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Where do I begin this mail?…Mmmm perhaps I could start with the fact that highlight is like the biggest deal now in makeup application. It's become truly the highlight of the whole application process.

We now live in a makeup world where under centre brightening is a focus in makeup styling and, dare I say it but information technology appears to me that this is the "Millennial's " offering to an eras makeup styling.

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So to be sure one gets the maximum effect in highlighting in my interpretation is a two step procedure. Best scenario a highlighter pen and a wisp of some glorious shimmery pressed pot, mineral or baked powder.

Hither'south my review for M•A•C's Prep + Prime Highlighter. At present lets be perfectly clear several companies now have highlighter pens that are besides designed to act equally a highlighter.

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Here I have 3 colors, (waiting on the 4th color, Radiant Rose) I take

Light Boost
Bright Forecast
Peach Lustre

The highlighter comes in this convenient click pen dispenser. I similar how you can control the liquid production inside the confines of the pen and brush with a cap peak to preclude leaking spills. Only i drawback to all products that have this style of packaging is that y'all have to twist and click a couple of rounds before the product comes gushing out!

One time the product is out it's perfect! Love the fact that you get so much product in this pocket-size slender pen. Delight notation that it's 3.6 ml or 0.12 ounces which I think is quite ample for only a highlighter. And trust me on this one, a little goes a long way!

Some other note, you've gotta work speedily when applying this product because it tries quickly and sets in identify for extended wear!! Y'all can use information technology over or under your foundation. I wouldn't attempt to build this product up too much because its kinda opaque and may non look expert with another layer added ontop.

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My favorite of the 3 is Brilliant Forecast for certain! Okay now, all three have a shimmer to them and are quite lovely only the Vivid Forecast to me has the most noticeable shimmer of the 3 and I simply adore this one. It's like a pink/golden color, it'southward a keeper! Only drawback in this color is information technology's the in betwixt color which means information technology may be too dark for lighter complexions and as well light for darker complexions.

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I too feel like these pens colors can be versitile for use every bit a blusher or blush transition color. Yous can always add more than shimmer with a shimmery pulverisation as I'd previously suggested.

This product seems to be water resistant likewise. When I last used it, information technology stayed on for about 10 hours without retouching and was all-time removed by an oil based makeup remover. Overall I exercise like this product again for several reasons. This one will also go a staple in my Pro Kit!

Grand•A•C Prep + Prime Highlighter is sold for $26.00.
http://www.maccosmetics.com/product/shaded/153/15746/Products/Eyes/Primer/Prep-Prime-Highlighter/index.tmpl

Written past NZINGHA for ZFACEINC,nyc

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If you are wearing TOO MUCH MAKEUP …honey boo boo; yous're in drag makeup!

Ok let me get right into information technology straight no chaser manner. Women …only were are yous going with all that makeup on? I'm serious and aye, I am a Makeup Artist and dearly love makeup and what I can do with it and the fine art of makeup merely, seriously; at that place is a fine line between well executed makeup and showtime!!!

And I will likewise say this the whole concept of "drag" is the act of men dressing as women. And lets exist clear not just any adult female but its normally women that are superstar celebrity status women. Not the everyday 9-5 girl, no doll…information technology's the women who are dramatic, bugle bead gown wearing women who have the current of air blowing in their hair when at that place isn't a cakewalk to feel!!!

The concept of drag is the illusion of the perfectly coiffed woman; daily coiffed woman. Most real women exercise not feel like being coiffed all the time because it does accept time, work and 💲💲💲💲! Now let'due south be clear at that place are some women who live in the realm of the consistently coiffed, but they spend nigh of their life's concentration on how it all appears. The down side to that is never have a bad day, never get sick and never have whatever of life'southward dilemmas! The man in your life volition always expect the illusion and you lot will have to come with nothing less than stellar…all the time!

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Women you lot are dragging when you are a hyper version of yourself. Your eyebrows are clear up to your hairline, your lips are fashion overdrawn (and usually made larger than they are;this does non apply to black women considering your lips usually are already total), you're wearing 4 sets of false eyelashes on ane eye! You lot are doing a lot! This wait is usually for stage performances where lighting techniques assistance to soften the look and make it more natural looking. This was not made for your everyday walking downwards the street with no fabulous lighting to cover-up gradient lines. At that place is a fine line.

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Some women come up with a natural subtle softness to their faces and this is illusion of subtlety is recreated by men in drag by the apply of contouring the face up and the hiding or complete removal of facial hair (some of us women have facial hair gone wild as well). The employ of vibrant colors is seemingly always equated with drag makeup (although everyone loves colors and makeup manufactures sell them and Makeup Artists use them).

You know you're dragging women when a professional Makeup Artist has to sit you in their chair to properly blend your makeup, clean upward that eyeliner or declump that mascara!!! Female impersonators loved doing Tammy Faye Baker because well-nigh times she did her ain makeup (you can tell the deviation from her hand to a professionals hand)

At present I volition say most Professional Makeup Artists take done elevate makeup before and possibly all the time (that being their style and the fashion they see everyone). I personally know some Makeup Artists all the but way of makeup they know how to do is drag makeup and that same drag style goes on anybody'due south confront no matter who they are or how individual the woman is.

Have I washed drag makeup before? Sure take! And more than once! It takes a certain kind of woman with a certain kind of persona to take on drag makeup and that woman is usually super confident. Just that makeup has to be well composite considering a adult female usually naturally has a softness to her face then heavy contouring and coloring tin easily exist a miss. My quondam client Lil' Kim was my drag makeup daughter but, I always insisted on the best photographers and lighting for her looks for example this photo shoot below. Here she was shot by Lensman David LaChappelle for the cover of VIBE Mag (1999).

My makeup sketch for Lil' Kim for the cover of VIBE Magazine

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Oh and yes this is a secret weapon, not so cloak-and-dagger anymore…Face Tapes!!! Face tapes gives 1 the illusion of a sculpted up and out look. Creating a diva look where the brow goes upwards and out toward the hairline. Some women like the face tapes because its a non committal way to take a face lift without the plastic surgury.

Face tapes to get a lifted look

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And in endmost I must say this to the women who are on Instagram and YouTubers just in case yous didn't know , uuuuh yous're wearing drag makeup everyday, that's a lot for a existent everyday girl and it tin be a bit scary. Catamenia. If yous're non on stage equally a performer you should tone it down or blend a whole lot improve than what I'm seeing.

The End….?

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