Karla Powell Make-up Artist
April 15, 2013 Comments 265 notes makeup beauty giveaway lime crime illamasqua z palette tumblr occ OCC lip tars

Over 300,000 + Followers on My Tumblr GIVEAWAY! 

I was overwhelmed and hit over 300,000 followers on my beauty blog (www.karlapowell.co.uk) a few weeks back and now at nearly 330,000 since! It’s a little crazy to see my blog getting so many followers in such little time. Some of my top make-up brands kindly have sponsored this GIVEAWAY for one lucky winner! To WIN all these AMAZING prizes simply follow my Facebook Page >here< and Share and Like this picture(It will be pinned at the top of my page) and I will pick one winner at random on the 22nd April 2013. 

Thank you to the following brands:

Crownbrush
CutECOsmetics
Eylure UK
The Face Painting Shop
Victoria Loves Beauty
Illamasqua
Cocktail Cosmetics
Lime Crime

Witch Skincare 

 

Good luck!

Karla

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January 31, 2013 Comments 23 notes beauty and the geek seo search engine optimisation advice optimise ranking search engine tumblr google wordpress beauty blog blogger blogging mua
Beauty &amp; The Geek Search Engine Optimisation So…where to start, this is one of those grey areas where there is no definitive answer.  There are things you can do to help improve your search engine rankings and I’ll be talking about a couple of things that you can do now to help improve your search results. SEO is mainly about including the words which you’d expect people to enter into Google (or another search engine) into your blog posts so that when someone types something like “eyebrow blocking” your blog post appears high up in the results.  So first of all we’ll talk about keywords and custom url names. Keywords / Tags These are the short descriptive words which you enter in the keywords or tags section when creating a blog post. They are words which describe your post which people are likely to enter into search engines.  The trick is to be as specific as possible, so use words like ‘eyebrow’, ‘block’, ‘blocking’, ‘creative’, ‘sculpting’, ‘makeup’, etc.  Try to avoid really generic keywords like ‘good’, ‘new’, ‘cheap’, ‘red’, etc. Custom URL Names Most blogs allow you to give your blog post a custom url name, so that instead of ‘site.co.uk/blog/posts/15782789’ you get ‘site.co.uk/blog/posts/creative-eyebrow-blocking-tutorial’.  As you can imagine, the randomly generated string is not going to help anyone find your blog post, were as a well named url which contains your best descriptive keywords will help.  It also helps to structure the keywords like I have into a readable title.   The words that you use should be separated by dashes ‘-‘ not spaces, as URLs cannot contain spaces. Search engines such as Google will treat the dashes as if they were spaces, so don’t worry about that.  When I got Karla to do this it made a big difference to how many blog posts turned up in Google search results, and they were showing up on the first page a lot quicker too.  So what else can you do? When you insert a picture into a post and you get the option of giving it a title, which is not displayed, or sometimes you can enter an Alt or alternative text, then again name the picture descriptively as that will help it appear in Google Images. Blogs like Tumblr and Wordpress are very search engine friendly, and your posts will be quickly picked up by them.  How quickly depends on how many visitors you have to your site and how many incoming links you have from other sites, the more the better.  And the bigger the site that links to your blog, to higher you’ll go up Google’s ranking and the higher up the search results.   You can instantly help to improve this by adding links to your blog from your social media, Facebook, Twitter, etc.  and from any other sites you have profiles on, such as Model Mayhem. Google changed the way it ranks sites recently so as to stop people spamming links to their site everywhere on forums, comments on blogs etc.  This now means that they pay more attention to links from social networks, likes on posts, links from tweets which get a lot of retweets and which trend.  So remember to put in the hard work from a social networking point of view, share your work, link to your blog posts, push, push, push&#8230;don&#8217;t just expect to add a couple of keywords and a custom url and sit back and watch the magic happen.  As with many things in life, you have to work hard to get what you want.  One last thing I would recommend is not being tricked by these online companies that contact you via email and offer to get you to the top of Google overnight.  There is no fast track to it.  It takes time and following the tips above will help.  

