Friday, October 12, 2012
Get it, girl
MANILA, Philippines - Replicating the beauty of Milan Fashion Week is tricky. At once, simple and fresh, the looks are deceptively easy, involving deft highlighting and a clean, flawless finish. The secret is this: Don’t pile on the makeup. Use your fingers. Keep things light.
Here, YStyle offers the step-by-step breakdown of the looks at BluGirl and Moschino.
Beautiful at BluGirl
“The key is to appear poetic on the runway, beautiful and fresh,” says key makeup artist Maud Laceppe, who conceptualized the look at Blu Girl.
First, Laceppe preps the skin with Complete Comfort Creme to fully hydrate and then moisturizes lips with conditioners.
She utilizes MAC Face & Body Foundation to create a flawless and radiant base, making sure to blend over the ears and neck.
She dots Pro Longwear Concealer and Select MoistureCover around the eyes and nose and taps into skin with a gentle finger to blend.
Using her finger, she applies Electric Spring lipstick, which comes out next year, to the low front apple of the cheek, then tops with Mineralize Blush in Dainty over the top of the cheek for “extra pop.”
She paints Cream Color Base in Shell and Luna with her fingers to highlight cupid’s bow, bridge of nose, cheekbones and eyelids.
She combs brows, leaving them natural.
Using Zoom Lash in Lofty Brown, she creates a wet effect with no texture on the top lash only.
She presses Electric Spring lipstick onto the center of the lips.
The look is finished with Invisible Set Powder placed down the sides of the nose.
Making Moschino
“The girls don’t want to look like a clown but they want to play,” says Tom Pecheux of the look at Moschino, where a bold lip and startling lashes ruled.
MAC Fascinating Eye Kohl
Pecheux spritzed MAC’s Fix Plus over the skin to hydrate and refresh.
He massaged Prep and Prime Moisture Infusion onto skin to soothe, revive and instantly replenish, followed with Select MoistureCover dotted over skin to perfect portions that need slight coverage.
To outline the eyes, he applied Fascinating Eye Kohl through the waterline and layered with Gesso Eye Shadow with 219 pencil to set. Fluttering 35 Lash, trimmed, was set above the upper lash line for drama, while slightly shorter 33 Lash was placed on lower lashline, then finished with Haute & Naughty Mascara.
He combed through the brow and drew Deep Dark Brunette Luxe Brow straight through to accentuate the shape. “It’s about the shape of the eyebrow, the wing,” says Pecheux. “It’s organic.”
He painted Morange lipstick over the pout then topped with a glossy coat of Clear Lipglass.
source: philstar.com
Monday, February 20, 2012
iMessage Comes To OS X
MANILA, Philippines — In a rather surprising new behavior, Apple announced the next generation Mac operating system, 10.8 aka Mountain Lion, by giving press folks a developer preview *before* the developers. In addition, Apple made an announcement outside of their usual venues - the Apple campus, Moscone or Yerba Buena. Personally, I think that Apple's next public announcement will be huge (think iPad 3!).Anyway, Mountain Lion developer preview is now available to developers, of course. I have yet to download it, but one new feature has been made available as a beta, and that is Messages. Messages is Mac OS X iChat and iOS iMessage combined.
Not too long ago, I wrote about bringing FaceTime support on both iOS and Mac OS X and that happened. Next thing I wrote was about bringing iMessage on iOS to interface with iChat, and Apple simply did that. You can now download Messages as a beta app, only if you are running Lion.
Messages is definitely on beta, i.e., there are bugs and lots of it. First thing to notice, if you hide or minimize the app, your message history gets cleared. Not good. Second, unlike Facetime, you will not get a notification when you receive messages unless Messages is running.
Third, launching Facetime from within the application will fire the FaceTime app instead of having an integrated service. The same goes true for other instant messaging protocols (iChat will fire up).
Despite these bugs, it is functional. I have tried sending from one Mac to another, from iPhone to the Mac and Mac to iPad, and all worked perfectly fine -- getting replies as well.
What does this mean? First off, SMS will definitely get hit. One can send messages to an iPhone without resorting to the carrier's SMS -- mobile data connection required, of course. iMessage already saved me money, and with desktop SMS capability, it definitely will save me more. This is akin to Chikka, remember that desktop IM service that sends and receives SMS messages?
One flaw of Messages is that it is exclusive to iOS devices and Macs only. I am confident that Apple will release Messages for Windows as well. When this happens, it will be encouraging users to buy an iOS device or two.
So, if you are running Lion on your Mac, download the beta app and help Apple test it. They are testing the infrastructure, for sure. Apple needs to tweak their servers to be able to scale up once Messages comes out of beta.
article source: mb.com.ph

