1.Wash and moisturize your face to give you a clean canvas for your makeup.
2.Apply a green-toned concealer to cancel out any redness you may have on your face (pimples, cheeks, and around your nostrils), and a peach-toned concealer under your eyes to brighten them.
3.Using your fingers, a sponge, or a foundation brush, apply a very light coverage foundation all over your face, blending down your neck. A good one that’s inexpensive is CoverGirl’s Clean Makeup, which you can find at your drugstore.
4.Using a fluffy brush, set your foundation and concealer with a translucent powder, be it pressed or loose. I use N.Y.C.’s Loose Powder, which I found at Wal-Mart, but you can also find it at drugstores.
5.Apply a primer to your eyelids. You can use something meant for a primer, such as Urban Decay Primer Potion, which you can get at Sephora, or a thick concealer. I use a Maybelline Cover Stick concealer that is too dark for me. This provides a sticky base for the powdered shadows to hold on to, and also helps conceal any veins on your eyelids.
6.With a flat eyeshadow brush, sweep a light, matte, blue-toned gray eyeshadow all over your eyelid and three fourths of the way up to your browbone, concentrating most of the colour in the inner half of your lid. I used one from my 88 Eyeshadow Palette from Coastal Scents, but you can find a quad from any drugstore brand with the colours you’ll need for this look. I know .mmel has a great one
7.Using a darker shimmery charcoal gray eyeshadow and a fluffy brush, place the eyeshadow in the hollow of your eye socket, or crease, and blend it using a windshield wiper motion. Again, I used my Coastal Scents Palette, but you can find this at a drugstore.
8.Take a dark matte black eyeshadow and the same fluffy brush and apply the colour very gently to the outer third of the crease with the same windshield wiper motion.
9.Apply a light shimmery white or champagne eyeshadow to your tear duct with a small detail eye brush, and also to your browbone, just under the arch of your eyebrow.
10.With a black pencil liner, line both your waterline and your tightline, and also a very thin line on your top lashline, making the line thicker in the outer corner. I use a Rimmel pencil, but Maybelline’s Define-A-Line is a great alternative.
11.Using another small detail brush and the same black eyeshadow, press the shadow over the liner to set it and make it last all day, and also to smudge out the liner a bit.
12.With a very light fluffy brush , apply a soft, natural, pinky peach blush to your cheeks. I used my Coastal Scents blush palette, but CoverGirl has some great blushes too.
13.Apply chapstick to your lips, then a very nude pink lipstick with a satin finish. Maybelline has some great lipsticks, but my favourite is Rimmel’s Airy Fairy.
14.If you don’t like wearing lipstick, you can skip it and just apply your favourite lip balm in a pot.
