Monica Wong Model: Holi Watermelon

So I painted the town red… and yellow and green and blue.

And when I say 'town' I actually mean myself.

This shoot reminds me of Holi, which is a Hindu festival celebrating the arrival of Spring (will Spring please arrive already? Thanks). Excited folk throw dried paint into the air and at each other, it's a multi-coloured free for all!

I didn't have a painting match with anyone, my lovely Make-up Artist (literally) flicked eyeshadow at me. Personally I think the paint makes for a vast improvement.

I've created a beauty tutorial for you beauts on how to re-create the looks. Hope you have fun with it and be sure to turn that concrete grey landscape into a gleeful skyline.

Holi

1. You need a bright, light and fresh face, so prep the skin by cleansing, toning and moisturising. Shu Uemura Cleanser, S hu Uemura Cleansing Beauty Oil, Shu Uemura Whitening Cream and SHU UEMURA: Under Base Mousse Base works well for photography.

2. Apply a foundation thats a shade lighter than your usual foundation, like Shu Uemura The Lightbulb Fluid Foundation in 375. Powder: SHU UEMURA - Face Architect Powder 364 (Whitens the face)

3. Apply liquid eyeliner on the top lids: M·A·C LIQUID EYE LINER. The Shu Uemura Quad Custom Palette Black is perfect for creating a smokey eye. Blend the black eyeshadow mixed with a tiny bit of Vaseline on the top of eyelids and smudge across the lash line and build up the intensity into the outer corners. Blend the dark grey eyeshadow lightly into eye sockets. Apply the white eyeshadow into the inner corners and on top of the black eyeshadow to make your eyes appear

bigger.

3. Draw your eyebrows in black: Shu Uemura Eyebrow Liner. Shu Uemura have an amazing range of eyelashes like: Shu Uemura False Eyelashes

4. Apply red lipstick: NARS COSMETICS Lip Lacquer. Apply bright pink blush: Blush: LAURA MERCIER Second Skin Cheek Colour

5. Use Dazzle Dust eyeshadows (we used BarryM) to flick ramdomly onto the face with a brush.

6. If you want to create your own photo shoot, you need a dark room and bright lights facing towards your face, if you have a reflector, point it towards your face. Eliminate all light from the room and onto your face. To create 'the naked effect' wear a bandeau top so we can only see the top of your chest, and snap, snap, snap.

Watermelon Motherboard

1. Cleanse, tone and moisturise with products above.

2. Apply a foundation thats a shade lighter than your usual foundation, like Shu Uemura The Lightbulb Fluid Foundation in 375. Powder: SHU UEMURA - Face Architect Powder 364 (Whitens the face)

3. Fill in your whole inner eyelid crease with reddish pink eyeshadow, like Illamasqua Eyeshadow in Matt Daemon and fill the top with bright green eyeshadow: MAC Eye Shadow in Swimming. Apply white eyeshadow in the inner corners of your eyes. Apply liquid eyeliner on the top of your eye lids.

4. Draw your eyebrows in black: M·A·C M·A·C EYE BROWS.

4. Apply red lipstick: Shu Uemura Rouge Unlimited Red in RD185. Apply blush: Blush: LAURA MERCIER Second Skin Cheek Colour