Doe Deere Blogazine

INGREDIENTS

• Moss green eyeliner pencil OR green creme eyeshadow
• Pink and lime green eyeshadows
• Loose glitter in light pink
• Foundation, concealer
• Translucent powder
• Pinkish blush
• Black & white mascara (try L’Oreal Double Extend mascara)
• Black liquid eyeliner
• Pink lipstick
• Clear or light pink lipgloss

I decided to focus more on skin today, and I will tell you nothing but the truth. The truth is, there is no such thing as ‘perfect, picture-ready skin’. Whenever you see perfect skin in a picture (and I’m not just talking about my pictures, I’m talking professionally taken photos of models, etc), most likely the person is wearing lots and lots of skin make-up. As a result of the ‘cakey make-up’ stigma, a lot of people simply skip this step altogether – they do eyes, lips, cheeks… and completely forget about the skin.

Let us not fall prey for that and learn to do skin properly, without it looking ‘cakey’. Start out by applying moisturizer onto clean skin. Let it sip in for a minute. Apply a light layer of liquid foundation with a sponge
on your entire face. Avoid cheap brands (Covergirl, etc), go for something like Clinique or at least Neutrogena. Once you’ve evened out the complexion, cover up the dark circles under your eyes and blemishes with concealer. By the way, the difference between concealer and foundation is that the former is thicker and provides better coverage. Final step – powder. Apply translucent powder with a large brush over entire face.

Put on black mascara on top lashes and white on lower. I used that Double Extend mascara where the white part is supposed to lengthen your lashes or something. Whatever, it’s white and it works!

I applied foundation over the lids and then nude eyeshadow, to keep the color from creasing. Apply green eyeshadow with a brush like shown. Then take a larger brush and apply pink eyeshadow, extending far into the hairline. Use a highlighter shadow to fill in space between your eyebrows and pink.

Now grab a green pencil and do the bottom. A cat eye is achieved by extending the inner corner. Outer corner is embellished with a ‘fake eyelash shadow’ – with is basically a vertical line under the eye and down the cheek. Don’t make it too long though, otherwise it’ll look weird. If you’re using pencil, make you apply it kind of thickly, we’re going to need the sticky surface to apply the green eyeshadow right on top of what just drew! Use a thin brush to do
that. You can sport black eyeliner with this look like I did, or leave it as is.

To make your eyes really pop, we’ll use one of new glitter colors, Pink Snow. Dab some lotion with a tip of your finger over the entire top lid and before it dries, apply glitter. You can use your finger or a medium-sized brush for more precision.

Darken/shape your eyebrows as you like. :) Draw the desired lip shape with a dark pink pencil. Apply bright pink lipstick lightly onto the center of lower and upper lip; blend with your finger. Finish with a layer of
clear or light pink gloss for shine. Voila!