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Mastering the Barely There Look

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Since Female Daily’s #ExcitingChange was finally unveiled a few weeks ago, we also arranged for a monthly Beauty Class will be held at Female Daily’s headquarters located at Kemang Raya. At the first Beauty Workshop several Saturdays ago, we invited Jakarta-based makeup artist Arty Ardiwinata to lead a class with the theme “Barely There Makeup.” I wasted no time in volunteering when the question of who wanted to model for the workshop came up – I mean, spending a morning getting made up? Who could refuse? 😉

We were also very fortunate to have our first beauty workshop be powered by innovative smartphone manufacturers, OPPO. They wanted to get to know the FD community while sharing a little treasure of their own, the OPPO N1.

The OPPO N1 is a smartphone that continues the company’s legacy of innovation: OPPO was the first company to produce a smartphone with a 13 megapixel camera, and with the OPPO N1, they’ve become the first company to produce a smartphone with a rotating camera.

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A rotating 13 megapixel camera on a smartphone.

Do you know what that means?

It means no more weirdly-angled selfies with friends where someone is cut off from the picture! No more low-quality selfies from using the front-end camera! The OPPO N1’s 13-megapixel camera rotates 206 degrees and can be locked at any angle for the perfect shot.

It means everyone at the Beauty Workshop quickly got busy taking selfies — because the OPPO team wanted to make sure all the participants got to experience the OPPO N1, they brought enough to supply every table with the slim, lightweight smartphone for everyone to play with throughout the morning.

Photos taken with the OPPO N1 rotating camera.

Photos taken with the OPPO N1 rotating camera.

While everyone was getting familiar with the OPPO N1 on their tables, Arty and her team of three artists taught our fully-packed community center the art of basic, natural makeup – because putting on makeup to look like you’re not wearing any is actually deceptively difficult! But Arty also says that once you master the “Barely There” look, you can master looks of any sort.

The most important thing when doing before starting your makeup routine is to really understand your face: “Once you know what your best feautures are, then you’ll know which part of your face to highlight,” she says. Then she turns to me and asks what I thought my best features were.

Err. Well this is unexpected! “My eyes, I think,” I say sheepishly, feeling like a kid in a classroom all over again.

“I think so too! You have lovely eyes,” Arty exclaims. “So now we know that we need to emphasize them.”

Phew! She put me right back at ease again.

“And what do you think is your biggest skin issue?” she asks. I tell her that I have oily-prone skin.

“And that’s why it’s so important to understand your skin,” Arty explains to the intently listening group of participants sitting in front of her. “If you know you have oily skin, you can get the right skincare and makeup products to keep it under control.”

She applies a base makeup made of a mattifying primer and the Giorgio Armani Face Fabric Foundation on me. After demonstrating her techniques on my mug, she took the time to drop by every table and answered every question from participants who wanted more personalized tips and tricks.

Before, during, and after Arty worked her magic touch on me!

Before, during, and after Arty worked her magic touch on me!

So you can imagine all the buzzed excitement at our community center: not only were all the participants learning new tips and tricks from Arty, but they were busy tweeting and taking selfies with the OPPO N1.

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By the end of that laughter-filled Saturday morning, nobody left empty-handed: everyone walked away with a goody bag from OPPO and a treasure trove of new makeup skills from Arty and her team.

So we had lot of fun and making new friends from the first Beauty Workshop of the brand new Female Daily. If you want to be part of the fun next time too, don’t miss out on our next Beauty Workshop, where Endi Feng will teach us a thing or two about South Korean-style beauty. Sign up here!

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