Experimenting with fun and bold colors can help you express
your inner creative goddess. One fun look that I have developed is Tie-Dyed
Eyes. Tie-dye is very much a part of Santa Fe-style as the style was partly
influenced by the hippie movement, by bohemian artists and free-spirited
creative minds.
You may pick your own colors. I am going to suggest working with
about four colors for your tie-dyed eyes. You may select these colors based on
your favorite tie-dyed piece of clothing. For this tutorial, I will be matching
the colors to a tie-dyed top that I own in beautiful blues, browns and golds.
First, after completing your other makeup applications, line
the eyes as you normally would to shape and define. Use a brown, brownish-black,
black or even a blue, depending upon your tie-dyed color choices and your skin
tones.
Begin with a matte, base brown. Apply from the inner eye up
and out across the crease and on the inner area to just below the brow and
outward.
Next, select a bright blue shade of eye shadow. Using a
wet-dry eye-shadow brush, dab a light application of the blue in the inner eye
corners extending out just a fraction like an eighth of an inch, a fourth at
the most.
Now take the same blue color and wet or dampen your brush
and swipe your color and apply to the outer area of the lower lid from the
outside of the pupil to the corner of the eye and extend upward to “lift” the
eye. Repeat the process on the upper lid from the outer corner of the pupil to
the outer edge of the eye, meeting the lower line that you extended upward.
Smooth and soften with a small dry brush.
Now use the gold eye shadow and apply from the mid-lower lid
up toward the brow area above the crease. Blend well. Choose a gold that is
really shiny, even metallic, that will really “pop.” Wet your brush and apply.
Wetting the brush for these colors will make them jump out even more and it
will give them longer staying power. (I applied this look in the morning and by
bedtime it was just as pretty). Blend well. With a small liner brush, just hit
under the eyes with a light brush of the gold for extra sparkle.
Highlight with a white (matte is better because we really
just wanted to blend and smooth). Go over all eye colors lightly with the white
blending and smoothing, especially blending the edges of the gold into the
blues on inner and outer corners.
Use a sponge to wipe any excess colors that “drifted”
outwards of the cat eye corner, and blend upward at an angle. Brush over the
entire look with your favorite bronzer if it is for evening-wear. If it is for
daytime, brush over the entire area with a soft matt blusher on pink or tan
just to tone the sparkle down a bit so as not to overdo for daytime. Go back
with the gold if you need to refresh any areas.
Touch up your eyeliner in any areas that need touched up or
re-lined. I used the Mr. Write pencil liner in gold that I recently reviewed
and although I did not care for it as an eye-liner per say, it does work nicely
to add a little more gold sparkle to the inner eyelid corners. Dust all and set
with translucent powder.
This particular look can be finished and complimented nicely
with a sparkly gold lipstick.
Have fun with it and be creative. If you do not have the eye
shades that you want, do not be afraid to mix your own. This technique may be
tailored to work with any color of tie-dyed outfit to suit your color schemes
and skin tones.
Welcome to Style Santa Fe, this is Cheryl Bruediam here with
a quick review on ColorMates Lipsticks. I first discovered ColorMates a few
years ago when I was in Santa Fe
for a wedding. It was raining and I needed a mascara touchup so I ran into a
grocery store and all they had were ColorMates. It got me through in a pinch so
when I saw them at my local store I thought I’d check them out and let you know
how it went. I love the lipsticks. These little jewels have gorgeous colors and
amazing staying power. They’re also super moisturizing.
I have three colors here today, Pink Frost, Berry Root and
Peach Fuzz. The Pink Frost is really more of a mauvish frost and the color is
light and sheer. The Berry Root is my favorite of the three and is really more
of a bright hot pink and I love it. The peach fuzz is a bright shimmery peach
and pretty true to its name.
I’m just going to apply the Berry root real quick so you can get an idea
of how well and easy it goes on. (PAUSE) There, it looks great!
So if you’re on a budget and wondering what line to use or
you’re in a pinch and need a quick fix that you can rely on, ColorMates is the
choice for lipstick. And best of all, at least at the local store near me,
they’re only one dollar a piece. Yep that’s what I said, one dollar, can’t beat
that. So, I love ‘em, you’ll love ‘em and I’ll be back with reviews on other
ColorMates products soon!
Thanks for joining me, this is Cheryl Bruedigam with Style
Santa Fe.
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