Beauty & The Geek

Search Engine Optimisation

So…where to start, this is one of those grey areas where there is no definitive answer.  There are things you can do to help improve your search engine rankings and I’ll be talking about a couple of things that you can do now to help improve your search results.

SEO is mainly about including the words which you’d expect people to enter into Google (or another search engine) into your blog posts so that when someone types something like “eyebrow blocking” your blog post appears high up in the results.  So first of all we’ll talk about keywords and custom url names.

Keywords / Tags

These are the short descriptive words which you enter in the keywords or tags section when creating a blog post. They are words which describe your post which people are likely to enter into search engines.  The trick is to be as specific as possible, so use words like ‘eyebrow’, ‘block’, ‘blocking’, ‘creative’, ‘sculpting’, ‘makeup’, etc.  Try to avoid really generic keywords like ‘good’, ‘new’, ‘cheap’, ‘red’, etc.

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Custom URL Names

Most blogs allow you to give your blog post a custom url name, so that instead of ‘site.co.uk/blog/posts/15782789’ you get ‘site.co.uk/blog/posts/creative-eyebrow-blocking-tutorial’.  As you can imagine, the randomly generated string is not going to help anyone find your blog post, were as a well named url which contains your best descriptive keywords will help.  It also helps to structure the keywords like I have into a readable title.   The words that you use should be separated by dashes ‘-‘ not spaces, as URLs cannot contain spaces. Search engines such as Google will treat the dashes as if they were spaces, so don’t worry about that. 

seo search engine optimization tumblr unique url

When I got Karla to do this it made a big difference to how many blog posts turned up in Google search results, and they were showing up on the first page a lot quicker too. 

So what else can you do?

When you insert a picture into a post and you get the option of giving it a title, which is not displayed, or sometimes you can enter an Alt or alternative text, then again name the picture descriptively as that will help it appear in Google Images.

Blogs like Tumblr and Wordpress are very search engine friendly, and your posts will be quickly picked up by them.  How quickly depends on how many visitors you have to your site and how many incoming links you have from other sites, the more the better.  And the bigger the site that links to your blog, to higher you’ll go up Google’s ranking and the higher up the search results.   You can instantly help to improve this by adding links to your blog from your social media, Facebook, Twitter, etc.  and from any other sites you have profiles on, such as Model Mayhem.

Google changed the way it ranks sites recently so as to stop people spamming links to their site everywhere on forums, comments on blogs etc.  This now means that they pay more attention to links from social networks, likes on posts, links from tweets which get a lot of retweets and which trend.  So remember to put in the hard work from a social networking point of view, share your work, link to your blog posts, push, push, push…don’t just expect to add a couple of keywords and a custom url and sit back and watch the magic happen.  As with many things in life, you have to work hard to get what you want. 

One last thing I would recommend is not being tricked by these online companies that contact you via email and offer to get you to the top of Google overnight.  There is no fast track to it.  It takes time and following the tips above will help.  

December 06, 2012 Comments 194 notes beauty makeup tumblr bloggers tips blogging tips food
Beauty &amp; The Geek Don&#8217;t Just Get Their Attention&#8230;Keep Their Attention! Obviously it&#8217;s important to get as many eyes as you can to see your blog, however if all they do is give it a quick glance and leave then that&#8217;s not much good.  What you ideally want is to get people to subscribe to your blog, in the case of Tumblr that&#8217;s all about them clicking the Follow button.  However some of your viewers aren&#8217;t going to have Tumblr, so you need to capture their attention first time round and get them as addicted to your site as you can so that they bookmark it and make an effort to come back. This can be done through adding visual images to your posts, hopefully as relevant as possible, however with blog posts like this you&#8217;ll most likely not have a relevant image, so just pick one of your eye catching images from your portfolio, so that when people are scrolling down through your blog, it&#8217;s not just page after page of boring text.  And on the subject of scrolling down, what happens when your viewers get to the bottom and find a next button.  More often than not they won&#8217;t be bothered to look for the next page button and move the mouse to it and click, they&#8217;ll simply take this as an opportunity to move onto something else, people have busy lives and while they may be enjoying reading your blog, it&#8217;s a convenient point to stop for now and maybe come back later to look at the rest, which is a dangerous thing as people will inherently forget to come back.  So what can we do to keep them around longer?  We can make sure that they don&#8217;t come to the end of the page and need to find and click on the next page button.  It&#8217;s called continuous scrolling or auto pager and its basically a bit of clever scripting code which sits in the background on the website and whenever the viewer gets to the bottom of the page, automatically loads more content so that they can continue to scroll through your posts, all the way until they reach the end.  If you want to give it a try, simply scroll down through the posts on this blog and see if you can find the end. ;)  If you want to implement this on your Tumblr blog, then copy the following code and paste it to the end of the Description section of your blog. Don&#8217;t worry, it won&#8217;t be shown in the actual Description section on your sidebar, Tumblr will recognize it as a script, hide it and run it in the background.  &lt;script type=&#8221;text/javascript&#8221; src=&#8221;http://proto.jp/js/tumblrAutoPager.js&#8221;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

