Character Make-up!

So similar to how all the MUs are....one for all!

Dirtying teeth in character class


All our Musketeers!





Final touches on character brows!


MUs Virg and Xavi preparing teeth for dirtying - 'look like a donkey'...:)

Picking moustache for class!

Today was character class and intro to sfx. Batch 7 MU-ettes rocked totally...:). MU Virginia was delighted with the class today....everyone worked hard, listened to the brief and really tried their best in their artistry! Woo hoo! We all created The 3 Musketeers today....beards, moustaches, stubble, sweat, dirt, scars, broken down skin...such fun....ALL DID WELL! Have n't seen the latest version of it....check it out now at your nearest MU-vie hall...

One for all and all for one MU-ettes! M x

AIRBRUSHING ON THE FAT MU 8 WEEK PRO COURSE!

One of Mulain's fave classes on the pro course - AIRBRUSHING! Just a few pix for you to see the MU-ettes in action....more photos coming on facebook soon!

M x

Celebrating Freida P!

Freida and her looverly Maman!

Looverly Freida at the GQ Men of the Year Awards 2011

Mulain celebrating lovely Freida P and her beautiful canvas...what a face and what a lovely gal. Definitely one of fat mu's favourite ladies. Make-up all done by our MU Natasha!

We love ya Freida!

M x

Happy Birthday fat mu!

So my darlings...fat mu is 5 years old now! Ah Mulain is wishing congrats to all the MUs and MU-ettes...time to celebrate! It seems like only yesterday when Nat and Virg put their little heads together and decided to set up a make-up company! To celebrate and thank all our fans and supporters we have set up a little competition on facebook so YOU could win a place on our exclusive personal party make-up workshop!

Woo hoo!

Interested? Click on http://www.facebook.com/fatmuworld?sk=9app_263732880332809

Airbrushing class on today for the pro course, such concentration on right now. Go Batch 7 MU-ettes!

Mulain x

GOLD LEAF FASHION!

Mulain LOVES LOVES LOVES the gold-leaf eyeshadow look for Fendi S/S 2o12! The MUs have always loved working with gold leaf and so glad to see it up on the ramps for next year. If you're in MU-mbai head to any artshop to pick some up or Hobby Craft at Kemp's Corner, any art shop should sell gold leaf (and bronze and silver too)...apply with vaseline or Pro-saide for more of a hold - always remember to have remover for this though...Pro Clean is good. Careful around the eyes with this...try the gold leafing on other parts of the face or body? Experiment and have fun my dears!

GET ARTISTIC!
M x

FX Age-ing Stack by Ben Nye

Ben Nye's FX Age-ing Creme Stack

Check out more Ben Nye Stacks!

MU Virginia has just wrapped from her shoot in Jaipur and gave me a super product tip which saved her on her shoot. Ben Nye to the rescue again! What a brand....super dependable and wonderful selection of products, Mulain says go check out all their stacks of make-up from character to sfx to glamour...great for quick fixes on set and also for packing...stacks rock!! So MU Virginia had to do a lastminute.com age-ing on set last night and luckily had packed fat mu's FX Age-ing stack in her set bag. This stack has 5 different colours for different effects from freckles to liverspots to veins to undereyes and capillaries! So easy to manage and use under shooting pressure and gives a great look and finish. MUs Virg and Xavi back to Bombay tonight and I'm dying to catch up with them and find out what it was like working with one of the top Ad film directors in the world! Watch this space!

M x

Hair Graffiti at Betsey Johnson

Who would have thought eh?.... We love the turn fashion is taking... and we salute Madame Johnson for bringing us yet another innovative design feature, this time on the hair.

Fun and temporary it is something Mulain just loo-ves ..... so why not have some fun and make some heads turn?... All you need are a few stencils for variety and temporary spray on hair colour that washes out et voila!

We MU's are on it!!...... watch this space!...

M x

P.S. - to read the full article on this click on the link below:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/health/article-23996406-hair-graffiti-livening-up-your-locks

Quick tan!

MU Virginia told Mulain about a great product she's been using on her shoot this week. Know we've blogged about this little baby before but it's seriously good! Benefit's Talk to the Tan! Great for giving the face an instant sun-kissed colour and glow. Easy to apply and easy to blend in...what more do we need? MU Virginia has been giving her actor a slight traveller's tan...mixed in with posh sweat...Elizabeth Arden's 8 Hour Cream....goes so well together and looks so natural and realistic. Invisible tanning with an invisible glow! If you know what I mean...:).

Batch 7 of pro course are starting their bridal classes today. Wedding belles will be created in class. Mulain can't wait to see the pix.

