Product Review: Urban Decay Naked Palettes

Let's talk about getting Naked, the palettes that is! In just a few years Urban Decay has launched 4 palette's in the Naked Collection that are must to talk about Naked, Naked 2, Naked 3 (new) and Naked Basics (my favorite!)

NAKED

12-shadow palette mostly in shimmer/sparkle I would only consider 2 of these shadows in matte. Limiting for makeup artists but some beautiful tones I would like to just have two or three of the colors in this palette for my line of work in the bridal industry like Sin, Toasted and Naked. Brush that comes with I gladly added to my professional brush kit.

$52.00 retail @ www.Sephora.com

NAKED 2

12-shadow palette with some intense sparkle/metallics! I would consider this in my collection of Holiday shadows. Very fun and again, beautiful pigments. Again, there is maybe one pigment I would consider a matte color, I do like "blackout" in this collection a true black for smokey eyes. My favorites from this palette are Blackout, YDK and Chopper. They did up the anty with this double brush, smart on their end with all these metallics reduces sparkles from moving all over your face or your clients instead adhere's to the brush.

$52.00 retail @ www.Sephora.com

NAKED 3 (new!)

Rose Gold packaging!!! My favorite packaging so far! The packaging tells the story before you even open to reveal all the pretty roses with hints of gold. I like this palette because no matter what skin tone you are it works well from pale to deep tan. I would consider 4 of the 12 pigments in matte shade, much more versatile palette to work with as an artist and a key palette when working with brides and pageant girls! Same professional grade brush as Naked 2, I'll take it. It's awesome.

$52.00 retail @ www.Sephora.com

NAKED BASICS

6-shadow palette, obviously the smallest of their palette collections but a great add-on if you already own a NAKED palette and need more blending hues. Or you can use on it's own especially when working with brides and makeup lessons. No brush included but for half the price, it's understandable. Favorite colors is Naked 2 and Venus (great for highlighting without shimmer).

$27.00 retail @ www.Sephora.com

I hope this helps any artists or consumers out there when making a decision on the four Naked Palettes. Thanks for reading and following!

Makeup Tutorial:Temptu Pro Airbrow

Makeup Mondays are back, here's a how to tutorial on using Temptu Pro's Airbrow system. Get perfectly shaped eyebrows with the Airbrow Kit, included in the kit are 7 s/b shades I guarantee can match your clients brows with the ability to mix colors as well and it also includes 6 stencils. Although it's not demonstrated in this video, I do like to use the edges of the stencils to create sharp brows and brows that are on the thinner side. I like that I can control my shape more by using the sides and edges of the stencils.
www.temptu.com sells this kit on their website for $85 but I have had mine for a while and haven't had to replace the stencils and shades yet. I even teach with this set, so a little bit goes a long way thus making this worth the $85.
If you order through my company we offer 10%!

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Thanks for viewing!

Glam School 2014 Schedule:Makeup Artist Certification Course

After a year of success Sara Faella's Makeup Artist Certification Educational Center is growing. We are excited to welcome in the new year with more classes and educators.

Beginner Artistry Pro Course
       3-day weekend class
           December 13-15
           January 24-26
           February 14-16
       4-week day class
           January 8, 15, 22, 29
           February 5, 12, 19, 26
     
$850
includes brush set and mini-makeup kit.

Advanced Artistry Pro
      5-day weekday class
           December 16-20th
   
$2500
includes brushes and makeup kit.

Please visit our new website www.sarafaellamakeupschool.com for more information and bookings!

info@sarafaellaglamschool.com
401-323-6133

GLAM SCHOOL

Come to GLAM SCHOOL with the Glammies, Sara Faella's entourage of beauty professionals for the Month of March we are now featuring Free Makeup Classes on Mondays at 6pm. We are thrilled that our Makeup Mondays have evolved into live demonstrations in BOTH locations, Westerly & Providence. Space is limited so please sign up as soon as possible and it is also filled on a first come, first served basis. Please email sara@sarafaella.com for more details, we also offer private lessons. Please inquire within for bookings.

Not only will you get to get "Glam'd by Glammies" but you can learn how to do it to yourself too!

**Bring your Makeup Brushes if you have them**

Mondays at 6pm 

(Month of March only)

Providence Location:

Sara's Glam Squad Salon

beauty loft

64 Orange Street

Providence RI 02903

Westerly Location:

Sara Faella Artist & Design Studio

beauty loft

47 High Street, ste 209

Westerly RI 02891

sara@sarafaella.com

Featured Cosmetics

First Makeover Winners!

What turned into a small need for me to get creative went into a huge contest via Facebook on our FanPage! I wanted to do a makeover and take some photo's in my Providence location salon, boy did we get a great turnover I just had to video it!
I wish everybody could have won! Yet, I have decided to make this a weekly drawing!! Every Friday evening you will have one hour from 8pm-9pm to enter your name for a Free Makeover on Saturday! Goodluck and see you next week!!