Beauty & The Geek

Don’t Just Get Their Attention…Keep Their Attention!

Obviously it’s important to get as many eyes as you can to see your blog, however if all they do is give it a quick glance and leave then that’s not much good.  What you ideally want is to get people to subscribe to your blog, in the case of Tumblr that’s all about them clicking the Follow button.  However some of your viewers aren’t going to have Tumblr, so you need to capture their attention first time round and get them as addicted to your site as you can so that they bookmark it and make an effort to come back.

This can be done through adding visual images to your posts, hopefully as relevant as possible, however with blog posts like this you’ll most likely not have a relevant image, so just pick one of your eye catching images from your portfolio, so that when people are scrolling down through your blog, it’s not just page after page of boring text. 

And on the subject of scrolling down, what happens when your viewers get to the bottom and find a next button.  More often than not they won’t be bothered to look for the next page button and move the mouse to it and click, they’ll simply take this as an opportunity to move onto something else, people have busy lives and while they may be enjoying reading your blog, it’s a convenient point to stop for now and maybe come back later to look at the rest, which is a dangerous thing as people will inherently forget to come back. 

So what can we do to keep them around longer?  We can make sure that they don’t come to the end of the page and need to find and click on the next page button.  It’s called continuous scrolling or auto pager and its basically a bit of clever scripting code which sits in the background on the website and whenever the viewer gets to the bottom of the page, automatically loads more content so that they can continue to scroll through your posts, all the way until they reach the end.  If you want to give it a try, simply scroll down through the posts on this blog and see if you can find the end. ;) 

If you want to implement this on your Tumblr blog, then copy the following code and paste it to the end of the Description section of your blog. Don’t worry, it won’t be shown in the actual Description section on your sidebar, Tumblr will recognize it as a script, hide it and run it in the background. 

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://proto.jp/js/tumblrAutoPager.js”></script>

