My Experiences at The Makeup Show LA!

I wanted to start out this post by including a picture of me with Amy and Yume of Sugarpill. I got to spend part of the afternoon with them and it was an amazing experience, not even hampered by my awkwardness! Haha I think you can tell that I was severely underdressed next to them.

I met the lovely Elessa of Pursebuzz too! Her jewelry and accessories are so so cute and she is just as nice in person as she is in her Youtube videos.

Onto my experience at the show. The first place I checked out was OCC Makeup. This was a candid shot of the owner David Klasfeld, doing his thing and me catching him in the wild. He was extremely nice and easy to talk to. I got to ask him a few questions about the Lip Tar packaging change (which I covered in my last post) and it was an enjoyable experience! I can't recall the exact discount, only that OCC Lip Tars were $10.00 as opposed to $14.00

I must have had a lapse in blogging judgment because I didn't do any swatches of the upcoming collection, but here's a picture showing the collection off.

More Lip Tars in their new packaging!

After finishing up at the OCC booth, I headed towards Make Up For Ever's booth. I'm glad I got there early because while it was a little busy at 9ish, it was even worse later on in the afternoon. Everything was at least 40% off with select items (like the Aqua Liner and Aqua Eyes) being 50% off.

To add to the chaos, only one of their registers was working so that led to lines like this. They made a minor mistake when checking me out (the Aqua Liner rang up as only 40% off versus 50% off but they resolved that quickly!). This is how long the line got at 10:30, an hour and a half after the show opened!

This was the crowd at the Inglot booth at 9:25am so it got super packed very quickly. Everything was discounted 30%.

So many potted eyeshadows!

25 minutes in and someone completely spilled a pigment jar into another one. The table full of pigments was utterly droolworthy though.

OCC, MUFE, and Inglot were the brands on the top of my list to check out first so after that, I explored the venue a bit. IMATS, one of the other big makeup artists trade shows, seems to be really big into special effects whereas The Makeup Show didn't seem to have much of that. I did enjoy this character all made up.

and this gorgeous girl being body painted (may not be suitable for work)

and this makeup job just blew me away!

I enjoyed this booth for the hottie being spray tanned ;)

I also enjoyed the Dinair booth, they had a gorgeous model dressed up in bridal wear to show off the makeup and a fantastic show deal.

I detoured and spent a few minutes checking out the Hakuhodo booth although I didn't pick anything up. Their Yachiyo brushes looked amazing though.

Kevyn Aucoin was at the show too, having deep discounts ranging from 20%-91%!

I scoped out Youngblood's booth because I've heard Dustin say great things about the brand.

The lovely Pursebuzz's booth!


and to finish off the post, the lovely Yume, Suzy, Lauren and Amy!


All in all, I quite enjoyed The Makeup Show. Judging from other peoples' experiences, it seemed to be on a much more intimate scale than IMATS. I went to Pursebuzz's Tools and Trends seminar where she helped to show off and explain the uses of some basic and new Crown Brushes. I thoroughly enjoyed the shopping and meeting tons of great people there! I should have my haul from the show posted soon.

Have you ever gone to The Makeup Show? Or IMATS? Do you want to go?

I wanted to take the time to thank Melody who works as the PR for the Makeup Show. She was extremely nice and introduced me to David Klasfeld of OCC, so thank you Melody!