Bright Purple Smokey Eyes using Stila In The Moment palette

Hello ladies!

[I'm going to be taking a little break to focus on schoolwork and exams. I'm starting to work on Monday part-time from now until I'm done school, so I'll be very busy and unable to post regularly. Of course I will try to post when I can and I'll try to at least finish off what I've already started. Another one of my friends passed away today and I need a little bit of time for myself at this point. Here's the post I prepped yesterday but wasn't able to finish in time.]

I was planning on doing a couple posts but things came up. For one of them, after taking pictures of my makeup and starting to edit, I realize I have this massive black smudge under my eye and that my eyeliner is coming off. I had washed my face already so there was no way I could redo it that day. I really hate when that happens. It's a 10 Minute Makeup tutorial and the theme is a simple color accent. I was also going to use all my new drugstore finds! I still plan on doing this but it'll take a little while longer.

I'm also going to be doing that Perfect Palette Tag that keeps going around! I'm definitely a palette girl, as I hoard a ton of them. So I'm pretty excited to be able to go through them and show them to you and tell you about why I like them.

But moving on to today, wow did any of you go Black Friday shopping? Cuz I did! And it was insane! I was online at Sephora last night at midnight adding a bunch of things to my cart and by the time I check out, around 1am, I realize that a bunch of my items are out of stock!! Total bummer! I kept refreshing and a few things popped back and I was able to get them, but the one thing I really wanted was sold out. It's Philosophy's Purity cleanser, by the way. A 34$CAD value for 12$CAD!! In case you don't know, Sephora's Black Friday deal is that they have a bunch of minis on sale for 12$CAD or 10$US and it is a great value. Since they didn't have my cleanser, I decided to order Philosophy's 500 Point Perk instead, which contains a mini Purity cleanser. Come today, my mom went shopping at Sephora at 10am and they had my cleanser!! So my mom got two for me. Which is the maximum they let you buy for an item. So now I have a bunch of Purity! I am definitely going to be doing a Black Friday Shopping Haul but I was planning on waiting for my box to arrive full of all my online goodies. It'll probably take at least a week for it to get here so it might be awhile before I post about it.

So about today's look. I decided to go for a Bright Purple Smokey Eye. I realized that I don't have a tutorial on doing a bright purple eye, most of the time I'm always doing dark purples, or blackened purples, and sparkles. I love wearing purple smokey eyes even though I don't wear them as often as I used to. I think purple looks great on a lot of people, and to me, it's a staple makeup look that everyone should do. I always pair a purple eye with pink blush and lip color, the two colors look perfect together and make the look complete. A very long time ago, I got samples of three of Stila's palettes and I never got around to trying them out, partly because I didn't want to mess them up (I know right? I'm so weird). I'm using the In The Moment palette, which is the purple one. I'll include a picture of the actual palette and not the sample I'm using since you can't get it anymore. For Black Friday, Sephora has put certain things on sale and this palette is one of them! Instead of the regular price of 50$CAD, it is now 26$CAD!! Which is the same price as one of their Smudgestick Waterproof Eye Pencils!!! So naturally I bought one, it's an insane crazy deal. Out of all the four, I like this one and the brown palette (In The Light) the best. But the only ones on sale are this one and the green one (In The Garden). So get this palette on sale while you still can. The reason why I like this palette so much is because of its versatility. There are lots of browns and purples, so you can pick whichever color you want to wear that day. That's why I like it a bit better than the brown, you're not stuck with only brown shades, though I do like that palette as well. Oh and I forgot to mention that each palette comes with an eyeliner and I'm using the one that comes with this palette. It didn't come with my samples, I already have it. So I've blabbed on long enough, continue on reading to see how I got this fabulous look!

I'm not doing any swatches for this look because this is a sample palette and there's not much there. However, I will be swatching the entire palette when I do another tutorial using it after I've gotten it shipped to my house. Sorry!


Bright Purple Smokey Eyes using Stila In The Moment Palette

As usual, start by priming your eyes with Too Faced Shadow Insurance. Using Stila's In The Moment palette, start packing Impulse onto your lid using a medium shadow brush (MAC 239). Now, using a blending brush (MAC 217), blend Glance into the crease and outer V. I like to feather the color up and out. Then, take a crease brush (Sephora Pro Crease Brush) and lightly dust Instinct under the brow bone to highlight. I also like to add a bit in the inner eye. I also like to go back in and blend the crease again. Once you're happy with your eyes, take the eyeliner that comes with palette, which is the Stila Smudgestick Waterproof Eyeliner in Tetra, a sparkly dark purple. Line both top and bottom lash lines. Then take MAC Kohl Power Eye Pencil in Feline and fill in both top and bottom waterlines. Then apply two coats of Too Faced Better Than Sex Mascara and you're done the eyes! Just fill in your brows using Benefit Instant Brow Pencil in Medium and you're ready to move on to the face.