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October 18, 2012 Comments 90 notes beauty beauty and the geek makeup website blog portfolio rich hinton tech technical advice help tumblr wordpress blogger
Beauty and the Geek Welcome to a new series of blog posts which are hopefully going to demystify the tech speak involved in having a website, blog, social media, etc.   When I first started out in the beauty industry I was aware straight away that I needed a website to showcase my work and that I needed to be on Facebook to help me connect with other makeup artists and network.  Facebook is an easy one, most of us have an account now and it’s almost become part of everyday life, a website however is a completely different ballgame. I did as we all would and Googled “portfolio website” which gave back thousands of responses, from other people’s websites to many different services which offer customisable and tailor made websites.  Information overload would be an understatement! Where do you start?  That’s the big question.  In my case I was lucky enough to have friends around me who were able to offer advice and in the end it was a photographer who I had shot with a couple of times before who came to my rescue.   He is what I affectionately like to call a geek, he works as a computer programmer full time and twilights as a photographer, loves everything web and computer based and knew exactly what I needed to do and the direction to take. This person is Rich Hinton, who also happens to be the photographer I’ve been working with for over a year now on my food inspired beauty series.  Now that I’ve introduced him and stroked his ego enough I’ll hand over to Rich and let him hopefully demystify things for the rest of you. Hello and welcome to the first in what I am hoping will be an interesting series of posts which aim to explain the technical terms and reasoning behind having an online web presence.  I know that Karla gets a lot of messages from other makeup artists asking how she setup her blog, YouTube channel, etc. and from my personal experience speaking to a number of different makeup artists who are struggling to set up a website to showcase their work, it’s a tricky subject with a lot of different options and technical terms such as Content Management System (CMS), Analytics and Social Media Integration.  I’ve been there myself when I started out in photography and wanted to set up a website, I’ve been through many different types of sites, spent many hours Googling for answers and inevitably making many mistakes along the way.  So this is why Karla has asked me to help out her readers, in the same way I helped her to setup an online presence. In this first post I’m going to tackle a simple question…Website, Blog or Both? It may seem like a simple answer, both, but it’s not as simple as that.  Here are a couple of things to take into consideration. With a stand-alone site, you are showcasing a static collection of your work, in other words your portfolio.  It’s a good tool to be able to point clients in the direction of when they ask to see your portfolio.  Remember though that this alone will not get you work, you cannot just set up a website and expect clients to find you via it. A website on its own will just sit there alone on the web, no doubt on a domain which matches your name, for example www.karlapowellmua.co.uk.  This is a great way of showing your work off to people who already know your name, be it by meeting you, through a business card or word of mouth.  However it will take a lot of hard work to get it noticed by people who are searching on Google for things like “makeup artist London”, you’ll need some killer search engine optimisation (SEO) and incoming links from big sites to boost your web ranking (yes that’s some lovely geek speak there).  SEO is basically naming pages on your site with meaning full names that will show up in searches and adding relevant meta tags, etc. which takes time, effort, practice and experience to get right.  Incoming links means that your site is linked to by big websites which rank high up on search engines, the more of those sites which have links to your site, the higher your chances of appearing in generic searches on Google. A blog on the other hand is more like a diary, a news feed of posts detailing the work you have done, the products you like, inspirational messages, anything you want really.  It’s a great way of building a following, as unlike a website which gets updated irregularly, say once a month when you’ve got some interesting new pictures back from shoots, a blog can be updated daily or in some cases many times a day.  People like to keep coming back to blogs to see what new and interesting posts have been added, they will bookmark them or even subscribe to them via rss feed readers, which deliver the latest posts directly to their inbox or phone.  However a blog tends to attract fans, people of a like mind who are interested in the same topic as you, in other words other makeup artists, not clients.  You could integrate a blog into your website, so that you can post up details and behind the scenes shots from your latest makeup assignments, give clients a more content rich experience and let them see what your work life is like and get to know you a little better.  However again this style of blog will just sit there alongside your website alone in the vastness of the internet! So what are the other options?   Well you can get a blog which is hosted on a blogging platform such as Tumblr, Wordpress, or Blogger.   They are easy to set up and provide you with lots of free templates to choose from.  You can be up and running within about 10 minutes and if you want to you can even point your domain name to them so that they are more personalized than say karlapowellmua.tumblr.com. A big benefit with a hosted blog is that the likes of Wordpress or Tumblr have already done all the hard work for you and made the blog SEO optimised which means that your posts are more likely to appear on Google. There are a couple of other things you can do to improve performance on search engines which I will discuss in another post, but for now most of the hard work is done for you.   Tumblr is a micro blogging platform which encourages you to keep your posts short and post often, however this isn’t the rule, as you’ll see from posts like this.  If you choose Tumblr as your blogging platform you will also get another added bonus, followers.  This means that other Tumblr bloggers can choose to follow you and when you post, it will appear in their dashboard stream. Karla chose Tumblr over Blogger and Wordpress because of this feature and with over 150,000 followers in two years I think she made the right choice. All three blogging platforms allow you to customise your blog, add extra static pages, such as about page, contact, etc.  You can also add widgets to the side bars if your layout allows it such as twitter and Facebook feeds.  Also if you know html you can edit the layouts further to really customise the site, which is what I did with Karla’s site, taking an initial template and moulding it to meet Karla’s needs. So which option of website, blog or both should you choose?  To be honest that decision is up to you.  I would advise against just picking one as having multiple ways to showcase your work is always a good thing.   Remember though that there are lots of free ways that you can showcase your work, such as a profile on Behance, which allows you to have project pages which can contain images, embedded videos and text.  And as it’s a community site, your work will appear in searches, and when users browse on a subject, plus your images will be more likely to appear in search engines as Behance and other sites like it are high up on Google’s page rank!   Karla for example doesn’t have a portfolio website yet and instead posts her work to Behance, whilst also linking to it from her blog.  When clients ask to see her work, she sends them a link to her Behance page.  So before you rush out and spend hundreds of pounds on a fancy website, remember that there are free alternatives out there! I hope that you’ve enjoyed this post and find it useful. It would be great to get your feedback as to what sort of topics you’d like to read about in the future, which technical areas you are having issues with and I’ll try my best to include these into this series.  Future posts will include more detail on setting up a blog with the likes of Tumblr, including how to customise a template, how to optimise your blog for search engines, social media integration, setting up a Facebook fan page, Google Analytics, plus many more.   I’m also planning on running a Q&amp;A session in the future so watch out for that. Big thanks again to Karla for inviting me onto her blog and for revealing the geek behind her beauty blog.

