Makeup of the Day: 03\04\2011

Hi all, it's been a while since I've posted some beauty tips and tricks, but I have been quite busy, so starting from next week, I plan on posting at least twice a week. I have a whole bunch of blog's planned out. I kind of want to actually show you how I do some of my tricks, tutorials and such on camera, but I am way scared, maybe I will play around with the camera this weekend. Anyway, I decided to show everyone my makeup today, I thought it looked nice :). I aplogize for the retarded face I have in this picture, but it does the most justice for my makeup, here it is:

For my eyes I used the Sephora Blockbuster Pallet, using a light yellow gold color and a redish shimmery brown for the crease. For eyeliner I used the Physicians Formula custom eyeliner in Black. And for lashes I used the 2 Sephora mascara's I have, I mentioned those in my first post. On my lips I have on Revlon Colorburst in Papaya, it's a lip gloss, I used 1 thin coat and look at the color pay off, loving it! 

I have a whole bunch of idea for blog post's coming up! So stay tuned!
Thanks, xo!

Ps: If anyone wants me to show them how to achieve this look, comment below and let me know! And I'll be sure to do that for you!

lashes, lashes, lashes.

I don't know about you all, but eyelashes are my favorite part of the makeup process. Putting on mascara, is got to be the most exciting thing, because it's the last thing I do, so it makes it THAT much better.

Today i'm going to talk to about 2 different mascara's that enhance the eyelashes differently. There are so many different kinds of mascara's, it would take forever to talk about. So i'm just going to stick to those today.. haha.

I kind of wanted to give you a demonstration of how they worked as well, so I'm going to show you, how they look. I usually use them together, but for this purpose, i'm going to show you how they look by themselves. The mascara's I am using at the moment are "Sephora Lash Extender" in black, and "Sephora Triple Action Mascara" in black.

I usually apply 4 coats of mascara all together, 2 of each kind, on one eye. It gives me the best look for my eyelashes. You should apply as many as you need to get the desired look. For a more natural look apply maybe one or two coats only, that way it doesn't really look like you have mascara on but makes you look like you have brighter eyes. For a more dramatic look add more coats, for a "False eyelash" effect. I like the more dramatic effect, any time of the day. When I put it on, I basically rub the brush back and forth, to get closest to the roots of the eyelashes because if you have blonde eyelashes, it's going to look weird when you have a strip of blonde hairs and the rest black. So just rub, and soon enough it will cover all the lashes. If it gets too clumpy, put the brush in the lashes, and just pull, it usually pulls off some of the unnecessary mascara, and separates your lashes. This works, trust me!

This is my eye, without any mascara on it, my lashes look so lifeless without mascara. Using even only mascara opens up your eyes a lot, and is very natural looking if you apply it right.

 This is the Sephora Lash Extender, it lengthens your eyelashes, because the formula is infused with actual fibers that attach to your actual eyelash, so it's kind of like lash extensions so to speak. When I double up the mascara's I use this one first. I like how long it makes my eyelashes, even though you can really tell in this picture, they look much better than natural eyelashes with no mascara on them.

 This is my eyelashes with Sephora Triple Action Mascara, it claims to extend, curl and volumize. I agree with the volumizing.. alone. When doubled up with the one above, it extends more and curls, but alone, its only gives you volume. This picture doesn't give it justice for it, but it looks completely different than the mascara above.

 This is the Lash extender. As you can see, it has the fibers, it's pretty cool how it works. They just like, hook on to your eyelashes. The brush is also curved to give your lashes more curl, and I find it works pretty good for that.

 This is the Triple action mascara. It kind of looks like a Christmas tree. The reason why it looks like this is because it's made so the smaller part of the brush gets the tiny lashes in the inner corner, and the wider part to get the bigger lashes all at once, and I can give it that, it most definitely works good like that.

So remember, for natural looks, less is more. You also don't want to cake on too much mascara or your eye is going to look like it has 4 eyelashes, or look like tarantula legs.
That's all for now. Comment on what you'd like to see!
-Becca

ruthless brows, be gone

Having a bad eyebrow day? Not anymore, use these simple steps and easy tips, and you will have the best eyebrows you ever had.

So first of all, you should always have a clean face when applying makeup, even if it's just your brows. After you have a clean and fresh face you can get started.
Eyebrows shape the whole face, so you want to have nice ones even if you're just going to the store. We don't want eyebrows that are too dark or too light, or eyebrows that are too thin or too thick, so keep them natural looking! When tweezing or waxing always stay with your natural arch, you don't want to over pluck or wax, because then they will be way too thin, unless you have naturally thin eyebrows. Try keeping them clean, and tweezed. Doing this once a month should be good, but if your hairs grow faster, do it whenever they grow in too much. I do not suggest shaving, only because the hairs grow in much faster, and its much more upkeep than tweezing or waxing, but whatever you prefer! You can also trim your brow hairs if they're too long or curly (like mine haha)

I picked up a new brow kit today, and it's much better than what I was using before, even though what I was using before was effective, this is much more effective. I bought the "wet n wild Ultimate Brow Kit" it was priced around 6 bucks at Zellers. My color is "963 Ash Brown" - A pretty good match.

In the kit, you get 2 brow colors, I use the middle one. And a wax to hold the eyebrow colors and your hairs.

You get baby tweezers!

And a mini angled brush, I usually use a angled brush with a longer handle, but for the sake of this tutorial, I used the brush they provided, it works just as well, just a little harder to handle.

So start of with a clean face:

As you can see, my brows are way too light, and kind of patchy, so I choose to fill them in.

I take the first color, or the lightest brown in the kit, with the angled brush the kit provides.

Then I start filling them in, going with the grain so to speak, I go the way my hairs grow, so it looks most natural, and I use small strokes, make sure not to put a lot of powder on the brush because it's like eyeshadow, it gives you fallout on your face. So in small strokes, fill in your brows. (excuse my hand for being dirty haha)

Then taking the clear wax to set the brows, use the same brush and do the same thing, it doesn't matter if the wax gets brown, because you're just putting it over top of the brown powder anyway. This locks in the hairs and the color.

As you can see, my eyebrows look completely different and much better than before. They are fuller and have more shape, and shape my face much better than eyebrows that were too light and patchy. Also my hair is dark brown now, so this color works the best for me. Remember, when you have lighter hair you want to go 3 shades darker than your hair, and darker you want to go 3 shades lighter*

 A cheap alternative:

This makeup brush was fairly cheap, you can look around at the drugstore for angled brushes, prices range from 5-20 bucks. This one was from Wal-mart and was in a kit with 4 other brushes for 20 bucks, look for good deals like that, for brows this kind of brush is the best.

Using an eyeshadow works just as well as the brow powder I have. If your looking for a different alternative use a brown eyeshadow or whatever color you need instead of buying the powder, just use the same techniques.

Hopefully these tips and tricks helped. Stay tuned for my next posting!
Any thing you wanna see? Leave a comment and I will be sure to do it for you!

Thanks!
-Becca