CATHERINE FLEMING MAKE-UP

In my last blog post I had a couple of photos from the making of our “Lashes and Flashes” makeover photo shoot video. Well, after a day’s shooting and two days editing here is the finished video.

I just managed to get a couple of photographs this week of my make-ups unfortunately and there were quite a few other “saturday slap” beauties that dodged the camera or were running late.

You’ve probably seen Donna before on my blog as Donna owns The Boudoir just across the cobbled streets from us and so I’m very lucky to have the opportunity to do Donna’s make-up quite  a lot as Donna and her sister Anita, who I also regularly do make-up for, have such a great social life and such an interesting life compared to my own, big sobs onto the keyboard ….Someday though I reckon when they open their The Boudoir II in Milan or Monte Carlo they’ll fly me out as their personal make-up artist just like my Gary was in Milan with Tamara Ecclestone at the weekend…..a girl can dream

Donna is the current Tyrone Rose in the Rose of Tralee and was on official duties this day I did her make-up. As Donna’s dress was pink I also used a soft pink eyeshadow on Donna’s lid and smoked it into the socket line and underneath with a deep purple which is really not visible in this photograph unfortunately that I grabbed on Donna’s way out the door. In the inner lower lash line I used a Laura Mercier cream eyeliner to open Donna’s eyes and give her a bright eyed and girly look. Such a beautiful “rose” Donna!

Catherine had her make-up done for going out on a The Only Way Is Essex themed night. When she sent me the message to book in for this make-up I was sooo excited as I love The Only Way is Essex, saddo that I am! My favourite is Lydia as I love her pale skin and vintage look. 

For Catherine’s look it was just obligatory to slap on the slap as is appropriate for any proper glam Essex girl. Well defined brows, dark eyes with the dark lashes etc etc. We really could’ve gone way bigger on the lashes but Catherine was deciding to keep a bit of decorum and normally doesn’t wear anywhere near this amount of make-up so she was brave to go with even half this amount. She really really suited it though!

This is a photo of Catherine from Facebook (she let me use) and a couple of her friends looking “well reem” as TOWIE girls! (hope that man in the background’s not doing something he shouldn’t!) And unfortunately you can’t see the Kurt Geiger shoes she wore.

I know the next bit isn’t technically Saturday Slap but I’m so excited about shooting (very edgy “in” word!) our video for Lashes and Flashes  and thought I’d include a couple of photos I took yesterday on my phone. We took the whole day to “shoot” the video of what a Lashes and Flashes makeover photoshoot experience is all about and will hopefully have it up on Facebook, websites, studio etc within the next week or so. The video includes the models (Gemma and Maurade) having their hair styled at David Graham Hairdressing, me doing the make-up and then the photo shoot in the studio with Nigel. It was a great day and everyone involved was so professional, patient and great craic. I can’t wait to see the final cut, as they say in the business! BAFTA’s here we come….

This is a very quick blog as a friend of mine, who is also a make-up artist, text me last night to ask me what was the lipstick I use all the time! So here it is  – “Latino” by Rimmel.

The reason I love this lipstick so much is the colour , as it really does suit everybody. It’s a gorgeous corally pink and has a creamsheen texture. So if you want to buy a great lipstick for your make-up bag get this one.

As you know I ran a competition in the autumn last year to find a new name for my Saturday blog. I had, in the spur of the moment one day, entitled photos of my Saturday make-ups on my blog, “Saturday Slap”. My posh friend Gail had mentioned that it wasn’t very befitting or classy for my also sometimes quite “posh” clients to come to have their make-up expertly and professionally applied to be categorised as “Saturday Slap”

Well, the reason, to be honest I hadn’t yet announced a winner was down to a couple of reasons. The first being that coming up to Christmas and over the New Year I was really busy with make-ups and just didn’t have the opportunity to really get as many photographs of my make-up clients as I’d have liked. The second reason being that I did have quite a few entries of which I’m really grateful and have had them running round my head for months now. Some of the really good ones were “Saturday Sparkles”, “Saturday Showcase”, “Saturday Blushers” (one of my favourites), “Saturday X Factor”, “Saturday Stars”, “Beauty and the Blog”,”Make Up SOS” SOS meaning “Secrets On Saturday” (another favourite of mine).

But I hadn’t quite got my head round any of these and kept coming back to “Saturday Slap” as I do really like the fun and cheeky edge to it So on Sunday I had a late entry and I have to say I loved it straight away! So here is the winner and the new name for my Saturday blog:-

“Saturday Slap Shots” by Victoria Dailly

I know it’s a bit of a cheat but I really do like my wee creation of Saturday Slap so this way,as Victoria quite rightly pointed out, I get to keep my brand but just add the “Shots” bit which relates to our photography side of the business – brilliant!

