Deserted my blog (once again...)

Hey all i know i've deserted the blog once again but things have been really hectic, life's changing alot at the moment (hopefully for the better :) ) but i promise i will be back sometime in January with (hopefully) a big suprise! So watch this space!.... Wish u all a fun and happy holidays! <3

Love love love!!

Just stumbled across taeyung's english version of wedding dress, love it so much simply because I can now understand it lol! check it out, check out the original video in korean too! it's really sad...

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Products of the month...

Ok here's  a mini-review on some products that I'm loving this month...

Maybelline's Volum' Express Lift up mascara...

I really love this mascara, especially because it's a drugstore mascara, as an asian girl, my lashes aren't so thick and long, but with two coats of this mascara they're much more noticeable, they appear much more thicker than with some mascara I have used. In my opinion, I'd say it's kind of similar to Lancome's Virtuose mascara, which I also rate!

Before

After (without lash curlers)

DiorSkin Nude: Natural Glow Fresh Powder Make up with Spf 10...

A really gorgeous light and sheer powder, leave my skin really smooth, I like to put it on with just a primer underneath on a normal day for a natural look, at £32 I expect it to be a good product anyway!

                                          

MAC's frost lipstick in Angel...

Possible my favourite lipstick in my possesion at the moment, been using this since the winter, and I still havn't grown tired of the colour! A cute pale(ish) pink colour, which does not make my lips dry at all. Most probably will re-purchase The last picture does not show the acurate colour it looks lot more darker in the picture for some reason...

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I'm still alive!

Hey all! I know I've abandoned the blog for some time now, but I'm back, and I've a huge load of things to blog about, all will be slowly put up the next few days.

I thought I'd share some images from my uni work, two are from a beauty shoot, and the other a fashion shoot, all was my concept and styling, I done some of the editing but most was done by my boyfriend. Two of my gorgeous friends modelled for me, check it out!

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Summer Nails!

I'm never without nail polish on my fingers, especially in the summer, the bolder and brighter, the better! Here's two of many colours that I'm loving for the summer : Orly's Mint Mojito and Spark...

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OOTD..

Today I went to visit the boyfriend, it was a rainy so i got out my boots! I love those relaxed days where u just dont bother too much about make up n looking perfect!

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White loose top - Topshop

Grey Vest - H&M

Belt - Levi's

Leggings - H&M

Boots - Zara

Bag - Primark

I didn't have any make up on except for Mac's lipstick in Angel...

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Burberry Beauty..

I'll admit it, i've been an admirer of Burberry for a long time, maybe it's an oriental thing, i don't know, but i guarantee you, you'll always find oriental people in front of the till at your nearest Burberry counter!

Moving away from us asians' infactuation with the label, Burberry has now launched their own make-up line, which i believe will be on sale from the 12th July at Harrods, and is also available in the US through Nordstrom.

I'm really keen to check out the products, through little googling, i found that the colour range is mainly neutral yet classic, n the make-up is quite sheer and natural looking, think 'effortlessly elegant' like how the models look in their ad campaigns.











I love the packaging and how it all looks so luxurious yet up to date. I also LOVE the embossing on the actual make-up especially in the lipsticks, I think I may have to purchase one just because it looks so prettyful! What do you guys think about the range?

Dermalogica

I recieved a dermalogica 'skin rescue set' a couple months back as a magazine subcription gift. It's a really good set of products, although they're not full sized versions, they will still last a good couple of months.

Products included in the set are:
Daily microfoliant (a gentle exfoliator)
Skin hydrating mask
Multi-Active toner
Skin hydrating booster
Total eye care spf15



Overall all, I'd say the set was okay, it does it's job in cleaning your face from all the grease and make-up after a busy day, but it didn't leave my skin soft and supple as my normal cleansing routine does.

The microfoliant is in a powder form in which you put on a wet face, it cleared the skin well,
the skin hydrating mask left me feeling abit disapoint to be honest, it didn't do what it say it's supposed to do and my skin didn't feel really hydrated and soothed.
The toner I really like, it's in a bottle with a spray pump, in which you spritz all over your face and leave to dry, it's really refreshing, definatly something i'd consider purchasing.
The skin booster works by squeezing a few drops of it with your normal moisturizer onto your skin and smooth in, I havn't noticed difference to my skin since using it, so not so sure if it works,
and the final one, the eye cream, it has spf 15 which is a must for eyes. I quite like this cream, it feels nice and i guess it does the job! Although this product is my first eye cream that i've used so i can't really compare how good it is with other eye creams....

