Beauty Blogs Backstage for December: Ivy of Jeweled Thumb

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Beauty Blogs Backstage for December: Ivy of Jeweled Thumb

This month was an "opt-in" month - meaning that if they wanted to participate, folks had to speak up. (Lets everyone take the month off for the holidays, if they choose.) I'm interviewing Ivy, of Jeweled Thumb, who just joined Beauty Blogs' Backstage last month. She started her blog in April 2009, and does makeup professionally (if not full time.) She has a background in art...so doing makeovers is just working on a different canvas!

  1. What was the first brand of makeup you ever used? Do you still use that brand?
    It's a toss up between Wet n Wild and The Body Shop. I collected bits and pieces of Wet n Wild probably since 8 or 9 (I definitely recall owning one of the mood lipstick at one point or another when Wet n Wild would go on sale for 3/99 cents at the drugstore, remember those days?!) and then I put on my first "full face" (*cough* heavy on the quotation marks there) of lipstick & blush with The Body Shop around age 11 or 12. And yes, I still use and love both of these brands today and of course I have a couple bits and pieces of my original collection which at the time I could fit in a little cosmetic case of course.
  1. How did you get started doing professional makeup for weddings and portraits?
    My Bachelor's is in Art and I'm a painter so it was really easy for me to get a job working at a makeup store (in Maryland you don't need a certificate to practice). While doing 300 or so odd faces, I kept on getting asked if I did makeup on the side. I had never really thought about it since the makeup gig was a part-time thing in additional to my full time job, but a good friend of mine was getting married and her makeup artist cancelled a couple days before her wedding and I got pulled into it at the last minute. The wedding planner really liked my work and asked for my card (didn't have one but I wrote my contact info down). I guess they say the rest is history? I wish I had the time and energy to do it more nowadays but after my car accident it just hasn't been first priority. I hope to start again seriously soon though I'll admit, it's hard to put yourself out there. I resorted to Craigslist a lot and actually got a few bookings that way!
  2. Is there a makeup technique that just about everyone swears by...that you really don't think looks good on you?
    Buffing in foundation. When I buff, my dry skin looks like I am in the middle of exfoliating. It's not attractive!
  3. How many times have you "caved" this November/December, to holiday sales, BOGO, et cetera (meaning, you deliberately weren't going to get anything...and then you did. I caved about four times, and I think there's going to be a fifth :D )
    I don't even want to think about this! I feel as though I was really good right up till Sephora Friends & Family and since then it's gone down hill rather quickly. I want to say 5 "cavings" but that may be a conservative estimate. I mean, the honest truth is I don't need anymore makeup so anytime I buy it's really a "cave"!
  4. Have you ever worn a color (nail polish, lip color, eyeshadow, whatever) that you didn't think worked all that great...but you got lots of compliments on it? What color was it?
    When I worked in makeup, I would often pull today much more dramatic looks than I did for myself the rest of the time. One time I went in with a really heavy smokey eye and raspberry lips. I would have never worn it out of the house usually but I got a lot of compliments and "can you do that on me?" at the store!
  5. What are some products that everyone seems to genuinely love or consider a staple...that just don't do it for you?
    Korres lip butters: Don't get me wrong, they are nice, but they aren't as moisturizing as everyone claims they are, at least not in my experience. Maybelline whipped foundation/concealers: Too dark and too yellow unfortunately. And probably more that I can't think of, definitely items that everyone with oily skin swears by!
  6. Is there a technique or look that you'd love to wear, but haven't been able to get just right (or haven't had time to try)?
    I wish you would have asked me this a few months ago because it took me months to perfect winged eyeliner on myself! I always find it easier to do makeup on other people than on myself, probably due in part to having poor eyesight and wearing specs. I guess my answer would be nude lips. My lips are fairly pigmented and I just don't think I can pull it off, or don't want to spend the time to. I'm already pale enough, no need to make it appear worse!

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