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Susan Barclay-Nichols When I posted the translucent and opaque foundation bases, I wasn’t happy with the colours I had either tried or created, so I didn’t post any. Now I’ve had a chance to play around a bit, and I wanted to share! I’ve been using the opaque base, but you can use the translucent base for...
As you might remember from the opaque foundation base post, we can add titanium dioxide or zinc oxide to our blush base to increase the opacity, but this will increase the drag. So we need to compensate by having more sericite mica and more Micronaspheres (in the blush colour grind). I’m adding Dry-flo (optional), as...
Blush bases are as variable as the people who wear them. You can make a very simple blush with serecite mica and colour or Micronaspheres and colour or you can make a very complicated one with almost every ingredient I’ve written about in the last few weeks! What’s the point of a blush? We want...
THE COLOUR WHEELI found it really helpful when starting off with MMU to learn about the colour wheel. (This is a great site to learn about colour theory!) We bought one from the scrapbooking store so we could consult it while blending. Colours across the wheel are complementary, so they make the other stand out....
When I get a new colour – mica, ultramarine, iron oxide, and so on – I like to play with it to see how it will change with my base. I make up a little chart something that looks something like this.So I know what it looks like without base, with base in different ratios,...