FOTD: Phoenix

Products used

FACE:

Burt's Bees Natural Acne Solutions Moisturizing Lotion

Revlon Colorstay Foundation110 Ivory

Revlon Colorstay Presssed Powder: Translucent

Physicians Formula: Shimmer Strips: Custom Blush and Highlighter: Sunkissed Glow

Milani Powder Bronzer #00Radiant

EYES:

NYX Eyebase:01 (all over lid and up to brow)

Coastal Scents Matte Palette: H9 (applied to crease and blended upwards)

Coastal Scents Metallic Palette:  H8(applied to lid, wet), H9 (applied over H8, dry), H11 (applied to crease and blended), H10 (applied to outer lower lash line and blended with Legend), B5 (applied to inner corner of eye)

Tarte for TrueBlood: Legend (applied to crease and blended, used on upper lashline, used to set eyeliner, and to draw eyebrows)

e.l.f. Waterproof Eyeliner Pen 7303 Black (to create wing)

Milani Liquif'Eye Metallic Eyeliner Pencil 01 Black (on lower waterline) 

Physicians Formula: Shimmer Strips: Custom Blush and Highlighter: Sunkissed Glow (very top highlighter used as brow highlight and inner corner highlight)

e.l.f. Waterproof Lengthening & Volumizing Mascara: Black

Ready To Wear Lash Extensions

Rimmel Glam'Eyes Mascara: 001 Black
Too Faced Brow Envy Brow Powder: Blonde (inner corner contour)

BROWS: Too Faced Brow Envy Brow Powder: Brunette

NYX Auto Eyebrow Pencil EP08 Black

Tarte for Trueblood: Legend

LIPS:

Revlon Colorstay Foundation110 Ivory

Revlon Colorstay Presssed Powder: Translucent

e.l.f. Matte Lipstick: Nearly Nude

InColor by Jordana Lip Shine Shimmer Glaze: 09 Vanilla Bean

Everything set with e.l.f. Makeup Mist & Set

FOTD: Chartreuse Pink

(something I forgot to mention in my update is that I dropped my camera a bit ago and now I'm having trouble focusing on small things, so pictures of things like my eye up close don't come out too terribly well. Still trying to see if there's a way I can fix it)

Products used:

FACE:

Burt's Bees Natural Acne Solutions Moisturizing Lotion

Revlon Colorstay Foundation110 Ivory

Revlon Colorstay Presssed Powder: Translucent

Physicians Formula: Shimmer Strips: Custom Blush and Highlighter: Sunkissed Glow

Milani Powder Bronzer #00Radiant

EYES:

NYX Eyebase:01 (all over lid and up to brow)

NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil 628 Cucumber (all over lid)

Coastal Scents Matte Palette:  C3 (all over lid), G7 (from crease, blended upwards)

MAC Chrome Yellow (swept over CS: C3 and focused on inner part of lid)

Tarte for Trueblood: Glamour Me (in crease and on lower lash line), Legend (used in crease and to set eyeliner)

e.l.f. Waterproof Eyeliner Pen 7303 Black (on upper lashline)

Milani Liquif'Eye Metallic Eyeliner Pencil 01 Black (on lower waterline) 

Physicians Formula: Shimmer Strips: Custom Blush and Highlighter: Sunkissed Glow (very top highlighter used as brow highlight and inner corner highlight)
Too Faced Brow Envy Brow Powder: Blonde (inner corner contour)

e.l.f. Waterproof Lengthening & Volumizing Mascara: Black

Ready To Wear Lash Extensions

BROWS: Too Faced Brow Envy Brow Powder: Brunette

NYX Auto Eyebrow Pencil EP08 Black

Tarte for Trueblood: Legend

LIPS:

In Color by Jordana Lip Shine Shimmer Glaze in 09 Vanilla Bean

Everything set with e.l.f. Makeup Mist & Set

We're All Mad Here

Today felt like an "Alice in Wonderland" sort of day. This was a re-creation of a look by xBeingNEONx (sadly though I can't find the video where she showed her look :( I think she might have taken it down? I believe she said she was inspired by the older version and the new version of the Cheshire cat and sort of meshed their colours together. I love ittttttt♥).

