Quick neutral with a touch of color!

I won't go through the foundation/eyebrow routine, because I never vary that. So, let's get on with the show!




First, take this brush and apply Shroom over your entire eyelid, from lashline up to brow bone.


























Next, take MAC's Cocomotion, and using that trusty Coastal Scents brush, apply to the crease and slightly above the crease. Blend gently.



































Now take MAC's Warming Trend, and apply into the crease and above, but make sure you don't completely cover up Cocomotion. Also apply to the outer part of your lid. Blend gently.

































Now take MAC's Glamour Check! and apply to crease, but only about halfway to two-thirds of the way across, and also to outer part of lid. Blend gently.


























Take MAC's Sketch, and apply into crease, but not as far across as you applied Glamour Check!. We are going for a gradient effect. Again, apply to outer part of lid as well. Blend gently.

































Take NYX's Rootbeer, and apply to crease, and again, don't go as far as you went with Sketch. With each color, the distance applied will get shorter and shorter. Apply to outer lid also. Blend gently.
































Take MAC's Deep Blue Green pigment (from the Hello Kitty collection), and apply to just the outer corner of your crease, and a smidge onto your outer lid. Blend gently.































Take MAC's Golden Lemon, and very lightly apply to inner two-thirds of eyelid. Blend back and forth. Most of it will disappear, leaving a faint golden shimmer.































Now I'm taking this color. I don't remember the name. It's Loreal HIP, and it's a pearly-white-pinkish color. Apply to inner corner (tear duct area), and swipe a bit into the inner crease towards the browns. Blend gently.



































Now take ELF's Black Mineral eyeliner and apply to outer corner of bottom lash line, and to your waterline. Smudge lash line gently with a Q-tip.




















Take Warming Trend and apply to bottom lash line, including where the eyeliner is.




















Apply Rootbeer on lower lash line, in outer corner, going maybe a third of the way across.





















Apply Deep Blue Green pigment to outer corner, just a smidge of the way in.






















Take MAC's glitter liner in Her Glitz (Hello Kitty collection), and apply across the top lash line.































Apply NYX Doll Eyes Mascara (I always use black mascara and eyeliner), and here is the finished eye!












































Now for the cheeks! Again, take Gold Spill MSF and apply to the hollow of your cheekbone, blending/buffing well. I know it looks dark, but my bathroom lighting is shit. I promise I blended it!
















Now take NARS Orgasm and Super Orgasm and apply LIGHTLY to the apple of your cheeks. I forgot to take a picture. Booo.




















Now for highlight. Use either MAC's Redhead MSF, or the knock-off, Urban Decay/Hard Candy's bronzer in Tiki. I will use both, hehe. Apply Redhead to the middle of cheekbone, and Tiki to the top of the cheekbone.















Lips. I use Softlips lip balm, and Subculture lip liner from MAC. I RARELY use lipstick, but I use the SHIT out of lip liner with gloss over it. I am a gloss whore. So, Softlips.....Subculture....and then Baby Sparks Lip Glass. Pardon my chappy lookin' lips. Booo again.


Anyhow...that's it. Obviously, you don't have to use as many eyeshadows as I use. I just like playing around, trying to achieve different looks, so it's how I do me.

Hope you enjoyed it, and comments are welcome!

Smokey Purples

Here is my very first makeup tutorial! This is especially for Heather G., because...well...she's so fucking AWESOME! Sorry it took me so long!

And away we go...







Here, we have me, sans makeup. Note the lack of eyebrows, mmmkay? It was a horrible drive-by plucking, and now I'm scarred for life.









I usually use MAC's Mineralize Skinfinish Natural for foundation, but I'm out and too lazy to drive the two miles to the mall to get more. So. In the interim, I'm using Maybelline's Mineral Foundation, but I don't have a picture, because I moved the powder to a larger container.































So, to apply foundation, I use this brush, and lightly spritz it with MAC's Fix+ (the rose one is fabulous), or, I use Aquafina's spray.









Now, I look better, yes?


Now to draw on my brows. Yes, this is tedious. Though I've thought about getting them tattooed on, there's no way I could do this. With my luck, one day I'd get a facelift, and they'd wind up by my hairline, making me look permanently surprised.










