Ok, so this is my first time making a tutorial and it took FOREVER. It's a look that I played around with last night and it has 2 versions, one for "natural" lips, and one for deep red lips.
These will be the final products:
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Here is what we will use:
so to start off, we are using:
Face:
Hyper Real 500 & 600
MSF Natural Dark & Deep Dark
MSF Northern Lights
Chocolate Pigment (not pictured)
Eyes:
UDPP
Twinks
Embark
Texture
Mauvement Pigment
Patina
Show off (brow gel)
Black liquid eyeliner
Black pencil Eyliner
Dark Chocolate Victoria's Secret Eyeliner
Mascara
NYC Eyebrow pencil
Lips V.1:
Hodgepodge
Chintz
Plumb Dandy
Lips V.2:
Go Currant Maybelline
Any kind of shiny red (try glitter or a bright red metallic eyeshadow, I used Heat by Urban Decay)
Black eyeliner (don't use the same eye pencil that you used for your eyes)
LET'S START!
Clean face:
We're going to put on some UDPP
Now we're going to take a dense brush to apply some Patina, only to the mobile lid.
Now we're going to take some Texture... Keep in mind that I'm only using this color because it's close to my skintone. Adjust it as needed for yours.
Take this color up to the brow bone slightly (but not by much) with the Patina.
Now we're going to put some Twinks in the crease area
This is just to show where it should go... about 2/3s in, but not completely. Now it should be blended like the picture below.
So now I'm going to take some Mauvement pigment and put it slightly over lapping the Twinks. This is going to go from the inner corner to 2/3s in. I just put some near the middle of the lid and then blended it into the inner lid area.
Now, like I said above, it's time to blend it inwards.
Now take some of the Embark and place it on the outer corner of your eye. and blend. Keep blending because you can always build up more. I put it so that it goes slightly above the crease, and overlaps part of the Patina and Twinks.
Now I take some brow gel in the color Show Off and try to tame my brows.
It's very hard to do this while taking a picture of yourself because it's liquid...
After this, I used an NYC eyebrow pencil to make the brow look more polished.
The next step is to line the upper lid with liquid eyeliner of your choice. I chose black, but really any color will do, especially if you want to use the neutral lip, a pop of liquid eyeliner color can be really nice.
Now is time to switch to pencil liners and with your black liner, line your water and tight lines. With the Dark Chocolate Pencil liner, I lined the lower lid, then added mascara to my lashes. Now we're done with the eyes.
For the face, this is a way that I generally tend to do my foundation: I use two. I have a wide range of colors on my face and don't like to flatten it by using only one color (and it's oh so obvious if I try). So I first apply the lighter liquid foundation to my upper cheek area, nose, and lower center of my forehead.
I did all of this with a wedge sponge which I normally don't do, but since it's winter, fuller coverage is better.
Now I take the darker of the two foundations and use it for the area around my mouth and chin, the side of my face, and the rest of my forehead.
After this I do roughly the same with my powder foundation. The lightest one goes in the natural "highs" of my face, and the darker one goes in the natural "lows" of my face.
and darker powder...
Next, I took some chocolate pigment and used it as a contour cheek color (thanks to someone who recommended this as an alternative to the ever elusive Metal Rock. I can't thank you enough!).
Next I take Northern Lights and use it as my blush. The great thing is, it's a wonderful glow/shimmer and not full on color.
And Now We're Done With The Face:
From here I will show V.1 of the lips: Neutral.
Line the lips with Hodgepode Lip pencil & fill them in with it.
Now Mix Chintz and Plum Dandy and this if your final look!
If you wish for V.2 of the lips, "red" here is what you do.
Fill in your lips with Hodgepodge and line them with a black pencil liner *not the same one you used on your eyes*. Blend the black into the hodgepodge and fill your lips in with Go Currant. If you need to, go back over the outer rim of your lips. For me, the lipstick made the liner deep red, but not as dark as I wanted. Wipe off the liner if you need to so that you're back to pure black again. On the inside of your lips, dab some red glitter or in my case, metallic colored eye shadow. This is what you should end up with:
And that's all! I hope you guys liked it! And I hope you're not afraid to use black lip liner to make a wonderfully beautiful color gradient. I also do this with a full plum lipsticks too.
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