Southern Winter Eyes: How To

 

   Did everyone has a good Christmas? This is a bad year for the flu! So far I'm good, but I know a lot of people who has been hit by it! My sympathies. I've had my share of the flu.
  My Christmas was good. What did everyone get? I did pretty good in the makeup department which I will fill you all in with another post but here is my Christmas look. More on the dress here: Southern Sweater Dress
  And now the eyes............. (I'm giving you the names of the colors I used. Feel free to use similar colors in other brands or change the colors as you wish!)
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• ELF Waterproof Eyeliner Pen Black +e.l.f. Cosmetics 
• Hard Candy Baked Eye Shadow 4126 By Xtreme Color NY
• L'Oreal Paris Voluminous Extra-Volume Collagen Waterproof 695 Blackest Black +lorealparisnyc 
• Revlon Diamond Lust 120 "Night Sky" Luxuious +Revlon Trends 
• Maybelline Color Tattoo Metal 24hr By Eyestudio 65 "Gold Rush" +Maybelline NY Mx 
• Revlon Diamond Lust 150 "Plum Galaxy" *not pictured

Step 1: Color Tattoo, this stuff is great! I also used it here: Party With the Young'uns in "Blue Paradise". It truly does last a long time! "Gold Rush" is a very bright metallic gold. First, place "Gold Rush" above your eye lid 

 

Step 2: Did you know I like glitter? Haha... anyway, in the eye crease apply "Night Sky". Diamond Lust is a very sparkly  line of shadows that they had me in mind when they made it ;-) I've collected 5 shades of this now! "Night Sky" is a dark grey with lots of sparkles.

 

Step 3: Start the color at the inside of your eye (at the tear duct) and taper it out over the lids of your eyes. I'm using a purple Baked Eye Shadow from Hard Candy. It has a good bit of shine but not quite as shiny as the other colors.

Step 4: Using eyeliner, line the upper lid bring out a little of a wing. Eyeliner under the lid only line half of it and meeting the wing and the outside corner of the eye.
 I just bought a new liner. I finally ran out of my own bottle and I can't even find that brand anymore so for a dollar or two I took the chance on ELF's Eyeliner Pin. The concept of using a pin sounded like a good one! I also read a good review on it too. It worked! I must note though that is not waterproof at all.

Step 5: Mascara time! L'Oreal Paris Voluminous Extra-Volume One of the of my Black Friday weekend finds!

Step 6: Somehow this shadow didn't make it to the pic of makeup I used but this is also from the Diamond Lust line by Revlon. This is best put on with a small makeup brush, Again sparkly but very close to the color I used on my lids from Hard Candy. I like this pairing of two similar colors, one in not as sparkly as the other like this. It  adds some depth to it. I placed it under my eye starting at the wing and tapering into the middle of the eye.

And your done! Ever give this look a try please let me see it!
Till next time!

Elsa's Snow Queen Eyes: How To

  I found this tutorial by +makeupwithtammy! You can find it at Disney's Frozen Elsa inspired makeup look!

   I was in a Christmas Parade recently and needed a look to go with a Vintage Teal color dress with sequin snow flakes. I'll talk about the dress later. But you could not help but notice a it looking like it came from Frozen. So, I figured I'd go with it and go with Elsa's eyes.

   It turned out rather well. To be honest I used the pictures not the written instructions. It's great they're there though! I had to make due with the colors I had which made me realize that I don't have a reddish eye shadow in my makeup case. I ended up using lipstick! :-) Just when you thought you had every color eye shadow you could need...

   This was a bit more complicated then How To Eyes Tutorial: Pin-xperimentation.

How To Eyes Tutorial: Pin-xperimentation

   So... we see these projects and ideas on Pinterest but how many are likely to be Pinterest FAILS?
  Really, I have found most projects that I or people I know who has taken on a Pinterest project actually were successful! You should see my brother's dinning table... it's gorgeous! But right now I'm here to talk about an eye makeup look I came across...

   There were no written instruction to this tutorial, well, take that back, the instructions are so small you can't read them! But the picture is really about all you need. The green is lovely that they used but I was not wearing green that day so I switch it to purple.
   Skill level? Well, I have a pretty high skill level with makeup. I can do Egyptian make up in just a couple of minutes and make it on stage in time!
   I would say this look for a newbie that knows NOTHING about makeup might have a time with it but if you know how to use a eyeliner pin you should be able to do it... and hey, newbies try anyway, can't get good at something you don't try!
   Here's how it works...

   First off, I have a collection of shadow so I was able to find 4 colors that would give you the ombre effect and I used two liquid eye liner. To have a finished look you have to have mascara. Oh and I use concealer for the base for my shadow.

Step 1 : Put a base one your lids that the shadow will stick to. I used Love My Face 250 Light Cover Stick.

Step 2: Start at the outer corner of your eye and draw a line with your eye liner (I'm using Wet N Wild Mega Liner 07 "Plum" out and upward. You can use pencil or liquid but I'm better at using liquid so that's what I went with.
Another line is drawn on your natural eye crease outward to meet the line you drew from the corner.

Step 3: Use your darkest shade here. I used a deep metallic plum mixed with black from a set of shadows by KLEANCOLOR "All About Me 18." Coloring inside the lines about 1/4.

Step 4: Your medium shade goes here. Blending into the edges of the darker color cover the middle of you eye lid. I used MAYBELLINE New York "Lasting Lilac" The darker color.

Step 5: And here color what hasn't been colored to the tear duct. Again MAYBELLINE New York "Lasting Lilac" but the lighter shade.

Step 6: Darken the "wing" with black liner or black shadow. I use a black liquid liner.

Step 7: Apply a little of the dark color under your lower lash line.

Step 8: Add black liner around the eyes. (I did not do this. I don't like putting liner on after putting on shadow.)

Step 9: Looks like they added highlight of yellow in the middle. Instead of yellow in the middle I placed a light skin town color of shadow from my KLEANCOLOR "All About Me 18." to the tear duct area of my eye.

Step 10: Mascara! I used Maybelline The COLOSSAL Volum' Express Upper and lower lashes.

Lipstick? Wet n Wild Pinkerbelle!