captivating beauty

CAPTIVATING

Beauty

MARCH 2018 ÂŁ2.00

Interview

NEW

with

Makeup blogger Mary Hawi tells us about her journey

Is lighter better?

BOLD

The scandal of illegal whitening products

statement Lips

Skin bleaching

Statement looks to get you looking different all throughout the seasons

CONTENTS

07 Interview with Mary Hawi

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Latest News

Revolution Vs. Etsee Lauder

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The perfect red

Step by step makeup tutorial

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Interview with Mary Hawi

Skin bleaching: Could it mean a better career success?

11 Skin bleaching: Could it mean a better career success?

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Skincare Advert

LATEST NEWS THE 5 VIRAL BEAUTY HACKERS YOU SHOULD SERIOUSLY NEVER TRY

1 Using dental floss to extract blackheads

2 Using deodorant as a face primer

3 Use nail varnish to cover cold sores

4 Using wasabi as a spot treatment

5 Using lemon and baking soda to brighten armpits

EDITOR’S LETTER B

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THE perfect

RED

RED LIPPY RULES STEP ONE: Contouring the lip. Use a lip liner or a lip brush outline the shape of your lips perfectly. If you want a fuller effect on your lips, this is the moment when you can go over your natural lip line just a little bit.

STEP TWO: Fill in the lips with a colour that is one shade lighter than the shade you have outlined your lips with, this will give the plump effect STEP THREE: Use a make-up wipe over your finger or a flat small brush to correct any mistakes or smudges STEP FOUR: Pat away any excess with the tip of your finger or a sponge to smoothen everything out

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THE INTERVIEW @MAKEUPBYMBEE

Mary Hawi is a 23 year old Makeup artist who ended up graduating with a degree in a whole different sector. She found her passion in something else and is now willing to stick with it.

Pursuing an interest in makeup is not as easy as people may think. But with the persistent of others, it could leave you deciding on where your career lies.

I was always interested in the beauty industry, but it wasn’t until 6 I studied construction management years ago where my dad invested at university and graduated with in a small makeup kit for me and I a degree. However it was not my started my journey, not professioncalling in life. I feel like I still have ally but just practising on anyone I so much to give and show the could get my hands on. I began to world. I’m focused and will prove receive an endless amount of comanyone wrong who has doubted pliments about my style of applying me, because while I’m building my makeup and passion for it. That’s own business and working to live when I knew I could start doing this out my dream - they’re working to and actually get paid to do it! I met help others live their dream! my husband not long after and he

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invested in buying me more luxurious makeup for birthdays, valentines, Christmas! Any holiday you can think of, he will have makeup or gift cards for me to keep building up my kit. He then started marketing my work on social media and came up with my company name “makeupbymbee”

Motivation and dedication is key and it’s always exciting to hear how people strived themselves to be where they are and how they started up. When speaking to Mary Hawi, I found how where her inspiration came from.

I used to get my inspiration from anything and everything, from a flower to reality TV shows. I love how it’s an art, a process to be as creative as you want, and it’s just makeup, it can easily disappear with a face wipe.

Aspiring role Models plays a big part in life and it is always nice to be able to look up to someone you aspire to be. I was able to find out how young artists could benefit from an upcoming successful artist.

I still have a long way to go to consider myself successful at what I do, but I started from scratch and created a name for myself! If makeup is your passion you will strive to be bigger and better than any other makeup artist out there, put in the time and effort to perfect your craft but never lose focus on why you started in the first place, because you love it and you have a passion for it.

There is always a makeup product that you can never live without. Whether it will be your mascara, lipstick, eye-liner or concealer, there is always something to help enhance what you already have.

3 beauty products I cant live without are brows, mascara and concealer. A good brow pencil to frame the face, black mascara to extend my lashed and give a cute flirty look, last but not least, concealer to cover up any imperfections or to brighten the look of my under eyes.

Signature look is the holy grail of a persons style and it could say something about ones personality.

I would describe my style of makeup as very clean yet defined. I like to accentuate my natural features using neutral colours such as golds, browns and taupes. I like to look like myself but sometimes, just a tad bit more!

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Building your career can become quite difficult to maintain. With the lack of consistency, could leave you holding back on your career.

I started Youtube simply because I was constantly asked questions on how to do certain makeup looks and what products I recommend. I wish I could upload more often and be more come true to be known as a beauty blogger! My page consists of my favourite products, step by step makeup tutorials, weird beauty techniques and “get ready with me” videos.

Creating content for your Youtube can become very time consuming especially when you do freelance for others. But with dedication and commitment, Mary strives to do her best and although she may not upload as much, she brings excitement to others when she posts.

It’s very time consuming to film and edit a beauty video, because you have to narrow down an hour or 2 worth of footage down to 10 minutes without missing anything vital in the tutorial. However, it is very enjoyable seeing your vision come to life. I do aim to upload at least once a month just to keep my subscribers engaged but I am now aiming to upload once a month with client makeup tutorials, fashion videos and vlogs so should be very exciting!

