Pikki Dolli: Blend Blend Blend

Over the years I've been trying to get better at my makeup application skills. It took me a while to even get into just simple mascara and lipgloss and let's say I was stuck there for a while. But now I want to be able to create different looks for myself and not have to always rely on a professional service.

So off to YouTube I go. I follow a few ladies that I think are pretty amazing in their art. Beauty by JJ, Ellarie, Makeup Game on Point to name a few. I'm still very much in the beginners stages especially when you look at the quality of makeup skills people have. But practise practise practise makes perfect right?

One of my first setbacks was the lack of products to cater to a dark skinned person such as myself in stores like Priceline and Chemist Warehouse where "drugstore brands" are sold here in Australia. Foundations, concealer etc only go to "lighter, much paler" shades, you catch my drift. So I had to suck it up and go spend the big bucks at Myer, Mecca and the like. It's been a process. Currently, I use MAC, Napoleon Perdis and Nars products.

I have been able to find a Black Opal stockist recently and I'm pretty excited about that too.... Now I have to learn how to blend my foundations and my shadows and my blushes etc.

Where is this post going.

Right.

Jet lag led me to Beauty by JJ's latest YouTube video which I ended up having a go at. Let's just say if at first you don't succeed...