HOW TO CONTOUR AND HIGHLIGHT

Once again, we’re delighted to share a basic makeup tutorial from Los Angeles based makeup artist, Amy Clarke. She has created this lovely tutorial along with one of our favorite photographers, Bryce Covey, to detail and demonstrate how to perfect the art of contouring and highlighting using makeup.

Take these tips from Amy to add to your ever-growing arsenal of makeup techniques. We know how difficult it is to get straight information when you’re looking through hundreds of turorials on how to perfect a makeup skill (to use bronzer or not to use bronzer?!) but as always, Amy has made it easier than ever for you to learn how to use your natural bone structure and just a few key pieces of makeup to contour and highlight your best features. Use this basic makeup tip to kick your daily beauty routine up a notch!
Contour & Highlight:1.+ 2.  Apply one layer of foundation or tinted moisturizer all over face. I used Tarte’s BB Cream in “Medium Light”. Using a foundation brush and a cream concealer (2 to 3 times lighter than your skin tone), apply concealer (the highlight) to the under eyes, down the sides of the nose, and brushed back and upward toward the hairline.
3. Using the same concealer, highlight the center of the forehead and down the bridge of the nose, upper lip, center of the chin and on your brow bone. Lastly, apply the concealer to the jawline, just under your cheekbones.
4. Once you’ve finished with all the highlighting, it’s time to apply the contour. Pick a cool-toned cream concealer or foundation thats 2 to 3 shades darker than your skin tone. Taking a smaller, stiff brush or foundation brush, apply the contour cream to the hallows of your cheeks, just below your cheekbone, all the way to your hairline.
5.+ 6. +7. Apply the same color to your forehead near your hairline, temples, jawline, the sides of your neck and to the sides of your nose.
8. Using a wet Beauty Blender or Duo Fiber Blending Brush, blend all the contour and highlighter together until there is no more distinction between the two colors.
9. Lastly, Apply a light dusting of blush, and set all the highlight with a loose powder using a small natural bristled brush. I used Tarte’s 12 Hour Amazonian Clay Blush in “Tipsy” and Make Up For Ever’s Super Matte Loose Powder in “Translucent Natural”.
Pro Tip: You can use cream or powders to contour or highlight, creams are easier to blend and tend to look more natural. Avoid using bronzer to contour. You are creating a “shadow” so think of a color that’s similar to an actual shadow, which tends to be a cooler tone.  Use Bronzer to warm up your skin and make it look sun-kissed!
Favorite Products: Make Up For Ever’s Foundation Brush “30N” & Senna Cosmetic Face Sculpting Cream “1.
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Super Basic Black and Brown Neutral Makeup Tutorials

Step by Step :

1. Start applying the make a creamy shade of high durability throughout eyelid and outer corner. Apply and longer give a light mist without much overcome dobrinha eye (if your eye is small can overcome, if medium / big no, ok?).
2. Following esfume the crease and outer corner with an opaque light brown shade.
3. Eye contour with brown pencil reinforcing it at the outer corner!
4. With a brush pontudinho mark the concave, the outer corner and the region close to the lower lashes with a chocolate brown shade.
5. Esfumó all cuddly with brush!
6. Now apply opaque black shadow to dobrinha eye very lightly, at the outer corner and close to the lower lashes.
7. Beige shadow in the corner to light.
Used Products :
O13 of Maria Margarida brushShadow Soft Brown MACBrown pencil Touch of NatureBrush 012 Maria MargaridaShadow of Alice Salazar Salazar.Sigma E20 brush.Vult brush.
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Orange and Torquoise Makeup Tutorials

Step by Step :

1. Start applying the make a creamy orange shade on the mobile eyelid. You can change this shadow for a good primer / fixer, ok?
2. Following apply a shimmering orange shade on top....
3. Smudge on the concave outer corner and an opaque brown shade.
4. Esfume the same shadow close to the lower eyelashes, the brush down in inverted C connecting the upper part and the lower part of the eye.
5. Outline the entire eye and waterline with black pencil.
6. Now cover the entire pencil with opaque black shade and in March the outer corner leaving a black "in" brown.
7. With a cuddly esfume brush that black inside when he meets with the orange becomes a beautiful golden-green. Also esfumó black for him to "mix" with brown outside and concave corner.
8. Close to the lower lashes apply a turquoise shade and pulled it out for making a "Egyptian outlined" soft.
9. I conclude with pearl luster in the inner corner and false eyelashes.
Used Products :
yellow brushShadow Fierce & Tangy MaybellineOrange shade with golden glow of the 96 color palette of JasmyneO13 of Maria Margarida brushTrio Pause shadows to Feminices of TractaPencil Black Touch of NatureBrush 166 MAC.Brush 217 MAC.Sigma E20 brush.Shadow Poolside Makeup GeekBrush E47 SigmaGlitter Dance of Bless Cosmetics.Eyelashes 014 Eyelashes Beauty of Klass Vough.
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How to : Apply False Eyelashes

