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I am NOT a makeup person at all so when I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to get a Asian m/u artist for our wedding I googled and Youtubed.
There are lots of tutorials out there.
@regberadaisy: Thank you! I'll do that. Were there any specific ones that you found particularly helpful?
I can tell you what I've heard is the biggest peeve of Asian girls with non Asian make up artists? Thinking that we need that wing tip eyeliner technique because we have narrow eyes or no eye lids.
Or the overuse of blush on our cheeks.
My MOH went to a american salon for her hair & makeup on her wedding day. She hated it. They basically made her look like a buffoon. She ended up redoing her hair and removed all her makeup and did it herself.
@regberadaisy: Overuse of blush? Really? That's *not* a complaint I expected to hear. It's really useful to hear, though.
I'll keep that in mind about wing-tip eyeliner. Thanks!
I suppose what you brought up is an equally useful question to ask: Asian girls, what are your biggest pet peeves about how non-Asians screw up your makeup? What should I avoid so I don't make my friend look like a buffoon like poor regberadaisy's MOH?
check out frmheadtotoe on youtube...i think she has the best tutorials for asian eyes. and she has a really wide range of tutorials:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zswzu81NJr8 for a more dramatic look
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v5XOMRb7tc for a more natural look
also, i find that false lashes make all the difference on my eyes... so i would definitely encourage using some!
Oh yes! My m/u artist put double fake lashes on mine and it was fantastic!
@msw77: Thanks for the links! I'll check them out tonight when I get home from work!
I think false lashes might be one of those things that work on every type of eye. Everyone benefits from long, luscious lashes!
Haha. That was mother's warning: Make sure you hire someone Asian to do your hair and makeup!
Oh, the bad haircuts I used to endure.
Anywho, you first need to figure out the skintone of your friend. I find that I can't wear pinktoned makeup, because it ends up making me look very odd. I tend to stick with gold and bronzes.
Perhaps the two of you could go to a makeup counter like MAC and ask for tips that way?
I'm Asian and this is what I ended up doing for every day AND special occassion make up...
Go to a make up counter at a department store (I use Mac, their pigments seem to blend REALLY well with my skin), and just have someone walk you through EVERYTHING. I went on a weekday, ended up buying about $40 of product, but walked out with a TON of tips, down to how to put false lashes in, how to blend colors etc. It's a little time consuming, but I'm the kind of person that is a visual learner, and I think my makeup for our e-pics was GREAT, and I did it myself at 5AM!
@GreenEyedMoon: For me, and I never really noticed this until my mu trail.. .is that if I line the entire bottom of my eye uniformly, it made my eyes look smaller. It was better to line just the outter half a bit more if you want a more dramatic look, and then make sure its not as thick on the inner half.
@lauraq123: Unfortunately, going to a makeup counter together isn't really an option. When I say she's Japanese, I mean she's Japanese, not Japanese-American, and she won't get to the US until just before the wedding. :(
I think you're right that I should make sure to have some more bronze and golden colors for her, though, since she's definitely on the bronze end of the spectrum, whereas I'm quite pink. Here's a picture of the two of us, if that will help give you an idea:
...I feel your pain of bad haircuts. I got some of the worst haircuts of all time when I was living in Japan. No one understood my hair there.
oh! it looks like she actually has a lot of eyelid space for an asian girl, so i would say that a lot of non-asian specific techniques could work well on her too. also, i totally agree with pinkshoes about not lining your entire bottom lid.
@msw77: Good to hear. Thanks!
ETA about that photo. I realized I said she's not normally very pink, but she looks quite pink in the photo. I think that's because there had been a fairly significant amount of beer involved in the evening at that point. She isn't actually all that pink.
@msw77: These YouTube tutorials you linked me to are AWESOME. Thank you so much!
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As much as I would love to be able to pay for both me and all my girls to have our makeup done professionally, it's just not in the cards. We're going to DIY our own. Some of my girls wear makeup all the time and are great with it. Some don't wear it all that often and aren't as comfortable with doing it. That's fine, since both FSIL and I are extremely comfortable and good at it, so we're both happy to help anyone else who needs it. I'd like the girls to have slightly more dramatic looks for my masquerade-themed wedding.
One of my bridesmaids is Japanese, and she's admitted that she's not great with makeup and can't do any sort of dramatic look on her own. I'm sure FSIL and I can help. The one problem is that I've never done makeup on an Asian person before, and I know the technique for eyeshadow and such can be very different. Do any of you have any tips or links to great tutorials on Asian eye makeup? I want to make sure we can make my friend look and feel as fabulous. :)