So the time has come for me to say good bye to the comforts of University and finally graduate! After all working extremely hard for our finals, last week we all enjoyed our graduation ball as you can see from the pictures above. My aim was to give you guys a step by step tutorial on my makeup look and how to recreate this with pictures. However . . . . I have had a pretty severe eye infection that has lasted just over 2 weeks (I'm still trying to get rid of it), this meant that my eye make up looked nice but because my eyes were very sore and swollen they didn't look as good as I wanted. So I am going to talk through the make up look for you:
Step 1: I moisturised my skin using Kiehl's Ultra Facial moisturiser (which you all know I rave about), I then applied my Chanel Vitalumiere foundation. I love this foundation, its gives a lovely coverage and you feel like you wearing nothing on your skin! I used my Mac small foundation brush to apply this in circular movements moving from my cheeks to my forehead, for an evening look I tend to apply a bit more then I do in the day time.
Step 2: I then concealed any blemishes using my Laura Mercier secret camouflage in number 2, this gives a great thick coverage. I then used my Bare Escentual eye brow powder in the colour medium/dark brown. I used a Benefit slanted brush for this, I find powder much easier to work with on my eye brows as it lasts all day. I like quite a strong thick brow as it frames the face, but I know some prefer it thinner, so apply to preference. My main tips with eye brows, is always go with the direction of the natural hair line and build the colour up, don't go straight in with the dark colour. I then use my Rimmel wake me up concealer under my eyes.
Step 3: To finish of my face make-up, I use a big powder brush to apply my Rimmel stay matte powder all over my face. This is essential for any event where photos are being taken as it reduces the shine of the face.
Step 4 and 5 can be done in any order, its up to you . . .
Step 4: I then apply my matte Mac bronzer under the cheek bones to create a contour effect, I then bought this up round to my temples. I tend to apply quite a lot of bronzer because I like to look bronzed but you don't have to apply as much. I then use a smaller blush brush to apply my Clinique blush in the colour Iced Lotus to the apples of my cheek. I love this blusher because it has a pearlescent effect which highlights the cheek bones.
Step 5: I always do my eyes last because I prefer it but I know some like to do their eyes first, it's completely personal. If any eye shadow drops down under the eye I wipe it away with my foundation brush. I used my Mac palette for my eye makeup, I used a large blending brush to apply naked lunch all over my lid and up into the sockets. I then used a smaller brush to apply the colour Mulch into the corners and blended this through to the middle of the eye, I built this up and made it quite dark. I then took a clean blending brush and blended it together into the eyelid, I built the colour up by doing this few times. Lastly I took a smaller brush and applied charcoal brown (which is matte) into the sockets of my eyes to give some depth, again I built this up and carried on blending it. I then took the lightest colour (naked lunch) and put it around my tear duct and under my eye slightly to open them up. I used a charcoal eye liner to line my water liner, and then applied Mulch on the same brush under my eye to bring the darker colour underneath.
Step 6: I used a very fine brush to apply my Maybeline gel eyeliner in the brown colour (you can use black but I always use brown on my eyes as because they are blue it doesn't look as harse). I applied a very fine line across the whole lid. I finished this look by applying my maybeline falsies mascara (normally I would wear fake eye lashes to an event like this, I like eyelure lashes in the smallest size). I couldn't apply much mascara on this occasion but normally I would curl my lashes and apply extra mascara. I finished the eyes applying benefit highbeam under my eyebrows to emphasis the arch.
Step 7: Lastly I applied my Rimmel bright pink lipstick, this is the Kate Moss range in the colour 002. This colour is a bright cerise and perfect for an evening occasion! If lipstick doesn't stay well on your lips then always use a lip liner in the same colour to ensure durability and stop it running.
I hope this helps if you want to create this look! Sorry I couldn't take pictures along with this! I hope to do a makeup tutorial with pictures soon.
