The Makeup Show 2013: Show Day

The 8th edition of the makeup show NYC was another record breaking success with over 7,000 attendees and 85 beauty brand exhibitors.

Brands present include the usual; Inglot, Makeup Forever, Temptu, Smashbox, OCC, Crown, MAC, London brush company...

And some new faces (to me at least) Khauraira, Lashes in a box, Cattiva cosmetics, Layla cosmetics, J'aimee lashes and a ton more. 

Photo credit: Nadav Vee Havakook

OCC: Stained Gloss

Makeup Forever Paris

J'aimee lashes 

Lit Cosmetics: Glitter pots 

Lahses in a box

London brush company nouVeau vegan collection 

Hakuhodo

Bdellium Tools: Studio line 

Tweezerman: Bedazzled tweezers

Elissa jade

Cattiva: blinged out packaging 

Up next seminars, key notes and art at the show

The Makeup Show New York 2013: Pre Show Event

This year, the Makeup Show NYC kicked off on Saturday, May 4th with an opening event featuring live model makeup applications by the shows makeup artists, some leading makeup brands and the students competition.

The event also payed tribute to Wojciech Inglot, founder of Inglot cosmetics in a touching slide show narrated by James Vincent.

The Makeup Show artists and models: Danessa Myricks, Orlando Santiago, John Henessey, Esterique Aidan and James Vincent

Models for Inglot 

Love this look, will totally be recreating this 

Makeup by Nickey Posley for Temptu pro

Makeup by Stephanie Cintron for Inglot 

Makeup For OCC

Makeup by Cory Bishop for Stila  

Makeup by Lijah Stewart & Jenn Karsten for Makeup Forever 

The Student's Competition...

Look who I spotted in the crowd... Maryam Maquillage

There's more where theses came from so stay tuned :-D

Sam Fine for Fashion Fair Pink Parfait Lipstick* Pictures & Swatches

Sam Fine for Fashion Fair Pink Parfait  Lipstick is a bright barbie pink with a rich creamy finish. This one is not for the timid, you will need to be bold and a tad daring to pull this one off, or make it more "wearable" with a plum lip liner...

Pink Parfait lined with Sleek's Deep Cherry

What do you think?

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Sam Fine for Fashion Fair* Dynasty Red Lipstick Pictures & Swatches

Sam Fine for Fashion Fair lipstick in Dynasty Red is a creamy bright red shade. Another favorite from the collection, its now red lip product of choice. Click here for the Full review

Me likey alot!

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Sam Fine for Fashion Fair Cognac Lipstick* Pictures & Swatches

Hello lovelies,

Its taken me a while to post these, I'm blaming it on jet lag; thats my story and I'm sticking to it. I'm currently in NY for The Makeup Show and some long over due holiday & training. Will yo be at the show? Holla at your gurl! LOL

Right so without any further ado, here are my pictures and swatches of Sam Fine for Fashion Fair lip stick in Cognac. Another dark beauty, Cognac is a rich chocolate brown with gold shimmery highlights. If you, missed my full review on these lip sticks please click HERE

Would you try this shade?

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Review: Sam Fine for Fashion Fair African Violet Lipstick*

Sam Fine for Fashion Fair African Violet lipstick ($22.00/N4,200 for 0.12 oz./3.4g) described as a deep plum with a luxurious formula that has an ultra-creamy texture to guarantee incredibly smooth application and rich color payoff. Specially treated pigments blended to deliver pure, intense color with the perfect hint of shine.

African Violet is a rich deep plum with a creamy texture and shimmer free finish, similar to Makeup Forever Rouge artist intense #48.

Like the rest of the Supreme Color Collection, it comes in a rich gold tube. I feared it would be heavy as metallic packaging sometimes is but its not. Light weight without looking cheap (at all :-)

African Violet like the other shades in this collection is moisturising, creamy and very pigmented. It delivers full opaque coverage, with a smooth creamy texture for a drag-free application. Once on it pretty much stayed put, when they said long wear they were not kidding. This lipstick survived 2 cups of coffee and lunch! Over the course of the day (coffee, lunch et al) it lost some of its pigmentation and shine, leaving a less intense almost matte finish.

If you are not bold enough to go full on with a dark lip try fading it out: apply African Violet to your upper lip alone and smack your lips together to spread the color
The Sam Fine for Fashion fair lipsticks retail at $22 for 3.4g. Quite pricey, compared to other high end brands like MAC lipsticks retail for $15.0 for 3g, Makeup Forever $19 for 3.4g but with the packaging and intense color payoff I'd say its worth every penny. 

African Violet is one of my favourites of the entire collection. I'm absolutely loving this! Apart from the shade, I love that it's long lasting but not drying, so I can have breakfast and carry on with my day without needing to touch up my lipstick :-)

Have you tried any lipsticks from the collection? What do you think?

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