So, here's what I use to draw em on. They rarely are a perfect match, and I'm still trying to perfect the rounded tails, so occasionally I do wind up with the square-ish looking ends. Booo.




















Now, to catch any eyeshadow fall out (I get alot. I'm a maniac with application), swipe some regular old baby powder under your eyes. And you look seksee like me! Funny face is mandatory, by the way.


















Now, to make the eyeshadow stick well, as well as make the colors pop, use Chapstick. I prefer the Naturals one, because it's got alot of butters in it and it goes on really soft and creamy. Apply it just on the lower lid like so, and blend/pat in gently with your finger.
























































Now, take MAC's Young Punk, from the Style Black collection, and using this brush, pat it on the lower lid, going slightly above where the Chapstick is. Note that because I have hooded eyelids, I have to raise my eyebrows to apply my eyeshadow. Again, Boooo.






























Now take this brush (Coastal Scents...costs like $3), and with soft strokes, blend the edge. I use both the windshield wiper and the little circles method. Blend it out really good.












































Now, take Urban Decay's Vapor, and apply it right above Young Punk, and go fairly high up towards your brow. Then, using the same Coastal Scents brush (I have two of them), blend Vapor slightly down into Young Punk.










































Now, take MAC's Milk (from the Hello Kitty line), and apply to the blended seam of Young Punk and Vapor, like so. Blend well, and slightly upwards.
































Now, take MAC's Viz-A-Violet, and apply to crease and slightly above. Blend lightly but thoroughly.




























Now take Urban Decay's S&M, and apply to crease, blending well.










































Next, take Everyday Minerals' Mystic Night (picture doesn't do it justice. It's a DEEP dark royal purple), and apply in a thin line in the crease.





























Before Blending, take Bare Minerals' Cat Woman, and apply to outer corner of crease. Now blend lightly. We want the outer crease to be darkest.



































Now, lightly brush off the fallout that is on Young Punk, and if desired pat on more Young Punk.















Now, take this brush (ELF studio line, $3), and apply MAC Shroom right under brows, blending into Vapor. Phloof! would also work well, if you want a light pink color.

Take your ELF Eye Transformer Palette and apply the beige-y color right under the outer part of your eyebrow, and blend gently. I forgot to take a picture. Oops!

Now, take ELF's Mineral Liner in Black, and apply to just the outer corner of lashline, and the waterline. Smudge the lash line with a Q-Tip.




































Take MAC's Man Catcher, and apply with the brush that came with the Eye Transformer palette, along your lower lash line.




























With the same brush, apply Mystic Night in just the outer corner of your lash line (where the black eye liner is), very lightly. Reapply liner to your waterline if needed.
















Now, to line the top lash line, I've just been using glitter liner. I have a shit load of liquid liners, but since I suck balls at winging my liner, I skip it and just do glitter. This is Lavender glitter liner from NYX.
































For Mascara, I use NYX Doll Eyes Volume Mascara. It's my Holy Grail, because my lashes are LONG, but thin/sparse. This plumps them up thick and makes them look great!

















Annnnnd, here is the finished product! I don't have time to post the blush details now, but I will add it after work tonight.

Hope you enjoyed! It was fun doing this, but a LOT of work. It's very hard to take pictures of yourself while you're doing something, lol. And as far as the brushes go, I mostly use the Coastal Scents brushes, and just wipe them on a towel between colors. They are my favorite brushes by FAR. I'd actually rather buy these than the MAC brushes. Which leaves me more money for makeup, so that's a WIN!

Sorry the layout of this post is so wonky, but I'm barely learning how to work this stuff. Hopefully I'll get better as I go along.

ETA: Ok, here's the blush tutorial. I sort of forgot that it wasn't on here already. Doh!



I take this brush, and MAC's Gold Spill MSF and apply it in the hollow of my cheek, so make that fishy-face we all love!

















































Blend/buff it in real good with this brush...




































Take this brush. It has many names, but I bought it as a 'fiber optic' blush brush, and SPARINGLY apply MAC Hello Kitty Blush in Tippy to the apples of your cheeks...






































Now, use this brush, and apply either MAC Blonde MSF, or as a knock off, this Revlon Color Stay powder (the pink swirly one) as a highlight. I will actually use both, cuz I like em! Swipe the Blonde over your mid cheekbone, and the Revlon powder along the top of your cheekbone.




















































And you have this finished result.