Again, start by priming your face with Too Faced Primed and Poreless. If you have under eye circles, apply MAC Pro Longwear Concealer using a concealer brush (Sephora Pro Concealer Brush). Then apply MUFE HD Foundation using a stippling brush (Sephora Pro Stippling Brush) to get an air-brushed effect. If there are any pimples or redness still showing, cover them up using MAC Studio Finish Concealer. Then apply MUFE HD Powder with a kabuki brush (MUFE HD Kabuki) all over your face to set the foundation and concealer. Then, using a contour brush (MAC 168) and Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless, contour your cheeks, the perimeter of the face, the temples, the nose, etc. Then apply MAC Cremeblend Blush in So Sweet So Easy using a short duo fiber brush (MAC 130). Start at the apples of your cheeks and blend outward and down into the bronzer. Then take a powder brush and Physician's Formula Powder Palette Mineral Glow Pearls in Translucent Pearl and apply it to the tops of your cheekbones, the cupid's bow, the brow arch, and anywhere else you want to highlight. The last step is to apply MAC Lipglass in Oyster Girl. If you want your makeup to last all day and all night, apply a few spritzes of Urban Decay's All Nighter Makeup Setting Spray.

Eyes:
Too Faced Shadow Insurance
Stila In The Moment (Purple) Palette

• Instinct
• Impulse
• Glance

Stila Smudgestick Waterproof Eye Liner in Tetra
MAC Kohl Power Eye Liner in Feline
Too Faced Better Than Sex Mascara

Brows
Benefit Instant Brow Pencil in Medium

Face:
Too Faced Primed and Poreless
MAC Pro Longwear Concealer in NW20
MAC Studio Finish Concealer in NW20
MUFE HD Foundation in 110
MUFE HD Powder
Physician's Formula Powder Palette Mineral Glow Pearls in Translucent Pearl
MAC Cremeblend Blush in So Sweet, So Easy
Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless
Urban Decay All Nighter Makeup Setting Spray

Lips:

MAC Lipglass in Oyster Girl

Products Used:

Stila In The Moment Eyeshadow Palette - on sale for 26$CAD, regular is 50$CAD
(amazing Black Friday deal!)

Stila Smudgestick Waterproof Eye Liner in Tetra - 26$CAD
(same price as the palette which includes this pencil!!!)

MAC Kohl Power Eye Pencil in Feline - 19$CAD

Too Faced Better Than Sex Mascara - 30$CAD

Benefit Instant Brow Pencil in Medium - 25$CAD

Physician's Formula Powder Palette Mineral Glow Pearls in Translucent Pearl

Physician's Formula Powder Palette Mineral Glow Pearls in Translucent Pearl - approx. 20$CAD

MAC Cremeblend Blush in So Sweet, So Easy

MAC Cremeblend Blush in So Sweet, So Easy - 21$CAD for the pan, 25$CAD for the compact

Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless

Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless - 38$CAD

Urban Decay All Nighter Makeup Setting Spray - 15$CAD for the mini, 35$CAD for the fullsize

MAC Lipglass in Oyster Girl - 18$CAD

Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed this tutorial! I can't believe it took me this long to do one of the Stila palettes, but it's finally done!  I'm pretty sure this palette is only on sale for this weekend for Black Friday so remember to buy it if you're interested before it goes back to full price! 26$CAD is a fantastic deal. That's the price of one of Stila's eyeliners so it's like you're buying an eyeliner and getting a whole entire palette for free. Only two out of four palettes are on sale, In The Moment (purple) and In The Garden (green), and the other two are regular price.

What did you think of my softer bright purple smokey eye? I thought it was a pleasant change to my usual shades of blacks and browns. I also find a light pink goes perfect with a purple eye. I can't really say much about the quality of the shadows, since I'm using a sample that's pressed onto a sheet of paper so it's not necessarily the same as the actual palette. Stila's eyeliners are decent to line around the eyes, but I don't like them for lining my waterline. So what did you think of today's makeup look? I'm in love with MAC Cremeblend Blush in So Sweet, So Easy. It's a perfect yellow-toned pink and the cream can be layered until you reach your perfect opacity. I preferred to go softer today. Their lipglass in Oyster Girl was my number one favorite lipglass as a teenager. I used to wear it all the time. Nowadays, I've found other products that I like better, but I always come back to this one. The rest of my makeup is pretty much the usual except the under eye concealer. I mentioned that I got the MAC Pro Longwear Concealer. Now that I've been using it for about a week, I can say that it is better than MAC Select Cover-Up, not that Select Cover-Up was bad or anything, it's just slightly better so it has now become my holy grail under eye concealer.

