Guest Speaker - Mirijana Vasovic

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Instead of our normal technical sessions this week we were fortunate enough to receive a special class from makeup artist and first assistant to Lucia Pieroni, Mirijana Vasovic. Mirijana began her career working as a employee at MAC cosmetics as part of the M.A.C Artist Relations team, from there she worked her way up through the fashion industry and now works alongside the icons of the makeup industry such as Val Garland and Lucia Pieroni. Mirijana is someone within the industry that I know very much admire as she expressed a lot of honesty, passion and skill within her work and time demonstrating at the university. In the beginning she was a student at the London College of Fashion and worked through university studies to where she is today, her explanation of how she came to be where she is today reinforced the drive within myself to keep working to the best of my abilities both academically and within my application skill set for in her opinion opportunities come the those who put in the work before hand. Recently I have been struggling with the current project and keeping myself to a standard of work however her talk reinforced that final push to really put my full efforts into my time at university. 

Mirijana's Advice for Experience Applications:
- Learn and know the top names in the fashion/beauty industry so that you are able to interact professionally and with knowledge. 
- If aiming to undergo freelance work aim to be supported by an agent. 
- Manners are everything.
- When emailing/contacting companies for experience don't be afraid to do follow up emails. 
- Add in additional work with each contact, it shows you are working and interested plus supplies new material to see. 
- Make yourself easily accessible by supplying all forms of contact.
- Email different agents with your work.
- Always be formal and professional.
- Within applications you don't need to include all your experience as this is the purpose of your CV.

Kit Essentials:
- High quality foundations are the staple point of your kit and the main product worth investing in.
- Bioderma Sensitive cleansing water is an essential for makeup removing and is used by makeup artists throughout fashion weeks worldwide. 
- When selecting moisturisers don't use choose a product that is highly fragranced or oily moisturiser on the face. Embryolisse Lait Creme Concentre Nourishing Moisturiser is a staple product however Nivea Rich Moisturising Cream is a good dupe for this.
- MAC Face & Body in shades C1, C6, N1, N9 with maybe two shades between this and a white. This allows you to cater to all skin tones and the product itself is a cult classic that supplies light to medium radiant coverage with a satin finish.
- Take time to learn lymphatic draining facial massage that can be used on the client when moisturising their face to stimulate the skin, but also to relax them.