Contouring for Airbrush Spray Tanning


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Written by Katie Quinn, Co-Founder & CEO of Kona Tanning Company, and 3-Time Victoria's Secret Fashion Show Bronzer. Airbrush tanning has become tremendously popular, and that isn't going to change any time soon! Spray tanners are worldwide - and there are tons of stories of successful spray tanning businesses in almost every city. So what will set you apart from the competition? Having an edge! Many spray tanners stop their training once they have captured the basics of applying a spray tan. The trend in tanning today is toward taking spray tans to the next level, not just in the experience, but also in the results. "Airbrush abs" is a huge request from nearly every client, and while it's exciting to share in the passion of sunless beauty, it can present a problem for the artist, who needs to become more familiar with stylized, cutting-edge anatomy. By studying Contouring for Airbrush Spray Tanning, you'll start recognizing the correct placement of muscle groups, understanding the muscles and their flow, allowing you to extend and sharpen a craft that's unique to your individual artistry and talents. Whether the look being sought after is that of a slender high fashion model, or a dramatically defined fitness competitor, you'll be able to pull out these looks and increase / soften the drama, all utilizing just your airbrush tanning equipment. After all, we all have the muscles, they just might be covered up by a little bit of body fat. With Contouring for Airbrush Spray Tanning, you'll be able to offer MORE than a basic spray tan - you'll be able to offer masterpieces!




The Art of Airbrush Tanning


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Written by Katie Quinn, Co-Founder & CEO of Kona Tanning Company, and 3-Time Victoria's Secret Fashion Show Bronzer. The Art of Airbrush Tanning is an introductory eBook training manual designed to teach both amateur and professional airbrush tanners the beautiful art of airbrush spray tanning. Even if you've never held an airbrush gun before, this eBook will help you find that confidence and skill needed to apply the perfect, custom airbrushed tan. Airbrush tanning isn't easy, but with The Art of Airbrush Tanning digital download, you're able to learn at your own pace. There isn't anyone rushing you, so you can take your time to get the technique right. With practice being such a crucial part of any art form, a do-it-yourself, at home approach allows tanners to hone their skills while working with their established schedules. Learn how to apply an even, custom, flawless airbrushed spray tan that will keep clients coming back, allowing you to build a business you can rely on to generate revenue. Once you've learned the industry secrets to applying the perfect tan, your clients will trust you - but more importantly, you'll trust yourself! INCLUDES: - setup instructions and tips - equipment recommendations, links & coupon codes to save on startup costs - signature Kona Tanning poses used in the real studio - Katie's supermodel favorite "cheekbone contouring" - printable face chart to practice face tanning - detailed, elaborate instructions to learn how to apply the perfect airbrushed tan every time - tips for working with body challenges Katie Quinn is Co-Founder and CEO of Kona Tanning Company, and was the shading muse in the creation of the Kona Tanning House Blend tanning solution, used around the world to this day! Katie has been an airbrush tanning artist since 2005, and began working on the Victoria's Secret Fashion Shows in 2009. In 2012, Katie was named lead body makeup artist for the Victoria's Secret show, and has worked with such supermodels as Alessandra Ambrosio, Adriana Lima, Doutzen Kroes, Miranda Kerr, Marisa Miller, Barbara Palvin, Candice Swanepoel and Behati Prinsloo. Katie's expert sunless tanning tips have been featured in VOGUE, SELF Magazine, Shape Magazine, USA Today, and more. Katie has her own product line under Kona Tanning Company, and loves designing products that work with the common tanning problems she's seen in the studio and on the runway.




The Skinny Confidential


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A comprehensive collection of lifestyle information, including tips on eating, exercising, and fashion.




What Painting is


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Here, Elkins argues that alchemists and painters have similar relationships to the substances they work with. Both try to transform the substance, while seeking to transform their own experience.




Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice


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Bridging the fields of conservation, art history, and museum curating, this volume contains the principal papers from an international symposium titled "Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice" at the University of Leiden in Amsterdam, Netherlands, from June 26 to 29, 1995. The symposium—designed for art historians, conservators, conservation scientists, and museum curators worldwide—was organized by the Department of Art History at the University of Leiden and the Art History Department of the Central Research Laboratory for Objects of Art and Science in Amsterdam. Twenty-five contributors representing museums and conservation institutions throughout the world provide recent research on historical painting techniques, including wall painting and polychrome sculpture. Topics cover the latest art historical research and scientific analyses of original techniques and materials, as well as historical sources, such as medieval treatises and descriptions of painting techniques in historical literature. Chapters include the painting methods of Rembrandt and Vermeer, Dutch 17th-century landscape painting, wall paintings in English churches, Chinese paintings on paper and canvas, and Tibetan thangkas. Color plates and black-and-white photographs illustrate works from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.




Face Paint


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The “exquisite and richly illustrated” New York Times bestseller from the renowned makeup artist, “a retrospective written for all women, everywhere” (Vogue France). Makeup, as we know it, has only been commercially available in the last 100 years, but applying decoration to the face and body may be one of the oldest global social practices. In Face Paint, Lisa Eldridge reveals the entire history of the art form, from Egyptian and Classical times up through the Victorian age and golden era of Hollywood, and also surveys the cutting-edge makeup science of today and tomorrow. Face Paint explores the practical and idiosyncratic reasons behind makeup’s use, the actual materials employed over generations, and the glamorous icons that people emulate, it is also a social history of women and the ways in which we can understand their lives through the prism and impact of makeup. “Makeup artist and Lancome global creative director Lisa Eldridge drops serious knowledge in Face Paint, her book on the history of beautifying.” —Marie Claire “Clear your coffee table and turn off YouTube—Lisa Eldridge’s book is a must read.” —Teen Vogue “The book is not only rich with history but also with a series of paintings, sketches and photographs in an intense array of colors, selected by the make-up artist herself in the most aesthetically pleasing universal statement to women you’ll ever see.” —Vogue France “Face Paint delves into the history of makeup, with glossy pictures to match . . . the book’s cover is striking.” —New York Post




Lookaway, Lookaway


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Presiding over her family and its legacy of masterpiece Civil War art, North Carolina society maven Jerene Jarvis Johnston takes increasingly haphazard steps to protect her grown children from their own heedlessness.




At Least You Look Good


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Twenty-eight-year-old Katie DePaola was undergoing treatment for a mystery illness, mourning the loss of her youngest brother and attempting to cut ties with her business partner and then-fiancé. To overcome this trifecta of trauma, she knew she needed to become her own advocate and find the unexpected gifts. She never imagined she would be starting a million-dollar business in the midst of so much chaos. In At Least You Look Good, Katie shares her most vulnerable and amusing reflections on dealing with the hardest parts of life. From a psych ward break up call and visits from her probation officer to over-the-top beauty treatments and making business deals from bed, Katie's story is a deep, entertaining and love-filled modern guide to healing. Katie urges women to glow through whatever they go through by unapologetically owning their desires, learning to use their anxiety as fuel, swiping on some waterproof mascara and showing up for life. A must-read for those looking to take their lives to the next level, Katie's resilient approach to balancing the demands of inner and outer beauty inspires a generation of leaders to overcome whatever life throws their way. At Least You Look Good tells the story of Katie's inspiring comeback, demonstrating that loss always leads back to love.




The Annotated Mona Lisa


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Like music, art is a universal language. Although looking at works of art is a pleasurable enough experience, to appreciate them fully requires certain skills and knowledge." --Carol Strickland, from the introduction to The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern * This heavily illustrated crash course in art history is revised and updated. This second edition of Carol Strickland's The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern offers an illustrated tutorial of prehistoric to post-modern art from cave paintings to video art installations to digital and Internet media. * Featuring succinct page-length essays, instructive sidebars, and more than 300 photographs, The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern takes art history out of the realm of dreary textbooks, demystifies jargon and theory, and makes art accessible-even at a cursory reading. * From Stonehenge to the Guggenheim and from Holbein to Warhol, more than 25,000 years of art is distilled into five sections covering a little more than 200 pages.




About Face


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Original publication and copyright date: 2010.