Keep it Simple, or Don't...

Happy Monday to All!  Another week has gone by and I still feel like I have accomplished nothing! Ha ha ha!  I usually have days or a week where I feel that way, but lately it has been feeling month long. Hahaha!!!  You guys, I have so much to do and am doing none of it.  That's not true.  I am getting things done. It is just that even though I am getting things done, my house still looks like all I do is watch T.V. while throwing dirt, cloths, and garbage everywhere.  I think I found my new talent.  Being about to clean without anything looking clean. Yahoo! 

A couple of weeks ago I put this picture on my Instagram:

I had so many of you requesting for me to recreate this look for you.  Your wish is my command. 

This is what I did:

1. I primed my face with my $1 primer from Wish.  I love how this stuff feels on my skin and it smells yummy.

2. I used Maybelline Fit Me! Matte Foundation.  I have only been using this foundation for a week and so far it is kind of amazing. I will be doing a full review on it in next weeks blog.  I still want to try it longer to see how my skin reacts.  So stay tuned Y'all.  (My third eye is from PMS. Not the foundation.) 3.  My absolute FAVORITE concealer combination.  I have been doing for a month now and my under eyes have never looked better.  I first do a thin layer of Its Cosmetics of Bye Bye Under Eye.  Then I dot Covergirls Beautify Gorgeous concealer on top of that. (Making both into a triangle shape of course.) Then I take my beauty blender and blend till my forearms burn.  I don't know what it is about this combo, but it stays all day with little to no creasing. 

5.  You can't stop those creases without BAKING!

I just used another $1 translucent powder from Wish and took the skinny tip of my damp beauty blender, and applied a generous amount to the under eye area.  Then took a powder brush and set the rest of my face with the same powder. 

6. Now this is what I think took this simple look and really made it stand out.  My eyebrows. Most of you sent me questions about what I did differently. So here it is.

I first grab my trusty $2 eye brow gel, in light brown, from Wish.  It has a spoolie tip. I comb my brow lightly at first.  If they are not dark enough I go in with more of the colored gel. I then take a clean spoolie and brush my eye brows back to normal and get all of the excess color off.  When I am happy with how that looks, I take my Covergirl Beautifully Gorgeous Concealer and cover up all the mistakes I have made and give my eyebrows and actual shape. Then I blend that in with either a angled brush or my fingers.  And that dear friends is the story of my brows. Someday's it is like, "Daaaaaang!" and other days it is like, "Dang it!!!!!"

7.After I have cleaned the powder under my eyes and apply bronzer to my cheeks, temples, forehead, and under my bottom lip.  I get to apply HIGHLIGHTER!!

Now, this $3.99 powdered glow is AMAZING!  It is also made by my favorite cosmetic company when I was in middle school, Wet n Wild.  This stuff makes you look like you are made out of Rose Gold.  I will review this product in more detailed along with the foundation, but as you can see I am already gushing.  I applied the highlighter to the high point of my cheek bones and eye brows. Then applied it to the tip of my nose and cupids bow. Also, we can't forget the inner corner of our eye!

8.  It is time for the lashes. I applied L Oreal Voluminous Mascara in Brow. I then tight lined my eyes.  To do that I used ScandalEyes by Rimmel London in dark brown for my upper lash line and nude for my lower lash line to make my eyes appear more wide a wake. 

9. Lips Lips Lips!

In this picture I show three products, but I only used the top two.  Lolita by Kat Von D and Oh My Gloss (How cute it that name) by Rimmel London.

This is the result:

I love this look so much.  It is honestly what I my day to day make up looks like.  It is simple and easy.  You can darken the eyebrows or change the lip color to make it more dramatic or to take it from day to night.  Remember that there are no rules in make up so make this look your own.

Remember readers, I may be a jack of this trade, but I am a master of none!

Natalie

"A Snapchat Halloween..."

Is it really Monday again?  I feel like I was just writing yesterday.  We had a crazy week here. What else is new? Am I right?  Seriously though, we have some amazing things happening for us at the end of the year, (Not a baby,) and I can't wait to be able to share with you what they are.  Until the amazing stuff happens we still have to deal with the crazy stuff.  That includes going under construction again, but this time it is on the outside of the house.  I can't believe we are into our second week of October.  It is like I told my husband last night, "Once October hits it might as well skip to January." 

This weeks post was so much fun for me.  All of my favorite beauty YouTube stars are doing Halloween looks.  So I decided, even though I am no Laura Lee or Jaclyn Hill, that I wanted to do one as well.

Remember readers that I AM NOT A PROFESSIONAL MAKEUP ARTIST by any means. This was just me having fun.  Please be nice.  

This is what I did:

First I found the lightest foundation I had and covered my face with it.

Unfortunately, all I had was generic BB cream.  I didn't get the full coverage that I wanted, but I didn't let it stop me. 

I then found the lightest concealer and powder that owned and applied liberally on my face.

I used Covergirl Ready Set Gorgeous in the shade light/medium for my concealer and Maybelline Fit me! Powder in 100.  This helped me get the desired skin tone I needed for this look.

This is where the fun begins. (and so so much black eyeliner is used.)  I took my Tattoo Effects liquid liner in black and traced my eyebrows.

At the end of my brow I traced a pointed edge to get the the drama I wanted.  Once that was done I filled in my liner with Mac pencil liner in Black. 

I took that same Tattoo Effect liner and started placing lines and shapes in certain places.

1. The C shape close to the left eye brow. Do not put it in the middle of your brows. 

2.  I followed the natural curve of my nose next to the inner corner of my right eye.

3. I drew slightly curved line from my ear to the center of my cheeks. (I u shamed curve)

4.On the left side of my nose i drew a line down and made a curvy L shape at the tip

5. I drew two lines from my nose to my lip.  Making sure they were not to far apart. 

6.I then drew on line on the outside of my nostrils.

