Here's the final look, so perfect for a night out! If you are interested in learning how I achieved this, keep reading.
Although I don't like the colder days, I absolutely love the fall season for the fall colors. I don't just mean the changing color of the leaves (which is beautiful). I really wanted to do a fall eye look and because I love these looks so much I may do more! I hope you enjoy this ☺
Here's the final look, so perfect for a night out! If you are interested in learning how I achieved this, keep reading.
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I adore using warm tones because I feel that they suit me well. Sometimes however, I just want to try cool tones. In this look I did that using silvers. Check out the product list below to see what I used for this look:
Colourpop Cosmetics (if you haven't already heard of it) is a new company based out of LA. They have been in business for over a year now and let me tell you they are pretty awesome! Everyone began loving them when they ordered their eyeshadows. They are quite unique, they feel cushiony and the colour payoff is intense. However this post is about the ultra matte lippies that they came out a little while ago. They started out with 25 beautiful shades in the line and then added 8 new colors very recently. The best part is, they are only $6!!!
September 1st is creeping up, closer and closer. We all know what that means! Early and tiring mornings and a full day of studies ahead. If you're like me, you always value sleep above everything else in the morning. That's leaves little time to get ready in the morning! Some days however (aka like the first week of school) you manage to wake up early enough to put some solid effort into your makeup. Keep reading to see my take on a 10 and 20 minute face.
If you haven't already heard of strobing, where have you been? Strobing is a technique that has actually been around for a long time. Essentially the concept is you skip the contour and focus on highlight the high points of the face to bring a youthful glow back to the face. Strobing can also entail packing on the highlight so you basically glow like a disco ball. If you know me, you'll know that I love that idea! A lot of popular beauty gurus (like Jacyln Hill, Desi Perkins Amrezy etc) absolutely ADORE a good highlight on fleek, just like me! The strobing trend have been going around for awhile now (I'm very late on this post, I know!) and when it was a lot of people were saying things like "strobing is in and contouring is out". Just for the record, I and many other beauty lovers are definitely not ready to give up contouring. I hate when people say things like that (this is in and this is out), to each their own!
In this post I'll go through how you too can achieve a strobed and very highlighted look. Here's what you will need:
I ordered the Vanity Planet Spin for Perfect Skin brush about 7 weeks ago, I waited until I had used it quite thoroughly before saying anything about it. So that is what this whole post will be about, but first I want to provide some context and talk about the products I use in my skincare routine because it goes hand in hand. This is going to be a long post, but please bear with me as I include some pretty important information about this product including coupon codes!
I bought this foundation at least 3 weeks ago and waited until I tried it out several times before giving my opinion on it. As all my reviews are and always will be, this is 100% my honest opinion of the product.
Hi everyone, You know that one technique that always eludes you? You always try it but it always turns out horrible and you sit there thinking, "how does everyone make it look so easy"? For me, that's a cut crease look. I think it looks so pretty, but I'm always super confused about how and when to flick it out at the end so it lines up perfectly with my liner afterwards. It just boggles me. And getting that line so crisp and blended perfectly above? Ugh. Well I tried a cut crease today so I'd like to share my attempt. I didn't use any tricks really to help me, just practiced the shape before I did it for real. I really just winged it! Here's the final look: If you'd like to know how to recreate it, keep reading! Hi everyone! I've been a fan of Desi ever since she started YouTube pretty much. She is ALWAYS on point with her makeup and her looks are always fierce. You can find her on YouTube as Desi Perkins or on instagram as @desimakeup She recently collaborated with a few other beauty gurus on YouTube to do a makeup look based on the newly released Bad Blood music video from Taylor Swift. The intro to this video is KILLER. You MUST watch this video, if only for the intro. It's that good!!! The look itself is nothing short of awesome, and I was very inspired to recreate it, so below you'll find not only her video, but my recreation and the product list I used. She looks absolutely fabulous rocking the look, and here is my recreation:
If you don't already follow Kathleen on social media, you're missing out. She is a beautiful and funny soul who does beauty tutorials on YouTube. I was very inspired by her Pool Side Makeup video she released just over 2 weeks ago and decided to recreate it with products I have at home (she used the new foiled eyeshadows by Makeupgeek but I don't have those...yet!). I'll post her YouTube video down below, but first lemme just put all her links here :D YouTube - KathleenLights Twitter - @KathleenLights1 Instagram - @kathleenlights Snapchat - kathizzle11 This past week I had to attend a party and I decided to wear a fancy desi suit that had orange, gold and cobalt blue in it. I took out some of the colors from the suit and used them in this look. If you want to see how you can achieve this look, keep reading!
Whenever I want to go into extra, or full glam mode I always make sure to highlight and contour. It's definitely not an everyday thing, and it does take some time but I love the end result. Of course you can tone it down for an everyday look and I occasionally do that, but mostly it's all or nothing for me.
