SMOOTH & CONCEAL WITH TARTE THE ERASER CONCEALER

My Friend Actress Becky Wu, just reminded me a few minutes ago just how much I love Tarte The Eraser Concealer.  I love the idea of a concealer and brush all in one, it's easy to get to when your in a hurry and its cleaner. I throw one in every one's set bag, I find that not only does it conceal under eyes with a smoothing texture that blends easy and evenly, but it's great for touch ups on the skin, much easier then lugging a bottle of foundation around.

The Eraser gives you medium to full coverage and unlike most concealers that just hide the issues we need to conceal, The Eraser, contains ingredients that help treat and smooth irritated skin and blemishes.

It contains: Safflower seed oil, Arnica flower extract (known to reduce darkness) Cucumber extract, vitamin C, vitamin E, and its dermo tested. There's goodness in every tube.

I love it and i think you may too.........xoxo myke oh and its vegan!

STUFF WE CAN DO  WITHOUT:
- Sulfates
- Synthetic Fragrances
- Synthetic Dyes
- Petro-Chemicals
- Phthalates

Available at :    SEPHORA & TARTE COSMETICS

CORAZON DEL PUEBLO ~Saturday, October 30 · 1:00pm - 5:00pm

Join us on Sun Oct 30th as we celebrate DIA DE LOS MUERTOS during our TIANGUIS CULTURAL~ARTISAN & ARTISTS MARKET! Community, good vibrations, positive energy, food (mmm... atole, pan de muerto, chicken tacos, organic shakes...), music, a childrens craft table, face painting, and an array of artisan arts and crafts from local artisan vender's. All are welcome to and encouraged to contribute something to the Community Altar in honor and celebration of friends and family who have passed. LETS CELEBRATE, HONOR AND BREAK BREAD TOGETHER! Support your local artisan vender's... ARTISANS/ARTISANOS: Jaguar~copper jewelry Oli~jewelry, clothing, accessories, functional art Yerberia Mayahuel~handmade soaps,oils Chobe~copper jewelry Cielo Designs~beaded jewelry Claudia/Guille~jewelry, accessories Anna/David~handcrafted jewelry Sunshine Jewelry~handcrafted jewelry Amini Herbals~delicious healthy shakes Pedros Doggie Apparel~clothes for concious dogs arte.moni~jewelry & functional art Lucy Mendez~jewelry, scarves Goodlife Roots~clothing Cihuatl Moon~functional art Goodlife Roots~clothing South Central Farms * Corazon Del Pueblo is run by the Community, for the Community, supportive of the Community, supported by the Community. *if you are interested in booking a spot, send an email to Skira Martinez: corazondelpueblotianguis@gmail.com WHEN:Saturday, October 30 · 1:00pm - 5:00pm WHERE:CORAZON DEL PUEBLO 2003 E1st Street (Boyle Heights) 90033 * corazondelpueblotianguis@gmail.com

A Few Of My Favorite Things..........Julie Hewett

retails: $28.00 at Julie Hewett

$24.00

I love Cheekie,  i use it all the time, here's a hint, I like to wet the brush before application, ( Evian in a can) helps me control the amount of color and blend evenly with out leaving racing stripes.

OH MY SOLES!!!!! SHOE TRENDS FOR 2010-2011

Wow Designing shoes is an Art form all its own, just take a peek at the lasted shoe trends for  2010 -2011 Collections. hum, I wonder if there comfy to stand in, let alone walk in!

do you wear this? of display it on your shelve?

BALENCIAGO

ALEXANDER McQUEEN

LANVIN

Either way you wear it,  it's art.

TRUE BEAUTY: HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARION ROSS!

As a makeup artist you sometimes get to work with people that you admire, appreciate and even love, someone that was there while you where growing up, someone that may have even made a change in your day to day life and your outlook on things, even if just the slightest, I have had the honor of meeting a select few that I hold dear and  even call Friend. And sometimes you get the change to meet them again, In my work it's a great thing to work with the same artist Again and again, you can create this  energy where when they see you , they know its all good and visa versa....... She's Still a beautiful woman and has the most beautiful eyes to make up!

ON Set Of Flower Girl 2008

As MRS. C of HAPPY DAYS

FLOWER GIRL

In 2008, I  had the privilege to work with the mom of all mom's MARION ROSS (MRS. C)  in a  little romantic comedy called FLOWER GIRL, along side Another Treasure MARLA SOKOLOFF. Well ,today i was graced with Mrs. Ross on set again. Still an amazing , loving, kind spirit that  has a sense of grace to her a freely lets you share it with her. I adore her, and was pleased to spend her 82nd Birthday with her......Happy Birthday Marion!

