Indonesian Fashion Spot!

Ever since I stumbled upon FD and discovered makeup, makeup books are a must on my list. Why? Because for a bencong wannabe like me, buying makeup sure is fun, but applying it can be a challenge on its own. This is where these books came handy. Asian Faces (by Taylor Chang-Babaian, forwarded by Yoko Ono) first attracts me coz it was made especially for Asian women and their characteristics. It might seem like a pretty basic book for advanced, suhu bencong and the likes, but it’s a pretty darn good book for a novice bencong like myself. This book teaches you how to choose the right color of foundation, a face chart (so you’ll know exactly where to put what, with a real human as the model to illustrate the technique, thank you!), how to highlight and contour, makeup brushes, and of course (the eye candy) the many wearable daytime and nighttime looks that you can copy.

Another thing worth mentioning from this book is the cool little tips it provides. Here are some to share with you:

• Use a tiny amount of cream blush as a base and finish off with a powder blush to make cheek color lasts longer.
• Brush a contour shade from the lash line to the middle of eyelid to create additional depth to your eyelids.
• Add a highlighter from temple to apple of the cheek to create a subtle glow to the face, and many more..

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(Moschin o F/W 07 ad campaign featuring Asian models, [left to right] Han Jin, Tao Okamoto, Emma Pei, Zi Jun, Daul Kim, Ai Tominaga, Eugenia Mandzhieva, courtesy of asianmodelsblog, bellazon.com)

This post has been sitting on my draft for MONTHS! I can’t believe that I wasn’t able to post it sooner. I wanted to post this as my very first post of 2008 in FD but it actually took me quite a while just to gather all the pictures. We’ve seen and read enough about all the latest faces, the newcomers of these past few seasons. From Agyness Deyn, Gemma Ward, Irina Lazareanu, Lily Cole, Coco Rocha, Jessica Stam, Lily Donaldson, Iekeline Stange, Doutzen Kroes, Sasha Pivarova, Hana Soupokova, Julia Stegner, Anja Rubik, Behati Prinsloo, Carolina Trentini, Christina Kruse, Freja Beha, bla bla bla…. a long endless list. They’ve all been widely exposed, but what about the new Asian faces?

Cosmopolitan, undetermined issue [l to r: Mo Wandan, Luo Ying, Dai Xiaoyi, Wang Yang, Xu Liwen], courtesy of asianmodelsblog.blogspot.com

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