Sunday, June 29, 2014

Sort of contouring, but mostly just letting Younique do manic.

Hi ladies! I just started selling the most fab makeup in the world, and I just HAD to share it with all of you. Younique is an all natural makeup, no harmful chemicals, paraben free, carcinogen free, talc free... basically all the stuff that causes cancer isn't in our makeup. Oh! And its cruelty free! Pretty good reasons to try it huh? Well it gets better. What if I told you you could have lashes that look like this :
without extensions, falsies or that awful Latisse stuff? Well you can. Our 3D fiber mascara give you those crazy long lashes in under 3 minutes. You can literally make you eyelashes as long as you want with this stuff! At the risk of putting myself out there for lots of people to ridicule me, I'm going to show you today how to achieve the perfect day in summer look. Nothing heavy just beauty. And with taking a bunch of selfies, it took me 7 minutes all together. 

I hate spending a ton of time on makeup in the summer. Its hot. And I sweat. And having my skin suffocating under a bunch of makeup is literally torture, but I don't have the best looking face or skin so it puts me in a pickle. 

Heres me with no make up on. Yep there I am... Don't look too long I swear it gets better.  Just in case you missed it, here's a picture of my pathetic eyelashes. 

Alright lets move on before I cry. First you're going to need a few Younique products. I will be using the BB Cream: 
 
Now this is actually a shade lighter than I would normally use for my skin. But once I explain you'll understand. I'm also going to be using a blush in "sweet"
and a concealer in "foxy"
Both those containers are very small because they are actually the sample size from my presenters kit. If you were to order either of them, they would not be that small. They both come in containers that look like this 
Now again my real concealer color would not be Foxy. That would be much too dark for me. But you'll see in a second.
Before we start, I would urge you to take a good long look at your face in the mirror. Look at the curves and angles. Find your cheekbones and your jawbone. Really study the curvature of your face, because thats going to make this a lot easier. 

First start with whatever normal foundation you use as a base. I actually don't do this, and you don't have to if you want to keep your face light and airy. But if you feel like there's no way around it, start there. I am going to jump to step 2 though. 
I am going to take my BB cream that is a shade too light and apply it. First put it all the way up your nose and between your eyebrows and make an upside down triangle with it on your forehead. Then spread it across the top of your brows, down the sides of your face, and under your eyes. I like to get it RIGHT under my eyes at my lash line because I have some dark eyecircles a lot. Spread it on your cheek bones and connect it to your nose and stop. Was that confusing? Heres a picture. 
I like to say its like a mascarade mask of BB cream. 
If you'd like to put it under your eyebrows, go for it. Now please after this step, blend it in. You don't want to look like the Phantom of the Opera. 
Now take your darker concealer color. I used concealer, but you can use anything thats at least one to two shades darker than your skin. A bronzer would work, but our pigments are actually pretty good for this as well. (Make sure to use a matte pigment, not a shimmer.) Using a concealer brush or blush brush sweep it as so. 
you should be putting this color under your cheek bones and above your jaw line. This is where studying your face comes in handy. You can see the curves on my face and where you want to create a shadow. This step is going to define your cheeks and manipulate your face into appearing slimmer. I need that. 
As you can see, I stop somewhere mid cheek with the concealer. doing it too far is a recipe for making your face look like it has dirt on it. Putting it across your hairline on your forehead and down the side of your face just outside the mascarade mask will help highlight those areas. This is going to look ridiculous at first don't worry! Clearly that doesn't look like good makeup right there. But your next step is going to be to take a good light powder and blend all this is. Take big sweeping motions with your brush until there's no more harsh lines. And don't use too much powder in this step, really let the brush blend it in. 
Now comes the blush. If youre going to be outside in the sun, there is really no need to put a crazy amount of blush on. But a little right on the apples of your cheeks will look effortless. as you can see from this pic, there are no harsh lines. Just some highlighted and shadowed areas. 
Next were going to focus on the eyes. Like i said before I don't want to be suffocated under a ton of makeup. Also if
I go swimming I don't want makeup running all over my face. So i'm only going to be using our 3D fiber lash mascara. Its water resistant.
First I'm going to take the transplanting gel and give a nice base coat. Then take the fibers and add a little length and bulk right on top. Top it off with a coat of transplant gel and you have this
Thats one coat. I'm sure you can see that even with my little bitty lashes, You have a nice lash there. But wait! Lets do two coats!
My eyes literally look lopsided at this point. But I'm going to add one more coat(which I usually don't have to/don't need to do)
How the hell did that happen? my eyelashes are officially long and beautiful. Well one eye is. Lets even that out and get a finished product. 
so its a little better to see with my hair pulled back the mild highlight and contour that I've achieved with very little effort. My skins not suffocating in 95degree weather and I don't look hideous. I like to add a little pomade to my hair if i'm gonna be out all day cause it tends to just get bigger all day so heres my day in the sun look
There ya go. Took me 7 minutes. Hope you enjoyed looking at my face 150 times!  But seriously get your lashes. Its so much better when you have them. 

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