Eyeshadow Cateye Tutorial

I’ve been super into doing cateye looks with just eye shadows lately. It’s a lot more forgiving than using a liquid liner and it’s a little more subtle. Overall I love the look of an eyeshadow cateye; here’s how I do it.

I have been using 4 shades from the Kylie Cosmetics holiday kyshadow palette.

Shade 1: sugar cookie, Shade 2: gingerbread, Shade 3: nutcracker, Shade 4: silent night

I put shade 1 under my brow bone as a highlight with a mac 239 shadow brush, then I put shade 2 all over my lid with the same brush.  I put shade 3 in my crease with a sigma E40 blending brush and add shade 4 to the corner of my eye in a staight line up (like you would with eyeliner) with a sigma E70 angled brush and blend it inward

At the end I blend it all with the same sigma blending brush and add a coat of mascara, I hope you enjoyed.

Cleaning My Makeup Brushes

Today I decided it was time to clean my brushes, I know your supposed to clean them every two weeks, but it’s more of a monthly thing for me.  I going to share my tools and techniques for cleaning makeup brushes. I have a Sigma brush cleaning mat that I use with Beauty Blender solid cleanser to clean all my brushes and sponges.  I lather my brushes in the solid cleanser then wash them with the mat.  I love this mat because its divided up into sections to clean and rinse face brushes and eye brushes.  Once the water runs clean I squeeze the excess water out of my brushes and lay them on a towel to dry.  This process cleans my brushes and also leaves them feeling soft and almost new.

Makeup: The Rock Show

Last Wednesday I went to a Blink-182 concert with my sister.  All the performers were amazing and we had a great time.  I decided to do a simple, but bold make up look that’s perfect for a rock show or a night on the town.  Here’s how I created it.

I started with Laura Mercier foundation primer followed by Urban Decay all nighter foundation, naked skin concealer, and Laura Mercier loose setting powder.  I used the Becca x Jaclyn Hill Champagne collection palette (no longer available)  in the color rose spritz on my cheeks, amaretto for bronzer, and champagne pop for highlighter.  I used benefit goof proof brow pencil for my eyebrows and urban decay eyeshadow primer potion on my eyelids before my eyeshadow.  For eyeshadow I used tarte’s Hrush palette in the shade royal on the inner half of my lid, tartelette tease palette in bff on the outer half of my lid, heartbreaker in my crease, and whisper under my brow bone.  I used tarte lash paint mascara and finished the look off with a Kylie Cosmetics lip kit in the color Dolce K.  I love this make up look and hope you enjoyed it too.

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