So yesterday I just wanted some color in my life. Nothing too wild...just not neutral, by far. I went rifling through my makeup and pulled out a palette that I had only used maybe once and just kinda forgot about. It's the "Poster Child" palette from Wet N Wild.
I bought this palette for 2 reasons, 1) i'm a sucker for bright colors. And 2) i had two other, less vibrant, palettes from Wet N Wild and they were very pigmented.
For the look I was going for, the blue in the bottom righ corner was calling my name!
This is the end result...
Let's start from the top. I always begin my makeup routine with my brows. I've recently been filling in/defining my brows using a brown eye shadow (also from wet n wild) and an angled liner brush. To make the applications easy and get a smooth line with no chalkiness, i dip the brush into my face moisturizer, wipe off the excess and then coat the brush with the shadow. After totally defining my brows, i use a spooly brush to brush the color through the hair...this makes it so you can actually see the hairs. Next up is concealer. If i plan on highlighting and contouring my face, i use a concealer that's about 2 shades lighter than my skin. I use a small concealer brush to apply the concealer along the bottom and top lines of my brows and then use my ring finger to blend/fade it outward.
For my brow bone, i used Mary Kay Mineral Eye Color in Spun Silk. It's a light enough shade on my skintone to highlight my brow bone, but it's matte, so when i go in with all the vibrant colors, it keeps me from looking.. drag-ish. Next, in between the crease of my lid and blended up into the Spun Silk, i applied Mary Kay Mineral Eye Color in Silky Caramel. Again, it's matte and it's a great color to blend with the lighter shade on my browbone as well at the darker shade to be used in my crease and on my lid. Next up, that amazing dark blue. I used a short-haired shadow brush to pat the color onto my entire lid. I like to pat on the color i use on my lid because it makes is easier to build the opacity of the color, although this shadow is pigmented enough to not need much effot to build. After i got the blue all over my lid, i took a blender brush and applied the darker pink from the left side (second color from the bottom) in a sweeping motion along my crease. Next i grabbed my BH Cosmetics Party Girl Palette and used the shimmery black shade on a narrow brush in the crease of my lid. Then i used the blender brush that had the pink shadow on it and blended the black upward into the pink. Then i grabbed a flat shadow brush and applied the teal color on the right side of the Poster Child palette (second from the top) to the inner corner of my lid. I used Wet N Wild cream liner in a pot and a liner brush from E.L.F. to apply my winged liner, threw on my stacked lashes that i've been wearing allll the way out, and moved on to my face. (After i apply my face makeup, i lined my lower lashline with a brown pencil and took an angled liner brush and swept the dark blue shadow over it. Applied black liner to my waterline and mascara to both my top and bottom lashes.)
Face Time!
I used Maybelline Baby Skin to prime my face... i go back and forth on whether or not i like this primer. Why? Because, altho it does fill in pores and smooth my skin very well, i have oily skin and this primer can feel a litte heavy..greasy even. But, a little goes a long way for those who have oily skin and setting with a powder becomes very important when using this primer. After letting the primer set for a good 5 minutes, i used a dupe for the Beauty Blender sponge to apply my foundation, which is Mary Kay TimeWise Matte Wear Liquid Foundation in Bronze 4. I apply foundation all over my face, but i avoid the areas directly below my eyes and directly above my brows..because i'm going to use a concealer to highligt in those areas and i don't like how heavy it can get in those areas. Using a concealer brush, i applied the same concealer i used for my brows in the areas that you see
Here. To blend the concealer, though, i used the tapered end of my blender sponge and a patting motion. To set the concealer under my eyes to avoid creasing, i used the same patting motion and tapered end of my blender to apply E.L.F HD Translucent Setting Powder. Then i used a soft powder brush to sweep the excess powder away. For contouring my face, i used a pressed powder from Black Opal in Deepest Espresso. I swept the powder in a downward motion along the bottom of my cheekbone (starting at the outer point of my cheekbone and stopping a little more than halfway down..like, straight down from the outter corner of my eye) with an angled powder brush, then i blend upward...but not too much..just so there's no stark line of darkness. I like to use a blending shadow brush to apply my contour to the sides of my nose and then blend it by sweeping an empty small stipling brush up and down the area where i applied the color. I used a highlighting stick from E.L.F. in Persimmon to coat the larger area of my blender sponge, blotted it onto my hand, and then used a patting motion to apply it to the tops of my cheekbones and along the bridge of my nose. I applied a loose powder bronzer with a soft powder brush to the area i contoured my cheeks and blend upward. For blush, i used Mary Kay Mineral Cheek Color in Dark Cherry on the apples of my cheeks. And that was that!
Lips!
I lined my lips with a brown brow pencil, applied Wet N Wild lipstick in Think Pink to the inner area of my lips and blended to two colors together, then i applied Wet N Wild's Bare It All to my lips and used my finger to blend the three. Being darker skinned, it's hard to rock a nude lip color or a pink as light at Think Pink without some liner and blending. Lol!
And it's all done!
These full-face photos were taken using natural light and no flash at around 6pm. It wasn't long before i had no natural light to work with at all. So, even though and horrible yellow-toned light in the bathroom can totally ruin the ability to see the colors used, with the right angle, they can make for a pretty fierce selfie...
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