Primary Pop of Color for Day Wear: Featuring NARS Velvet Matte Lip Pencil in Dragon Girl

So this look is a that features using bold color for a day wear look. Its not a neutral eye with green or violet liner! Its interesting, really! Pop out your matte nude colors, matte blue colors, and matte red lip colors, nd lets go! Think matte in case you wanna use teal, or orange or anything else.



1. First prep the face by moisturizing it. Prime the lid with shadow or lid primer. Apply lip conditioner like MAC's Lip conditioner, or Nivea, Burts Bee's, or even chapstick will do.



2. Allow the primers and moisturizers to set. While they are setting you can do the eyes first, or brew some coffee. Your choice.



3. Next apply MAC's Painterly Paint Pot to the lid. This is just a matte biege nude base with a pinky undertone.



4. Using Urban Decay matte eyeshadow in Foxy (light biege) or ABC Gum (medium biege) eyeshadow, apply all over lid over the base, and up to the brow bone.



5. Using the MAC 217 and Urban Decay matte eyeshadow in Electric (electric matte blue) apply into the outer corner and pull in only 1/4 of the way. Using MAC's 219 dome pencil brush draw a winged shape extending outside the natural corner a bit. Make sure both sides are even, and that they don't extend as far as a true Arabian winged eye shape. Blend into the outer corner and smooth out so the line isn't too harsh.



6. Using the MAC 219 still, and that same Electric color from Urban Decay, draw a line 3/4 of the way in with Electric eyeshadow, and draw upward in the outer corner, and meet the area that you pulled out on top of the lid. The two lines should blend and connect seamlessly.



7. Using a soft matte blue robbin's egg/sky blue color, and the MAC 224 or any other soft blender, (not the 217 it picks up a lot of color, unless you have a light hand) and pick up a tad bit of the color, and looking at your inner eye area, not on the lid, or the crease, just a little higher than the crease, dab the color in a soft semi circle shape about 1/8 of the way in. Softly, delicately. The outer corner is the focus. Don't blend or connect the blue hues with the neutral lid color, there should be somewhat of an ombre effect, but not a connection. Make sure there is a subtle gap in the spaces of the matte colors, the ABC Gum or Foxy eyeshadow should be visible. All colors are matte. This is a neutral eye with accents of color on the lids.



8. Take a soft taupe eyeliner or lipliner like MAC's Naked Liner Lip Pencil, or the Chromographic pencil in the lightest shade, or Stila Topaz liner, anyone of those will do. Line the waterline.



9. Taking an angled brush like the MAC 266 or 208, and MAC's Blacktrack Fluid line, draw a very thin line as close to the lash line as possible. Bring the outer corner up a bit, but don't wing it out past the natural eye.



10. Apply mascara first. Using Ardell's lashes in demi wispies in black with clear lash adhesive, get close to the lashline as possible.



11. Apply foundation, and setting powder.



12. Apply a luminizer to the upper cheek bones in a champagne color lightly.



13. Apply MAC's blush in Prism (pinky nude brown-matte color) and using an angled blush brush like the MAC 168 contour the cheeks and blend upward a bit. No bronzer.



14. Define brows.



15. Using MAC's Lip Pencil in Beet (coral pinkish red) and contour the lips and outline. Blend in with a lip brush. The Nars Matte Velvet lip pencils are soft and creamy like a lipstick. Due to that fact, they stay better with a true pencil liner under them. The pro of these not being in a lipstick tube is that the application is precise, and these aren't drying lip colors even though they are matte. They also last a long time. Fill lips in with NARS Velvet Matte Lip Pencil in Dragon Girl (siren red). This color differs from Cruella. Cruella is a true matte blood red, and Dragon Girl has a cherry pink undertone.



16. Set face with MAC's Fix Plus.