makeup tutorial

So lately my friends have been asking me “how do you do your makeup?” so I decided to make a blog about it!


Face-

• Start with a liquid foundation and apply all over your face with a thin coat. Make sure you blend the edges by you jaw and hairline so you don’t end up with a makeup line. When you buy your foundation, have the person at the counter match up your makeup with you skin tone.
• Apply some bronzer all over blending at the jaw and hairline.
• Over the bronzer, apply a thin layer of pressed powder. The press powder will make the bronzer look less Jersey Shore and more natural. The pressed powder should be the same tone as you liquid foundation. Apply past the jaw line to cover up a makeup line.
• Take a light shade of bronzing powder and apply to cheeks and cheekbones. Rub in with finger tips to give your skin a light glow.
• Finish with a light pink blush. Apply on cheekbones, not on cheeks to avoid looking like Grandma. Blend in with finger tips.

Eyes-

• With a damp eye shadow applicator, apply a layer of the same pressed powder you used to you eyelids. This will help you eyes shadow stay on all day.
• Using an eyelash curler, curl your lashes three different times. Once as close to the roots of your eyelashes as you can, clamp and curl, in the middle of you eyelashes, clamp and curl, and finally at the tips, clamp and curl. When you curl, hold for ten seconds.
• Line eyes with a black eyeliner pencil as you want. As you go closer to the inner corner of you eyes, make you lines more narrow, and as you go out, make them more wide.
• Outline your black eyeliner with a brown eyeliner, narrowing as you go in, widening as you go out.
• Using a highlighting eye shadow brush, apply a light eye shadow to your brow bone and the inner corner of your eye. This will highlight you eye and brow.
• Using a blending eye shadow blush, blend a “mid-toned” eye shadow from lash line to crease, blending the edges as you go.
• Using a shading eye shadow brush, apply a dark or “deep” eye shadow on the outer 1/3 of your eye building the color and blending as you go.
• Re-line your liner with a black cream liner, smudging it on the lower lid on the outer corner.
• Use a thin liquid liner to wing your eyeliner. Start on the outer 1/3 of you eye, widening as you go out and as your eye ends, lift your brush slightly up to create a wing.
• Taking your mascara wand,(I clean mine every once in a while to get out the dried mascara clumps that could affect the way I apply my mascara) and apply to the bases of you lashes and wiggle the wand.
• Using a tissue, wipe of the excess mascara from the wand, (or just use a lash comb) and brush the mascara that you put on your base and comb it out to your tips to avoid clumping.
• Apply a second coat. Use the wand to sweep from base to tip, but do it before the first coat dries, to avoid clumping.

Lips-

• Exfoliate lips by taking a toothbrush, running it under hot water, and lightly brushing you lips for about one minute.
• Apply a think coat of chap stick.
• Add a small dap of “nude” lip gloss to you bottom lip and blend evenly by rubbing your lips together.

Have fun with your eye shadow! To make a statement, try matching it to your shirt color. Usually make that eye shadow the one that we use from lash line to crease.