You really do not have to spend a lot of money on clothes to have great style you just need to know what your personal style is and what looks best on you! This all starts with color. You can have on the most expensive piece of clothing and if it's not your color what is the point? On the other hand you can have on an inexpensive blouse from Forever 21 and look like a million bucks! For example: the blouse in my engagement pictures was a fuchsia one shoulder ruffled top from Forever 21 and I belted it with a belt from Charolette Russe. The top was like $21 and the belt maybe $10. But, it looked awesome in the pictures and just as great as any expensive top! The reason why is because the COLOR! It totally popped and brought out the best in my eyes, skin and hair color! Weather it be makeup or clothes color plays an important role in making us shine! Color can bring out the most beautiful you! First you need to understand warm tones versus cool tones. Warm colors are like red, yellow and orange. Cool colors are blue, green violet. Most people fall on one side of the spectrum or the other depending on your hair, eye and skin color.
Now it is time to find out what your color temperature is! Metallics are the fastest and easiest way to figure this out. Take a piece of gold and silver foil wrap (or just find a piece of clothing thats silver or gold shimmery) and put it up to your skin. Which one of these colors makes you glow? If you are a "warm" skin type than you glow in gold! "Cool" skin types shine in silver! If you are really not responding to either one than you are a neutral! "Neutral" tone skin people can wear pretty much any color but I would choose colors that bring out your eye color the most.
The tone in colors is also important to understand. For example red is "cooler" if it is closer to violet and "warmer" if it is closer to to orange. So within color groups you can find cooler and warmer shades that will work for you. For example in the pink group coral is a warm pink; mauve is a cool pink. Just keep that in mind before you rule out colors to wear!
So, if you respond to cool colors you are going to look best in blues, greens, black, gray/silver and gem tones! Silver jewelry is also going to look best on you along with gem toned jewelry like emerald and magenta.
If you respond to warm colors you are going to look best in yellow/gold, orange, red and brown colors. You should stay away from pastels if you are a warm skin tone because those colors tend to wash you out. Warm skin tones look best in gold jewelry!
Now, neutral tone skin falls between the extremes of blue and yellow undertones so it is very versatile. I am a neutral skin tone but I respond to warmer colors like golds when it comes to eyeshadow and clothes. You just have to know what brings out the most beautiful you! If you apply these rules when you are getting dressed and putting on your makeup you can make sure you are putting your best foot forward everyday.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Monday, January 10, 2011
"Va Va Voom Eyes"
OK, so you are going out or going on a date with your someone special and you want to look extra glam! This is my "go to" neutral smokey eye! It looks great on everyone and every eye color. All of the eye shadows I am going to write about are from MAC makeup.
Eyeshadows needed from MAC: Carbon, Tempting, Woodwinked, Bronze and Nylon. Eyeliner: Smolder from MAC.
Step 1: Take Smolder eye liner and line upper lid make sure to get it as close to your lash line as possible. Then take your finger tip and "smudge" the liner on the lid. You are just rubbing that black liner onto your lid so you do not have a harsh line of liner. It looks kind of crazy but it gives you a great base for your smokey eye. Make sure you really smoke it out on your outer corner.
Step 2: Take Tempting eyeshadow by MAC and your eyeshadow brush of choice and put that shadow all over your lid up to your crease. It is a really gorgeous antique gold color.
Step 3: Use Carbon eyeshadow (matte black shadow) on your outer corner. I use a flat brush with stiff bristles to deposit a lot of color. Anyway, you want to keep the dark color just in your outer corner making an inverted V. Put the shadow about halfway onto your lid and halfway in your crease and blend! Blending is the most important thing when applying any eyeshadow! Take a brush with "dome" shaped bristles and blend (using tiny circular motions) towards the inside of your lid and crease. You want to keep the inside of your lids light.
Step 4: Use Woodwinked (a brighter antique gold shadow) on your lid from the inner corner to where the black is. This just brightens the Tempting shadow.
