Tutorial: Ombre Lips

Hey everyone! I got a request to do a tutorial on an ombre lip. I thought this would be fun to do because it is way easier than it looks! Let's jump into it then!

Start out by hydrating your lips. I used Mayblline Baby Lips in Quenched. It is a clear moisturizer, so I can put it under these products. Select a lip liner and a lipstick of your choice. Any colors will do.

Line the outer corners of the mouth using your lip liner. it doesn't have to be perfect at all! Just line as much of the corners as you would like. Above is how I typically do mine. 

Next you are going to want to apply your lipstick starting in the middle bare part of your lips. You will want to overlap the lipstick with the lip liner a little bit to give a gradient effect. I like to push my lips together and rub them back and forth slightly to help with blending. Play around with it until you get it the way you would like.

This is how it should look when you're finished. Something similar to the above photo. It's also nice to pop a little bit of lip gloss in the middle of your lips to make it shiny, but that step is strictly optional!

Let me know your thoughts on this tutorial!

Depotting Wet n Wild Shadows

Happy Saturday lovelies! I decided to share my first attempts at depotting eyeshadows with you all. I will show you what I created and give you some background on how I did it. The above photo is a wallet that I converted into a makeup palette. I bought it for $2 at Rue21. You can buy these wallets that snap closed pretty much anywhere. I went to Rue21 because I was able to buy them 2 for $10 and that one was on clearance. 

Here is the inside of the palette from up above. I depotted my Wet n Wild shadows using the method below.

Steps to depot: 

1. Heat your oven to approximately 215-220 degrees Fahrenheit. 

2. Put down aluminum foil onto a baking pan

3. Place your eyeshadow palettes OPEN on top of the aluminum foil

4. Bake in your oven for about 5 minutes (you may need more for the larger Wet n Wild palettes)

5. Remove from oven

6. Take a knife and try to pry the shadows out from the corner where the pan connects to the palette. *If it does not come loose, put back into oven for a few more minutes*

7. Be patient

8. Continue Process until all shadows are dislodged from their original palettes

9. Gut your wallet by ripping out the inside pockets.

10. Buy magnet strips or some type of magnet and super glue them to the bottom of the wallet.

11. Attach magnets with super glue to the back of each pan to ensure that they will not come loose.

12. Arrange how you want in your palette.

13. Enjoy and be happy!

Here's what some of the shadows look like once they were popped out of their original pans.

I do recommend grieving the loss of any shadows that were destroyed during the process. As you can tell, some of my shadows were damaged during the process. 

Here is the second palette that I created. I put the more damaged shadows into this one.  

 Let me know what you think about this post and if you have ever tried depotting before! 

FOTD/Tutorial: Green and Black Liner

 Hi everyone! Today was my very first time trying cream (gel) liner, so I thought it would be fun to do look using it. CVS is having a 2/$3 sale on WetnWild eye, lips, or nail products. I purchased Wet n Wild Mega Eyes creme liner in black, which I used for this look. I also purchased the WetnWild Cool as a Cucumber trio. This is my first time ever using WetnWild eyeshadow. Be sure to stay tuned for a review on my opinions on the products. I'll be sure to do a full review of them later!
How I did this look:
1. Prime your eyes. I used ELF eyelid primer. You can purchase it at Target for $1 and I love it!

2. Using the gel liner, create a cat eye/winged liner that goes up from your lower lash line. This will give the shape in the photo to the left. 

3. Line your lower lash line about halfway over.

4. Using a smudger brush (I use mine from BH Cosmetics), smudge the outside corner of the shape you have created. Also be sure to smudge the eyeliner across your lower lash line. The lines should be soft, but not messy. Be sure to clean up any smudging that gets too out of the shape. I like to clean the shape up by taking a face wipe and wiping in the same up direction from my lower lash line (just like when creating the cateye).

5. Using a small brush, pack the dark green from the Wet n Wild Cool as a Cucumber trio on top of the black liner that you have created. You want to focus the color on the outer 1/2 of the lid. Be sure that the color is not too high on your lid because you want the shape to look like eyeliner still. 

