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If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’ll know I love eye shadow! Keeping in mind the concepts from yesterday, let’s take a closer look at eye shadow and the various ingredients we can add to get exactly what we want! Whiteness or opacity: To make a colour lighter, to cover up imperfections. Translucency:...
As part of the “what do you want to see on this blog” series, Mich suggested posts on mineral make-up! Thanks for the idea! I love making mineral make-up! I can get the colours I want in the intensity I want, and I don’t have to spend a fortune. When formulating any product, knowing your...
Finishing powder is a great way to get started on making mineral foundations because you can get a sense how much coverage you want. This is a very light coverage without colour intended to downplay such things as redness or broken capillaries and offer oil control. We’ll be using the following ingredients (and I’ll be...
Mineral make-up Wednesday has been postponed because I haven’t had time to work on new colour combinations because the once in a lifetime heat wave we’re experiencing in the Fraser Valley is keeping me out of the workshop and in my air conditioned room. Join me next week when we’ll start building some foundations, blushes,...
Colour changing, chameleon, or interference micas! What are these? They are micas that shift colours in the light, kind of a variation of the iridescent micas we played with in part 13. I’m going to look at two of these – ones I’ve actually used – but you can get dozens of these types of...