VickyC.me

I had this website recommended to me by a friend, and I thought, “Oh God, not another one!”. You’ve been to the other sites – you have to pay to do absolutely anything. The sites you don’t have to pay for are pretty awful quality, but this site pleasantly surprised me!

So I decided why not, and clicked on the link. I thought to myself, ‘I’ll just X the window when it requests my credit card information’ – but surprisingly, it never did. I signed up, and it asked me to upload a photograph. So my boyfriend took one of me – a pretty bad one at that… It had everything, raccoon bags, flat hair, un-sculpted eyebrows. This photograph really would put their Makeover Studio to the test!

After uploading this monstrous picture, the site asked me to map out various points on my face: around the eyes, lips, head and eyebrows. Which I did, growing more and more impatient with every click – I just wanted to play with the make-up!

And finally, I was done! It brought me to a page where I could try on thousands of beauty products and accessories, from concealers to lip-glosses, and contact lenses to hair styles. I was slightly put off at first because at first I only saw super high end products like Dior, YSL and Givenchy to name a few – and I even joked to my boyfriend that they should put the prices of the products so that you can see how many dollars worth of make-up you end up with on your face when your transformation is complete. But then I noticed they actually do have high-street brands like Victoria’s Secret, Maybelline, CoverGirl and Revlon.

The first point of attack was to apply concealer to my raccoon eyes, and foundation to even everything out. The makeover studio has every shade of concealer and foundation – from geisha white to fake’n'bake orange. I was pleasantly surprised at it’s effectiveness at removing my bags and blemishes – and making myself orange was fun!

Next I moved onto the eye makeup. The options and combinations were staggering! And because of the face mapping feature, I could choose exactly where I wanted the products to be applied. Also, since I have an asymmetrical face, I could map the areas around my eyes accordingly so I didn’t end up looking like a crazy person who let a 3 year old apply their makeup.

Another thing I found very cool was how you can change the style of the eye shadow (mono wash, two tone, three tone or smokey), liner (top, inner or outer bottom, water-line, etc) and mascara (top, bottom, etc). It also allows you to choose the amount and thickness of the product, which was great as I found the eyeliner had a very harsh line.

I think the best part of this site was the brow thinning tool. It was realistic and really completed the make-up part of the makeover.

Then the fun *really* began. HAIR! I think I spent around 2 hours clicking and trying on all manner of hairstyles – from the huge collection in the site’s gallery and also Celeb styles. They have Lady GaGa, Rihanna, Heidi Klum, as well as many ’10 Fashion Week styles. The fun thing about the hair styles is that you can flip them, rotate them and adjust the width and height to fit the shape of your head. There are also a whole array of accessories to try – glasses, sunglasses, contacts, necklaces, etc. They have elaborately embellished hair sticks which you can choose to place anywhere, and a huge selection of hats and berets.

If you don’t feel like clicking away through all the different products, you can try the 1-Click Looks, where the website offers a selection of pre-programmed looks that they will apply to your face. I found these made me look like a Vegas show girl, but it was still fun and gave my boyfriend and I a few laughs!

The only downside was the lag time, it was quite slow to load – but then again, when you take into consideration the amount of information it has flying back and forth with the colors and styles, this can be forgiven!

I strongly recommend trying this site out.

http://www.dailymakeover.com/makeover/virtualMakeover

Tags: Beauty, CoverGirl, DailyMakeover, Dior, Free, Fun, Givenchy, Hair, Heidi Klum, Lady GaGa, Make-up, Makeover, Makeup, Maybelline, Online, Revlon, Studio, Virtual, YSL

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