Beauty Leak: Tips and tricks that could blow your mind!

Cat Eye stencil: Scotch Tape

Applying Scotch Tape at the corner edge of your eye will create an easy stencil and guide to create an even look and a great edge to a dramatic Cat Eye. 

Create The Illusion: With White eyeliner

Create the look of wider set eyes with just applying white eyeliner in the lower waterline of eyes.A bigger eye is a great daytime look, it makes you look more awake. 

Dull eyeshadow? 

Ever purchased an eyeshadow palette and find out when you apply it to your eyes the shade is a lot duller on your lids? Not to worry, there are two easy solutions to intensifying the color:

Add Water:

dip your eyeshadow brush in water to make the palette damp, so when it is applied the color intensifies, it also keeps the excess powder from falling. Works best with eyeshadow pigment (not pressed in a palette) 

White Based Cream:

Getting a jumbo eye liner in white and applying it on your lids before you add the eyeshadow will create a blank slate to brighten the shadow. I recommend using the NYX jumbo eye pencil in Milk.

 

Don’t have Liquid Eyeliner?

No worries! take a thin makeup liner brush and use your mascara in leu of the liquid liner. I use waterproof mascara for an all day look, works just as well and saves money.

 

Summertime: no need to change foundation (with SPF or BB)

Create your own moisturizer or tinter with the foundation you already own. Just add sunscreen to your foundation and mix together, same with moisturizer. The more moisturizers and sunscreen added the more translucent the foundation will become creating a lighter look for summer!

 

Puffy eyes?

Use preparation H cream to dab under eye, this will instantly relieve swollen eyes. 

Need to zap a Zit fast?

Cut open an Advil Liquid Gel capsule and use the gel inside and apply it to the blemish will relieve redness and irritation fast. 

Make Lipstick Last

No matter what brand of lipstick, none can really have an all day last ! It will either fade out or get on everything your lips touch (your cup, significant other, napkins etc. ) it’s a messy situation. Two solutions to keep the the lipstick last and stay on just your lips. 

Tissue and powder: After applying lipstick take a tissue and translucent powder. Holding the tissue over your lips take a blush brush and apply power over the tissue to create a filter. 

Lip sealer: I swear by this! and do not use anything but this if I apply lipstick.Mehron’s LipstixSealer  It lasts all day long and will not leave a mark on anything! Smudge free, waterproof and mess free! About $5

 

 

I hope you try some of these tips and tricks and feel free to comment below:) Have a Beautiful Sunday

Back to Basics: What’s your skin tone?

Ever gone to the drugstore to buy foundation? As you walk down the cosmetic aisle there is a multitude of foundation shades. Now I question am I sandy beige, beige nude or ivory?I never thought about the complexities of knowing my complexion! So I secretly try the colors on the top of my hand, when I narrowed it down to two shades it now becomes a luck of the draw. Later I regret my decision and see that I look orange or don’t match up to the rest of my body. Foundation is overwhelming! I have always heard “well its easy what is your undertone, warm or cool?” How can I tell my undertone…there are so many theories but to break it down I finally found a chart that made sense to me. Who knew by just looking at your veins determines your undertone! I now realized I am a cool undertone and have been using warm foundations ( reason why I looked orange)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Cotton’s Beauty Blog is intended to help give out tips, tricks and new ideas about makeup and beauty. As an aspiring artist, I see the face as a blank canvas. Follow my blog for daily advice, step by step tutorials and much more about beauty.

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