5 Years.. really?

Today marks 5 years for my little blog, I can't believe how fast time has flown. When I started this thing I was just about the enter cosmetology school and I had barely scratched the surface of my makeup talents. Now I'm licensed in Hair and Makeup, have done some free lance for a handful of weddings, just finished up at QC Makeup Academy about to get my certificate and now I am a beauty advisor at Kohl's.. the next adventure will be enrolling into a Special FX course with QC! I just want to learn as much as I can and have always wanted to do Special FX makeup and very excited!

I thought about what I was going to do for my look today and I was looking back at my first real tutorial for Carrie Underwood's music video for "Just a Dream" and then I thought how fun would it be to recreate the look. I have to say I wasn't as skilled as I am now and I kinda cringe when I look at the old posts haha!

Here's The Look:

Here's my look:

Here's what I used:

EYES

• Base- Cargo HD Primer
• Lid- NYX Jumbo Pencil in Lavender, then I used Too Face Nashville Nudes Palette in Famous In A Small Town
• Crease- Urban Decay Naked Palette in Gunmetal
• Highlight- Urban Decay Pulp Fiction Palette in Righteous and Colour Pop Super Shock Shadow in Girly in the inner corner
• Liner- Urban Decay 24/7 Liner in Perversion on top and also on the lower and water line with Gunmetal on the lower lash line and Righteous on the inner portion.
• Mascara- Cargo Better Than Waterproof

CHEEKS

• Base- Lorac Mattifying Face Primer
• Concealer-Cargo One Base 01
• Bronzer- Flirt! in Golden Minx and Lorac Tantilizer Baked Bronzer
• Blush- Creme de Couture in Strawberry Ambrosia 
• Powder- Makeup Forever HD Translucent Powder

LIPS

• Urban Decay Super Saturated Lip Pencil in Love Child
• NYX Butter Gloss in Creme Brûlée 

Carrie Underwood:"Temporary Home" Music Video

Today's look was based off the Carrie Underwood video for Temporary Home, when I saw this I had to recreate it.

This was my look:


Here's how I did this look:

EYES

• Base- NYX Jumbo Pencil in Pot N Pans all over the lid and inner corner
  
• Lid- I used L.A. Colors Palette in Ammunition (3rd silver) on the lid followed with MAC shadow Idol Eyes
• Crease-in the outer corner and crease I used Ulta shadows in Granite (dark gray) Plum Smoke (plummy brown) Chianti (Burgundy) and Brass ( Shimmery medium brown) and Mac shadows Cranberry and Beauty Marked.
• Highlight-Ulta in Iceland
• Liner-Liquid liner in black on the top, on the lower lash line I used Pot n Pans again and covered it with Idol Eyes and blended with Ulta shadow in Elegance (beige) and used sephora liner in Midnight Black in the waterline
  
• Mascara- Pulse Perfection

CHEEKS

• Foundation- True Match
• Blush- N.Y.C. Chrome Color in Sunstone

LIPS

• Lip Stick- N.Y.C in Chiffon and Jordana sheer lipstick in Opalescent
• Lip Gloss- N.Y.C. Liquid Lip color in Pink Sands and a touch of Pink Kiss on top
  

"Just A Dream" Carrie Underwood tutorial

Flipping through the channels today I saw the music video "Just A Dream" by Carrie Underwood and I wanted to try and re-create it. Such a sad song and video but her makeup looks gorgeous!

It's better seen on the Music Video but it's got a pink-ish gray look. Cat eye liner and a soft peach lip.

Ughh! so ignore my hair, it looks really nasty in the pic but I wanted to pull it off my face lol It will look better in the next tutorial I promise!

Things I used:
Base- Ulta Base and Nyx Jumbo Pencil in Strawberry Milk with a little bit of cream shadow light pink that I purchased at the dollar store from Indulge in Beauty.
Eye lid- Hard Candy eye shadow quartet in Dillusional (the pink color) mixed with Ulta shadow in Sweet
Crease- I used my Day to Play palette from Pop Beauty (it's like a grayish-purple color) that I got at Ulta
Liner- She has a cat eye so I used Nyx Jumbo Pencil in Black Bean and used a angled liner brush and thickened the line and winged it out and then I put the black under the lower lashline and smeared it out towards the middle and put a a beige matte shadow from my Day to Play palette on the inner lower lashline.
Waterline- Nyx Jumbo Pencil in Milk and on top I used a white shadow from L.A. Colors palette in Ammunition (the 1st color)
Mascara- Top- Maybelline Colossal Volume and Bottom- Maybelline Pulse Perfection (my favorite!)

Face:
Foundation-Dream Matte Mousse in Porcelain
Blush- Flirt! Peek-A-Blush in Heart Throb
Bronzer- Flirt! Bronzing powder in Golden Minx

Lips-
Wet n Wild lipstick in 547B Breeze
NYC Liqiud Lip Shine in Pink Sands

The full music video can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G423arRXq5s