Posts Tagged ‘Make-Up Blog’

LA TV Episode 6 CELEBRITY LOOK: Victoria Beckham Part 4 of 4

Friday, March 5th, 2010

Welcome to LA TV. This is our final episode of our four part series on how to create Victoria Beckams’s gorgeous make-up look.

After watching each episode, you will be more than confident to re-create the look yourselves. Get practicing on friends and family and impress them on the tricks of the trade from our fantastic make-up artist, Sarah Jane.

You can mix and match what you have learned from this episode with other fantastic tips from our LA TV series. Make sure to check them out and upgrade your make skills in minutes!

Professional Make-Up Palettes

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

_mg_0054Deep inside our make-up bags, every make up artist keeps some magic colours to save the day. When you’re working on a film-set or behind the scenes at a fashion show, you need to have the full range of colours and every shade under the sun. MAC have nearly twenty colours which you could call ‘brown’ for example – look here at the MAC eyeshadows and see if you can name them all! It’s a tough job but someone’s got to do it.

The easiest way to combine colours is to follow the experts’ advice and use palettes.

Did you ever hear the saying “No need to re-invent the wheel’? Well, that’s how we feel about palettes. Cinema Secrets is one of our favourite brands – you’ll love working with them, choose from foundation palettes and eyes on the Cinema Secrets website here or shop with us.   You can find colour collections for every occasion with Bobbi Brown here. Brides will love the Long Wear Eye Palette. And you’ll need some funky holders for all of that colour. Here at LA Make-Up we have everything you’ll need to start your make-up collection off; you can choose from two-colour cases, large artists’ palettes or palettes for eye shadow and blush together.

How do you store your powders and eye shadow?

LA Make-Up One Year Make-Up Specialist Course

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

LA Make Up AcadamyThe LA Make-Up tutors are always busy and we’re excited to tell you they will be even busier this year as we’re launching a One Year make-up Specialist Course. So many of our students love the Module 3 make-up course and have asked for more time so we’ve created this fab course for you.

You can read all about it on our website here. The course is really focused on developing your professional skills with lots of photoshoots and a spectacular end of year Graduation Show where our talents will be shown-off to their best advantage. The students will learn with our tutors and then travel out to work with clients under supervision. You could gain valuable experience with any of these great companies; Vodafone, Drury Communication, Samsung, Hot  Press, TV Now, RTE Guide, Confetti, TV3, RTE and TG4.

We’re covering every area of the make-up industry. Subjects include practical make-up sessions but also Special Effects, customer service, hair styling and airbrushing and lots more! Students will have plenty of time to develop their talents as the course runs from September to June over five days. We’ll kick off on September 20th


Places are limited so contact us at the Dublin studios – email and phone information here.

LA TV Episode 4 CELEBRITY LOOK: Victoria Beckham Part 2

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Episode 4 – Celebrity Look Victoria Beckham. Part 2 of 4

Welcome to LA TV. We have a step by step 4 part episode of how to recreate Victoria Beckham’s signature makeup look. Sarah Jane Wai O Flynn works her magic and shows us her step by step guide on how to recreate look with her top tips included so keep your eyes and ears peeled! Posh’s makeup is understated, unlike her skyscraper heels.

The focus is on healthy-looking skin, nude lips and dark, sultry eye makeup. Or for day, you can do Posh-inspired smoky eye makeup that’s lighter simply by switching to pencil liner and skipping mascara. When all else fails, reach for oversized sunglasses to look like Posh as they tend to hide a multitude of flaws.

Our beautiful model is, the face of LA Make-up, Sinead Kearney

Astrid Kearney and Elaine Prenderville at LA Make-Up

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

astrid-imageWe hope everyone survived Valentine’s Weekend in one piece; loved-up or otherwise! And we’ve got plenty of goodies to keep you happy at LA Make-Up this week if you missed out on the roses.

We are delighted to welcome Astrid Kearney and Elaine Prenderville to the Dublin studios this week. Astrid has been a freelance make-up artist for over ten years; you can see her fabulous work in Vogue, ID, ELLE and magazines like Conde Nast Traveller and Marie Claire. She’s definitely rocking the celebrity listings with Sienna Miller, Lulu Guinness and Lisa B queuing up for her services.  If any of you are planning on working in film, you can ask her about ‘Love Actually’ or ‘Trauma’. And Module Three make-up students working on historical make-up can get some tips thanks to her work on BBC programmes like ‘The Seven Wonders of Egypt, Greece and Rome’. You can read more on her website Astrid Kearney. She will be with us on Wednesday and Thursday February 17th and 18th.

If that isn’t enough for you, we also had one of our favourite editors; Elaine Prenderville from VIP Magazine in LA as our guest interviewer at LA Make-Up’s first 2010 ‘An Evening with..’ event, with Astrid Kearney. Elaine conducted an insightful interview that wowed the audience with great make-up and beauty tips.

Keep posted for the showreel & pics of the evening!