So for the past week I have been feeling sorry for myself as I have felt under the weather with a stinking cold as well as one of my wisdom teeth coming through (ouchy!) so I want to say sorry for not posting anything.
For a long time I have thought that MAC needed to catch up with the eyeshadow palette game as they seemed to be the only brand who didn't offer a made up neutral palette with awesome colours at an affordable price. I absolutely love all of the Urban Decay Naked palettes and own all 3 but the only thing is with those is that they aren't full size shadows and I have hit pan on a few of them already. You've also got the high-street brand bringing out their own neutral palettes such as sleek and MUA these obviously being a little less on the quality/pigmentation but amazing on the price. You're roughly looking at about £5 for a palette from MUA and around £8 for a palette from Sleek.
So a little while back I popped into MAC with no intention to actually buy anything - you know what that's like & don't pretend you don't. You just pop into the counter, swatch some of the lipsticks and eyeshadows on the back of your hand but because its always so hot in there and so busy you end up leaving with nothing! Happens to me all the time :(
Anyways! I went in and surprisingly it wasn't actually that busy so I set myself upon buying something. I was having a browse when I came across a palette containing 15 neutral coloured, full size eyeshadows in a beautiful, sleek looking case. I had to check with the sales assistant that I was actually seeing this and not going crazy.
It was quite a tough decision deciding on which make-up school I wanted to attend as I wanted to make sure I got the most out of my time there as well as the location and the price - as you can imagine these courses don't come cheap!
I regret not going on to do a beauty course after I finished school at 16 as this would have been funded for free by the government and I wouldn't have had to worry about making a living for myself at this age. I could have fitted a part time job around my full time college course. Oh well! You live and you learn :)
I researched "make-up academies" and a lot of them came up. I finally narrowed it down between DFMA (Davina Fermi Make-up Academy) and another. The other course was offering the same course as DFMA but it was split over 10 weekends. Now for me, I found this to be a much bigger commitment as it would mean travelling to London every Saturday and back again probably costing me between £15-£25 a week. I know this doesn't seem much but when you average it up to over 10 weeks, it does get quite costly. This course also didn't offer me a make-up and brush kit. This was an additional price which for me, was quite off putting.
So in the end I decided to go with DFMA. At the point I didn't know how much it would cost me so I had to call their bookings team to find out availability and cost. I managed to grab the last place on the course in their Brighton location from Monday 22nd September to Friday 26th September (their other courses are held in London and Bournemouth. See http://www.makeupacademy.co.uk/ for more details). Fortunately for me, my parents had a place in Chichester which I stayed in for a week making my travel time around 50 minutes. I was very happy with this :)
The cost of the actual course was around £1300.
The course I chose to go on was a foundation course in fashion make-up. It was a Monday to Friday course from 11:30am till 4:30pm. Each day had a different learning task in which the aim was for you to feel confident to do at the end of the lesson.
