Natural makeup with colorful Liner

Hey guys, lately I’ve seen these trends going around with super natural glowy makeup that’s flawless and beautiful with pops of color in their liner. So I’m going to try that today! I’m not very good at eye liner as it is, so this should be interesting! I really hope you like this look and find some inspiration in this look I'm going to try out today! If you’re interested in suggesting any looks you want me to try out for you guys, but up the comments down below!

Today’s look is using the Makeup Revolution #Slay palette! It is so pigmented and easy to blend that I had to use it today. I started out by priming my eyelids with the Hard Candy Eyeshadow Primer and setting it with the shade #Slay, it’s a nude cream color with a fine shimmer in it. For the crease I started out with Conquer, a soft light taupe, running it through and building up opacity until it was soft and hazy. In the outer corner I used the shade perfect, a matte chocolate brown color. I kept it only in the outer third of the crease. I made sure to keep the lid light with the cream shade. For the wing, I used setting Spray on a small angled brow brush in the great, which is a shimmery purple gray. I didn’t like the way it looked, it didn’t pop enough! So over the top I went in with the red shade, Queen and built up the color until it stood out enough for me. I then took it on a fluffy blending brush and smoked out the bottom lash line. I then finished the rest of my makeup and touched up the bottom lash line, a little smeared away when I put on the rest of my makeup. Here’s a list of the products I used in today’s look!

Eyes:
Hard Candy Eyeshadow Primer
Makeup Revolution #Slay Palette
Rimmel Scandaleyes Waterproof in Sparkling Black
Broadway Beauty Eyebrow pencil in Black/Brown
Broadway Colors Lengthening Mascara in Black

Face:
Nicel Daily Repair Vitamin A and Retinol cream
CoverGirl 3in1 foundation, shade 810
Ulta Full Coverage Waterproof Concealer in Light Cool
Coty Airspun Loose Face Powder in Naturally Neutral
Wet n Wild Contouring and Highlight palette in Dulce De Leche
A homemade highlighting blush
Elf setting Spray

Other:
Chapstick in Pumpkin Pie
Pueen makeup brushes
- Blending eye brush
- Flat shader brush
- Angled shadow brush
- Fluffy face brush
- Angled blush brush

I hope you guys enjoying this tutorial / makeup look! I love it, it's so different than what I'm used to!

Xoxo
Lulu.

Pink Sparkly Eyeshadow Tutorial

Hey guys, the last few weeks of actually playing in my Ulta box, I’ve discovered that the glitter shades are actually really pretty on the eye. I decided to use them today because I was feeling a little sassy I guess lol. I promise, this will be the last post using this makeup box for a while since I know you can’t buy it anymore. But I know Ulta sells their own range of singles. I think some of these are part of their range.

To start out this look, I used my trusty Hard Candy Eyeshadow Primer all over the lid and set it with the shade Au Natural. I thought that shade would be too dark, but it actually matched my skin perfectly. I lightly tapped into Brave and Camel, running them lightly through the crease and put her corner, just to bring in warmth and some depth. On the lid, I tapped on In The Buff, but it hardly showed up at all. So I rolled with it and went into the bottom drawer of colors and used the Color Coat in Platinum, it’s a thick cream shadow that kind of drags on the lid. I just used it as a base across the eyelid and packed on the glitter shade Pretty Princess on the inner two thirds and Glam Rock on the outter third. Then I took my blending brush and softened all the edges and added a little Havana Nights in the outter corner the help blend things out.

For eyeliner I used the purple eyeliner that came in the box set, it wasn’t very pigmented soon used a little of that same dark purple just to smudge under the outter half of my lash line. On the top lash line I used the same purple liner and set it with a black shadow. Recently I've been taking the liner two thirds on my lash line, it makes my eyes look bigger, which I love the look of. For my brows I used the Broadway Beauty Eyebrow pencil in Black / Brown and the Broadway Colors Lengthening Mascara in Black. Those two have become some of my favorites. To finish off my face makeup, I used my cover girl 3 in 1 foundation, Ulta Full Coverage Waterproof Concealer, Coty Airspun Loose Face Powder, Wet n Wild Contouring and Highlight palette, blush and Highlight duo and lip gloss included in the ulta box. I actually really liked the highlight, it was really silky and had great pigment. The gloss had a pretty shine without being sticky and stayed on for an hour or two!

