Today's Make Up: Lunch Date

Ello, ello, hello everyone! I had a quick lunch date with my girl friends earlier today; it was not preplanned but they didn't tell me last minute like last time so I had about 40 minutes to get ready.

Today's make up is once again nothing glamorous, just trying to look put together and presentable.

FACE
Neutrogena Healthy Skin 3-in-1 Concealer for Eyes in Buff 09
Revlon Nearly Naked in 120 Vanilla
Revlon Nearly Naked Pressed Powder in Fair
Physicians Formula Bronze Gem Healthy Glow Bronzer
City Color Baked Blush in Guava
Wet N Wild Color Icon Bronzer in Reserve Your Cabana

EYES

ELF Eyelid Primer
Wet N Wild Color Icon Trio in I Dream of Greenie (cleaver name! ahaha)
Wet N Wild Mega Liner Liquid Eyeliner in Black
Essence Long Lasting Eye Pencil in Almost Famous
Maybelline The Colossal Volume Express Mascara in Glam Black

LIPS
Maybelline Baby Lips Electro in Strike a Rose

My skin has been behaving very well lately, just the redness and other minor blemishes to conceal. I chose a very light coverage foundation today so I will need some extra help under my eyes. This Nearly Naked foundation is able to minimize the redness and somewhat even out my skin tone, but it is not able to completely conceal and cover. But I am fine with that, this seemingly looks more natural to me. I set my foundation and concealer as always. I went for a more subtle contour since my foundation isn't full coverage. Do you also do that? Or is that just me again..? When I wear a full coverage foundation, I'm comfortable with going all out on contours, blushes and highlights but when I'm wearing something light like a light coverage foundation, American BB Cream or tinted moisturizer, I tend to tone done my contour, blush and highlight. To me, if my face has light coverage but has bold contours and blush, I think it looks weird... no? So anyways, the bronzer I am using is from Physicians Formula, and it's that multi-tone type concept. I swirl my brush in the bronzer area then dab it into the pearly area. The pearly shimmer isn't anything over the top, it will just give my skin a slight glow. To keep the glowing theme going, I wore a baked blush that had a subtle glow to it. I applied this on the apple of my cheeks and blended it back. Since my bronzer and blush are already glowy, I chose a matte highlight to balance out the glowiness.

I prepped my eyes by priming it, I used ELF today. I was in a bright mood today, so I chose a green trio from Wet N Wild called I Dream of Greenie (aha, looove it!). I applied "browbone" onto my browbone and inner corner. I packed "eyelid" all over my lids, from innermost to outermost, keeping it clean by not flicking it out. Then I went in with "crease" to the outermost and outer V and pulling it up to my crease.  At this point, I went back and forth between "crease" and "eyelid" to add more until I am finally satisfied. Then I took a clean fluffy brush and blended and buffed everything out. Lastly, I took a detailed brush and took "eyelid" to my lower lash line. Then I used my liquid liner to line my upper lash line and winged that out. I used a champagne-y nude eyeliner on my lower waterline to open up my eyes a little bit, all of the bright colors can cause it to look smaller. Then curl and give them lashes a generous coat of mascara.

Since my eyes are a vibrant color, I want to balance it out with bright lips also. Nothing too dramatic, something bright yet sheer so there's an equal balance. I'm glad I have these Baby Lips Electro on hand, because they provide the right amount of neon to tie everything together. The shade I chose is Strike a Rose, it's a pinkish coral shade that I think goes very well with my green eyes.

We had a fun lunch date. I was able to catch up with my girls that are now very busy being moms and wives. It was nice. Though all of them were talking about their children and husbands...which makes me feel very left out. Of course they didn't do it on purpose but it comes naturally. They're proud moms, I don't blame them. I just hope it'll be my turn soon. Haha. :P

Thank you for visiting and thanks for reading all! :)

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PLAYLIST(S) OF THE DAY/MOMENT

Overdose (EXO-M's Version)

Overdose (EXO-K's Version)