Weight: 1.2g x 15 pencils

Price: $92.00/£60.00

Available at: Urban Decay, Debenhams

Comments:

This is one product with a name that is spot on. It does not rub off unless you give it a good go with make-up remover. Combine it with Urban Decay Primer Potion and I think you might just have to peel your skin off to get rid of it. Why get aggressive with hard eye-liners when you can have one that glides on like butter on toast? The colours are intense and vibrant and they show up very well on coloured skin. As a make-up artist, this will be very handy for ethnic make-up looks, especially with Asian Bridals. Use it as an eyeshadow base, as a shadow on its own or as an eye-liner.

The liners retail individually at £13.00/$18.00 so with this set you get £195/$270 worth of eyeliners for 1/3rd of the price.

I just cannot think of anyway to fault this product and I recommend everyone runs to their local retailer to grab this bargain because I doubt it will last very long.

Just be careful when taking the cap off the pencil so you don’t break the tip.

Stay beautiful…

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Overall Posh-ville rating: ***~~ (3/5)

Price: £22.00/$30.00

Weight: 2g

Availability: Zuneta, Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus.

Ingredients: Talc, octyldodecyl stearoyl stearate, nylon-12-dimethicone, zinc stearate, silica, zeolite, sorbic acid, dehydroacetic acid, isopropylparaben, methylparaben, isobutylparaben, butyparaben, octyldodecanol, BHT. May contain: Mica, titanium dioxide, iron oxides, carmine, bismuth oxychloride, ferric ferrocyanide, ferric ammonium ferrocyanide, manganese violet, ultramarines, chromium oxide greens, chromium hydroxide green, yellow 5 lake, blue 1 lake.

• Packaging: ****~ (4/5)
• Pigmentation: ***~~ (3/5)
• Design and Delivery: ***~~ (3/5)
• Pricing: ***~~ (3/5)
• Value for money:***~~ (3/5)

Eyeshadow in Mystery

Eyeshadow in Dusk

Swatches- Left: Mystery Right: Dusk

The Edward Bess line only launched last July in UK. I wouldn’t say these eye shadows are something to go gaga over. They are just OK, perfect for those who love neutral shades. The shadows come in a nice suede pouch and the box has a mini applicator and a mirror included, quite handy for on-the-go touch ups. The swatches above are with a bit of eye primer underneath to enhance the colours. The shades suit my dark skin tone just fine and I can see myself creating a nude-y type look with them. These are shimmery in nature but are not as pigmented as some other eye shadows I’ve tried. You need a good few layers to get the colours out but overall, they will get the job done. The price is a little on the high side for what you get but this will certainly appeal to those who love looking made-up without the make-up, if you know what I mean.

Is this worth buying?- only if it is your piece of cake. I certainly would not recommend this to the make-up artist, unless there is a particular shade you are after that no one else in the world has.

Stay beautiful…

Let’s start by giving credit where it is due. Make-up Artist Magazine, the producers of IMATS, deserve some great salutations and commendation. Last year we complained about the horrendous queue, the overcrowding and insufficient seating at the seminars. They took everything we said into consideration and this year it was amazingly different. First of all, they introduced the ‘pro card’, which was used to sort out professionals from enthusiasts. Since IMATS is a make-up artist show (even though most people think it’s an exhibition only), it made so much sense to allow artists/ other professionals the privilege of VIP registration and access. The queue was undeniably shorter as a result of this, there was less frustration in the air and within half an hour of opening, all those queued outside were in the hall. The rooms used for the seminars were larger (the main hall was huge!) and almost everyone that wanted to watch something got the chance.

I arrived at exactly 0830 and was in the hall at 0900:) I went straight to the Guru Summit as I was dying to see the gorgeous Pixiwoo duo and the ever beautiful Pursebuzz (Ok I confess I wanted to see Koren and Wayne too).

It turned out to be a calm Q&A session, inititally led by Pursebuzz and then Enkore, whose flight to UK was delayed.