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The start of something beautiful?

Hey guys, if your reading this, then i'd like to say thanks for checking out my blog! Moving on, there's a long summer lying for me so i thought i'd focus on this blog, I promise you there will be...
beauty product reviews,
fashion news and reviews,
hauls,
random posts on food :),
and anything else that i feel worthy of sharing...

ENJOY!
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Finished!!

I've just finished writing my overview, and hope that you can understand it... Im really pleased with the results we have, because I didn't think we were capable to film and edit what we have to be honest. I've learnt so much in this project and hope and we'll be able to use blogs again in the future projects!!! :D

Press Release...

I worked on my Press release today, initially I decided to make a pretend launch of Louise gray's clothes at Dover St Market, but I'm not too sure if we could do that, and if we have to do a press release on the actual real screening event that will take place at uni. So I've done both and will put both into the disk to hand in ( just to let you know)....

YAY!! Last day of EDITING!!

Today's thursday. We met up in the afternoon, to finish the film. We decided to choose Danny Elfman's soundtrack for Edward Scissorhands for our film, because it went well with the footage and projected a nice and sweet mood overall. While Laura was in the events lecture, I tried putting the song into our film, however it was taken from Laura's laptop and was saved as a wma format, which couldn't be read in final cut pro. So we called one of the great I.T technicians, he was so helpful. After 10 minutes of downloading various file converters and being unsuccesful changing the format... He managed to change it into a quicktime format. After I successfully put in the song and had it rendered, me and Claudia looked on the internet on how to do add the credits page to the end, because we were unsure. After finding out how to do it, I managed to put it in, while feeling proud of what I acomplished, final cut pro FROZE!!! And we didn't save what we had done so far that afternoon!! So we had to restart the mac, and add in the audio and credits again. But because I knew what to do, it only took ten minutes to put it all back in. I then, cut down the song, so the beginning matched the film's start and cut the rest of the end and faded out the song. Job DONE!! With that all done, I can now focus on the press release and evaluation! RESULT!! :D

Another Day of EDITING...

Today's Wednesday. We spent half of the day on the film, putting more clips in and stuff. I thought it would be good to slow certain parts down and I found that putting the cross fade effect between clips work really well. Slowly we're getting there!! We just need to add in the music, title and credits page and do a last check and adjustment tomorrow...

More EDITING...

Today, I had my pilot dissertation presentation, then after, I met up with the girls to continue editing the film. It went well, Laura done quite abit of it while I was in my presentation. And thought what we had was looking quite good so far. Claudia volunteered to take over and edit, so that she can do her part to help, but in her own words, "computers don't agree with her". So I thought it would be best if I sat and guided her through it...

David LaChapelle...

Im a huge fan of photographer David La Chapelle's work, I especially admire the use of colour and the props and locations in his work. I came across this particular image with Christina Aguilera shot for Vogue and thought the background colours and details remind me of the circus / clown theme we're going with, although it is completely different to our work, it's still a good reference to show ... :)

Edit Edit Edit!!

Today, all three of us meet up to started working on the final edit of our film, after playing around with some bits, we showed Olle and Geraldine. They seemed pleased with what we had so far and were content with the overall look, so that made me glad, that we were doing something right. However, we uploaded the "bad" clown footage and tried adjust them, but we felt that the footage from that concept didn't work at all with our main "nice" clown. It was hard to edit it and add it to the main footage so that it would blend in with the rest of the film. Geraldine was also unsure about the footage of the "bad" clown we shot. So at the end we decided that we weren't going to use it as it doesn't look right with the rest of what we got. We also think that the film of the "nice" clown works and looks ok on its own, without beginnings and ends.

Evil Clown!!

Today we shot some footage which will hopefully go into our film as the beginning and end. We thought we'd use a crazy clown to contrast the main "nice" clown. We were unable to get our original model because she had lesson, so Laura volunteered and I filmed and done the make-up. Laura was suprisingly really good at being "disturbing and wierd", Laura, Claudia and I were qutie pleased with the footage that we got, but I'm quite worried about how we would edit it so that it works with the rest of the film as it is quite different in the look and mood entirely. Fingers crossed!!...


Me sorting out Laura's Wig...


Final Look, Creepy!!

On to the next one please!!