Products used:

Biore Nourish moisture lotion SPF 15

e.l.f. Mineral Infused Face Primer

NYX HD Studio Photogenic Foundation

Coty Airspun Loose Face Powder

Milani Powder Bronzer #00 Radiant

Hard Candy Blush Crush Baked Blush: 126 Pin Up

Tarte for TrueBlood ES: The Light (face highlight)

Eyes:

tarte for trueblood: Lifted (primer)

NYX Eyeshadow Base: 01 White

NYX ES02: White (on inner corner and as brow highlight)

Coastal Scents Matte palette: A5, B6, G5, H5 (in order of colour fade on lid and brow)

Lower lashes:G7, F7, G8 (in order)

Tarte for Trueblood ES: Nocturnal (darkest blue) and Glamour Me (darkest purple

Milani Retractable Eyeliner 06 Black Rocks

e.l.f cream liner (black)

tarte mascara: Lights, Camera, Lashes

elf Lash Extending Mascara in Black

Ready to Wear Lash Extension

Too Faced Brown Envy:Blonde (brow powder used for inner eye contour and under pinks and purples to help blend)

Too Faced Brown Envy:Brunette (brow powder)

NYX Auto Eyebrow Pencil EP08 black

Lips: e.l.f. matte lip color: Nearly Nude
e.l.f. Minty Lip Gloss 82422 Nashville

Everything was set with e.l.f Makeup Mist & Set

Makeup Tip #4: Mascara

When applying mascara to your upper lashes, apply a coat of mascara to the tops of your lashes (the side that usually catches fall out from eyeshadows) by brushing them downwards and then apply a coat to the bottom (the "front" of your eye lashes)  side of your upper lashes.

Makeup tip #3: Cream Makeup

When using cream makeup, set it with a powder. It'll help lessen the chances of it creasing.

Makeup Tip #2: Foundation

Give your foundation time to dry before setting it with face powder

My Eyebrows

A topic that seems to come up often in conversations (concerning makeup) are my eyebrows, and I often get a lot of questions from people about it.

Why?

The main reason I shave my eyebrows is because I don't like the natural shape of them. My eyebrows grow very low, thick, and straight. People ask why don't I just wait for them to grow out and shape them? More hair grows on the bottom part of my eyebrow then on the top, so I can't achieve the shape I want as easily as I want. My hair is also naturally blonde, and I dye it black, and though you can really only tell up close, I just don't really like the lighter hairs against the dark brow powder and pencil. I don't have the patience to wait for the hair to grow, and I know there are some products that claim to help with eyebrow hair growth, but I don't want to spend the money on it. Plus, I don't like the pain of tweezing and I don't wanna get my eyebrows waxed. And I've tried threading and I can do it, but it's still uncomfortable.

Up keep?

Up keep is pretty simple. Every few days (depending on the growth), I take a small electric hair trimmer and run it across my brows to trim down the hair. Then, using my regular razor, I shave off the "tail" part of my eyebrows and then a bit from the front part. I leave a bit of hair near the start of my eyebrows just to use as a guide for where to start. I shaved off my entire eyebrow once, and I just noticed I had a bit more trouble drawing them on without some guide as to where to stop.

How do I draw in my eyebrows?

The way I personally prefer to draw on my eyebrows is to draw the basic shape (that I want that day) with a brown power (because the powder is so much more forgiving then the pencil),  then I take a black eyebrow pencil and continue to fill in the rest and make the shape much more defined. I then set the powder with either a darker brown or black shadow.

The products I'm using currently for my eyebrows is Too Faced: Brow Envy (Brunette eyebrow power) and NXY Auto Eyebrow Pencil (EP08 Black)

I don't plan on growing back my eyebrows out and keeping with my natural shape anytime soon. It can be a time consuming process to draw them on for me (because I have not so great eyesight and am not very good at getting things symmetrical). Though after doing it over and over again and developing a process, it gets much easier and takes up much less time. There are other drawbacks to doing this (for me, personally) I don't feel comfortable leaving my house without drawing in my eyebrows, so unless I've already drawn them in earlier in the day, I have to stop and pencil them in. Also, I can't really touch my eyebrow/forehead area much anymore, and if something happens when I'm out in public and if my eyebrows gets wiped off, then I'm kinda S.O.L. (the only makeup I really ever carry with me is lip gloss or my lipstick, if I wearing it that day. I don't carry around my brow pencil...which I should probably start doing! haha Basically, I don't really carry around much makeup in my bag :p). But despite how much of a pain it can be sometimes, I still prefer to do my eyebrows this way. Some days are bad and some days are good. When they're bad, I figure that they're not gettin' any better and I might as well just deal with them. But on days when they're good, whoa...it's gonna be a great day.

Makeup Tip #1: Moisturizer

Try using your moisturizers (face and body) on damp skin

Lady Green

A friend of mine asked me to make a look for her for prom. The picture is kinda messy, but just thought I'd share what I came up with.

LOTD: Dead End

Lately, I've been in sort of a makeup "rut" because my life has recently exploded with activity! But I've been getting back into makeup and wearing much more of this, and this became one of my favorite looks!

