MAKEUP TUTORIAL TEASER for tomorrow! Inspired by Angelique of Dark Shadows. Burn baby burn! :D

Teaser for Makeup Tutorial #2. :) Lighting is not that nice because it was quite cloudy yesterday. Aside from that, everything looks like the norm. :D Please do excuse my lashes and look! Tamed brows. *wink* More on that story tomorrow. <3

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I ACTUALLY DID IT! My first ever make-up tutorial. Ahahaha..these are some screen grabs from the vid. I’ll have to edit it first before sharing it to you! And BTW, this look is for something very special. I teamed up with two other beauty bloggers for a make-up collab. :D Check back tomorrow to see who they are.

We decided to make a BLOG MAKE-UP COLLABORATION, so there’s really no need for me to make this video. But I got a new camera, and I wanted to see if I can do this sooo.. :)

FOTD: Purple Haze

Browns, Purples, and Pinks. Ohh lala what a combination. I got the idea from a catalogue for a local brand here in the Philippines. And of course, purple and pink are two of my most favorite colors! So I went ahead and made this. It kinda gives your eyes a dreamy feel, no?

PRODUCTS USED

FACE

Pond’s White Beauty Pore Conditioning Toner

Olay Moisturizing Lotion

Careline Concealer in Oriental

Revlon PhotoReady Liquid Foundation in Nat Beige

Maybelline Clear Smooth Cake Powder in Natural

L’Oreal Flawless Liquid Make-up in Sable (contour)

Ever Bilena Advance Two Way Cake in White Beige (highlight)

SanSan Powder Blush in 01 (peach with shimmer)

EYES

Ever Bilena Color Pencil in Brown (on eyebrows)

Physician’s Formula Cream Gel Liners in Brown (as E/S base applied all over lid)

Brown E/S (inner half of eyelid)

Burgundy E/S (outer half of eyelid)

Purple E/S (on crease)

Black E/S (on outer V, then blend with Purple E/S)

Pink E/S (use to blend harsh edges on crease, feather color out)

Off White E/S (on brow bone)

Avon Eyeliner Pencil in Black

Curl lashes, add mascara and then some falsies!

LIPS

Chapstick LipBalm in Cherry

NYX Lipliner Pencil in Rose

NYX Round Lipstick in Indian Pink

NYX Round Lipgloss in Very Clear

Unlike my previous FOTD posts, here I listed ALL of the products that I usually use on my face, including the skin care bit of the whole foundation routine. It’s especially important to clean and moisturize your face first before using any make-up because this will help make a smooth canvass for the foundation to stick on. Using a moisturizer before your foundation will also make the product (foundation) feel like its part of your skin. Not only will it look more natural, it will feel that way too. Seriously, you should try it!

More notes on this look: This time, I tried contouring my nose with a subtle brown E/S. Ugh..well, I’m not feeling it. What do you think?

Squeeky Clean Brushes!

Just look at those dirty brushes!!! OMG. After the photoshoot and cultural night, these babies need a major overhaul. Which gives me the opportunity to make this tutorial for you! :D

STEP 1: Choose a Baby Shampoo.

Baby Shampoo will clean your brushes well and will maintain the softness of its bristles. :) I have been using BabyFlo for quite some time and it’s pretty good but you can choose any baby shampoo of your choice. I have also read that baby shampoo mixed with anti bacterial dishwashing liquid will work wonders and will give an extra clean on all your brushes.

STEP 2:

Prepare two clean bowls. Fill one with water and squeeze a bit of the baby shampoo on the other. This way you can conserve both water and shampoo. If you need more, you can always add more water or shampoo later.

STEP 3:

Take your first brush and dip it in the bowl of water. Try to wet the bristles only. Squeeze excess water and dip brush on the bowl of shampoo.

Swirl brush on the palm of your hand, or in my case on a clean saucer. I used this brush to add blush on the cheeks and as you can see above, the bubbles show hints of pink. You may repeat this process as many times as you wish. :)

You can rinse the brush with the same swirling motion using running water to run through the saucer. Again, squeeze out excess water before laying them down on the towel (the “drying mat”).

Repeat step 3 on all of your brushes.

STEP 4: The “Drying Mat”

Using any clean towel, prepare the drying mat as shown. We don’t want any water to seep through the ferrule as this will mess with the glue that holds the hairs on the bristles with the handle together.

To prevent this, you can roll one edge of the towel and by placing the brush handles on the rolled edge, the brushes will rest inclined. With gravity pulling the water downwards, we are assured that no water will seep through the ferrules.