Beauty and the Geek

Welcome to a new series of blog posts which are hopefully going to demystify the tech speak involved in having a website, blog, social media, etc.   When I first started out in the beauty industry I was aware straight away that I needed a website to showcase my work and that I needed to be on Facebook to help me connect with other makeup artists and network.  Facebook is an easy one, most of us have an account now and it’s almost become part of everyday life, a website however is a completely different ballgame.

I did as we all would and Googled “portfolio website” which gave back thousands of responses, from other people’s websites to many different services which offer customisable and tailor made websites.  Information overload would be an understatement!

Where do you start?  That’s the big question.  In my case I was lucky enough to have friends around me who were able to offer advice and in the end it was a photographer who I had shot with a couple of times before who came to my rescue.   He is what I affectionately like to call a geek, he works as a computer programmer full time and twilights as a photographer, loves everything web and computer based and knew exactly what I needed to do and the direction to take.

This person is Rich Hinton, who also happens to be the photographer I’ve been working with for over a year now on my food inspired beauty series.  Now that I’ve introduced him and stroked his ego enough I’ll hand over to Rich and let him hopefully demystify things for the rest of you.

Hello and welcome to the first in what I am hoping will be an interesting series of posts which aim to explain the technical terms and reasoning behind having an online web presence.  I know that Karla gets a lot of messages from other makeup artists asking how she setup her blog, YouTube channel, etc. and from my personal experience speaking to a number of different makeup artists who are struggling to set up a website to showcase their work, it’s a tricky subject with a lot of different options and technical terms such as Content Management System (CMS), Analytics and Social Media Integration.  I’ve been there myself when I started out in photography and wanted to set up a website, I’ve been through many different types of sites, spent many hours Googling for answers and inevitably making many mistakes along the way.  So this is why Karla has asked me to help out her readers, in the same way I helped her to setup an online presence.

In this first post I’m going to tackle a simple question…Website, Blog or Both?

It may seem like a simple answer, both, but it’s not as simple as that.  Here are a couple of things to take into consideration.

With a stand-alone site, you are showcasing a static collection of your work, in other words your portfolio.  It’s a good tool to be able to point clients in the direction of when they ask to see your portfolio.  Remember though that this alone will not get you work, you cannot just set up a website and expect clients to find you via it.

A website on its own will just sit there alone on the web, no doubt on a domain which matches your name, for example www.karlapowellmua.co.uk.  This is a great way of showing your work off to people who already know your name, be it by meeting you, through a business card or word of mouth.  However it will take a lot of hard work to get it noticed by people who are searching on Google for things like “makeup artist London”, you’ll need some killer search engine optimisation (SEO) and incoming links from big sites to boost your web ranking (yes that’s some lovely geek speak there).  SEO is basically naming pages on your site with meaning full names that will show up in searches and adding relevant meta tags, etc. which takes time, effort, practice and experience to get right.  Incoming links means that your site is linked to by big websites which rank high up on search engines, the more of those sites which have links to your site, the higher your chances of appearing in generic searches on Google.

