair.com),
Clothes: Styled by Kaz Longe (http://www.KazLonge.co.uk),
Model: Monika (http://www.ModelMayhem.com/364109).

Photography: Stephen Norris (http://www.facebook.com/stephen.norris.1213),
Hair: Cut, coloured and styled by Chris Evans (http://www.facebook.com/chrisee1) at Short Cuts (http://www.ShortCutsHair.co.uk),
Clothes: Model's own,
Model: Stefani Whitehead (http://www.StarNow.co.uk/StefaniWhitehead).

Here are the step-by-step instructions for how to create a 1920s/1930s Vamp look with make-up:-

Start with a freshly cleansed and moisturised face.

Apply foundation (matched to the colour of the skin), concealer and powder (as instructed in my previous blog "Getting Flawless Skin").

The eyebrows should appear like dramatic fine arched lines.  If the eyebrows are too thick/bushy or the wrong shape or too low down to look like this, block out the natural eyebrows hairs.  This can be done by either running a glue stick like Pritt Stick or otherwise a damp bar of soap over the eyebrows.  Apply the glue stick or damp bar soap precisely over the eyebrow hairs a few times until the eyebrow hairs are covered by the residue.  Then once it has dried apply concealer over the top.  You may have to apply more than one layer of glue/soap and then concealer to hide the eyebrows adequately.  Then fix in place by applying loose face powder over the top using a powder puff.  Then gently brush away the excess powder using a powder brush, being careful not to displace the make-up hiding the natural eyebrows.

Apply some extra loose powder below the eyes before applying the eye make-up (to prevent any fallen eyeshadow flecks marking the skin below the eyes).

Apply white eyeshadow to the brow bones from the upper socket lines right up to the eyebrows (or as high up as you intend to draw your eyebrows on if you have blocked the natural eyebrows out first), using a large eyeshadow brush.  This white eyeshadow will act as a highlighter.

Using a black eyebrow pencil or kohl pencil if you're dark haired, or using a dark brown eyebrow pencil or kohl pencil if you're fair haired or redheaded, pencil over the eyebrows to make them look clearly defined, dramatic, fine and arched.  If you have blocked the natural eyebrows out, draw the eyebrows on quite high up in a bold thin arched style (as in the two photos above).

Now using a small eyeshadow brush apply black or dark grey eyeshadow to the upper eyelids from the upper lash lines up to just higher than the socket lines and then below the lower lash lines to completely encircle the eyes.  Make the line of black or dark grey eyeshadow below the lower lash lines about two millimetres thick.  Then blend the black or dark grey eyeshadow up and out on the upper eyelids using an eyeshadow blending brush, to create smoky eyes.  Apply the black or dark grey eyeshadow so that it is darkest at the lash lines and becomes gradually lighter as it blends out into the white eyeshadow above it (as in the photos above).  (See my previous blog called "Smoky Eyes" for more advice on the eyeshadow application).

Use cotton buds to gently lift off any flecks of eyeshadow that have gone astray, and use cotton buds to gently soften the line of black or dark grey eyeshadow below the lower lash lines.

Make sure the eye make-up looks the same/symmetrical on both eyes.  Apply the make-up on each eye as a mirror image of the other eye.

To make the eyes look more dramatic you can apply black kohl pencil around the eyes on both the upper lash lines and below the lower lash lines.  (This step is optional).

Curl the upper eyelashes with an eyelash curler if you like.  Apply two or three coats of mascara to the upper eyelashes and a single coat of mascara to the lower eyelashes.  Then comb through the eyelashes using an eyelash comb to remove any clumps of mascara and separate the eyelashes.

Now brush the loose face powder away from below the eyes using a powder brush, using a gentle outward motion under each eye, but starting lower than the line of black or dark grey eyeshadow below the lower lash lines, so as not to smudge it.

If you like you can sculpt your cheekbones to give them better definition (as in the first photo above).  Use a light brown or gold blusher on fair skin, use bronze or mid brown blusher or bronzing powder on olive skin, or use dark brown blusher/shader on black skin.  Apply along the undersides of the cheekbones subtly starting from below the outsides of the eyes and extending right into the hairline, using a blusher brush.  Then blend slightly using the blusher brush to soften the effect.

Apply bright blood red lipstick (as in the second photo above) or otherwise deep shades of lipstick such as burgundy or deep plum (as in the first photo above).  Apply it accurately using a lip brush.  If any lipstick gets out of line use cotton buds to gently wipe it away.

