**NOTE: This tutorial spans two posts because I'm really long winded and I wanted to make this as detailed as possible. I hope that is ok. **
Here we go.
Alrighty!!!! Since I got a lot of comments on this look, I decided to use it for my tutorial contest entry. I hope you like it, and please, if you do the look, I WANNA SEE!!!
J
Note: I added a little section on what I did for my foundation, but I didn’t take step-by-step pictures. The rest of it, however, is completely step-by-step, lots of pictures, and extremely long! Lol.
What you’ll need:
FOR CHEEKS:
Dark Mauve Blush
Medium Peach Blush
Contour Blush Brush
Medium sized Blush Brush
Light coral highlighter blush
Baby buki brush
Bisque or perfection powder
FOR EYES:
Eyebrow brush
Stiff eyeliner brush
MAC Hipnotique eyeshadow
Sally Girl Turquoise eyeshadow (or your preferred BRIGHT blue with shimmer)
Sally Girl Starry Night eyeshadow (or MAC Black Tied for all you MAC lovers)
Highlight Color (I used CG Sunkissed Sand, a light shimmery peach)
Eyelash Curlers
Your favorite BLACK eyeliner (waterline safe)
Blue Peep f/l (or some mixing medium to use your turquoise e/s)
Eyeshadow base of your choice
Eyeshadow to match your brows
Your preferred black mascara
Small fluffy brush for blending
Sponges or brushes for application (your preference)
FOR LIPS:
Natural lip liner
Pink lip gloss
****Please keep in mind that there was a BIG space in time between the cheek and eye parts of this (nap-time for my son, dishes time for me), so if my face looks a little washed out or “melted” its because I was cleaning house lol.
Start with a clean, moisturized face. Or in my case, a REALLY broken out face with tired eyes.
I didn’t take pictures of this because this is really an eye, cheek and lip tutorial, but I’ll make a quick mention about what I used on my face. Here are the items I used:
Here is what I did:
I applied some CG foundation (not pictured) with the foundation brush to my face, concentrating on my trouble spots under my eyes and the blemishes and blended it in with sponge.
Then, I applied the liquid concealer onto the blemishes and lightly under my eyes, patting with the concealer brush for coverage and then lightly patting with my ring finger to blend.
Using the baby buki, I buffed in some perfection powder. (I think it’s like Bisque from BM… not really sure, but it reflects the light from blemishes and lines. I love it.) I buffed all around my face, jawline and neck.
Using the small fluffy brush, I picked up some BM fairly light foundation and lightly buffed under my eyes and over blemishes to get rid of the shininess from the liquid concealer. I used a back and forth motion to buff the color in, and get rid of any lines from the liquid.
Using the large Kabuki brush, I applied A LITTLE bit of the mineral foundation to the rest of my face to set my make-up and blend my jawline.
Using the big fluffy brush, I buffed in the Mineral Veil all over to seal the deal
J
This is what I look like when it’s done:
Now onto the fun stuff.
Grab your dark mauve blush and your contour brush.
We’re going to apply this darker blush to our hollows to contour the face. I have a really round face, so I find this step CRUCIAL to achieving a completed face.
Swirl your contour brush in the mauve and tap off excess. Make fishy face and start in the “hollow” of your cheek (the sunken in part of your cheek when you make the fishy face.)
NOTE: Look at the picture. Make sure you DO NOT start TOO LOW when you’re doing the hollows of your cheeks. You’ll end up with NO contour, just dark blush on the lower half of your face. The purpose of contouring is to establish a difference in the lighting and shading UNDER your cheekbones, to give the illusion of more pronounced cheekbones.
Think about it like this. If someone shines a bright light directly over your head, the parts of your face that the light DOES NOT hit are the parts you want to emphasize. In my case, since my face is SO round, light hits all of my face, so I place the darker color where the light would NOT hit if I did the fishy face under the light. This gives the illusion of a deeper hollow, and more pronounced cheekbones.
Here are some examples of the path to follow for your hollows. Start at the bottom:
Follow the bottom of your cheekbone up to the hairline:
Here are pictures of what it should look like (unblended) when done.
Now, make stupid cheesy face to get those apples to POP out.
Take your peachy blush:
Take your medium blush brush and swirl, then tap off access. Starting at the apple of your cheek, use fluid strokes, and apply from apples up to hairline. You want the line to end UNDER your temple, almost connecting with the hollow color at your hairline. This helps when you go to blend later.
Starting at apples:
Ending:
Apply the peach blush to your nose. Starting at the bridge, lightly brush downward to hit the tip of your nose.
Now, you should have this look:
Now grab your baby buki (or any brush you have that has a HIGH number of bristles that are compact). Dip into Bisque or perfection powder (I imagine that you can do this with any translucent powder as well), and tap off access.
Starting at the bottom of your blush line, buff in very small circles to rid yourself of that harsh line. Remember, do not extend that blush any farther downward, just buff out the line.
Without reloading the brush, continue your small circles to blend the hollow blush into the peach blush. This step is to insure that you don’t have any lines, and that your blush looks as natural as possible. Continue this up until you reach the bottom of your temple.
Take the buki and slightly pull the blush down from the bridge of your nose to blend.
This is what you should have (don’t mind the face… one can only take so much ELMO before snapping)
Now, for highlights.
You can use the same medium blush brush you used for the peach, but make sure you wipe off the excess color first. I always use a different brush, just to be sure. For highlight color, I’m using this very light, shimmering coral.
Take a bit onto your brush and place at temples. I spin the brush slightly to deposit just a bit of color.
Do the same on chin, tip of nose, and across eyebrow bone.
Look when done highlighting:
Fill in eyebrows with the color that fits you. I use Revlon Chocolate Bar e/s (as pictured below), using a stiff eyeliner brush.
Make sure you BLEND the color!
And eyebrows DONE:
Continued Below.....
Good luck!
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