A blog on the other hand is more like a diary, a news feed of posts detailing the work you have done, the products you like, inspirational messages, anything you want really.  It’s a great way of building a following, as unlike a website which gets updated irregularly, say once a month when you’ve got some interesting new pictures back from shoots, a blog can be updated daily or in some cases many times a day.  People like to keep coming back to blogs to see what new and interesting posts have been added, they will bookmark them or even subscribe to them via rss feed readers, which deliver the latest posts directly to their inbox or phone.  However a blog tends to attract fans, people of a like mind who are interested in the same topic as you, in other words other makeup artists, not clients. 

You could integrate a blog into your website, so that you can post up details and behind the scenes shots from your latest makeup assignments, give clients a more content rich experience and let them see what your work life is like and get to know you a little better.  However again this style of blog will just sit there alongside your website alone in the vastness of the internet!

So what are the other options?  

Well you can get a blog which is hosted on a blogging platform such as Tumblr, Wordpress, or Blogger.   They are easy to set up and provide you with lots of free templates to choose from.  You can be up and running within about 10 minutes and if you want to you can even point your domain name to them so that they are more personalized than say karlapowellmua.tumblr.com.

A big benefit with a hosted blog is that the likes of Wordpress or Tumblr have already done all the hard work for you and made the blog SEO optimised which means that your posts are more likely to appear on Google. There are a couple of other things you can do to improve performance on search engines which I will discuss in another post, but for now most of the hard work is done for you.  

Tumblr is a micro blogging platform which encourages you to keep your posts short and post often, however this isn’t the rule, as you’ll see from posts like this.  If you choose Tumblr as your blogging platform you will also get another added bonus, followers.  This means that other Tumblr bloggers can choose to follow you and when you post, it will appear in their dashboard stream.

Tumblr dashboard stream

Karla chose Tumblr over Blogger and Wordpress because of this feature and with over 150,000 followers in two years I think she made the right choice.

All three blogging platforms allow you to customise your blog, add extra static pages, such as about page, contact, etc.  You can also add widgets to the side bars if your layout allows it such as twitter and Facebook feeds.  Also if you know html you can edit the layouts further to really customise the site, which is what I did with Karla’s site, taking an initial template and moulding it to meet Karla’s needs.

So which option of website, blog or both should you choose?  To be honest that decision is up to you.  I would advise against just picking one as having multiple ways to showcase your work is always a good thing.  

Remember though that there are lots of free ways that you can showcase your work, such as a profile on Behance, which allows you to have project pages which can contain images, embedded videos and text.  And as it’s a community site, your work will appear in searches, and when users browse on a subject, plus your images will be more likely to appear in search engines as Behance and other sites like it are high up on Google’s page rank!   Karla for example doesn’t have a portfolio website yet and instead posts her work to Behance, whilst also linking to it from her blog.  When clients ask to see her work, she sends them a link to her Behance page.  So before you rush out and spend hundreds of pounds on a fancy website, remember that there are free alternatives out there!

Karla Powell Behance Profile

Karla Powell Behance Project Page

I hope that you’ve enjoyed this post and find it useful. It would be great to get your feedback as to what sort of topics you’d like to read about in the future, which technical areas you are having issues with and I’ll try my best to include these into this series.  Future posts will include more detail on setting up a blog with the likes of Tumblr, including how to customise a template, how to optimise your blog for search engines, social media integration, setting up a Facebook fan page, Google Analytics, plus many more.   I’m also planning on running a Q&A session in the future so watch out for that.

Big thanks again to Karla for inviting me onto her blog and for revealing the geek behind her beauty blog.

