Adi Lando made me feel pretty. On a frumpy, grumpy, so-not-happy-with-myself day, Adi, a well-known makeup artist you may have seen on “CityLine” and “Superstar Hair Challenge,” made me very glad I hadn’t played hermit at home like I’d really, really wanted to.
Now Adi didn’t know I was grumpy. At least I don’t think so. He just went to work, blending cream highlighter with a tiny amount of liquid foundation on my skin wherever he thought I needed it, sweeping my eyelids with shimmery silver-taupe shadow from Dior and smokin’ them up with black pencil, making my cheeks glow with a Nars The Multiple in guess-which-shade, glossing my lips with a peachy nude hue, and getting my brows right on the first try. It was beauty therapy — check out that gleeful sparkle in my eyes! That there is a girl revived, and too pleased with the finish to give in to envy over the clear green of someone else’s peepers.
Aside from making tired skin look fresh without using a lot of makeup, most interesting about Adi’s skilled application is his approach to mascara: he pushes the length of the wand against the base of the lashes on each eye a few times before going back to brush up through the tips. “You have to build a base to support the lashes,” he says. Really, it’s a variation on the base-of-lash wand-wiggle every beauty editor’s written about for years, a move that actually rather bullies my wimpy lash wannabes. Adi’s wand-push trick works for me; I’ve been using it ever since our meet to get a bit more volume and lash intensity. Sweet.
Staff thinks it’s important I ’fess up to having taken this photo back at the end of TIFF. I suppose she’s right on account the fern fronds in the background give a time-has-passed vibe away. But I’ll have you know I deliberately waited until now to run this so I could remind you that it’s a great time to book a free appointment to test-drive New Year’s Eve makeup looks with a pro at Sephora or wherever your favourite beauty counter lives. And I checked — if you live in Toronto, Adi’s going to be in town if you want to book with him.
Then you, too, can go around telling folks Adi Lando gave you a happy.
Adi Lando is a Sephora Pro Beauty Team artist at the 131 Bloor St. W location in Toronto, (416) 513-1100.
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He reminds me of Napoleon Perdis and Chase Aston! I think it’s the brows.
Yes, I thought so too!
another gorgeous photo; lovely eyes and smile, Janine, and it’s not because of the makeup, you know
See, that’s how you know it’s good makeup, Annette! Good makeup makes it look like it’s you, not makeup! Honestly, I didn’t look anything like this when I first sat in Adi’s chair. It was a homely day indeed until then.
Thank you for the new mascara tip! Will be thinking about you and Adi every morning now ;) I can’t believe you ever are doubtful about your glowing self, lovely ♥
All that glowing self was Adi’s work, believe me. One day I’ll post a naked-face photo. It might break your computer, though. :-)
So I took this right offa your Facebook where I posted it yesterday after I had seen this miraculously-disappearing-reappearing post:
So I jammed the wand of my yellow-tubed super-great now-favourite mascara right up at the base of my almost-lashes and it worked out pretty good so I went to make a comment and the thing was gone! Like, gone!
Anyhow, it worked pretty good. Kinda hurt when I stabbed myself in the eye but I’m okay. I’m all right. Don’t mind the eye patch.
ps. I love that yellow-tube mascara whatever it’s called – long tube, tapered-ish, long brush – you know the one? S’great!
Thanks for your awesome feedback, You. Love that a) the application trick worked; 2) you have a fancy new face accessory; and 3) you love the mascara, which happens to be CoverGirl LashBlast Length.
you look hot today must really look hot today; hope her eye- hand coordination gets better with practice, because two eyepatches at same time would be a not fun event, ya think?