Most questions were about getting started/ established on YouTube and being a MUA. There were some formidable questions, like “What do you think of some named gurus who have achieved fame and are now mis-leading people?” (OK I paraphrased that) and there was something about animal testing, which the pixiwoo ladies (pictured left above) smartly passed over.

[Left to right: Elissa Pursebuzz, Wayne Goss gossmakeupartist; Samantha and Nicola pixiwoo; Koren Enkore]

The session lasted an hour and was very informative. Look at those gurus, they were clearly having fun. They were all very approachable even after the summit so there was ample opportunity to ask all burning questions.

Next on the agenda was to indulge in the weird and wonderful prosthesis display. These things always fascinate me.

I pretty much wandered round the exhibition until it was time for the next class I was interested in: Couture Beauty by Terry Barber of M.A.C.

All 720 seats in the main hall were taken for this class. I don’t know if it’s the Terry effect or the M.A.C effect.

I have to say Terry is a natural teacher and make-up artist. He paid so much attention to detail and was very precise in all his applications. This look is basically a 3 pencil look, sort of. He used 3 M.A.C chromagraphic pencils and 2 pigments and a super mascara application to achieve his desired effect. He spent 20 minutes doing the mascara, in order to achieve what he called ‘the beautiful clump effect’.

[So you want to know how he created the look right? No I'm not telling- next time go to IMATS ]

I will tell you about the mascara though. Consider it a bit of unpaid advertising for M.A.C. It’s called Haute & Naughty Lash and is a dual sided mascara with different effects. He used both sides to achieve the nice clumpy look. At least I learned something new from IMATS in 2011.

[The beautiful clump effect by Terry Barber of M.A.C. There's powder under the eyes to catch any falling pigments, one of Terry's techniques from the 19th Century!]

My next class was Perfecting Each Brush Stroke by Koren Zander for Crown Brush UK. It was another educative session. I can never get tired of being Koren’s student. I have learned a great deal from him, especially the little tips that can make a person stand out in the super saturated make-up industry.

I spent half the time captivated by his pretty model, Elissa. Elissa is really beautiful inside and outside. I love her to bits.

Next was the student contest. This is always the funnest part, in Elissa’s words. Congratulations to Loren Huckin from West Thames college who won first prize: a £1000 cheque from the sponsors- Royal & Langnickel and Sleek Make-up, a pretty plaque and a goody bag. I thought she was gonna cry honestly…

[IMATS London 2011 Student Contest- Tribal theme: Winning entry]

At this point, I was a walking zombie. My body was wreaked with exhaustion and I had given up on trying to find the beauty bloggers. They are an incredibly volatile set of human beings. I was going round the show hunting down everyone with a yellow badge, even though I deliberately didn’t apply for one because I wanted to experience the show as an enthusiast.

I decided to crash at the (much quieter) crown brush counter with Koren and Elissa. Along came Leanne from donotrefreeze.

She wanted a smokey-eye and Elissa did a great job of it. I am yet to charge Leanne for hiring me as the shoot photographer, which meant I had to stand there and take random photos of this. It was like watching paint dry. I kid I kid, I was secretly stealing Elissa’s techniques.

Finally I headed home from what turned out to be an amazing IMATS.

I know people love haul videos and pictures but unfortunately I am not a fan of that. However, if you visit the blog gallery, you will find many more amazing pictures from the event.

Stay beautiful…

In order to celebrate the re-birth of beauty blogging on posh-ville, we are giving away an Amazon Kindle 3G + Wi-Fi. All you have to do to win is complete this statement in the comment section: “As soon as this kindle arrive, first thing I will do is…”

This contest is open until midnight BST on Feb 14th 2011. The winner will be picked by randomly using a number generated from random.com.

Good luck.

Stay beautiful…

My recommendations:

Exhibition

• Crown brush
• Illamasqua
• M.A.C Pro
• PAM
• OCC
• Naked cosmetics
• Hakuhodo

Speakers

• Lauren Luke
• Neill Gorton
• Guru Summit
• Student competition awards show
• Alex Box
• Danny Sanz
• Keynote panel discussion