Maggie’s Wedding

A pleasure being a part of Maggie’s Wedding. She’s a model I’ve worked with on many occasions for magazines and commercials.

We didn’t have a trial as I obviously knew her face and understood her skin type, she booked straight away.

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This image – NK Abani Photography

On the wedding day I made my way to her prep location, set up and began work on her.

As always, her face and neck were prepped and I started on her brows using the Anastasia Brow definer in Dark brown and chocolate. On her lids was a mix of MAC eyeshadows in Bronze and Woodwinked, I deepened her eye socket with MAC embarked and blended out the edges using texture. The eyes were finished off with my favourite Liner – Ingot gel liner in 77 and Ardell strip lashes in 120 completed the look.

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This image – NK Abani photography

Maggie has dry skin, using my hands I massaged in Creme de la Mer The Moisturising soft cream focussing on the dry areas. I then applied just a pinch of smash box photo finish foundation primer to her nose and forehead. Foundation used was Lancome Teint Idole 24hr foundation in 10 which was buffed in using a real technique expert face brush and blended out using a beauty blender sponge.

Oh gosh I remember the first time I worked on Maggie some years back, I used MAC studio Fix fluid foundation and it was just horrid! Caked up within seconds 🙁 Never again!

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Under her eyes was brightened using Kevyn Aucoin Sensual skin enhancer in 13, this was set with MAC mineralize skin finish in Medium dark. Again this was used due to the skin type she had. I was conscious of using anything that will overly mattify her skin.

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The rest of her face was lightly powdered using MAC mineralize skin finish in Dark and Dark golden. For contour and highlight I used Colorblend contour palette in Medium/Dark. Love this palette! Blush used was MAC blush in Dollymix, she wanted more highlights than blush so this was used sparingly.

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Moving on to the lips, I lined using MAC lipliner in Whirl and applied MAC lipstick in Lovelorn.

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This Image – Nk Abani Photography

Maggie looked sensational and her dress was just a dream!

Many thanks for booking my services, wishing you a beautiful married life 🙂

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