Wednesday, February 12, 2014

1/2 Drugstore 1/2 High End Valentine's Day Look

So obviously, Valentine's Day is coming up on Friday so I thought I'd share a Valentine's Day makeup look! I did this with half drugstore products and half high end so anyone can accomplish this look. So let's just get into it! Here's the look we're doing today:

First off, I'm putting this photo here so as we go along you can look back and see which side is the high end and which is the drugstore;
So obviously, the side where I'm holding the Baby Skin is the drugstore side and the Smashbox is the high end.
Here are the products I used:

Drugstore:
Maybelline Baby Skin primer
Revlon Colorstay foundation in Nude, mixed with L'oreal Magic Lumi base
Maybelline Instant Age Rewind concealer in Brightening
Physicians Formula Happy Booster translucent powder
Jordana blush in Rose Silk
Wet n Wild single in Brule
Wet n Wild trio in Silent Treatment
Wet n Wild trio in Knock on Wood
Wet n Wild Megaliner in black*
Rimmel Scandaleyes in nude

High End:
Smashbox photofinish primer
Estee Lauder Double Wear foundation in cool bone mixed with Benefit Girl Meets Pearl
Benefit Boi-ing concealer in light
MAC Mineralized Skinfinish Natural in light
MAC blush in Pinch 'o Peach
Too Faced Candlelight primer**
Urban Decay Naked 3 palette
BareMinerals Flawless Definition Volume mascara
Makeup Forever Aqua Shadow stick in 30E

*I used the same liner on the high end as the drugstore side
**I used the same primer on both eyes

Alright let's start with drugstore
For my face:
 I primed my skin
 I mixed my foundation with a luminizer to give my skin a nice dewy sort of appearance. I wouldn't normally do this but I wanted a nice glowy skin for Vday
 I applied concealer under my eyes to conceal my dark circles and highlight my face a bit, and set it with a powder only under my eyes
 I took a rosy pink blush and applied it to the apples of my cheeks
For my eyes:
  I primed my eyelids with a champagne-colored primer to give my eyes a pretty shimmer
  I took that lighter pink browbone shade from that "Knock on Wood" trio and blended it into my crease with a fluffy crease brush

  I took the light pink/champagne browbone color from the "Silent Treatment" trio with a flat shader brush and packed it on the inner two thirds of my lid


  I then took the light purplish grey eyelid shade from the "Silent Treatment" trio and applied it to my outer third of my lid
  I then took a clean blender brush and blended out those edges
  I took that dark crease color from the "Silent Treatment" trio and defined my outer v with a small detailer brush, then blended it out
  I grabbed the eyelid shade from the "Knock on Wood" on a smaller fluffy brush and defined my crease a bit with it, keeping it nice and blended out
  I took Wet n Wild Brule and highlighted my browbone
(This is optional) I took the eyelid shade from "Knock on Wood" on a smudger brush and placed it on my lower lashline, then went over it with the crease shade from "Silent Treatment"
  I lined my upper lashline and added a short wing, lined my lower waterline with a nude liner, then applied mascara to my top and bottom lashes.
The final look:

Now for high end!
For my face:
  I first applied Smashbox photofinish primer
  I mixed my foundation with a lumizer
  I applied a concealer very slightly lighter than my skintone under my eyes and pressed it into my skin with my fingers then set only my under eyes with a powder
  I then applied a bright peachy blush to the apples of my cheeks
For my eyes:
  I primed my eyes with a champagne colored primer to give my look more shimmer
  The shades I used from the Naked 3:

  I took the color Limit and blended it into my crease with a fluffy brush
  I took a flat shader brush and packed Burnout onto my inner two thirds
  I applied Liar to the outer third of my lid
  I took a clean blending brush and blended the edges
  I went into Blackheart with a small detailer brush and defined my outer v, then blended it out
  I took Nooner on a small fluffy brush and defined my crease, keeping it very blended and soft
  I highlighted my browbone with Wet n Wild Brule (you can also use Strange here but I wanted a more matte highlight)
  (optional) I applied Nooner to my lower lashline with a smudger brush, then went over it lightly with Blackheart
  I lined my upper lashline and added a small wing, lined my lower waterline with a glowy champagne liner,  then applied mascara to my top and bottom lashes
The final look:

I thought I'd give you some different lip options, so here we go:

This is MAC Riri Woo ^


MAC Riri Woo with Riri Woo lipglass on top ^


Wet n Wild Cherry Bomb (Above and below)



Here's a few more Valentine's Day lip options that can go with this look (this is my photo of my lips)

So that's it. I hope you enjoyed my very first "official" blogpost. Thanks for reading, and have an amazing day beautiful!

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