Products used:

Biore Nourish moisture lotion SPF 15

e.l.f. Mineral Infused Face Primer

NYX HD Studio Photogenic Foundation

Coty Airspun Loose Face Powder

Tarte fr TrueBlood ES: Dusk (face contour)

Milani Powder Bronzer #00 Radiant

Eyes:

tarte for trueblood: Lifted (primer)

Coastal Scents Matte palette, red (H9)

Tarte for trueblood, V (burgundy), Legend (black), The Light (off-white highlight)

Coastal Scents Metallic Palette, gold (C3 & B5)

Milani Retractable Eyeliner 06 Black Rocks

e.l.f cream liner (black)

tarte mascara: Lights, Camera, Lashes

Ready to Wear Lash Extension

Too Faced Brown Envy:Blonde (brow powder used for inner eye contour)

Too Faced Brown Envy:Brunette (brow powder)

NYX Auto Eyebrow Pencil EP08 black

Lips: e.l.f. matte lip color: Nearly Nude

Everything was set with e.l.f Makeup Mist & Set

Where have I been??

So I haven't really stopped doing makeup and whatnot. I actually lost my battery for my camera, and am not fully prepared to bring myself to spend about $150 to replace it, so I've been trying to find a new one. So I'm not dead, I promise. I've been having some people asking me if I still do makeup, and that's the only reason why I haven't been posting many pictures or posts on here, but hopefully that's going to change soon. I also have so much going on with college and whatnot (and while I was thinking of going to become an art history major, I'm thinking I might switch over to business and maybe open up something...? A makeup shop, perhaps? haha). But there's loads I wanna talk about and have learned a few new fun things recently, so hopefully I'll be back up and running soon! :)♥

LOTD: Naturally Glamorous

This is one of my absolute favorite dark eye sort of makeup to wear! It's starting to become one of my go-to look. 

I used the Revlon CustomEyes palette in "Naturally Glamorous" for most of this, but I added a matte brown eyeshadow from the tarte for TrueBlood kit.

Face:

Moisturized face with Clean&Clear Dual Action Moisturizer

Primed with Rimmel Fix&Perfect Primer 02

Revlon Colorstay makeup for combination/oily skin in 110 Ivory 

Boiing Industrial Strength Concealer: 01

Set with Coty Airspun Loose Face Powder: Translucent 070-24

tarte for TrueBlood eyeshadow in "Dusk" was used as a cheek and nose contour

NYC Smooth Skin Bronzing Face Powder in 720A Sunny used on cheeks

Revlon SkinLights in 02 Bare Lights used as highlight

Eyes:
Primed with tatre for TrueBlood lifted natural eye primer with Firmitol
All 5 colours in the Revlon "Naturally Glamorous" palette (colours weren't given names, just numbers) used:

1. On entire lid

4) Outer part of the lid

2) In crease and blended upwards

5) Used to deepen the crease

3) Inner eye highlight and brow highlight

tarte for TrueBlood colour "Werewolf" was used in the crease to darken it and blended upwards

Eyes lined with NYC Waterproof Eyeliner Pencil in 931 Black, e.l.f. cream liner in black and topped with #5 from Revlon "Naturally Glamorous" palette

Upper lashline lined with elf cream liner in black

tarte's "Lights, Camera, Lashes" mascara was used with a coat of Ready to Wear Lash Extension on upper lashes and "Lights Camera Lashes" mascara used on lower lashes 

Eyebrows drawn in with NYC Waterproof Eyeliner Pencil in 931 Black and set with NYX ES01 Black

Lips:

A light pink/nude lipgloss by Malibu Glitz (no idea what the colour is called or what it's numbers is). It's a strange "gloss" that has a very thick consistency (I could honestly use this as concealer, it's so thick...in fact, I have...o^_^o) and it dries matte. 

Everything was set with elf Makeup Mist & Set

Soot Sprite and Rainbow Eyeliner

This is my try at the rainbow liner. Finally breaking out with the bright colours! haha its been a while.

I made a bit of a darker version of the rainbow eyeliner and added black. It reminded me a lot of soot sprites and their kompeito candy

PRODUCTS USED FOR EYES
(The colours I used for the eyeliner on both eyes are exactly the same. And they were all wetted with Rhoto V eyedrops.)
Rainbow eyeliner:
-H9
-E9 & C9
-B2
-A3
-E3
-E6
-G5
-H6
-H8 & E8

Rainbow Eyes:
Primed with Boiing concealer:01
NYC Smoother Skin Pressed Face Powder 702A Naturally Beige (On lid and up to brow bone)
Glam Eyes by Rimmel in Glam Ice (on lid and brow highlight)
tarte for TrueBlood Dusk (in crease)
tarte Lights Camera Lashes! Mascara

Soot Sprite:
e.l.f. cream eyeliner in black on lid
tarte for TrueBlood eyeshaows
     Legend and Immortal on lid and blended upwards
Glam Eyes by Rimmel in Glam Ice (on lower lashline and brow highlight)
tarte Lights Camera Lashes! Mascara and used with Ready to Wear Lash Extension

Shimmer Palette

tarte for TrueBlood (3 more looks)

Here's the other three looks from the tarte for TrueBlood collection booklet.