Step by Step :

Have you ever spent hours in front of the mirror trying to apply fake eyelashes, only to end up with them sticking out at strange angles, or—worse—fall off completely after a few hours? Because falsies are tricky to master, we tapped Los Angeles–based makeup artist Gia Brascia to show us her tried-and-true application (and removal) tips.
For the tutorial, we used Kevyn Aucoin The Lash Collection in Starlett.
1: Before you do anything else, measure the length of the lash to make sure it fits your eye shape. If the strip needs to be cut to fit, snip the outer edge completely off with small nail scissors. This will avoid drooping at the corner (meaning: no more lashes poking your eyeball).
2: Take both edges of the lash and bend inward to create a “C” shape, and hold for a couple of seconds. That’s the best way to take out the straightness and ensure it molds to our curved eye shape and stays put without the corners lifting up. Just this alone will make the rest of the process effortless.
3: Apply a high-quality glue such as DUO Eyelash Adhesive for lasting results (Brascia suggests avoiding the glue that comes with your lashes). If you have a steady hand, you can squeeze straight from the tube onto the strip. Tend to get shaky? An easy trick: put glue on the reverse (handle) end of a tweezer and glide it across the strip, as pictured. Be generous at both the inner and outer corners so the glue won’t unstick when you blink.
4: Wait ten seconds or so for the glue to become more tactile and sticky (you can also blow on the glue or wave it gently in the air) before placing the lash. This is the best way to keep the strip from slipping around while you’re trying to line it up properly.
5: Aim for the base of your natural lash line, right on top of your real lashes, not touching the eyelid at all. The glue dries clear, so don’t worry if a little gets on your skin.
6: Once you’ve placed both lashes, you can do your mascara; this will help integrate the natural lashes with the false ones.
7: If you see a gap showing on the eyelid between your real lashes and falsies, don’t worry! You don’t have to pull it off and start again, says Brascia. Just fill in the gap, using a matte black eye shadow as a liner to hide it (we used Inglot Cosmetics Freedom System Eyeshadow in 391). This step will also help the glue dry more quickly

Removal Tips: Always remove false lashes before taking off rest of your eye makeup. First pre-soften the glue with a cotton swab that’s been soaked in an oily makeup remover, like rms beauty Raw Coconut Cream. Dab the swab along the lash line to loosen the glue and break down its stickiness. With your eye open, take hold of the lash at tip of the outer corner. Then close your eyes and very slowly peel the strip away from your real lash, working from outer to inner corner—toward the nose. 

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Super Famous Black Smokey Eye Makeup Tutorials

Step by Step :
1. Start applying the make beige pencil below the brow and inner corner. I spread the sequence with the index finger.
2. Now every eye contour with black pencil, without exceeding the dobrinha eye. It is important that the pencil has a slightly creamy texture, so it does not "stain" the lid and let the black uniform.
3. With a pontudinho soft contour brush all black with brown shadow opaque chocolate.
4. With a fluffy brush caught the same brown shadow and esfumó it on the concave and outer corner. But not too out, follow the rounded design of my eye, and you should follow the design of yours, okay?
5. With the same brush cuddly caught opaque and esfumó black shadow below her brown concave and outer corner.
6. Now with a dense and firm brush deposit opaque black shade on the mobile eyelid, leaving the very strong tone to dobrinha eye. Apply one three layers of black to stay ultra strong! It is important to press the brush against the eyelid, so the shadow adheres better. Rubbing or think, okay?
7. With a low cut brush to apply the black shadow close to the lower lashes, and upon leaving the brown pencil shading out.
8. I conclude with beige shade illuminating the internal corner. This step is optional, as my eye is small I like to turn up, but if you have olhão can jump!
Used Products :
Begete pencilBeloved Touch of NatureBrush the ES12 Pink GlossTrio Pause shadows to FeminicesBrush the ES07 Pink GlossPalette of shadowsBrush E5 of The Beauty BoxSigma E20 brush.
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Everyday Chic Neutral Makeup Tutorials

Step by Step :

