Sisters- I mean- Mother Daughter

Here is her clean fresh face. Hardly needs a thing.

Alright, lets jump right into this. Above you see Emily's before picture with a very contagious smile. I wanted to try something new and she was willing to let me. However, I did NOT mention that I wanted to attempt to line her water line on her lower lid. She already has some problems with the pores around there and I irritated the CRAP out of them. I felt really bad. Lesson learned: Always go over how you plan your application BEFORE actually applying it. Sorry Emily!

Since this gel liner was new, I wanted it to be bold, but I made it a little too thick. I will have to work on that a bit. I should have had her close her eyes or look down. I used a golden yellow type color from MAC that I really like but tried using it in a different way than I'm used to. I was happy with the results of her over all outcome. Minus the irritated eyes.

Here is ms beautiful Emily after. I had a bit of a heavy hand on the liner.

 Next we had her beautiful mother who is constantly mistaken for Emily's sister. I just realized I do not know this mothers name.... We'll call her Sue..... Sue was lovely to work with and both had some great tips which I LOVE hearing. One of which is the moisturizer they use here which they tell me is recommended by Dr Oz himself.  Sue pointed out some issues she has with her skin which were loss of pigmentation under her eyes and on the tops of her cheeks and a blue vein she didn't appreciate making an appearance to the side of her eye (but is covered with her hair). If you were to lose pigment ANYwhere, I think she lost it in the best place possible. It naturally makes her face look brighter, which is precisely what the brightening pens are for.  

Here is Sue's before picture.

After! I love how similar their smiles are.

I used the same gel liner on Sue but tried to ease up a bit so it wouldn't be so thick on the top. Her eye shape naturally creates shadow on the top which calls for very little crease shadow. Does this make sense?

Lesson learned from this session;
1- go over application with models BEFORE applying
2- St Ives Facial moisturizer works great and is even a great price
3- sometimes with BLACK gel liner, less is more
4- curl your lashes before applying mascara, and squeeze down first at the base, come up a little, squeeze again, come up a little, squeeze again. This prevents the "checkmark" looking lashes and creates a more natural looking curl.
4- I need to learn how to speed up the process as this took entirely too long
5- Emily and Sue are both very kind and patient and kept all children happy while I experimented away on Emily.

Thank you ladies for your time! I know you had other things you could have been doing. I had fun and will soon find out Sue's real name.