Playing with color

Today I want to share some of my Pinterest inspired ways to play with color. 

Look 1: Here I tried one of the most colorful eyeshadow palettes I could find.  I simply followed the suggested application idea on the back of the package and am pretty happy with how it turned out. 

It really did look more pigmented in person...

This look below found on Pinterest is what I am aspiring to but I need to do more shopping for this first. So above was a beginner's attempt before taking the plunge in the photo below: 

Look 2: I don't know what was going on here but I'll post it anyway.  I used the emerald green loreal infallible cream shadow on my upper lid (and bottom as a liner) and then I applied the gold from the other palette I used above, right above the green on my upper lid.

Then I wasn't sure how I felt about that so I colored my whole upper lid with the emerald green...I feel like it gives a smoky look when my eyes are open but it's really nothing exciting and not something I would likely do again...here's to trial and error right?!

Look 3: Coral lips!  I have a lot of coral lips on my Pinterest page and purchased the loreal extraordinaire color riche liquid lipstick in coral encore and I really love it!  Because the lips are a bit bright, I did a natural eye.  This has become a good everyday look for me.

Look 4: Thanks to my friend Anna who sent me this pin...I tried to replicate it! 

How did I do?  PS my friend Karen shared with me the tip for better photos: natural light and use the back camera if you're using your phone!  Genius.  Here I used the brighter purple from the Loreal palette above in the crease (you can tell I don't have too many products yet) but I also used different shades of my Revlon illuminance creme shadows in wild orchids that looks like this: 

Look 5: The peacock inspired eye again found on Pinterest...this was the most fun to try.  I even used some gold glittery liquid liner by NYX but it doesn't show up very well in the photo because I was running out and just used what was left in the bottom of the tube.  I also can't remember the exact name of this liner because I threw it away but this looks like it might be it.

FYI I've been having fun with eyeshadow a lot but am now on the hunt for some great all day lip colors.  I've always been a gloss fan and have been pretty happy with Loreal extraordinaire color riche liquid lipstick but it doesn't last all day.  I am ready to move away from glosses and into more lipsticks.  What do you use that is long lasting and beautiful?


One more FYI: Today my make up guru friend Karen shared with me this link!  

Here is a quote from her describing it as she's already signed up.  "You get a mix of sample sized and full sized skin care, hair care, makeup tools, or makeup. It's very worth it! This month I got a bag worth $30 something and only payed $10."  

I am now in the process of convincing my husband to let us add it to our budget.  If you are enjoying my make-up adventures as much as me, check it out!

Gold lid, winged liner and mom!

More brushes, more colors! That's what I need to really get good enough to blog about my make up endeavors but humor me and let me show you what I've accomplished so far.  Remember  this is coming from a thirty year old who's spent most of her life all nat-ur-al.

Look 1: My favorite of the week, gold and black, found on pinterest!  So I may have bought a gold lipstick in the Dominican Republic...who knows why...but I sure did use it as an eyeshadow this week!  And then I blended a dark grey eyeshadow into the corner edges.  I used a shimmering light pink on my lips with a little of the gold lipstick on top.  The I put a tissue on my mouth and dusted a translucent powder on my lips because I heard that makes it last longer.  Another trick is to apply a darker contouring shade into that crevice of your face below your cheekbones to make you look like you lost five pounds.  I can't remember if I did that in this photo or not or if I just put a bronzer on my cheeks as usual.

Look 2: Here I am working on my cat eye.  I tried both a scotch tape tutorial and a spoon tutorial online and haven't mastered either but I shall keep practicing! Here is where I think I did the contouring trick I mentioned above.

  Look 3: This was my attempt at the smoky eye but the photo is terrible.  I have got to learn how to take photos of myself.  It looks like I barely have on any color so it's definitely not smoky.  However I do remember one trick I attempted from Pinterest.  I drew the cat eye with my liquid eyeliner pen first and then I blended it in to create that darker color on the outside edge and crease.  Then I touched up the liner and added it to the bottom lid when I was finished with the eyeshadow.

Look 4: Again the photos are not doing the color any justice so hopefully this isn't pointless.  Here I was trying to play with the little colors that I own.  I first swept my golden emerald infallible on the whole lid and crease.  Then I used a shimmery light pink in the inside corners, on the inner half of my lid and below the brow.  Then I added an extra kick with a gold sparkly eyeliner in the inside corners, top and bottom, but the photo shows nothing! Then I added black eyeliner on the top lid only.  Hopefully you can get the point without seeing it...oh and in all the photos I'm still using my loreal true match lumi foundation with the cream shimmery blush and sometimes bronzer.

 Looks 5 and 6: my mother!  I never learned how to put make up on other people but mom is even more all nat-ur-al than me so she was a good place to start.  The first photo is just bare minerals foundation, some bronzer on cheeks and forehead, the loreal cream shimmery blush from my last post, a little eyebrow pencil and lipstick! The second photo we did the same but put a shimmery pink on her lids, added mascara and used the loreal liquid lipstick, from my last post, in a brighter pink.