Eyeshadow look: Natural Glow

         For my second look I decided to do another simple look which is called "Vintage Gold" in the Lauren Luke Looks book. The look wasn't super hard to achieve and the directions of the book were clear. I decided to modify it a little bit  because from the background information that I know, but I still followed most of the steps.

This is the look that I did

For this look I used:

• The 24K Nudes
• e.l.f essential flawless eyeshadow
• Volum' Express the falsies mascara  
• e.l.f.eyeshadow brush 
• e.l.f blending brush 

Starting off I put my Revlon photo ready foundation all over my eyelids to make my eyelids be one color.

This is where I modified the look in the Lauren Luke Looks book she added the gold to the eyelids then added the dark shades but from my own reserch(a.k.a youtube videos) I lerened that you should do a transtition then add the crease color, and that is what I did.

 So, I put the color circled in red all over my eyelids and then the color circled in black all over my eyelids to be the starting transition.

Then I added a black eyshadow color to my outer corners, Making sure to blend using a "circular motion"(Luke 53).

Not blended

             Blended 

As you can see blending is crucial because if you do not blend the eyeshadow it for one looks bad and second of all it just looks like a blob of a black color(which is not appealing).

Next I added a gold eyeshdaow to my crease. The first one I put on was not to pigmanted(so you could not see the color that much).

You can't see the gold that much 

So I wet an eyeshadow brush and got another gold eyshadow and placed it on my eyelids(wetting the eyeshadow brush made the gold eyeshadow more pigmanted and shimmary).

You can see the gold much more 

The next thing I did was out the a gold eyeshadow on my lower lash line, to show the allusiion that my eyes are bigger,  making sure to not get any eyshadow in my eye. According to the Lauren Luke Looks her tip was to "Try not to get eyeshadow in your eye- It hurts!"(Luke 53), from expirence I can say I agree with that statment.

It's not to noticable though.

The last thing I did was put mascara on my eyelashes 

I think this look turned out ok, I could have out the black eyeshadow a little bit more up to pop more, but all in all it look pretty good.

Even though in the book Lauren Luke adds the dark color afrtewards it still shows a clean look. I reallly didn't know the affects of the transtion color or why you need to add a dark color to the look. I know now that it gives a clean look and also ties the look together while giving it kinda dramatic effect.

Reading this post, do you think that this look is more of an everyday look? or a "date night" look. Would you recreate   this look?

Eyeshadow look: Vintage gold

     I would call myself a beginner at makeup because this year I started to get in to doing makeup on myself. I'm not the best at it but by doing this I am going to have a little bit more insight to what I can do better. So I started off with a fairly simple look which is a "Vintage gold" eyeshadow look from Lauren Luke looks by Lauren Luke.

(Focus on the eyeshadow)

For this look I used:
*Revlon Photo ready foundation
*The 24K nudes
*e.l.f Essential Flawless eyeshadow
*e.l.f blending brush
*e.l.f eyeshadow brush
*MegaProtein mascara

           Starting off, I start with putting foundation all over my eyelids.

The foundation helps to keep my eyelids one color and not as oily (as you can see the one without foundation is a little bit oily and discolored). This kinda acts as an eye primer.

     Next I put on the gold/ shimmery brown color(The one that is circled) and put that as a base to my eyeshadow. In  Lauren Luke looks she(Lauren Luke) says that adding a base to your eyeshadow look "gives eyeshadow intensity. It really makes the color pop"(Luke 28).

            Then I put some gold eyeshadow all over my eyelids  and extend it to my inner corners but not past the crease of my eyelid.

          Now I add a black(circled in lavender), dark brown(circled in orange), and a little bit of a red/ maroon (circled in dark purple) eyeshadow to the outer corner of my eyes, to add depth to the eyes, and I blend the colors all together. In the Lauren Luke looks book Lauren uses a dark frosted brown eyeshadow, but the dark brown color that i used wasn't that dark and it wasn't to pigmented(so the color wasn't dark enough and it wasn't showing up as much), so that's why I added a little of the black and a little of the red/ maroon eyeshadow to make it more dark and "pop out"

Then with the same gold eyeshadow I take an eyeshadow brush and "gently feather"(Luke 96) it along my lower lash line from the outer corner to the inner corner. This technique of putting a light/ shimmery color eyeshadow along your lower lash line gives the illusion that your eyes are bigger.

Lastly I apply mascara to my lashes.

 
                           This is the final product.

I learned that by putting dark colors in the outer corner of your eyes adds depth to your eyes, I've always wondered why people do that and what the purpose of it was. This look is definitely not a "everyday look" but it's definitely something i'll consider doing again. After seeing the final product, would you consider doing this look? If so, where would you wear this look?