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Makeup Monday-Episode 17 Holiday Glow

Press Release:New Lofted Salon Brings Life to Downtown Providence

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Sara Faella                       

Entrepreneur/sole-proprietor

401-323-6133

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SARA FAELLA OPEN'S SECOND LOCATION IN DOWNTOWN PROVIDENCE, SARA'S GLAM SQUAD SALON

Sara Faella, 27 year old young entrepreneur and award winning makeup artist from The Knot as The Best of Weddings for 2011 open's her second beauty location in downtown Providence. Originally her one station studio in Westerly, RI which opened in June 2010 was sufficient for her on location bridal hair & makeup beauty business but quickly had to expand because of her growing second team of stylists "Sara's Glam Squad" to sustain her flourishing bridal business. For 2011, Sara Faella & Sara's Glam Squad has serviced 150 brides and counting, tripling their business from 2010.

Sara's Glam Squad Salon a full service salon, located 64 Orange Street between Weybosset & Pine sits in the heart of the financial district of downtown Providence opened August 2011. The beautiful lofted salon is vintage glam inspired with crystal chandeliers, gold trimmings and pink vintage furniture. Even in a recession Sara Faella has opened a luxury beauty hair & makeup boutique salon with a full staff of in house trained professionals to brings life to a growing city, "My goal is to create jobs, create beauty and build my business. I am so fortunate to be in a career that I love and feel as though I am living my dreams everyday. I would love to keep expanding and eventually franchise". Please contact, Sara Faella at 1-855-GLAM-ASAP and visit website www.sarafaella.com and www.sarasglamsquad.com for more information.

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Makeup Mondays Episode 16-All About Rouge Contouring Cheeks

Want to learn how to make a cheek bone? Or enhance one you may already have? We have taken some of your fave "cheek" looks from celebrities and brought you this Episode:All about Rouge Contouring Cheeks~Well here it is ladies! Enjoy...

Makeup Mondays Episode 15 Arabic Eyes

A hot commodity~Arabic Eyes. Want your eye color to pop? Well who doesn't right?! Arabic Eye makeup is a sure thing to make ANY eye color pop! Sara Faella demonstrates how to achieve this look with a few tools and cosmetics. She even links in previous episodes (Giselle Eyelash Strip Extension, Episode 13 and Winged Out Eyeliner, Episode 14) to help you achieve this look. 

Here are the cosmetics and tools we used:

MAC blanc type eyeshadow 

MAC feline black pencil liner mac

MAC carbon shadow

DIOR diorshow blackout mascara

NARS pencil sharpener

LAURA MERCIER smudging brush


Photographs of inspiration:

Thank you for viewing our blog posts & video tutorals

www.sarafaella.com

www.sarasglamsquad.com

Makeup Mondays-Episode 14 Winged-Out Eyeliner

Makeup Mondays-Episode 12-Quick Black Smokey Eye

Welcome to another Makeup Monday by Sara Faella. In this episode she demonstrates how to do a quick black smokey eye. This quick application will take you from day to night, a great application to go with a little black dress.

Cosmetics Used in this Episode:

MAC Painterly Eyeprimer

MAC Naked Loose Pigment

MAC Black track Cake Liner

MAC Scene Satin Eyeshadow (transitioning color)

MAC Carbon Matte eyeshadow

Brushes used in this Episode:

Rain Cosmetics shadow brush #12

Mac Brush corner shadow brush #275

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Makeup Mondays-Episode 10 Eyeshadows for Hazel Eyes

Thank you for joining us this week for our Makeup Monday:Eyeshadows for Hazel Eyes, our 10th Episode! We do understand trying to find complimentary shadows for your eye color can be challenging and let's face it we always want our eyes "to pop"! This is my number one request on location from clients. If you have hazel eyes, you are in for a treat because so do I! Making this our talk of the day. 


Makeup used in this episode:
Eye Primer MAC Vintage Selection
Eyeshadow MAC Seedy Pearl
Eyeshadow MAC Shale (satin)
Eyeshadow MAC  Fig 1. (matte)
Eyeliner MAC Purple Dash (mechanical pencil) 


Brushes used in this episode:
Eve Pearl Concealer Brush 102
MAC Eye Shader Brush 239
MAC Medium Angle Brush 275 (closest to the one used in episode)

For more information on Sara Faella please visit 

www.sarafaella.com

Episode 9-Makeup Mondays~Rain Cosmetics

This week we feature our sponsor Rain Cosmetics, a Las Vegas makeup line with beautiful crystal turquoise packaging & also the official makeup for the Miss USA 2011 Pageant from just last night! 

