Tutorials

Chantal’s Valentine’s was Purely Pink

Valentine’s Day was rather rou­tine for some but quite pos­si­bly mag­i­cal for many oth­ers.  Chantal’s What Is Your Valentine’s Day Look? draws atten­tion to all the nat­ural beauty that one per­son can hope to be granted at birth with dra­matic eyes, per­fect lips and a sparkly pink shirt.  Chantal tops it all off with a cute updo of her blonde locks and then shows you how to do it as well.

Red-violet & Yellow-green– Complimentary colors

from Risa (from MakeupByRisa and a Super Shimz) – 

Products Used:

  1. Love Lavender by Sappho
  2. Yellow from Make Up For Ever Flash Palette
  3. Burnt Burgundy Pigment by M.A.C.
  4. Beautiful Iris by M.A.C.
  5. Gold bit by M.A.C.
  6. Zero by Urban Decay
  7. HD Concealer by MUFE 320
  8. 23 L Aqua Eyes by MUFE
  9. Bitter ? Eyeshadow by M.A.C
  10. Green Sheen (cant catch this one)
  11. Dark Taupe by Senna Cosmetics
  12. Violetta Lipstick by MAC
  13. Maybelline Great Lash Mascara
  14. Lancome Ombre Glaze for highlight
  15. NYX Purple Rain Lip Liner

“Mad Hatter” Tutorial (DollyyBlush/ VintaqeGlam)

Mad Hatter Johnny Depp

photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mediaatmidnight/3652483918/

Inspired by Mad Hatter (played by Johnny Depp) in upcom­ing movie Alice in Wonderland 2010

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Makeup + Hair Tips for Grad Photos (pincstuffs)

Times have change. Graduation from col­lege has become the new “big day” in a girls’ life, as oppose to be mar­ried at the age of 16. While you may not have the money to hire pro­fes­sional makeup artist for your big day, sheryl at pinc­stuffs have some tips for you.

Extra tip from MyShimmer.com? Please no fish­net stockings.

“Alice” Tutorial, inspired by Alice in Wonderland 2010

Hey every­one, so this is the first look out of the Alice in Wonderland Urban Decay palette! I am going to be doing seven, so this is look num­ber one using the color Alice. All col­ors used are from the palette. I hope you all enjoy (:

  1. Put Rollickin Paintpot on lid. Blend well. (0:33 — 0.55)
  2. Put tape on the outer cor­ner of the eye (1.00 — 1.03)
  3. Apply another shade ( Painterly) on the upper part of your eye­lid. Blend. (1.08 — 1.18)
  4. Apply another shade on top of the first one to high­light the color — from Urban Decay’s Alice in Wonderland — the Alice shade. Blend. (1.30 — 2.01)
  5. Apply another shade on top of Alice — Mad Hatter. blend. (2.11 — 2.38)
  6. On top of Mad Hatter, apply Oraculum. Blend again. (2.41 — 2.59)
  7. With an eye smudger brush, blend Oraculum on the inner cor­ner of the eye (3.00 — 3.08)
  8. Using the White Rabbit shade, apply and blend on inner cor­ner of the eye (3.11–3.21)
  9. Use Mad Hatter shade to line the lower eye­lid (3.26 — 3.30)
  10. Take off the tape (3.31–3.32)
  11. Extend the lin­ing (Mad Hatter) of your lower lid (3.33–3.38)
  12. Take off any specks using a blush brush (3.39–3.43)
  13. Line the lower eye­lid with Urban Decay 24/7 Flipside Eyeliner (from the Urban Decay’s Alice in Wonderland palette) (3.48–3.55)
  14. Put fake eye­lashes from Red Cherry (3.56-.357)
  15. Done!

How to Look Like a Permanent Rocker Girl (Courtney Love’s Makeup Tutorial)

Well Courtney Love is not just show­ing us the worse in her body and botched plas­tic surgery! She has some makeup looks that pro­vide a com­plete trans­for­ma­tion and a val­ued celebrity makeup look!    She has looked beau­ti­ful before what­ever hap­pened to her, life?

Her clas­sic fea­tures and red clas­sic lips high­light her pretty face.   Courtney Love wanted to share with us her con­fes­sions of a skin obses­sion (“I am a skin whore”) and her love for makeup and makeup videos (tuto­r­ial?) Courtney had such a sim­ple, inno­cent but edgy and mys­te­ri­ous look.

