On a wedding, if bride is the flower, then bridesmaids are the leaves. The pretty flower must match with the nice leafy too. They are best friends of the bride!

We often see from the wedding events and those posts in social media, bridesmaids always the spotlight of the wedding. They are always wearing the same color of dresses, nice hairdo, complete makeup, those beauty faces of bridesmaids are important in the wedding.

Bridesmaids Makeup Tutorial

I believe you watching this post whether you been a bridesmaids before or going to be your friend’s bridesmaid. To have a bridemaids makeup yourself is not hard at all, you just need to follow these steps and easy makeup hacks for beginner makeup.

Remember do not over makeup. The best bridesmaid is stay pretty but not prettier than the bride! Skin prep is a main key to flawless make up. Take care your skin prior to the wedding, keep the skin moisture and hydrated.Have a hydration mask before makeup can make a better complexion makeup and long lasting. Adding lip care into your skincare routine by applying lip balm or lip sleeping mask, to create a bouncy lips!  Choose the right base and foundation, simple contouring and highlight, natural blusher that match your lips color.

Eye Makeup Hacks

For the eye makeup, you can go for nude shades for makeup as natural as possible, especially for garden wedding. Choose the nude shade eyeshadow and focus on matte hues like below:

Huda Beauty – The New Nude Palette

NYX PROFESSIONAL MAKEUP Ultimate Shadow Palette Warm Neutrals

Maybelline New York The Blushed Nudes

35 Colors Nude Eyeshadow Palette (Warm Natural)

Applying gradient from bottom to eye lid, then add some shimmer eye shadow on top to create more texture. Use waterproof eyeliners, so it wont smudge over hours and under humid or hot sun. Same goes to mascara, opt for the smudge proof, for extra definition, apply on lower lash as well.

Last Fix with loose power or makeup fix spray for long lasting makeup and stay on the perfect condition!

NYX Makeup Setting Spray

MAKE UP FOR EVER Mist & Fix Make-Up Setting Spray 

Then you are ready to go!

Does daily eye makeup sounds boring to you? Just like you need to brush teeth everyday, it sounds usual but is essential to your life. Especially to kick start your day! Daily makeup shouldn’t be too over like smokey eye, it should look natural yet bring up the whole image.

What Color for Daily Eye Makeup ?

Natural eye makeup never goes out of style, bare and nude tone of eye shadow are the main point of natural eye makeup. It will always match with the overall look, create deeper look of the eyes.

There are some colors are recommended for creating nude and bare eye makeup, such as caramel, beige, mocha, or lighter nude color like peach. These colors also separated into cool tone and warm tone. To look natural on your skin and increase the complexion, you must match the right eye shadow color tone to your skin tone. Of course not only eye shadow tone, to look good in appearance, foundation, blusher, bronzer, and all makeup must match with your skin tone.

Nude color eye shadow palete is very useful in your daily makeup, other than create natural eye look, you can create many more different eye makeup with nude palette too!  Below shows you come eye palette that are recommended by most youtubers and bloggers:

Huda Beauty – The New Nude Palette

NYX PROFESSIONAL MAKEUP Ultimate Shadow Palette Warm Neutrals

Maybelline New York The Blushed Nudes

35 Colors Nude Eyeshadow Palette (Warm Natural)

Everyday Eye Makeup Ideas

To create everyday natural eye makeup, the steps are very easy and quick. The application method can be via brushes or fingers.

Most important is the area of applying, it should not over the area of eye lids too much, just above the eye lids and blend out evenly to look natural.

The deeper eye shadow should apply at bottom of eye lid and inner corner of eye and spread out with gradient. Sounds easy right ?

You can add shimmer eye shadow on the middle to increase the clarity of eye too!

Eye makeup required many steps to achieve a complete look. From eye primer to eye shadow to eye liner and lashes… etc, you probably needs more than 30 minutes for eye makeup itself only. When comes to daily makeup, and especially in rush, we do not have much luxury of time to do a complete eye makeup, what we do is just put on foundation and a lipstick. Yet, when some important occasion you need to look good but you have not much time for preparation, you should definitely learn from this tutorial on how to complete eye makeup in just 5 minutes!

