Art is often based on the concept of the immortal adage “when life gives you lemons, make lemonade” and good art has the power to evoke emotion. Artists creatively express themselves by using objects and materials in a transformative way. Their intuition flows into a sundry of items that create a delusion of grandeur…
Confused? Art isn’t science; its theories can’t be definitively explained. Some say you can learn art. I believe you can’t, you can only study artists, their theories and their styles, their history, their lives.
My last column featured tips on how to become a professional makeup artist. It highlighted that art plays an important role in the process. The theory is ever prevalent. If you want to become a makeup artist you have to be able to take lemons and make lemonade…there really is no other way.
Like every other human being on planet earth, I too was watching Beyonce’s album “Lemonade” after seeing my friends on Facebook share posts about the meaning behind the album. I wondered: “What does JayZ cheating, have to do with lemonade, though?” Since I too am an artist, I realized the only way to find out was to watch the film “Lemonade” in its entirety. Instead of extracting fragments of the artistic piece, and jumping to the wrong conclusions, it was better to take the hour, five minutes and thirty two seconds of time to watch it. It wasn’t until after the complete story then I understood. It’s that “Ah Ha!” moment that confirms Leo Tolstoy’s theory that good art evokes the strongest emotions.
The time we take studying the artist seeking to relate to their struggles, we should really sit back and appreciate good art when we see it. Instead of asking how they did it, why they did it, and assuming that they’re possessed, bothered, angry, and lack intellect, just sit back relax and enjoy, or not enjoy, whatever floats your boat.
Makeup is a medium of art, and can also be used to evoke and express strong emotion. As I’ve mentioned before, it can make someone look as ugly as it can make them look beautiful.
Be careful how you use your makeup; there is no one way to wear makeup, but there are correct ways. Do not let it overpower you; it shouldn’t define its wearer.
Find new ways to use it. Just as there are different ways of making lemonade, the same applies with the path you choose with makeup. Don’t be afraid to stir things up.
Wear it with glasses, skip lipstick, add extra eyeliner, make your own rules, make your own lemonade, invent and reinvent your personal style, be sophisticated with it, and remember to blend.

Here’s the recipe to being your own makeup artist.
• Practice basic hygiene first. It’s best to clean your brushes and sponges after every use
• Dust your powders on. Gently pat powders on with a fluffy brush, and dust away any excess
• Wear any colour – blue, yellow, purple, red, green; use every option possible
• Blend your colours. Fusing one colour to the next helps to create synchrony, prohibits confusion and chaos, and helps your entire face to look united.
• Learn from your mistakes. No one’s perfect, you will smudge your eyeliner, and realize it looks better that way. Especially if you fade it upward and along the crease of your eyes.
• Learn to stipple. Stippling is an artist technique like French painter Seurat’s technique using dots to create fades.
• Tap. Instead of applying mascara to the tips of the lashes making it look clumpy, tap at the base of the eyelash, wiggle it a bit, then swirl the wan up ward towards the tip of the lashes. The technique creates depth in all the right areas.
• Use your finger to apply lipstick, take your middle finger, and gently dab it unto the lipstick, then apply it from the center of the lips outwards to the corners.
• Use lipstick as a colour corrector. Cheat. Your lipstick mixed with concealer can double as a colour corrector, for under eye dark circle. Used reddish, peachy, and orangey hues to help disguise the unwanted tired look of tired eyes.
• Use red lipstick as blush. Your lipstick can also double as blush. Take your index and middle finger, and gently stipple the lipstick on along your cheek bone.
• Highlight your brow bone, the area directly under the arch of the brow can use concealer to sharpen the appearance of the brow, giving it an overdone look.
• Use dark brown brow pencils, or shadows to fill in brows never use black. It should be a shade lighter than the colour of the hairs of the brow. Unless your brow hairs are blonde then it should be a shade darker.
• Be creative. It’s ok to paint the face sometimes, and show off your artistic skills. Draw a jaguar or the Guyana flag on your face if you can.