1. Start the make applying the Light Up the Contains 1g below the eyebrow, then esfumó with the index finger it. This step I do ALWAYS, regardless of makeup. This facilitates the smoky concave and leaves look bigger and more beautiful.
2. Then apply a primer across eyelid (I used the Make B) and then an opaque brown shade a couple, three tones above the natural color of my skin. Apply it to the dobrinha eye rising slightly above the concave.
3. I take this brown to the outer corner of light, so do not give to see where it ends and where the color begins to "skin". Thus the outer corner is not with any "marking", but very natural.* This step makes life much easier, because for me the hardest of makeup and make that defined zone.
4. Step the same brown close to the lower lashes, linking upper eye with less.
5. To give a smooth setting around the eyes, blending a brown gray shadow on the outer corner (in lying V) and concave, very lightly, leaving that cintilância "inside" the light brown shade.
6. With a thin brush to apply Satin Taupe close to the lower lashes too.
7. To define the outline of the lashes apply black pencil only the middle of the eye to the outer corner, above and below. Then esfumó with the same brush I used to apply the Kid shadow, because as he is "Sujinho" with brown shade will soften the black.
8. Apply a cream shadow in the inner corner a little invading the upper and lower eyelid.
9. To give a boss in the eye apply a little illuminating shade in the middle of the eyelid.
 Used Products :
I used the shadow Kid MAC and the E60 Sigma brush.I used the shadow Satin Taupe MAC and the Sigma E25 brush.I used the E05 from Sigma.I used the Zero pencil from Urban Decay.I used the MAC Vanilla shade and the Sigma E30 brush.Moonshadow Baked Palette Sephora
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Gold and Brown Smokey Makeup Tutorials

Step by Step :

1. Start the make esfumando the opaque brown shade Beware around the eye area! I leave it more and more marked in the hollow mist (light) just above it.
2. With Zero black pencil (which comes in the palette) contour around the eye, waterline and in March the eternal corner and the line of the concave (until the middle of the eye). Made it esfumó with cuddly brush!
3. To dissolve the black is not enough to blending, so use a sparkling brown shade, it facilitates the smoky and removes any "blurred" black pencil. I used the West.
4. Now apply black eyeshadow duo Spell close to the lower lashes and up making a slight "Egyptian pulled". Take and seal the outer corner with the same shade, but within the dobrinha eye.
5. Fill the mobile eyelid with the Golden Spell duo. It is important to mix well the encounter between the golden and black near the outer corner (the union of the two form a beautiful color!).
6. Illuminate the inner corner and the area below the eyebrows with Broken.
7. With cuddly brush come back to black Spell and she esfume the concave and outer corner.
8. I conclude by passing a sponge with concealer on dark circles that cleans and sets of light make the contour (the pulled from the outer corner). Always use the Velvet contains 1g.
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Wonderful Gold with Smokey eye Makeup Tutorials

Step by Step : 
1. Following step the golden trio shadow in the inner corner and take until the middle of the eye, both at the bottom and the top. I took a slightly moistened with water in the brush.2. In the other half of the eye shadow apply the lead trio. Take care and blending the meeting between her and the gold. Again I used damp brush.3. Step black pencil close to the lower lashes, waterline in close to the upper lashes.4. Over apply the black shadow trio and already esfumó. When the black meets the golden form a more grayish tone. It seems that spent lead close to the lower lashes but I have not spent, it's just the same meeting the golden with black.5. With the same shade and brush in March the outer corner and the concave. In this part moistened lightly brush too!6. Now with a dry brush cuddly and take a little black and esfumó pulling it out. Notice in the picture that I take toward the root of the chops. In this step you have to take SUPER brush pressure, he MAL touches the skin, ok? This leaves the lighter smoky "transforming" the black on gray. The beige below the eyebrow also help in this color transition.7. After smoke come back to black shadow and the moistened brush and strengthening the external and concave corner.

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Pink and Wine Makeup Tutorials

Step by Step :

1. Start the make illuminating the region below the eyebrow.
2. Fill the mobile eyelid with Cranberry MAC.
3. Outline all the Cranberry with the shadow wine Sketch. I also spend it close to the lower lashes. Apply more than once pro tone to be very strong.
4. Soften the marked smoky more Sketch with a small fluffy brush.
5. Now with a chubby and clean brush esfume this wine to leave the smoother finished yet. The result of this is a smoky slightly pink light brown which skirts around the most intense wine, you know?
6. Now apply the inner corner, the mobile eyelid and close to the lower lashes brightness Carmine.
7. I conclude with black eyeliner on the upper eyelid, waterline and close the root of the lower lashes.
Used Products :
Shadow Sketch MACShadow Cranberry MACCarmine brightness of Mell's ColorsE65 Sigma brush.Eyeliner Fludline Blacktrack MAC
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Chic Mermaid with Pearl Shadow , Torquoise and Outlined Makeup Tutorials

