Skip to main content

Makeup Monday: Country Vacation Makeup

Nude makeup...nudes are fun because you can play around with your eye make-up quite a bit. But what’s even more fun is wearing very little eye make-up and playing up the blush.  So simple & pretty!

Hello Everyone! Welcome to Makeup Monday. Today’s makeup look is a simple nude makeup which reminds me of a vacation in the English countryside. It is inspired by earth tones like mossy greens, beiges, mauves, and greys. This makeup is perfect if you are actually going on vacation in the English countryside, or if you just want to sport a fresh light makeup look.

Face:

1. Start with a freshly washed and moisturized face. Directly on top of your moisturizer apply a matte foundation. This will give you a natural looking face, without all of the powder. Jessie’s Picks: Clinique Stay Matte Oil Free Foundation. Maybelline 24hr Super Stay Makeup.

2. Take a cream blush in a rosy pink shade and blend it up along your cheekbone. Using a cream blush will give you more of a glow like you have just come in from the cold outside. Jessie’s Picks: Makeup Forever HD Blush in English Rose. Revlon Photoready Cream Blush in Flushed.

That’s the face done! If you’d like you can dab a sheer highlighter, like Nars Illuminator in Copacabana, across your cheekbone to brighten your face.

Eyes:

1. Start by brushing up your brows with a spoolie, then fill in any sparse areas with a brow powder. Jessie’s Picks: Anastasia Brow Powder Duo. Clinique Brow Shaper.

2. Dust your eye lids with a shimmery eye shadow one shadow lighter than your skintone. Jessie's Picks: Mac Eye Shadow in Naked Lunch. Urban Decay Eye Shadow in Virgin.

3. Contour your eyes using a moss green eye shadow through your crease. Jessie's Picks: Mac Eye Shadow in Fiction (Limited Edition). Urban Decay Eye Shadow in Mildew.

4. Line your top lashline with a brown eye liner pencil. Jessie's Picks: Essence Long Last Eye Liner Pencil in Hot Chocolate. Urban Decay 24/7 Glide On Eye Pencil in Whisky.

5. Curl your lashes, and apply a coat of dark brown mascara. Jessie's Picks: Maybelline Great Lash Mascara in Black/Brown. Dior Diorshow Waterproof Mascara in Chestnut.

Lips:

1. Moisturize you lips and add a slight tint by using a tinted lip balm. Jessie's Picks: Dior Creme de Rose Plumping and Smoothing Lip Balm. Korres Lip Butter.

I hope you enjoyed this makeup look and that it keeps you looking forward to those days filled with sunshine.

xx
JD



Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Fab February: Paris Inspired Makeup Look

Welcome to today's Fab February! For my next Hair, Makeup, and Outfit series I will be doing all Paris/French themed looks! French women are considered some the most beautiful in the world, and this look is inspired by French beauties such as Marion Cotillard and Clemence Poesy. Let's get started: Face: 1. Start by spritzing your freshly cleansed face with a vitamin infused face mist. Jessie's Picks: Avene Facial Mist. Kora Organics Balancing Face Mist. 2. Next take a deep moisturizer and blend it into your skin. Jessie's Picks: Nivea Moisturizing Day Cream. Embryollisse Lait Creme Concentre. 3. Take a cream bronzer and apply it to wherever the sun naturally hits your face. Blend out well using your fingers or a buffing brush. Jessie's Picks: Becca Shimmering Skin Perfector in Bronce. Benefot Cosmetics Sun Beam.  4. On a big fluffy powder brush dust a luminous loose powder foundation all over your face and down your neck. Jessie's Picks: R...

New Year's Eve Makeup: Kim Kardashian Style

New Year's Eve is the perfect day/night to sport sparkling silver eye makeup, and who better to look to than Kim Kardashian. Eyes: 1. Prep your eye with a base. Be it a cream shadow, a paint pot, or an actual eye shadow primer, it does not matter, it just gives the  eye shadow  and glitter something to adhere to. Jessie's Picks: Urban Decay Primer Potion. Mac Pro Longwear Paint Pot in Dangerous Cuvee. Bobbi Brown Long Wear Cream Eye Shadow in Galaxy. 2. Apply a matte grey eye shadow all over the lid. Jessie's Picks: Stila Eye Shadow in Diamond Lil. Nars Single Eye Shadow in Lhasa. 3. Using a flat eye shadow brush apply a subtle glitter all over your lid, don't worry if any falls on your skin, as you can wipe it away before you apply your foundation. Jessie's Picks:  Make Up For Ever Glitter in Silver 2. Mac Pigment in Silver Fog. 4. Take a black gel eye liner, and line your upper lash line, creating a flick. Jessie's Picks: Bobbi Brown Gel Eye Li...

Fab February: Makeup Wishlist/To-Do List for 2014

For today's Fab February post I thought I would post my makeup wishlist in honour of "Wishful Wednesday".... Yes, I just made that up.... Basically this post is of all the beauty related products that I would like to purchase or try in 2014. Kind of an odd post, but I have read a number of posts like this and I have always found them a useful forum. So if you have tried any of these products or have products that you want to try out in 2014 feel free to comment! 1. Nars Laguna Bronzing Powder . I have heard so much about this bronzer and I think that after my Too Faced Chocolate Soleil Bronzer runs out this will be my next bronzer purchase. 2. Clinique Cheek Pop Blush in Plum Pop. I have a feeling this blush is going to become my go to for the spring and summer. It looks like a grogeous plum shade which would be perfect for my light-medium cool toned complexion. 3. Urban Decay Naked 2 Palette. I am already in love with the original Naked Palette, and I just kn...