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How to make cosmetics
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How to tips make up
- Apply eye base to your lid eye base is the secret to keeping your shadow in place for hours. Without properly priming your lid first, your eyeshadow will likely end up a greasy line in your crease.
- Apply shadow. It's great to use a three-toned shadow and build from lids to brow. Allowing them to blend into each other like a rainbow is gorgeous, according to celebrity makeup artist Mally Roncal. Start with a light color that almost matches your lid. Sweep the color across the lid and up to your browbone. Follow with a medium color across your lid only. Build on this with a darker color in the crease. Blend the colors well.
- Follow with eyeliner Dark eyeshadows work great as eyeliners. Wet a slanted brush, then dip in a dark eyeshadow. Line eyes as close to the upper lashes as possible from the inner corner to the outer corner. Follow with liner on bottom eyes, but only line from the middle of the eye out. Smudge the bottom line with a Q-tip or your finger. You don't want a prominent line. For a smokey eye, use a brush to pat in a dark eyeshadow along the upper lid and below the lid. You don't want a stark line, instead you want to blend it so it's 'smudge-y.'
- Brighten your eyes with a highlighter This step involves only the inside part of the eye. With a gold or pink highlighter (white is too bright), draw a v-shaped shape that follows the inner corner of your eye from top to bottom. Blend with your fingers. This will help make eyes 'pop.'
- Highlight your brow Take the same highlighter and dab it on your browbone, concentrating on your mid-brow outward. Blend with your finger.
- Curl lashes An eyelash curler will make even long lashes look more gorgeous. For added effect, you can heat the curler under a blowdryer for a couple seconds. Test curler before applying to lashes because you could burn yourself.
- Apply mascara Place the wand of your mascara brush at the bottom of lashes and wiggle back and forth. Follow with another few sweeps of the wand. Apply to bottom lashes as well.
- Apply mascara Place the wand of your mascara brush at the bottom of lashes and wiggle back and forth. Follow with another few sweeps of the wand. Apply to bottom lashes as well.
How to make lipstick
To make lipstick from scratch, you will need to order a base. These bases come in the form of a yellowish paste and can also be used for lip glosses and medicinal lip balms. Beeswax and canuba wax can be combined to create a base, if you prefer. Canuba is a natural thickener. You will also need Vitamin E Acetate which is an anti-oxidant and protects lips against UV rays and has anti-aging properties. Castor oil is available in drug and health food stores and acts as an emollient. Mica pigments and frosts can be ordered along with the base and waxes and are available in every conceivable shade to create a matte finish or a frosty effect. Grapefruit seed oil is a natural preservative which improves the shelf-life of your lipstick. You will also need an appliance for melting the base, plastic lipstick molds with an open top for easy pouring and which also open at the sides for removing the finished lipstick. Combine 1 tablespoon of Castor oil with ½ a teaspoon of P&C pigments and ½ a teaspoon of mica pigments. Place the ingredients in a heat resistant glass. Stir the mixture thoroughly and put it aside. Combine 1/2 teaspoon of white beeswax, ½ teaspoon of canuba wax, ¼ teaspoon of Vitamin E Acetate, and 1/8 teaspoon of Lecithin or Vaseline. Add these ingredients to the Pigment and Castor oil mixture and heat to no higher than 170 degrees (use a thermometer to make sure that you don’t exceed the heat limit) by placing the mixture in hot water or using a microwave (don’t heat on the stove—overheating kills the active ingredients). Add one drop of grapefruit seed extract to the mixture. Pour the mixture into lipstick molds pre-moistened with plant oil. If the mixture becomes sticky, melt it again. Let the mixture harden in the molds for a minute and put the molds into the refrigerator for 2 hours. If you are not happy with the result, you can always melt the lipstick and try again, but for best results, test the pigment combinations on a palette before using them to make your lipstick. For that professional flame-like pointed tip, take a cigarette lighter and burn the top of the lipstick, melting it to the desired shape (but not too much, or you’ll lose some lipstick!). Put your lipstick in the holder and color yourself beautiful.
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How to make parfume
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Belt to fashion
Follow up fashion trend, our new fashion lady leather belts are much welcomed this year, especially by European markets.
Best fashion show in Malaysia
Malaysia’s fashion talents seem more successful the minute they get out of the country look at Zang Toi and some designers have to come back to Malaysia for KL Fashion week to be recognized in their very own “tanah air” (motherland). More serious cases of “brain drain”, which really lead us to ask the question, what is the government not doing or seeing about this failure to retain talents and not able to grow and expand talents that are in existent. Is it political manouver of powers that be or is there such a lack of governing in this fashion industry, an industry that contributes almost RM3billion to the GDP such that it is subjected to the whimsies of the more imaginative and self serving but alas to the misfortune and death of laissez faire, fair economy and talents.
But definitely the organizer’s like Star and main sponsor like L’oreal should be lauded for their efforts at the continuous efforts to bring forth the new designers of Malaysia and may this year’s show with the involvement of MODA headed by new president, Miss Gillian Hung see the beginnings of better tidings for the local fashion scene.