It Started With a Dark Lip

Yea, yea, i know, i've been slackin on my mackin. But i'm back in effect with a request from a friend! So, it started with a Pin call "dark lip" the look was beautiful, totally something i'd rock and my friend, Jenn (a fellow Pinterest maniac), obviously knows my style because she sent me the link and asked that i do a STEP-BY-STEEEEEP *blows air horn*.
I'm not gonna post the pin because.... the pin is neither here nor there. Lol! Let's just say i nailed it. So here's the finished product....

Pretty fancy right?! Well, i can't just break it down from here (well i could but that doesn't make it very easy to duplicate)
So here goes folks, photos and description of the steps i took to achieve this look...

 So, i NEVER paint my face before my eyes because i usually go for a clean line from the outter corner of my eye to the outter edge of my brow... but this particular look seemed to be a little softer along the edges so... i defined my brows, applied a thin layer of foundation and then highlited and contoured my face. I've posted blogs with step-by-step pictorials on how i do my brows as well as how i highlight and contour my face... But i will be posting updated versions soon.

 Allllrighty! Steps are going from left to right, top to bottom... like how you'd read a book... nothing difficult...
1)After applying primer from the crease to the brow (not the lid) i took a fluffy yet tappered crease brush and used it to sweep a matte brownish-burgandy shadow along the top of the crease
2)I highlighted my brow bone with a pale gold shimmery shadow using a short-haired shadow brush.
3)Next i dipped the tappered crease brush from step 1 into a matte lavendar shadow, tapped off the excess and used it between the two colors from steps 1 and 2 to blend them together.
4)Apply primer to the lid now. Using a dark brown eyeliner pencil, i... well u see what i did. Lol!
5)I used a different short-haired shadow brush lightly dipped in a matte dark brown shadow a smudge the pencil outline out and into the crease.
6)I used the crease brush and brown-burgandy shadow to blend the dark brown into the crease.
7)I used a regular shadow brush and a tiny bit of black shadow at the inner and outter corners of my lid to darken the brown shadow.
8)Lined my lower lash line with the dark brown pencil and then used a short-haired shadow brush and a teeny bit of black shadow to smudge it out. (I didn't take a photo of the smudged line... don't judge me)
9)Patted a little more primer into the center of my lid and then used a flat shadow brush to pat on a champagne colored shimmer shadow....

Nope, we're not done
10)Using the same flat shadow brush, i patted on some gold shimmery pigment.
11)Used a liquid liner to create a thine line along my lashes, no wing today. Then i applied my lashes
12)Since i only have silver glitter shadow, i had to improvise.. I  used my e.l.f. glittler liquid liner and spread it evenly over the gold shadow.

A little black liner on the water line and a teeny bit of shimmer at the inner corner and it's alldone!...

A little bronzer and a coppery blush on the face, then i lined my lips with brown lip pencil and applied one of my favorite lipsticks, Mary Ksy Cream Lipstick in Rich Fig.

And there u have it!

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