On 27th and 28th June 2009, STAGE Cosmetic Bintang Megamall branch organised make-up workshop called STAGE Cosmetics playzone. The workshop is about teaching people on how to apply makeup in a proper way obviously. Haha! The instructors of the makeup workshop were the STAGE makeup artist: Mr. Ting, Susan, Wee and i forgot the other two names. My bad :S The workshop consists of 6 levels. The one I attended was Level 1 make up which is Day glamour makeup. Now, im waiting for their call for Level 2 workshop after they has suffice no. of people for the class. After you've completed all the 6 levels, they will give you completion of the course certificate. I heard we can use the certificate for working. I heard.

STAGE is a brand new makeup from Malaysia and most of the products developed in Germany and only two of their products developed in Malaysia which is the brush cleaner and nail polish remover and that is the reason why the brush cleaner is way cheaper than M.A.C. STAGE is under Alliance Cosmetic, the company who distributed famous makeup brands like Maybelline, Loreal, Revlon to Malaysia. STAGE products are not that bad and can say almost at the same level as famous international brands like M.A.C. I love their concealer so much. It is lightweight and it can cover the dark circle with few drops!

I would like to share my experience/ knowledge from what I've learnt from the workshop. Below are the procedures on how to apply your makeup (in a proper way) for day time. It is pretty simple and nice.

Step 1: Clean and prep your face

Make sure your face is clean and well-prep (cleanser, toner and moisturiser and sunblock but don't put too much moisturiser or else your face will be super oily). Before we start with makeup tutorial, we have to remove our make-up with make-up remover. Stage has two types of make-up remover. One is for normal make-up (After Party Calming Remover) and another one is for waterproof make-up (After Party Waterproof Eye-Makeup Remover). I used After Party Waterproof Eye-Makeup remover to remove my stubborn Mascara which is hard to remove since Friday. I used M.A.C. Splashproof Mascara together with Lash Prime. It is very good but very hard to remove it. About the makeup remover, it has oily texture but it is good for stubborn waterproof mascara like M.A.C. huhu! Oh! and one more thing, when you remover your mascara, make sure you remove it downwards with lighter stroke.

Products: After party waterproof eye-makeup remover and After party calming remover
Tools: Cotton Pad

Step 2: Give hydration to your skin

Spritz your face with Thermal Spring Water to make your face feel fresh and add more radiance. Don't spray too much and too close or otherwise your face will be very wet. 15cm from your face would be suffice and tilt the bottle to 45deg and spray. Pat gently your face using your fingers to let the spring water absorb into your skin and give more hydration.

Product name: Avene Thermal Spring Water
Tools: Hand

Step 3: Apply face base

Before applying foundation onto our face, we must apply face base to neutralise/balance our skin tone. I know most of us will apply foundation straight away after prep. I think this is optional to use but if you want your make-up to look great, use face base. Don't use hand to apply the face base to avoid overuse of face base in certain face area. Put a line of face base cream onto the tip of foundation brush (vertical not horizontal) then put on T-Zone , cheeks and chin. Using foundation brush, blend the face base follow the hair direction. On forehead, stroke it upwards then nose, cheeks and chin downwards.

Product name: Opening Act Complexion Enhancer.
Tools: Foundation brush

Step 4: Apply foundation

After putting face base, apply foundation onto your face exactly the same procedure as you apply face base. Don't put too much but apply and blend it with foundation brush just nice. There are 3 types of foundation (as far as i know), creme, liquid and powder. I always use Mineral Foundation from Body Shop for day time and liquid foundation by Averine for night use. For Stage, they have two types of liquid foundation. One is Picture perfect and one is Studio Perfect. Picture perfect is for day use and Studio perfect for night use. For the workshop, we used Picture perfect.

Product name: Picture perfect/ Studio perfect
Tools: Foundation brush

Step 5: Conceal your dark circle, scars, pimple and etc

If you have dark circle, pimples and scars that need to be covered, use concealer. For the workshop, we used creme concealer and seriously, Stage has nice concealer. Its creamy, easy to blend and lightweight. For dark circle, dab it first from inner corner to outer corner of your eyes but don't apply it beyond the eyeline which located at your outer corner. That line is your full stop. After you dab it, blend it using concealer brush.

