Make Up Mania Newsletters
Volume 2, Number 1 - June 18, 1999
The Make Up Maniac
Volume Two
Number One
Well, how were the Tony's? That's what everyone asked me the past two weeks. They were so great!!! You know, I think a lot of times we get used to seeing stars in LA - on set or on location in the trailers etc. that we forget that there is a lot of glamour behind these people. And the Tony's has to be one of the most prestigious events to remind us. Celebrating the art of acting and stage, it is an actor training ground or aspiration live theater! As the CBS televised portion of the awards was about to begin the star presenters lined up in front of us backstage. There was Angela Lansbury, Bea Arthur, Calista Flockhart, Alec Baldwin, Christian Slater, Brian Dennehy, William Hurt. All, walking past me. The make up room had them flowing through beautiful, dressed luxuriously with gems and hair jewels, Julie Andrews, Carol Burnett. Stage right Kevin Spacey, Martin Short. It was something that makes you realize how fun it would be to be a star. Especially when we walked out the stage entrance to face police blockades set up across the street to keep the screaming fans at bay.
And for some more back stage gossip ---- as Terry Maki the key make up artist & supervisor from Team RPM/Washington D.C. held down the fort in the make up room Steve and I were stage left and Sher and Nancy were stage right, prepared for any last minute touch ups. Sher bumps into a handsome guy named Vincent Longo who was there doing make up for Bernadette Peters. (She looks fantastic by the way.) Apparently he is very nice, and very debonair - so Sher has a big crush on him now.
Oh and the NYC night life!!! What a city. Terry treated us to a night on the town Martini's at the Park Central, dinner at Lucky Cheng's and dancing in the Village. And I cannot leave out the private bus ride back to our hotel room on the Kinder Care bus with a very cool bus driver named Marvin. Ugh it took me a week to recover but the trip was a blast and I hope to repeat it next year! THANKS TERRY!!!!!!
NEWS, VIEWS AND REVIEWS
NEWS
It's Father's Day this weekend. What are you doing for that wonderful Dad in your life? Well, you could enter him into our Make Up Mania Father's Day contest and he might be one of three lucky winners of the ZIHR Men's Skincare Line Starter Kit. This $86.00 value kit (retails for $59.00) has everything your favorite guy needs to keep his smoofy face absolutely smoofable!!!! Just send us a photo of your favorite Dad (tell us if we can post it on our contest page) and tell us why he is the greatest Dad of all. Winners will be chosen June 24, 1999 so GOOD LUCK!
VIEWS
Sometimes we get these inspired ideas, they come to us and we know…it's brilliant! Then in the midst of pulling off these blessed inspirations we wonder if it was pure insanity that drove us to jump. That is how I felt Monday morning after moving our corporate headquarters over the weekend. Fax lines were non-existent and everything was in quite a different place. But by Wednesday it was obvious that this was meant to be. We have a fresh space, lot's more of it and every day we are closer to opening the Cyber Show Room, where you can come and visit Make Up Mania in the real world. We will keep you posted, we plan to be open for the public in early July and of course we are planning the Grand Opening for late August.
REVIEWS
Palladio. We have launched a new line which is bringing European formulas of some old favorite to our website. The Palladio Liquid toners for under foundation skin correction with a new twist: sunscreen. And corrector toner pencils and foundation pencils. How easy is that you can take these flaw correctors anywhere in your purse for quick beauty touch ups on the go. They have nice prices too. $9.00 for the toners and $6.00 for the pencils. See them on Tia's floor.
MAKE UP MANIAC TIP OF THE WEEK
Do you absolutely love new lipstick colors???? Do you save every color you ever bought waiting to use again if it would just come back in style? Is it just too expensive to keep up with the trends? What is a lipstick lover to do? Mix your own!!!! Of course!!! You probably have blended some colors on your lips but with just a few new shades you can unleash a whole rainbow of colors to satisfy even the greediest lipstick junkie.
You need a few items to make it easy. We have this type of stuff here at Make Up mania or you can be creative and wrangle up what you need from around your house.
Here is what you need:
A Palette. You need this to mix your lipstick
on. We have stainless steel ones for $5.00. A white tile is great. And
I love using the wax paper pads from the art store. Have them cut it in
half for you so it's not so big.
A Palette Knife or Spatula. We have a stainless
steel one, but the palette knife from the art store works well, it has
a nice give to it. I use an antique butter knife that I love. Something
flat that you can push down on the palette to really mix up the lipstick.
Make Up Palette Container or Stackable Jars.
We carry the Japonesque Palettes and the stackables. You can use old lip
gloss pots or pill reminder holders. To clean out an old pot, scrape out
as much as you can with a tissue. Wash in hot water using Palmolive Dishwashing
Liquid (Cuts Grease! And good for brushes too but that's another tip
of the week : ) ) . Then remove any left over residue with alcohol. You
can find lots of things to hold your mixed lipcolor - once you have the
perfect shade.
Lipstick Brush. Once it is out of the tube
form it is messy to apply it any other way. The retractables are good
for taking your new color with you.
Now a few colors to work the
magic…I suggest:
A black lipstick for making your lipcolor darker or richer in value.
A white lipstick for making it lighter or more pastel.
A bright gold or bronze to give a warm summer shimmer.
A silver or icy blue lipstick, for a cool shimmer.
A Vitamin E stick to make a sheer lipcolor. Great for your lips too!
A Translucent gloss to make a glossy lipcolor.
Directions:
Place your palette on the counter and scrape that old color from the tube
and put on the palette. Now decide what you want to do with this color.
Do you want to lighten it, darken it or make it more sheer.
To darken it use just a little black a little goes a long way. To lighten use the white and so on. Mix the colors thoroughly on the palette with your palette knife. You can test the color now, and add shimmer or lighten it up. Scrape your new color into your pot and , voila, a new shade!
Experiment & play around. You
can even mix two or three colors together if you stay in the family. Once
you get to many colors involved it will go brown so be careful. Of
course that may be what you want. Have fun; I bet your friends will want
to know what you're wearing! And for on set work you don't have to carry
a gazillion colors!!
Email me at eva@makeupmania.com and let me know your results!!!
LAST NOTES ON WHAT'S UP THIS WEEK:
- Solar FX Nail Swatches. (Melissa did outstanding on these!!! Check them out!)
- Dear Vanna's answers are up did you write her? Go see if she answered your e-mail.
- La Femme Cream Mascara.
- VIP Duo Shadow Pencils
- Burt's Bee's Lotions. Buzzy Yummy!
- New TOMA 2 Week Nail Colors this is blowing out the door and we are getting testimonials daily about how long this polish lasts on natural nails.
- Art Anthony's Sil-Skin SPFX for the new millennium.
Have a great Week End
Love Eva Marie and all your pals at Make Up Mania!