September 18, 2012 Comments 43 notes fashion BURBERRY PRORSUM Burberry LFW dita von teese beauty karla powell tumblr
Me and Dita Von Teese at the Burberry Prorsum Spring/Summer 2013 Show last night&#8230; Celebrities from the world of sport, music film and fashion all joined together last night for the Burberry Prorsum show which I was very lucky to b apart of, in fact it&#8217;s been on my top lists to do and go and see a Burberry show, so to have the chance to watch the show last night was simple amazing and mesmerising for me. I wanted to share this picture of me and Dita Von Tesse who has the most flawless make-up going, she was so lovely and looked stunning as ever. Here I am wearing a Fabryan Dress in style &#8216;Zena&#8217; with stunning Jewellery by Hayley Kruger from her AW 12/13 Sirius Collection. I will be uploading images and blogging about the show soon. It was an amazing experience which I will never forget.  KarlaX 

Me and Dita Von Teese at the Burberry Prorsum Spring/Summer 2013 Show last night…


Celebrities from the world of sport, music film and fashion all joined together last night for the Burberry Prorsum show which I was very lucky to b apart of, in fact it’s been on my top lists to do and go and see a Burberry show, so to have the chance to watch the show last night was simple amazing and mesmerising for me. I wanted to share this picture of me and Dita Von Tesse who has the most flawless make-up going, she was so lovely and looked stunning as ever. Here I am wearing a Fabryan Dress in style ‘Zena’ with stunning Jewellery by Hayley Kruger from her AW 12/13 Sirius Collection. I will be uploading images and blogging about the show soon. It was an amazing experience which I will never forget. 

Karla
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September 08, 2012 Comments 69 notes beauty makeup tumblr nyfw

Round Up of New York Fashion Week S/S13 So Far…



The week so far at New York Fashion Week is so inspiring and refreshing I am already itching to create some of these new trends on myself and taking some of the skills into action when I am back in the UK and not to mention my make-up wish list I want to buy when all the new spring/summer 2013 products come out! Being backstage with MAC Cosmetics and Maybelline so far I have took in seemingly flawless, natural skin which continues to rule the catwalk, this look works anytime, anywhere, on anyone. You can’t go wrong with stunningly smooth skin with just a hint of glow. It’s what every woman wants, basically! But remember, ‘natural’ takes work and there was a lot of complexion perfecting going on backstage this year. There are some pops of colours on the lips too with nude-coral orange tones which suit most skin tones.

I am also loving the big takeover of nail art trends continuing on the runway- in fact the nails so far are catching my eyes more than the make-up. Check out the amazing 80s sci-fi nails created by the CND team at the Nicole Miller show I attended yesterday! Finally to top my days so far at fashion week I was invited to Tumblr’s amazing dinner party at the Standard Grill last night where I got see everyone who was invited to New York fashion week last year and of course Tumblr’s Top 7 bloggers that in its self was inspiring to see so many influential bloggers get together and to meet the founder of Tumblr! I feel like this week hasn’t even got started yet!

Keep a look out for more exciting fashion week posts…

Karla

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September 05, 2012 Comments 117 notes NYFW beauty eyes fashion week mac makeup nyfw tumblr fashion
Come and Follow My Make-up World at New York Fashion Week Starting Tomorrow…   So it’s that time of year again where fashion week kicks off! And the first one is New York fashion Week starting tomorrow with Fashion Night Out. This will be my third time going to New York Fashion week and I am even more excited that I imagined last year. Going to New York Fashion Week is a very important time for me as an artist as I get to learn all the trends, new techniques and tips and to see any upcoming artists, designers, models and new beauty products being used by the top artists in fashion.   Whether you are a beauty junkie, make-up artist, hairstylist beauty blogger, fashionista or just want to be nosy at what I am up to - you can all come on an amazing journey with me by reading my blog, live tweets, updates on Instagram(karlapowellmua) and on my Facebook page daily to see exclusive access backstage at New York Fashion Week on the latest makeup and nail trends, expert tips and techniques and of course exclusive interviews. And finally the big reveal is that I will be doing a daily diary for Marie Claire online of all the trends so do look out for my daily diary on this as they will be tweeting out the trends from me on their twitter!   I will be backstage with the following brands: MAC Cosmetics Maybelline Deborah Lippmann And other events will be revealed on here…       I am soooo excited! Karla X

Come and Follow My Make-up World at New York Fashion Week Starting Tomorrow…

 

So it’s that time of year again where fashion week kicks off! And the first one is New York fashion Week starting tomorrow with Fashion Night Out. This will be my third time going to New York Fashion week and I am even more excited that I imagined last year. Going to New York Fashion Week is a very important time for me as an artist as I get to learn all the trends, new techniques and tips and to see any upcoming artists, designers, models and new beauty products being used by the top artists in fashion.

