Glitzy Glamorous Holiday Look

This look is perfect for the holidays. It’s glittery, pretty and simple to create. Enjoy! (Sorry for the minor spelling mistake in the 'Urban Decay Glide On Pencil' photo!)

Products Used On:

Face

Maybelline Dream Satin Liquid Foundation in 'Light Porcelain'

MAC Blush in 'Dame'

Eyes

MAC Paint in 'Untitled'

MAC Mono Eye Shadow in 'Knight Divine'

Urban Decay 24/7 Glide On Pencil in 'Zero'

Bourjois Clubbing Mascara in 'Black'

Collection 2000 Glam Crystals Glitter Eye Liner In 'Glitz'

GOSH Eye Dust in 'Holographic Silver'

Lips

MAC Lipstick in 'Creme Cup'

Brushes Used

E.L.F. Studio 'C' Brush

MAC 257 Brush (Travel Sized)

Ruby and Millie Liner Brush

Ms MakeUp Foundation/Concealer Brush

GOSH Blush Brush

Begin by applying some kind of eye primer to your eyes. This will ensure your eye shadow stays vibrant and crease-free for many hours. I am using MAC Paint in ‘Untitled’ as my base here. Blend over the lid using your finger.

Take ‘Knight Divine’ (or any dark silver. Good alternatives to MAC’s ‘Knight Divine’ can be found in my product list on this entry.) on an eye shadow brush and pat the shadow all over the lid until it is covered. Then softly blend the shadow over the lid. I am using E.L.F’s Studio 'C' brush.

Use a fluffy eye shadow brush to blend the shadow into the brow bone to create a ‘smokey’ appearance. I am using the MAC 275 (travel sized) brush.

Dab GOSH Holographic Silver over the top of the dark silver.


APPLICATION TIP: To reduce glitter fallout, dip your brush in the glitter eye dust and then spray it lightly with water. This will help to seal the glitter onto the brush. Take a little at a time. If you overload you can't go back but if you don't apply enough you can always add more.

Take Collection 2000 Glam Crystal Eye Liner in ‘Glitz’ (or any silver glittery eye liner) and line the upper lash line and inner third of the lower lash line. When lining the upper lash line you can either just have the line go across your lid or you can ‘wing’ it out by drawing the line just a little past the eye lid.

(Inner third lined)

Using a liner brush, line the rest of the lower lash line with the dark silver. I am using the Ruby and Millie liner brush.

Take a black eye shadow and begin by dabbing it over the dark silver on your lower lash line to place the colour. Then softly smudge it into the silver with a liner brush. I am once again using my Ruby and Millie liner brush.

Line your waterlines with a black eyeliner pencil. Lightly draw a little black eye liner on top of the black and silver on the lower lash line. Smudge in with a liner brush. By placing the liner on top of eye shadow you are creating a good base for the liner to stick to and deepening the colour.

Comb your lashes with an eyelash comb to separate them. Apply a mascara of your choice. I am using Bourjois ‘Clubbing’ Mascara on my top and bottom lashes. Combing the lashes before applying mascara will ensure your mascara goes on evenly and reaches every lash.



**MASCARA APPLICATION TIP*** To get the best of your mascara begin by combing the product through your entire lashes before ‘wiggling’ it through them to create volume and then combing them out once more. You can repeat these steps until you are happy with the result, depending on how dramatic you want your lashes to look. Comb any clumps out when your mascara is still wet, do not try and comb them out when it is dry because this will tug at your lashes. This technique should lengthen and thicken your lashes nicely.

Wipe away any fallout on your face and then apply foundation. I am applying liquid foundation with a foundation brush.

Apply blush. I am using a light pink one.

Apply a light pink lipstick of your choice.

EXTRA: You can apply false lashes if you’d like. They go well with this look. I am using ‘Girls With Attitude’ lashes.

