My makeup on new cover with Gaby Espino

The June issue of Cosmopolitan en Español has my new cover with actress Gaby Espino and is out on the newstands now!  We shot in Miami a couple of months ago at The Tides hotel in South Beach.
Here's the cover:

Gaby Espino- Cosmopolitan June 2011 Makeup by Luis Casco Styled by Brett McCall Hair Luis Beltran

This was one of the few times that the magazine has done a swimsuit cover so we really wanted her skin and body to look luminous.  On her face I used the new Mary Kay Foundation Primer, I applied this all over the face (I like to press it on the skin with a brush or my fingers)  It's great if you concentrate it in the middle of the face.  We were going to be a outside and at the beach so I didn't want to keep re-applying the makeup and I didn't have to!!
http://www.marykay.com/color/foundations/default.aspx

Mary Kay Foundation Primer

Next, I used Mary Kay Tinted Moisturizer.  On the cheeks Mary Kay cream blush in Cranberry.  This color looks strong when you first apply it but it looks beautiful after is blended well.  Try applying the cream blush with a makeup sponge over the foundation and it will give you just the right amount of color.  Besides, Gaby really loves blush and it looks great on her!
On the eyes I used a great neutral duo eyeshadow palette from Nars called Dogon.  It has the most perfect charcoal black that worked well with her eyes followed by DIORLINER precision eyeliner in black and Ardell lashes #105 finished off with DIORSHOW mascara.


I've been asked  what I used on her body to make it look so glossy.  It was actually a product that Gaby kept going on and on about and that she introduced me to that day.

LORAC TANtalizer

It was LORAC'S TANtalizer Body Bronzer Luminizer available at: http://www.loraccosmetics.com/p-21-font-colorcb0000-size1best-seller-fonttantalizerbrfont-size1body-bronzing-luminizerfont.aspx
I loved the way it looked on her skin- it literally made it look like the color on the tube.  Golden and bronze.  I was also amazed at the fact that after it dried in about 10 minutes it didn't come off on any of the swimsuits (we even shot a white one) and that's a true test for a product like this.  I think it will look great on medium to darker skin tones but I've yet to try it on someone with fair skin-- Let me know if you have!!


Here are some of the other shots we did that day:

Gaby Espino- Cosmopolitan June 2011 Makeup by Luis Casco

Gaby Espino- Cosmopolitan June 2011 Makeup by Luis Casco

Backstage of Gaby Espino shoot on Telemundo. Luis Casco makeup