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