Last week when I had planned to go to an event at MAKE UP FOR EVER in Toronto, the night before called for a severe snow storm with piles of snow to be hit. It stressed me out wondering how I’d get into the city. Take an insanely early train? Take the greyhound bus? Dude. I had plans. Mother Nature better get her act in gear. I felt like I couldn’t have picked a worse day for my day off.
By morning the so-called snow storm was insignificant and I was on my merry way. As soon as my bus left at 5:55am, I had a bit of a panicky moment. My bus wasn’t supposed to leave until 6:10! Whewf, we’re not going in the opposite direction, as luck would have it — I ended up catching the earlier Greyhound.
I ate an expensive breakfast at Royal York in Toronto while I waited for some time to pass before I found my way to the seminar. Hot chocolate and yogurt parfait, oops there goes $10!
The event was at Twist Gallery in downtown Toronto, and it was decorated beautifully with monster sized MAKE UP FOR EVER posters.
I made it there a half hour before it started, plenty of time to get situated and find a seat.
Then I looked around a bit before the seminar started. 
For pros. For you. For ever.
MAKE UP FOR EVER make up set up for Dany to use on her models. 
Beautiful portrait of Dany. 
Then it was show time. Dany Sanz came on stage. 
She spoke beautifully about her products, did a demonstration on the new items of what’s coming out for Summer 2013.
New brushes? Yes please. Also, a pro finish multi-use powder foundation, which I’m sure some make up lovers would be eager to try out. You can use it wet or dry, and it won’t create this evil film on the powder if you use it with a wet sponge/brush.
Some of the new upcoming launches from MAKE UP FOR EVER are:
Pro Finish Multi-Use Powder Foundation (available Summer 2013)
- Good for oily skin as it’s matte
- Good for dry skin since it’s not drying
- Can use with water, but not MAKE UP FOR EVER Mist & Fix
- Use with a sponge or brush
- Use concealer before OR after. The powder is mixed with the oil and water, so it’s up to you. It’s a “freedom product” as Dany said, because of the formulation
Chromatic Mix (13ml bottle)
This is a make up liquid pigment which you can use this to create your own personal, precise foundation colors. Before the color wasn’t as realistic, sometimes chalky, sometimes too grey/yellow. Now you need pure pigmentation for it to look real.
Dany says that on camera ethnic skin was difficult to achieve natural look. The Chromatic Mix comes in a water based as well as an oil based mix.Just one drop of this magical pigment allows you to create custom colors. You can use it with foundations, concealers, or with the use of an airbrush.
Available colors:
- White — to lighten your foundation
- Blue
- Yellow — make it closer to your skin tone. “Most important color”. A lot of people would use this one.
- Red
- Black — Takes the luminosity of beige. It’s more natural, not too radiant.
- Brown
This type of pigment wouldn’t be beneficial to me since I’m not a make up artist or do make up on other people, ever. So this type of product would cater more to the PROs, hence the pro seminar.
We had a quick ten minute break, where we had little brown bags filled up with all sorts of goodies. Delicious stuff too. Oh hey, can you spot Lindsey? :)
Towards the end of the seminar Dany held, she was given a belated birthday present from the Canadian Make Up For Ever team, and we even sang Happy Birthday to her. Can you believe she’s 66? She looks absolutely incredible for her age. I love her bright fun hair style. 
Omg was Dany looking at my camera?
I also got my photo taken with her. Think I was a little excited to meet her? Also, excuse my melon-head. 
MAKE UP FOR EVER is one of my favorite make up brands. It’s a professional cosmetics brand founded in 1984 by artist Dany Sanz. Dany was originally a painter in Paris in the 80’s who worked in theatre productions. She wanted to create a make up that would work both on stage for fashion and show-business, and also in your daily life. To say that this woman knows her stuff, is an understatement. It was a pleasure being in the same room as her, let alone have my photo taken with her. Incredible opportunity that I’ll never forget.
Did you know that she did the make up for the movie Avatar?
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Quoted from the YouTube video:
 Thanks to MAKE UP FOR EVER, the fantastic world of AVATAR came to life for one night at the Champs Elysées Virgin Megastore, France. The talented Dany SANZ and her team body painted two models in front of a crowd of journalists and people especially gathered for the event. The evening of the 20 April 2010 was magical and… will be remembered as the time when MAKE UP FOR EVER brought James CAMERON’s movie characters to reality.
I felt so lucky to be able to take the day off to attend this event, thanks to Lindsey from MAKE UP FOR EVER. Thank you so so much for inviting me.