6. Take the smudger brush and smudge out the green shadow to create a softer effect. You can also use a blending brush to soften it up. 

7. Curl lashes and apply mascara. I applied my mascara more heavily on the outer corner of the eye to emphasize the cat eye more.

8. Clean up any fallout under your eye.

9. Apply Garnier BB cream all over your face. Set the BB cream with a translucent powder. I like to set my BB cream with NYC's translucent powder. Keep the cheeks somewhat dewy.

10. Apply blush to the top of your cheek bones. I used ULTA cheek color in flush. Contour with bronzer as wanted/needed.

11. Apply lip color. I used Wet n Wild Megashield Lip color in 369S Salsa Lessons.

I hope you all enjoyed this look/tutorial. Be sure to comment and let me know what you think.

xMissgumdrop

Tutorial: Makeup Challenge - Girl's night out

 Hi everyone! Today's makeup challenge was to create a look for a girl's night out. I really did not want to do a super dark smokey eye because I haven't been using color very often lately. I looked into my BH cosmetics palette when I saw this beautiful pastel greenish color. I instantly fell in love with it and decided to create a sort of smokey eye using it. I also thought it might be helpful to sort of explain how I created this look. This will be my first ever attempt at any kind of tutorial, so I would greatly appreciate it if you would let me know what you thought about the process. Well, let's get started!



Tutorial Directions:
Step 1 - Creating the Base:  
To begin creating this look, you should put down an eyeshadow primer to keep your eyeshadow lasting all day (or in this case night). I chose to use Elf's Eyelid primer that is only $1 at Target. I've found that it works great. After you have your eyelid primer down, put a white base down to make the pastel green show up brighter and more vibrant. I chose to use NYX jumbo eye pencil in Milk. Using your finger, spread it all over the eye until it is mostly blended out.

Step 2 - Creating the Shape:
This step is the most time consuming (at least for me!). To begin creating your shape, use an eyeliner pencil and draw a line from the lash line up and around to your crease area. I have created a red line to show you how to do this.

Once you have created this line with the eyeliner pencil, take a smudge brush and begin to smudge the liner across the shape you have created. You want to get rid of the harsh line from the eyeliner WITHOUT losing the shape. You should also take the smudge brush and pull the eyeshadow down onto the lid from the line. Keep doing this until it looks exactly like you want it to look.



Step 3 - Filling in the Color
After the shape is how you want, it is time to get the color filled in. It is best to fill in the black in the outer-V shape that you created. Put just a little bit of black shadow (I used a matte black from BH Cosmetics.) Use a blending brush and blend it in a circular motion to keep the shadow concentrated in that area. Taking the green pastel color, work from the outer-V to the corner of your eye by patting the shadow onto the lid. Blend the color into the black to create the gradient effect. If you lose too much of the black, make sure to fill it back in to keep the corners darker. Taking a light highlighter color, use your fingers (or a brush) to apply the color to your brow bone to make your eyes pop. Your makeup should be looking like something similar to this picture to the right. Remember to BLEND BLEND BLEND.

Step 4 - Eyeliner and Mascara
The 4th step would be to line your upper lash line with a liquid or cream eyeliner. This will pull the smokey look together. I also smudged black shadow under neath my lower lash line to smoke out the eye even more. Use a eyelash curler to curl your lashes and then apply your favorite mascara. Make sure to apply mascara to your lower lashes, too! (If you prefer fake lashes, this would be the time to apply them). Line your lower waterline with black mascara and smudge it using the smudge brush.

Step 5 - Finishing the Face
After that is done, you should apply your foundation. I used a foundation brush and carefully colored the area around my eye makeup with the foundation. Apply your blush to your cheek bones by making a fishy face. I used ELF Fushia Fusion blush (which I love!) I applied a lipstick by NYX called "Margarita" to finish off the look.

The final look is here to the left! I think this look is very pretty and nice to wear out. It is a little more subtle if you are not so comfortable wearing DARK DARK eyeshadows. I hope you all enjoyed my first tutorial. :)

 Here are the colors that I used.

Products used are featured here in this photo. I did forget to picture the NYX jumbo eye pencil in Milk and the ELF eyelid primer!