Mrs. Carol Christ
My beautiful friend, Carol. I was so happy when I was able to be the one to do her makeup for her wedding. We have been friends since we were 14 years old, and I remember the day she met her now husband 10 years ago on St. Patty’s day LOL Congratulations you two are both amazing people and are going to live a happy happy life together. I heart you!
To get her look:
Face:
Smash Box Primer
Studio Fix Fluid Foundation (mac)
Mineralize skin Finish Powder (mac)
Cheeks:
Refined Golden Bronzer (MAC)
Melba blush on apples of cheeks
Eyes:
Base: BlackGround Paint pot (MAC)
Lower Lid: Carbon (MAC)
Crease: Copperplate (mac)
Highlight: Rice Paper (MAC)
Purple/Pink Summer Look
Eyes
Primer: Painterly Paint Pot MAC
Lower Lid: Da Bling shadow MAC
Crease: Swiss Chocolate shadow MAC
Deep Crease: Carbon shadow MAC
Highlight: Seedy Pearl shadow MAC
Cheeks
Blush: Springsheen MAC
Lips
Lipstick: Vegas Vault MAC
Gloss: Pink Lemonade MAC
Step by Step
Base: Soft Ocher Paint Pot MAC
lower lid: Ricepaper MAC
Crease: Saddle MAC
Highlight: Ricepaper MAC
Winged liner: BlackTrack MAC with 209 brush
Lips: Lady Danger MAC
Lips: Black Lip mix MAC
Masculine look
This is the look that we did for the DIMEPIECE Shoot on the main model. She was an amazing model, she gets into the shoots I LOVE IT!
BASE: Painterly (MAC)
LOWER LID: Carbon (MAC)
CREASE: Copperplate (MAC) with a 217 brush make sure to shade in the inner corner of the eye, and tail out towards the end.
HIGHLIGHT: Blanc Type (MAC)
BROW: Shade in and thicken with a deep brown shadow and an angle brush.
FACE:
Matte foundation and Contour with a matte blush.
Say hello to Gintel part 2
Modern faux hawk for Gintel
If she lets down her hawk, she has her normal hair again, which was a shoulder length dreaded hair.
For salon services, contact Salon Sessions in Pasadena, CA
Say Hello to Laffit
Meet Nelson! So much fun working with him! He is known for his hair style and great personality! Nelson’s hair has given him a great rep since high school winning Best Hair Award!
I was super excited when he wanted to change up his hair do a bit.
The goal was “Old Man white” and we got it and love it!
It took some time reaching that level, taking inconsideration his natural hair is black. We gotta pass the crazy red-orange-yellow phase to get it to where we are now!
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For Hair services, Contact Azelle at Salon Sessions
112 S. De lacey Ave.
Pasadena, Ca 91105
626-795-8856
Say hello to Gintel Gee
Meet Gintel Gee! She is a dope graphic designer and has contributed a lot of her work for Dime Piece Designs
Gintel’s had these dreads for a while, I love them!
I decided to do some peek-a-boo highlights on her dreads. Pretty fun because it is not your everyday hair in foil highlights, all nice and neat. With dreads it changed up my highlighting routine. I got to soak the dreads in lightener and wrapped them up like the way you used to make antennas when you were a kid!
Need a graphic designer??? www.GintelGee.com
Need your hair done? Come see Azelle at:
Salon Sessions 112 S. Delacey Ave. Pasadena, CA 91105
626-795-8856
How To Get Glowing Skin
In order to get a smooth, glowing, sun kissed look you got to use a few different blushes. I normally use about 3 different colors, a highlight, contour and blush with color. I start with the contour, a soft brown that will give your cheeks some definition, next blush on the apples of your cheek normally a peachy color, and finally a highlight on the high point of your cheek bones. Its makes a huge difference. Try it and let me know how it turns out.
Contour: soft brown to give cheeks definition (bone beige MAC)
Apples of cheek: a peachy color (Melba or MArgin MAC) with or without shimmer (this depends on your skin tone)
Highlight: I like to use Vanilla Pigment from MAC
Harajuku ready!
Just a couple weeks ago, I took my number 1 hair model, Laura from Dime Piece, back to brunette for the Metro Pop Magazine Shoot. Check out that post HERE
Now, I took her lighter. Ready for Japan with Joy Rich this week!
