Textured Blacks
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| Sunnies: Celine Audrey Sunglasses. Top: Wilfred Jolie Sweater. Pants: Babaton Dexter Pant. Heels: Steve Madden Varcitty Heel. Bracelet: Tiffany T Square Bracelet. |
Archive for January 2015
Monday 26 January 2015
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Saturday 24 January 2015
All-Day Shopping Attire
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| Bag: Mackage Rubie Crossbody. Sunnies: Prada. Booties: Rag and Bone Kinsey Boot. Pants: Citizens of Humanity Rocket in Indie. Shirt: Babaton Jalen T-shirt. Blouse: Babaton Zachary Blouse. Jacket: Incognito Anorak in Olive. Bracelets: Hermes Clic-Clac H and Tiffany T Square Bracelet. |
Super Simple(ish) Smokey Eye
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| Hiiiiii! |
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| Apply two strokes of your preferred eyelid primer to each lid. I suggest a primer that is tinted to even out your skin tone of your eyelids. |
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| Blend in using fingers or brush. |
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| Apply "naked" from the naked palette (or any very light/nude brown) using a fluffy brush on your creases, focusing on the outside edges. |
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| Apply a shimmer highlighter around your tear ducts and highlight under brows. I also filled in my brows at this point but I would suggest starting with that step. |
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| Apply a light shimmer ("Sin" from the naked palette used here) all over your lid. |
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| Apply a grey-silver shadow to your creases. When blending, do not blend quite as high as the light brown extends up your lid, but blend these two together. Avoid applying to the bases of your lid and focus primarily on the outside forming a sideways U/V as seen above. |
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| Continue to layer and blend out the silver/grey until you are satisfied with the darkness. At this point I suggest cleaning up/removing any powder that has fallen down underneath your eye. |
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| Using a black pencil liner or regular black shadow, draw a V shape emphasizing the outer corners of your eyes. |
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| Using a blending brush, blend out the black. |
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| Apply liquid liner from halfway to the outer corner of your eye and then follow the line produced from the shadow application if desired. |
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| Using the silver/grey and a light hand, line underneath your eye, not all the way to your tear duct but approximately 2/3 of the way. Use a blending brush to blend out the line, making it look more smokey. |
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| Apply mascara. With this look, I like to do multiple layers. |
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| You may have to another clean up under your eyes at this point. |
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| Until next time...! :* |
Sunday 18 January 2015
Distressing and Moto
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| Jacket: Sunday Best Motimer Coat. Leather: Mackage Florica Jacket. Top: Babaton Darien Blouse. Pants: Current/Elliott The Fling. Clutch: Prada Saffiano Metal in Cammeo. Bracelet: Tiffany T Square Bracelet. |
Winter in Montreal
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| Sunnies: Celine Audrey Sunglasses. Blouse: Babaton Zachary Blouse. Jacket: ADD Icon coat. Belt: Hermes. Pants: Citizen's Rocket Highrise. Boots: Hunters. Snood: Babaton Lyndon Cowl Scarf. Backpack: Six Eleven Xander. |
Shearling and Topknot
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| Jacket: Vintage Holt Renfrew label Shearling coat. Turtleneck: Community Plutarch Sweater. Dress: Wilfred Leibnez Dress. Leggings: Nylon Tricot High-Waisted Leggings. Purse: Prada Double Bag. Boots: Davids Collection for Women. (Affordable version here). |
Saturday 17 January 2015
Naked Palette Go-To
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| Here we go....! |
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| Bare lids :) |
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| Use two strokes of Smashbox Photofinish Lid Primer (below) per eye lid. |
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| Blend in with fingers to cover entire lid. |
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| Fill in your brows using whatever technique you are comfortable with! Using a fluffy brush, blend Naked (below) or any very light brown colour into your crease, focusing on the outside. Then highlight under brows, I used Bobbi Brown Shimmer Brick Compact in Rose (below). |
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| With the same fluffy brush, blend some bronzer, Bourjois bronzer used here (below), into the crease, again focusing on the outside. |
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| Using a firmer brush, add Buck (below) or any deep dark brown focusing it right into your crease and outside corners. |
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| Use same highlighter as used above to highlight the inner corners of your eyes. |
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| Using a flat brush, apply Sin (below), or any other light pink that has a shimmer sparingly by patting the colour from the inner corner to mid-outside of your lid. |
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| Using a fluffy brush, apply Sidecar (below) or a similar mid brown shimmer to your creases (optional). Then, using Clarins liquid eyeliner (below), line your eyes starting from just after your tear duct all the way to the outside and form a small cat eye by trailing the liner in a straight line towards the bottom of your eyebrow. |
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| Next, using Stila Stay All Day Concealer (below) or the concealer of your choice, apply below your eyes down to the bottom of your nose and then up to the outer corners of your eye towards your temples in the triangle shape above. |
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| Blend in concealer using Beauty Blender (below) or any other brush or your fingers! Follow same triangle shape described above. |
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| Add mascara! I used Diorshow. |
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| Finally, I like to add Half Baked (below) or any shimmery gold to the lower inner corner underneath your eyes to brighten them up... And you're done your eyes! |
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| You're almost done! Throw on some powder foundation using a fluffy brush I used Makeup Forever in shade 203 (below). Usually I would suggest doing mascara after foundation so that it stays super black but for the sake of this post I did the opposite order, so follow whichever order you prefer! |
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| Onto the contour... Using bronzer or any contour product of your choice and a small, firmer but still fluffy brush apply product under cheekbones and up into your temple as shown above. |
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| Continuing with the contour, I also like to contour right above the outside of my eyebrows, below and around my jaw as well as the sides of my nose (to make it look slimmer!) |
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| Final touches... Throw on some Blush along your cheekbones just above your contour lines (avoid the apples of your cheeks), I used MAC Breath of Plum (below). Then apply highlighter above your cheekbones, a small amount down your nose and on your cupid's bow, I used Benefit's High beam (below). |
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| Throw on your favourite lipstick and VOILA you are done! Products discussed above: |
