Nerd's Candy!

I had to run some errands today and decided to post my look for today. I've worn this look a couple of times now and I REALLY love it. So I figured I'd give everyone a look!

This mascara creates some AMAZING lashes!

love the hint of green at the bottom there.

I started off with Urban Decay's Primer Potion. I then applied a white cream (it's actually that white halloween makeup) to my eyes and let it dry a bit, this stuff actually works REALLY nicely as an eyeshadow base. You MUST use a primer underneath though because it WILL crease on its own. I got the tube for 67 cents, and its gonna last me for a LONG time *score!*. I then took a paddle brush and started to pack on the teal blue (Urban Decay's, Electric). I then worked on the crease using the a mix of the two purples from the Physician's Formula POP Eyez collection (for green eyes). And to blend it out and brighten them up a little I added a mineral eyeshadow from L.A. Colors in Purple. I made sure to blend all these colors nicely. I then added a bit of the light blue shimmery color (from the Physician's Formula palette) to the middle of the lid to add a bit of dimension because the Electric eyeshadow is a matte color. Lastly I just took a white color from my NYX palette as my highlight. I then took my Maybelline gel liner in black to my waterline and set it with the black from my NYX palette. I then took a tiny bit of the light blue eyeshadow again (from the physicians formula palette), and added to my inner eyes (tear duct), and to tone it down I added a bit of the white shimmer from the same pallete to open up the eyes. To add a little bit of flare , I then took the bright green towards the bottom of the palette to line my lower lash line and bring out a wing. To finish off the eyes I added Urban Decay Supercurl mascara and filled in my brows with darkest brown in my NYX palette.

I then got started on my face. First I applied my Hard Candy primer and my foundation over top. I then added blush to the apples of my cheeks. I finished off the face with Urban Decays finishing powder and blended it in with a fluffy brush. And I set all my face make up with Urban Decay's setting spray. Lastly I added a bit of lip color to finish off my entire look! I hope you enjoy it!


Products Used:

EYES

Urban Decay Primer Potion (original formula)

Eyeshadow: Physicians Formula Shimmer Strips Custom Eye Enhancing Shadow (for green eyes)

Urban Decay: Electric eyeshadow matte

L.A. COLORS: Purple #BME498

Urban Decay: Supercurl Mascara

eyebrows: NYX Champagne and Caviar brown color (3rd from color bottom row)

FACE

Foundation: Revlon ColorStay in 150 Buff

Blush: elf's blush and bronzer duo

Urban Decay's Razor Sharp Ultra-Definition Finishing Powder

All Nighter Setting Spray

LIPS

Lipstick: NYC Ultra moist Lipwear in Blossom #316

Brushes Used:

Elf Concealer Brush(studio line) to pack color onto the lid

Elf Crease Brush (studio line)to apply color to the the crease

Elf eyeshadow (essential line) brush for the highlight

Elf blending brush (essential line) to blend all the colors seamlessly together.

Elf blush brush (studio line) to apply blush and contour with elfs bronzer

Elf concealer brush (essential line) to fill in my eyebrows

Elf's Concealer brush (essential line--I have 2 of these) to apply color to my inner tear duct

blueberry frosting!

Got a new look for you today, it's called Blueberry Frosting! Its a beautiful frosty light blue on the lid and a darker teal blue in the crease, and a white with green duo chrome as a highlight. I used the Physician's Formula palette for the "green eyes" for this tutorial today. So here's all the complete pics and what I did and used:

I started off with Elf's eyelid primer potion (I save my Urban Decay for when I'm going out).  I then used my my Elf concealer brush from the studio line to pack the lightest blue color (4th one down) onto the lid. I then took a crease brush and applied the darker teal color (under the light blue, 5th color down) into the crease. I had to keep adding more to the color to get the desired color payoff and just continued to blend. I made sure the lid color and the crease color blended nicely together . I then added the white (with green duo chrome) from the top of the palette as my highlight color on my brow bone. I then took a dark brown eyeshadow color from my NYX (champagne and Caviar) palette, and filled in my brows. Next, I applied black eyeliner to my waterline and 1 coat of black mascara to my upper lashes only (anything on the lower lashes smudges almost immediately). To finish off the eyes, I took the lightest color from the Physicians formula (top color) and applied it to the inner corner/tear duct area of my eyes.

I then applied my foundation using my fingers, making sure to get nice even coverage. Finally I took my blush/bronzer duo and contoured my cheeks and applied blush to the apples and swept it up to my temples. My last step was to apply my lipstick.

Products Used:

EYES

Elf's eyelid primer (nude)

Eyeshadow: Physicians Formula Shimmer Strips Custom Eye Enhancing Shadow (for green eyes)

Eyeliner: Avon glimmersitck in Blackest Night #G04

Mascara: Avon SuperFULL in Black #S21

FACE

Foundation: Revlon ColorStay in 150 Buff

Blush: elf's blush and bronzer duo

eyebrows: NYX Champagne and Caviar brown color (3rd from color bottom row)

LIPS

Lipstick: NYC Ultra moist Lipwear in Blossom #316


Brushes Used:

Elf Concealer Brush(studio line) to pack color onto the lid

Elf Crease Brush (studio line)to apply color to the the crease

Elf eyeshadow (essential line) brush for the highlight

Elf blending brush (essential line) to blend all the colors seamlessly together.

Elf blush brush (studio line) to apply blush and contour with elfs bronzer

Elf concealer brush (essential line) to fill in my eyebrows

Elf's Concealer brush (essential line--I have 2 of these) to apply color to my inner tear duct

pink limeade smoothie tutorial!

I have another new look for you all today. It's called Pink Limeade Smoothie. I did the entire look using the Physician's Formula Shimmer collection for "green eyes", that I reviewed in my last post. I got a lot of compliments on this look. Even one from my boss at work, she said, " I didn't notice before, but your eyeshadow looks nice! It really brings out the color of your eyes!". One of my customer's said, "Not too many people can pull of those colors, it looks amazing on you!" So I'm quite happy with the look and I hope you guys give it a try!  Also I want to add, I did this make up look at 9 this morning, and I didn't take these pictures til around 6 p.m. So with Urban Decay's primer potion underneath, these shadows last amazingly well, and it was 92 degrees here today!

Physician's Formula Shimmer Strips Review!

Ok so I got paid yesterday, therefore I went shopping. Which pretty much means, NEW makeup! So I have been eyeing the Physicians Formula Shimmer Strips Custom Eye Enhancing Shadow. I decided on the "green eyes" collection. It had the most beautiful colors, plus a wide array of different colors. And wow, this was an AWESOME buy. At just under 10 dollars I got 9 beautiful eyeshadows, all are really nicely pigmented, and with a good primer will last ALL day. My next post will have a tutorial using this palette, but the pictures were taken 9 hours after it was applied with NO touch ups (plus a 6 hour work shift in between) and it still looked beautiful! But back to the review..here are some swatches broken down with my reviews: