Things I have learned recently

So I've learned quite a few things recently and I'm going to share them with you in the hopes that I'll save you some time and money.

1.  When making your own airbrush foundation, don't use MAC's loose mineralize powder.  It's super fine milled and coated in silica, which means it sure doesn't mix with a water based mixing medium.  You'll wind up with a funky sludge that clogs your airbrush machine and doesn't actually work.

2.  When hosting a free event to build your portfolio...schedule everything.  Schedule the people coming in to get their makeup in 1.5 hour time slots.  Schedule your hair people to actually show up and be there the entire time.  Schedule your photographers to be there, that's really important.

3.  Don't run yourself ragged or you'll have two weeks of miserable recuperation.

4.  When doing makeup on those crazy heads hair students use.......you know what?  I'll just do a tutorial on that.  I've been doing makeup on all of those heads recently in order to put Halloween faces up for people to see when they come to the salon.  Much like face charts, those mannequin heads aren't much like putting makeup on a human face.  Its almost easier to load the airbrush machine with acrylic medium and paint the stuff on than to try and get regular makeup to work.  I'm staring at the one I most recently did and wishing I had done exactly that.

Some happy news?  I'm totally going to the MAC store in the Pentagon mall.  I'm going to go visit my sister and I figured I'd just grab my huge bag of empties and go shoppin'!  I hope they have Face and Body there.  I have color cosmetics coming out of my ears but I have no airbrush foundation....well I have 2 but they're subpar in my opinion.  Wish me luck and a safe trip.  I'll post my haul on Monday.