Hey ladies,
How is everyone doing??
Finally my skin is looking normal again, but I did this look on my best friend who was sweet enough to let me work on her, so thanks Nic!!!
I do have a few quick questions though, sometimes I do the big HUGE picture tutorials, do you girls still want those?? I started with the links to the products I used instead of the pictures, do you like this or prefer the old way? Do you have any other things you would like me to add or skip in my next posts?
Final eye: 
When I did Nic's makeup I was amazed at how incredibly blue her eyes
seemed afterwards, she had amazingly blue eyes, but after the gold and
blue combo her eyes really popped even more.
Prep
I want Nic to look radiant and glowing, so after cleansing I used Clinique - All about eyes on her eyes and Benefit - Firmology
as a moisturizer. This moisturizer is oil-free so no oily shine but it
does have a luminous light-reflecting pigment that adds a healthy glow.
Under her eyes I used Sephora - "Tricks of the Trade" Immediate Wrinkle Filler
because I wanted a smooth base for the rest of the makeup. Also I'm
adding colour under her eyes and I don't want it to creep into her fine
lines making it seem like she has wrinkles.
Face
As a primer I used my favourite Smashbox - Hybrid 2 in 1 Primer,
which illuminates and gives the rest of the makeup something to adhere
to. Some people hate this product because it has two openings and just
squeezing the tube gives you not the best mixture of product. I
personally don't mind putting my finger over the first hole to get some
illuminizer and then over the second hole to get the primer. I prefer
this to two tubes/pumps/bottles, if you don't like this you can always
get the normal Photofinish primer and Artificial light Luminizing lotion
and mix them on your hand to get the same result. Back to the Hybrid,
this (just as the Photofinish) makes the skin feel very soft, which
made her touch her face the entire evening, just as I did when I first
got into the primer.
When I checked her face for foundation shades I found out that my
summer foundation colour works amazingly well on her in the winter. So
I used Smashbox - High Definition Healthy FX Foundation in Light L3 placing it with a foundation brush,
I heard Samantha Chapman give the advice to place your moisturizer with
your foundation brush first to prevent the brush from streaking and
"eating" your foundation. I thought I'd pass this tip on to you.
Now that this base is done I wanted to make her skin seem flawless to
with a concealer brush and Smashbox - Camera Ready Full Coverage Concealer in 2.0 I took away the minimal darkness she had under her eyes (damn her, she has a pretty perfect skin argh ;) ).
Over this I placed a product I hadn't used in a while but re-fell in love with the Smashbox - Under eye brightener.
I also used this on the nose and as a highlighter under her brows and
on the top of her cheeks.
I almost never use a blusher on myself, so I only have what I got in
kits, but I always go to one blusher and it worked amazingly on Nic's
face Smashbox - O-glow.
I know you're not supposed to do blusher before contouring etc etc, but
because the skin is still not powdered, the O-glow (which is a gel)
looks better applied now then after powder.
At this point I powdered her face with Make Up For Ever - HD Powder
because the contouring products are all powder and I never go from
cream/gel to powder and back. I always do the "wet" products first,
then powder and then I contour. If I use a powdered blush I do apply
this last, but if you know what you're doing you can switch up the
application steps.
She's never contoured herself before, and I was teaching her what this
could do to a face. So fun to teach someone something new which is
normal for yourself but is a world of unknown possibilities for
another. Because I wanted to keep her skin radiant, I bronzed her with
a Givenchy - Prismissime Mat & Glow.
To
contour I used another product that's been discontinued, I used the
bronzer from the Yves Saint Laurent - Sensation Soleil MakeUp Palette
no. 1, for my skin tone it's too dark as a bronzer and for Nicole it's
the same, so I contoured with it. This Palette has a twin out there, so
if you do try and find it on E-bay or anywhere else, make sure you buy
the one with the green and shiny nude eyeshadow shades.
I contoured the sides of her face to make it seen smaller and gave her
more pronounced cheekbones.
Eyes
On her eyes I used the Urban Decay - Eyeshadow Primer Potion as a base.
As a base colour on her eyelids I used the gold colour from the discontinued Sephora - Paradise Island palette. I think a good replacement would be a colour like Nars' - Cream Eyeshadow in El Dorado (shimmering golden bronze). I used a cream eyeshadow as an extra base to make the gold on top pop even more and it gives the colour more dimension. I place this colour with a Sephora Brand Professionnel Large Synthetic Eyeshadow Brush no. 25, I use a synthetic brush because it's a cream eyeshadow and natural bristles would give an uneven coating of cream.
Next I do something that will look very odd when you do it, but I'll explain why, so bare with me. I now use the ocean colour from the same Sephora palette (a replacement would be a colour like Nars' - Carioca (gossamer turquoise)) under the eyes (from the outer to the inner corner) with a Sephora Brand Professionnel Small Synthetic Eyeshadow Brush no. 26.
Over this blue under the eyes I place a very bright and vibrant colour named Peace - Urban Decay. This colour can be bought on it's own or in the Urban Decay DeLuxe Shadow Box. For precise placing I used the brush side of the Smashbox - Double Ended smudger brush.
I do this blue under the eyes now, because I want to know how much blue I need on top, if you do it the other way around, you might need a lot more or less blue under your eyes and then you lose the balance which is very important with this look.
Now I add the gold colour on top of the eyelid (up to the crease).
Because I needed a pop of gold (to bring out the blue in her eyes even more) I chose a very pigmented colour. The colour I used was Urban Decay - Honey, this is also a colour that can be bought as a single or found in the Urban Decay DeLuxe Shadow Box.
For the blue in the crease I used the Slanted brush by The body shop. To place the crease colour, look straight ahead into a mirror and place the brush with the eyeshadow just above the crease you see. I used a little bit of Urban Decay - Ransom for this another colour that can be bought alone or in the Urban Decay DeLuxe Shadow Box. I used very little because I wanted to know where I wanted to place the darkest colour of the crease. Because Nic's eyes are a little further apart, I took the Ransom up to the inner corner of the crease. On the outsides I took it up a little to give her a coloured "wing" to lift the outer eye corners.
I used Urban Decay - Adore on the outer corners of her top and bottom lash line. This colour can only be bought as a single, but you can use Ransom (purple blue) for this as well, I just happen to have all the DeLuxe shadows and wanted another more blue blue.
Under the blue Ransom in the deepest part of the crease I deepened the colour using an eye pencil by Make Up For Ever - Aqua Eyes in Iridescent navy blue, at this point I added more Ransom to the crease, blending it up and out.
All that was needed to finish the eyes was mascara. She has amazingly long and curled lashes naturally so no curling was needed on her. If you do need this, do this prior to colouring the lashes. For her eyelashes we used a mascara I gave her from a Sephora Lash Stash. The mascara she's wearing in the pictures is Sephora - Atomic Volume Mascara.
Final look:
Lips
On her lips I mixed two Smashbox colours Wicked lovely line lip gloss in Sultry (now on sale on the Smashbox website and a Lip Enhancing clear gloss.
The Sultry looks really scary in the tube and I remember Nic thinking I was insane putting it on her, but it's like the black lip glosses, you can mix them with other colours to create a colour you love.
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