Green & Silver Prom Makeup (Pic tutorial!)

My boyfriend's baby sister is having her prom in a couple of days, and asked for some advice in terms of makeup.  Since we're in different countries, I couldn't do her makeup personally.  And being the beauty blogger I am, I decided to do both a video makeup tutorial and a picture tutorial for a makeup look.  She requested a green and silver look to match her dress.  This is the first time I've made a picture tutorial and it is very very lengthy.  You have been warned.  If you just want to skip to see how the makeup looks, just scroll all the way down!  Also, this is the first of (hopefully) many looks using my neglected UD Alice in Wonderland palette.

Start with an eyeshadow primer.  Apply it all over the eye, up to the browbone,
into the lower lashline, and in the inner corner of the eye.

Apply a green cream eyeshadow on the lid.

It should look like this.

Blend it out with your finger.

And then it should look like this!  Don't worry about not being able to see
much of the green anymore.

Take a green eyeshadow (preferably one that matches the color of your dress)
with an eyeshadow brush.

Pat the eyeshadow all over your lid.  It should look like this.

Take some silver eyeshadow on a blending brush.

Start depositing the color on the outside of the crease above the green.

And it should look like this!

Reapply the green eyeshadow as needed.  Blending usually takes away
some of the color.

Go back to the silver with a small eyeshadow brush or a q-tip.

Place the silver in the inner corner of the eye, and down a bit into
the lower lashline.

And it should look like this!

Go back into the green with a small eyeshadow brush or q-tip.

Place the green into the middle third of the lower lashline.

Take a bit of black eyeshadow on a pencil brush.

Place the black eyeshadow in the outer V of the eye.  Blend it a bit into
the upper lashline as well.

Bring the black eyeshadow down to the lower lashline to
meet the green.

Blend some more silver into the crease.

Again, reapply the green eyeshadow.

Take a matte eyeshadow that is slightly lighter than your skin.

Place it on your browbone and blend downwards.

Line your upper and lower waterline.

And it should look like this!

Line the upper lashline.

Line the lower lashline, about halfway towards the inner corner
of the eye.

Take a matte black eyeshadow with an angled eyeliner brush.

Apply the eyeshadow over the liner to make it more long lasting.

Curl your three times: once at the base, once in the middle, and once at the end.

Apply a waterproof mascara.

And you're done!

~*Products Used*~

Face:

-Tarte Silicone Free Face Primer

-Smashbox Foundation in Light 3

-L'oreal TruMatch Foundation in N6

-Maybelline Dream Mousse Concealer (discontinued)

-Lancome Concealer (discontinued)

-Laura Mercier Translucent Setting Powder

-NARS Laguna Bronzer

NARS blush in Deep Throat

-ELF bronzing powder

Eyes:

-UDPP

-NYX Jumbo Eyeshadow Pencil in Horseradish

-UD e/s in Absolem, Vorpal, and Jabberwocky (from Alice in Wonderland BoS)

-Too Faced e/s in Heaven

-Inglot e/s in 63

-UD 24/7 Liner in Zero

-L'oreal Waterproof Carbon Black 

Lips:

-Lancome Cover Fever Lipstick in Rose Tempest

-Buxom l/g in Amber

Props to you if you made it till the very end!  

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Thank you!

P.S.  The entire process of preparing for the tutorial, doing the tutorial, editing, translating, implementing subtitles took over 10 hours.

[I have nothing to disclose.]

Learning Experience: Doing prom makeup

My baby brother and me.

Last Saturday was my baby brother's prom.  I had offered to do his girlfriend's hair and makeup, but Dave told me that she wanted to do her own makeup, but would like me to do her hair.  I'm a little more comfortable doing makeup, so I begged my brother to convince some of his female friends to let me do their makeup.  

Meanwhile, the past weekend has been crazy hectic for me.  Dave and his friends were getting ready in the morning.  I woke up at an ungodly hour Saturday morning and drove the 1.5 hours home from my apartment on 5 hours of sleep.  I was so dead tired that his friends probably thought I was a mean hobag and just isolating myself from everyone lol.  In any case, my makeup and hair supplies were packed in a hurry, and I was working in a cramped bathroom to do hair for 2 girls and makeup for 1 of them.  I didn't include their pictures in this post because I don't want to seem like I'm bashing them, because this really was an eyeopening experience for me.  Here are a few things I learned:

1. Be ready for mishaps.

I had prepared for makeup mishaps with makeup remover and cotton pads, but obviously not for hair.  I spend over an hour curling one of the girl's hair.  It was very thick, and I had to keep the curling iron in for a little bit longer to retain the curls.  She wanted to do an updo with a braid clipped over her head like a headband.  I didn't know exactly what she wanted so I told her that I'd curl her hair and let her style it the way she wanted, since she seemed pretty sure of how she wanted her hair.  Well, as we were running out of time, her updo wasn't looking that good and she didn't hide the base of her braid so it stuck out funny.  Not to mention this was about 2 hours after I did her hair and she had messed with it a lot so the curls were falling apart.  I didn't have time to fix it or do a more elegant do, so I ended up popping her hair up in a messy bun, and pinning it down with bobby pins in random places so it still looked somewhat elegant.  For this do, I didn't have to curl her hair at all so that ended up being a waste of time.

2. Guard your makeup.

I don't know if it's because time was starting to be pressing or I was just lenient cause it was my brother's friends I was dealing with but one of them basically just expected me to supply makeup for her.  Again, I was dealing with two "clients" at once so while I was busy doing one thing, the other girl was asking me where my eyeliner and concealer was instead of asking if she could actually use it.  I was not as professional as I would have liked, probably because I was tired and I didn't want to seem like a stuckup bitch, so I let her have her way.  I still have to go about sanitizing my kit.  Which leads me to the next item.

3.  Have a separate kit for clients.

I actually had a sort of kit that I would use on clients only, mostly eyeshadows and blushes.  The problem is, I use my own makeup so often that I get to be more familiar with those colors and textures more so than my client kit.  Especially since I was in a hurry to get everything together.  Also, my client kit lacked dark colors for contouring and doing more dramatic looks, so I opted to use mostly my own makeup.  For things like concealer and foundations, I decided to use my own because I don't do makeup on other people often enough to make use out of those investments.  Not to mention the fact that I do not charge money for services at this time and I am currently unemployed so I can't afford these items.

4. Clients' wants come first.

This is by far the biggest issue I was struggling with.  I am not yet professional by any means, but I know a shitload more than the average girl.  One of the girls wanted all her hair up completely, even though it would have been a lot more flattering for her to have a strand of hair on each side to frame her face.  The same girl was also horrified at my version of "light makeup" because she felt the makeup would overpower her ivory dress.  She didn't like having eyeshadow applied under her eyes.  Her foundation was a tad dark and looked slightly orange on her but she wanted to use her own foundation.  I thought I was prepared to deal with girls who wanted light, natural makeup, but obviously not.  Looking back,  I've done makeup on other girls for clubbing, parties, and performances so my style and experience has leaned towards slightly dramatic.  The eye look I ended up doing on this girl was a shimmery wash of color over the lid up to the socket line with a slightly darker color pressed onto the lid and blended out.  Eyeliner was a matte brown eyeshadow pressed into the upper lashline only.  It's really frustrating for me as an artist to know that I could do so much more with the look, but be limited because that is ultimately not what the client wants.

5. Bring a lookbook.

This would definitely have solved a lot of problems.  I've been meaning to put together a lookbook of my own, but that would have helped clients pinpoint exactly what they wanted in terms of hair and makeup.  

I typed this entire blog during class lol.  And now class is over so I better get moving.  Thanks for tuning in everyone!