Tie-Dyed Eyes Makeup Look

Tie-Dyed Eyes

Makeup Look from STYLE Santa Fe

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.

theBalm Cosmetics/Mr. Write (NOW) Eyeliner Pencil in Jac B Bronze – Product Review

theBalm Cosmetics/Mr. Write (NOW) Eyeliner Pencil in Jac B Bronze – Product Review

Although I admire and applaud all that theBalm Cosmetics’ founder, Marissa Shipman, has created and accomplished, I did not care for the Mr. Write (NOW) Eyeliner Pencil in Jac B Bronze.

The color is very beautiful, a light shimmery bronze, with light being the key word; too light. It just does not show up. I have medium skin tones and I am used to a dark brown or black for lining. I tried applying it just for some extra sparkle on the lower inner eye but still it appeared a no-show. I believe this color might (only) work on a blonde with very pale skin. I will note that the pencils do come in darker shades and are available at the website. I will also note that the colors are named after men, i.e., Bill, Brian, Wayne, etc., which is kind of confusing to me because there is nothing to go on other than a picture of the pencil and the pencil’s male name. That just does not work for me and I am not twenty, so neither does the whole Mr. Write name-thing.

This pencil has the self-sharpening tip that rolls out. Not trying to be a negative-Nellie here, but when I tried to apply the pencil, the tip broke easily and immediately, and of course we all know that heat affects any eye-pencil, and I had just received it in the mail. After bringing more of the tip out and applying, it did not flow or apply easily. I personally have found very few of these type of tips that do not break constantly or that apply smoothly. My favorite that I had found was by Katherine, but has been dis-continued (of course). Jordana EasyLiner works very well. Otherwise, I have a drawer-full of eyeliner pencils both regular and reractable/self-sharpening, that do not work.

And last but not least, there is no smudger on the end and in my book, a smudger is a must.

These pencils retail at theBalm website for $17.

So overall, sadly, I am sorry to say that although I love bronze, I will have to turn down Mr. Write in Jac B Bronze, as well as his other friends as far as a regular day-to-day eye-liner.

Update: I have continued to experiment with the pencil in its bronze/gold color. I have included it in my tutorial on my makeup look, Tie-Dyed Eyes, so I am happy to have found a use for it. It is better suited for enhancement than lining.