Today's Make Up: Family Gathering & Dinner

Hello Saturday all! Hope you're all enjoying your weekend!

I've been one busy bee today, gettin' things done. My brother and I got all the cars washed... just in time for Monsoon season to start in Arizona. That's what we do for rain here in Arizona. Not getting any rain? Go wash your car, a few hours later, rain. But anyways, quick post about my makeup today. Family gathering and dinner at Pacific Seafood Buffet. Yep, after an intense week of extreme dieting, it is time to let loose and kill the buffet. Haha.

FACE
Maybelline Baby Skin Instant Pore Eraser
Pixi Correction Concentrate in Brightening Peach
Sonia Kashuk Concealer Palette in Hidden Agenda
Skin79 Lovely Girl BB Cream
Maybelline Dream Wonder Powder in Classic Ivory
NYC Smooth Skin Bronzer in Sunny
BH Cosmetics Floral Blush Duo in Tulip

EYES
Too Faced Shadow Insurance
It's Judy Time Eyeshadow Palette
Wet N Wild Mega Liner Liquid Eyeliner in Black
Etude House Tear Eyeliner in Sun Light
Almay Get Up & Grow Mascara in Black

LIPS
Peri Pera Peri's Tint Water in Candy Juice
NYX Butter Lipstick in Lollies

After spending nearly the entire day out in the sun, I pampered my skin a little by stirring up a quick nourishing mask before applying makeup on my face. Today I used the mask with avocado and milk. This mask left my skin silky smooth, firm, and hydrated.

I used Baby Skin around the areas with lots of and visible pores before using Pixi to conceal around and under my eyes and Sonia Kashuk to other blemishes on my face. I used a medium coverage BB Cream because I want that coverage, also look natural and have something light on my skin. This BB Cream also gives me a natural luminous glow. This BB Cream will have no problem lasting me now to the end of the night but I still do need to set it with a Pressed Powder to control the excess oil. I used my favorite bronzer to contour and give my skin a little sun kissed glow. I used the Floral Blush Duo in Tulip  as blush and highlight. The "highlight" in Tulip is somewhat dark, it's almost a bronzer but it's still light enough to work as a highlight.

I start off by priming my eyes with Too Faced Shadow Insurance. I used 'A' to brighten up my inner corner and highlight my browbone. Then I packed 'B' all over my lids, from inner to outer corner. I used a pencil brush to apply 'C' on my crease and 'D' on the outer corner and outer V. With a clean fluffy brush, I buffed and blended the edges to clean 'em up. With the pencil or smudger brush, I took 'E' onto my lower lash line, starting from the outer corner and working my way in, stopping about mid eye. I smudged it out a little and kept it concentrated at the outer corner and slowly fading as we get to the middle. Using the liquid liner, I thinly lined the upper lash line and ever-so subtly, extended it out at the outer corner. I took Sun Light and applied that on my lower lash line, starting from the inner corner and pulling it out about a third of the way. This step is really up to you, however you like to extend it but I do recommend not to pull it out too far or your eyes will look closed up instead of having large deer eyes. I heated up my eyelash curler with a hair dryer and let it cool off a bit before curling my lashes and quickly applied mascara to keep it curled.

For the lips, I applied Peri's Tint Water in the inner part of my lower and upper lips and let the water bleed out to the rest of the lips. I reapplied it after a couple of minutes and let that dry before applying Lollies. Prior to doing anything with my lips, I gave them a good scrub with Vaseline and a soft bristle toothbrush and applying lip balm afterward. Dry, chapped, flaky lips are not attractive and especially looks hideous with lip tints.

To lock all of the moisture in and keep my skin hydrated throughout the night, I misted some Thermal Spring Water onto my face full of makeup.

That's it guys! I gotta finish getting ready cause we're gonna leave in a bit. Thank you for visiting and thanks for reading. Come back soon! :)