How I do my eyebrows: A step-by-step picture tutorial.

I have been asked numerous times how I fill in my brows so I figured I'd do a step-by-step picture tutorial to show you what I do!  Brows make such a huge difference on a face, good brows make everything look clean and neat and finished.  Seriously, take a look.

So onto the tutorial!

What you will need:

1. A brow pencil (I use Anastasia Beverly Hills Perfect Brow Pencil)

2. A cream liner (I use ELF studio liner)

3. A brow powder, preferably a duo (I use Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Powder Duo)

Extras you can use, which I like to:

A white, or very light, cream liner (I use NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in "Milk")

Highlight color of your choosing

My brow with nothing on it

Fill brows in with pencil.

Here's what they look like when I've finished filling them in with the pencil.

Grab an angled liner brush and your cream liner

Follow the bottom of your brows with the cream liner, creating as much or as little of an arch as you want

After using cream liner (sorry it's fuzzy, apparently I didn't get a clear picture of this), you can see where I placed the liner

Grab a clean angled liner brush and your brow powder duo

Fill brows in completely, covering the pencil and cream, blending everything together.  I use the lighter color toward the inside of my brow and the darker color on the outside.

Once that's done

Now, you can stop there if you want, but to make it a little more crisp, I like to do this next step.

Grab a concealer brush and your NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil (which I have depotted)

Draw a line under your brow

Blend it out with your finger and add your highlight color.

You're all finished!!

I hope that helps someone out there with measly little brows like I have naturally!  I put this together, too as a place to have all of the steps in one picture if that's helpful!

Easy smokey charcoal eyes!

If you read my review of the new Makeup Geek pigments the other day, you would have read that I couldn't wait to try out "Paparazzi" over a black base.  So I got on that haha.  This is how it looks!

I like this one because you can see the sparkle!

I kept this look simple by using a white liner (NYX JEP in "milk") on my waterline instead of lining all the way around my eyes with black like I would usually do.  I find this to be slightly less intimidating when trying smokey eyes.

What I used:

Lime Crime Eyeshadow Helper

NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil "Black Bean"

Makeup Geek pigment "Paparazzi" all over lid and a little on my lower lashline

MUG "Graphite" shadow to soften the line of color

MUG "Stealth" shadow to blend up to highlight color

MUG "Bling" as highlight color

MUG "Immortal" gel liner

MUG "Corrupt" shadow to set liner and add a bit of depth to my outer v area

Just an easy way to wear some smokey eyes!  I hope you all like it!  What's your favorite way to wear smokey eyes?

Inspired by Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory!

I know this is weird inspiration but I was watching The Big Bang Theory a few weeks ago (hilarious!  If you haven't watched it ever, you should) and if you've ever checked out Sheldon's outfits, he almost always wears some colorful t-shirt with a contrasting long sleeved t-shirt underneath (unless he's wearing some crazy plaid suit haha).  On this episode, he had on his Flash shirt with a green shirt underneath and I thought, 'I love those colors together.  I should do makeup like that!'  So that's what I've done today haha.

This is the best picture I could find of the outfit

And here's my look inspired by Sheldon's outfit!

I've been wearing so many neutrals lately that this was fun to do.  I've never tried doing a colorful liner like this before but I like the effect.

What I used (from lashline up to brow bone):

Too Faced Shadow Insurance

A green from my 88 palette

NYX Ultra Pearl Mania "Yellow" foiled on lid

Makeup Geek (MUG) "Cocoa Bear" in crease

Sugarpill "Love +" (red)

Sugarpill "Flamepoint" (orange) to make the red look more red and less pink

MUG "Yellow Brick Road"

MUG "White Lies"

Liner: L'oreal Lineur Intense Liquid Liner "Carbon Black"

Mascara: L'oreal Voluminous Carbon Black

Here are a few clips of Sheldon.  He's hilarious.

That's enough for now haha.

I hope you guys are all doing well!  I've been trying to go through and catch up a little on the blog posts I've been missing out on!  I hope you guys like this look!  Thank you so much for hanging in there with me!!  You guys really are the best!!!

Reptile Series: Malaysian Coral Snake Inspired

So today my look is based on this really beautiful, unique snake called a Malaysian Coral Snake.  We have coral snakes here in the United States but they don't look anything like this.  And while I think my look turned out ok, I think it definitely looks more like a fish than a snake haha.  Oh well.  So here's the snake:

I really wanted to do something with orange on the inner corner and outer corner of my eye since its head and tail are orange.  So here's what I did:

And I know you can't see the colors in this picture, but I like it in black and white haha

I really wish it read more snake than fish but what can ya do?  It's not my favorite look but it's not the worst look I've ever done either.  I think looks don't turn out as well when I take them so literally, I do better when I just take the colors and go with it.