A timed and fast pace process.
I decolorized her whole head.
Foiling the top part, where her hair is the longest, to make sure the application was even.
You need to keep an eye on the process, seeing what color is coming up.
When we reached a desired color, I toned her a couple shades darker.
Read about their Japan 2010 tour on their blog: THE PARADIME
Jasmine Mosley Tribes
My girl Jasmine from Oliver Poeples/ Mosley Tribes, isn’t she gorgeous?! it was too easy to do her makeup, this is what I used.
Eyes
Base: Painterly (paint pot MAC)
Lower Lid: Smut (MAC)
Crease: Brown Script (MAC)
Highlight: Rice Paper (MAC)
Inner corner: Rice Paper (MAC)
Below lower lash line: Smut (MAC)
Liner: Blacktrack (MAC)
Water line: Graphblack (MAC)
Brows: Espresso shadow (MAC) with an angle brush
Electrik Red
What I used on Binkie from Electrik Red
Base: Painterly Paint Pot (MAC)
Lower lid: Woodwinked shadow (MAC)
Crease: Texture shadow (MAC)
Highlight: Ricepaper shadow (MAC)
Liner: Black Track, winged with an angle brush
Lashes: #3 MAC
Highlight on cheeks Alexander Mcqueen gold highlight from MAC
Foundation- Kevin Acoin
Brazilian Blowout on Ashley
I’ve been styling and maintaining the manes of the girls from Dime Piece Designs and enjoying it! They are fun to work with it and I get to play with new ideas.
Ashley is always seen with stick straight hair, or in her cute little turban, but realistically she has CURLY hair. It gets pretty wild when it’s not done up. When she found out I was doing the Brazilian Blowout , she was one of the first to jump on it! Ashley cares for the health of her hair and didn’t want to do the extreme and do something permanent, like a relaxer or permanent straightening to change her hair bonds. So this service is actually a perfect treatment for her.
-At the salon, the process took a little over 90 minutes.
-When you get out, you can continue with your everyday schedule. Don’t be afraid to wash your hair, you should use the recommended Shampoo and Conditioner though because it has complementing ingredients to help the treatment last longer.
-You will definitely notice your hair slimmer than before with a lot of shine!
The Brazilian Blowout lasts for a bout 3 months, with proper at home maintenance, and actually improves the health of your hair. The results for this treatment is an intense amount of shine, less frizz and a cut down on your blow drying time.
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If you are in the Los Angeles area and are interested in this service,
Contact me, Azelle, at Salon Sessions (626)795-8856 and ask me about my introductory offer!
112 S. De lacey Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91105
or email: Azelle@LadyArtLooks.com
Cut & Color – Metro Pop Magazine
The girls from Dime Piece Designs were in a shoot for Metro Pop Magazine. It was time for Laura’s touch up and frequent visit at my second home, Salon Sessions in Pasadena.
Still keeping her hair short and cute.
We’re staying away from going lighter… for now.
So i deepend her faded auburn with a deep violet.
Added a couple highlits in the front to break the solidness of the overall hair color. The highlights were very fine, not too chunky just to blend in. I love the result of it! Looks like a hint of purple and blue
For more consultation or to schedule an appointment, contact:
Azelle at
Salon Sessions
112 s. delacey ave.
pasadena, ca 91105
626-795-8856
Keri’s Makeup
I got to meet Keri’s makeup artist, Ashunta the day of the Grammy’s when I was doing makeup for her sister and mom. Ashunta is an amazing makeup artist and I am so happy that I got to meet her. To see what she used, step by step please click here.
Julia Robert’s Hair how to
We are going to be working on hair that is out of the shower, toweled dry damp, not soaking, dripping wet.
1. Prep hair with Bumble and Bumble Thickening Spray -Spray all over roots to ends. Cocktail with Bumble and Bumble Styling Creme- from mid shaft to ends. This will create a medium amount of texture, not too heavy but enough to have a good hold.
2. Blow dry brushing hair from crown and forward, so hair will be on your face. This will create some volume. Continue to blowdry the rest of your hair until dry and also catering the blowdry to a middle part.
3. When Completely dry, and hair is parted down the middle, Section hair from above ear to neck all around. This is your first section you will curl. With in that section divide hair in vertical pieces and curl with a 1 inch iron away from face.
