Jay's Make-up wins eTV's employee of the Year!!

I always reach for the moon because even if I miss I'll land among the stars.

With God, hard work, perseverance I made it to the  TOP

Employee of the Year Award 2011!

Queenie with Jay's

 BEFORE

Meet Queenie, the presenter of eTV Ghana's "Tying the Knot" (a wedding show), before Jay's Make-up made her world more beautiful. For one of her shows I decided to make her make-up stand out boldly. I wont give you all my secrets however I can give you a few of Jay's Make-up tips for this bold look. TIPS: To start you will need a concealer before using your pressed powder. It is very important to use bright shadows and a high-lighter, mascara, and dark eyeliner to bring out your eyes. Also use a brighter color for your lips if you are dark skinned or darker color if you are light skinned to give you that contrast you need. You can see from the pictures that I used a pink lip-stick and a blusher for the chin. Below are some pictures of Queenie.

 JAY works on Queenie

 AFTER

 JAY's Make-up
Making life more beautiful....

Jay's Make-up on Frema Ashkar

Day Make-up

Hello everybody,

Welcome to Jays Make-up. It’s a brand new month and we have a lot of things in store for you. This month we will be talking about day make-up that you can apply when going to the office, meetings, day time corporate events.

1.     Your make-up is not supposed to be very bold. It needs to look natural, settled and professional.

FOUNDATION:

2.     Look for a foundation or loose powder that is your skin tone, this is very important because if the foundation is too light or too dark it will affect the way your face looks. If you have black spots on your face it is advisable to use both. In this case start by applying your foundation and finish it off with a loose powder. Please be aware that you do not apply a layer that is too thick because it needs to look natural.

EYES:

3.     When applying your eye make-up we always start with the eye shadows. Do not begin by applying your eyeliner, because if you apply the shadows after the eyeliner the powder tends to fall on top of the eyeliner, fading the color. This is why we first apply the eye shadow and then the eyeliner.

 With your eye shadows you must use lighter colors, which are closer to your skin tone and are termed as day colors. For example, you can use light brown, soft pink, soft shades of gold and any colors that compliment your skin tone but are mild.

4.     After applying the eye shadow, line your eyes with a liquid eyeliner or black pencil. This enhances your eyes. Please note that the line should not be too thick and dramatic, because it is for the day. Remember that less is more

5.     Lastly, apply a little mascara to your eyelashes to bring your eyes out, especially when you have small eyes.

EYEBROWS:

6.     If you have not waxed or trimmed your eyebrows into shape, use an eyebrow brush to shape your eyebrows. If your eyebrows are already shaped well just start by applying brown pencil to your eyebrows.

Start drawing your eyebrows by outlining the shape of your eyebrows. Do not extend the eyebrow out too far from your eyes towards your ears, but keep it in the same shape as your natural eyebrow. Do not press the pencil too hard on your eyebrow but apply the pencil lightly and then brush it in with the eyebrow brush.

Please note that a BLACK pencil should NOT be used when drawing in your eyebrows, because it does not look natural.

(*tip: if you do not have an eyebrow brush, use an old tooth brush that you longer use to brush your eyebrows into shape)

LIPS:

7.     If you want to line your lips, use a lip-liner that has the same color as that of your lipstick. This way the lip-liner works as a barrier to keep your lipstick in place all day long. Also here, please do not forget to use lighter colors and colors that do not stand out too much to give it that professional look and feel.

BLUSH:

8.     During the day blush is not really needed. If you do want to apply a bit of blush, make sure it is very mild and compliments your skin tone. Make sure that you apply it starting from the apples on your cheeks. To find your apples smile and find the part of your cheek that stands out most. From here apply the blush towards your hairline and then bring it back down in a “C” motion. Also do this upwards to give your face a soft look.

After this make sure to blend, Blend, BLEND! Blending in the blush will give you the ultimate natural look that you need for your day time make-up.

 

9.     When the day is done always remember to CLEANSE YOUR FACE VERY WELL!!! So that you do not get any reaction to the make-up or unnecessary spots on your face.

JAY's Make-Up with Girl Talk

This is Oheenewaa. She is the presenter of Girl Talk. This program is all about girls so the colors must be colorful and bright. For her eyeshadows i decided to use blue and gold to blend them together because these two colors look really good together. For her lips I used pink to bring out her beautiful lips. As you can see they are thick and so it should come out boldly but subtle at the same time. As much as i want to use all the bright colors since its recorded during the day it should be day make-up.

Final Touch

Done

The process

BEFORE 

After

JAY's Make-Up with EAZZY BABY

JAY's Make-up for "Let's get it Started"

This is Eazzy, one of the female artiste  in the music industry in Ghana. I had the opportunity to do her make-up for a music video for Ziggy’s new song ‘Let’s Get it Started’. Her make-up for the video was a wild one because of the story behind the video. Just check out some of the pictures and the video as well

JAY's Make-up for "Let's Get it Started"

A few questions my friends asked me and here are my answers to the questions.

1.     What was your experience shooting a music video?

It was fun. It was something different from the normal studio work that I do. This time around I had to dab off sweat a lot since it was in an open place and the artist was dancing a lot. The crew were all new people that I had not met so the environment was different. All in all it was pleasant, yet challenging too however I still enjoyed myself.

2.     How long did it take you?

It took the whole day starting from the morning since we needed daylight. We shot at a mechanics place first and then moved to different locations. Each location needed different make-up to reflect the environment.

3.     Would you do it again?

Yes I totally would. It was a difference experience all together and it allows you to use a lot of colors with the shadows for the eyes. It also inspires you to learn more on make-up for different themes. I love being versatile with my make-up and music videos give me that opportunity. 

TAKE A LOOK AT MY PORTFOLIO WITH EAZZY

JAY's Make-up for both him and her during video One Girl

JAY's Make-up for Eazzy as a Bride

JAY's Make-up for Eazzy's Photoshoot

JAY's Make-up

JAY's Make-Up

DIFFERENT TYPES OF LIPS

Thick Lip

THICK LIPS – Select natural colours and darker shades, avoiding bright glossy colours.

• Blend foundation over the lips to disguise the natural lip line
• Apply a darker lipliner inside the natural lip line to create a new line

THICKER UPPER  OR LOWER LIP

• Use the technique described above to make the larger lip appear smaller
• Apply a slightly darker lipstick to the larger lip
• If the lips droop at the corners, raise the corners by applying lipliner to the corners of the upper lip to turn them upwards.

Thin Upper Lip

THIN LIPS- Select brighter, pearlised colours. Avoid darker lipsticks, which will make the mouth appear smaller.

• apply a natural lipliner just outside the lip line

SMALL MOUTH

• extend the line slightly to the corners of the mouth, with both the upper and the lower lips

UNEVEN LIPS

• Use a lipliner to draw in a new line
• Apply lipstick to the area

LINES AROUND THE MOUTH

• Apply lipliner around the natural lip line
• Apply a matt cream lipstick to the lips. (don’t use gloss, which might bleed into the lines around the mouth)

Thin Upper Lip

Full Lips

Lip in need of therapy!