Breakfast with Mixed Gems on LSRadio this weekend!

How would you like to have breakfast with me?

This weekend, I’ll be hosting another special edition Mixed Gems radio show for my student radio station, LSRadio. To celebrate their coverage of Liverpool Sound City, the annual music festival which kicked off this evening, I will be taking Mixed Gems to the airwaves and punctuating my segments with music from Sound City performers.

In a true Mixed Gems format, I’ll be featuring four different segments during my breakfast show. I would love for these to be really interactive and collaborative, a chance for me to engage with my readers, so please get in touch with your requests/ideas! Here’s what I’ll be covering:

• MAKEUP: I’ll be broadcasting on Saturday morning at 9am, so chances are I’ll be speaking to lots of people who are wondering what on earth they’re going to wear that night! Whether you’re off to lunch with your other half or planning a wild night out in the evening, why not let me help you with your makeup? Tell me what you’ll be wearing and I will suggest the perfect products, colours and ideas to help you to set off your outfit in style. Maybe you’ve just got a general question like which blusher to buy, or which eyelashes I like to use? Whatever the question I’m here to help – I could talk makeup all day…
• RELATIONSHIPS: Is your boyfriend driving you a bit nuts? Has your best friend got herself all stressed out about her exams and you don’t know how to help her? Whatever the problem, let me know and I will try my best to offer some candid and helpful relationship advice.
• CAREERS: With mere days to go until finishing University, I am concentrating now on my next steps and on finding a good job. An extension of my regular Dream Jobs features, I’ll be using this segment to explore ways in which you can nail a job application and find the perfect position for you. Are you graduating and want some tips for putting together the perfect CV? E-mail me with your queries and, using stories from previous Dream Jobs interviewees, I will provide some inspiring advice from those who have been there, done it and nailed it!
• HOT THIS WEEK: What have you been watching this week? Which celebrities have caught your eye with a Twitter row? Which new music videos can’t you get enough of? Let me know your favourite things about the last 7 days and let’s talk about them.

I’m really excited to do my show as I thoroughly enjoy working on the radio, but it will only be as entertaining as you make it! Please get in touch with absolutely anything you’d like to ask or have featured and I would love to work my Mixed Gems magic to help you.

Get in touch by e-mailing me at rosaleen@rosaleengallagher.com.

If possible it would be great to have your name and location, and if you’re asking a makeup question then a rough idea of your age would be great for me to recommend something appropriate.

Be sure to tune in to LSRadio by visiting www.lsradio.co.uk at 9am this Saturday 19th May and I look forward to having breakfast with you!

Twiggy vs Edie Sedgwick: Monochrome Mod Makeup

One thing I’ve always wanted to try for a night out is a really mod makeup look like Edie Sedgwick or Twiggy. Both wore similar monochrome looks, but each had slight variations.

Twiggy’s mod look featured very soft eyebrows and some black shading in the socket of the eye. She liked to draw on little lash imitations on the lower lash line.

Edie’s mod look consisted of a really strong set of brows and her socket shading even flicked out to the sides a little. She often took her socket shading as far as to the side of her nose.

I decided to marry both of these looks and create a mod look for my friend Flora. Flora’s skin is flawless so I knew this all-about-the-eyes look would be great on her, and she’d just had her hair cut into a really mod shape so she was the perfect model.

What I combined:

• Soft lid colour from both looks
• Liquid liner along the lash line from both
• Edie’s slightly flicked socket shading
• Edie’s strong brows
• Lashes that mimic Twiggy’s drawn on lower lash lines

Do any of you follow the Pixi Woo YouTube channel? I watched the Twiggy YouTube tutorial for some ideas and it was really helpful. In particular I found it great that she showed me which brushes she was using; anyone can see a picture of a makeup and try to replicate it, but I believe that you’ll only be as successful as your brushes.

First of all I used a white eyeshadow on Flora’s eyelid. Then, I took a black eyeshadow and created a flicked shading in her sockets. Next, I took a liquid liner and lined her upper lash line. I coated just her top eyelashes in mascara… you’ll see why in a minute!

To make Flora’s eyes look bigger, I actually created a fake lower lash line for her. I used white kohl liner on her water line and then I used white eyeshadow under the water line to give the impression of a larger eye. I didn’t apply any mascara to her lower lashes as I was going to pretend that they weren’t there! Using a black liquid liner, I drew on a false lash line lower down her eye.

I used two sets of lashes on her, top and bottom, and both were a No.55 lash from Peaches and Cream. These lashes are perfect for a mod look because as you can see they’re kind of gappy and so they mimic Twiggy’s drawn on lash lines. When applying these lashes to Flora’s lower lash line, I applied them onto her new false eye line. Unfortunately these lashes are currently out of stock at Peaches but I’ll be sure to post on my Facebook/Twitter pages when they’re back in.

What do you think? Would you wear this on a night out or do you think it’s a look best left in the 60s? I can’t wait to experiment with it now that I’ve had some practise.

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