Happy Tuesday!

M x

Estee Lauder's Breast Cancer Awareness Month!

Beauty company Estee Lauder are running their 19th year of Breast Cancer Awareness month...headed by Liz Hurley...Brands like Clinque, Jo Malone, Aveda and Estee Lauder of course are offering special beauty buys where you get a special pink ribbon purchase plus you are supporting a good, with a percentage of the purchase going to the scheme. So Mulain reckons it's a win-win situation...buy some make-up, do we need an excuse ;) .....and make the world a better place.

M x

P.S. - Happy Monday!

PALETTES! PALETTES! PALETTES!

24 colour grease palette by Kryolan...fantastic to have in your kit!

Mini size grease palettes - great for fashion shoots or on-set checks!

Kryolan's 24 colour aqua palette...loo-verly

6 colour grease palette by Kryolan

Here's that fantastic Make-up Forever palette again....

Ben Nye (who fat mu LOO-Ve)...aqua palettes

Kryolan aqua palette

Ben Nye's awesome eyeshadow palette...fantastic colours

Kryolan's eyeshadow palette

Create your own fashion quad eyeshadow palette..MAC / Make-up Forever

Screenface FANTASTIC shadow palettes...we love the neutral palette

MU Virginia is currently on a shoot in Jaipur with a foreign crew who have come to India to shoot a TVC. They are wanting to capture the colour and vibrancy of our wonderful nation and so she is prepping for EVERYTHING for this mini-film...from street performers to dancers to gods to goddesses to stone people to sadhus to wedding guests and the list goes on!!! Mulain just could not imagine creating all of the above without our make-up palettes! If you don't have palettes you just cannot work to your maximum ability. It's as simple as that. Don't have any? Get yourself to the Ben Nye counters, Kryolan, Make-up Forever, Ingot, MAC and get a selection. Most important ones (not including base ones)...

AQUA

POWDER

GREASE

(CREME ALSO THERE)

Go to a dependable/known brand and get testing them out. Loads of colour ranges to see...but these palettes will help you across the board with your work...from fashion to brides to events to theatre to film to TVCs...remember a make-up artist gets thrown any creative brief and has to have the products to achieve the look! Get yourself armed and ready my darlings! Am I nagging today?...It's only 'cos I care. MU-ah!

M x

LIVE WITH ART IT'S GOOD FOR YOU!

Mulain saw this and simply loved it....do I need to say anything else? Don't think you're an artist? Start with making up your face...remember it's art therapy for the soul!

Mulain x

Armed with a good grease palette?

Mulain is totally in love with this Make-up Forever Grease palette. We have always said having a grease palette is an essential item for your kit..so make sure you do have one. This one is just beautiful! Great brand! Lovely lovely lovely. One of the MU-ettes (you know who you are) has one in class on the pro course and Mulain just can't stop staring at it...Wunderbar! Catwalk class today....so will most definitely be using this one...and lots of colour and sparkle and shimmers and pigments...LOVE IT!

M x

The Beauty of Age-ing!

People! Scared of age-ing???? Don't be!! What's so bad about it eh? It really is fantastic...so much world experience, so much maturity and so many different lives lived! Celebrate yourself as you get older, celebrate your elders...it's cool....don't be age-ist....you're giving yourself a very short shelf life if you do...we get BETTER with age. Not worse!

Enjoy your day....! Celebrate life. Love yourself!

M x

P.S. - Clown class on at the fat mu academy...toooo much fun with colours / shapes / textures!

It's all about YOU!

At fat mu we believe it's all about YOU!....Self expression, reinvention, self-esteem...we always say 'your best face is yet to come'! So Mulain is asking you today....are you happy with the way you look? Need to be reinvented? Need a life boost? Make-up is a great place to start. It's like art therapy for the face...it's creative and makes your feel good...enhancing yourself and getting yourself ready for the front-line everyday will make you feel a million dollars plus you'll feel so good and strong. Mulain LOVES watching the fat mu REINVENTION makeovers at the fat mu academy....so nice to see women smiling back at their reflections and leaving with a spring in their step! :)

Interested then call us....9920753846...or mail@fatmu.com

Start today!...Remember it's all about YOU!

Mulain x

MU-vie time!

It's Mulain's favourite time of year! Film festival time where we get to see the best of the year's films / MU-vies and we start the run up to THE OSCARS.....woo hoo! So get the ball rolling with the MU-mbai Film Fest 2011 - 13 October to 20 October. Film to look out for (there are lots) THE ARTIST - different, great performances, like a silent-film....can't wait to see it. And then of course there's the Goa Film Fest...get excited and enthu and go see MU-vies...any you would like to tell Aunty Mulain about?

