Brown Eyes

Brown eyes can be some of the easiest and the hardest to find good colors for. The way to find really complementary colors for eyes is to find the color opposite of it on the color wheel....But where does brown fit? The answer is a big fat NOWHERE. Brown, like white, black, grey, and beige, is a neutral color. So 9 times out of 10 they wont be anywhere on a color wheel.

Here try to find it...

The best advice I can give you brownies is to go and look at your eyes in a mirror and try to find "your brown". Ask yourself the following questions: Are my eyes dark or light brown? Do they have more of a red, blue, purple, or green undertone? Are there any special qualities to my eyes(iris freckles or specs of other colors)?

Once you have done this the next few steps will be much easier.

If you found an undertone or specs of other colors in your eyes look back at the color wheel and find the opposite color. Test out eye shadows, liners, and even mascaras that have a hint of this color.

If you did not find anything or don't know what an undertone is(its ok!! haha) don't worry! There are still many ways to make your peepers pop!

The most flattering colors for browns are purples, greens, navys, coppers, and cobalts.

There really aren't many colors to avoid other that bright yellows and oranges. Some people also say pink doesn't go well with brown but I have seen many people pull this off. Don't be afraid to try new colors! The only way to really know if something will look good on you or not is to try it!

If you are still struggling to find a good color palette or really want your eyes to look good 24/7, take a walk down the cosmetics section of your drug or grocery store. A simple solution is Physicians Formula. They sell color palettes, liners and mascaras specifically for whatever eye color you have. I have seen much success with these and recommend them. 

I hope I could help someone with some beautiful brown eyes find something to make their eyes look super sexy!

Here are a few examples of colors.

Doll Makeup

I'd like to apologize for not posting anything for a couple of days. I tried to do a tutorial for a porcelain doll with white face paint and turns out...I'm allergic to white face paint...so I waited until my face wasn't quite as irritated. Sorry!!! Hahaha
But this just a normal doll look If you want to do white face paint go for it! Just remember to spot test!

So here is the innocent, doughy eyed doll look...and what I would look like without freckles!

1. Start with a really good cover up. You want everything covered!! This includes any redness, dark circles, freckles, and acne.
2. Then to give the perfect skin thing some more perfection. Layer on a heavy correcting foundation and powder.
3. Now take a shimmery light eye shadow and apply all over your eyelid All the way up to the eyebrow.
4. Now take a shadow a shade or two darker than your skin  tone and apply to the hollows of your eyes.
5. Should be looking like this.
6. Now with a fine tipped black eyeliner, tight line your upper eyelid. (Tight lining only lining the lash line) This will give the effect of thicker lashes
7. With a white eyeliner, line your lower lash line. Do this a little bit thicker than you would normally line the lower lid.
8. Now tap a white eye shadow on top of the white eyeliner.
9. With a sharpened eyeliner line underneath the white eyeliner. This makes eyes look a lot bigger.
10. Apply red or pink blush to the apples of your cheeks (Smile really big to find this)
11. Try to keep the blush centrally in one spot on your face. You can do this by taping or "bouncing" the brush on your cheeks instead of a sweeping motion.
12. Apply false lashes, curl them to lift eyelashes away from the eyes so they look bigger and apply mascara.
13. Apply a bright pink or red lipstick
There you have it! Now you are a doll!
<3

Smokey Eyes

So this is probably my go to look for just about any occasion. I love the smokey eye look because there are a thousand ways you can customize it and make it your own. I have been doing this look since 9th grade. I had to do it in choir for 3 years. Wearing it basically every day in December because of performances. I made that black eye shadow my bitch! Not really...but still. I have had people over the years ask me to show them or tell them my secret *boast boast* But in all reality...I don't have one...So I figured I'd just post it and hopefully someone could learn something from it...

Now some people are going to get a little freaked out by the order of things but just stay with me on this!

