Kathlyn's Makeup

My friend asked me to do her makeup and I'm really happy with how it came out :) I did a kind of smoky brown fading into gold and a lot of highlight. I'll post pictures now and put up the directions later!

To create the eye look, I started with Too Faced Shadow Insurance in Lemon Drop. Then, I applied a light vanilla-y shade all the way from lashline to browbone. With an angled brush I lined her top lashes with a brown cream liner and then smudged it up on the outer corners. I used a medium-dark brown eyeshadow over that liner and worked it up into the crease, about halfway in on then eye. With a very dark brown shimmer (Urban Decay Twice Baked), I did the outer corners and a little bit in the outer part of the crease. Using a gold shimmer (Urban Decay Half Baked) I covered the rest of the lid and blended it into the edge of the brown. Finally,  using the NYX Jumbo pencil in Milk, I went just below the brow bone, blended that in, and put a very light, nearly white matte in top of that and in the inner corners for highlight. Topped this off with a teeny smudge of brown cream liner under the bottom lashes and some Falsies mascara! Done :)

 

For the whole face, I used Bobbi Brown Foundation in Sand, Bare Minerals Mineral Veil, Milani Baked Blush in Luminoso and the lighter bronzer in the Colorista Palatte (mentioned below).

 

Sorry about just color descriptions for a lot of these, but  many of the colors are from my Sephora Colorista Palette (I'll show that in my makeup bag video!!) but unfortunately that palette has been discontinued :(

Everyday Quick and Easy Eyes

This week is INSANE for me so I can't be spending my life on cool looking eyeshadow and color coordination. Today was a day for the quick, easy, go-to look for me. Basically I have like 4 or 5 different awesome liquid liners from the Sephora brand and I pair that with a simple colored eyeshadow and ignore any shading. It looks nice and takes literally 2 minutes tops.

 This is pretty simple looking but the green pairs really nicely with brown eyes, especially for fall :)

Sorry for the lack of picture cropping and quality, this was a quickie post.

 I just didn't want to neglect the blog!

These 3 products are really all you need for your eyes to do this. I used Falsies Flared in Blackest Black (not my favorite mascara but my other is at a friend's house!), Urban Decay Cream Shadow in Mushroom and Sephora Liquid Liner in Glitter Green.

Really any colors that look nice together work for this look. I often do a simple shadow with a colored liner for a little pop of color. Typically a neutral brown with any liner works. For a less expensive version of this, Wet and Wild has a few colors of liquid liner that are pretty good. My favorite is the teal-ish color, but I definitely prefer the Sephora because it applies so well! Also, I recommend using a shadow base to make your base color and eyeliner last all day and not melt off your eyes, especially if you have oily skin like me. The U.D. Cream Shadow I used has primer built in, which means one less step in the morning! :)