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Simple, natural look

Face: make sure your foundation matches (your neck) correctly. I have to adjust my color sometimes because I may be tanner or paler (too dark and it can look muddy; too light and you will look ashy or tired) but matching is the first most important step in having a clean, fresh canvas.

Cheeks: bronzer to contour a bit and a bright pink blush! When I do a natural look I like putting more emphasis on my cheeks for a youthful, glowy look. Try a bright shade and apply, brushing up towards your upper cheekbones.

Brows: you want them to look groomed but not “done.” For a natural look, go for a brow color only a few shades darker than your skintone. I use a light taupe color.

Eyes: I apply a white shimmery eyeshadow on the inner corners of my eyes. Not just on the inner undereye but on the whole inner eye, to bring the light toward the center of your face.

Lips: lipbalm :) if you want some color, rub some lipstick on your finger and pat on your lips.

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Makeup Looks

Green eyes & peachy cheeks

This is a great spring look! I think green looks great on just about anyone.



Starting with a fresh, soft matte canvas is important. I used YSL Teint Radiance #7. On the cheeks I applied a shimmery light pinky peach (Smashbox “Chiffon”) on the upper cheekbones and a matte peach (Shu Uemura Peach 47) on the apples.

The eye palette is from Tony & Tina and basically has a shimmery lime green and a shimmery dark black-green.



Also used: MAC Refined Golden bronzer, Too Faced Shadow Insurance primer, L’Oreal Voluminous, lashes, NARS glitter pencil Area, Shu Uemura lipstick BG 907.

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60s Doll
Strip the face: Brows

How to: Natural fake lashes

Sometimes false lash strips can look too “perfect” with their synchronized order of lash length and lash amount. In turn, it can look fake defeating the purpose.


What I like to do, depending on the look I want, is cut the lashes into pieces. Anywhere from 3-5 pieces. Then I apply them one by one but in a different order and overlap them. Sometimes I put the longer pieces in the middle. Sometimes I put a short piece, long piece, short. The result looks “fluffy” and natural.


I drew a small sketch of what I mean:


Here are the lashes. On the left are the cut pieces and the right is the original strip.


1. Before. Bare skin.
2 + 3. I added two pieces. The longest in the middle.
4 + 5. All 5 pieces attached.


I hope this helps! I thought I would do a giveaway of 5 various fake lashes. Just subscribe to my blog (on the right side of my blog underneath the big gray arrow, enter your email address) and I’ll pick a random winner next week :)

Canvas: Extreme smokey eye

Photo by Michael Yates.


For this dramatic, high fashion look I sheered out her foundation with a moisturizer (to let her lovely freckles show through!), blocked out her brows and used a matte black eyeshadow.

Tip:

When you’re using that much eyeshadow, it can get messy. Put moisturizer underneath the eyes and wipe it away after you’re finished. It’ll grab the fall-out and hydrate the undereye with moisture.


A few products I recommend: NARS Sheer Glow foundation, Khiel’s Ultra Face Moisturizer, L’Oreal Voluminous mascara, Make Up For Ever eyeshadow.


Canvas: Plum wine lips


Hair & Makeup by me. Photo by Sade Williams


Pale skin with lightly enhanced eyes and a bright pop of dramatic color on the lips is such a fun look.

To get this look: I used Face Atelier Ultra Foundation in shade #1, Chanel Eyeshadow Quad in Dunes on her lids and lined with Stila Kajal Liner in Onyx. For her lipcolor you can use Yves Saint Laurent Lipstick in 7 Le Fuschia to get a similar look.