This week I did a photo shoot with Glamour magazine featuring an extraordinary woman - Sarah Culberson. I was really impressed when I read her story. She is an African American woman who had been adopted in the US and sought out her birth parents, found her father, a tribal chief in Africa, and discovered she was an African princess. She's a remarkable woman and we had a great day during the shoot at the beach in Malibu. I did warm, glowy natural makeup and we bonded by telling each other our life experiences. I feel I made a friend that day and I look forward to working with her more and sharing it with you.
If you would like to find out more about Sarah's foundation and how you can help, check out http://www.bumpefund.org.
A Princess Found: An American Family, an African Chiefdom, and the Daughter Who Connected Them All
The look...
I wanted to enhance Sarah's natural beauty with warm, natural tones of caramel, taupe, nude, and bronze. I knew exactly what products I wanted to use and I found everything I needed with one of my favorite lines - 3 Custom Color Specialists. Easy, blendable colors with shades and textures for any skin tone. I first prepped Sarah's skin with an eye cream and moisturizer, then dabbed a creme highlighter to the top of her cheekbones, center of her nose, and the inner part of the eye close to the tearduct. Then mixing a few shades from the concealer palette, I blended a shade to match her skin tone and deluded it with a touch of moisturizer for a sheer coverage. I used no powder. On her cheeks I dabbed on a bit of creme cheek color to the upper apples of the cheek and for Sarah's natural smoky eye, I blended a brownish cheek color with a concealer brush and dabbed a touch of bronze highlighter to the center of her eyelids. I then lined the inside of her eye with a dark brown eye pencil. Then curled and coated her lashes with black mascara. I topped off with a sheer golden beige lipstick and lip gloss and blotted for a subtle shine.
4 comments:
Stunning!
Wonderful job on the make-up.
She is a truely stunning woman, I will have to try and get hold of her book.
Simply Beautiful.
I've read about her in the past, truly a remarkable story and life.
could you tell us how you got starred doing make up and what school did you go to and how did you become so good at what you do. Ur the best!
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