Hello girls. This is my first tutorial so please be patient hehe. I hope I'm not overloading you all with pics, but I tried to be as thorough as possible. This tutorial stuff is very time consuming!
So, this is the final look we are going for:
First, here's all the products I used.
Bare Minerals spf 15 foundation in Fairly Light
Revlon Skinlights in 01 Natural Light
MAC Irridescent Powder in Silver Dusk
Cover Girl loose powder
MAC ccb in Bronze
L'Oreal True Match concealer (not in the picture)
MAC Paint in Untitled (not pictured)
MAC Blacktrack fluidline
MAC Blush in Plum Foolery
MAC e/s in Coppering
MAC Pigments in White, Goldenaire, Melon, Fairylite
Rimmel Lip Vinyl gloss in Bronzed
MAC Lipgelee in Lust is Lush (the orange one)
pink lipliner
Cover Girl Lash Exact mascara Black
L'Oreal Voluminous waterproof mascara Black
eyelash curler
NYC brow kit in Black
various brushes (I only have 1 MAC brush as you can see, the #187)
wedge makeup sponge (not pictured)
OK let's get started with a cleansed face, moisturized & lipbalm on lips. Just so you girls can see my skin is not perfect!!
First I apply a few dabs of the Revlon Skinlights fluid all over my face with my fingers to brighten up the skin. It has a light pearlescent finish, so you could use a similar products like the MAC Strobe cream. Blend with a sponge or a foundation brush, whatever you prefer. (I used sponge.)
Next, I apply the Bare Minerals foundation, with a big powder brush. Buff in circular motions, the more you buff the better it looks. I usually do it til my arm gets sore, hehe.
This is what it should look like when you finish buffing. Yey!
Then I apply concealer under my eyes, by my nose, and anywhere else that I feel needs coverage. Like so.
Blend using a concealer brush or a dampened sponge, I used a sponge. You should now have a perfectly foundation-ed and concealed face.
Apply a THIN layer of the Untitled Paint on the eyelids, either with a finger or a lid brush. Don't put on too much, it will crease.
Blend with a sponge if necessary.
Pick up some loose powder with a slightly larger brush. I use the cheapest Cover Girl one I could find at the drugstore, this will be removed later so don't bother spending lots of money on it. Any loose powder in a shade similar to your skin will do.
Apply rather liberally underneath your eye. This will catch any fall-out from the eyes and can be easily brushed away later.
Get your pigments ready to use...
With a very small lid brush, apply White pig. to the browbone, like so.
Apply Fairylite pig. over top to "dull down" the brightness of the White pig. Alternately, if you have Vanilla pig. this would work well too, but since I don't have Vanilla, I do it like this.
With the same small brush, apply Goldenaire pig. underneath the White/Fairylite pig. It should look like this.
Blend this together using a fluffy blending brush. Here's what we've got so far.
Here we go with the fun part: Coppering! Using a small lid brush, apply Coppering to the lid, trailing outwards. Pack on the e/s more heavily on the outer lid, and more lightly on the inner lid.
Blend together using a fluffy crease brush, either doing windshield-wiper, or just brushing outwards and upwards. I did a mix of both.
Next, apply Melon pig. to the inner part of the lid, like so. Blend again using the fluffy crease brush.
With a pencil brush (like the #219) apply the Coppering and Melon on the lower lash line as well. Coppering is on the outer lower lash, Melon on the inner lower lash. Here's what the blended result should look like now.
Using a small angle brush, dip into Blacktrack fluidline and apply to the top lid, staying as close as you can to the lashes, and winging outwards just a bit. You can vary the wing as you wish.
Using the same angle brush, apply the Blacktrack to the waterline. It should look like this now.
Next, curl your eyelashes. The curler I have is nothing special, I think it is Revlon, but it works fine.
Remove the excess powder from underneath the eyes using a big powder brush. If you did this correctly, it will sweep away any e/s or pig. that fell onto your cheek while working on the eyes.
Then, apply mascara. I first did a coat with the Covergirl Lash Exact, then the L'Oreal Voluminous waterproof on top. When both were dry, I brushed off the excess flaky stuff with a cleaned spare mascara spoolie. Hellooo eyelashes!
Groom and fill in the eyebrows with the brow kit. It's a mix of powder and hairwax, I apply it with a medium size angle brush.
Next, I use my fingers to apply a light coating of the CCB in Bronze to my cheekbones and cheek apples. It gives me a bit more colour, and it also makes the blush I apply next look much brighter and stays longer!
I use my #187 brush to apply the Plum Foolery blush to my cheekbones and apples.
Then I use a more dense and smaller blush brush to apply a bit of the Silver Dusk irridescent powder to my cheekbones right near my eye. It helps to highlight the bone structure more. The blush is underneath the highlight.
I then use the big powder brush again to just buff a little more to make sure everything is well blended, and remove any excess powder from my nose or forehead.
Now, here is where I skipped a step in taking pictures!!! Grrrrr...But here's what I did to do the lips:
Line and fill in the entire lip with a pink lip pencil. It is a raspberry pink shade. Then, apply the Rimmel Vinyl lip bronze gloss over top, and finally dab a coat of the orange Lipgelee on top of that.
And this is what the finished result should look like!
Yipee! Hope you enjoyed my tutorial.
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