STEP 5:

With the “free” edge of the towel, cover the bristles to keep dust from falling on your newly cleaned brushes. Drying usually takes a few minutes for small brushes and overnight for the larger ones.

And that’s it! Say HELLO to squeeky clean brushes! :D

TASSEL EARRINGS TUTORIAL

Got a chance to play at my working table again. :) It has been a very LONG and GRUELING WEEK. I feel so defeated but I’m trying my best to smile despite this. T.T :D Made “Tassel Earrings” earlier btw. You can make your own as well! View the TUTORIAL HERE.

FOTD: Two Toned Smokey

I love Smokey Eye Make-up! In fact, when I started the “hobby”, this was the first technique I mastered. Before, I used a single black or dark brown eyeshadow. In today’s FOTD, I kinda experimented and added two silver eyeshadows in the inner corners of my eyes. :D

FACE

Revlon PhotoReady Liquid Foundation (Nat Beige)

Ellana Mineral Foundation in Almond Latte

L’oreal Flawless Liquid Make-up in Sable (contouring)

Ever Bilena Two Way Cake Foundation in Ivory (highlight)

Ellana Mineral Blush in Flirtation

EYES

Ever Bilena Cream Eyeshadows in Sandra: Black (as base all over lid)

RC Silver E/S on inner corner of the eye

RC Gunmetal E/S on middle third

RC Black E/S on outer corner of eyes

RC Dark Brown E/S on crease and blend upwards towards brow bone

RC Off White E/S on brow bone to highlight

*Do the following on the lower lashline starting from the inner corners of the eyes: Silver E/S, Gunmetal E/S, Black E/S

LIPS

Chapstick Lip Balm in Cherry

Liquid foundation (a tiny bit) to wash off natural lip color

Revlon Color Burst Lipstick in Soft Nude

EOTD: Sneak Pink!

Yay! A new segment for my bloggie. Here’s my first EOTD. :) Mainly because I’m too tired to do the rest of my face. Hahaha.. :D Again, eyeshadows from Dollface Cosmetics 88 Eye Color Palette.

EYES

White Eyeshadow Base (NYX Jumbo Pencil in Milk)

RC Off White E/S all Over Lid

RC Dark Brown E/S make a strong crisp line on crease

RC Pink E/S blend dark brown line

RC Shimmer White E/S on browbone as highlight

*Line lower lashline with Dark Brown E/S and blend using Pink E/S.

Dark Brown Gel Liner on upper lashline (Physician’s Formula in Hazel Eyes)

Black Eyeliner on upper waterline (Wet N Wild Khol Pencil)

White Eyeliner on lower waterline (NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk)

And of course, your favorite mascara and falsies! :) Now this one I just saw from a Lancome Make-up Video in Youtube. Simple but pow! Feirce! Not for everyday though. Enjoy and good luck! :D

FOTD: “Sirena”

After days and weeks of exams, I finally got a break from all that stress! :D It’s our City’s Fiesta next week and everybody is busy for the different activities, events and competitions the Local Government has prepared for the celebration. But..I have other plans on my mind. Anyhoo, because I am free from exams and projects as of the moment, I decided to make this FOTD. :D

Okay so..this wasn’t the look I was goin’ for but it turned out to be cool! As in menthol cool! But it also reminds me of the colors on a Mermaid’s tail. From this shot, it looks like I only used two or three shadows for my eyes when in fact I used 7 different eye colors from my 88 Palette from Dollface. :D And look! Look! I kinda improved in taming my fuzzy eyebrows (I didn’t pluck my brows, just used a Dark Brown Eyebrow Pencil, Dark Brown E/S, and concealer. My eyebrows looks better now but I can still see a few stray hairs, perhaps a better concealer will do?)

FACE

Revlon PhotoReady Foundation (Nat Beige)

Ellana Mineral Foundation (Almond Latte)

L’oreal HIP Flawless Liquid Make-Up in Sable for Contouring

Ever Bilena Two Way Cake in Porcelaine (as Highlighter)

Ellana Mineral Blush in Flirtation

EYES

NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk (as base all over lid and lower lashline)

R8C11 Silver E/S on inner corner

R4C5 Seafoam Shimmer E/S to blend the Silver (blend outwards to outer corner)

R4C6 Baby Blue E/S on middle third of eyelid

R2C5 Turq E/S on outer corner of eyelid

R1C5 Azure E/S on Outer V

R1C11 Black E/S on top of Azure and a bit on the crease

*Blend out black with Azure to create a depper blue on outer V

R1C10 Matte Off White E/S on Browbone to highlight :)

*Put these colors on lower lashline starting from the inner corner: Silver, Seafoam, Bably Blue, Azure, Black on Azure

Ever Bilena Advance Cream Eyeshadow, Black (line upper lash line)

Wet n Wild Khol Eye Liner Pencil in Black (line waterline)

*GLUE on some UBER HUGE LASHES!

