Make-up workshops by Make Me Up

Last Sunday I participated in something I had never done before: a make-up workshop! Indeed, I was invited by Make Me Up to participate in two of their make-up workshops, in the beautiful The Hotel. This is a project created by designer Pierre-Antoine Vettorello and make-up artists Sybille De Beuckelaer and Nathalie Peeters. Each month they host a set of 3 make-up workshops in Brussels, always with different themes and teach you the techniques for each of them. Lunch is included and when I arrived to the 26th floor of The Hotel this is what awaited me:

After eating this delicious lunch, we passed on to the "real business": learning how to apply an eyeline technique, to perfect a defined lip, to magnify your eyes with false lashes, to find out which is your face type and all about contouring and highlighting. The workshops I attended were suggestively called "like Marilyn" and "play with light".

Eve Pearl make-up, which allies cosmetics to skincare and you can try during the workshops, is available to buy in the end

Still some goodies to eat during the afternoon and real quality fake lashes to buy

The view from our room

The make-up artists would always apply the technique first on someone from the audience in order to show us how it is done 

... and then we would apply it on ourselves under their supervision and (occasional! *cof cof*) corrections.

Me, playing with our individual mirrors

Me at the end!

I found these workshops very useful and, most of all, fun. You can try a great variety of products you normally wouldn't have access to and create different looks from the usual you're used to make everyday. The artists explain you everything very detailed and help you do it for yourself the right way. Moreover, they advice you on what looks better on you, as there are no absolute rules in make-up that can apply to everyone and it's up to you to see what fits you best. All the workshops are carried out in English, so it's great for the expat community in Brussels. Additionally, they provide you all the products and make-up needed, although you are advised to bring your own products in case you want to learn how to apply those specific ones (as those are the ones you're then going to use at home). If you're looking for a different program for a weekend, to have fun with some friends, or to just adventure yourself in the world of make-up with great professional coaching along the way, I recommend you to sign up for these!

They have open the registrations for their next workshops, to take place in the last weekend of May. Here you have the instructions to book. The first one ("make-up for business success") can be specially interesting for us trainees!