5 Minutes Eye Makeup

This eye makeup is super easy and quick,  although the makeup steps reduced, but the outcome still stunning! You will be surprise by how good it is, because the eye shadow tones are match and it also suitable for most of your makeup.

For the first timer, you will need more time to complete this look, keep practicing and you can done even less than 5 minutes. This peachy shimmer eye makeup are so suitable for the summer. It is so pigmented and easy to blend out. Use the brush to blend out evenly from inner corner to all of the eyelid, then use your finger to tab on the shimmer color on the middle. Next just put on mascara and eyeliner, then you are good to go! super quick right ?

Hacks & Tips for Beginner

If you are very newbie to makeup, you probably need these hacks in your makeup routine.

Use the products that are reliable, which decrease the chance of failing. Choose the right color tone, so it won’t look weird on you. Also remember to put eye concealer if you have pigmented issue on your eye areas, this will help you on your later application. Last but not least, practice and practice to make it perfect !

Harley Quinn Makeup in Suicide Squad movie has the high ranked in Halloween Costume ideas recent years. The funky while cute look of this character is favorite of most Suicide Squad movie fans!

Easiest Harley Quinn Makeup

This makeup tutorial definitely the easiest you can ever find. You can simply make it messy or glam, up to the occasion you are going, either one looks super gewd and cute !

In this tutorial the color eye shadow palette can be switch among below products:

Lancome 24 hour Foundation $47 https://amzn.to/2BER7VQ

Urban Decay naked Skin Concealer $28 https://amzn.to/32Nej0a

Anastasia Dipbrow Pomade $18 Shade: Ash brown https://amzn.to/32HNla9

Urban Decay Naked Skin Ultra Definition Powder Foundation $36  https://amzn.to/2Nfulcm

Tarte Holiday Palette https://amzn.to/2WhG5j0

Colour Pop Supershock Eyeshadow $5 Shades: Erotic, and Too Shy https://amzn.to/2qKiM5D

Coastal Scents 88 palette $11 https://amzn.to/2WcmRes

Jouer Highlight $24 Shade:Citrine https://amzn.to/32WM6UR

Lilly Lashes $20 Style: Goddess https://amzn.to/2Wcn0yw

Tarte Amazonian Clay Blush $28 Shade: Flush https://amzn.to/2MLBEK5

Kylie Cosmetics Lipkit Liner Shade: Mary Jo K https://amzn.to/2JlN70N

Anastasia Liquid Lipstick $20 Shade: American Doll https://amzn.to/2JmiwzY

Costume, Accessories, Hair

For the complete Harley Quinn look, the outfit is easy to match by putting together the related accesories like bangles, short necklace, tattoo sticker or temporary tattoo painting, and any kind of clown look accessories.

Other than that, your hair have to be dip dyed blue and red for left part and right part. You can use  hair color spray which can be washed off easily afterwards. Then just tied up the hair upwards to left and right.

For the accessories, choker necklace would be the key point for adding points into the overall look. Harley Quinn wearing choker with white and gold colors, you can either buy online or diy yourself!  Some peoples even just draw it to their neck, and it works too! Other than choker, bracelet also need to be matched to complete the look.

Lastly, put on clown outfit that are colorful, funky and you are good to go!

Smokey Eye existed as far back as Ancient Egypt time. As you can see there are many antique paintings have the drawing of men and women with smokey makeup look and emphasizing on heavy eyeliners. Studies show that ancient Egyptian use this smokey dark eye makeup to protect their eye from strong sunlight, but some studies stated that it is to ward off evil spirit.

Anyway, alluring smokey eye makeup has been famous since 90’s to current fashion.

Smokey Eye Hallmarks

So how smokey eye should looks like ?

The smokey eye makeup should not having clear demarcation, the shades of eye shadow should blend well and not showing defined separation line between one shade and another. This is to create the smudge kind of look, which to represent someone always turns up late, ain’t have more time for makeup and a rule-less of personality.

