Champagne Smokey Eye Tutorial

Today I posted an Eye Tutorial on Youtube. I absolutely love this look! The star of the show is the Naked Cosmetics Eye Pigment in Desert Sunset 02. You can purchase this pigment through the link in the right hand bar of this page. This is an affiliate code that I do make commission off of. Feel free to purchase from somewhere else if you do not feel comfortable using an affiliate code! Here is a link to the Youtube Video:

https://youtu.be/cvfX5ELwMeo

Hope you enjoy this tutorial and feel free to comment on the video or on this blog with any comments/questions/concerns/suggestions! Have a beautiful day!

Purple Eye Look

Today I am doing a tutorial on this purple eye look. Without further adieu, here we go!

I am starting with my face makeup on and nothing else. And I am starting out on the right foot with an upside down picture of my eye primer that I used! I use the Urban Decay Primer Potion. I also dust a little RCMA No Color Powder over top to make the eye shadows blend over top easier.

Then I curl my lashes. 

I started out with this shade in the Morphe 35O palette and this SLMissGlam L34 Blend Beauty brush.

Now I am going to use this shade as a transition shade and blend this into the crease using small circles and windshield wiping motions.

Now I am going in with this shade of the same palette and this Wet n Wild brush.

Now I am taking this just in the
outer third to give it some depth.

Now I am taking this pinkish purple
shade in the Morphe 35B palette and this ELF Eyeshadow "C" brush.








I packed this shade onto the lid until I had the color payoff
that I was looking for to set and under tone for the top shade.

Now with the same brush I am taking
this medium purple shade from the same palette and packing on the outer half of the eye.

Now I am taking the dark purple shade directly below that with this Vera Mona brush and applying it to the outer third of the eyelid.

Using the same brush and L'Oreal
Infallible Eye Shadow pressed pigment in shade Purple Priority I first attempted to apply it by spraying my brush with some setting spray but I couldn't get it to apply across the lid, it just clumped up in one spot.

I then used my finger to apply the shadow and it applied much better this way.

I then took my favorite water line eye liner, the Maybelline Eyestudio using the brush that comes with it. I feel like when other people show a picture lining their water line they look so much more graceful than me.

And today I am trying out a new eye

liner. This is the Absolute New York Nano Liner.

And our wings are on!

I then took this shade in the Morphe

35O palette to highlight my inner corners.

I did step outside of my normal holy grail mascara and used my old favorite, the Too Faced Better Than Sex mascara. This is one eye done and one eye not.





I'll even let you in on a little trick of mine. To keep my mascara from bleeding throughout the day. I dust a little RCMA No Color Powder with a fluffy brush under my bottom eyelashes!

And here I am deciding what color lips to do with this look.

I decided on using the NYX
retractable lip liner in shade Sand Beige to line and fill in my lips.

And then I used the NYX Soft Matte Lip

Cream in shade San Paulo.






And here is the finished look! I absolutely look these colors with my blue eyes!  Thanks for watching this tutorial and if you enjoyed this please do me a favor and subscribe to e-mail notifications for when I release new blogs! You can do that from the link on the right hand side of the page. Please comment with any thoughts or suggestions or if you would like to see more blogs like this one! Thanks and have a beautiful day!

My Top 5 Makeup Products

If I had to throw away all of my makeup except for 5 items of my choosing, these are the items that I would keep:

My first item would be the Artistry Exact Fit Beauty Balm Perfecting Primer. I love this stuff! On days that I don't want to wear foundation I will apply this by itself. It smooths out my pores, evens out my skin tone and gives a glow to the skin. Unfortunately it is not sold at just any makeup store. It is made by a company called Amway, but you can purchase it from my mother who is an Amway distributor at her site here.





My next item would be the Morphe 35O palette. These shades are buttery soft and just the right amount of pigment. Very blend able and easy to work with. I just love

the shades in this palette, you can do so many looks with them.











My third item would be the Maybelline New York Eystudio gel eyeliner. I have been using this for about 2 years now and I love it. It is super black and easy to work with. I line my water line with it and use a flat brush to smudge it and smoke it out.










My fourth item is the Younique Moodstruck 3D Fiber Lashes mascara. This stuff is a miracle worker. It makes you look like you are wearing falsies with none of the weight or hassle of gluing things to your lashes. This is another product not available at makeup stores. You can, however, purchase it from my friend Stacey Gaither who is a Younique distributor at her site here.










And my last item is the Palladio rice paper blotting sheets. These things soak up oil and apply the perfect amount of translucent powder to make your makeup look matte again. These can be purchased at Sally's Beauty Supply.






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