We are going to start with the eye makeup. Not foundation! Keep it together, change is good sometimes! Here is why we do this. If you have ever experienced fallout, the eye shadow that falls everywhere you don't want it (Cheeks, nose, under eye area), when you use dark eye shadow this is going to change your life!!! If you don't have concealer and foundation on you don't have to worry about messing up what you have already done by wiping off the fall out!!! Bam! Take that physics!

1. Prime your eyes!!! I can't stress this enough!!! I don't care if you use primer, creme eye shadow, concealer balm, or white eyeliner(Thanks Pinterest!) Just do it!!!! This makes blending all this dark stuff SOOOO much easier!

2. Take a black (or your darkest shade if you are doing a different color scheme) and apply it to the outer corner of your eye lid. Think of dividing your eyelid into 4 even sections. This is your #4 color. Remember that for later.

3. Take a gunmetal grey (or second darkest color) and apply next to the black. don't worry about blending just yet. This is your #3 color.

4. Now take a light grey (Second lightest color) and add next to the dark grey. This is #2.

5. And last take a white or a color that is a step lighter than your skin tone with some shimmer (lightest shade) and add this to the rest of the eyelid and inner corner by the tear ducts. This is #1.

6. This is what it should be looking like. Not blended.

7. Now here is where you can get in touch with your inner blender(get it??? Blending...oh shut up I'm hilarious) You are going to take a fluffy brush and blend colors 4 and 3 together. (just go back and forth. Not hard.)

8. Wipe off the brush and blend 3 and 2.

9. Now blend 2,3, and 4.

10. Wipe off the brush really well. And take the lightest shade and swipe it in one long motion all the way to #4. Do this a few times if you want a lighter look.

11. This is what you should get...If you want a darker, more dramatic look. You can add more black and blend it so it looks nice. Otherwise there you go!

12. Now with a sponge, tissue or your luck crooked pinky get rid of the fall out!

13. Apply foundation and whatnot. Add highlight by taking a small amount of shimmery white and applying to the brow bone. Make sure this gets blended so you don't look like a circus clown ;D

14. Now eyeliner, mascara, brows, and lipstick. Keep the face "low drama" if you want your peepers to have all the attention. But if you are like me and you love drama (on your face. not in your life) go on and get some of that gradient lipstick on your face!

15. Now put on something cute and knock em dead!!!

P.s. Sorry for not being 100% on the pictures. I was in a time crunch and my hands weren't very stable. If you have questions, ask!

P.s.s. I am now going to start Halloween makeup tutorials if you have any requests let me know and I will be sure to get those up!!

Thanks guys, good luck!!! <3

Gradient Lipstick

I got a lot of questions about my gradient or duo tone lipstick. Now that fall is here it's a great time to play around with darker shades of lipstick. But if you want something a bit more than just a plain dark red/purple/brown or even a nude lipstick, a gradient is a great way to go. This look can make lips look fuller and is a great way to spice up a classy or edgy look!

Ok now there are 2 ways you can achieve this look. There are tons of color combinations you can use! Makeup has no set rules so if you don't like the colors of lipstick I use red lipstick...DON'T USE IT!!! Use nudes, browns, plums, pinks, or any other color you can come up with.

The Prep:

1: Brush your teeth. I have found that lipstick sticks less on freshly brushed teeth. After you are done with that scrub your toothbrush on your lips. This exfoliates your lips. Getting off any dead skin.

2: Lip balm it! This makes lips nice and smooth and prevents flaking.

3: Put your face on!

4: Put some concealer on your lips. This will get rid of any unwanted redness and give you a "blank canvas" in case you want to make your lips bigger or even out anything.

Next pick which way suits you best.

#1 Lipstick on lipstick. This is the simplest way to achieve the look. It also gives a more natural look.

1: Line the lips if you don't have a matching lip liner use the tip of the lipstick. Lip liner gives you a solid outline and makes everything look more put together. 

2: Fill in with your base color. For a natural look this should be the lighter color and its focus should be the center of the lips.

3: Add your darker color to the corner of your lips and blend by rubbing your lips together.

