Valentine's Day Makeup #2 ~ In With Skin

Here is the second makeup look in the In With Skin

Valentine's Day date makeup series.

The scenario this time was a casual valentine's date,

such as catching a movie, going to a game,

doing something low key where you don't want to be

too vamped up, but still want to look like you made an effort, and look really pretty.

Applying MAC Impassioned lipstick in The Beauty Room at In With Skin

All makeup products were by MAC,

and are part of their basic color line,

so no matter where in the world you are reading this

you can order these items.

I prepped our model Alyssa in the makeup room

keeping her skin hydrated and her complexion glowing.

In With Skin Valentine's Day Makeup Look #2

On her eyes I used a paint pot in Painterly

eyeshadow Sushi Flower on the lid for a pop of color

then Handwritten to buff out the eye and give it some depth and dimension. Fluidline gel cream liner in Dripdown gave a little

definition to the eye.

On Alyssa's lips we used lip liner Pink Treat 

and lipstick Impassioned

images courtesy of Bill Christ

Here's the video

How To Line Your Entire Eye With Eyeliner

From the eHow.com Corinna B series, here is a quick video on how to line your entire eye with eyeliner.

image Kelly Cappelli

How to Line Your Entire Eye With Eyeliner -- powered by ehow

So, to recap:

1. Think about the shape of your eye.
If you have small eyes, keep the liner thin as completely ringing your eye with liner can make it look smaller.
If you have very close set eyes, don't take the liner all the way into your inner corner, as it can make your eyes look even more closely set together.

2. Use a moderately sharpened pencil - don't sharpen it to a tight point as it will probably crumble. Don't use a completely blunted down pencil either, as you will lose definition. You want to have control of the line you are creating.

3. Lie the pencil on it's side and move it through the lashline, using small, even strokes.
Start in the middle of your eye, move the pencil through the outer corner, ans then come back through the inner corner.
Don't try to pull it through in one perfect sweep - chances are it will bounce across the eye and make a bumpy, uneven mess.

4.Using an eyeliner brush (like the Corinna B Taklon liner brush) and a powder eyeshadow that matches your eyeliner pencil - dark brown shadow with dark brown pencil / black shadow with black pencil etc

image Kelly Cappelli

firstly set the pencil with shadow to stop it moving and disappearing as the day/night wears on, then secondly using feathering motions, buff through the pencil and soften out that line.
Tipping the angled liner brush on its side, slide it under your lower lashes, and buff a soft smudgy line, accenting your lower lashes. (I prefer not to use pencil under the eye as it doesn't have much staying power and can look too severe)

5. Top it off with a couple of coats of mascara.