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Saturday, March 28, 2015
Fresh Floral Lace Motif Nails Art Design
Floral Lace Motif Mani with Chelsea King
The inspiration: Chelsea
picked three polishes that felt fresh (teal, lime-green, and white) to
lay down the ultimate summery mani inspired by two of the season’s
biggest trends—floral and lace.
1: Start with clean nails and a base coat.
2: Then,
paint your base layer: the nail on your index finger in lime green, and
all other nails in teal. Do two coats, then let your nails dry for at
least 5 minutes.
3: Brush
some white polish onto a piece of foil. “It’s helpful to have a small
palette that you can work on and foil is more durable than paper, which
absorbs polish quickly,” says Chelsea. Dip your fine brush into the
white and paint 2 to 3 small circles randomly on each nail. (These will
form the center of the flowers.) Here, we did 3 circles on the index
finger and thumb, and 2 circles on the remaining nails.
4: Next,
using your fine brush, paint 4 to 5 “petals” per circle to create
flowers, as pictured. Chelsea recommends first painting a fine “V,” and
then rounding the tops to create each petal.
5: Outline each flower in white, as pictured.
6: Paint
diagonal stripes along each nail, making sure not to strike through any
of the flowers. Go back and add another layer of diagonal stripes, in
the opposite direction, to create a web like pattern that resembles lace,
as pictured.
7: Finish with top coat, and you’re done!
Blogger : Catherine Bell
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How to Contour : Basic | Makeup
Knowing how to contour is
an important skill as all makeup applications involve contouring on
some level. But to many, the thought of doing it at home seems
inaccessible and a little too tricky. But it's easier than you think!
“Basically, all makeup is contouring,” says Los Angeles-based makeup
artist Brande Bytheway. “When you contour, all you’re doing is
accentuating your natural features.” To get the technique down, we had
Brande walk us through the how-to's and tools to create a basic look
using contouring.
This approach will look different on every person, depending on the
shape of the features. Brande’s one piece of advice: practice, practice,
practice. Try it, play around, and discover what works on your face.
“It’s not as complicated as it seems,” Brande swears. “Some people do it
every day!”
When you learn how to contour there are two main techniques:
lowlighting and highlighting. Lowlighting refers to using a darker color
wherever there’s an area of the face or feature you want to recede or
de-emphasize. Brande recommends a hue about three shades darker than
your own skin—and making sure your product is matte, never frosted or
shimmery. The opposite of lowlighting is highlighting—this you do on
areas you want to emphasize or bring forward. For highlight, you can use
either matte or frosted/shimmery color, whichever you prefer.
Here’s how to do a basic contour on the cheeks, nose, eyes, and jaw.
For this tutorial, we used powder eye shadows from Inglot. Make Up For
Ever’s sculpting kits also get Brande’s thumbs-up; check out this quick
guide to contour kits at every price for more ideas, too.
Cheekbones
According to Brande, the first thing most people want to contour are
the cheekbones. To start, try receding the hollow of the cheek. You can
find the hollow of cheek right underneath the cheekbone—there, apply
your darker lowlight shadow using an angled medium or large brush. We
used taupe-y brown here.
Every area you lowlight, you want to balance with a highlight. After
receding the hollow of the cheek, counter that by making cheekbones
stand out. To do that, brush on a frosted gloss or light shadow along
the cheekbones, and blend out toward the temple.
Nose
This is a basic strategy to slim down the nose just a bit (which
remember, may not work on every face). For the nose, use the same
lowlight shade you used for cheeks. Start at inner corner of brow and
apply down either side of the nose.
Next, apply your highlight down the bridge of the nose. For the nose,
always use matte product, even for highlighting. “Generally speaking,
people don’t want the nose or T-zone to look shiny, so in those areas,
I’d stay away from frost or shimmer,” Brande explains. Finally, blend
the two together using a brush.
Eyes
To make the eyes pop in two simple steps, start with your lowlight. Apply into the crease of the lid and blend well.
Then, counter that with a highlight, brushed right along the browbone.
Jaw
To lowlight, apply your darker shadow below the jaw along the
jawline, right where the jaw meets the neck. Then blend down into the
neck using a clean brush, so you don’t have a line.
Then, highlight right on top of the jawline, and blend together. Be
careful not to go all the way around to the chin here. You want to
highlight on the sides, along the mandible. “If you go all the way
forward to the chin, it can make the chin look bigger, like it’s jutting
forward,” says Brande.
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Pop and Famous Smokey Eyes and Beauty Makeup
TOOL #1: TAPE
You can use regular scotch tape to draw a super-perfect cat eye. After applying your eye primer (try Too Faced Shadow Insurance),
grab a 2-inch strip tape and press it into your hand to make it a
little less sticky. Then apply the tape at an angle from your lower
eyelid. You can adjust the angle according to how dramatic you want the
winged line to be. Using liquid liner (we love Stila’s pen version),
draw a line from the inner corner of the lid to the outer corner along
the edge of the tape. Peel off the tape and repeat on the other eye. You
can also do this with dark shadow for a softer look with a dramatic
edge, as we did here.
Masking and scotch tapes are also great for cleaning up fallout from
glitter products! We love glitters (like the dramatic silver used
here, Marilin Monroe from Lit)—but know the sparkles can sometimes land
where you don’t want them to. Here, after applying, we lightly pressed a
fresh piece of tape onto the skin to pick up errant flakes without
disturbing our undereye concealer.
TOOL #2: BUSINESS CARD
Do you ever get those telltale mascara streaks along your brow bone?
It happens if you’ve got super long lashes OR if you blink too hard or
look up too quickly before the mascara is dry. Then you’ve gotta go back
over it with a Q-tip dipped in eye makeup remover, and risk screwing up
your beautiful eyeshadow job. Our tip: skip the remover step, and use a
business card for no-smudge perfection.
Before you put on your mascara, hold an business card between your
eyelid and your lash root. This creates a barrier so you can get at
lashes with your mascara wand to your heart’s content. Keep the card
there, and apply as many coats as you like—keep it in place and blink
your lashes help them dry.
You can also use the straight edge of the card to catch dark shadow fallout, like we did.
TOOL #3: ENVELOPE
We got this dramatic RuPaul-esque look with the help of an envelope.
To try it, hold an envelope just under your cheekbone. Swipe a blush
brush into the cheek color of your choice (make sure there’s a lot of
pigment on the bristles) and follow the line of the envelope.
Concentrate the majority of the hue along the edge where your cheek
meets the envelope, and blend upward. (Tip: a cut cheek looks great with
acut crease!)
For a more subtle take, use the above technique for bronzer to
contour, and then be sure to blend the harsh edge at the bottom with a
sponge to get natural-looking cheekbones to die for!
Who knew our cubicle stockpile was hiding so many beauty tricks?
We’re still wondering if there’s a makeup-related way to repurpose
staples. Do you have any office-supply tricks up your sleeve? Please
share with us in the comments!
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