Saturday, February 21, 2009

*Moulin Rouge 'Satine' Inspired Makeup Tutorial*

Like I said in the title, it's just an inspired look, it's not exactly like the makeup Nicole Kidman wore in Moulin Rouge, so don't send me hate mail or anything if it's not perfect.

Products Used:



















-Concealer
-White Costume Face Makeup
-Foundation
-Translucent Powder
-Eyeshadow Base
-White Shimmery Eyeshadow
-Black Mascara
-Black Eyeliner
-Shimmery Black Eyeshadow
-Mauve Colored Eyeshadow
-Eyeliner Pencil
-Red Lip Stain
-Red Lipstick
-Various Brushes

One:














Apply your concealer, foundation, and translucent powder the way you usually do it. ***Only if your face isn't as pale as 'Satine's is then add a bit of white face makeup to your foundation to lighten it up a bit.***

Two:














Fill in your brows with an eyebrow pencil and gel them down with clear mascara.

Three:



















Take a small round Blush Brush and swirl it into your white eyeshadow. Swipe the brush on the tops of your cheek bones to give your cheeks a shimmery highlight. Blend well!

Four:














Apply a skin colored eyeshadow base to your entire eyelid/browbone and blend in well.

Five:














Take a small brush, your white eyeshadow, and highlight just under your brows, on the brow bone.

Six:














Thinly line your upper lashline in black eyeliner and extend it to a cat-eye point at the end.
If you also want to, you can very lightly line the bottom lashline with the black liner too, but that's optional.

Seven:














Take a smudging brush and smudge out your eyeliner lines so the color looks more gray then black. Blend it out well, we don't want harsh lines!

Eight:














With a small eyeshadow brush, apply a shimmery black shadow to that outer 'V' that the eyeliner formed, and blend in well.

Nine:














With the same small eyeshadow brush, apply a mauve colored eyeshadow over top of the black eyeshadow and blend it in to lighten the look up. blend and blend until the lines look like they fade into the skin!

Ten:





























Curl your eyelashes and apply 2-3 coats of mascara on upper and lower lashes.

Eleven:



















Apply a light layer of a red lip stain to make your lips darker without the sticky mess of gloss.

Twelve:














With your finger/or a lip brush, gently pat on an even layer of red lipstick over the red stain.

Finished Look:















Wednesday, February 4, 2009

*Ocean Eyes Makeup Tutorial*

Products Used:














-Concealer
-Foundation
-Translucent Powder
-Bright Pink Blush
-Eyebrow Pencil
-Brow Gel
-Light Blue Shimmer Body Powder
-Light Silver Creme Eyeshadow
-Silver Eyeshadow
-Royal Blue Eyeshadow
-Tropical Green Eyeshadow
-Navy Blue Eyeshadow(use
d as liner)
-White Eyeshadow
-Sea Blue Eyeshadow
-Teal Eyeliner

-Black Mascara
-Clear Lipgloss
-Eyelash Curler

-Various Brushes

Step One:
Start off with a cleansed, toned, and moisturized face.

Step Two and Three:














Apply your concealer, foundation, and translucent powder the way you normally do.
Fill in your brows and gel em!

Step Four:



















Taking a round blush brush, dip it into a bright pink blush and apply in a round, swirly motion to the apples of your cheeks and blend in well!

Step Five:






























Take a shimmery blue loose highlighting powder(or any highlighting product you have) and lightly apply it over the pink blush, just to make your face glow a bit more.

Step Six:














With your finger(or creme eyeshadow brush), apply a light silver creme eyeshadow to your entire lid all the way up to your eyebrow.

Step Seven:





























With a small eyeshadow brush, take the Sea Blue eyeshadow and apply it to the inner half of your eyelid, being careful not to go over your crease.

Step Eight:




























With a medium sized eyeshadow brush, apply the Tropical Green eyeshadow to the outer half of your eye.

Step Nine:





























Take an angled crease brush and apply the Royal Blue eyeshadow to your crease using a windshield wiper motion, do not go higher than the crease! otherwise you`ll look a bit drag-ish.

Step Ten:















With a still, fairly largish highlighting brush, use the white eyeshadow to fill in the empty space from your crease to your eyebrow. Once that is done, just quickly take a small brush and blend some silver eyeshadow into the inner corners of the eyes, by your tearducts.

Step Eleven:














Take a big fluffy blending brush and blend blend blend the eyeshadow together until all harsh lines have disappeared.