Step 5: (optional) : Use Bronze for your crease. I just take a tiny bit and use windshield wiper motions in my crease with Bronze. It just warms up the whole look. If you have darker eyes I wouldn't do this step. People with lighter eyes it really makes green and blue stand out.
Step 6: Take Nylon (shimmer off white color) and highlight under the brow bone and inner corner of the eye.
Step 7: Line your inner rims and upper rims with Smolder liner from mac. Take Tempting shadow and an eyeliner brush line lower lashes with it to finish off your smokey eye look.
Then just put on Mascara and you are good to go! I like Covergirl Professional Lash in blackest black. Of course if you really want to go all out you can put on some false eyelashes! The key to this look is blend blend blend! It should look like differnet colors on your lid but you shouldn't be able to tell where one color ends and another begins! Good luck go get glam!
Eyeshadows needed from MAC: Carbon, Tempting, Woodwinked, Bronze and Nylon. Eyeliner: Smolder from MAC.
Step 1: Take Smolder eye liner and line upper lid make sure to get it as close to your lash line as possible. Then take your finger tip and "smudge" the liner on the lid. You are just rubbing that black liner onto your lid so you do not have a harsh line of liner. It looks kind of crazy but it gives you a great base for your smokey eye. Make sure you really smoke it out on your outer corner.
Step 2: Take Tempting eyeshadow by MAC and your eyeshadow brush of choice and put that shadow all over your lid up to your crease. It is a really gorgeous antique gold color.
Step 3: Use Carbon eyeshadow (matte black shadow) on your outer corner. I use a flat brush with stiff bristles to deposit a lot of color. Anyway, you want to keep the dark color just in your outer corner making an inverted V. Put the shadow about halfway onto your lid and halfway in your crease and blend! Blending is the most important thing when applying any eyeshadow! Take a brush with "dome" shaped bristles and blend (using tiny circular motions) towards the inside of your lid and crease. You want to keep the inside of your lids light.
Step 4: Use Woodwinked (a brighter antique gold shadow) on your lid from the inner corner to where the black is. This just brightens the Tempting shadow.
Step 5: (optional) : Use Bronze for your crease. I just take a tiny bit and use windshield wiper motions in my crease with Bronze. It just warms up the whole look. If you have darker eyes I wouldn't do this step. People with lighter eyes it really makes green and blue stand out.
Step 6: Take Nylon (shimmer off white color) and highlight under the brow bone and inner corner of the eye.
Step 7: Line your inner rims and upper rims with Smolder liner from mac. Take Tempting shadow and an eyeliner brush line lower lashes with it to finish off your smokey eye look.
Then just put on Mascara and you are good to go! I like Covergirl Professional Lash in blackest black. Of course if you really want to go all out you can put on some false eyelashes! The key to this look is blend blend blend! It should look like differnet colors on your lid but you shouldn't be able to tell where one color ends and another begins! Good luck go get glam!
Friday, January 7, 2011
A Few Products I Cannot Live Without!
Ok so let me start off this blog with 3 makeup products I absolutely love and could not live without! I am not an expert but I would say trial and error have taught me a lot about makeup! I have worn every makeup line under the sun. I have tried every foundation there is and finally a year and a half ago I found Jane Iredale! Let me share with you the 3 products that have changed my skin for the better! They are 1: Jane Iredale Dream Tint 2: Jane Iredale Pressed Mineral Powder and 3: Jane Iredale Moon Glow. The line is all natural, free of cancer causing chemicals, water proof, highly pigmented..I could go on and on. I think it is very important to know what you are putting on your face or your body period. Whatever you put on your skin is absorbed into your blood stream. Personally, I do not want any crazy chemicals from MAKEUP to jeopardize my health! The other great thing about using this line of makeup for foundation is that it highly pigmented so you are not going to look washed out in pictures. It photographs true to color. Also it lasts forever! I used to wear MAC Studio Fix (which is not exactly good for your skin it has a lot of chemicals) and was buying it all of the time. One bottle of dream tint lasts about 6 months using it everyday. You just have to use a tiny amount to get great coverage!
