"If you can't take it - JUST FAKE IT"

Hello Fabulous,


We heart feather lashes
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We hope you enjoyed the Easter break and you all ate way to many chocolates or had a few too many wines with your family and friends! We were all busy making the lovely ladies of the Gold Coast and Brisbane beautiful but enjoyed every minute of it - and of course ate a few too many Easter eggs along the way! Last week we featured our eye lash style icon Kim Kardashian and how to create glamour plus lashes so we thought we would follow up this week with "If you can't take it - JUST FAKE IT"

Fake eyelashes can be a bit tricky to put on yourself and girls there is nothing worse than badly applied lashes that are lifting at the corners or too long for your lids... SCREAMS FAKE! Now although there is nothing wrong with fake it's the million dollar question that makes them so worthwhile "are they real or not?" So the team at Runway Express Experience have put together a HOW TO GUIDE for applying your packet lashes...

Nine simple steps and you are out the door:

1. Complete all your makeup first. 
2. Especially make sure you line your lashes, even going so far as to lift your eye lid slightly and line the upper inner rim line with a black pencil.  Use NP China Doll Gel eyeliner along top lash line, increasing the thickness at the outer edges and incorporating a flick if desired.  Always go up at the outer edges on any makeup look to avoid a droopy eye look.
3. Curl your lashes with an eyelash curler if they are straight.
4. Check the width of the false lash and trim outer edge if required.
5. Squeeze some of your eyelash glue out onto the eyelash packet.  Using a bobby pin apply a thin line of glue along the lash strip all the way along.
6. Wave the lash in the air for a few seconds so that the glue has time to get tacky.  This is the key!
7. It is easiest to get a friend to apply lashes to you and vice versa, but if you don't have an extra pair of hands around you will want to look down into a mirror, hold the lash strip in the middle, line it up so that you have a 2mm (approx) gap between your very inner corner and the start of the actual lash.  Press lashes into lash line.  Try to keep eye closed, till glue has set. 
8. Glue will dry clear.
9. Perfect lashes ready for your close up!

Well happy fluttering ladies! Have an amazing long weekend x

Meet Carlie

Hello Fabulous,

My name is Carlie I am 28 years old, and have been a qualified make-up artist for over 2 years now! I studied my Diploma of Make-up at Media Make-up in South Australia, and have been busy in the make-up industry living in Melbourne and now on the sunny spectacular Gold Coast!



Special Effects Make-up by Carlie





Over the last two years I have gained experience in airbrushing, bridal and photographic make-up along with hair styling. I have been very lucky to have worked with some of the best professionals including TV program 'Chicks World' where I was interviewed about my special effects makeup!

I'm a very creative person and think of make-up as an art form, as is the human body. I love to make people feel beautiful. I am also very interested in the gore and creativity of SFX make-up, I have experience in bruises, scars, cuts and anything blood and guts! I can also make prosthetics which is part of my ultimate make-up artist goal in working with film and television.



Pretty ballerina by Carlie

I am available to work on fashion shoots, TVC and of course Runway Express Experience parties and offer a variety of make-up techniques.

I hope to see you at your party soon,

Love Carlie xoxo

To book Carlie for your Runway Express party or for any private make-up job please contact abbey@runwayexpress.com.au


Welcome to the world of beauty, stay fabulous! x

Bat those eye lids ladies!!!

 
Now we all know that a couple of quick blinks of our eye lids can help get us something that we want! Generally it's from the opposite sex (boys I am not sure how often this works for you but I encourage testing it out) and I would argue til I am blue in the face it has a 90% success rate... Well it is no wonder that our eyelashes are one of our favourite features and mascara is this week’s beauty staple!  

I never leave the house without mascara on, day or night, BBQ or dance floor, the impact those separated black luscious lashes can make to your face is amazing! I would even go as far as clear mascara for days in the pool or the beach but that is just a personal choice!

Style icons everywhere have promoted mascara for every make-up brand possible... fake effect, volumise, blacker than black the list goes on and on but our favourite eye lash queen has to be Kim Kardashian! Now of course there is debate REAL OR FAKE? but we are going to give you the tips to create Kim’s crowd stopping lashes.



image sourced from www.brownmakeuptips.com



THE TOOLS TO GET YOU THERE:

“The ultimate eye opener” - NAPOLEON

Madame Curl Curl is the ultimate eye-opener, seductively bending the will of the most stubborn lash and delivering an eye-enhancing curl which lasts throughout the day. Her super-flexible film both lengthens and lifts while she coaxes lashes into good health with a dose of much needed moisture.

“Tease your lashes to greatness” - NAPOLEON

Madame Fantasia is a voluptuous tease, tantalizing lashes to further greatness and a truly mesmerizing effect. A gentle wave of her wand adds instant volume and builds the lash from base to tip like never before.

HOW TO GET THE LASHES:

Step one: Use our Madame Fantasia with a gentle wave of her wand that adds instant volume and builds the lash from the base to the tip like never before.  Madame Fantasia is a voluptuous tease, tantalizing lashes to further greatness and a truly mesmerizing effect. A gentle wave of her wand adds instant volume and builds the lash from base to tip like never before.

Step two: Use our Madame Curl Curl on the outer lashes to get the ultimate eye-opener, seductively bending the will of the most stubborn lash and delivering an eye-enhancing curl which lasts throughout the day.

To learn all our must have beauty tips in person contact us at www.runwayexpress.com.au or email abbey@runwayexpress.com.au

Happy Friday, stay fabulous x x x