Sunday, December 30, 2012

New Year's Eve Glamourous Makeup Look

  Since it's almost New Year's eve, I thought I'd do a glamourous party look for you to bring in the New Year! This look is inspired by the Art Deco ad below with Dita Von Teese, it's very elegant and glittery, and perfect for a New Year's eve party!
  Just to warn you, there are A LOT of pictures in this post so get ready for a lot of up close pictures of my eyes haha!
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This is what you you'll need for this look:
~Hair clip to pin hair away from face.
~moisturizer for all over face and for priming the lids.
~Liquid foundation, and powder if you'd like. Also concealer!!
~Blush, I'm using a Chanel one called Plum Attraction
~Silver glitter eyeshadow, either loose or compact like mine.
~Mascara
~Liquid eyeliner
~Gray eyeshadow(not pictured) I'm using Barracuda by Urban Decay.
~Eyebrow pencil
~Eyebrow gel
~Red Lipstick, mine is Russian Red by M.A.C.
~A lipliner in red, mine is Brick by M.A.C.
~And False eyelashes

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First, apply your concealer and foundation. Then start penciling in your brows with your pencil, make sure they are more arched than usual, because this is more of a pin-up look.
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Then set their shape with brow gel, or clear mascara.
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Next use a thin layer of your moisturizer as an eyelid base, because when you put the glitter on top you want it to be sheer, and your skin to still be visible. If you use a thick eyeshadow base you won't get the right effect.
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Now apply the glitter with a fluffy brush, apply it carefully, and don't swirl it, or else it will get everywhere! Apply it up to your brow bone.

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Now use a dark, glittery gray shadow for your crease.
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Lightly, start applying it just above your crease.
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Stay above your crease, and start feathering it up toward your brow like below. Make sure you aren't too heavy handed, and don't forget to tap the excess off your brush!!
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Now swipe more of the silver glitter over the gray, so it's not as dark.
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Then bring a little gray under your bottom lashes.
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Now time for blush!
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Apply it like I am below, and sweep up toward your temples.
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Next, put lash glue on your false lashes and wait a few seconds for it to get tacky.
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Then apply them the best you can!!!
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Curl you real and false lashes together! And put mascara on too!
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Now start using your liquid liner to fill in any gaps between the lashes. If you want you can apply the liner before the lashes.
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Then, start applying the liner above the lashes like below.
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Now it's time for the wing. Draw a line from the corner of your eye, slanted up to the tip of your brow, but obviously don't go all the way to your brow!
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Then from the top, tip of the wing, bring it back towards the middle of the top of your lashes.
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Make adjustments to the wing until you're happy with it!
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Then do tiny strokes with the liner under your bottom lashes to make them look naturally thick!
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Now put a cute beauty mark under your left eye like Dita!
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Start lining your lips, and fill them in.
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Then apply your lipstick!
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Ta-Da!
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Even if you wear glasses, I think this look, looks adorable with them too!
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Hope you guys liked it!
XOXO,
Caitlin

Friday, December 28, 2012

Christmas

I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas!! I think it's time to get back to blogging, you've probably noticed that I haven't been blogging as frequently! But I promise I'll be on here more, it's one of my new year's resolutions!!
So, all of these pictures were taken by my mom....all of the pictures I took were ALL blurry! I don't know why my camera is so bad but anyway, I'm only sharing pictures from later in the day because I looked awful in the morning pictures (no makeup, and greasy hair, is not how I want you to see me!).

Talking to my sister on skype!!   
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                                                               Yummy Ham
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                                                             Layers of potatoes!!!!!!
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By the way, if you you are wondering why we're wearin crowns....they come out of those poppers haha
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Below are all of the things I got, but I just realized I forgot to include some things like the earrings my sister got me and this cute boston terrier piggy bank from my aunt! AND a printer from my boyfriend!!!
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There was a big surprise for me and cyrous from his parents, and it was in the box below.....PLANE TICKETS TO LONDON!!!! I was so excited because now I can go visit my sister!!!! Thank you!!!
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Thank you to everyone who gave me such nice things for Christmas!

XOXO,
Caitin


Monday, December 17, 2012

Happy 25th

  Today Cyrous turned 25!!! I still can't believe how fast time goes!! When I met him he was only 20 about to turn 21!! Anyway, this year he decided he didn't want to celebrate too much, because he's in graduate school, and unfortunately he has a final exam tomorrow!!! Poor guy has to worry about that on his birthday :(
   So anyway, I decided to surprise him and get festive donuts and, a four pack of chocolate stout that he wanted, and of course a handmade card! My parents got him a gift certificate to a cool beer place! We were laughing and thinking his theme for his birthday this year was a total Homer Simpson birthday because of the beer and donuts! haha!

p.s. the pictures of him are blurry because he kept moving!!! He is so hard to take a picture of, so the last picture is funny because I finally caught him laughing! hehe
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  And now, here are some snippets of my weekend! If you follow me on instagram some of these pictures will look familiar! I'm so happy I sold another item on my etsy, the necklace below!!
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Below was the filling of a very yummy recipe from Jamie Oliver's magazine. It was a biriani "Shepard's pie" It was super yummy!
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I'm doing a new painting, with watercolor, on super fancy watercolor paper....it's so nice and smooth!
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My cozy Holiday shopping outfit!
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I had lunch at La Boulange with my mom before we went christmas shopping!
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Hope everyone is having a nice Holiday season!
XOXO,
Caitlin