4: Fight the urge to duck face...

#2 Eye shadow on lipstick...what???? Yeah! @#$% the police!!!...jk. Cops are good people! >.> This is my favorite look. I would wear it on a daily whereas normal people would only wear it on like Halloween. Thats how the Kaily do!

1: Line and fill in lips. Filling in your lips with lip liner is like a primer for your lipstick.

2: Lipstick!!!!

3: Take a highly pigmented eye shadow and apply to the corners of your lips

4: Blend by rubbing lips together as shown. Alternating until you have it the way you want it.

5: Clean up your mess

6: Suck on your pinky...loljk. run a clean finger through your lips as shown. This will keep prevent any awkward "you have lipstick on your teeth" moments.

Well Thats it! Pretty easy right?! Remember that there really aren't rules for make up. Try some different colors and techniques. Find something that suits you perfectly!

Everyday Makeup

Well here it is. The first tutorial!!! Yaaaay. This is my everyday look. Its very basic and simple. Hope you enjoy!!!

1.I like to start out with a really good moisturizer. Let dry and lets begin!!

2. Foundation, concealer, powder, whatever else you like to do. I don't know your life!

3. This is my "Ghetto Primer" it is a creme based eye shadow that is the same color as my skin. This will make eye shadow more vibrant and last longer. I don't like to buy $30+ eye primers when a $5-$10 product will do the same thing! 

4. Apply primer with a clean fingertip all over lid.

5. Apply a shimmery champagne color to 2/3 of the lid.

6. Apply a matte brown to the crease and outer third of the lid. This will add depth to the eyes.

7. Blend!!!

8. It should look like this once blended and softened. 

9. Apply a gel liner on the top lid (Add a little wing if you are feeling retro haha)and pack black eye shadow on top to make it last all day. Apply a shimmery ivory or off white color to the inner corner of the eye and blend across the bottom lash line.

10. Curl(optional) and add mascara generously to the top and very lightly to the bottom(you only want to darken the bottom not make them spidery). Fill in brows(optional)

11. Add a clear gloss to the lips and voila! 

Products:

Moisturizer: Velocity by Mary Kay

Foundation: Physicians Formula Mineral Foundation   Brush: Mirra Daily Powder Brush and Foundation Brush

Concealer: Covergirl + Olay Concealer Balm & Maybelline Fit Me Concealer

"Primer": Revlon Illuminance Creme Eyeshadow in Not Just Nudes

Eye Shadow Palette: Avon Mega Expert Palette  Brushes: Mirra Daily Eyeshadow and Smoke Brushes & Covergirl Make-Up Masters Eye Shadow Brush

Eye Liner: Maybelline Eye Studio Lasting Drama Gel Liner

Mascara: Maybelline The Colossal Volum' Express

Gloss: Avon Ultra Glazewear Lip Gloss in Dazzling Diamond

First Post Excitement!!!

If there are two things that I am incredibly good at, it would be smearing cosmetics onto my skin and coming up with awful ways to start writing essays/stories/Facebook updates/tweets/projects/and apparently blog posts. So lets just awkwardly dive right in, shall we?

I have wanted to write blog stuff for about two years but I have never bothered because I didn't have the time nor the motivation. But now that my life is boring enough to have time but not boring enough to still be able to post fun things, I figured, eh why not.

I am an abyss of beauty knowledge and know more that I should about it at my age. You want bigger looking eyes? Let me write you a book about it. Want to contour your face good? Go somewhere else...because that @#$% is hard...loljk...but seriously. So here, have my knowledge.

Well as much as I would love to sit at my computer typing the day away I really need to shower and wash off two days worth of flaking off eyeliner and mascara. Gross right? I know. Greasy hair...DON'T CARE. Let a b#$%& be lazy ight? Ight. So I'm off to get clean but stick around, and watch everything get all sorts of dirty. Loljk keeping this PG-13ish.

Naked time.

Stay in school kids.