My upcoming wedding has got me spending a lot of money on beauty stuff, and fun stuff like hair care products, this is how I found my favorite new curl enhancing spray from Victoria’s Secret, for example, and I’ve also bought TONS of new makeup as well. I bought a new, more tawny shade of Revlon Color Stay foundation, tons of new eyeshadows, which I’m sorry to say the majority of them are just so-so, and new mascara, new eyeliner, and so on and so forth.
My favorite new purchase, and my favorite experience, was my purchase of some fun new MAC eye stuff. I asked the MAC consultant at the counter (I was shocked to see we just got a new MAC counter at Macy’s) to give me a good new look with some purple/lilac pretty feminine eye shades. She sat me down and took off the makeup that I already had on with a makeup remover. She took a quad palette of purples, blues and greys, and her bevy of makeup brushes, and went to town on my eyes.
She taught me some new techniques I never knew to do before, like tilting my head back to do the shade on my crease and the highlighting shade on the outside corners of my eyes, and she introduced me to the awesome paint pot of eyeshadow primer, which I ended up buying, and the virtues of a flat brush for applying eyeshadow, which I also bought.
The eyeshadow foundation and the brush are probably my favorite purchase, as they help to create an awesome, rich, precision look that you can’t really get without the right tools and the right makeup. The eyshadow is great too, but that is something I have already experienced and used, so it was nothing new.
The foundation for the eye makeup is a stiffer, flesh colored makeup in a small round pot that you pat onto the eyes with the flat bursh. When it dries all the way, you put your shadows on. Your crease shadown, base shade, and the corner shade colors and so on and so forth. They all go on much richer looking and they also stay on your eyes ALL DAY LONG. This stuff is totally worth the $16.50 investment, you have to trust me.
The brush I think ran about $25 and the eyeshadow quad ran me about $36. All in all, I learned some great techniques and got great makeup, so I’m happy as a clam. Another cool trick is to use a makeup sponge to clean off your brush between color applications, by patting it onto the sponge and getting the color off in preparation for you next color.