MEe and the birthday girl 10/26/2010 on set

MUSIC MONDAYS! Free Download MADONNA LEAKS!

So here are a few leaks from Madonna, I happen to think that these are amazing, I'm in love with love , is an outtake from 2003 album, American Life, it's awesome I like her singing more rock oriented songs. And ANIMAL, from, Hard Candy. Awesome! please  use the cover art for your itunes.

Madonna ~ I'm In Love With Love

Madonna ~ ANIMAL

LADY GAGA " UNRELEASED SONG "SHAKE UR KITTY"

I love this song and it's not on any of her official albums so I pulled from my own vast music library SHAKE UR KITTY for you, just click the link and it will take ya there!  Its a fun, upbeasy song, i think Its rather good!
very early in here career!

myke

LAGY GAGA ~ SHAKE UR KITTY

WHEN OLD IS NEW........AGAIN, NARS Vintage Nail Shades

NARS goes back in the past and brings back old nail shades for their Limited Edition Vintage Nail Shades collection.   New Trends and styles  for the most part have already gone around the merry-go-round if you think about it. So it isn't odd to look in the past at beauty products that either put a brand on the market or that where really big sellers, I mean, I am still waiting for MAC to bring back my beloved PINK GLOW! I hated them for that! ugh! So if you loved some of the old shades, now is the time to buy them before they are gone again and maybe even forever.

Visit narscosmetics.com to purchase and for more information.

Boy Genius Strikes again, TOM FORD: Private Blend Lip Color Collection

So What Rock was I hiding under? Did you hear that Tom Ford recently launched  a line of 12 Lipsticks? Called Private Blend Lip Color Collection. Shades range from the most perfect nude to a super rich red. The colors are incredibly classic and are designed to flatter every skin tone while imparting just the right amount of moisture and shine to keep your lips from drying out. 


The line is available at neimanmarcus.com but be warned,  save your laundry change because @ $45/00 a tube, this isn't a lipstick you through in your prada bag and forget  about.

personal fav's Blush Nude, Ginger Fawn & Cherry Lush

A high shine sheer lip gloss featured in a stunningly sleek package perfectly contoured to fit into the palm of the hand or discretely slipped into a pocket or clutch. Enriched with vitamin e prodigy's silky and non-tacky formula offers superior water-resistant color.

.Tom Ford Private Blend Color Collection lipstick in Cherry Lush, $45, available a tneimanmarcus.com.

Beauty Icon of The Week: Kim Novak

Bio Taken From IMBD.com

Kim Novak was born in Chicago, Illinois on February 13, 1933 with the birth name of Marilyn Pauline Novak. She was the daughter of a former teacher turned transit clerk and his wife, also a former teacher. Throughout elementary and high school, Kim did not get along well with teachers. She even admitted that she didn't like being told what to do and when to do it. Her first job, after high school, was modeling teen fashions for a local department store. Kim, later, won a scholarship in a modeling school and continued to model part time. Kim later worked odd jobs as an elevator operator, sales clerk, and a dental assistant. The jobs never seemed to work out so she fell back on modeling, the one job she did well. After a stint on the road as a spokesperson for an appliance company, Kim decided to go to Los Angeles and try her luck at modeling there. Ultimately, her modeling landed her an uncredited role in the RKO production of The French Line (1953). The role encompassed nothing more than being seen on a set of stairs. Later a talent agent arranged for a screen test with Columbia Pictures and won a small six month contract. In truth, some of the studio hierarchy thought that Kim was Columbia's answer to Marilyn Monroe. Kim, who was still going by her own name of Marilyn, was originally going to be called "Kit Marlowe". She wanted to at least keep her family name of Novak, so the young actress and studio personnel settled on Kim Novak. After taking some acting lessons, which the studio declined to pay for, Kim appeared in her first film opposite Fred MacMurray in Pushover (1954). Though her role as "Lona McLane" wasn't exactly a great one, it was her classic beauty that seemed to capture the eyes of the critics. Later that year, Kim appeared in the film, Phffft (1954) with Jack Lemmon and Judy Holliday. Now more and more fans were eager to see this bright new star. These two films set the tone for her career with a lot of fan mail coming her way. Her next film was as "Kay Greylek" in 5 Against the House (1955). The film was well-received, but it was her next one for that year that was her best to date. The film was Picnic (1955). Although Kim did a superb job of acting in the film as did her costars, the film did win two Oscars for editing and set decoration. Kim's next film was with United Artists on a loan out in the controversialOtto Preminger film The Man with the Golden Arm (1955). Her performance was flawless, but it was was Kim's beauty that carried the day. The film was a big hit. In 1957, Kim played "Linda English" in the hit movie Pal Joey (1957) with Frank Sinatra and Rita Hayworth. The film did very well at the box-office, but was condemned by the critics. Kim really didn't seem that interested in the role. She even said she couldn't stand people such as her character. That same year, Novak risked her career when she embarked upon an affair with singer/actor Sammy Davis Jr.. The interracial affair alarmed studio executives, most notably Harry Cohn, and they ended the relationship in January of the following year. In 1958, Kim appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's, now classic, Vertigo (1958) with Jimmy Stewart. This film's plot was one that thoroughly entertained the theater patrons wherever it played. The film was one in which Stewart's character, a detective, is hired to tail a suicidal blonde half his age (Kim). He later finds out that Kim is actually a brunette shopgirl who set him up as part of a murder scheme. Her next film was Bell Book and Candle (1958) which was only a modest success.

