quinta-feira, 13 de junho de 2019
If you find yourself prone to purchasing on impulse or often feel like you purchase products that are well-reviewed, popular, or buzzed about but don’t actually find you love them like you feel you should, this list of tips might help you figure out how to better understand your own preferences and needs and purchasing behavior. In particular, as we approach the end of the year, I imagine there are a few readers who will be looking to start low- or no-buys for 2019. It seems like a lot of us are feeling oversaturated when it comes to beauty products, so it only makes sense that we’ll start to turn to what we already own and getting more out of those products.ASSESS WHAT YOU’VE ALREADY PURCHASED
Before you even think about purchasing another product, STOP! Let’s work through what you’ve purchased in the past, how that’s worked out (or not worked out), and what the takeaways might be from past purchases. By figuring out where you’ve gone right and where you’ve gone wrong, you’ll know what areas have room for improvement.
CREATE A MAKEUP INVENTORY
It’s a good idea to have a good recollection of what products you have as this will ensure that you’re using the products you have regularly. If you get to the point where it’s hard to remember it all, you might want to consider a more formal inventory process, like a spreadsheet, bullet journal, or use Temptalia’s Vanity. The upside to any digital version is that you can easily find or sort by various parameters (like finding out what eyeshadows you have or what MAC products you have).
If you’ve purchased products and returned or otherwise removed them from your stash and you can remember them, consider keeping an additional tab on a spreadsheet or use our Archive functionality in the Vanity (for products you have tried but no longer have). Knowing what didn’t work can be just as useful in building up self-knowledge as knowing what has worked well! If you’ve destashed a dozen liquid lipsticks and kept one, maybe liquid lipsticks aren’t really your thing so you can mentally note to temper excitement in the future if you see a color that catches your eye but comes in a liquid lipstick formula.
If you’re setting up your own spreadsheet or journal, here are some characteristics you might want to include:
- Brand + Shade
- Type of Formula (e.g. Lipstick)
- If a type has enough variety in formulas, you may want to include additional information like loose vs. pressed or liquid vs. cream.
- Color
- Depending on how many products you have and how you think about color (or how you decide what to use), additional parameters like undertone and finish may be useful.
- Price
- You might put the price you paid if you want to keep track of spending or the retail price at the time you purchased.
- Photos/Swatches
- If you’re feeling particularly industrious, you could include your own photos/swatches of the products you own!
I’m warning you now — ONLY wear this makeup when you want to feel like a total bad-@ss capable of capturing, and then breaking, all of the hearts ? in a room within the span of 5 minutes.
This beauty buddy movie pairs two bold focal points together — a messy reddish brown smoky eye and a crisp blackened red matte lip — to create a jammin’ juxtaposition of grungy and glam, and you know I’m all about the contrasts in makeup. 
To keep the overall look approachable and well out of Insta-glam territory, I paired the eyes and lips with moderately matte skin (there’s a semblance of a sheen), casual, messy brows and a warm bronzed mauve cheek.
What you’ll need
Le breakdown…
FACE PRODUCTS
- Face Primer with pearly sheen (BECCCA Backlight)
- Medium coverage liquid matte foundation (NARS Natural Longwear Radient Foundation in Stromboli and Valencia)
- Concealer for your under eye area, if you want (MAC Matchmaster Concealer in 4)
- Face Powder (MAC Mineralize Skinfinish Natural in Golden Tan)
- Warm pinkish mauve powder blush (MAC Extra Dimension in Faux Sure!)
- Peachy tan bronzer (MAC Mineralize Skinfinish Natural in Give Me Sun)
- Matte blackened red lipstick (MAC Retro Matte Liquid Lipstick in Carnivorous)
- Reddish brown lip liner (MAC Mahogany)
EYE MAKEUP
- Brow gel, either clear or a color that matches your brows (Hourglass Arch Brow Volumizing Gel in Warm Brown)
- Two powder eyeshadows: a warm reddish brown powder eyeshadow (MAC Swiss Chocolate) and a glittery bronzy peach (MAC Honey Lust)
- A warm reddish brown eyeliner, ideally something creamy which you can buff out and blend (MAC Costa Riche)
- Mascara (Benefit BAD Gal Bang!)