What I used:
TFSI

NYX "milk" JEP

Sugarpill's "Flamepot" (orange)

NYX "Black" shadow

88 palette:

navy blue

periwinkle color

Ben Nye's "Cosmic Blue" pigment

MAC "Sea & Sky" mineralize duo (the sky side)

TIGI Bed Head "white" shadow 

MAC Blacktrack fluidline

L'oreal Voluminous Carbon Black mascara

Whenever I do looks that are dramatic and a little different like this one, I feel like I should be going to a sporting event.  I would most definitely wear this to a New York Knick's basketball game (not that I'll be going to one any time soon haha).  

Shoutout to my home state!  Holla!

I feel like you can wear really bold colors to sporting games and people won't think you're a lunatic like when you wear a look like this to the grocery store.  Oh well.

On a side note, the second place winner from my giveaway never got back to me and it's been 48 hours so I'm moving on to the next person, which is KristaDior.  I will be sending you an e-mail and you have 48 hours to respond or I will move on to the next person and so on.

Also, if you haven't voted on Makeupbee's contest yet, please do.  It only takes a minute, you can link your facebook page to Makeupbee and click the little "like" button and the prize is HUGE!  So please vote for my looks on there!

Look With Rhinestones

Candy Cane Cut Crease

Of course I want to win but I think it's a longshot (technically, I'm in 4th place since a person can't win more than once, but I'm like 230 votes from 1st).  However, Ronnie and Meredith Jessica are right there so their looks really need your votes too so hopefully they can place 1st and 2nd.  So PLEASE vote for them!

Ronnie's Smokey Eye look

Meredith Jessica's Green and Gold Look

If I'm gonna lose, please let me lose to looks I really like!!!  Thank you guys so much!!!

Very quick post with my Candy Cane cut crease look!

I did this insane makeup today haha.  I completely feel like an elf or a Christmas stocking or something.  But at the same point in time, there's something I really like about it!  So here is the look I did!

Isn't it crazy haha?

What I used:

TFSI

NYX JEP "milk"

NYX "Black" shadow

NYX "white" shadow

Sugarpill's Love+ Shadow

Calypso Mineral's "Envy" matte pigment

Calypso Minerals "Sublime" matte pigment

L'oreal Carbon Black Lineur Intense

Maybelline the falsies Volum' Express 

Kat Von D false lashes

Lips:

Revlon Colorstay "Red" lipliner

NYX "Amersterdam" soft matte lip cream

It took me a while to do and when I open my eyes, the stripes like to blend together a little bit.  Oh well.  So now I'm going to walk around like this today haha.  This should be interesting.  I really don't like it when people look at me, it makes me very uncomfortable.  I definitely think this is a fun look, and after a few days of wearing just neutral colors, this is quite a welcomed change.  

I hope you guys like this look!  I entered this one in the makeupbee contest as well, the link is RIGHT HERE, if you'd be willing to vote for me!  

And my Calypso Minerals giveaway is ending on Monday night so make sure you ENTER HERE!!  Thank you all so much for your support!!!

A Holiday Party look... with rhinestones!

Yay!  I did a look I actually like!!  I've been pondering about what look to do to enter in the Makeupbee Holiday Party look contest.  So when I was at the craft store the other night I picked up some rhinestones to use because I knew they'd be good for a holiday look.  But I was having a really hard time deciding how I was going to place them and what color to use them with.  Every color I was thinking of didn't excite me.  Until this morning when I thought of turquoise.

So I did this look and I'm very pleased with how it turned out.

My husband was laughing at me because you can't really see the rhinestones when my eyes are open but when I blink, there they are haha.  I kinda feel a bit like a Christmas ornament but that's ok with me sometimes haha.

What I used:

TFSI

NYX JEP "milk"

NYX Ultra Pearl Mania "Turquoise"

MAC "Teal" Pigment

Inglot 395 P

TIJI Bed Head "White" shadow

MAC Blacktrack fluidline

Maybelline the Falsies Volum' Express

lash glue 

rhinestones

Halloween lashes

Lips:

MAC "Myth" lipstick

MAC "Pink Friday" lipstick

MAC "Boy Bait" cremesheen glass

I think it's a good look and it'd be perfect to wear for a holiday party.  I think that holidays are a time where you can go all out and do whatever you want and people really can't say anything (haha I love the holidays!)!  