Paint the nails in bright blood red or deep vampy shades such as burgundy or deep plum.

This is a classic dramatic look which goes well with lots of outfits, but particularly well with evening dresses.  Have fun wearing it out in the evening or at night!

Natural Make-up

Natural Make-up

Photography: Minh,
Hair: Styled by the model,
Clothes: Designed by Alia Peer at Central Saint Martin's College, London. (http://www.CSM.LInst.ac.uk),
Model: Carolina.

Here are the instructions for how to create a natural look with make-up:-

Start with a freshly cleansed and moisturised face.

Select a foundation which is matched in colour to the skin on the face.  Apply it all over the face sparingly and evenly using either your fingers, a cosmetic sponge, or a foundation brush, and make sure it is blended well, so that you can't see where it ends at the sides of the face.

Select concealer matched in colour to the foundation for covering blemishes.  Apply it to blemishes to hide them using a thin tipped concealer brush to give you accuracy.  Then pat the concealer gently to blend using a finger, to make it not obvious that you are wearing it.

Select under-eye concealer one shade paler than the face for hiding dark under-eye circles.  Apply it using a large concealer brush, which covers the under-eye area well.  Remember to cover the area around the inner corners of the eyes as well as below the eyes.  Then pat the under-eye concealer gently to blend using a finger, to make it not obvious that you are wearing it.

Select loose powder the same colour as the foundation, and apply it all over the face evenly using a powder puff.  (Skip this step if the skin is very dry.  If the skin is very dry just powder under the eyes to fix the under-eye concealer in place, and possibly down the T-zone if the T-zone is shiny and not so dry).  Brush the excess powder off of the face using a powder brush using downwards strokes, but apply some more powder under the eyes before doing the eye make-up.

Sparingly apply white eyeshadow (on fair skin or olive skin) or ivory eyeshadow (on black skin) to the entire area from the upper lash lines right up to the eyebrows using a large eyeshadow brush.  Then make sure you soften the edges of where the eyeshadow ends at the sides using an eyeshadow blending brush.  Then using a small eyeshadow brush apply light brown (on fair skin or olive skin) or dark brown (on black skin) eyeshadow to contour the socket lines above the upper eyelids, applied parallel to but above the bulge created by the eyeballs through the upper eyelids.  Draw on a thick enough line (about three or four millimetres thick) of brown eyeshadow to the socket lines for it to be visible when the eyes are open.  Then using an eyeshadow blending brush blend the brown eyeshadow up into the white eyeshadow very slightly, so that the line of brown on the socket lines looks soft and doesn't have any hard edges.

Apply eyebrow pencil to the eyebrows in a colour closely matched to the colour of the eyebrows.  However if the eyebrows are very fair and you wish to make them a bit darker so that they are more visible, then don't use an eyebrow pencil any darker than a taupe, light grey or light brown colour.  Apply the eyebrow pencil using light feathery strokes for a natural appearance.  Then brush the eyebrows in an upwards and outwards direction using an eyebrow brush.  Then fix the eyebrows in place using a brow gel if necessary.  Otherwise you can fix the eyebrows in place by spraying a bit of hairspray on the eyebrow brush directly before using it.

Use an eyelash curler to curl the eyelashes if you like.  Then apply mascara.  Use black mascara if you're dark haired, or use brown/brown-black mascara if you're blonde or redheaded or mousy haired.  Apply the mascara to both the uppersides and the undersides of the eyelashes.  Make sure you start right from the roots of the eyelashes, particularly if your eyelashes are fair, so that the eyelashes look the same colour all the way down.  A couple of coats of mascara should be adequate for thickening, lengthening and darkening the eyelashes.  Then comb through the eyelashes using an eyelash comb to separate the eyelashes and remove any clumps of mascara.

After you've finished the eye make-up, take a good look at it in the mirror to make sure that both eyes and eyebrows look symmetrical to each other, and to make sure that the eyeshadow is well blended and accurately applied, and that there are no gaps in the eyeshadow, and to make sure that the mascara looks natural and is evenly applied.

Next brush the loose powder away from below the eyes using a large powder brush using gentle outwards strokes.  This will remove any eyeshadow fall out without it marking the skin below the eyes that may have fallen below the eyes when the eyeshadow was being applied.

