#makeup asks

ok, if you live in the US i really recommend Colourpop when you get more comfortable with makeup. They have so many palettes so when you get your tastes down they’re a great place to go for affordable and great shadows! They have these single shadows that are the only single shadows I would ever buy. They are this delicious soft powder putty-like formula that is so hard to explain but when you feel it you understand. 

if you have an Ulta by you, they might also have Colourpop in store. however, they are mostly online. Click here if you want to look into Colourpop palettes.

at the drugstore in the US, like CVS, i would recommend going to brands like Milani and Wet n Wild for shadows. m    m      m     nyx   

If these are not applicable to you, I just recommend you getting a small nudes palette to get comfortable with eye makeup then venture out! There are so many different little palettes from these brands to check out. Please look up reviews online before choosing!

Wet n wild has a great eye shadow primer, i’ve heard. I have not used it much personally, but it has great reviews from beauty vloggers and on the ulta website. It helps so much with getting shades to stay on and look good!

I dont love any liquid eyeshadows really, ive never had luck! but if you get good and want to start venturing into glitters, there are a lot of glitter eyeshadow toppers out there that will be great!

I hope this helped! :) 

I used to draw my brows on the good ol’ fashioned way (see: freehand with a lot of time and patience) but the results weren’t always as nice as I would have liked them to be, especially if I was pressed for time. I’ve tried eyebrow stencils before for fun but they were never the brow shape I wanted, and were usually too long for me. I ended up just making up own lol:

It’s made from a piece of paper, all I did was mark where I wanted the brow to start and end, drew a straight line for the bottom of the brow and a parallel line above it that tapered down to meet the bottom line (I prefer straight brows, but you can make any shape that suits you!) You can use this stencil for both brows, just flip it when you switch brows :^)

This is what my brows look like before I fill them in, all I’ve got on atm is just foundation

Using a few strips of masking tape (less sticky so it’s easier to remove) I just kinda. Slap that shit on my face where I need it

This is the brow powder that I’m using, it’s just two darker brown shades with a lighter brown shade. I’ll be using the one on the left and the one on the right

So using a wide eyeshadow brush (it’s easier to use a medium sized brush just to fill it in quickly) with the dark brown, I start from the outer corner of the brow and pat the colour on. I like to concentrate most of the darker colour near the outer corner, then bring it towards the inner side. This kind of creates a little gradient, and the inner corner will be less solid which I prefer since I like the inner corner to kind of blend out. Using a little bit of the lighter brown, I just lightly brush it across the inner side to middle of the brow so it’s kind of like a dark to light brown gradient u feel

Note: make sure not to pack too much pigment on or it’s gonna look like you sharpied your brows in lmao

Remove the stencil and realise that it still looks kind of bad

(If you’re cleaning your brows up, you can shave down any hairs that appear outside of the shape you have at this step 👉👉)

But do not fret, my friend! The next step is to clean the brow up: I use a skin-tone eyeliner and a brown brow pencil to just neaten up edges and extend the outer point a bit more to my liking