Louise Young

Throughout the last two years I have been working with the Louise Young Cosmetics range building the brush range into my makeup kit. I really like the design of these brushes and enjoy working with them. Louise Young is a very well established makeup artist working in film, media, TV and fashion for the last 30 years. Productions Louise has worked on include "Stardust", "Clash of the Titans" and "Alfie". Louise also offers a range of You Tube tutorials and delivers her own courses in makeup. Louise has tried and tested many styles of brushes to define her final choices in her brush line. Her brushes are well established and favoured by many makeup artists working in fashion and film as well as being featured regularly in YouTube tutorials by PixiWoo and many other makeup artists tutorials. They are also available to buy from Louises website, PAM London and Selfridges.

I keep my own LY brush range in a small Harry brush wrap by the EMJ Company so that I keep these brushes separate from my regular brushes. This is so that I keep them together and won't mix them up with any body painting brushes.

In July I worked for Horse & Country TV for Sky TV working on the presenters covering the Equestrian events at the London Olympics. Louise sent her eyeshadow palettes for me to try out so I decided to use them on the main presenter Jenny Rudall who really liked the depth of colours and quick build up achieved. I used the natural palette as it offered the range of brown colours Jenny liked but I could also mix abit of the black eyeshadow into a soft eyeliner effect defining the upper and lower eye lines. The feedback I received from Jenny and the rest of the presenting team was positive. I found the colour range worked well for the production and looked fine on camera. The application offered a soft finished effect and the product blended really well on the eye area.

I liked the product so much that I when I was booked the following week to work as a daily on a film titled "The Double" I was able to use the LY Young Cosmetics neutral eyeshadow palette again on the artists I was working on. Again I was happy with the application as the colours gave a soft matt finish and worked well on camera.

In September I worked as a Makeup supervisor for the Vintage Hair Lounge at Goodwood Revival and Louise kindly donated her palettes for the team of 12 makeup artists to work with. The colour ranges from both palettes were suitable for 1940's and 1950's makeup applications due to their tone and matt finish. The makeup team enjoyed working with them and have now adapted these palettes into their working kits. 

I would recommend any makeup artist to add the Louise Young Cosmetics brushes and eyeshadow palettes to their kits, they won't be disappointed.

www.louiseyoung.co.uk for details of Louise's professional work

www.louiseyoung cosmetics.com