Thank you so much for checking out this tutorial, I hope you love this look as much as I do. I wore out to Red Lobster for my birthday dinner with my boyfriend and daughter! Might I add, their Cheddar Bay Biscuits give me life! Haha.

Xoxo
Lulu.

Golden Glam Birthday Makeup

Guys! Tomorrow is my Birthday as of when I'm posting this!

Honestly, I’ve been struggling with my self-confidence lately. I don’t know if it’s my upcoming 28th Birthday or if it’s from being sick. I just know I want to beat this feeling, so I’m going to play in some makeup and try out looks to wear for my birthday. On Cinco de Mayo I’ll be 28 years old. I definitely don’t feel as old as I am. The fact of the matter is, I’m almost 30 and I’m going to start having fun with makeup and trying new things! For once I'm going to start with my base makeup using some of my favorite items. All my makeup is drugstore cosmetics or from Ulta. I’m going to format this post a little different and list my products in order along with the photos of my process.

The Base:
Nicel Daily Repair; Vitamin A & Retinol.
Cover Girl's 3in1 foundation shade 810 Classic Ivory
Ulta Full Coverage Waterproof Concealer
Coty Airspun Loose Face Powder in Neutral Natural
Avon Blush in Classic Aura
Wet n Wild Contouring and Highlight palette
A self-made Highlighter that’s a soft pink
Elf setting Spray

To start my base I applied my face cream and let it soak in for a few minutes. To apply my foundation I used a basic foundation brush. It left streaks really bad so I smoother it out with my hands and blended it down my neck. Since the foundation brush wasn’t cutting it, I used my hands to pay in my concealer too. I should add in the fact that my makeup sponge randomly molded. So I have to get a new one. So set everything I pressed in my powder with a big fluffy brush. Pressing in powders helps it look less cakey. I used the lighter powder in the contour compact to lighten under my eyes a bit more, then contoured with the contour shade. After applying my highlight to my cheek bones, temple and cupids bow, I set everything liberally and let it dry before moving onto my eyes!






The Eyes & Lips:
Hard Candy Eyeshadow Primer
The Ulta Be Discovered 67 piece Collection (Eye Shadows)
1. All over shade, Silk
2. Transition, Gentle & Camel
3. Lid shade, Fabulous
4. Crease,Thoughtful
Broadway Colors Lengthening Mascara – Black
Broadway Beauty Eyebrow pencil – Black / Brown
Rimmel Scandaleyes Waterproof – Sparkling Black
J Cat Beauty Lipfinity Matte Liquid Lipstick – Champagne Pop

I applied my trusty primer by hard candy, and set my lids all over with shade 1. To add some definition to my crease I use the two shades I have listed as 2. After I blended and softened everything out, going back in a little at a time, I added the lid shade (3) packing it on and blending it up to the crease. To add further definition to my crease I added in shade 4 a little at a time. After that the Gold color wasn't bold enough so i picked more up, misted my brush with setting spray and packed more on. I hardly had to use any of it since it's so soft and pigmented. To finish off my eyes I threw on some mascara, filled in and combed out my brows, lined / tight lined my water line and did a small half wing. To finish everything off I put on my favorite lippie!

I hope you guys enjoyed this look. I know I love it!
Xoxo,
Lulu.

Wet n Wild Petal Pusher

Let’s throw things back to 2011, when one of my favorite Wet n Wild palettes came out, Petal Pusher! This week I’m doing a polar opposite of last week and doing a light spring look. I’m going to utilize the right “brow bone” color. I honestly do not consider it a brow color. It’s a frosty metallic pink! Since metallic eyeshadow looks are on trend, why not do a tutorial using one of my only metal looking shadows. This palette does not have a matte nude shade, so I’ll be using the other brow bone color anyway! I hope you love this look as much as I do!

To start out the eyes, I use my trusty Hard Candy Eyeshadow primer I always use. It never creases on me and has a light nude tint to it, there’s no color concealing to. To set the primer I took the left brow bone color all over the lid to insure the look wouldn’t crease before I got shadows on. For my lid color I used the right brow bone color and packed on a little at a time to build up the opacity and metal look. I could have done it wet, but that always feels weird to me, lol. After I had the lid color as intense as I wanted, I started blending it up in the crease using a little of the right lid shade. Bringing in that soft light purple really helped define the crease and blend things out easily. To darken up the outer corner I used the left crease color lightly just to add more definition. For the bottom lash line is used a little of the of the same darker purple crease color and on the inner half ad inner corner I used the shade put on my eye lids.