Here is Courtney Love’s makeup video, she calls it “Courtney Love’s First and Last Makeup Tutorial”.  She uses a eye­shadow makeup palette and skin­care by a local LA der­ma­tol­o­gist, Dr. Rapaport.  The orig­i­nal videos were on twit­ter and here is the entire video lined together:

Taylor Swift, Katherine Heigl, Jessica Alba with Red Carpet Celebrity Hair Style for New Years Eve 2010

What do Taylor Swift, Katherine Heigl and Jessica Alba have in com­mon?  They all have worn this styl­ish updo with soft roman­tic curls for an ele­gant look on the runway.

This look is per­fect for New Years Eve party, a night at the Opera, any for­mal event or a wedding.

Katherine wears wears this updo to the side with part of her hair swept back and pinned.  It works well for an ele­gant evening out, and it’s best suited to longer face shapes.

Taylor Swift wears this celebrity hair style updo with gor­geous color and with soft roman­tic curls.  This celebrity hair updo is per­fect for a wed­ding or a spe­cial dinner.

Jessica Alba loves this ele­gant hair­style updo so much that she has worn it sev­eral times to red car­pet Hollywood events.  She wears this hair­style well allow­ing her to show off her beau­ti­ful drop ear­rings.  This celebrity hair­style can be done with a few bobby pins and flat iron to curl your hair.

We caught up Christmas week with Richelle De Veras who cre­ates this look for many of her clients.  Richelle is a hair­styl­ist from one of San Francisco’s lead­ing hair salons, Alcheme Salon .   Having been a model since the age of 13, she is one of Alcheme’s lead­ing hair­styl­ist work­ing in San Francisco for over 10 years and a makeup guru as well.   She spends her free time cre­at­ing DIY clas­sic hair­styles that women can recre­ate by them­selves at home with­out a beauty degree.   Each movie star has styl­ists but some of the celebrity hair­styles are either too dif­fi­cult to repli­cate or just not prac­ti­cal on many women’s hairs.  In this video below, Celebrity Hairstyles for New Years Eve 2010-Taylor Swift, Katherine Heigl (Part I), she demon­strate a step-by-step ele­gant celebrity hair­style and how to recre­ate this hair­style at home.

 

This is Part 2 of the hair video:

Happy New Year and hope this style helps with your get­ting ready for the big night routine!

Avatar Zoe Saldana and Neytiri’s Makeup Tutorial

Avatar — The Movie, Actress and Makeup Tutorial

Zoe Saldana, leading actress of Avatar

Zoe Saldana, lead­ing actress of Avatar

We loved the movie Avatar and cel­e­brate a new stun­ning actress Zoe Saldana who plays the Neytiri, the lead­ing female char­ac­ter. James Cameron and Fox does it again by show­ing us that there is another world. Zoe is stun­ning so we wanted to share with you KlairedelysArt’s gor­geous Avatar makeup tuto­r­ial look repli­cat­ing Neytiri’s makeup look.

KlairedelysArt’s Makeup Tutorial

The Neytiri makeup look took over an hour using prod­ucts such as elf eye­lid primer, 120 palettes of eye­shadow color, elf foun­da­tion brush.  Her artis­tic abil­ity to trans­form her face into a gor­geous alien is just amaz­ing to watch.

 

Zoe grew up in the Dominican Republic and has stared in films such as the Pirates of the Caribbean and Star Trek.

Interview with Zoe Saldana, played Neytiri lead­ing female actress in the movie Avatar

Metalized eyes — Silver and black for Fall/ Winter

This tuto­r­ial is from CarolMakeupArtist, based in Spain (hence, in Spanish). It presents an excel­lent option for Fall-Winter trends — “Foil eyes”. We achieved this by mix­ing sil­ver, black and pig­ments. This is an option that gives you plenty of drama to the look and high­light your face. This look is great for winter.

(The tuto­r­ial is in Spanish, but we have pro­vided a rough trans­la­tion. Watch, and you should be able to follow)

metalizedeyes

metalizedeyes2

 

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Carrie Underwood Holiday Special Make Up Tutorial

Do you like Carrie Underwood? If you do, you prob­a­bly like her look as well. Why not have makeup just like her? We found this tuto­r­ial and we are going to share it with you.

This is a nat­ural look, with focus on the eye liner.

TiffanyD's take on Carrie Underwood makeup

Thanks to Tiffany for the great instruc­tions. 

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