The Makeup is HD compatible, with stunning hues from eyes to lips. Sara Faella tested these products 3 weeks prior to shooting and is a fan! She is fully stocked with these products and has begun using them on various shoots and for her brides. The best thing about these products, they all smell so good! Which we all know is so important, even the cream foundations smell like baby powder! Ohh La La!

Makeup Sara Faella used in Episode:
"Virtual Olive" Cream Foundation
"Sunset" Cream Foundation
"Translucent" Setting Powder
"Diva" Eyeshadow Quad
"Fantasy" Blush
"High RIse" Mascara
"Bottle Service" Lipstick
"Berry Manilow" High Gloss
Foundation Brush #7
Blusher Brush #5
Eyeshadow Blending Brush #12

If you would like to purchase please contact Sara Faella:

sara@sarafaella.com

www.sarafaella.com
www.raincosmetics.com

Makeup Mondays Episode 5-The Golden Goddess

Makeup Artist Sara Faella talks about Summer 2011 Makeup Trends as well as explains techniques and products. This week our look is "The Golden Goddess" using mixtures of bronzers and highlighters. We hope you enjoy! Thank you to John Greene of Living Color Productions.

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sara@sarafaella.com

Makeup Mondays Sara Faella Episode 2- The Smokey Eye

As Sara has grown in the beauty industry, she has realized that it's not that women don't like to wear makeup, it's that they really don't know how to wear it. Achieving a smokey eye can be a bit intimidating. 
Let's face it nobody wants to waste their time in the morning of relentless attempts of achieving a smokey eye, only to come out with the results of looking like a raccoon.

For episode 2, Sara has listened to concerns of her clients and consumers and has launched this free video tutorial on how to do "The Everyday Smokey Eye" and then gives tips and tricks on how to jazz it up for a little more of a dramatic look!

We hope you enjoy this video tutorial and we also hope it's helpful to you everyday gals. Sara has tried to thoroughly explain the tools and products she's using throughout her video's, if you have any questions at all you can email her personally at

sara@sarafaella.com.

For her full portfolio of work you can visit her website at

www.sarafaella.com.

Thank you to Living Color Productions for a FAB job on producing our Video's!!

Makeup Mondays Sara Faella Episode 1- Applying Foundation

Welcome to Makeup Mondays! 

Due to popular demand Sara Faella has created Video Makeup Tutorials to help the everyday gal with all her makeup needs. Providing tips & tricks for the less savy makeup wearer. 

Although, even for the most advance makeup artists still may be able to learn a trick or two.

For our first Makeup Monday we figured we start with the basics, 

Foundation Application. 

We use Makeup Forever HD liquids for this tutorial but you can use any foundation brand and colors to match your skin tone. If you have any questions on brushes, foundations, moisturizers or primers please comment below. We hope you enjoy our tutorials! Please let us know what else you would like to see; next Monday is The Everyday Smokey Eye!

Stay Tuned.

Makeup Artist: Sara Faella

Production Assistance: Chrissi Hennessey

Videography: Living Color Productions

Music:Kim Kardashian


www.SaraFaella.com

Getting to know Sara Faella:Biography & Promo Video

Sara Faella Artist Designer Stylist is a Luxury Makeup and Hair Artist as well a Couture Accessories Designer "Faella Couture". For many that already know Sara, know that she is a passionate artist and that she is rapidly expanding. this Biography/Promotional video allows consumers to view, in depth the Award Winning Sara Faella at more of a personal level.

In just one years time Sara Faella's Fan Page has obtained over 6,200 fans and counting,! Has been featured and appeared on Fox News three times, featured in 4 Magazine Publications: Grace Ormande, Southern New England Weddings, Brides Connecticut and RI Monthly Engaged, Hair & Makeup Artist for LX New York TV Segment, Accessories provider & "featured" actress in a scene for new CBS TV Series: Body of Proof (airing March 27th 2011).

Sara Faella opened her first studio location June 2010 in Westerly, RI and is opening her second location in East Greenwich, RI located at the Sara Zarrella Photography building for Spring 2011.

Sara Faella, Award Winner from The Knot's "Best of Wedding 2011" is a growing business and household name in the Wedding Industry. As a result Sara Faella expanded herself and formed Sara's Glam Squad, 15 Beauty professionals in house trained first and second team to bring on site. So Sara & Glam Squad can get booked for multiple weddings/events in one day while also offering her clients Sara Faella Cosmetics, a full line of luxury beauty products consisting of long wear Lip sticks, Glosses, Camera Ready Foundations and Primers as well as high quality cosmetic brushes.

To learn more about Sara Faella please visit her website www.SaraFaella.com

Thank you to Living Color Productions for a job well done on this video!