TOOLS
- Smudge brush (MAC 219S)
- Fluffy angled eyeshadow brush (MAC 275S)
- Blush brush (MAC 127S)
- Flat eyeshadow brush (or, you can just use a finger)
- Something to blend your foundation (BeautyBlender)
- Something to blend your foundation (BeautyBlender)
1. Face (primer) first
Because the smoky eye is a focus of this look, and we want to do it well, if we start with the eyes before we finish the skin, it’ll be easier to clean up any fallout without ruining our foundation…but because the face primer needs time to dry, we’ll start with that first.Choose a face primer with a pearly sheen (for peekaboo shimmer that’s just barely visible beneath the liquid matte foundation you’ll be layering on top), and apply it all over your face.2. Build that (casual) brow!
OK, now, fill in your brows with gel.So we’re making two big statements with this look. One is the blackened red matte lip, and the smoky reddish brown eyes are the other, so bushy, casual-ish brows balance nicely with that IMO.3. Line your upper and lower lash and water lines
Use your reddish brown eyeliner for this, and it’s 100% absolutely OK if it’s messy because you’re just going to smudge the heck out of it in a minute anyway.4. Take a smudge brush to it
Smudge your lower lash line with a smudge brush, and I like to do this early when I’m doing a smoky eye because the corner of where that lower lash liner ends up dictates how far I’ll be taking out the eye makeup (see step 5).
5. So sketchy
Sketch the shape of the smoky eye on your upper lid using your warm reddish brown eyeliner, and the exact shape you choose is up to you. Whatever feels right.I have a semi-hooded lid situation, so I usually (but not always) draw a half moon shape on my lids, and when I get to the outer corner, I use the liner I applied on my lower lash line in the previous step as my guide.Basically, when I’m sketching the shape of the smoky eye on my upper lid, I look at the end of that lower lash line, and I connect it to the corner of the half moon on my upper lid, thereby wrapping the smokey effect around the entire eye for a halo of cohesive color.LOL. I don’t know why, but I just made myself laugh there.6. Blend the edges of the liner on your upper lid
Blur them with a blending brush, but still try to maintain the shape that you carefully sketched in step 5. You want a gradient that goes from dark at the lash line and lightens as it moves up toward your brow bone.Any blending brush should do, but I prefer to use small, semi-fluffy angled eyeshadow brushes for this.I place the short bristles along the edge of the half moon, then gently blend the liner using careful, controlled back-and-forth strokes to keep the liner from going all the way up to my brows.When you’re done blending, clean the brush’s bristles a bit by gently rubbing the head on a paper towel.7. Using the same blending brush…
Now load the brush with your matte reddish brown powder eyeshadow, and pat it directly on top of the smudged liner on your lids. Then blend, keeping the light-to-dark gradient.(This intensifies the smokiness.)8. The eye is shaping up
Next, load your smudge brush with the matte reddish brown powder eyeshadow, and blend it on top of the liner on your lower lash line.Note: Don’t forget to connect the outer corner of the lower lash line to the outer corner of the shadow on your upper lash line to envelop the entire eye in smoky goodness.9. More sophisticated smoke
Now load a flat eyeshadow brush (or a fingertip) with the glittery bronzed peach eyeshadow, and pat it gently on the inner half of your lids. You can then either blend the edges with your blending brush, or leave the shadow to settle on its own.I do it both ways sometimes, and either way works!(If you use the blending brush, when you’re finished with it, clean the bristles on a paper towel one last time, because you’ll need it for the next step.)
La Mer The Soft Fluid mixed with Natasha Denona Face Glow — pretty much ultra-dewy and looks best in person (I find on camera, all that shine makes me look more textured everywhere vs. smooth like a more matte base!) and lasts a surprising amount of time.
Nail polish as a source of strength?
So, when Connor inevitably asks for a spa pedicure, I’m going to put her feet in a bucket of warm water, stick some flower petals and lemon wedges in it and call it day. And then I’m going to offer up my collection of nail polishes to choose from, which also now includes this gorgeous purple from Chanel.
Sure, nail polish is just frosting (what’s inside is the most important stuff), but if looking at pretty polish on your nails reminds you that you’re a bad-@ss, then do it! Say it all day, every day long.
Say it: “I am a bad-@ss.”
And yes, I really do get this worked up from two coats of Purple Ray nail polish!
Waxing philosophic
I’m going to do a fresh mani in just a few, but I gotta sort my hair situation out first. I’m down to the last few spritzes of my beloved Oribe spray wax, so please pause for a second while I shed a perfectly placed glittery tear.
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