4. Drop the section from crown to ear and repeat step 3. Taking 1 inch curling iron and wrapping hair away from face.
Lastly, spray with a light hair spray and run fingers through to break up curls and give a softer look
Beyonce as Betty Paige
A New Video!!!
Beyonce Video Phone, Betty Paige makeup tutorial.
ENJOY!
xoxo!
Brazilian Blowout At Salon Sessions
This amazing hair treatment is available for you at Salon Sessions
112 S. De Lacey Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91105
(626)795-8856
Ask for Azelle Santa Ana
- 100% Formaldehyde and Aldehyde free
- It is a wash and wear product there is no need for your customer to come back in 4 days to rinse.
- Application takes about 90 minutes from start to finish.
- This is not a straightening system it is a smoothing solution so no structure changes will occur to the hair, customer will not have pencil straight hair that they can not style or up-do.
- Safe on color/chemically treated hair
Since this is not a straightening system, it is great for ALL hairtypes! Here is a before and after :
For more information or schedule an appointment, contact:
PENELOPE CRUZ HAIR STYLE
STEP 1: Start by applying gel serum throughout your hair.
STEP 2: Then use hot rollers or a hot iron to curl and set your.
STEP 3: Spray anti-humidity spray on the hair before using the curling iron to help protect the style and prevent frizz.
STEP 4: Brush out to loose curls & pin in place, make sure that you accentuate the wave in the front.
STEP 5: Bobby pin on side back behind your ear.
STEP 6: Hairspray with a superfine hairspray.
Trend: Red Lips
RED LIPS… aww you guys all know my LOVE with bright, bright, bright lips! I’ve seen so many celebrities rock’n the bright red lips so I am going to show you how to do it the right way because you guys dont want those lips to smear right away or look super messy.
PRODUCTS:
Concealer: to nude your lips
Lip liner: Cherry Lip Liner from (MAC)
Lipstick: You Say Tomato (limited from MAC but you can get MAC RED)
Gloss: Clear Lip Gloss (MAC)
Your going to have to apply concealer all over and around your lip to nude out your natural color and to avoid your lipstick from bleeding.
Then take Cherry Liner, line your lips and color in a little bit just like the picture
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Take Concealer and clean up your lips, your going to need a flat brush.
Take the brush and apply the concealer around your lips (like the picture below) to clean them up and take out any imperfection.
Then blend in the concealer, and apply the clear gloss.
Get The Look
Get Rachel McAdams Playful Braid.
Step 1: Apply Texturizer to your wet hair to create some volume.
Step 2: Blow Dry your hair till it is dry.
Step 3: Add rollers in your hair for about 10 minutes, give it some heat with the blow dryer.
Step 4: Tease, and brush your hair backwards, to give it height.
Step 5: Start your braid, behind your ears. Let your pieces of your hair hang for a playful look.
Step 6: Then hair spray.
Beach Photo shoot Step by Step
Step 1: Rubenesque (MAC) paint pot all over the eyelid.
Step 2: Melon Pigment (MAC) on the bottom half of the lid, with a flat brush, pack it on.
Step 3: Nylon eye shadow (MAC) on the highlight, take a 217 brush (blending brush) and apply it to you highlight, right below your brow.
Step 4: Take Twinks shadow (MAC) and apply it to your crease with a 224 brush from MAC.
Step 5: After apply your foundation and powder, give your cheeks a glow by contouring them and applying margin blush (MAC) to the apples of your cheeks.
Step 6: apply a golden nude lips gloss.
Step 7: to give your face a golden look in the photo shoot, lightly brush loose golden bronze powder all over your face and body.
Step By Step Natalie Portman
Natalie Portman is on the cover of ELLE UK for February 2010
Step 1:
Apply a dark bown base. Quite Natural from MAC would be good.
Step 2:
Pack on a dark brown all over the lower part of the lid. Handwritten from MAC would work.
Step 3:
With a blending brush 224 from mac Take Texture shadow and apply it to your crease.
Step 4:
With a 217 brush, use blanc type for your highlight, apply it right below your brown bone.
Step 5:
With a 219 pencil brush, take handwritten and blend out the eye shadow below your waterline, to get a smokey look.
Step 6:
Use Duo to glue on those lashes!
Step 7:
use a matte pale pink lipstick for your lip color.
1970’s look