Anyway, I use these 3 products everyday! I will tell you how to apply them to get flawless skin! First I apply dream tint in "medium" all over my face it is like a foundation/primer but it really is just a tinted moisturizer so it is good for your skin! Dream tint is anti aging, it hydrates your skin, has SPF, calms inflammation, and actually lets your skin breathe! So if your going to wear makeup it might as well be good makeup right?
Next I use the pressed mineral powder in "golden glow" all over (this is what gives you super good natural looking coverage). The pressed powder gives you semi-matte coverage but it also has SPF, it's water proof, crease resistant, minimizes fine lines and pores, and you could also wear it without Dream Tint as your powder and foundation! Plus, it conceals too.
After that I spray my face to "set" the minerals with Jane Iredale's Pom Mist (this is optional) but I love it! Next I apply the Moon Glow! Moon Glow is a bronzer/highlighter/eyeshadow in one! It gives you the most amazing bronze and most importantly no oompa loompa orange face! That is not cute! You can also use moonglow as eyeshadow and a highlighter I take the golden color in the quad and use it down the center of my nose and on the top of my cheek bones then blend for a beautiful highlight! There are so many things you can do with moonglow I could go on and on. In the summer you can just wear pressed powder and moonglow and be set. It is a really versatile product and because it is waterproof you can put it on your chest, arms, and legs! You can look at all of the Jane Iredale products on http://www.janeiredale.com/. Also a friend of mine who is a makeup artist in Midland, Ashlee Rice, sells it at her makeup studio here in Midland called Let's Face It! http://www.letsfaceitstudio.com/ Ashlee used all of these products in the photos for my engagement pictures she is an awesome and talented lady! You can set up an appointment with her if you are in the Midland area and she can match you and tell you everything you need! That is how I got started using it! I hope everyone finds this helpful! Much Love!
Anyway, I use these 3 products everyday! I will tell you how to apply them to get flawless skin! First I apply dream tint in "medium" all over my face it is like a foundation/primer but it really is just a tinted moisturizer so it is good for your skin! Dream tint is anti aging, it hydrates your skin, has SPF, calms inflammation, and actually lets your skin breathe! So if your going to wear makeup it might as well be good makeup right?
Next I use the pressed mineral powder in "golden glow" all over (this is what gives you super good natural looking coverage). The pressed powder gives you semi-matte coverage but it also has SPF, it's water proof, crease resistant, minimizes fine lines and pores, and you could also wear it without Dream Tint as your powder and foundation! Plus, it conceals too.
After that I spray my face to "set" the minerals with Jane Iredale's Pom Mist (this is optional) but I love it! Next I apply the Moon Glow! Moon Glow is a bronzer/highlighter/eyeshadow in one! It gives you the most amazing bronze and most importantly no oompa loompa orange face! That is not cute! You can also use moonglow as eyeshadow and a highlighter I take the golden color in the quad and use it down the center of my nose and on the top of my cheek bones then blend for a beautiful highlight! There are so many things you can do with moonglow I could go on and on. In the summer you can just wear pressed powder and moonglow and be set. It is a really versatile product and because it is waterproof you can put it on your chest, arms, and legs! You can look at all of the Jane Iredale products on http://www.janeiredale.com/. Also a friend of mine who is a makeup artist in Midland, Ashlee Rice, sells it at her makeup studio here in Midland called Let's Face It! http://www.letsfaceitstudio.com/ Ashlee used all of these products in the photos for my engagement pictures she is an awesome and talented lady! You can set up an appointment with her if you are in the Midland area and she can match you and tell you everything you need! That is how I got started using it! I hope everyone finds this helpful! Much Love!
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