30-Day Makeup Challenge: Most Creative!

To do my "most creative" makeup I started with a stark white face using Cinema Secrets white and went for a look that is kind of Mrs. Lovett meets Kabuki meets Cirque du Soleil. It was fun! I just love playing with bright colors. I challenged myself by starting super-garish and then blending and adding and layering until it sort of worked. Here are a bunch of photos.

I used the dark violet shade from this Sleek Acid Palette on the outer third of my lids.

I started with Miami on the middle third of my eyelids.
This is the Crown 180 Kaleidescope Palette. I really love messing around with it.

I used a blue, a green and a violet from this Crown 180 Palette on the lids
below the crease.

I used an Anastasia brow stencil and filled in with the super bright coral pinky-red,
then did the top half with a warm gold. Both are in the photo below.

The brightest color here is on my eyebrows. I think colorful brows are fun when you're going for a super-crazy look.

I really enjoyed using lots of colors on my lids. See the turquoise,
voilet, aqua, green, and plurple? I used a Limecrime liquid eyeliner on the upper lash line, too.

I got this lip with a Milani retractible lip pencil in the darkest plum. Then I added a Milani Haut Flash purple glittery gloss. I love Milani products. See the turquoise pencil under my eyes?

I used my La Femme Coral blush as a contour under the cheekbones
and around the hairline.

These false lashes are the Ardell Wild Lash line - they are feathers with cobalt-blue spots. I believe these were so popular that you can't even get them online!
Glad I'm not the only drag queen out there.

What's your most creative thing with makeup? Please share below!

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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30-Day Makeup Challenge Day 3 - Glitter

This is how I show my glitter, Baby!

Busted out my Chanel Illusion d'Ombre on the lids, which is frankly, some pretty astounding stuff. My shade is called Épatant, and I looked it up, and, loosely translated, in English, it means, 'Awesomeballs.' Seriously.

This shade is silvery, and has lots of superfine glitter, and sticks very well, and has this spongey texture. I guess all of these Illusions d'Ombre have that. The color at first looks silvery gray, but it also has a bit of cool blue and green in there, which is very refined. It just does not disappoint.

I put some NYX glitter cream palette glitter over the top, which did flake off a tiny bit, but most of it stayed very well. I used the red gold and yellow gold glitter colors, just in the middle of my eyelids.

Considering how glitter is usually considered way too glam to work for day, I'm super-pleased with how today's glitter challenge went. I even got compliments on the look from coworkers.

Here are the other products I used to get this look:

skin79 Triple Function BB Cream, Orange - too light, so I add some Dr. Jart BB Cream in super medium dark.

Sleek makeup Face Form in Light - this is all you need for the cheeks - highlight, Nars Orgasm dupe blush, and neutral contour.

Revlon Just Bitten Kissable Balmstain Endlessly Named in Honey - love this stuff, but really, brevity is the soul of wit, people. Edit your product names, wontcha?

Maybelline Super Plushy Plush Mascara - this does clump a bunch now that I've had it a while and it's setting up a bit.

StarLooks December Palette. I used the matte burgundy shade, middle row, second from the left, in the crease.

So I'm having fun with this challenge. Tomorrow, smoky eye look. Okee dokee!

Love, BeautyJones

 

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30-Day Makeup Challenge: Day 1 & 2

Day 1 - Your Face Without Makeup

Brace yourselves, folks!

Day 2 - Your Everyday Makeup Look

Phew! Tune in tomorrow for something less painful.

Hooray!

 

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Makeup Fancy's 30-day Makeup Challenge - I'm in!

Just saw this 30-day makeup challenge on Makeup Fancy's Page, and I thought I'd try it out. I might be a bit stymied by Zombie Day, but let's give it a whirl, People! Seems fun.

Check back later today for days 1 and 2, because might as well get a head start, plus I gotta do some kind of makeup today, ri-ight?

Love, BeautyJones!

IMATs Haul and Stuff

Finally edited my IMATs video and added some fun pictures. What an amazing experience. And yes, I picked up a few things. So if you'd like to hear all about it and see what I got, please click below to watch.


I mention a few of my favorite YouTubers here, some of whom I was able to meet. So thanks to Marlena of Makeup Geek, and to Phyrra. I love you guys! Your videos are so great to watch. I really love the Makeup Geek products I've bought, too. I just got seven Makeup Geek Shadows and a couple of lipsticks, so you'll be hearing about those.

Cheers, Beauty Fans! Don't forget to subscribe to this blog for more fun stuff. I'll be doing a giveaway in the next couple of weeks, so stay tuned. And please subscribe to my channel on YouTube so you won't miss my upcoming videos.

Have a great week!

:)BeautyJones

Marlena of Makeup Geek and Me

Phyrra and Me

Amazing sculpts in the Makeup Museum at IMATs

Some guys you may know from The Walking Dead in the Makeup Museum at IMATs

Ben Nye and Mr. Pussycat

Mr. Pussycat finds his light with the IMATs brochure

My Mehron E.Y.E. Palette - love!

Makeup Geek Mobster and Mystery Gel Liners

My new bdellium brushes - reasonable and great quality!

Sigma's free brush!

MAC Soft Ochre Paint Pot and Fluidline in Blacktrack

Cool Steampunk makeup at IMATs

Beautiful Elessa Jade, aka Pursebuzz!

Too Faced Shadow Insurance: http://www.toofaced.com/
Ben Nye Cosmetics: www.bennye.com
bdellium: www.bdelliumtools.com
Sigma: www.sigmabeauty.com
Mehron: www.mehron.com
Makeup Geek Cosmetics: www.makeupgeek.com
MAC: www.maccosmetics.com/

IMATs: www.IMATs.net