Now lightly and subtly shade the undersides of the cheekbones to add definition using a blusher brush.  Use a baby pink on fair or porcelain skin, use bronze or light brown on olive skin, or use dark brown on black skin.  Then blend it slightly using the blusher brush so that there are no hard edges.  Make sure the two cheeks look symmetrical to each other.

Now apply light pink, light beige, light peach, or nude coloured lip gloss to the lips.  Be sure to get the lips symmetrical and get the lip gloss applied evenly.

Finally apply light pink, light beige, light peach, or nude coloured nail polish.

This make-up is neutral and works with many colours of clothes, but works best with clothes the same colour as the make-up.  Even though the make-up colours are muted they can still appear very pretty (as in the photo above)!

Make-up For Men

Make-up For Men

 

  Photography: Hannah Edwards (http://www.ModelMayhem.com/266063),
Hair: Styled myself,
Clothes: Styled by Dirish B (http://www.MySpace.com/Rough_Edged_Circle), 

Model: Vincenzo Cortese (http://www.ModelMayhem.com/295305) at BMA (http://www.BMAModels.com).

Photography: Giulio Marcello (http://www.MarcelloPhotography.com),
Hair: Styled myself,
Clothes: Styled by Reemé Idris,
Model: Daniel Stepin.

 Photography: Rajesh Maddula (http://www.facebook.com/RajeshMaddulaPhotography),
Clothes: Designed by Danish Wakeel (http://www.facebook.com/DanishWakeelFashionDesigner),
Model: Danish Wakeel (http://www.facebook.com/Danish.Wakeel).

Photography: Stefan Sieler (http://www.MySpace.com/StefanSieler),
Hair: Styled myself,
Clothes: Designed & styled by Chris Birch (label: Joystick Junkies) (http://www.JoystickJunkies.com),
Model: Karim Theilgaard (http://www.KarimTheilgaard.com).

Photography: Serguei Cherkassov (http://www.sergximage.wix.com/photographer-imagex & http://www.facebook.com/Serguei.Cherkassov),
Hair: Styled by Anoosh Naghibi,
Clothes & Wings: Designed by Anoosh Naghibi (http://www.Anoosh.co.uk & http://www.facebook.com/Anoosh.co.uk),
Model: Anoosh Naghibi (http://www.facebook.com/Anoosh.Naghibi).

Make-up for men is usually much simpler than make-up for women.

It is optional about whether to shave off the facial hair first.  However the base make-up is easier to apply to a freshly shaved face than to a stubbly or hairy face.  Also examine the eyebrows, and decide whether any stray eyebrow hairs should be plucked out using tweezers - this next step is also optional.

After shaving the face or leaving the facial hair/stubble, cleanse and moisturise the face.

If the man's complexion is uneven you can apply foundation to even it out.  Make sure the foundation is the same colour as the skin on the face so that it is not too obvious if going for a natural look.  When going for a gothic look (as in the last photo above) you can use foundation a bit paler than the skin for a more dramatic look, but don't use foundation more than one shade paler than the skin.  If he has a beard, moustache, sideburns, facial stubble, or thick bushy eyebrows, the make-up can tend to show up in the facial hairs.  To rectify this, use a very slightly dampened in water clean eyebrow brush to brush the foundation out of the facial hairs after it has been applied, and avoid putting foundation on the densely hairy parts of the face such as thick beards.

Sometimes if a more rugged look is desired or if the man has an even complexion then you can skip the foundation step.

Next cover any blemishes and/or under-eye dark circles with concealer, using a concealer brush for precision.  For covering blemishes use concealer in a colour matched to the foundation, but for covering under-eye dark circles use a concealer one shade paler than the skin.  Make sure the concealer is blended well, in order to not show up.

Now apply loose powder to fix the foundation and/or concealer in place and mattify the complexion, using a powder puff.  Use powder the same colour as the skin, or if going for a gothic look go no more than one shade paler than the skin.  Be sure to blend the under-eye concealer out of any lines or wrinkles using your ring finger directly before applying loose powder to the under-eye area.  Powder can collect in the facial hair/stubble and eyebrows and show up, particularly if the facial hair/stubble and eyebrow hair is very thick/dense, so avoid these areas if the facial hair/stubble and eyebrows and very thick/dense, or brush the powder out of the facial hair/stubble and/or eyebrows after applying it using a very slightly dampened in water clean eyebrow brush.