Victoria has won a make-up application and of course a “shot” and is hoping to come in for this in the next month or so when she is back from Scotland where she currently lives. Really looking forward to meeting her and having her photo on my newly entitled blog as named by Victoria

Thank you once again for all your suggestions and please don’t hesitate to get in touch about anything make -up related.

***WINNER UPDATE*** – WINNER FOR NEW NAME FINALLY CHOSEN FOR MY SATURDAY BLOG – more to follow in a separate blog!

I had a gentle reminder today that I haven’t done a Saturday Slap blog and haven’t re-named it either after running my competition Things were just so crazy coming up to and over Christmas and the new year that I was flat out working from one appointment to the next on Saturdays with no time in-between for photos. We were also busy trying to brand our “Lashes and Flashes” and finally got the logo finalised and our Facebook page up and running this week. Here’s the link https://www.facebook.com/LashesandFlashes So look out for all the brilliant makeovers of girls having their hair done, make-up done and then a photoshoot, be it a professionally captured headshot or a full on photo shoot. Either way what a great present and a great thing to have done if you’re heading out.

So this blog is a mixture of some “Saturday Slap” and a few “Lashes and Flashes ” too through the week that I do have some photographs from. I was working until 6.30 pm last night doing my last make-up so the three girls at the end of the day I don’t have photos of unfortunately, as all three (Edel, Donna and Anita) of them looked gorgeous going out the door.

The first photo is of Rachael, who’s aunt Mairead, bought her having her make-up done for her 14th birthday, lashes and all! What a great aunt, I never had aunt’s as good as that when I was 14 and used to experiment a lot in my mum’s make-up which was Mary Quant in those days and on my Girl’s World (please message me if you had a Girl’s World or who or what you practised your make-up on!)

Rachael wanted good definition round her eyes and when she was in the studio saw a photo of a girl with lots of glitter and loved it so we decided to add some sparkle at the end (Jemma Kidd Crushed Jewel Eye Duo). Her lipstick is “Up the Amp” by Mac, one of my favourites. Her three friends and her mum who came with her give her lots of stick while she was having her make-up done but I think were all secretly jealous and did comment that she looked flawless…

And the lovely Bridget. Bridget is normally behind the scenes doing the hair for our photoshoots but yesterday it was her turn to be pampered as she was going to a wedding. She had her hair set in rollers with David Graham (where she works) and then came over to me for her make-up. She was wearing a red dress to the wedding so we went for a classic red lips, gold eye make-up look which she absolutely suited down to a T (I never really understood that saying – “down to a T”??) Bridget looks like she could be in Downton Abbey on a Sunday evening Lipstick is “Ruby Woo” by Mac and eyeshadow is “Woodwinked”, one of my favourite gold eyeshadows also by Mac. I also treated her to some By Terry Rose de Rose liquid blush and finished with good eyebrows and contouring. The second photo is of Bridget with her mother-in-law who also had her hair and make-up done for going to the wedding and loved the wee bit of pampering too.

Sara’s mum bought her her “Lashes and Flashes” makeover present and she came in for her pampering with so many gorgeous clothes and shoes I secretly wanted to forget the make-up and start trying everything on! How confident and fantastic does Sara look after hair and make-up and posing for the camera. Nigel always gives loads of direction for what to do in front of the camera so never feel nervous or intimidated if you’ve booked a “Lashes and Flashes” makeover photo shoot, you will love it!

Anne-Louise’s husband Colin (who I’ve known nearly all my life since sitting behind him in P1 and went right through to the same A-Levels with!) bought her a “Lashes and Flashes” makeover experience as part of her Christmas present. She is such a lady and I really enjoyed doing her make-up after Bridget of David Graham Hairdressing did her hair. We both have a common love of The Argory, where I walk my two dogs every day (completely nothing to do with make-up!) and it was brilliant seeing her enjoy her whole afternoon to herself being to made special before going for dinner, what a great present Colin.

And finally, but definitely not least is Lizie. Lizie is the “daughter-in-law” of my friend Gail i.e. she had been going out with Gail’s son Stuart for five years or so and I’ve heard so much about how gorgeous Lizie is so it was a total pleasure spending a good chunk of yesterday with her as she is totally gorgeous inside and out. The rest of her photos are brilliant, keep an eye out for more photos of Lizie and Sara on our Facebook page.