 

Whether you are a beauty junkie, make-up artist, hairstylist beauty blogger, fashionista or just want to be nosy at what I am up to - you can all come on an amazing journey with me by reading my blog, live tweets, updates on Instagram(karlapowellmua) and on my Facebook page daily to see exclusive access backstage at New York Fashion Week on the latest makeup and nail trends, expert tips and techniques and of course exclusive interviews. And finally the big reveal is that I will be doing a daily diary for Marie Claire online of all the trends so do look out for my daily diary on this as they will be tweeting out the trends from me on their twitter!

 

I will be backstage with the following brands:

MAC Cosmetics

Maybelline

Deborah Lippmann

And other events will be revealed on here…

 

 

 

I am soooo excited!


Karla
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*100,000 Follower Make-up Giveaway!*

August 14, 2012 Comments 60 notes makeup giveaway tumblr followers tumblr beauty kryolan crown brush

After a whirlwind of a year I have had on my Beauty Blog I finally hit 100,000 followers! And here is a little thank you from me, for all my fans/followers and Tumblr that support me in my makeup world that keeps me going every step of the way and to say thank you I have this AMAZING beauty giveaway up for grabs! We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort and I have learnt that in the past year! So All you have to do is ‘LIKE’ My Makeup Facebook Fan Page —-> Click here…and the above picture will be pinned at the top of my Facebook page, then simply click onto that image and comment and share it and comment on why you deserve to *WIN* all these products & why?! Yes it’s that simple!


This is open to all international followers. The competition ends midnight on the 20th August 2012. I will pick the best comment at random and the winner will be announced on here and on my Facebook fan page. So get telling people and sharing this competition! :D

 

 A big thank you to the following brands that participated and sponsored me in this amazing giveaway- Crown Brush UK, Kryolan Official, The Neat Kit and Victoria Loves Beauty.  

 

All the beautiful items up for grabs…

 

·         Crown Brush 15piece makeup brush set- in style Luna-517

·         Crown Brush 88 Matte eye shadow palette in style 01

·         Crown Brush 10 blusher palette

·         Kryolan High Gloss in Marilyn

·         Kryolan HD micro foundation cream foundation set

·         Victoria Loves beauty- Model in a bottle

·         Victoria Loves Beauty- Model in a bottle brow sealer

·         The Neat Kit- Cream blusher set

·         The Neat Kit- x2 Lip Pencils in bold red and soft pink

·         The Neat Kit Workshop day held in London- learn how to set up a website with wordpress, learning how to use your mac or get to know your iphone*

·       Print out of mine and Jayesh Pankhania’s lip series ‘Colour run’ make-up work- Black and Pink look. Size- 18x12

·         Union Jack Violent Lips

·         Eylure Eylure Upper & Lower False Eyelashes Feathery Style

·         Pixi Succulent Lip Twin

·         The BodyShop EXTRA VIRGIN MINERALS LIQUID FOUNDATION

 Good luck to everyone! Here is the link to my >Facebook Page< to enter. 

Karla

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March 13, 2012 Comments 13 notes beauty makeup fashion tumblr tumblr followers
Thank You for all your support you amazing people!!! You push me to inspire you even more with my Beauty obsessed Tumblr posts! Love&#8230; Karla X

Thank You for all your support you amazing people!!! You push me to inspire you even more with my Beauty obsessed Tumblr posts!

Love…
Karla
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January 01, 2012 Comments 6,369 notes tumblr nyfw beauty fashion

Happy New year to my AMAZING followers on Tumblr!

Tumblr you have made my dreams come true this this year!!! As if you guys took me to New York Fashion Week in Feb and to top it off , putting my blog on the Tumblr beauty Spotlight now I have nearly reached 20,000 followers… Woop! I have a good feeling about 2012… It’s going to be an epic one!

happy New Year to you all.

Mwah!

Karla

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