*Lastly, use liquid eyeliner to line your eyes to conceal the glue from falsies. Retouch eye make-up if you wish. :)

LIPS

Chapstick Lipbalm (in Cherry!)

Revlon PhotoReady Foundation in Nat Beige (a tenny tiny dot to wash off my natural lip color)

NYX Round Lipstick in Tea Rose

NYX Round Lipgloss in Clear

*Neat trick! Use concealer and line around your lips to get that “natural” pout. Blend out and powder this line so it wouldn’t look weird and all. And to finish it off, use any highlighter of your choice and highlight your cupid’s bow. :)

Here’s a pic of the pair of lashes I wore for this FOTD. And I’m telling you they’re HUGE! Brand: EPSA (Barbie Lashes) PS. I removed these falsies from their original packaging. What you see below is Barbie Lashes inside a packaging from one of my other falsies.

Bright Pink Lips..

…are GORGEOUS!It makes you look like your in love. February is way over but who doesn’t want to look blooming everyday? :)

Because I’ll be using an uber bright lipcolor today, I decided to tone down the eyes to bring focus on my lips. I figured I’d go with a very neutral eye this time with long lashes to make ‘em look a little bit flirty. Palette used: Covergirl’s Nourishing Eye Quad in Country Woods (the E/S have names :); don’t forget to blend well but not too much so the eye make-up will look natural!).

Face

Beauty Angel’s BB Cream in 03

Milani Pressed Powder in Golden Beige

SanSan Cosmetics Blush in 03 (a Peachy Pink Color)

I also did a bit of countouring with this one. Since, I don’t have a dark foundation on hand, I tried using a dark brown E/S and applied them below my cheekbones (you’ll have to put on a fishy face for this). And then with the lightest pressed powder I have, I applied that below the Dark brown E/S. Used the same light colored podwer on the bridge of my nose, on top of the eyebrows and the area below the eyes.

Eyes

L’oreal HIP Shadow Paint in Secretive as base

Barely Beige E/S on Eyelid

Mocha E/S on Crease

Coffee E/S on outer V

Mink E/S on browbone to highlight

NYX Studio Liquid Eye Liner in Black (line eyes)

Avon Pencil Eye Liner on Waterline

Take a bit of Coffee E/S and line the outer lower lashline.

Glue on long lashes and voila! The eyes are done!

Lips

Chapstick Lipbalm in Cherry

NYX LipLiner in Fuschia

NYX Round Lipgloss in Clear

Simple, easy, and lovely! :) This is actually something I’m comfortable wearing on a bright sunny day. That is, if I do wear make-up outside. :D So I guess that’s it! I hope you’ll try it yourself. And remember to…

Ice Princess

But not really. Haha. Just wanted to practice making gradients out of eyeshadows from light to dark. And look! I’m getting better at taming my fuzzy eyebrows. :D It’s just a shame I’m using my phone cam again. Darn it! I hope I don’t look fried in some monitor settings. T.T *fingers crossed*

Products Used

Face

Beauty Angel BB Cream Gold 03 
Ellana Mineral Foundation in Almonde Latte
Ellana Mineral Blush in Flirtation (my fave! :D)

Eyes

NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in MILK as base
R8C11 Silver E/S on inner third of eyelid (do the same on lower lashline)
R2C5 Baby Blue E/S on middle third of both eyelid and lower lashline
R1C5 Azure E/S on outer third of eyelid
Black E/S, draw an outer V
Blend Black E/S with the Azure E/S. Blend well! :)
Take the Black E/S and dab on a tiny bit on the outer third of lowerlashline
R7C1 Matte Off White E/S as highlight all over browbone
NYX Studio Liquid Liner in Black, line upper lashline and wing it!
Using your favotite black eye pencil, line waterline
Add falsies if you wish. :) Skipped this part for this one ‘cause I wanted to see how I look like with only Black Mascara on. :D

Lips

Revlon PhotoReady Liquid Foundation in Nat Beige, dab a tiny bit on lips
Revlon Colorburst Lipstick in Soft Nude
NYX Round Lipgloss in Ballerina Pink

So that’s about it! The key here is blending blending blending. :D I just figured I haven’t been posting any before and after pics in any of my previous FOTD. So here’s one for ya! :D Til next, ciao!