Mary Kay Inspires You Beauty Workshop Intercollege

May 13th, 2017: Mary Kay Inspires You Intercollege Beauty Workshop was held at the ground floor of Tun Abang Salahuddin Islamic Centre. The invited speakers for the event are Senior Director Mdm Falissatini, Senior Beauty Consultants Ms Nur Fitrah and Ms Intan Sharfinaz, and Beauty Consultants Ms Nur Farahani, and Ms Ivy Rudah.

Mdm Falissatini and Ms Nur Fitrah began with sharing a brief history of the founder of Mary Kay beauty products, Mdm Mary Kay Ash.

Before going into the applications of makeup, the speakers introduced the proper products and their sequence in cleansing the face. The first product to be used is a cleanser for the eye area and the lips. Mdm Falissatini also shared that the less foamy a cleanser is, the better it is and reminded the participants to wash the makeup off first before washing the face.

The next item to be used is the facial cleanser. The cream should be applied on the face using the last three fingers on the hand as it produced less pressure. The application began with circular motions on the lower jaw and followed by the cheeks, nose and forehead. The direction of the application should be going up the face to reduce the facial muscle from sagging. The facial cleanser was removed using a wet facial tissue so that any dirt will stick to the tissue.

Then, an application of a mask to remove dirt that cannot be removed by the facial cleanser as well as tighten the facial muscle. The mask need not be applied daily but once or twice a week is enough. Ms Nur Farahani also revealed that if the user experienced itchiness while wearing the mask, it may not be due to sensitive skin but dehydrated skin as the mask used also moisturize the skin and having a thin skin.

After 10 minutes, the mask was removed using a wet facial tissue and on the surface of the tissue are all the dirt that was removed. Then, the participants were told to use a toner. The previous products opened the pores on the face in order to remove dirt. The purpose of the toner was to close up the opened pores as well as help in removing leftover makeup. Moisturizer was then used to keep the skin moist.

Then, the makeup session and competition. The first tip given by Ms Nur Fitrah was on how to select the correct foundation. It is a common for people to test the foundation on the skin of the hand. However, this is incorrect as the skin tone of the hand and the face were often different. The proper place to test it out is on the skin of the neck. Application of the foundation should follow the flow of the face, normally, going downwards.

The first layer to be applied is the primer followed by a mix of foundation and the selected CC cream. If makeup is to be applied on the eye area, an eye primer should be applied first. This is to ensure the makeup applied in that area lasted longer and will not dripped below the area intended when sweating occurs.

A pair of participants from each table was the representatives for their table in the makeup competition where one is the model and the other is the makeup artist. Ms Nur Fitrah and Mdm Falissatini were the judges with Ms Nur Fitrah having the final say. The winning pair were Ms Siti Amira as the model and Elsiey as the makeup artist. The winning pair received a small bag of Mary Kay products as the prize.

Prepared By:

Pliny Narong