How To: MakeUp Video

So I got some requests for a video showing my every day make up routine. I just shot it this morning while getting ready. Its a bit scary making your first video. I hope you guys enjoy it and I taught you a thing or two! If you want to know the exact products I use you can go to my other post, everyday makeup.

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New Products

I have recently tried, and LOVED, some new products. I have been using MakeUp Forever HD foundation for about a year now, and I always loved how it looked, but recently I thought, could there be better? Which led me to try the MakeUp Forever Mat Velvet, which is a full coverage foundation, where as the HD foundation is medium coverage. I loved how the new foundation looked and felt light on my face. I also bought Cover FX's concealer, which is everything I wanted in a concealer, it really truly conceals everything that needs it. Overall I am very happy with how the new makeup makes my face look. I will be sticking with these products for a while as I do not think there is better out there.

Conceal FX Camouflage Concealer

MUF Mat Velvet + Matifying Foundation

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How To: Makeup Storage

 I love my makeup, its like one of my babies. I kept buying different makeup bags to accommodate my growing makeup collection, but it always looked messy and unkempt. I put it in my medicine cabinet in my bathroom, and that's where it has been for the past year, until now. I recently bought these acrylic cases and I love them. I love how clean they look. It makes me proud to display my makeup. I did have to remove one of the drawers to accommodate my bigger items like my foundation. Next time I will buy a bigger acrylic case, but for now these are exactly what I need.

 

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Everyday Makeup

 

I love everything about makeup. I love that it can give you that boost of confidence, it can conceal all your imperfections, it can make you look as fresh as a daisy, when you really have been up all night. This is my daily makeup routine, it takes me about 5 minutes start to finish, I can probably do it with my eyes closed at this point.  I love each and every one of these products, I do switch up a couple things depending on the season, use a different blush, a different lipstick etc. I sometimes skip step 4, depending on my mood.

1) I apply my mineral veil primer all over my face and neck.

2)I apply my Make Up Forever HD foundation all over my face and neck.

3) I use two concealers my Laura Mercier Secret Camouflage and my Make Up Forever 5 Camo Cream Palette. I make a straight line from my tear duct down to my nostril, then a diagonal line from my nose to the corner of my eye, making a triangle. I use a light color at first and then go over it with a darker concealer.

4) I use my NARS bronzer at the hollows of my cheeks to give them definition and at my temples. 

5) I use a cream shimmer on my cheek bone starting from the corner of my eye and back, this will catch the light and give me a dewy fresh look. I then cover the cream shimmer with my MAC iridescent powder.

6) I take an angled brush and put some white cream eyeshadow on the inner corners of my eyes and I go over it with my Make Up Forever diamond powder.

7) I put a couple coast of the Dior mascara on my upper lashes.

8) I put my NARS blush on my cheeks, starting below the arch of my eyebrow.

9) I put some lipstick on.

10) I spray my face with Urban Decay Setting Spray. 

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