Second day on my make up course and we covered A LOT! 

Today was all about creating the perfect base.  Tutor Nicci Jackson took us through skin tones which, so far I'm finding very confusing (warm, cool, pink, yellow...) so fingers crossed it will click into place soon!  Most people in the class are warm and I always thought I was cool but apparently I'm warm and cool in places.  

Nicci made up two girls from the class, Lucy & Maria, who both have very different skin tones and needs so it was great to see.  Who knew that orange beard cover up (as in 5 O'clock shadow!) was so great at covering dark circles? 

Nicci also took us through primers, the differences between some of the best foundations on the market and introduced us to Derma Palettes - which we got very excited about!

Our practical task was to pick a partner to make up, choose their correct foundation tone & shade and apply it perfectly within 15mins.  

I paired up with beautiful, Brazilian Myra and we got to work.  Once time was up we were taken outside to the natural light where Nicci examined our work.  Myrna & I did pretty well, no glaring errors and we chose the perfect shades thankfully.

Next we used the Derma Palettes (yay!) to conceal imperfections, though, honestly Myrna barely had any - not even dark circles!  Amazingly though, you can spend forever concealing and we had to be stopped and taken to the harsher, artificial, fill light to be checked over again.  I think we both look pretty gorgeous and we passed the task.

Tomorrow we continue learning about skin tones, contouring, highlighting and start to look at eye shadows & liners.  Phew!