Recently, I've come to a realization that my life is getting weirder and weirder since I became a beauty blogger. I cannot just step out of the house like a normal person with no makeup. It feels naked. I have to put something on, preferably something that makes me look like a drag queen, and parade around town. My concept of "neutral makeup" is the smokey eyes with neutral-looking colors!
This is my effort to look toned down and less drag queen-ish for a day. Needless to say, I failed. The look is quite nice and simple but I felt naked. So I put a pair of false eyelashes on! You see what I mean now?
Anyways, let us go on with the show:
It Girl FOTD |
Stuff I used:
Eyes: ELF eyelid primer, Formula D Minerals eyeshadows in It Girl, Serenity, Kaleidoscope, and Daisy, Wet n Wild Idol Eyes shadow stick in Pixie, ELF waterproof eyeliner, CoverGirl LashBlast fusion
Face: The Ultimate Powder, mineral foundation, Radiance blush, MAC Studio Sculpt concealer NW20
Lips: Rimmel London lipstick in Vintage and Victoria's Secret lipgloss in Blushed
Brushes: ELF Studio powder brush, crease brush, ELF Professional blending brush and eyeshadow brush
Eyes
Open eye |
- Apply a coat of ELF eyelid primer on each eye, wait for it to completely dry. Otherwise, the stuff will peel.
- Using the eyeshadow brush, apply It Girl to the eyelid area
- With the crease brush, apply Serenity to the outer-v area and blend it inward.
- Using the blending brush, blend Serenity to the crease area but not all the way in
Concentrate Serenity on the outer-v area and the crease |
- Use the blending brush to apply Kaleidoscope as a highlighter, blending it with Serenity. This is really strange because your whole eyes are covered in various shades of pink but believe me, it looks really cute.
- Use the crease brush to apply Daisy to the inner corner of your eyes.
- Apply Pixie to the lower lash line and the waterproof eyeliner to the upper lashes.
- Apply 2 coats of mascara and you're done.
Another look at the eye |
Face
- Apply The Ultimate Powder as a face primer, using the powder brush
- Then, apply your mineral foundation, using the same brush
- Conceal your blemishes and set the foundation with The Ultimate Powder, using the same brush (I'm trying not to use too many brushes to save me some cleaning time.)
- Apply Radiance blush with a blush brush (not shown)
Lips
- Apply Vintage to your lips and top it off with Blushed
This is pink overload. Surprisingly, you can see the colors on my eyes a lot better here |
Big Bow has to make another cameo :) |
You can buy this look on my shop. From now until 8/18/2010, if you buy the four eye shadows I used in this tutorial (It Girl, Serenity, Kaleidoscope, and Daisy), you'll get Radiance blush for free. That's a $7 value, people!
Just go to my shop and check it out. Please support my shop, y'all!