Here is the whole look without false eye lashes:

And here it is with false lashes:

Shimmery Smokey Coppery Chocolate Eyes

Brushes Used



MAC 239 (To apply/blend shadows 1 and 2)

MAC 217 (To diffuse shadows)

Ruby and Millie liner brush (To line with Chocolate shadow on lower lash line)

Ms Make Up small compact shadow brush (To apply 'Chocolate' shadow to crease line)

Ms Make Up blending brush (To highlight brow bone)


Products Used





1. L'Oreal Trio in '317/Honey Brown'

2. Wet N Wild Duo in 'Chocolate/Vanilla'

3. MAC Paint in 'Untitled' (used as a primer/base)

4. Collection 2000 VolumeSensation Mascara in 'Black'

5. Rimmel Exaggerate Waterproof Liner in 'Black'

6. No 7 Blusher in 'Petal'


Products Used On:


Face:

Maybelline Dream Satin Liquid Foundation in 'Light Porcelain'

No7 Blusher in 'Petal'


Eyes:

1. L'Oreal Color Appeal Trio in '317/Honey Brown' (The one for Hazel eyes)





Wet N Wild Duo in 'Chocolate and Vanilla' (Vanilla on right, Chocolate on left)





Collection 2000 VolumeSensation Mascara in Black

Rimmel Exaggerate Waterproof Retractable Eyeliner in Black


Lips:

NYX Lipstick in 'Strawberry Milk'

Maybelline Watershine Lipgloss in 'Cutie Pie'




Tutorial

Apply an eye primer of your choice. I am applying my MAC Paint. Blend over the lid with a clean finger. Eye primers ensure your eye shadow stay on longer and don't crease/fade throughout the day.





Using a normal shadow brush, shade the entire lid with the number ‘2’ shadow from the L’Oreal trio.





Pick up the number ‘1’ shadow from the L’Oreal trio and apply to the outer third of the lid. Use sweeping motions to blend with the number ‘2’ shadow.






Using a small compact shadow brush, blend the ‘Chocolate’ shadow from the Wet N Wild duo one third of the way along the crease line.




Then take it about half way across the upper lash line. Go in between your lashes as best as you can with this colour.




Touch up the number ‘1’ and ‘2’ shadows if you need to at this point as sometimes blending over them can take away the colours.


Diffuse the shadows with a fluffy eye shadow brush. Smoke out into the brow bone.




Highlight your brow bone with the number '3' shadow from the L'Oreal trio. Use a larger blending brush to do this.



Line the outer half of the lower lash line with the ‘Chocolate’ shadow from the Wet N Wild duo using a liner brush. Position your liner brush underneath your lower lashes and touch the brush as close as possible to your lash line. Dab the shadow to place it and sweep to soften it.





Line the upper and lower waterlines with Rimmel Exaggerate Waterproof Eyeliner in Black. Comb the lashes to separate them. This will ensure you get maximum coverage with your mascara and reduces the risk of clumps. Next apply Collection 2000 Volumesensation mascara to the lashes. Tab the lashes (touch the wand to your lashes and let go quickly) and then comb them through for maximum volume.




Apply your usual foundation and No7 Blusher in ‘Petal’ to the apples of the cheeks.




Soften the lips with a lip balm




Apply NYX lipstick in ‘Strawberry Milk’. Blend in with your finger or a lip brush.




Finally apply Maybelline Watershine lipgloss in ‘Cutie Pie’ over the top to finish.




Voila!















Please excuse my cleavage...

Smokey Baby Pink And Silver Eyes

I wore something similar to this look to my cheer social party a week or so ago where we all dressed like ballerinas. I’ve been in love with it ever since so I thought I’d share it with all of you. (For my ballerina look I just played up the blusher big style to give that fresh/flushed look :D)


Before I begin also, I want to say sorry I haven’t updated sooner. I was swamped with essays and then uni started up and I’m now doing 2 channels on youtube!


My make up channel is kind of up and running. You can find it here: bluesparks24.


There’s only about 4 videos up at the moment and I do apologise for the bad lighting! I’m working on getting better lights but it’s difficult because I have no curtains or netting on my window so if I put lights on all over the place everybody can see into my room. :S I’m literally going to buy some netting for my window this weekend so hopefully I’ll have nice lighting by next week!


Okay, onward with the tutorial!

Products Used On:


Face: (Photos coming later today when I get more batteries for my camera. My camera eats batteries like crazy!)