So enough of me talking, what did you think of my lighter purple smokey eye? Did you like Stila's In The Moment palette? Which is your favorite out of the four palettes? I have samples of each of them except the blue one, so is there a look you want me to do using the other two palettes? Also, what is your favorite MAC lipglass? Thanks for reading!

Don 't forget to vote in the poll on the right-hand side bar!

Steph xo.

Another Cut-Crease Eye using Urban Decay Naked 2

Hello glamouritas!!

I finally got some photos from a few shoots I did. I'm so happy with how they turned out! It was my first time doing makeup for a photoshoot so looking back I realize that I could have done some things better. A big one for me is that in-person, makeup looks much darker than it appears in professional photos. All the light tends to wash out the color. So I realize now that I could have gone "drag queen" and it would have looked normal in the photos. But it is a learning process for me, since this is from my very first shoot. So I will eventually share some photos with you. I will make a new page, that you can find at the top bar next to home, contact info, etc. That's where I will put all my work and collabs and basically anything that isn't done on me.

I'm looking at my eyebrows in a bunch of old pics (when I got them done for the first time in my life) and oh my god did I ever fill in the crap out of them they look horrible. Just had to state the obvious and explain that obviously I did not know how to do eyebrows. It took a bit of practise but they're much better now. I mean come on girls, the first time you ever filled in your eyebrows can't have been perfect.

Oh and did I mentioned that Target finally opened and I got to buy my first NYX product ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!      =D

And please read down til the bottom, I have a few announcements!

The Actual Makeup

Now that I'm done rambling on, let's talk about the actual makeup. I've done a post in the past using Urban Decay's Naked 2 palette which was a cut-crease as well. There's just something about this palette that just screams cut-crease. Honestly it has the perfect colors to pull off a few different cut-crease looks. Today I'll be sharing another one with you! It's kinda the same idea as the first cut-crease I did with this palette. I went dramatic with the eyes but kept the rest of the face pretty natural and soft. It's a good rule of thumb that if you're going to go bold, go bold on just one area and keep the rest neutral and soft. You don't want to end up looking like a drag queen (unless that's the look you're going for ;)) The lid is silver and the cut-crease is a dark purple. I wish they had the NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk, I've read so many great things about that pencil being good as a base for light colors and I think it would have been great for this look to make the silver pop out more. Oh well. For the face I used the usual stuff. I used MAC's Cremeblend Blush in So Sweet, So Easy. I find it's so easy to control the amount of creme blush I'm applying ever since I bought MAC's 130 Brush. It lets me go super light if I want to. For the lipgloss, I went with the classic NARS Turkish Delight.


More Cut-Crease using Urban Decay Naked 2

Start by priming your eyes with Urban Decay Primer Potion. Before anything else, I took Urban Decay's 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencil in Rockstar and I drew in my cut-crease line slightly above my actual crease. A good trick for doing this is to look straight into the mirror as you draw the line, so you can see the crease clearly. You want your line to start directly above the inner corner of your eye and to go all the way out and make a V shape and connect to your outer lid. Take a pencil brush (MAC 219) and gently smudge the liner by making windshield wiper motions. Then, using the same brush, pick up Tease from the Urban Decay Naked 2 palette and keep blending out the crease and outer V. Don't be scared to go a little high with this. At this point, I applied Verve onto my lid by using a medium shadow brush (MAC 239). I applied it below the line we made and all the way until the V. I applied a bit of Suspect on the middle, but you can't really see it now. Now take an angled liner brush (Sephora Pro Angled Liner Brush) and using Busted, apply it in a nice clear line on the crease and outer V. I blended it out into Tease. The two colors should have a gradient like effect. I went back in a few time with Tease and Busted until I was happy with it being blended. I took a clean blending brush (MAC 217) and blended out where Tease ends. Then, using a crease brush (Sephora Pro Crease Brush) I mixed Bootycall and Foxy together and I applied that under the browbone and in the inner corner of the eyes. For the liner, I applied the pencil liner in Rockstar on my top and bottom lash lines and I went over it with the shadow Busted using the same angled liner brush. I also tightlined both top and bottom lids using MAC Kohl Power Eye Pencil in Feline. I applied Too Faced Better Than Sex Mascara on my top lashes. For the eyebrows, I used Benefit's Instant Brow Pencil in Medium and filled them in the way I normally do. So the eyes are done, let's do the rest of the face!

