GOTHIC, THEATRICAL GLAM MAKEUP BY MAC! LUISA VIA ROMA FASHION BLOGGERS STYLING LAB, DAY 1 FIRENZE FOREVER.
Luisaviaroma’s Firenze4Ever extravaganza brings together your favorite fashion bloggers: a mix of nationalities, personalities and styles. I suppose I carried the banner for Japanese street / Gothic aesthetics. So I did theatrical, flamboyant makeup: loud and proud!
Each blogger gets to take part in a high-fashion styling lab. Shall I walk you through the steps?
1) Get your face painted by MAC. I showed my makeup artist photos on my iPhone, so he knew what I was going for. And he did a marvelous job.
Fabio put a layer of white under my eyes to enlarge them, then added careful eyeliner definition and top/bottom layers of fake eyelashes. Brown shading added a Sleepy Hollow effect. My blue lips turned me undead, while the bright fuchsia blush raised me back to life.
2) Pick out your three outfits. We got to wear anything we wanted from Luisaviaroma’s latest collections. I picked cute / rock / Goth styles: lace and leather and metal.
I’m wearing a faux leopard fur jacket by Banana Fish, and a t-shirt gifted by Solobuio (the visual factory of Rome-based music video director, Carlo Roberti. We worked on something together… can you guess what it is?)
3) Take part in an interview for Fashion TV. I spoke about my styling choices, and my experiences in Florence thus far.
4) Have your hair styled. Aveda twisted and pinned my hair on top, and added scrunchy bedhead waves.
5) Choose your accessories. An orange clutch, and a cute boy (Sebastiano, of course).
6) Pose, pose, pose. We stormed the streets of Florence with our photographer.
I’m afraid I don’t recall the brands of my clothing (the info was left out of my files by accident). But the boots are unmistakably Camilla Skovgaard – one black, and one white!
A close-up on Seba’s boots. We have many more modeling photos to share: I did SIX looks in total, so stay tuned!
You can preview my styling lab photos on the Luisaviaroma website. Thanks to AOL / My Daily and Style.it for featuring me. More press and TV clips soon.
I leave you with my “Meet the Fashion Bloggers: La Carmina” video, where I talk about Visual Kei bands, and the joys of big eyelashes. Please give it a view and a YouTube Like.
Do you like my first look from Luisaviaroma? What do you think of the MAC makeup? Funny how many found it extreme, but in the subculture, it’s a day in the life…
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That makeup is amazing! I love how BIG it makes your eyes look! And the Mickey Mouse has such attitude! I love it!
Thanks
Wow, just checked out your website, yo and Seba are amazing!
what a dramatic make-up… I love it ^^
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Eye makeup looks great, does it feel strange to wear the false lashes not on the eye rims?
It felt good, less irritating than usual since it wasn’t up against my eye lid. Fabio did a great job.
What a cute look! :) I love Mickey Mouse on the back of the jacket.
Me too! It was fun to find pieces that reflected ME!
La Carmina xoxo
Do you get to keep the clothes you picked out or do you have to give them back? just a bit confused. How do they keep track of the pieces that everyone wears and make sure to get them back if you can’t keep them?
Ah, I wish we could keep them! haha each item was thousands of dollars!! Of course, we only got to wear them and then we had to return them… We had one or two assistants with us at all times, to help us carry / keep track of the clothes. It’s a great system, and works out well!
Isn’t goth flamboyant by default? :P
¡ Amazinggggg !
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omg you look awesome the make up is realy cute im a huge fan and i think your style is perfect, gothic,and cute :)
you are so sweet, thank you!!
MAC is my brand of preference, actually… most of what I wear is MAC.
Got a question for you on the lipstick though- did they use any tricks to increase opacity, or is that the natural level of opacity of that particular color?
For this look, he outlined the lips with black eyeliner and blended it into the blue, which was actually an opaque lip gloss… it worked quite well! I think the color was naturally opaque. A trick I often use is coloring in my lips with eye pencil, since it’s darker.
Camilla Skovgaard boots are love! :D
<3 <3 yess!
love your make up, it’s dramatic and shows what make up is all about, change face proportions, create an atmosphere,define a character and a personality.
I also like that you chose to wear two different colour shoes.
Thanks so much! I love it too!
i love your makeup and how you do whatever style you want <3 people like you often inspire my makeup and outfits. =)
thank you!! That means so much to me !
awesome orange purse ,love the white booty :))
hunny you always look gorgeous :)
your last make up look great!!!!
luv the mismatched Camilla Skovgaard booties
i love the boot combination! i also like the makeup :)
Total fan of MAC – they don’t test on animals!
Love MAC but stay away from their foundations!
Crazy chicklet he he
oh my, love it!
OMg! you look majestic my Evil Queen partner in Crime <3
Muaahahahhaah!! <3
loving the jacket hun
thanks!
Your jacket is killer!!!
just saw this video on my subscription list!! lacarmina looks beautiful on this video!!
dear Carmina thank you so much!!!
Love it!!!
Totally rad!!
Love the thing with the shoes!!
Looks really cool.. *_* ♥
You should so try on the *mamba* style and have Seba dressed up in a Kigurumi. xD
I never tried to wear that kind of make up but your big eye lashes and faux leopard print are amazing! You wore that dress with confidence! Cheers!