30 Day Makeup Challenge: Pink Eye Shadow

I love pink eye shadow, but I know that it needs to be anchored with browns or grays in order to avoid that irritated or diseased look. I just love pink on my skin. I think it works because my skin has a golden tone rather than a pink tone, so there's a contrast.

I created kind of a mosaic of pink, starting with my Maybelline Color Tattoo in the new limited edition pale pink shade, using my Inglot rainbow pinks, which are matte, then adding Toasted from the Urban Decay Naked Palette on the outer edge of the lids, and Cocoa and Espresso from my Mehron palette in the crease and along the lash line. Finally, I used a bright pink on the inner half of the lids from my Crown Brush Kaleidescope Palette. This was one of the brightest shades I have. Not Sugarpill Dollypop bright, but pretty bright.

I used my Revlon Just Bitten Balmstain in Honey on the lips, and my Sleep Makeup Face Form in lights to do contour, blush and highlighter.

With Flash in Daylight

Hope you enjoy this look! More tomorrow!

30 Day Makeup Challenge: Favorite Makeup Style

I couldn't decide between a neutral eye with cat-eye black liner and a red mouth and oh, I don't know, crazy duochrome lids or blue or green or anything else, so I took an unconventional approach. I thought about foundation.

Wayne Goss is a terrific beauty guru on YouTube whose videos are always short, sweet and straight to the point. He often posts videos that focus on just one key tip you can try out. One of these was to mix some concealer that matches your skin with moisturizer and apply that instead of foundation. I've tried this quite a bit, and I find it gives a very natural real skin look. You can then go in with more concealer and mask blemishes and under-eye circles as usual. So that makeup style is what I chose for this day of the challenge.

The concealer I used was Bye-Bye UnderEye from It Cosmetics, which I got in a New Beauty TestTube, QVC's quarterly megabox subscription. This is my favorite concealer. It works well under the eyes and on blemishes.

I find that when I apply the concealer mixed with moisturizer my skin does look more natural. My freckles show through, and yet most blemishes are evened out. I do need to add extra concealer here and there. I really love how natural my skin feels.

The moisturizer I used was Embryolisse Lait Creme Concentrée.

Aren't these Inglot shades just gorgeous? I must get myself a few more at The Makeup Show LA in March!

Since I was wearing my Giro d'Italia bike jacket, which I bought last year at the first Giro d'Italia Granfondo, I thought I'd do an eye look with shades of pink. I used my Inglot Rainbow pink shade, which is 119r, and I used Urban Decay Buck in the crease.

 

 

This is such a simple look for day, just monochromatic and elegant, and perfect for a casual Friday!

Hope you enjoyed this! Cheers!

 

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30 Day Makeup Challenge Day 4: Smoky Eye

Don't try this at home, kids. Valentine's Day eye with shades of rose and pink, and smoky, too? Oh, yeah. that's what you got here!

 

I used these things:

• Of course, MAC Paint Pot in Soft Ochre as a primer
• Base: Maybelline Color Tattoo the Limited Edition Pink color bought at Target
• Lid: Urban Decay Vice Palette in Freebird
• Lid, at edges to model shape: Urban Decay Naked 1 in Toasted
• Crease: Urban Decay Vice Palette in Lace, and Urban Decay Naked 1 Buck
• Crease, Upper and Lower Lash Line and Outer Lid in a V Shape: Sigma Paris Palette: Élyssée
• Browbone: Sigma Paris Palette in Versailles
• Mascara: Stila Forever Your Curl in Black
• Tightliner: Urban Decay 27/7 Pencil in Perversion
• Tightliner sealer: Urban Decay Naked Palette in Creep, and Paris Palette Eiffel - I used the blacks with shimmer to seal the black smoky liner.
• Cheeks: Sigma Paris Palette in Peche
• Cheek HIghlight: Sigma Paris Palette in Lumiere
• Lips: Revlon Just Bitten Balmstain in Darling - love this pale lavender!
• Under Eyes: Cinema Secrets Peach Corrector in Light

 

So I did have the bloops and blips of smeary bits under my eyes during the day, and I used the old cotton buds to blot from time to time, and I kept using a soft fluffy brush to blend out the smoky stuff under my eye.

I think my husband really likes the smoky eye, maybe because it's a bit undone and messed up.

How do you like this look? I thought it was lots of fun.

Happy Valentine's Day, y'all!

Love, BeautyJones

 

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