Mika Ninagawa holiday collection burst with bold and vibrant colors. Her makeup collection gives you beautiful bright colors for the eyes, lips and nails this season. Mika is a Japanese photographer and film director. Each limited edition eye shadow palettes are designed with a one of a kind artistry pictures that Mika herself had taken. There are three eye color palettes; Secret Luscious Rose, Adorned Marguerite, and Midnight Winter Sakura (my fave). Each palette includes seven pressed eye shadows and one easy to spread cream liner.
I also like Mika limited edition mini lip gloss. The gloss set colors; Seductive Gerbera which has gold, pink, and wine red. The mini gloss trio set all comes with an exclusive portable cosmetic soft vinyl pouch.
The mini trio limited edition eye pencils color comes in a set of three; deep blue, burgundy brown, and full black.
This collection also has four Shu Umeura brushes that come in a red portable carry kit designed also by Mika Ninagawa. The brushes in this set are; A natural goat brush for the face, a natural pony and squirrel brush for the cheeks, a natural sable and kolinsky brush for eyes, and a natural sable brush for lips.
Watch a behind the scenes video of Photographer Mika Ninagawa at work. This is what I love the most about doing makeup; the energy, the rush, and just working with so many talented people. Its long hours and a lot of work but at the end seeing your work in magazines, stores, makeup counters, and blogs is so worth it.
There is a hidden gem located in “The Big Easy”. Celebrity Makeup Artist Brandy Gomez-Duplessis. Brandy may not be a native New Orleanian, but this tough skinned east coaster has always loved makeup. She flirted with makeup, hair, and fashion as a young girl and this was something that kept her occupied being an only child. Because her parents are from Honduras she felt that they didn’t understand her hunger for beauty and fashion She watched old classic Hollywood movies and read fashion magazines (with Vogue being her favorite) and what she loved was seeing women looking beautiful, polished, perfectly combed hair, lots of lashes with red lip stick, and lots of gorgeous gaudy jewelry. Many days Brandy would go to the thrift stores and then walk to Mood Designer Fabrics go home, lock herself in her room to redesign the items she purchase. She would take all of her ideas and sketch figures and faces. Her favorite looks made it to her walls. Her walls were covered in collages of drawings, tear sheets, and articles not knowing that she was creating a personal look book.