Step by Step :

1. As always started applying make the Light Up Contains 1g (or the High Brown Benefit) below the eyebrow.
2. Then blending an opaque brown shade dark chocolate in the hollow, reinforcing the tone at the outer corner and right where the brush sinks, you know?
3. After I applied an opaque black shadow just above the concave and lay the outer corner V.
4. Following blending black so it blends with the brown.
5. Once applied on the eyelid a creamy shade with white glow.
6. Over applied a shadow pearly mega glossy.
7. Now applied a shimmering turquoise shade close to the lower lashes to find the trace with the top of the eye.
8. Below turquoise step a little brown to leave the most beautiful finish.
9. Above the turquoise applied the Glitter of CAPRICE.

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Gorgeous Pop Blue and Smokey Brown Shade Makeup Tutorials

Step by Step :

1. Start the make illuminating the region below the eyebrow.
2. Fill the mobile eyelid with a light blue pearly cream base.
3. Above the base, apply a shimmering light blue shade. A half blue jeans, you know?
4. Smudge on the concave outer corner and opaque brown shade.
5. Caught a sparkling Royal shade and apply close to the upper lashes (outlining type) and at the outer corner. We apply already giving a esfumadinha.
6. Close to the upper lashes step a vibrant blue pencil. I take him to the outer corner as well, to let the blue more vibrant corner.
7. In the external and concave corner, blending a grayish blue shade / opaque green. Esfumó it between the brown and the Royal, and take her roughly until the middle of the eye only.Ps: this shadow is bright but the brightness is released, when she esfumó brightness "loose" and is only the opaque even the colored base.
8. Close to the lower lashes and waterline brown pencil step water.
9. Above pencil step smoky brown shade.
10. Apply in the center of the eye, also picking up the outer corner, a transparent blue glow. Not used fastener because the idea is that the brightness becomes delicate eyelid. Applied using the same finger!
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Wonderful Emerald Green Shade , Moss Green and Violet Makeup Tutorials

Step by Step :

1. Start applying the make beige pencil below the eyebrow.
2. Now blending a sparkling gray-green shadow on the concave (from the middle out), reinforcing it at the outer corner.
3. Following apply black pencil close to the lower lashes and outer corner, to dobrinha eye. After esfumó!
4. At the outer corner and concave (until the middle of the eye more or less) esfumó a dark opaque green shade.
5. Spend the same shade close to the lower lashes!
6. In the mobile eyelid apply primer (I used the Mary Kay) and then an emerald shade glow.
7. In the corner and internal concave apply a violet shade.
8. In the inner corner, especially in the lower part of the eye, apply a shimmering white shadow.
9. Now mark the concave and the region close to the lower lashes with moss green and shadow. Who does not have a Night Porter (which is very specific) can use basic black opaque even life, or some black with golden glow.
10. After scoring esfumó !!!
I conclude with black pencil close to the eyelashes and waterline, and false eyelashes. I used this one girl flower shop!
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Cat Eye Makeup With Shadow Tutorials

Step by Step :

1. Start the make applying the shadow Vanilla Bean below the eyebrow.
2. Esfume the shadow Preppy in my entire contour of the concave down close to the lower lashes.
3. Marco with the shadow Corrupt the region close to the lower lashes and lying V outer corner, leaving him "in" the brown, but following the same design.
4. With the shadow Latte esfume the meeting of Corrupt black shadow with Preppy brown shade. Also esfumó black taking her inside.
5. Apply at the inner corner and the mobile eyelid Jumbo Milk NYX. Vale exchange for any clear basis as pencil white or beige. But it has to be soft, okay?
6. Above the white base to apply the shadow Vanilla Bean.
7. Now apply the shadow Latte in the center of the eyelid, pissing it with black outer corner and with beige internal.
9. I conclude by applying black eyeliner (MAC fluidline) across the waterline and around the eye area.
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Blue and Gold Eye Shadow Arabian Makeup Tutorials

Step by Step :

