Rae Morris was back at Salon Melbourne this year and gave a sold-out education workshop and live stage demo. We spoke to her about what she taught and the hottest trends right now.
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What did you teach in your workshop?
It was the basics of makeup which I adapt each year. Overall, the workshop taught how to make the average woman look beautiful; to work and be successful as a makeup artist you’ve got to be able to make any woman look like how the celebrities look on the red carpet.
The makeup looks demonstrated were classic, timeless and beautiful which can be used for any age and on any woman. I demonstrated not only how to make women look beautiful but combat ageing as well.
I had two amazing 17 year old models and half way through I sent them home and pulled some mature women out of the crowd. Demos are usually on young, flawless models, which is unrealistic and not the kinds of women who pay for us to do their makeup – brides, mums, etc. Learning how to do makeup on a super-model is not real life… How do you combat problems like when someone has small lips? I just thought… I am going to make this about how to make women look ten years younger and it was awesome.
People come back to my workshops every year so I have to remember not to tell the same jokes and I always discuss eyebrows and contour which is key to any look so I have to apologise and say sorry you are going to hear about that again. I will never stop teaching and I love an audience.
How did your Live Demo go?
For the live stage shows I called women up from the crowd to demonstrate the latest trends and how to use colour which was really fun. I demonstrated how to make the average woman look like a super model and how to make an eye look bigger… Eyeliner is a big trend but if you don’t do it right it can make eyes look droopy so I explained how to apply it on different eye shapes including hooded.
It would be different if I was just teaching makeup artists in the fashion industry but at salon Melbourne I interpreted trends for the average woman. Those in attendance are often beauty therapists and women who work in salons, as well as women who want to learn techniques for their own makeup.
Tell us about the latest trends you are enjoying?
Last season we saw very block colour, such as a green eye with a red lip. Now, we are seeing a lot of jewelled colour, which I love, such as deep greens, deep burgundies and bronzes.
Bright colour, such as bright blue looks so eighties and I hate trends that can’t convert to every day women on the street.
This new trend is great for women who love colour but instead of opting for a bright it may be a deep green or deep burgundy with a deep purple – one or two colours on the eye look great. The darker you keep a colour the sexier it is… If you like blue use a dark shade, if you like purple use a dark shade, for example. With this look skin is left nude but flawless, so BB Cream is popular. With jewelled eyes I love a contoured look as I think blush can be too much.
When it comes to lips, the nude lip will always be popular but there are a lot of orange and reds still in… I love tomato red.
So for this look, skin should be flawless and cheeks chiselled, brows defined, jewelled eyes and a nude lip. When I say nude I don’t mean no lip… Your nude lip should be the colour that’s in between your natural lip colour and your skin tone – it’s different on everyone.
What is your top tip?
I have this rule – do 80 per cent of your makeup looking straight ahead in the mirror and then find the highest point of your eyelid, know where it is then if you look straight ahead and do all your makeup parallel to the highest point, or above, you have lifted your eye. Trends are great if it makes you look ten years younger – if not… don’t do it. Oh – and stay away from shimmer and frost on wrinkles.
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