I saw this on e4 today and thought that the "clown" in the video would be a great reference for the make-up of our bad clown. The song is called "on to the next one" and it's Jay-Z's lastest song relaese. It a huge difference to what his videos used to be, however I liked the concept of the video what ever that may be... It was unusual, and didn't have a story or relate to the song words, however the clown caught my eye because I feel like I've been breathing, eating and sleeping clowns recently. The clown is the video is obviously distressed and distrurbed about something and judging by the make-up he would not be a "nice and sweet" clown like our Beca is.


I really like the style of make-up!!

Hey crazy!!

It's the weekend, and while trying to think of something to put in the start of our film, Laura texted me with her idea of doing a crazy, messed up clown to be opposite of our sweet clown that we already had. I think it's something that could work. So I researched and thought that the Joker from 'The Dark Knight' (played by the amazing and greatly missed Heath Ledger) would be a great inspiration for make-up as well as the disturbing wierdness of it all. Im looking forward to filming this! :)

"The Greatest Show on Earth"

This is a shoot for the April 2007 issue of Vogue Italia, shot by well known Steven Miesel and features model Karen Elson. Although it has a very similar name and idea to the fashion story The Chicest show on Earth, it is very different and more playful. However I couldn't find out which story was created first. Although I like both fashion stories, I prefer Steven Meisel's one because the look and direction of the model works more with the background and set. It is more energetic and gives out a more positive mood than the other, also, it has more things going on, especially in the background.

Mid project reviews...

Today was the interim Reviews with Dennis and Geraldine. Watching a number of people present their work and ideas, I was suprised that not many had started filming or even done test shoots. So I was relieved that Laura, Claudia and I had done most of the filming already. There were a few film clips shown that I thought were really good. However there were also many that had great ideas but personally I can't see it working out how they wanted it.

When we presented our work, (Laura made a slide show of our ideas, inspirations and pictures from tests etc.) Dennis and Geraldine said that they did not like the beginning sequence at all, because it didn't represent Louise Gray, also it was too cheesy and clique. I personally agree with them, as I thought it was the weakest part of our film, but the girls seemed to love the whole falling asleep and "dreaming" thing so I went along with it hoping it worked out. However we then showed our main part of the film, where our model is dressed as a clown and she wonders pointlessly in the park. The tutors suprisingly liked the footage. I think they were suprised with themselves that they kind of liked it too! Geraldine liked Laura's camera work which was good because Laura was worried that it wasn't good enough. So overall, I think it went well, because I thought that the feedback would of been much worse. The only thing now is that we have to quickly think of a new idea for the beginning of the film. :)

Shoot Day!! Filming..

Overall the filming was a success! It was sooo cold and windy and we had to bring hot tea and a blanket for our model Beca, who was amazing and brave. Thankfully it was quiet and there was not alot of people around, which made it easier to film and was more comfortable for Beca to do what she had to do. We were really scared that the balloons would fly away but it was ok. My favourite part of the shoot was when she was on the tyre swing holding the camera and spinning. It gave a amazing spinning effect.



My favourite part!!(Below)

Shoot Day!! Location

Here are some pictures I took of the location during the day of filming...

Shoot Day!! Make up...

This is the final look I decided for the model's "clown" make up. For the test make up the face paint I used was really difficult to apply and did not come across white. So I bought another one for the shoot day. This was much better although it was also time consuming. I gave the model blue eyeshadow all over her eyelids and drew on higher eyebrows. I also drew on a smaller comic lip. I was quite proud of the results seeing as I've never done make-up for others before. :)

Vogue's Fashion Fantasy..

I found a shoot from Vogue's December 08, titled " Fashion Fantasy / Unbelievable Fashion" which showed quirky and unsual garments. It included sculptual pieces as well as pieces created by the latest technology. The reason I've blogged about this is because of the quirkyness of some of the looks. I also really like the way the models are placed and how they posed, which shows of the fabric and the movements of the garments. :)

Louise Gray AW 2010

Just looking on the net for relevant images and notes and saw Louise Gray's latest collection.

More balloons!

I came across this amazing photo shoot for Vogue China's April 2009 issue starring model Magdalena. Photographed by Solve Sundsbo, styled by Anastasia Barbieri. I loved the use of the balloons as props and I also loved the color effect on the images. AMAZING!

Ashish Autumn Winter 2009

I found Ashish's AW 09 collection really cool! The theme for the collection was also circus. But it had that quirky London coolness that is present in Louise Gray's designs too. Which is why I've decided to blog about it. The garments are bright clashing, and uber cool.