Hi everyone!
So this is my first blog post, I figured now is as good a time as any to start making some blog posts! I just uploaded a cranberry eyeshadow tutorial to bring out green eyes. I think I'll do more of these videos for various eye colors! Let me know if that's something you guys would like to see! Below I'll have all the steps on how I achieved this look and skip to the end if you just want a list of the products I used. I'll have list of the products I applied to my face and lips as well even though this wasn't incorporated into the video for timing purposes!
Eyes (steps, list of products will be below):
Step 1:
I started off with my all time FAVORITE eyeshadow base:
Laura Mercier's Eye Basics in the color Wheat






Step 6: I used a shimmer purple from Coastal Scent's 88 Metal Mania palette (last row, 5 over from the right side, right next to the clip). I picked this up with a MAC 214 brush (which is a similar dense brush to the loved 239 brush, but it is thinner, more precise, and the hair's are shorter). I used this to place the purple color in the outer corner of my eye and into the crease. The color just adds a nice purple glow to the outer region of my eye, but could be omitted if you like.

Step 8: I picked up some Brule eyeshadow, which is a flesh tone beige color, with a MAC 219 pencil brush and highlighted my tear duct and inner 1/5 of my eye. I used the same color with a large MAC 227 paddle brush and highlighted under my eyebrow. This brush will also soften the edge of your shadow and refine the blending even more!
Step 9: Almost done! Haha. So at this point I take the same Coastal Scent's purple eyeshadow and I use it for a liner with Make Up For Ever's Eye Seal (a liquid which turns a powder shadow into a liquid liner), and Sonia Kashuk's Arc Liner brush. I put a couple drops of the Eye Seal into a dish and again pick up my shadow on my brush BEFORE wetting it, for the same reason as above. I line from the 2/5 of my eye outward, reserving the inner corner so as to not close off my eye. This doesn't add much more than a glossy, slightly more defined, upper lash line, because the color is so similar to that of the lid, so you could skip on this step if you wanted.
Step 10: I removed the shadow guard at this point and picked up some more of the MAC Cranberry and mixed it with MAC's Star Violet shadow and smudged it into my lower lash line with the 214 brush (not going into the tear duct though).

Step 12: Mascara and then eyes are done! I curled my lashes with Shu Uemeura's lash curler (MAC's lash curler is IDENTICAL). (I used two different mascara's, which will be clear why in my next video haha) I used Lancome Hypnose mascara on one eye, and CG's Lash Exact Fusion on the other.
Face:
Foundation: NARS Sheer Glow Foundation in Barcelona, applied with a MAC 131 brush and then MAC Mineralize Skin Finish Natural in Medium used to set foundation with a MAC 182 kabuki brush.
Bronzer: Tarte's Mineral Bronzing Powder in Park Ave Princess buffed into face with the same MAC 182 brush. I used the one with shimmer but a matte one is also available in the same color.
Cheeks: MAC Earth to Earth Mineralize Blush applied to apples with a MAC 108 Brush and then highlighted with MAC Shimpagne Mineralize Skin Finish which sadly is limited edition (my FAVE! Soft and Gentle MSF which is permanent is absolutely identical when swatted!) It is incredibly pigmented though, which is why I used a long haired duo fibre for a very light application!
Eyebrows: Filled in with MAC lingering mechanical brow pencil.
Lips: MAC Equality lipstick
Eye makeup:
Laura Mercier Eye Basics Wheat
NARS Cream shadow in Zardoz
MAC Cranberry
MAC Brule
MAC Star Violet
Coastal Scent's 88 Metal Mania Palette purple eyeshadow (Last row, 5 over from right side)
Make Up For Ever Eye Seal
MAC Fix +
Sephora Flashy Liner in Flashy Blue
Lancome Hypnose Mascara
Cover Girl Lash Exact Fusion Mascara
Lipstick:
MAC Equality
Face products:
NARS Sheer Glow Foundation in Barcelona
MAC Mineralize Skin Finish in Medium Plus
Tarte Mineral Bronzing powder in Park Ave Princess
MAC Earth to Earth Mineralize blush
MAC Shimpagne Mineralize Skin Finish
Brushes (eye):
MAC 225
Quo Concealer brush
Walmart Large Shader Brush
MAC 214
MAC 219
MAC 224
MAC 227
Sonia Kashuk Arc Liner brush
Brushes (face):
MAC 131
MAC 188
MAC 108
MAC 182
Comment and let me know if you like when all the steps are written out or if you would just rather I only write down the product list! I thought I'd do both for my first blog post just to see how you guys felt about it! Also I have a poll going on at the moment and I'd love to know what you guys would like to see for my next video! I will do them in order of the numbers of votes if I get enough where I can determine places! :)
Hope you're all doing well, see you all in the next video or in the next post!
Love you all!
--K-A <3
Love your blog! your posts are so in-depth! Thanks for taking the time to do that! <3 Nikki
ReplyDeleteHow do you get your teeth so white?
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ReplyDeleteHey there! Well last year during the summer I used those Crest white strips that stick to your teeth, I LOVE THEM, and then this summer for a bday gift I got a treatment done in office but the girl warned me that my teeth weren't likely to whiten (they were as light as the lightest shade they had available for post whitening swatches) because she said that Crest white strips work as well as in office bleaching (I had laser bleaching done) and that it just takes longer so that's why I didn't get any results. It's great news for future, but I was bummed at the time because I really wanted paper white teeth haha
Thanks so much for the question!
@Nikki
ReplyDeleteAwww thanks so much Nikki, I wanted to be able to explain what I did in the tutorial in case someone that didn't see the video saw this. Thanks so much for following me! I love your blog! <3 K-A
Love your videos! Do you use sephora flashy liners for a regular liner or specifically for inner lids. Do you have allergies to any makeup? Can you do a video on your skincare routine morning and night?
ReplyDelete@AnonymousAww thank you so much! I use the flashy liners for everything, on the waterline, above the lashline and on the lower lashline as well! Love them!!! I don't have allergies per se but I do break out very frequently from foundations if they have things like silicone or irritants in them. I have super sensitive skin! I will be doing a video hopefully sometime early this week if all goes as planned for my skincare routine! Thank you so much for your comment!! :)
ReplyDeleteHi beautiful girl! :) I also have green eyes so I want to try apply your tips. I already have some MAC cosmetics (it's my favorite) but I absolutely love that palette set you have (with cranberry color in it). How and where can I buy the whole set? I would really appreciate your advice!!! Thank you!
ReplyDelete@Maycha Hey girl, I'm so sorry to have to tell you this but I made that set myself by buying all the individual colors from MAC http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aQHAOd7n7rM/TLbsUKwUVhI/AAAAAAAAAHM/lU1N5ZBCOQs/s1600/Reds+and+Purples+Palette.jpg is the actual palette with the names next to each color (some are limited edition and will have (L.E) in brackets under the eyeshadow color. And then the post on the eyeshadows is here: http://moonbeamshimmers.blogspot.com/2010/10/my-mac-eyeshadow-palettes.html
ReplyDeleteWhat I do is buy a MAC Palette (which you can buy in store or online, in store you need to ask a girl to get you one) and then I buy the eyeshadows in pan form which is also about 4 dollars cheaper than in the pot! :) I hope that helps.
I just came across your blog searching for cranberry eyeshadow. I recently did and "eras" photoshoot for a friend and the makeup artist used cranberry and I fell in love. my eyes had never looked so green!! Thank you for this tutorial! Ps....your eyelashes are gorgeous. any tips on how to lengthen/volumize for the same effect?
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