Glitter lip on stylist Laura Chatterton who appeared in our homepage shoot.
It’s Xmas and you party party party a different outfit for every night, high heels and your fur or leathers on. Now what about your face! No one really enjoys doing the same thing all the time right? It’s sheer convenience… so why not try something different if it’s easy as 1 2 3 and doesn’t mean you’ll be stuck in front of the mirror for an extra 2 hours trying to get it right.
What is she talking about, you may ask? Glitter lips! I’m not thinking glossy or matte I’m thinking glittery lips that will entice even savoury lovers.
The best way to go about it is choose a color you’re used to I’d say purple, red, bronzed orange etc. Make sure your lips are nicely exfoliated, now you don’t have to go buy a fancy lip exfoliant, all you need is some trusty Pawpaw or our your preferred lip balm and an old toothbrush or disposable mascara wand. Once they’re smooth as a baby’s bum bum (doesn’t have to be done on the same night) move on to the next step.
Line your lips all over with a slightly paler color than the lip color you chose as the glitter will cover it all anyways and any gaps will be filled with lip liner color giving a more 3d effect.
Using a domed brush a little thicker than a lipbrush pat the glitter on to your lips starting from the centre and working your way up and out.
It is completely up to you how far you want to take it… keep it light or just in the centre or go all over. I suggest smaller glitter pieces stay on best but chunky glitter is more drama for the best selection of glitters pop by Charles Fox http://www.charlesfox.co.uk/.
To finish it off tidy up around your lips using surgical tape which will remove the excess glitter not the makeup.
Photo by Keith Clouston, make-up by Stephanie G-M, model Giorgia m&p models
So I think these are pretty cool although I hate diet coke – full fat all the way baby. Kath drinks it like it’s going out of fashion. These are a collaboration between make-up brand Modelsown and Diet Coke. The colours have been inspired by the Diet Coke colour theme and the best thing about them is they’re free with every 500ml bottle of coke purchased at Boots stores until Dec 27th. I just wish they were twist up Coke cans. I hope they taste like the real deal, that’s half the fun of lip-gloss. Fizzy.
Officially my favorite shoot of the year. This one’s stuck to our studio wall. I don’t know what happened to the girl with the jet black hair and the all black uniform but somewhere along the way this year I surprised myself and became colourful but not in a refined colour-block way. The socks in this shoot are from Tabio and are on my christmas list in a few colours. As far as I’m concerned they’re the ONLY socks to be seen in for SS12.
Barbie’s always been cool. There was a bit of a Pepsi/Coke war going on in the 80’s between Barbie and her arch nemesis Cyndi. Cyndi was always a bit fatter and her feet were kinda numpty. She also had a really big head so Barbie won in my book. I think Barbie was more expensive too which made her more desirable. She’s never been more desirable since Bleach gave her a make-over for the party season. I bet Cyndi’s decked out in a Dorothy Perkins shift dress with a bodywave.
Gareth Pugh brings his Gothic geometry to Mac just in time for Christmas. With a collection including stealthy looking lashes and all our Mac staples cream shadows, lipglass, polish and even a make-up bag we’re sure we’ll be seeing this one on girls and a probably few boys we know over the next few weeks. Personal favorites are the oil slick nail polish shades and the heavily pigmented shadows – I’m a big MAC eyeshadow fan, cranberry’s my favorite, looks kinda vampirish with ice blue eyes. The packaging is beautifully designed. Nice tings, nice tings available now from MAC.co.uk.
I’ve been a fan of 3D nail-art since visiting Tokyo a couple of years back. It’s kind of like icing a cake only it’s your nails. I’ve never actually iced a cake but I’ve made Disco Biscuits so that’s probably close enough.
Whilst in Guangzhou in southern China we found a little nail shop opposite our hotel and so in the spirt of “now or never” I went with know and got some 3D smilies and bows which are all hand crafted in acrylic by the manicurist.
The girl who did my nails had neon tips which were pretty cool and her friend who taught me how to count to 10 in Chinese had the little blingers below. I’ve since forgotten how to count to ten in Chinese.