By the early 1960s, the 20-something Novak's star was beginning to fade. Although she was still young, she was being overpowered by the rise of new stars or stars that were remodeling their status within the film community. With a few more nondescript films between 1960 and 1964, she landed the role of "Mildred Rogers" in the remake of Of Human Bondage (1964). The film debuted to good reviews. While filming The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965), she had a romance with co-star Richard Johnson, whom she married, but the marriage failed the following year, although they remain friends. Kim stepped away from the cameras for a while, returning in 1968 to star in The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968). It was a resounding flop, perhaps the worst of her career. However, after that, Kim, basically, was able to pick what projects she wanted. After The Great Bank Robbery (1969) in 1969, Kim was away for another four years until returning in 1973. That year she starred in the British horror film Tales That Witness Madness (1973) with Joan Collins and was seen in a television movie called The Third Girl from the Left(1973) (TV), playing a veteran Las Vegas showgirl experiencing a midlife crisis. Again she took another hiatus before appearing in The White Buffalo (1977). She followed this up with the flop "Just a Gigolo" (Just a Gigolo (1978), where she starred opposite David Bowie). However she did gain some attention in the mystery/thriller The Mirror Crack'd (1980), co-starring Elizabeth Taylor, Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson and Angela Lansbury. Five years later, she appeared in her third television movie, "Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Pilot (#1.0)" (1985).

From 1986 to 1987, Kim played, of all people, "Kit Marlowe", in the fourth season of the TV series "Falcon Crest" (1981). She played the lead in the little-seen movie The Children (1990), where she starred opposite Ben Kingsley and fellow Hitchcock actress Karen Black. Kim's last film, on the silver screen to date, was Liebestraum (1991), in which she played a terminally ill woman with a past. Since then, she has rejected many offers to appear in films and on TV.
However, unlike many of her Hollywood peers, Kim has maintained stability in her personal life. Since 1976, she has been married to Dr. Robert Malloy, who coincidentally went to medical school with Martin Dinnes, the husband of Kim's friend, Tippi Hedren. She now lives on a ranch in Oregon and is an accomplished artist who expresses herself in oil paintings and sculptures. Kim and her husband now raise lamas and horses, and frequently ski and go canoeing.

Kim began writing an autobiography in 2000, but it was lost when her house caught on fire, destroying the computer that contained her only draft. In a 2007 interview, the still-stunning Novak said she would consider returning to acting "if the right thing came along".

with my pal Valerie Harper

 Kim still looks amazing, here at The Egyptian Theater July2010 for the Sony Release of The KIM NOVAK COLLECTION on DVD.


Any one that knows me, knows that I am a huge film fan, that I go to the cinema twice a week , more if i am not on a set making a film. So, it's no surprise that film and actors are a huge influence on me and  my work. Kim Novak is right up there  for me, I refer to her  many times, for the way she looks, dresses and her style in many films. When I am going for a ice queen, or someone beautiful yet  mysterious, I will say, let's to Hitchcock blond, or Give me Carlotta! (character name is VERTIGO). It's a reference that's straight and to the point. All makeup  & hair people should know there reference's............its so daunting to work with someone that doesn't know his/her film history. Kim Novak was and still is a huge Icon for me, Starring in some of my all time favorite films. I have selected a few films I think are worthy for you to watch. these are my fav's of hers. enjoy

Here are my personal fav's of Kim's film!