M x

CAMOUFLAGE!

Ladies! Are you well practiced in the art of camouflaging your flaws / blemishes / dark circles...is it a bane of your life? Don't stress! Act now....make sure you've got the right tools and right products and your application also needs to be looked at. Fat mu LOVE LOVE LOVE Ben Nye's concealer palette (available New Beauty Centre)...or any professional make-up store. Such a wonderful brand - WE LOVE YOU BEN NYE! ......also MAC Studio Finish Concealers are great...and Derma too have great shades to cover all. Not sure where to start...well...you'll be pleased to know we have our ART OF FLAWLESS SKIN workshop happening soon at the fat mu academy. Come learn the art of camouflage - SO important and will make you feel a billion dollars!

M x

MAKE-UP REBELS!

2011 Make-up Rebel

Toyah - 80s Make-up Rebel


Kiss! - Rock Rebels

David Bowie - oh what a rebel!

Cyndi Lauper - Gaga would not have existed without you!

Mulain's favourite Make-up Rebel - the amazing Boy George!

More BG....

and again....

Today Mulain is celebrating Make-up Rebels! People who have gone mad with make-up and used it as forms of expression completely away from the norm. Pushing creative boundaries, ways of thinking, changing conventions....actually making life easier for PLUs (People Like Us). Think you're daring? Could you do what they do or did? They went all out without caring....defying what people thought of them....Mulain salutes you all! Mulain has a theory that Boy George and Cyndi Lauper's love child is actually Lady Gaga...makes sense na?

Let me know which Make-up Rebels you like? Let's start a Hall of Fame!

MU Natasha shooting for Dove today, MUs Virginia and Maleka running the history of make-up class at the fat mu academy....MUs shooting and prepping too for shoots coming up. Busy little bees!!!

M x

KNOW THE WORLD!

Mulain is asking you today....Do you know the world? If you don't....how sad...you are truly missing out....it's not just about your own comfortable bubble my friends....know your geography! Travel....see as much as you can....it'll make you a much more interesting person and make-up artist! Think what you can add to your work if you know about tribes in Papua New Guinea, Australia, the Amazon, India! Beauty looks from around the world! Beauty traditions from Japan! History of make-up from Egypt!....In today's world there is no excuse for not knowing where people are from....where countries are....it's so important my darlings....SO OPEN YOUR MINDS....and your atlases...;)...here endeth the lesson!

M x

P.S. - It's 'cos I care....MUUUU!

Tom Ford Style!

the iconic Marlene...

Tom Ford's sculpting tools...for brows and cheekbones...

Ok we know Madame Dietrich knew a lot of about contouring and highlighting and had so many tricks to enhance her face with make-up and lighting etc. Well the super talented Mr. Tom Ford has come out with some fabulous little tools and products to help us achieve Marlene perfection....MAKE-UP TACTICS are as follows...make sure you try out the BROW SCULPTOR - it's a pencil with a unique calligraphy style tip so you can achieve thin or wide brows...good control and creative choice for all of us. Then there's the Tom Ford SHADE AND ILLUMINATE excellent for the end of the year contouring trend. It's a duo of 2 creams - light and dark and comes in 2 intensities....don't be scared by the look of it, easy to blend til you have cheekbones that are chiselled from the gods! Thank you Tom...now we can all look as sculpted as Marlene D.

Another day in the fat mu academy....working on glamour eyes...meow! Hope all who attending the Sex and the City workshop had fun on Saturday...work that look today!

M x

WHAT IS BEAUTIFUL?

La Loo-ver-ly Pinto in Italian Vogue!

Beard or no beard you are beautiful Madame Hayek!

Tom Ford Style of beauty!

Wow - now that's different....pour moi!

Bonjour! Namaste! Caio! Ola! - Wherever you are in our little global vill-age :).....

Mulain spotted a piccie of one of his favourite MU-ses...La Pinto in Italian Vogue and just LOVED the image, so different and slightly odd yet stunningly beautiful at least that's what little old moi thought. Just love looking at the world and the different ideas of beauty. Ever thought of it? What is beautiful? Look around you and see what you think? It's a lovely world filled with lovely faces and colours! Open your eyes to it ALL!

So Mulain wishes you well and to remind you to have fun - it's Le Weekend na?

So be beautiful WHEREVER you are! :)....M x

P.S. - Have great fun this weekend at the Sex and the City Make-up Workshop tomorrow!