You guys should head over to makeupbee and post a look of your own!  And if you wouldn't mind voting for mine (which is here, your support would be greatly appreciated!  The grand prize is a $500 gift certificate for Sephora.

I hope you guys like this look as much as I do!  Thanks guys!

Reptile Series: Eastern Indigo Snake

When I came up with this idea for the reptile series, I really wanted to do a look inspired by this black snake I'd seen.  I just couldn't remember what it was called.  So I googled it and it was most definitely an Eastern Indigo Snake that I was thinking of.  I think they're really beautiful.  They're super dark and super shiny, I just think they're really cool.

So here's the snake:

This poor guy has to shed, that's why his eyes look like that

And the look I did inspired by these guys:

Haha obviously I was playing around with the editing on this one

I really wanted it to be shiny and intense.  I also was doing my shape to be kinda sinister feeling since snakes are often considered "evil".  I also had a really hard time getting a good picture of this look, I'm not sure why exactly but I wasn't diggin the way they were coming out.  Oh well!

What I used:

TFSI

L'oreal HIP Color Chrome Eyeliner in "Black Shock"

NYX Ultra pearl mania "Black pearl" (foiled)

Inglot 351 M

Warm, medium tan from my 88 palette

Inglot 393 P (highlight)

L'oreal Voluminous Carbon Black mascara

NYX Megashine Lipgloss in "Baby Rose" (it's basically clear with some glitter in it)

And I have a surprise!  I tried to do a tutorial!

It's the first one I've done that I actually think came out ok.  I still have no clue what I'm doing editing-wise but I gave it a shot.  You'll have to let me know what you think!  Just know that I'm super nervous (which you'll be able to tell if you watch the first 10 seconds haha).  

Any tips, pointers, or suggestions for videos are more than welcome!  And is there any way to make them upload to YouTube faster?  Man, it took like an hour.  And it's a 6 minute video!  Oh well!  I hope you like it!  I know the eyes look a little uneven so I went back and tried to fix it after I did the video.

Oh yeah, and don't forget to enter my GIVEAWAY if you haven't yet!

Thanks guys!!

One look worn two ways

I wanted to do something holiday-ish.  So I went for silver (with glitter, which you can totally not see at all!) with red lips.  And then me, being SUPER uncomfortable in red lips decided to change them to pink.  And I took pictures just to show what a big difference a lip color can make.

The eye makeup:

What I used:

TFSI (as always!)

NYX JEP (so I had something for my pigment to stick to)

NYX Ultra Pearl Mania "Silver" foiled on lid

NYX Ultra Pearl Mania "Silver" not foiled above crease and under eye

NYX "Black" shadow along lashline and in outer v

Balmbini Volume 2 "Promiscuous Pearl" as highlight

L'oreal HIP Color Chrome Eyeliner "Black Shock" (may I just say holy burning eyeballs!!  Don't put this on your waterline!)

L'oreal Voluminous Carbon Black mascara

Some false lashes I had hanging out

 Now on to the full face pictures!

Now I realize that it looks like I changed more than just my lip color when I went from red to pink.  But all I did was add just a bit more blush (I looked too washed out without it).  The lighting outside changed in between the time I got done with the red and the time I got the pink on.

Red lip colors:

NYX Soft matte lip cream "Amsterdam"

NYX Electra

NYX Snow White

I used a bit of all of these because I couldn't get it to look right

Pink lip colors:

The light pink Lipthix from Calypso Minerals

MAC "Right Image" Cremesheen Glass

Face makeup:

Revlon Colorstay for Oily/Combination skin

(in the colors "Buff" and "Sand Beige" mixed together)

Maybelline Dark Circle treatment in Fair

Maybelling Super Stay concealer (the second lightest color)

Covergirl Professional loose powder in translucent fair

ELF studio blush/bronzer duo (LOVE this bad boy!)

Balmbini Volume 2 "Promiscuous Pearl" for a highlight

And with the pink lip I added some of Ulta's "Girlie" blush

Which look do you like better?  Which one would you wear?  I know for myself, I really tend to like the look of red lips, just not on me haha.  I don't know what it is but still, I feel like people are staring at me with the red lips.  I feel like the red lips are much more Christmas-y though.

Thank you all so much for checking this out!!  

And if you haven't yet, be sure to enter my Calypso Minerals giveaway!!