Phifft!       1954
Picnic       1956
Pal Joey    1957
Bell. Book And Candle 1958
Vertigo     1958
Boy's Night Out 1962
The Notorious Landlady 1962
Just A Gigalo 1979

Lime Crime's New Bold & Bright Eyeshadow's Fix it Ticket or felony?

Lime Crime, makers of the brightest lipsticks ever, launches an eyeshadow collectionthis week called Magic Dust. The 100% vegan formula comes in thirteen vivid shades that can be applied wet for a foil-like effect or dry for a super pigmented look. From a brilliant green called Mischiefed Managed to a black with turquoise shimmer called Medusa, the names are just as adventurous as their colors. Hum,  favorite? Cupcake Thief, a sparkling pink. 

Lime Crime Magic Dust, $14 each, available at SpaceNK.

HOT SALE~ L.A. EyeWorks!

Yes, your eyes aren't deceiving you: L.A. Eyeworks is having a one time only huge sale featuring up to 80% off some of the most fashion-forward frames. Whether you want a new pair of specs or just some shades to keep you looking cool, I highly suggest that you get your peepers on over there and check out the goodies at this hot Hollywood sale.

When: Friday October 22, from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday October 23, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Sunday October 24, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Where: L.A. Eyeworks, 7407 Melrose Avenue (Martel Avenue); 323-653-8255.

Re-Post! Uma Thurman Od's On Face Powder

I was set this link and just had to share it, Hum, someone just lost a job! HEHE!  originally posted on .........................


Actress Uma Thurman, who spoke at the Feminist Press at the City University of New York's 40th annual gala, turned up at the event with her face patched with powder!

Thurman's makeup mishap was clearly visible under the glaring lights of the stage, as first reported by the Daily Mail.

In fact, the 40-year-old's usually flawless face appeared to be antiqued by hints of dust on the tip of her nose, around her eyes, and at her hairline.

The Daily Mail suspects that her unpolished appearance -- very uncharacteristic for the screen beauty -- was the work of an overzealous makeup artist who put on too much loose face powder.

Thurman was a guest at the gala honoring 40 Feminists Under 40.

Beauty Breakdown: Brooke Burns

On October 17th, I Worked with Brooke Burns for the 7th Annual Life Rolls On  Gala, held at  The Beverly Hilton. We had a blast getting ready. I did Both her and Ana Lopez for the event, its was awesome and we laughed a lot. So here are a few images from that day, some  I took and some are from the paparazzi!

Below Is a beauty Break down for those who may be interested in her looks, Kinda a modern tack on old Hollywood...Vavavoom!

Let's just say, that I think Brooke is one of the most beautiful, kind and most gracious persons I have yet to meet, and becoming her friend as well has getting to paint her amazing face has been just wild! Brooke has great skin to start with so I Moisturized with Yon-ka Paris Creme 28 for sensitive skin (awesome everyone can use this)

 1. I matched her skin tone from the Jouer palette them added a tad darker to warm her skin up. What's awesome about this line is every item from base to lips can be linked together to make one amazing palette its great for being on set for last looks.

2. I used Smashbox shadow in OYSTER all over the lids, its a Velvet like shine that ads amazing subtle shimmer  that bounces light.

3. Using Smashbox new Masquerade palette, Blue And purple to create a a strong contour in the crease of the eye.

4.  Smashbox Liquid liner pen was used on the top lash line, almost like stippling liner as close to the lash line as i could. in Black

5. Smashbox Limitless eye liner in navy on the inner rims and lower lash line for high drama!

6. I am know for layer blush on top of blush, I love blush!!!!!! for this look I used Benefits, Sugar Bomb as a base shimmer then Smashbox Fav, Radiance on the apples its matte and looks amazing with the under shimmer peeking through.

7. awe and lips.....Using a natural Lip Liner, your name cosmetics  in tea rose, then Smashbox Baby Pout over , this color has become Brooke signature color in a way I love it on her.

then  to polish it off i used makeup 4evers  lift concealer #2. Hd powder & MAC C4 to set foundation.

also HD elixir (all Makeup4ever) to the cheeks and temple for  light reflection for  the slashing cameras!

Photos before the car arrived!

makeup: myke Spezzano  hair: Vito Trotta