If you want the man to have a slightly sun-kissed look or if he looks too pale, you can brush bronzing powder over his face just on the places where the sun would naturally hit (i.e. the forehead, nose and the tops of the cheeks).  Only use light coloured bronzing powder on fair skin and deep bronzing powder on olive skin.  Dark black skin should go without bronzing powder and just use a dark powder matched to the colour of the skin.  Porcelain skin should also go without bronzing powder and just use a powder matched to the colour of the skin.  

Now gently dust the excess powder off of the face using a powder brush, (after you've applied it using a powder puff).

If the eyebrows are fair and/or sparse, or if you just want them to look more dramatic, you can apply eyebrow pencil to them using lots of light feathery strokes.  To achieve a natural looking effect on fair eyebrows use a taupe coloured eyebrow pencil.  On brown eyebrows use a brown eyebrow pencil, and on black eyebrows use a black eyebrow pencil.

Next brush the eyebrows upwards and outwards using an eyebrow brush, (and fix them in place if necessary by spraying a bit of hairspray onto the eyebrow brush directly before using it).

Most of the time with male models I don't apply any eye make-up (as in the first three photos above), but sometimes if going for a gothic look, a rock star look or a more dramatic look, where I want the eyes to stand out more, I will apply black eyeshadow around the eyes (as in the last two photos above).  To apply black eyeshadow around the eyes firstly apply loose face powder below the eyes (to catch any flecks of eyeshadow that may fall from the eyelids when it is being applied, so that the fallen flecks of eyeshadow don't mark the skin below the eyes).  Next using a thin tipped eyeshadow brush for precision apply black eyeshadow to the top eyelids from the upper lash lines only up as far as the socket lines, and then apply the black eyeshadow under the lower lash lines.  Make the line of black under the lower lash lines about two millimetres thick.  You can use cotton buds for blending it a bit around the edges or wiping away tiny bits of black eyeshadow that have gone astray.  Once you're happy with the eyeshadow, brush the loose face powder away from below the eyes using a powder brush using gentle outward brushing flicks to eliminate any black eyeshadow fall out below the eyes.

Apply mascara if desired.  However don't apply it as heavily as you would on a woman.  Just one coat of mascara is adequate to darken the eyelashes without looking obvious.  Remember to start right from the roots of the eyelashes, particularly if the eyelashes are fair.  Then comb through the eyelashes using an eyelash comb to eliminate any clumps of mascara and get an even natural looking result.

You can use brown blusher/bronzing powder/shader to add definition to the cheekbones.  Use light brown/light gold on fair/porcelain skin, mid brown on olive/Asian skin, dark brown on light black skin, and very dark brown on dark black skin.  Apply it using a thin tipped blusher brush for precision, and apply it along the undersides of the cheekbones, and blend it well so that it doesn't look like there are stripes on the sides of the face, but simply shadows created by the cheekbones.

You can keep the lips looking natural by either applying nothing to them if they're not dry, or applying a light application of colourless lip balm or Vaseline to them if they're dry (as in the first four photos above).  Otherwise if you want a darker look or a gothic look you can apply dark lipstick in colours such as black, dark purple, dark brown, dark wine red, or dark burgundy (as in the last photo above).  Apply the lipstick precisely over the lips using a lip brush, and then blot the lips with tissue.

If going for a rock star look or a gothic look I like to paint the nails with dark nail polish in colours such as black or darkest midnight purple.  However more often with male models I keep the nails nude without any nail polish on them, and just make sure the nails are short, clean and filed neatly.

That's all for creating a groomed make-up look on men!

'Live Fashion IV' video of Anoosh photo shoot around London.

'Live Fashion IV' video of Anoosh fashion photo shoot filmed around London

Watch the filming of a fashion photo shoot, filmed/photographed around London, where I did the make-up on the following clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5HZnrR0SHzo.  I love it!  :-)

Photography/Filming: Dan Harley (http://www.facebook.com/dan.harley.16),
Clothes: Designed by Anoosh Naghibi (http://www.Anoosh.co.uk & http://www.facebook.com/Anoosh.co.uk),
Models: Tarcha Peters (http://www.facebook.com/TarchaPeters), Keeana Kee (https://www.facebook.com/Keeana.Kee) & NaSeem Kasmaie (https://www.facebook.com/SHaVasYa).