Vampy Vixen

Luminous Fairy

Vamp Glam

I was going to do full-face looks, but I'm getting sick and just wasn't diggin' how my face looked at all haha didn't wanna put my blah-ness out there for the world to see.

PRODUCTS USED FOR EYES

Vampy Vixen
-tarte for TrueBlood lifted natural eye primer with Firmitol
-tarte for TrueBlood eyeshadows
     -The True Death (sparkling silver) on lid and blended up to the crease
     -tarte for TrueBlood emphasEYES aqua-gel eyeliner in black on upper lashline and lower lashline (set with tarte for TrueBlood eyeshadow "Legend")
     -Glamour Me (sparkling deep plum) smudged along upper and lower lashline
-Lights, Camera, Lashes! mascara applied to upper and lower lashes and used with "Ready to Wear Lash Extension"

Luminous Fairy

-tarte for TrueBlood lifted natural eye primer with Firmitol
-tarte for TrueBlood eyeshadows
     Dawn (shimmering gold dust) applied to lid and blended into crease
     Bayou (shimmering gold tan) applied to natural crease
     Charmer (sparkling burnt copper) smudged along upper lash line
 tarte for TrueBlood emphasEYES aqua-gel eyeliner in black on upper lashline and lower lashline (set with tarte for TrueBlood eyeshadow "Legend")

-Lights, Camera, Lashes! mascara applied to upper and lower lashes




Vamp Glam

-tarte for TrueBlood lifted natural eye primer with Firmitol
-tarte for TrueBlood eyeshadows
     Telepath (sparkling warm rose) on lid and blended into crease and outer corner
     Fairy (shimmering pink) on inner corner and blended up and outwards along the brow bone
     V (sparkling crimson) smudged along upper and lower lashline
 tarte for TrueBlood emphasEYES aqua-gel eyeliner in black on upper lashline and lower lashline (set with tarte for TrueBlood eyeshadow "Legend")
-Lights, Camera, Lashes! mascara applied to upper and lower lashes and used with "Ready to Wear Lash Extension"

Not Your Average Waitress

For c-mas, I got the tarte for True Blood palette and I absolutely love it (especially the mascara...oh my goodness, I can't even deal with how amazing it is! I have to get a new, full-size tube soon). So far, the only thing I'm not too crazy about is the eyeliner. It's like a gel liner in a tube, and it's super soft and breaks easily, so I have to use a brush. But it's a super creamy, dark black, so I can live with it :)

The palette comes with a little booklet that has 4 different looks and how to do them (it also says that they are "exclusive looks created by True Bloods award-winning lead makeup artist Brigitte Ellis)

None of the looks are really complex or complicated, but that's something I really love about them. They're simple and easy to do, yet are still very pretty and flattering.

The looks (in order of the picture above) are called "Not Your Average Waitress", "Luminous Fairy", "Vampy Vixen", and "Vamp Glam".


Today I did the look called "Not Your Average Waitress" for work. I love it and its been what I've been wearing to work almost every day now.

Products used:
Face:
Boiing Industrial Strength concealer
Hard Candy Just Face It: Featherweight Formula one-step foundation:Fair 361
NYC Smooth Skin Pressed Face Powder 702A Naturally Beige
NYC Smooth Skin Bronzing Face Powder 720A Sunny
Wet n Wild 380B Walking on Eggshells (highlight colour used as face highlight)

Eyes:
tarte for TrueBlood Lifted natural eye primer with Firmitol
tarte for TrueBlood: Dusk (matte warm taupe; on lid), Waitress (sparkling pink champagne; in crease and blended up towards brow bone), Werewolf (matte chocolate; in outer crease and upper lashline).
tarte for TrueBlood emphasEYES aqua-gel eyeliner (Upper lashline and upper waterline)
Ulta eyeliner pencil in black (lower waterline; set with Ulta Glamour Girl Eye Quad black eyeshadow)
Ulta Glamour Girl Eye Quad black eyeshadow (filled in eyebrows)
tarte for TrueBlood mascara: Lights, Camera, Lashes! (used with Ready to Wear Lash Extension)

Lips:
NYC 321 Chiffon
InColor by Jordana Lip Shine Shimmer Glaze 09 Vanilla Bean

Everything was set with e.l.f.  Makeup Mist & Set