Makeup Adventures

The weather is getting beautifully warmer as we enter these next few months of spring and with the lovely flowers blooming, I’m inspired by all the color I see around me!

Spring season makeup is usually more colorful compared to winter and fall seasonal looks. Of course, seasons shouldn’t dictate what you like your makeup to be (apply whatever makeup makes you happy!), but I am definitely excited and inspired to whip out some of my brighter eyeshadows and lip colors I personally felt too awkward to wear during the drab winter. 

Here are some ideas on how to incorporate color into your every day makeup routine:

Emphasis on lips: pinks, red stains and oranges

Gently dab a pigmented lipstick onto your lips for a stained, imperfect look. Keep the rest of the face clean with light blush and mascaraed eyes. A pop of color on the lips brightens up your whole face! I like to use reds, oranges and bright pinks.

Emphasis on cheeks: bright flush

A hot pink flush of color on the cheeks makes you look like you’re glowing healthy from within! Sweep on the apples of the cheeks, blending backwards towards the temples. I pair these bright cheeks with neutral eyes and lips.

Emphasis on eyes: colorful eyeliner, soft pastels

Whether it be a haze of pastel purple around my eyes or using blue eyeshadow as my eyeliner, bright colors on eyes are so fun! The easiest way to wear this trend is just to use color eyeliner in place of your usual black or brown one. Swipe a bright blue across the upper lashes and you’re done! Lots of mascara helps define the eyes, but make sure to keep the rest of your face and lips neutral, for a more balanced look.

Hope this was fun and helpful! Good luck : ) 

Hi everyone! One of my favorite eyeshadows of all time has to be “Velvet Revolver” from Too Faced’s Natural Eye Palette. It’s a matte, tannish brown color that is just a few shades darker than my skin.

What I love about this mushroomy brown eyeshadow is the versatility it gives me! I use this as a light, all over base color on my eyes, along with some darker brown along the lashlines and outer corners if I want to do a natural and soft smokey eye. This works perfectly for me to use as a crease color, or to even blend/fade out harsh edges on a dark/black smokey eye. And sometimes, I even fill in my brows with this shade! ; )

I was definitely on the hunt to find a cheap alternative to this taupe color! Thankfully, I found a pretty close dupe with NYX’s eyeshadow in “True Taupe.”

They are both soft and pigmented to the touch. The NYX color is slightly off, but that’s okay. I still use it for the same purposes.

(Left Swatch: NYX, Right Swatch: Too Faced)

I highly recommend all you makeup fanatics to own a matte eyeshadow that’s a few shades darker than your skin tone. The versatility is endless :D !

Revlon semi-recently jumped onto the popular trend of the “no makeup makeup” with their Nearly Naked Foundation. I mean, who wants to look like they’re wearing foundation right? :p

Packaging: The foundation comes in a sturdy, rectangular glass bottle with a plastic screw-on cap. The opening of the bottle is pretty big, so A LOT of product can come spilling out if you’re not careful! I think the packaging is very clean and nice! It reminds me of department store packaging :) 

Product Claims: ”refreshingly light…melts into skin…blends seamlessly, buildable coverage.”

Color: I got this in the second lightest shade of “120 Vanilla.” For reference, I’m about a NC 20-25 with M.A.C products. This shade is a tad too light for me. It is more yellow-toned than the first and the third shade in their range, so I don’t know if going with the third shade would match me better. Once blended in and the foundation sets into the skin, the color difference is a tad less detectable. 

Product: The product has SPF 20 and is more runny/liquid-y than most other foundations. There’s a slight smell to it but nothing too offense. I’d say this is a light to medium light coverage foundation.

Application: I like using my Real Techniques Expert Face Brush to buff this in, or I use my hands to work the foundation into my skin. Both the finishes you get are similar.

Performance PROS: 

-no flashbacks on the camera

-sits well on the skin (doesn’t look like pigment is on top), looks natural!

-not sticky when you touch your face. (sets pretty nicely)

-dewy/satin finish

-SUPER lightweight, but surprisingly covers redness really well!

-I have oily/combination skin and even though I had to blot throughout the day (which is normal for me even if I don’t wear foundation), the product didn’t wear off on me 

-coverage is buildable 

Performance CONS:

-doesn’t match my skin perfectly…but that’s an error on my part.

-probably not the best foundation for combination/oily skin

Last thoughts: I quite love this stuff! This is lightweight, but provides pretty good coverage for minor skin discolorations, like redness. The dewy finish is lovely without making me overtly greasy looking. I usually apply this as concealer where I need it (nose, chin, temples) and blend it outwards for a more natural look, rather than application to the entire face. I mixed this once with moisturizer to sheer it out and it still covered the natural redness on my cheeks pretty well!

Hope this helps!