Steps Twelve and Thirteen:

















Grab an eyeliner brush and your navy eyeshadow. wet the brush and line only the outer half of your top lid in the navy eyeshadow, slightly extending it outwards to make your eyes seem bigger. Then take a teal eyeliner(this part is optional) and line your waterline.

Steps Fourteen and Fifteen:

















Curl your lashes and apply black mas
cara ONLY to your top lashes!!!!

Step Sixteen:



















Since this look is quite bright, just apply a clear gloss over your lips to keep the rest of your face looking simple!


And now the look is completed! Go show it off!

























Tuesday, February 3, 2009

List of Upcoming Looks.

Hey Everyone Again!
Just wanted to give a little list of some looks I'll be doing in the near future(hopefully I don't drag them out again, haha)

>"Satine" Moulin Rouge Inspired Makeup Look
>Ocean Eyes
>Bella Swan Inspired Look
>Forest Smoke(Smokey Green)
>Valentine's Day Makeup
>Classic Pin-Up Look
>Easter Themed Makeup
>The Four Seasons(Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter)
>Doll Costume Makeup
>St. Patrick's Day Makeup
>Rainbow Eyes
>Shades of Purple(purple eye look)
>Dark Black Smokey Eye
> Goddess Makeup Series(Gaia, Hera, Demeter, Athena, Artemis, Persephone)
>Egyptian Goddess Makeup Series(Bastet, Hatha, Sekhmet, Seshat, Tefnut, Nephtys)


If any one else has suggestions they want to see or fav celebrity looks they like and want to know how to do similar looks, just email me at:
aleshadawn@gmail.com

Till next time!

-Alesha

*Aphrodite Inspired Makeup Tutorial*

This is just an inspired look, inspired by the greek goddess, Aphrodite. I hope you like it!

What You'll Need:














-Concealer(in whatever color is good for your skin tone)
-Foundation(whatever works with your skin tone!)
-Translucent Face Powder
-Any Reddish/Brown toned Blush
-Eye Primer
-Eyebrow Pencil
-Eyebrow Gel
-Shimmery Tan colored eyeshadow
-Medium Red/Brown Eyeshadow
-Shimmery Light Brown Eyeshadow
-Red or Dark Pink Eyeliner
-White Eyeliner
-Lipchap
-Red Lipstick
-Black Mascara
-Clear Lipgloss
-Eyelash Curler
-Blush Brush
-Various Eyeshadow brushes
-Cutip

1st Step:














Start with a cleansed, toned, and moisturized face.

2nd Step:














Apply your choice of concealer anywhere on your face where there are red spots, or acne that you want to hide, and the dark circles under your eyes. Blend into skin thoroughly.

3rd Step:














Apply your Foundation and blend in well.

4th Step:















Apply the reddish colored blush underneath your cheekbones, in a diagonal way, and blend into the skin well.

5th Step:
Brush on your translucent
powder.

6th Step:















Fill in brows with an eyebrow pencil and go over them with a clear brow gel to keep them in place ( I know my eyebrows don't match, that's why I have bangs to cover them!)

7th Step:














Apply your eye primer(i'm just using a concealer) to the entire area of your lid/browbone and blend in well.

8th Step:














Taking a medium sized, soft eyeshadow brush, apply your skin colored/shimmery eyeshadow all over the lid, stopping at your crease.

9th Step:














Taking an angled crease brush and your medium brown eyeshadow, with windshield wiper motions, fill in just the crease and blend, blend, blend!

10th Step:














Take a big stiff eyeshadow brush and the lightest shimmery brown color and place it underneath your brow as highlight. Then take a big fluffy blending brush and blend it all together.

11th Step:














Line the top lash line and half of the bottom lash line thinly with your red/dark pink eyeliner and fill your waterline in with a white eye pencil.

12th Step:














Take a cutip and gently smudge the eyeliner lines out to give it a more smokey-ish effect.

13th Step:














Curl your eyelashes.

14th Step:





























Apply Black Mascara, and then you are done the eyes! now onto the lips! ooo la la!

15th Step:



















Apply a moisturizing lipchap and let it sink in for a couple of minutes, we are going to go for a lip stain, not the whole heavy lipstick look.

16th Step:



















Take your red lipstick and gently pat it on your lips and mix it with the lipchap until you get your desired level of redness. Then apply a clear gloos over it to make it last longer.

Now go show off your awesome look to your friends!