1. Start the maker making a WAVE outlined in the hollow. It starts on the inside, making the wave rises slightly above the concave and down making a puxadinho following the direction of the tip of the eyebrow.
2. I had passed the golden pencil before, but now enhanced! Apply it close to the lower lashes along the lines outlined in black outer corner. Also fill the inside corner with the gold.
3. Fill the golden pencil with a bright golden shade.
4. Black outlined above apply an opaque brown shade, following the same contour!
5. Esfume brown with fluffy brush up it lightly.
6. With an opaque black shadow fill the space between the outline and the smoky brown. It is important that a brown bordinha be "free" of black, ok? The smoky brown must go!
7. Blending with cuddly paintbrush to the softer and less marked black. Here you have to blending for a long time, because thin black shadow is not easy!
8. Eyelid leftovers apply fixative and over the sparkling blue shade. In the picture the application was made with brush, but I applied with the fingers even, and I used the brush just to fix the bordinhas.
9. Come back to black shadow and give a stronger at the outer corner, closing the V lying! After all esfumó again (forgot to take pictures, but basically blending with fluffy brush everything to be smooth color transitions).
Used Products :
Beveled brush 018 of Maria MargaridaLiner Fluidline Blacktrack MACPencil Carbon Gold of DailusBrush 239 MAC.Shadow Sun of palette of shadowsSigma E20 brush.O13 of Maria Margarida brushFixer KolossShadow Strass Blue Touch of Nature
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DOMINO

Good morning, Everyone! Hope you are all having a wonderful week!
I wanted to take this opportunity to share a few pics of one of my new favorite dresses, i.e. the gorgeous black and white number I am wearing in today's post. A big fan of the black and white color combination in general, from the moment I saw this dress, I feel in love with the cut and the color block pleated side inserts. A perfect combination of classic and sexy, this one is definitely one of those  twirl-worthy dresses I am always raving about :)
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GreenWash Mint Makeup Tutorials

Step by Step :

1. Start the make applying a white base across eyelid. Also applied a tiny bit below the eyebrow and esfumei with your fingers!
2. Mark concave eye with black pencil and take it out (do not go down there in the black outer corner, right?).
3. Caught the darkest black shimmering eyeshadow palette of 226 colors Macrilan and esfumó black pencil tightly in the hollow. As I shot up the "pressure" of the brush leaving the softer smoky. Thus it is gray!
4. In the inner corner of the eyelid up to 1/3 applying the most clarinha shadow Palette Macrilan. I used brush, but even better is that shadow apply with sponge or your fingers, right?
5. In the center of the eye apply a more intense truth. Well mermaid same! With this green fill 2/3 of the eyelid and the external corner with nothing.
6. Close to the lower lashes black pencil step (middle to outside) and up the pencil filling in the external zone that was without shadow. Following esfumó pencil and I take it is Sujinho black to reinforce the concave. Oh, also pass the pencil across waterline.
7. With a fluffy brush come back to black shadow of Macrilan palette and esfumó it at the outer corner light well (to go gray!) And pull out.
8. I end passing the light green shade close to the lower lashes of the internal corner to the middle of the eye.


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Wonderful Purple Glitter Inspired Makeup Tutorials

Step by Step :

1. Start (as always) with the Light Up the Contains 1g below the eyebrow, to leave that much clearer region that my skin.

2. Then fill the outer corner of the eyelid with very black shadow, then esfumó taking the tone out in the imaginary line connecting the end of the eye with the tip of the eyebrow.
 I used the black shadow Trio PPF, the MAC 239 brush to apply and the MAC 224 for blending.

3. Now pick up a black eyeliner gel more oily / creamy type and apply across mobile eyelid (up to dobrinha) without exceeding the end of the eye at the outer corner.
I used the eyeliner gel contains 1g (it is creamier!) And the brush here whatever, okay? The important thing is that it has more durinhas bristles.

4. To this Pintão the eyeliner not be esfume marked the light of bordinhas.

5. Close to the lower lashes and smoky eyeliner step (also worth using black pencil same!).
I used the gel eyeliner of Tracta and the E16 Sigma brush (Performance Kit).

6. Now apply a violet shade / sparkling purple inner corner to the middle of the eyelid.
I used the MAC 239 brush and eyeshadow palette of 24 colors mineral girl flower, sells here and it is divine. I will speak of it soon!

7. Then strengthening the black on the outer corner, blending the tone with purple in the center of the eye.

8. In the internal corner, invading an upper and lower part of the eye, apply one clarinha lilac shade.
I used the shadow illuminating 11 Vult and applied with brush pontudinho.

9. In the center of the eyelid apply fixative and then glitter purple.
I used the fixer Bless Cosmetics and the glitter of Grape FaceFront.

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Green & gold for Rita's wedding

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Winter Snowflake # love makeup

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Amazing inspire eye makeup for you !

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