Please take pleasure in this repost that includes one in all my favourite eyeshadow palettes for simple smokey eyes. Additionally, facet observe, I have to get again on the MAC Face & Physique practice. I forgot how lovely it appears to be like in photos!
The Trustworthy Magnificence eyeshadow palette comes with a card with 4 appears to be like you are able to do with the palette. I adopted the one referred to as “Traditional Smoky Eye” for this publish, though with one tweak. I began by buffing the matte beige shade (Vanilla’d Velvet) throughout my lids as a base so the next colours would pop a bit of extra.
I used to be a wee bit nervous about utilizing the shimmery gold throughout my lids and the shimmery darkish purple on the outer nook as a result of…I’m in my 40s now, and shine doesn’t all the time play effectively with my 40-something pores and skin, notably within the crease. Some might even say that I’m “overly choosy about shimmery finishes,” *ahem*. Are you able to blame me although? One false transfer and also you see each high quality line!
Buuuut, I made a decision to go for it anyway, hoping that the matte beige beneath would tone down the shine, and it did!
As I used to be mixing, I noticed one more reason to like this palette. The extra you buff and swirl these shadows, the much less intensely they shine, till they’ve extra of a satiny end. The end finally ends up as a tender, pearly glow, which makes this traditional smokey eye very workable for daytime put on! After I dropped Connor off at college this morning, I didn’t really feel like I used to be sporting “an excessive amount of.”
Oh, I’ve been which means to inform you — I discovered probably the most lovely cream blush by Chanel! It’s Les Beiges Blush No. 20, a stick blush, $45 (!), however dang, woman! It’s so good. It’s a bronzy, peachy tan with the best flecks of pearly gold, and it provides a touch of natural-looking colour to cheeks. I really like how simple it’s to mix and that I can’t see it sitting on prime of my pores and skin or in my pores.
For those who’re an actual stickler for blush that doesn’t heavy in your cheeks, you then would possibly wish to think about it as a result of it’s so natural-looking on pores and skin.
FYI, for those who’re lighter than I’m, No. 20 will most likely perform extra as a straight-up bronzer in your pores and skin, and for those who’re darker, you then would possibly higher off with one in all Chanel’s brighter cream blushes like No. 21 or No. 22, since I’m betting No. 20 gained’t present up as readily on darker pores and skin.
Different issues I’ve been into these days: mixing two shades of Trustworthy Magnificence liquid lipstick, particularly Ardour and Off Obligation, to create the purrfect mid-toned coral pink; and sporting an old-school standby base mixture with MAC Face and Physique (I combine C4 and C5), set with the tiniest smidgen of MAC Mineralize Skinfinish Pure Powder (my shade is Medium Golden).
Significantly, why did I ever take a break from sporting Face and Physique? IT’S SO GOOD, particularly for no-makeup make-up. I’ve talked about it advert nauseam on MBB for years, so for those who’re comparatively new right here and wish to know extra about why it’s the stuff, hit me up within the feedback and I’ll repeat myself as soon as once more, LOL! LOVE IT.
Oh, my gosh, one very last thing earlier than I depart you — have you ever seen the Britney Spears documentary on Hulu? I stored listening to about it, and I advised myself, “OK, I’ll give this 10 minutes of my life, and that’s it,” however then I began watching it and I COULD. NOT. LOOK. AWAY.
The one-hour documentary by The New York Occasions charts Britney’s rise to fame, her very public points within the press within the early 2000s, and the conservatorship that was positioned on her in 2008, which some individuals imagine was towards her will. Some conspiracy theorists go as far as to assume that her Instagram is a complete collection of coded cries for assist.
As you would possibly know, I’m solidly on #TeamBritney, and so watching the doc left me with the hope that someday she’ll shock us all (in the absolute best, emotionally wholesome approach).
To Britney and all my girls on the market at the moment holding on, make that scrumptious lemonade out of these lemons, mama. You hold in there!
Your pleasant neighborhood magnificence addict,
Karen
