Follow Your Nose

Hola peeps! So I entered yet ANOTHER MakeUp Bee contest, this time Inglot is hosting a tropical theme. Initially I wanted to do a look based on all of the awesome flowers I had seen on my trips to Ecuador and Costa Rica.

I had such high hopes! :(

Alas, my first attempt at that had disastrous results (in my opinion) and I decided I needed to go another route. I decided to find another means on inspiration, and being that I am an animal lover, that's the way I went. First I was gonna go with a fish, but then I decided on a toucan. Since my name is Sam, why not base my look on Toucan Sam, the mascot of Froot Loops? So I googled pictures of toucans and pick out an awesome one to gather inspiration from. And here goes a pretty much step-by-step of how it went:

• Slather my eyes with e.l.f. primer and NYX eyeshadow base with my finger. My face is also covered in Hard Candy bronzer, I figured if it's tropical, you gotta be tan and golden (bronzed, if you will). My lips are left over from the first look, and by the time I finished my makeup the second time, I decided not to changed them. Initially I was going to paint them black. This is Maybelline's Coral Crush with a bit of MAC's Magenta Madness pigment (which i then accidentally spilled all over myself and my bed) in the middle

• With my MUFE Flash palette, add yellow detailing across my upper eyelid, then went over it with Sugarpill's Buttercupcake and another yellow from the BH Cosmetics' 120 palette, 1st edition.

• I then went in and added the rest of the colors: Sugarpill's Asylum, NYX's Jade Pearl and Baby Blue Pearl. As you can see I applied it really messy, I was only careful with the edges where the colors met.

• I then went in with my Maybelline Master Precise eyeliner pen and UD's Perversion and added black details/eyeliner to make it look more like a toucan. I think it was at this point that I forgot so take more step by step pictures. Whoops! I also took the black from the flash palette and drew a black line down the middle of my lips. Then I just added mascara and cleaned up the edges with a makeup wipe! TADA, I'm done!

Don't the plants just scream "TROPICAL!" ? Instead of "my front yard!"

I hope you guys like this look! If you do and you're on Makeup Bee, go vote for me!!! https://www.makeupbee.com/look.php?look_id=49073

HASTA LUEGO!

Rasta Baby

Just a quick look I threw together, I tried it recently when I was in Costa Rica, but it was totally rushed then so I wanted to give it another go. I think even though I messed up it turned out pretty well and I can't wait to try it out for a night on the town.

PRODUCTS USED:

Sugarpill Cosmetics in- Love+, Asylum, Buttercupcake, Bulletproof

Sephora Prisma chrome in No 20 Gold Reflection

NYX ultra pearl mania in #30 Jade pearl

Pixi Endless Silky Eyepen in No 1 Black/Noir

Maybelline Master precise eyeliner in Black

e.l.f. primer

NYX eyeshadow base

Maybelline Mega Plush Volum' Express mascara in Blackest Black

NYC lipstick in Retro Red (308)

NYC Kiss Gloss mixed with Asylum

Initially I was going to use all matte colors for this, but on a whim I decided to use the NYX green to fill in the outer corner. I had never used it, and it seemed like a good bright (but not neon or lime) green. While I loved the color, I didn't want only the outer corners to have a shimmer, so I went over the Love+ with Asylum and over the Buttercupcake with the Sephora gold. The green was pretty stubborn once it was in place on the lid, so I ended up mixing the black with green instead of just putting black on my outer V and crease. Fortunately, I still like how the greenish black turned out.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the precision of the Maybelline liner! They don't call it Master Precise for nothing! It's really good for making thin but noticeable lines. I'm not great at liquid liner, but this felt tip is super easy to work with, build up, and make awesome finishing touches to your look.

Hope you guys enjoyed....

HASTA LUEGO!

Best Served Cold

Hola, Peeps! Here's my next tutorial, YAY! I got the inspiration from a video on Youtube by BionicVaporGirl. She used the (now discontinued) Sugarpill palette in Cold Heart. Since I have all of the pressed shadows, I still had all of them, but it involved both palettes and my single Bulletproof. So here goes nothing!