Product: Studio Perfect Creme Camouflage
Tools: Concealer brush

Step 6: Apply loose powder or compact powder

After applying concealer to your dark circle, pimples or scars, apply loose powder or compact powder. For day use, it is recommended to use compact powder because it contained SPF 15. But, if you have sensitive skin or want your make up to look better, loose powder is recommended because it is lighter and better coverage since the powder particles much smaller than compact powder. Application still the same as you apply foundation and face base. At eyes area, swipe it outward to the corner of your eyes according to the shape of your eyes.

Product: Studio Perfect Compact Powder (this one we used for the workshop) or Photo Finish Dusting Powder (loose powder)
Tools: Powder brush

Step 7: Define your eyebrow

Now, get ready for detailed make-up. Huahuahua! After applying compact/ loose powder, we have to define our eyebrow. Firstly, we have to measure our eyebrow. There are three parts, the starting point, middle point which is the arch and ending point. This is to guide us when we define our eyebrow using eyebrow pencil later on. measure the brow using angled brush. As for starting point, measure it at the corner of your nose and near the tear duct. Make sure the brush is straight. If the eyebrow go beyond the brush, trim it. If it less, you have to fill the gap with eyebrow pencil later. Make sure the gap between the two brows can fit your two fingers (index and middle finger). To measure the middle part, using the brush, place the brush at the corner of your nose, same as what as we did earlier it just that we need to tilt the brush till your eye ball (the black one). Look front ya. That point should be the arch of your eyebrow. Then for ending point, using the same brush and same starting measure point (corner of your nose), tilt your brush until the corner of your eyes. Your eyebrow should end there. After you mesure and trim your eyebrow, use eyebrow pencil. You can refer to Michelle Phan's tutorial on how to trim your eyebrow on the link below:

http://ricebunny.xanga.com/611662957/basic-eyebrows-tutorial/

Eyebrow color pencil should be used according to your hair color. If you have brown black hair like mine (which black is the major color), a very dark brown color is recommended. Black color is not recommended or else you will look like Shinchan. Define your eyebrow using eyebrow pencil with light stroke then blend it with angled brush. As Michelle Phan said, your eyebrow should look like sisters not twin. Hehe!

Product: Brow Defining Pencil
Tools: Angled brush

Step 8: Use eye base to enhance your eye makeup

What should we do after defining our eyebrow? Apply eyeshadow? Hold on! Apply eye base first. Stage has creamy eye base and it is light and not oily. Why we need to apply eye base first? It is to enhance the eyeshadow color. Seriously, the eyeshadow look brighter if you apply eye base beforehand but look so not bright if no eye base. That is what I've experienced la. Apply eye base is very easy but don't apply it too much as I did during the workshop. Left side I applied it more. hehe! Just apply the eye base to your whole eye area. The upper side only. And again, the eye line that located near to the corner of your eyes is your full stop and near tear duct as well. You just need to apply within the full stop area only.

Product: Prime Time Eye Perfecting Base
Tools: Concealer brush

Step 9: Apple eyeshadow according to your favourite colour

After you applied eye base, apply eyeshadow. The color is up to you but Bobbi Brown advised to choose according to your eye color and not based on you clothes' color. If you want to use pink, don't apply pink too much especially at the corner of your eyes or else you will look like you're having eye inflammation or eye infection. I experienced it before. Tee-hee! For the workshop, we only learn day/ normal eye makeup. Therefore, only two colors we have to choose. One color is based on your preferences like expresso, black, dark purple and dark blue and another color is highlight color such as white and cream. If you chose matte color as errrr your first color, shimmering highlight is recommended. I chose expresso because I like brownish color and cream shimmer shadow as highlighter. How to apply the eyeshadow? Using eyeshadow basic brush, apply a bit on outer corner, eyeball and inner corner of your eyes. That is as your guideline on where you should start and finish your eyeshadow then you connect the three points. After that, you have to blend the harsh line of the eyeshadow by using eyeshadow basic brush as well. Blend it until you see no more straight line there. After that, apply your highlight shadow using eyeshadow blender brush. Apply it below your arch (dont apply it on your eyebrow) until the part that you've applied eyeshadow beforehand. In other word, color the remaining space. Hehe! Then blend and blend.

Product: Eye Shadow Mono
Tools: Basic Shadow brush and Shadow Blender

Step 10: Use eyeliner to define your eyes

After eyeshadow, define your eyes by using eyeliner. We used eyeliner kohl pencil. It is good for beginner and easy to apply and more natural. Line your eyes by fill in the gap of your eyelash. Thin line is recommended. After define your eyes, blend the line with shadow smudger brush until no harsh line appeared to make it look more natural looking. If you're using liquid eyeliner or want to make a dramatic line, no need to blend the line.

Product: Kohl pencil
Tools: Shadow Smudger Brush

Step 11: Curl those eyelashes

Apply mascara after you had define your eyes. But before you apply mascara, you need to curl your eyelash. Look down at 45deg then repeatedly clip the eyelash gently (I don't know how to explain this part but I can show you how) then while clipping, you tilt up the curler by 15deg roughly and clip it repeatedly and gently. Do the same thing again. Twice on both side of the eyelashes.

Tool: Eyelash curler

Step 12: Apply mascara

Now, you need to apply your mascara. Stage has four types of mascara. Standing Ovation, Drama Lash, Angel Lash (washable mascara) and Divine Lash for short eyelash (this is good for lower eyelash). In the workshop, we used Standing Ovation mascara. Before you apply the mascara to your eyelash, heat the mascara with your hand like you heat your both palms when your hands is cold in cold area or weather. When you open the mascara, dont pull it straight away because you will force the air to come in and it will dry your mascara faster. Twist and pull it gently then wipe the flaky excess. How to apply the mascara? We usually apply the mascara upward even myself. Basically, we have to apply the mascara downward to our eyelash then later after that stroke it upward like usual. =) Use Divine lash for lower lash. I assumed you know how to apply mascara on lower lashes.

Product: Standing Ovation and Divine Lash.

Step 13: Apply blusher on your cheek

This step is pretty simple and I assumed most of you know how to do it. STAGE Makeup artist showed us different technique on how to apply the blusher. First thing first, swipe the angled blusher brush on the blusher and dab a bit on tissue to remove the excess powder. Then, we smile and dab the brush on your hair line near to your earlobe. After you dab it there, stroke the brush by using '8' technique. Meaning that you have to blend the blusher on your cheek in '8' shape. Like you write no. 8 on your cheek. The usual technique is you just need to stroke the blush downward from your hair line to the apple of your cheeks.

Product: Cheek color
Tools: Cheek brush

Step 14: Define your lips

Before you apply your lipstick, we have to define our lips with lip line. Just line it according to your lip size. Make sure the line is inside not outside or else your lips will appear thicker than the original size. After you line your lips using lip liner, blend the harsh line using lip brush. The color of your lip liner must match with the color of the lipstick you going to use later.

Product: Lip liner
Tools: Lip brush

Step 15: Color and shine that lips with lipstick and lip gloss

If you have chapped or dry lips like me, apply lip balm beforehand to ease the lipstick application on your lips. Take the lipstick using lip brush. Don't apply the lipstick directly onto your lips. Its to avoid overuse of lipstick. Apply the lipstick using lip brush and blend it. After you blend it, apply lipgloss to give shiny/ watery effect. Do not apply the lip gloss too much on your lips especially if you have thick lips like me. Haha! Blend the lipgloss using lip brush.

Product: Wonderbalm lipcare, Wonderluxe Satin Matte Lipstick and Wondergloss High Shine Lipgloss
Tools:Lip brush

Step 16: Touch up

Its time to finalise our make-up by touch up. Apply the compact powder onto your face especially under your eyes because the excess powder of eyeshadow or mascara may fall there. If your eyeshadow brush is made from animal hair, the possibility of the eyeshadow powder to fall is 1%. That is what I've experienced when im using STAGE eyeshadow brush because the material is made from animal hair like goat and pony. Fix the makeup using compact powder and powder brush, blend it well and you are done!

Product: Studio Perfect Compact Powder
Tools: Powder brush

I think pretty much that's it for make-up procedure. As additional, I usually use Charging Water by M.A.C. to make my make-up last longer after touch-up. Its optional anyway. I hope the information above is useful to you. It is not necessary to use the products that I've mentioned above. You may just use the products you use currently. The products I mentioned above is just the products I used for the workshop only. If you have any inquiries about the make-up procedures, please don't feel hesitate to ask me.

Thank you and have a nice day! =)