My work is very enjoyable and it is all about being able to analyse a face’s natural curves and shapes which made it easier for me to adapt to applying makeup very quickly.

Is Britain gaining fame for its cosmetics dupes?

As branded make-up product prices continue to sky-rocket, British companies are leading the way with cheaper versions but with great quality. We blame it all on Aldi . . .

In case you didn’t know, Makeup Revolution is a UK based brand that’s very affordable and are probably best known for their dupes.

Revolution Fast Base Foundation has finally launched and people are going crazy about it for its seriously high coverage. Beauty Influencer Kadeeja Khan uses her platform to share her experience with how impressive the coverage is on this £5 foundation. The foundation has released different shades of colours and has become the most selling drug store product.

When it comes to redness, evening skin tones, spots and dark under-eyes, we like to find our inner-self. Their £4 concealer is leaving people in a shock. Not only does it Conceal and Define, but it costs only £4 and come in 18 shades.

- For all skin types - Has 18 shades - High pigmentation, long wear and long wear formula -High coverage - Matte finish - Easy soft applicator

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Step-by-Step

Make-up tutorial

Apply concealer to highlight and structure the face using a flat brush

Next you apply contour to structure the face with a stippling brush

Use a wet beauty blender to blend it all out. Dapping motion not rubbing

Next, use a small fluffy brush to blend the nose contour and concealer

Then you will go in with a small detailed brush and bronze powder to enhance the nose contour

Add lipstick, eye-liner and mascara to finish the look

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SKIN BLEACHING: stopped trying to be Skin lighting is a controversial method that woman use to cover up their imperfections such as birthmarks.

For some woman, especially in a predominantly black culture, have a desire of looking fair-skinned which has been going on for a very long time. Some black woman have often grown up with a preconceived image that being lighter is classed as beautiful. The thought of altering your skin colour might seem a little bit ridiculous - but for many individuals, skin bleaching is another part of their daily care routine. Thousands and thousands of pounds are spent advertising these creams to woman and young girls but most time, black woman tend to think being lighter could mean a better career success.

There are two types of whitening creams - those that ‘lighten’ and those that ‘bleach’. Bleach contains melanin which makes the skin lighter. Lightening creams, however, does not necessarily contain these chemicals, but will lighter the skin with long-term use.

“I am dripping melanin and honey. I am black without apology” - Upile

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Isn’t it time women lighter?

Jasmine is a 24 year old blogger who has over 17,000 subscribers on Youtube. She shares her story about skin bleaching and how it affected her.

Jasmine’s story

“I remember, when I was in school, I had a best friend, and everyday we used to compare each other skin tones because back in the days, being lighter was seen as you are more beautiful. My mum has more of a lighter complexion than me and she had a friend who use to skin bleach. I had always wondered why she was so light and it made me think she has skin bleached.

I was a young girl, I didn’t really know much. So little me, I thought, let me go into my mum’s room and take some of the cream and use it everyday on my face until one day, she came knocking on my room door and caught me using the cream. She told me off told me not to use it again.

When I was in year 11, my obession came back. I decided to use my aunties cream knowningly it would bleach my skin. Being lighter was popular at the time.

I remember all the boys saying how they will only go for girls who are light skinned because they thought black girls were ugly. I felt very low and it made me lose my confidence. I went into primark and I would get holiday sized containers that you put soap and shampoo in I would sneak into my mums room, get the cream, and put a little bit in

able to see you” and I think that contributed to my skin bleaching. At this point, I knew that I should embrace my skin colour and not let these kids get to me.

Months went on and I started to appreciate my skin. I have always has confidence in the way I look, but when it came to the colour on my skin, my confidence was not low but it was not high either.

I was in-between with the way I felt about myself. When I got to university, that is when I started hearing “black people are beautiful” and it built my confidence in my colour. I do not blame anyone but myself because at the end of the day, it was up to me to conform too... There was nothing anyone could tell me today or tomorrow to let me change my skin colour or alter it. So a little advice for anyone who is experience or has experience what I have been through and are still doing it. I want you to know that no matter what skin colour you are, you were made like this for a reason. Do not by any means look at what society, media or the news and set our standards according to that. It took me a long to accept myself for who I am but I got there in the end and will not ever let myself become obsessed with it again.”

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“Being lighter was classed as more beautiful” there and every morning I would smear it on my-self everyday before school. Everyone in school noticed and said my colour has come. That was saying that people would say which meant I looked beautiful. But it got to the point I knew I was screwed. My mum came into my room asking “what have you been using on your skin”. I think she knew deep down but she told me again to not use it. Growing up in a school that I went too, kids would laugh at people because of their colour. Kids used to say “If I turn off the light, I won’t be