7. Did an upside down smile (or a Frown Face. ha ha ha) on the middle of my chin.

Once those were done I took my MAC pencil liner and drew a group of cartoon tear drops under my right eye.

I finish the eyes by adding a wing liner to both and only lining the bottom lashed on my left side.  Once that is complete, I took blue eye shadow and fill in the tears. 

Next came the lips.  I used Kylie Jenner Liquid Lip in Mary Jo for the red I wanted. 

(I have the NYX in the picture, but it was to dark. So we are just going to pretend that is not there.)

Once my lips were dry I took the MAC pencil and lined those puppies.  Then I placed black lines on certain wrinkles in the bottom and top part of my lip.

These are the results:

YASSSS!!!  If you hadn't guess by now, I took this look from one of my favorite Comic book themed Snapchat filters.  I think it is such a fun and different look for Halloween. It was also fun and easy to do.

I hope you love this look as much as I do.  I had a blast creating it and doing something out of the ordinary for me.  I hope it inspires you as well to get crazy and try something outside your comfort zone!

Remember readers, I may be a jack of this trade, but I am a master of none.

Natalie

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"Pumpkin Spice...Everything..."

Happy Monday Everyone!  It truly is a happy one at that.  We had such a family quality time filled weekend.  It was just what the Doctor ordered.  We went to a Dinosaur Park near Austin on Friday.  It was entertaining for the kids and parents.  It was definitely a trip to remember.  (Thank you to Chat Book for making those memories a less work for me to remember.)

I was having a rough time choosing what I wanted to do this week.  I had done the green eyed look that a lot of you responded to.  I tried recreating it, but it kept coming out wrong. If I am going to show how I do something I liked it to at least be right. It was so frustrating! 

I was trying out this new color pallet that I bought a couple of weeks ago when my sister Emma Face-timed me.  As we were talking she showed me her Starbucks cup and told me what she was drinking.  (I personally do drink coffee, but she works there and knows all the good things to get.)  After I hung up with her, I realized that her cup reminded me of a Jenna Marbels Youtube sketch called, "What All Girls Have in Common in the Fall..."(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMkpTOSp88k)  
Then like a smack on the head...the inspiration hit me.

A very all hilarious video has ended up being   one of my favorite looks to date.  So thank you
Emma and Jenna Marbles for the smack in the head

Here is what I did:

First things first:  I primed. My pores have been unnecessarily massive the last couple weeks.  So much so that I have lost a child or two in them.  (Just Kidding.)  Seriously though...ew!

This is the same sample bottle that I got from benefit 5 months ago.  It is still going strong.  It is my favorite primer for when my pores are offending other people. (Again, I kid.) I just use a small amount and cover my t zone.  

Then I start with my eye!

You  might be gasping or thinking, "Whaaat?"  When I am working with darker colors and shimmer colors at the same time I tend to have more then normal fall out.  Since I don't want to have to do my foundation and concealer twice, I do the eyes first that way I doesn't matter what I have to wipe away because there is nothing to mess up.  

This pallet of warm buttery goodness is just a nameless pallet.  Not even the colors have names. Lame I know.  I have read that it is similar to the Morphy 350 pallet.  I spent $7 on this instead of $22.99.(For how much colors come in the 350 pallet is a fair price.)  I went in with the light shade first and then started to blend and build the color that I was looking for.

I took a blending brush with shade 1 and swept in across my entire crease of the lid.  Shad 2 I went half way in on the crease.  With shad 3 and 4 I stayed on the corner of my crease because I have small eyes and eyelids.  If I bring the dark colors into the middle the smaller my eyes will look.  With color 5 I used a flat eye shadow brush and pressed the color on my entire lid.  I do that twice.  When I am done with that I take my blending brush and make sure there are no harsh lines and that everything looks like it was supposed to look like that.  

When I am satisfied with the blending of my shadow I do my least favorite part.  The eye liner.  Don't get me wrong I love a good cat eye or winged liner.  I just have the hardest time doing them.  The liner I did today took me a good 15 minutes to get it even and not looking horrible.  (Thank goodness for nap time. Am I right Mom's?)  

The combo that I have found made this process a little easier is first drawing my wing with a thick felt tip liner, like the eyeko london liner that I got in this months ipsy bag, and paring it with a very thing almost paint brush tip liner from e.l.f  for the rest of the liner.  Like I said before, I have teeny lids.  The heavier I go with the line the less you will see the shadow that I put so much hard work into.  It is something I have to be careful about if I am doing both a shadow and liner. 

Once the liner and lashes are done I do the rest of my face.  

Now that the face is looking good, it is time to smoke out my under eye.

I used to be terrified of this.  I was always afraid that it would down out the natural shape of my eyes and make me look aged.  I have now seen the error of my ways.  Taking a pencil brush and dipping into color 1 and blending that to where my bottom lashes stop.  Then I took color 2 to the middle of my lower lash line and then blended color 3 to the outer edge of my lower lash line.  By doing this, I am actually giving the illusion that my eyes are bigger then they really are! Don't be afraid to blend that puppy out.  

Once I am satisfied with the eyes I add a simple demi lash just on the outer corner of my eyes to really make that liner pop!

Just because I can, I go in with more high light to make sure that people on plans can see the shine from my cheeks.  Hello Glow!

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This is the final result:

I am so in love with my Pumpkin Spiced Latte inspired look for fall.  I think it is a great way to show even more love for fall and our Pumpkin Spice Everything obsession.  

I hope you guys try it out.  If you would like to see what I do on the daily with my make up you can follow me on Snapchat and Instagram.

Remember readers I may be a jack of this trade, but I am a master of none.

Natalie

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Instagram: masterofnonemakeupmom

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