MAC Studio Fix Foundation in NW15

MAC Satin Powder Blush in 'Dame'


Eyes:



1. Beauty UK Quad in '9'

2. No17 Glitter Shadow in 'Heartbreaker'

3. Collection 2000 Intense Solo Shadow in '02 Charcoal Glitz'






1. Rimmel Sexy Curves Mascara in '01 Black'

2. MeMeMe Eye Liner Pencil in 'Cleopatra'


Lips: (Photo coming soon for same reason above)

MAC Lip glass in 'Frozen Dream'



Brushes Used On Eyes/Brow bone:



1. MAC 239 Eye Shadow Brush (Used to apply pink shadow)

2. Ms Make Up Small Compact Eye Shadow Brush (Used to apply all 3 silver shadows from BeautyUK palette)

3. Ruby and Millie Blending Brush (Used to blend out all three silver shadows)

4. Ms Make Up Eye Blending Brush (Used to apply highlighting shadow)


Brushes Used On Face (To apply blusher):




1. Barry M 3 in One Face Brush


Instructional Picture:

Because we're using a quad I will be referring to each shadow by colour and number. I am only using 3 of the 4 shadows in the quad as the 4th is a highlighting shadow that I didn't use in this tutorial but you can feel free to use it if you want :)

You can see which shadow matches which number here: (So for example if I say shadow 1 it means the shadow with '1' on it in the photo):






Begin by applying a good base to the eyelids. I used my Urban Decay Primer potion and then applied my Barry M Shimmering Eye/Lip pencil in ‘#5’ over the top. If you use a cream shadow as a base remember to smooth it out with your fingers so it doesn’t create lumps in your shadow.


Take the pink shadow (in this case, No17 ‘Heartbreaker’) and apply to the entire lid.



Take the lightest grey from the Beauty UK (shadow '1') palette on a small compact eye shadow brush (it must be small for the definition we’re going for!) and work it into the crease. Stop half way and blend the edge into your inner corner. This will stop you from depositing too much colour in the inner area of your eye but will take the colour over to make it look nice and blended.




Take the medium silver (shadow '2') in the palette and blend into the crease in the same way with a small compact shadow brush.



Next take the darkest grey (shadow '3') in the palette on the same small compact eye shadow blending brush and blend it over the light grey you just applied. Again, stop half way. Don't take this shadow all the way into the inner corner this time. This is because we want the shadow to appear darker in the outer corner/crease. (I hope you can see in the photo I left a little gap in the inner corner)




Dip your small compact brush into some black eye shadow and blend into the very outer corner of your eye. Look directly at your eye in the mirror and look at the outer corner. You want to take the shadow 1/3 of the way into your crease and about 1/3 of the way in along your upper lash line. Go as close to the upper lashes as possible. (A bit like you would when you’re lining them) The shadow should make a sideways ‘v’ shape on the outer edge of your eye. Take a little bit of shadow at a time because it’s easier to add than it is to subtract! Blend well. You can go over this with the lighter silver once more if you want to soften it up but the purpose of this step is to give definition. It's up to you how much you want.




Because we have used some darker colours we now have a defined line in our crease that we want to soften up to create the smoked effect so take the lightest grey shadow from the BeautyUK palette on a fluffy eye blending brush and work it into the crease, stopping half way. Go over the dark grey and black and blend well. Take more light grey until you’re happy with the appearance of the shadow. Clean up the blended edges with a cotton bud and touch up the pink shadow if you need to.




Highlight your brow bone with any highlighting shadow you have. Use a fluffy eye blending brush to sweep the colour over the brow bone and blend well. I used one that has a pink tone to it because I feel it works well with the colours in this look.

Line your waterlines with a black eye liner pencil and apply 2-3 coats of mascara.
Take some of the pink shadow and line the outer half of the lower lash line. I find it works best to apply a base of some sort under the lash line first and then apply the shadow on top. In this instance I used my Barry M pencil in #5 as it is pink and the colour works well underneath a pink shadow.



TIP: If you want to amp up this look for the night time skip the step where you would normally soften with a light grey shadow and just blend the dark grey and black into the outer corner with a fluffy brush instead. Line the top lash line with liquid liner (make the line thicker toward the outer edge and even wing it if you fancy!), then add some false eye lashes with volumising mascara to finish.

And you’re done! Yay.