Eye Makeup Fun (Win A Prize)

June 11, 2014

Hi Tiger Fans! I’m another one of Colleens sisters, Shara. During the recent convention in New Orleans I came prepared to do some fun eye makeup for the big events Colleen was taking part in. As I started to put this blog together somehow all the before and after pictures I took magically disappeared. 🙁 Sigh. Even the pictures of the make-up we used are gone. So I will piece it together and add a list of what we used with links. I knew Colleen wanted to do some purple shades to match the book art for the upcoming release of Tiger’s Promise. So I was thinking I was going to somehow do a mix of Yesubai and Elsa from Disney’s Frozen.

Exotic Eyes

Bright, colorful, and just PRETTY!

Something like Scarlett’s look.

I purchased some false eyelashes to glam things up a bit. Here are the two we used.

This set was for Friday

Natural, flirty, and loved the adhesive.

This set was for Saturday for all the pictures with fans.

Full, inky, better for night.

I LOVE to try new brands and test out new styles, colors, and techniques. The only new products were the eyelashes for this trip, but all the other products were proven favorites that live in my personal make-up bag or Colleen’s. They have earned their spots!

Colleen had already applied her foundation primer like Smashbox Color Correcting Primer to even out the redness, foundation, powder, and blush. Suki has almost finished pinning up her hair and adding little flower hair pins throughout to mirror the lotus flowers in Tigers Promise. So it was my turn to make her eyes ** sparkle.**

I started by using Urban Decay Original Eyeshadow Primer Potion. I just got this a few weeks ago, and I love how it keeps my shadow from melting off my face here in Arizona. So I knew it would be perfect for the New Orleans humidity. The deep purple eye shadow Lancôme Purple Drama Shimmer and Maybelline Color Pink Rebel stayed on all day. These colors complimented Colleen’s warm brown eyes. We used my new favorite brand of eyeliner Urban Decay Empire. The dark eggplant matte eyeliner glides on smoothly and then dries and stays put. I then added flirty eyelashes and discovered I like the adhesive wand applicator from the Katy Perry Lashes since I can put the adhesive right where I want it, and how much I want. The Ardelle 101 Lashes looked really pretty, but I didn’t like squirting the adhesive out like toothpaste. It was hard to get an even coat on the lashes compared to the wand applicator. We finished off the look with some mascara Colleen bought at Sephora called Buxom Lash. The mascara wand is huge and really blended the falsies with her naturally long lashes perfectly. Lastly we used Urban Decay Glitter Eyeliner right above the lash line in purple.

The best part is I discovered a new technique for evening out eyebrows that are slightly uneven. Colleen’s left eyebrow is slightly higher than her right eyebrow, giving a perpetually perplexed expression. 😉 (giggle, giggle) So I filled her brown in with a chocolately brown eye pencil below the natural brow on the left to make it appear lower on her face. Then I filled in the right brow more on top of the natural brow to give it a lift. Genious!!! I’m sure others have figured this out way before we did, but it made for some good giggling and wondering what other body parts are uneven!?!

Colleen all glammed up for the big day with her fellow YA author Suzanne Lazear.

When the long fun day was done Colleen used Simple Eye Makeup Remover Pads to wash off the day. These little cleaning pads, perfect for traveling, made quick work of cleaning off every bit of makeup.

Simple Makeup remover pads

If you like to play with makeup like I do leave a comment on your favorite eye product that has earned a coveted spot in your makeup bag and don’t forget to tell us why. For a prize, tweet a picture of your favorite day time and/or going out night eye make-up look to @CollenHouck and @shara_lane. (prize only domestic) I’ll give a prize of my new favorite mascara Covergirl Bombshell Mascara. (see below) I wear contacts and it doesn’t flake off into my eyes!!! It takes more time than my go-to Lancôme Hypnose Drama mascara, but I still love it. OR comment below on your must have beauty product.

Contest starts 6/14/14 ends on 06/28/14.

** I think I’ll also surprise the lucky winner with extra bonus beauty goodies as well. I’m thinking some eyelashes, eye shadows, and some makeup cleaning pads, etc. ** See below.

Covergirl Bombshell Mascara

Prize-10 Beauty Items

1-Yes Facial towelettes

2-Loreal Infallible Black Brown Eyeliner

3-Covergirl Bombshell Very black mascara

4-Stila sample pack of Beauty Balm, Foundation, and Concealer in light

5-Katy Perry Lashes Sweetie Pie

6-Garnier Fructis Shampoo and Conditioner Sample

7-Ulta 3 piece brush set (eyeshadow, sponge tip, and contour brush)

8-Lancôme La Base Face Primer (I use this every day)

9-Ulta Eyeshadow Quad (Bone, Ice Queen, Truffle, Gunmetal)

10-Hot Pink Ulta Make up bag

Here are some fun Makeup 101 videos. I want to try the silver shadow on Colleen next in the 2nd video.

Beginner Eye Makeup Tip & Tricks

Brown eyes with contrasting silver from makeupgeek.com Beginner Eye Makeup Tips

Shara

PS-Here’s what I’m playing with this week…elongating cat eyes like Taylor Swift. I discovered I have to start from the outside of the eye and come down towards the eye otherwise I totally screw it up. I really want to do this on Colleen since she already has eyes shaped like this. I’ll be practicing all week. It’s a classic sophisticated look. It make your eye look like a precious jewel framed in inky lashes. See my 1st attempt below.

Taylor Swift Cat Eye

I used an angled brush to line the top of my eyes with my new Urban Decay 2 palette. I love this palette but was scared to take it on an airplane to use on Colleen, and break it. Great colors and deeply pigmented so it stays on. I used all colors from this palette in this look.

My attempt at a small cat eye. I'm still not brave enough for a longer one. But after 5 long stares from my hubby...I might reconsider. :-)

My 1st attempt at a cat eye. I’m still not brave enough for a longer one. But after 5 long stares from my hubby…I might reconsider. 🙂

I also tried to do some contouring and highlighting the cheekbone to give that warm sunkissed look but also to thin out my chubby cheeks. (like I said I watched a lot of makeup tutorials this week.) I thought it looked weird until I saw it in the pictures and wondered why in the world I waited until age 40 to learn how to do make up differently than I did in the 80’s and 90’s. I need a better brush to do this but I think I will do this everyday from now on.