FOTD: Red Smokey...

 

Today, I did a red smokey eye, and I'm dark skinned, as in  MAC NW50, or Iman Earth 4/5, or Mary Kay 808, or Coastal Scents #14 dark. The flash makes me look lighter. The reason I'm doing this is 'cause a friend said I could never pull it off because I was dark! I told her I could too. She'd seen me pull off red shadows before, and smokies in other colours. Why should ‘red’ and ‘smokey’ in the same sentence be an issue, right? So I set off to prove her wrong.  

This is not a super-dark smokey, because I was going to church, a'ight. So here's what I did. You be the judge.

Face looks ashy because I used a white translucent powder which is a no-no, but what could I do? I was choice-less in the light of the fact that I couldn't for the life of me find any of my powder (there's a whole story to that). Hence the lateness to church. OK. Here on I'm ditching the excuses.

 

 

 

What I used
Face: Mary Kay oil mattefier, Mary kay Liquid foundation #808, Mary Kay concealer in bronze 2, a really crappy finishing powder, Iman blush in Sable, Bourjois blush in 85 Sienne (love it)

Eyes: brown brow pencil, black liquid eyeliner, Jordana eye pencil, Coastal Scents 88 Palette, Mary Kay Ultimate mascara, black.

Lips: Brown lip liner, L'Oreal lipstick in Orchid, clear lip gloss

Ciao!!!

Face of the Day... blue eyeshadows

Featured FOTD: The Blues

I have this really pretty friend, right, whose cheek bones I just love; who’s totally unaware of how pretty she is (can’t be unaware of the hot bod though, right? I mean, it’s right there!). She doesn’t wear any makeup because her skin is really sensitive. We were at her salon in Jos, and she decided she’d try, and said she wanted blue and purple. Soon as I heard “blue” I was squeamish, cos you do blue like others and it comes off so strong. For me blues and greens are strong colours in makeup, depending on the shade. Did it anyways, using silver in the inner third of her eyelid, and here’s the outcome. I seriously need to learn how to Photoshop... would have been handy for the background

The before shot is not exactly a fair picture because she was unprepared, and it was actually the before shot of the person with the forehead...lol. She has really serious breakouts on her jaw area, which isn’t showing; all that is evident is the discolouration caused by acne scars, and even that’s not showing much.

I chose to use the FM foundation because the one for dark skin has these gold highlights in it that gives a glow and reflects light off blemishes making them to seemingly disappear. It also makes the one foundation to fit across 2-3 shades of dark skin tones


                                     Before shot

 

 

 

Get the Look

Face
Primer: mary kay oil mattefier
Concealer: mary kay in bronze 2
Foundation: FM dark skin foundation in Mocha Brown
Cheeks: Sleek blush in Pixie Pink

Eyes
Mary kay concealer, Shadow worx eyeshadow primer
Eyeshadow: silver and dark blue – coastal scents 88 palette, blue – sleek “original” palette, purple used in the crease – Etude in PP907

Lips
Maroon lip liner, lipstick – Maybelline in juicy bubblegum 05, Victoria secrets lip-gloss in juiced berry