Product Review – The Makeup Muse Tribal Workbook
February 11, 2010
Review – The Makeup Muse Tribal Workbook : Beginner and Intermediate Designs by Melanie Siedsma
First Try at a Design
Price – $15.00 at SillyFarm
Description -
- 8 1/2″ X 11″
- spiral bound
- 29 pages long
- Includes a laminated Practice Face sheet with blank face on 1 side and 14 mini tribal designs on the back
- 12 Face designs (1/2 face, masks and eye designs) with steps and then 2 bonus arm designs w/o steps make up the Workbook
First Impressions - This was one of my first purchases as a beginner face painter. I was way intimidated and in hindsight this was a bit of a silly book for me to have purchased as one of my very first endeavors.
Overall Impressions – Now I use this workbook as an excellent source of tribal patterns. The designs flow nicely and are mostly intuitive.
Pros -
• Fairly easy to follow Step by Steps
• Great tribal designs for the face that you probably haven’t seen before
• Excellent practice sheet included with mini practice designs on one side (I used my Paradise black on the sheet and it worked out fine)
• Cheap!
Cons -
• Cheap and therefore not super durable
• Hand/Arm designs did not have step by steps
Recommended – Yes! If you are past the initial “learning to paint” trial period, then this one is so worth it. You must know how to do Swirls and Curls already.
Suggestions – Please Please Please do more of these Melanie! I would love to learn how to take regular cheek art pictures (skulls, spiders etc.) and transform them into tribal pieces. Also, please make a DVD, or a YouTube video or something. Tribal is awesome and in demand.
Do You think Tribal is worth spending the time to learn? Do you memorize a set pattern or do you make them up as you go? Leave a comment below!
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8 Comments Leave a Comment
1.
Margie | February 11, 2010 at 9:19 pm
I am going to start focusing on tribals -love the whole tat look always have. Definitely going to look into this book. Thanks for the review!
2.
Ivonne | February 11, 2010 at 10:38 pm
Thanks Michelle…I loved your tribal designs at the KK and I always wanted to learn how to do them…Gonna get this book!
3.
Brenda | February 13, 2010 at 3:21 am
Great review Michelle. I just purchased some things from Silly Farm and would love to share product discoveries. I will definitely checkout this book.
4.
Philadelphia Tivoli | February 18, 2010 at 7:32 pm
Super helpful! Thanks for the review, very good insight :-)
5.
Michelle | February 19, 2010 at 2:05 pm
Hey Margie! Thanks for checking out my blog and reading the review : ) Your pics on Facebook are rocking. Speaking of focusing on Tribals, I’m pretty sure I’m going to focus some of my time at FABAIC ’10 on learning to do them on the fly. Will I see you there???
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Michelle | February 19, 2010 at 10:54 pm
Yeah Man! Did you get much of a chance to check it out at the After Kidvention Jam on Wed? I think I’ll do a mini tutorial on my fast tribals soon. Thanks for checking out the Blog!
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Michelle | February 19, 2010 at 10:56 pm
Hi Brenda! Thanks for the compliment : ) I think product reviews are probably the most popular request for Blog Posts so far. It’s hard when you can’t always it make it to a jam to try stuff in person. Keep your eyes open for more reviews!
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Michelle | February 19, 2010 at 10:59 pm
Thanks Philadelphia : ) I hope you enjoy the rest of my blog posts too!
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