I started by applying Boscia's Tsubaki Beauty Oil all over my face. I still can't figure out if this stuff is doing anything for me or not, and I think it might have caused a massive breakout all over my forehead, but more on that some other time. Then I primed my face using Too Faced Primed and Poreless. I applied MAC Select-Cover Up Concealer in NW20 underneath my eyes using a concealer brush (Sephora Pro Concealer Brush). Then I used a stippling brush (Sephora Pro Stippling Brush) to apply MUFE HD Foundation in 110 all over my face. I applied MAC Studio Finish Concealer in NW20 onto any pimples and redness that was still showing through. Then I applied MUFE HD Powder all over my face using a kabuki brush (MUFE HD Kabuki Brush). I started by contouring my face using Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless and a contour brush (MAC 168). I sucked in my cheeks and followed that line, starting at the top of my ears towards my upper lip. I also contoured my temples, perimeter of the face, etc. I applied MAC Cremeblend Blush in So Sweet, So Easy using a short duo-fiber blush brush (MAC 130). I made sure to apply it to my cheeks and to blend it outward towards the sides of my face and down into the contour. I applied powder again to set the cream. Then I applied a light highlight, Too Faced Candlelight using a blush brush (Too Faced Powder Pouf Brush). The last step is to apply NARS Lipgloss in Turkish Delight. If you want your makeup to last all day and all night, then spray Urban Decay's All Nighter Makeup Setting Spray a few times on your face and you're ready to party!

Eyes:

Urban Decay Primer Potion
Urban Decay Naked 2 Palette

• Verve
• Suspect
• Tease
• Busted
• Bootycall
• Foxy

Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencil in Rockstar
MAC Kohl Power Eye Pencil in Feline
Too Faced Better Than False Lashes Mascara

Brows

Benefit Instant Brow Pencil in Medium

Face:

Boscia Tsubaki Beauty Oil
Too Faced Primed and Poreless
MAC Select Cover-Up Concealer in NW20
MAC Studio Finish Concealer in NW20
MUFE HD Foundation in 110
MUFE HD Powder
Too Faced Candlelight
MAC Cremeblend Blush in So Sweet, So Easy
Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless
Urban Decay All-Nighter Makeup Setting Spray

Lips:

NARS Lipgloss in Turkish Delight

Products Used:

Urban Decay Naked 2 Palette - 62$CAD
Shades Used:
Foxy
Bootycall
Tease
Suspect
Verve
Busted

Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencil in Rockstar - 23$CAD for fullsize

MAC Kohl Power Eye Pencil in Feline - 19$CAD

Too Faced Better Than False Lashes Mascara - 30$CAD

Benefit Instant Brow Pencil - 25$CAD

Too Faced Candlelight

Too Faced Candlelight - 38$CAD

MAC Cremeblend Blush in So Sweet, So Easy

MAC Cremeblend Blush in So Sweet, So Easy - 25$CAD in compact, 21$CAD for just the pan

Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless - 38$CAD

Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless - 38$CAD

Urban Decay All Nighter Makeup Setting Spray - 15$CAD for mini, 35$CAD for fullsize

NARS Lipgloss in Turkish Delight - 29$CAD

Swatches:
Urban Decay Naked 2 Palette in:
Foxy
Bootycall
Tease
Suspect
Verve
Busted

Swatches:
Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencil in Rockstar
MAC Kohl Power Eye Pencil in Feline
Too Faced Candlelight
MAC Cremeblend Blush in So Sweet, So Easy
Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless
NARS Lipgloss in Turkish Delight

Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed today's post! When I first bought the two palettes (at roughly the same time), I ended up using the original Naked palette a lot more than the second one. But now I find I'm picking up Naked 2 especially for cut-crease eyeshadow looks. They are both great palettes and I really do recommend both. If you can only pick one, I'd pick one based on your skintones. Like if you're warm-toned (yellow) go for the original Naked palette; and if you're cool-toned (pink) go for Naked 2. I'm cool-toned, so cool shades should look better on me. It doesn't mean that you shouldn't get the other one as well, I'm not saying it'll look horrible, but sticking to your tones would look better, that's all.

Here is the other Cut Crease using Urban Decay Naked 2 look that I did quite a little while ago.

So what did you like most about this look? And here's the age old question, do you prefer Naked or Naked2? And I'd love it if you showed me your cut-crease eye looks using either Naked palette! I thought that light pinks went great with the purples, I have to say that MAC's 130 Short Duo-Fibre Brush is incredible when it comes to putting on cream blushes. I really wanted to have a 'less is more' approach to the rest of the face and this brush allowed me to be very subtle with color on the cheeks. It applies blush in a way no finger can. I strongly recommend this brush if you like cream blush.



So here's a little update:

• I will be creating a page on the top bar (next to Home, Contact Me, etc) for work I've done for photoshoots, etc. Basically anything I've done on someone that isn't me will be featured there.
• I will also be adding a poll to the sidebar. The first question will be "What would you like to see more of on the blog?" with various answers. If none of them apply, you can leave me a comment either here, on facebook, or twitter.
• I will try to post more regularly. I have a ton of stuff to catch up on and write about. In the meantime, reply to the poll or comment what you'd like to see next!!

Steph xo.