The Makeup Box

[Requested] Highlighting 101: Understanding Your Facial Structure and Choosing Products to glow, illuminate, and scult your face.

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Note: Demo in one of the images above was done with deliberatedly exaggerated contouring and highlighting so you can see where everything goes. I never wear it so strong in daily life!

Highlighters are used for various reasons; 

1. To bring out a dewy, polished glow to the skin
2. Illuminate certain areas of the face and make yourself look fresher and more awake
3. To sculpt the face and bring out (or subtly alter) bone structure

Depending on what your primary need is out of the 3 above, you will need to go for slightly different products. 

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Beauty Cheat: 15-Minute Bejeweled Nails

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This is so easy and fun and cheap I don’t know why I didn’t think of it sooner. I don’t bling my cell phones. So when I get my hands on those stick-on jewelry seals, you KNOW I’m going to be using it for other things. Like nail art.

Each seal is quite inexpensive (about USD3, SGD3.90; I’m sure there are cheaper ones around) made up of tons of plastic crystals laid out on a strip of rubbery adhesive. What you do is simply cut little strips of it out, and then stick them on your nails as you like.

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Blue Lagoon Tutorial: Color-block Eye Look with Nude Lips

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I got a request recently for looks to wear with nude lips.  One fun option is to wear a colorful eye look with it, because you can get away with a lot more colors on the eyes than you would if you were wearing a stronger lip color.

I’m placing 3 strong colors side by side (coppery-bronze, a golden-aqua, and a vibrant purple). 

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You will need:

• A navy base - I used an old Sasatinnie blue gel liner, but any metallic pencil would work.
• A bronze/tan shadow - I blended a whole bunch of peachy tan browns from the 88 Warm palette but you can just use any brown soft tan shade you have.
• A medium blue-green shimmer - I used Lakeshore by Coastal Scents, which reflects gold. You don’t have to use a duochrome like I did. A nice strong aqua or teal would work just fine.
• A strong, bright grape - I used a Coastal Scents hot pot again, in Amethyst.

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The Copper Cat - Graphic Winged Eye

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This is an updated recreation of a winged graphic eye, below, that I did awhile back, except this time, I used a copper metallic shadow instead of purple. You can always switch the lid color according to your preference.

This latest version is a little more precise and not quite as dramatic, so it’s up to you which version you prefer to try.

This eye shape can be done for:

• Mono-lids, hooded lids, regular lids
• Any eye color; though copper looks especially good with blue eyes, or if you are a woman of color.

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The Neo-Bombshell Giveaway (300,000 Follower Makeup Giveaway Part 2)

Leave red to the other girls.

Fuchsia is where it’s at!

When I was thinking of what a gorgeous, glamorous girl would wear, I immediately thought of a classic “bombshell” with strong lips and neutral, defined eyes. But red is everywhere, and there’s nothing like a deep, rich shade of fuchsia to make you stand out from the crowd (without losing an iota of posh either).

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