The color of smokey eye doesn’t have to be black, it can be darker shades like navy, gray or eve burgundy. As long as it shows that the eye makeup is emphasized and without any define line between shades.

Smokey Eye for Asian

Smokey eye is for EVERYONE! It suits all women on this world, what you need is some modification based on your eye shape. Asian eye’s  shape has slightly different from Western’s eye.

First, identify what your eye shape, then a black pencil is all what you need ! Start sketch the shape of smokey eye look you wish, for example more on underneath for more allured look, or more on inner corner for sharpen the eye shape, or sketching upright to have cat eye look and so on. After you have done with sketching shape, then use eye shadow with the color shade you want and filling up the the frame.

While doing this, remember that it doesn’t have to be perfect! It should looks like no rule during applying. Lastly you can tab on some shimmer shadow on the eye lid to create texture, so it won’t turns out too matte and subtle.

Halloween costumes and makeup are absolutely the most essential thing for Halloween parties!

Halloween Party

Every year of Halloween there are multiples of parties you have to attend and you cannot simply put the same costumes and makeup to every party ! Scratch your head hard to come out with something new look for Halloween ? Here is some makeup you might need to consider to put on this year ! Very easy and applicable for most of the Halloween partiessssss!!!

 Black Eye Look for Halloween

Instead of a complete look, lets learn how to do a BLACK eye makeup. This black eye look can be mix and match with different makeup and costume to create different characters! You can put on Sexy Vampire look, Black Widow, Zombie, Witch, Queen of the Universe… etc.

So here is the tutorial of Black Eye Makeup which is so easy to follow. I believe everyone can simply replace the makeup products used in this tutorial.

Products For Black Eye Makeup

If you are newbie to heavy makeup you might consider substitute below products with the one have with you.

The products used in tutorial listed as below:

Eyes

• Anastasia Beverly Hills “Amrezy Palette”
• TheBalm “Schwing – Black Liquid Liner”
• Dolce & Gabbana “The Eyeliner” (n° 5)

Eyelashes

• Chanel “Sublime de Chanel” Mascara
• Make Up For Ever “Eyelash Adhesive”
• Born Pretty Store “False Lashes”

Eyebrows

• Anastasia Beverly Hills “Dipbrow Pomade” (Chocolate)

Lips

• Mulac Cosmetics “Wacky Lipstick” (Lily)

Other Secret Recipe for Halloween Look

After you have done your makeup, have you ever wondered you still lack of something for the complete look ?

That is your lens color !

For different character you plan to wear, you will need to wear a different color lens, for example, if you want to have a vampire look, a pair of cool toned color lens is needed to create a complete vampire look. If you want to create a Witch kind of look, then a black color lens is what you need!

SO simple right ? start practice and you can be the Halloween Party Queen this year!

Have you ever tried a an eye makeup that are trendy these years like cat eye look or a smokey eye look but it doesn’t look as good as you expected it to? But it looks good on your friends, just so effortless for them to create the look !

Wondering Why?

This not caused by your makeup stuffs or your skill on applying, you can use the exact same makeup kits as your friends are using, or you can even get your friend’s help to ‘copy paste’ the eye makeup on you, yet the outcome will be always same. Why this happens? The answer is simple, it is actually because of your eye shape not suitable!

There is no one person’s eye suitable to ALL makeup, for example the cat eye look might looks good on her but not on you, in the opposite, the smokey is good on you but not her (sounds fair?).

So How We Choose The Right Eye Makeup?

Just like how we choose our outfit colours according to our body shape, First understand your eye shape and so you can create an eye look that able to enhance your overall look instead of making your look worst than not putting makeup.

There are various eye shapes such as protruding eyes, hooded eyes, deep set eyes, close set eyes, monolids, upturned eyes, downturned eyes, wide set eyes, round eyes, and so on. All these different eye shapes as knowing your eye shape is the key to flawless eye makeup!