Eyes:
MUFE Flash Color in White
Sugarpill Burning Heart palette, Poison Plum
Sugarpill Sweetheart palette, Tako and Afterparty
Sugarpill pressed shadow, Bulletproof
e.l.f. eyelid primer
e.l.f. waterproof eyeliner pen
Maybelline Falsies Volum' Express
Pixi by Petra eyeliner in No.1 Black Noir

Lips:
Victoria's Secret lipgloss in Cherry Bomb
NYC lipstick in Garnet (not pictured, oops!)

First as usual, I primed my eyes. Then I put down a white base, using a small concealer brush and my finger. Then all across my top lid I put Afterparty.

After that, I went in with a contour brush and filled in the outer corner and my crease with Bulletproof. Getting  both eyelids to look even was a bit tricky, and honestly I'm not sure it ever got that way. But hey, what can you do?

After that was sufficient, I went to the inner corners and added a bit of Tako, just to make it stand out a bit. I forgot to take a picture of that step though. :-( After that, I did my bottom lid in Poison Plum.

YAY! So finished with the hard part. Then all I had to do was go in with the eyeliner pencil on my water line an the eyeliner pen on my top lid. I'm getting better at drawing straight lines, woo hoo! Also added some mascara on my top and bottom lashes.

Then, for the FIRST TIME EVER, I successfully put on some false lashes. They were some half-lashes that went in the outer corner. While I did get them on successfully, my camera didn't want to focus during those pictures, so they're a bit fuzzy, lo siento.

Then my scary face! AHHHH!!!

Yeah, so hope you enjoyed this one, try it out let me know how it goes and all that jazz...

HASTA LUEGO!

First Makeup Tutorial

Ok, so here's my first attempt at writing a makeup tutorial, we'll see how it goes. So the first look that I'm cataloging is one that I came across on Sugarpill's Facebook page. I've worn this look a few times, and I figured it was the perfect look to try this with. I figure the simplest way to do this is just jump right in and include lots of pictures, so here goes nothing!

So this is the look I'm recreating. First, here are the products:

Eyes:
Urban Decay Primer Potion
NYX Eyeshadow Base in White
Sugarpill Burning Heart palette, Poison Plum
Sugarpill Sweetheart palette, Afterparty, Dollipop, and Tako
Tokidoki Perfetto Eyeliner in Sabochan
Sephora Jumbo Liner in Violet
Hard Candy Lashaholic super volume mascara in Blackest Black

Brows:
MUFE 12 Flash Color Case in Black (011) and Brown (023)

Lips:
CG Outlast Smoothwear lipliner in Coffee (145)
e.l.f. Luscious Liquid Lipstick in Cherry Tart

So first I put on my UDPP and used a small concealer brush/ my finger to apply the eyeshadow base.

I applied both the UDPP and base to both the upper and lowerlids.

Then using a smudge brush, I applied Poison Plum to the inner inner eyelid. Using the same brush I used the Afterparty and applied it to the outer lid. Both shadows went all the way up to my crease.

Then, after applying both shadows, I took a Sonia Kushuk blending brush, I picked up a little more Afterparty and blended the 2 lid colors together.

If either color gets too overpowered, you can always go back in with more. I tend to used blue to blend them since the Poison Plum is darker, but either way works. Then I took an angled brush and repeated the above process on my lower lid. (This pic is out of focus, but the colors show really well)

Taking a crease brush, I go into my crease with Sugarpills' Dollipop. Then a make sure all 3 colors blend together well. After the blending is done, I usually go back in with more Dollipop to make sure it really stands out.

To make sure I have as much pink as I wanted, I went in with a contour brush and added more Dollipop on my brow bone, as I as I wanted the color to go.I then went in with Tako and my blending brush and added it under my eyebrows as a highlight. Because my skin is dark, and Tako is white, I make sure to add small amounts at a time so that it doesn't look like my eyebrows have been snorting cocaine.

 After finishing my shadow, I added the Sephora violet liner to my waterline and used my tokidoki liner pen on my upper lid to draw cat-eye winged liner, and also on my outer lower lashline. I also used hard Candy Lashaholic mascara on my upper and lower lashes. Then I used the MUFE flash colors to fill in my eyebrows cuz I barely have any. Here's my final look (minus lips)!

 For my lips, I lined them, filled them in with the liner, and then applied the lipstick. TA DA!

Hope you enjoyed!

HASTA LUEGO!