Finishing everything off I did my face makeup the same way I have it in my drug store foundation routine. I didn’t use any eyeliner for once. But for mascara and brows I used two new products my boyfriend picked up randomly for me at the store one evening. The brow pencil is Broadway Beauty Eyebrow pencil in Black / Brown, it’s kind of hard and not crazy pigmented. So I like it a lot. For mascara I used the Broadway Colors Lengthening Mascara in Black. The formula has little fibers in it doesn't seem to flake or smear when I sweat. The wand has a curve on the end, it isn’t too weird to be honest. For my lips I put on my J Cat Beauty Lipfinity Matte Lip in Champagne Pop! It’s my favorite matte lip color. To finish I sprayed my face with the Elf setting spray, and that’s it! It’s so simple and pretty and perfect for!

I hope you enjoyed this post and get inspired to have a little fun with some soft spring colors!

Xoxo,

Lulu.

Purple Smokey Eye Tutorial

Hey guys! I’m back this week with a makeup tutorial! I want to do more glamorous looks, because let’s face it, they're fun! This week I want to work with purples! Purple is one of my favorite colors in general and to wear on my eyes, it makes the little bit of green I have in my eyes stand out more. I’ve always wanted green eyes, the purple helps them look a little more green! Today I’m going to be using the Ulta “Be Discovered 67 piece Collection”. I bought it about two years ago online, and they no longer sell it. There are a lot if similar colors you can buy online or in store. I never get to use this thing, so I decided to bust it out this week! I’m also going to be trying out two new products my boyfriend randomly bought me at our local Dollar General. There’s a brow pencil in Black / Brown (we'll see how the color is) and a Lengthening Mascara in black. Both of them are by the brand Broadway Color, which is manufactured by Kiss Products. I believe these are dollar items but I’m not sure.

I started by prepping my eyelids with the Hard Candy Eyeshadow primer, and setting it with the shade Au Natural. It’s a creamy nude matter, it makes blending so much easier. Through the crease I tapped into Gentle and Camel to add some depth and shadow. In the outer corner I blended some Havana Nights in through the outer crease, then I blended some Galaxy in crease as well. On the lid I packed on some of the color Impulsive Purple. It ended up being really dark and harsh, so I took some Orchid and Blood and lightly blended them over top of everything to soften it up. On the bottom lash line, I used Havana Nights about two thirds in and in the inner corner I faded in some of Bloom.

For the rest of my makeup, I used the Cover Girl Outlast Stay Fabulous 3 – in – 1 foundation with spf 20 in the shade 820. I applied it with a duo fiber foundation brush by Pueen. I concealed my under eye area with the Ulta Full Coverage Waterproof Concealer in Light. To set everything I used my trusty Coty Airspun Loose Face Powder in Neutral Natural. For bronzing and brightening I used the Wet N Wild Coloricon Contouring Palette. I lightened up under my eyes, center of my forehead, down my nose and the middle of my chin. I warmed up around my face and lightly contoured my cheek bones. I don’t know how to contour very well, so I just warm my face up some. I highlight using one I made myself and repressed into an old powder foundation compact. I used Avon's blush in Classic Aura, Which is now discontinued.

To finish off my look I use the Rimmel Scandaleyes waterproof eye liner in Sparkling Black to tight line and in my water line. For brows I tried out the Broadway Beauty Eyebrow pencil in Black / Brown. It turned out it’s a really nice color for me. I always have a problem with my brows coming off too warm. The pencil itself is a hard was with not a ton of pigment, which worked in my favor to be honest. For mascara I also tried out something new! Broadway Colors Lengthening Mascara in Black. It turns out this formula has little fibers in it and is soft on the lashes, it didn’t go crunchy or flake. The wand has spread out bristles that really helps separate. I really like it a lot! For my lips I put on my J Cat Beauty Lipfinity Matte Lip in Champagne Pop! It’s my favorite matte lip color. To finish I sprayed my face with the Elf setting spray.

That is it! Pretty cute look, but a bit dramatic for a day time look. Thank you so much for checking out this tutorial. Hit me up in the comments and let me know if there’s anything you want me do a tutorial on or a review of!

Xoxo,

Lulu.