January 2, 2008

Knowledge Is Powder

Brock Cassidie Salon’s BYO Makeup Lessons

Your beauty arsenal is stocked with enough shimmer, matte, plump, and curl power to turn you into a dead ringer for Amy Winehouse — precisely why you’re too intimidated to use most of the stuff in it.

Call on KC Flynn, owner (and resident makeup expert) at Brock Cassidie Salon, to help you face the music. Flynn encourages clients to bring their own makeup to appointments so she can give step-by-step tips for looks that are easy to recreate at home.

Wrap up in one of the vibrant, salon-issued kimonos and sit back in Flynn’s leopard-print chair while she walks you through industry tricks like filling in sparse eyebrows (swipe a shadow a little tanner than your face over ’em) and making your eyes pop with colors that might be taboo on anyone with different features, shading, or style.

Or land you in rehab.

Brock Cassidie Salon, 3150 East Shadowlawn Avenue, Buckhead (404-477-1812 or brockcassidiesalon.com).