Ok.  Let's be honest.

I'm not amazingly good at keeping up with my blog.  2 post's in a year.  That's ok right?

Mostly because I'm not sure how to work it and make it user friendly.  But I'ma try and sort that stuff out.  But it's confusing business this Blogging and I'm still trying to work it out.

I shall endeavor to do better!  And if anybody out there on the big wide web has some tips they would like to share with me, I shell gladly receive it :)

I'd also love it if you could follow me on my Facebook page under my buiness name under "Alchemy Makeup Artistry"  I keep up to date with that, and post photos and updates all the time.
Go there and check it out!  Here's a link :)

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Alchemy-Makeup-Artistry/187982611270556

Super awsome mobile blog!

Actually this is just a test, but there are great things to come! New videos and tuts -might even do some reviews of products iv tried that I like/don't like. Sounds niffty yes? Stay tuned! :) x

What's up?

So I've been out of the loop completely for a little while, and the reasons for this is that I am currently studying Diploma of Specialist Makeup Services. I am loving every second of it, and learning so much, but it is pretty full on.

On top of this I also hooked up with a fantastic Photographer whom I absolutely love to pieces and am so lucky and blessed to know. Her and the team have been doing a lot of shoots lately so, to the point that last month we were doing 2 shoots a week. Often the shoots start at 6.30 and will go until 2-3 in the morning and then I have to get up and go to school or work, so I have been totally swamped with School/work/photo shoots/homework and assignments, as well as helping out a friend with makeup for a short film she was shooting for part of her 3 year course. Busy busy, but totally loving it!

Would love to get back into blogging and youtubing but it may not be for a while. Would also really love for people to send me requests as I have a million ideas in my head, but no way I can work through them all, so if I know what people want, it will give me somewhere to start! Here is a quick look at some of the work I have done with Shami and the Caveboy crew.

Arg I had so many plans for more halloween looks this year, and I just haven't had time to do them!
I just started work (after moving back to Australia), its been about 3 months of not working since I left the UK (there was a lot of traveling and spending time with both my, and my partners folks in New Zealand before moving back here) and the it's taken it out of me.

So I am enjoying my new job, although there is sooo so much to learn, and I have had alot of homework and things to do after work, and I haven't had much time until now. I am starting to get the hang of things a lot more now, and now have more time to do things after work (and more energy! Do you know how much work takes out of you when you haven't worked for a while? I never did until now! I think that is the longest in my life I have been without a job since I left school haha)
That last few weeks I have been trying to organise all of my aplications and everything I need to apply for school next year (makeup school! Wish me luck! I am up to stage 3! what a mission haha)
Last week was devoted to sorting out my costume for myself and my boyfriend for the Boho Ball last weekend.
Sooooo *this* week I had planned to do as many more halloween tutorials as I could, and get some of the requests I had done .... and now I have been struck down with the lurgy!
I have spend 2 days in bed, and another off work, and everday after I got home I have gone straight to bed, and now the weekend is 2 days ago and I haven't had a chance to do anything!
I am so dissapointed with myself and I feel like I have been a let down.
So I am realllllly sorry, and I am really going to make an effort to set aside more time for any requests that I may get from now on, if I decide to do them.
Anyway I hope you all have a wonderful halloween anyway!
love and laughs,
Manda xx

Dark Giesha Luis Royo Inspired

Luis Royo has some dark and sometimes disturping images, but they are never the less very beauiful. A lot of his work features woman wearing not much, but they are often strone worrors.

A lot of them have strange body and serface peircings, and tattoos and markings as well. I think they are really beautiful though.

This is my take on one of the Dark Moon 2010 images. You can see the one I used above.

I don't know if that flash of read down the side was there, but I wanted to add it in, because other wise the look is very black and white. You can decide for youself what you would like to do. I think it would be cool to add a bit of red just above the eye and at the top of the brow from the arch to the end. That to me would give it more of a Maiko feel.

From the research I have done, Maiko tend to wear more red than a Geisha.
Products used:

Kryolan Super colour 001 (white)

Ben Nye Setting powder

Mac Painterly, Paint Pot

Coastal Sense 42 Matte shadow - White

Mac Shark Skin, Shade stick

Coastal Sense 42 Matte Shadow - Black

Urban Decay Zero 24/7 glide on eye liner

Coastal Sense 42 Matte Shadow - Red

Body Shop Brow and Liner kit, o2

Maybelline Liquid Liner

Rimmal London 024 Red Diva

Wet n Wild 508a

I really love this look.

Cheap Bites

One of my wonderful friends, loaned me the use of her neck for this one. Thanks Steph!

So as you may know, last year I did a video on how to do vampire bites using Nose and Scare Wax and fake blood. But not everyone can get those, so I was going to do a video on how to do the same look on the cheap.

I didn't have time to do it last year, so it was one of the first videos I filmed this year.

It's pretty easy to do, and I think for a night out it's probably better than using the nose and scare wax, because than can move throughout the night as the wax stays soft.

Products Used:

Eyelash From the cheapest set of lashes I could find.

In the top bite I used Raven Red by Revlon

In the bottom bite I used 508a by wet n wild

(you can't see clearly the difference it makes in the photo's though I'm affriad)

Liquid eyeliner by Revlon

All of the eye shadow I used where from my Coastal Sense, 42 matte and Blush Palette. I used a mix of different pinks, with a touch of yellow, and purple.

Red Diva 024 by Rimmal

A red lip gloss (I'm sorry I don't know the name, it is one that has been kicking around in my bag for a while and the name has warn off)

Any clear lip gloss on top.

Black Widow Spider Make-up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El562XGf_gk




Halloween look number One for 2010.
Acutally I wanted to do this look last year, but I just didn't have time.

Whatda ya think?

Hope you like it! You damn well better because it gave me the creeps to do it. When I had the lashes on under my eyes, I kept thinking there was something 8 legged on my face. And when then when I had to look for pic's of a black widow spider to put on my finger, I was kept feeling something crawling down my spine, and ever dark spot I saw I'd jump at. Hahaha I'm such a wuss! :D





Here's what I used:




Painterly paint pot by Mac


Red by Star Gazer


Vitamin E Face Mist, by Body Shop


Shark Skin, Shade stick by Mac


#40 (black) Loose Dust by Napoleon
A glitter Gel, or lip balm


Midnight Star by Splash mixed with some Red Sparks! by TKB (both glitters)


Brow and Liner Kit, 02 by Body Shop


Blacktrack fluidline by Mac


Lash Stiletto by Maybelline


Individual lashes




Spidery lashes!