Now there are two different ways to contour & highlight: powder or cream. I find that cream gives a more natural and long lasting look especially when set with powder after but it's your choice as to what you find easier to do. If you would like to cream contour, you'll need to find a concealer or foundation about 2 shades lighter than your skin tone and one about 2 shades darker. If you want to go more intense, you can go for even lighter and darker colors. Make sure they are the right undertone for your skin, otherwise it will just look off. Some good choices for cream contour are the LA Girl HD Pro Concealers which I would buy off of the Morphebrushes website, or if you have the money you can always spring for the Anastasia Beverly Hills Cream Contour Kit. If you would like to use powder contour some good choices are the NYX Highlight & Contour Pro Palette , the Anastasia Beverly Hills Contour Kit, or the Kat Von D Shade + Light Contour Palette. I don't own any contour palettes myself so I just DIY it with cheaper products. If you'd like to get a glimpse of my process, keep reading! I've been busy with school and work the last few weeks, and it's always hard to find time to sit down and write a proper blog post, but I'm finally ready to share what I've been working on for awhile which is a review of the NYX Born to Glow Liquid Illuminator. I bought mine for $11, but I'm sure they are less expensive in other places. On the website, they retails for $7.50, come in tubes of 18 mL, and come in two shades: Sunbeam and Gleam. Sunbeam is the lighter shade of the two, almost a champagne color. It has been described as a dupe to Benefits High Beam, whether or not that is true I'm not sure. I, however purchased the darker shade which is Gleam. I figured that since Sunbeam was so light, it likely suited more fair skintones while Gleam suited darker skintones. Gleam has a pink-bronze tone to it.
What really appeals to me is that, firstly the product is meant to illuminate and act as a highlight. I LOVE highlighter and highlighting so this makes sense. Second, because it is a liquid product, you can use it to give your face a healthy glow and keep it dewy. Coming from a girl with fairly dry skin, I don't always want to look matte, I actually love the look of healthy glowy dewy skin! I've resolved to starting to use more color in my eye looks, because thus far I've really stuck to the neutral classics. You can never go wrong with a neutral eye, but after awhile you crave to do something a little funner and that usually involves color! Or glitter. Glitter is good too! In this look I didn't just stop at the eyes, but I also played with the lips too. Here's the full look.
Isn't this look just gorgeous?! Seriously, this look just gives me LIFE. I swear! To me, this look is totally perfect for prom, so if you have a formal event coming up, and this color palette works with your outfit, GO FOR IT! This look would look beautiful on everyone! Keep reading to see how you can recreate this look.
*Disclaimer* I was at home all day when I created this look, so I'm wearing regular home clothes and my hair is not done, so I apologize, just focus on the look please ☺ Well well well, look at me go, posting twice in two days. I suppose you'll just have to get used to more frequent posts now that it's spring/summer! Now onto this day time glam look! It really looked very beautiful and very done up indeed. The whole look was created using the NYX Wicked Dreams Palette which is only $15, so keep reading to see how I achieved this look!
When I first did research on the NYX Prismatic Eyeshadows I knew for sure I had to have the shade fireball. First off, that name is phenomenal and second that color is to die for! To my horror I dropped the only one left in the store, it looked fine when I bought it but when I took it home I realized it had shattered the shadow. I was quite honestly, deeply upset by it. I decided to try to repair it using alcohol and it was my first time doing so. I added in a few drops, swirled around the shadow and then pressed it down with a coin to get it as smooth as I could, then I let it dry overnight. And honestly, I think that made the eyeshadow even better. I think the pigment is the best on this shadow than the other prismatic eyeshadows I own! So yay for fixing what's broken instead of just throwing it away!
This is the eye look I came up with, so keep reading to see how I achieved it. I've heard a lot of good things about the NYC Liquid Eyeliner from all over the place. I've seen it being using in Youtube tutorials by people like Desi Perkins, who does her liner with gel and a brush and then goes back with this liquid liner to darken it and make the line more sharp. That's what I want. A line so sharp it cuts. I already had the NYC liquid liner sitting around (bought it one time because I couldn't find the Maybelline stilletto liner in stores and it was cheap) but I didn't quite like the brush. I decided to go shopping because I thought I had gotten a defective one. So I went to Shoppers Drug Mart (don't buy them there, they are cheaper at Walmart) and picked one up. The only shade available was Pearlized Black which is the shade I had already so I thought maybe they only sell this one shade for this liner. I also found a felt tip high definition liner from NYC so I bought that too and decided to test them out. I don't like them. Either of them. And I'll tell you why.
I've seen so many dark black smokey eyes on Instagram that I just had to try it out for myself. I felt sort of vampy when I was swatching the LA Girl Glazed Lip Paint in Daring, so I tried this right after. The steps are fairly simple, I just took a matte black eyeshadow (Coal from Morphebrushes) and patted it on my lid until I got the intensity that I wanted. To blend this out I then took a mixture of Bitten from Makeupgeek cosmetics and Rosewood by Morphebrushes and put this in the crease to soften the edges of the black. Once I was satisfied I put that combo on my lower lash line. Then I took a flat liner brush and carefully using the matte black eyeshadow placed this along my lower lash line in a tight line. I highlighted my inner corner and browbone with the higlighter in the Walking on Eggshells palette by Wet N' Wild, added mascara and I was done! Unfortunately the camera picks it up as more brown than purple, but I swear it was purple in real life! Okay I'm done now.
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