Right beside our hotel we had Guangzhou’s answer to Emporio Armani – Amor Nini. Dead posh.
In aid of tonight’s party I’ve gone to town on my nails with NailsbyAma who’s going to be our resident nail artist at the event. We worked out a few ideas and decided it’s all about unisex statement nails. I had mine done a couple of weeks back with big studded cross(there literally is nothing we won’t stick studs on) so that’ll be one of the options along with Minx Holograms, Matt/Gloss Black, a selection of colours and Bitchy decals..
I’ve always had a thing for nail piercings so Ama kindly sourced a cross charm especially for me.
I remember having a lecture about Nagi Noda a couple of years ago and I recently came accross her work again. I think its so cool, completely original and so creative! She also does lots of other work including book covers, music video’s, art and design. My favourite is definitely the afro dog, second to last picture…maybe thats because I secretly wish I had afro hair! Hope you enjoy!
When I was a kid I loved dressing up. My mum had this mental 80’s palette of eye-colours and I clearly remember practising that 80’s rainbow eye on my little sister, copied from the pages of Vogue.
I’m really excited by all the colour in hair and make-up at the moment. It’s such a contrast to all the scandi and far eastern inspired minimalism and the big “How to look good Bored” trend.
By now you’ll all have seen Jessie J’s jewel encrusted lips. Artist Paige Thompson takes it to another level painting animals round her mouth represented in various emotional states. Probably not going to be backed by Boots but I can certainly think of at least one persons who’s lips and persona are big enough to fit the bill.
Centre partings were all over the Spring Summer catwalks…and everywhere else, which I am loving! Its such a laid back and easy style that always makes you look effortless and cool, even if you’ve done nothing to your hair! Lucky for me too as I have a natural centre parting that wont let me do much else! haa. What do you think? Will you be rocking the centre parting?
There’s a warm cool shit scene blowing in from the East and I think we might be looking at a K Pop explosion. Kpop is a South Korean music genre that swept through the country in the early 90’s and continues to dominate the music scene. In terms of looks, styling, slick and shiny these kids have got it nailed. I’ve been lucky to visit Seoul on a number of occasions and I rate it as one of my favorite cities in the world along with Tokyo, Berlin, Barcelona, YC and of course our home town LDN.
2NE1 is a girl band at the forefront. They’re poppy, fun, cute, cheeky and sexy but in an innocent way that teenage girls should be. There’s nothing innocent however about the shiny cellophane designer vacuum pack – we’re loving the Jeremy Scott and our very own Kokon To Zai packaging.
I’ve watched this about 5 times.
Gaga’s production borrowed Japanese and Korean TV show references for the Telephone video. I think we’re gonna see a lot more of these to counter balance European minimalism.
I’ve written about the far East’s influence on trendsbefore, how Eastern youth culture takes western references, tweaks, saturates and hyperbrights them to sell them back to us 3 seasons later. Nice little game of trend tennis we got going on. Game, set and match KPop.
Oh yeah and…..we’ve just had our AW of Kokon To Zai.
So here’s how it works. Trend starts in Tokyo, fashion forecasters go to Tokyo snap it, high-street copies trend too soon, trend doesn’t sell, trend goes into mark-down, directional buyer casts head down in shame for having bought “dog” of the season, trend goes back underground and naturally filters through on street trends, 3 seasons later trend is deemed “commerical” by high-street and sells.
I know this becuase I’m an ex-buyer and designer and I was Queen of “too soon” . I picked up on this trend on a visit to Tokyo 2 and a half years ago – luckily at that point I was a senior designer so I didn’t have to hang my head in shame – some poor buyer did. “Oh dear” my bad, sorry. Anyway I think we’re finally ready for scrunchies on the streets – the Japanese are just incredible. They’re all over something seasons ahead of us – they’re bonkers, my kind of bonkers. Me likey, me lovey. It seems to be the natural progression for the top-knot.
American Apparel – I think this girl is slightly OCD.
As seen at Marc Jacobs SS10 – I think it looks cute. I just wish my hair was long enough. FAIL.
