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Kat Von D True Romance Eye Palette Ludwig Tutorial

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Here is a Kat Von D tutorial on achieving a soft “saint” look using the Kat Von D True Romance Ludwig Eye Palette. I love the Kat Von D eye shadow palettes. They have very nice choices in shades and the makeup quality is quite good. I also find them to be a pretty good value as far as palettes go.  This video also features a different use of Kat Von D Tattoo Concealer, where she uses it as a regular makeup concealer under her eyes.

Here is a transcript of the video:

As a woman you should have the right to look however you want whenever you want. The Saint look, as far as makeup goes, definitely brings out the softer side.

I think the Tattoo Concealer definitely helps out with the saint look. Once we developed this formula which I'm in love with, I realized that it wasn't just for tattoos. I think the best form of application for this tattoo concealer would have to be the Tattoo Concealer Brush  to cover up dark circles or blemishes.

For the Saint look, I’m definitely going to be using the Ludwig palette. It’s the first palette that I ever put together and it’s still my number one favorite. I like to start using the color Leather, it’s the darkest brown color of the palette. I’m just blending a little on the outer edges of the eye, and it works as a good beginning point.

The next step, I would want to use the color Baroque.  This is actually my favorite color in the entire line for me. This will also create a lot of depth using it in the crease of the eyelid.

Once we’re done with that I’ll jump into the highlight and using Tequila I think is a great choice, especially with this palette. One of my favorite tricks is to go back in and use the color Clay to blend all of it together.

I think for the saint look, using the Tattoo Liner would be the best way to do it, and I’m going to use the color Trooper. Using High Frequency Mascara in Lucifer I think makes a really good match.

A good new lipstick to use would be either Love Craft or Ritual. I think the perfect way to finish the saint look is the Lightening Liplgoss Hustler. I think it makes a perfect sparkly combination.

The beauty really is derived from just the naturalness of the look.

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Natural Makeup Look Tutorial

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Here is a natural makeup look video tutorial from Sephora showcasing how you can easily achieve a no makeup look. By simply focusing on a few features in a neutral, but attractive way, you can present a beautiful carefree look. A transcript of the video follows (a more accurate one, the one on You Tube was clearly done by a bot and had some craziness in it!).

 

Video Makeup Artist: I really think that women want to feel really naturally beautiful and they really want that beauty so shine from within. A lot of women just want to either accent a couple features.

Maybe it’s their eyes or maybe its their cheeks, and maybe they really like having a really beautiful or natural lips, and the whole key is you know using all of these products combined to really make it look like you're not wearing any makeup and just bring out that inner beauty.

What I want to start with first is using a little bit of concealer under your eyes and this is going to really brighten things up a bit. By using a blending brush to blend out your concealer it really just gives you a really blended appearance and I see a great difference already.

And so the next part of your skin that I really want to focus on is  I want your skin to look like skin.  I don't want you to feel like you're wearing a lot of makeup, so we're going to start on the perimeter of your face on the outer portion here, because we don't want a lot of makeup towards the center. This is going to really balance out your skin tone so that you look very radiant and luminous all over.

A lot of time when we think of the no makeup look  e don't really think about doing eye shadow. But I want to show you one eye shadow that you can use. It’s a very neutral shadow and I want you to use it from lid all the way into your crease, don’t go all the way up to your brow. Use a pressing motion with the brush, just pack it on your eyelid here.  It doesn't look really obvious that you’re wearing an eye shadow, but it just really finishes your whole natural look.

So i want to move on to really making your lashes and just the upper part of your eye look really full and really make your eyes stand out some some more. So we're just going to do a little bit of eyeliner onto your lash line, and I want you to just keep it really close to your lashes. We want it to look very natural so we don't want it to be very defined. And by taking a smudging brush and just going over the eyeliner back and forth gently, it really makes it look extremely natural.

Part of the new makeup look is to really focus on your eyes so let's use a mascara, and we're going to use a water resistant mascara, and it's conditioning. I really want to be with the coat every lash so we’re just going to kind of wiggle it back and forth. I’m sure, you know, you’ve tried doing that before. And with this look you don’t want to to too, too much mascara.

There's so many different choices of lip glosses that you could do. and your lips are already kind of naturally pink, So I kind of  want to soften it just a little bit, taking your golden undertone into consideration, we’re going to use a light beige lip gloss because we really want your eyes to be the focus so that it really looks extremely natural.  And for the no makeup work a lip liner is not necessary.

All right so now you're ready with your  complete look to go out and have lunch with your girlfriends and they're going to be so jealous because they're going to think you don’t even need any makeup.

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Guerlain Precious Lights Radiance Essentials Kit Review

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Guerlain makes some of my absolute favorite products for creating a flawless luminous look, especially Guerlain meteorites. Right now, they have available a limited edition collection, the Guerlain Precious Lights Radiance Essentials Kit.

Guerlain Precious Lights

the Guerlain Precious Lights set includes the following:

(1)  Precious Light Rejuvenating Illuminator: This light concealer has gold radiance pigment to blur the appearance of wrinkles and other issues by reflecting light. It also contains peptides to treat the skin.

(2) Guerlain Meteorites Perles Light-Diffusing Perfecting Primer contains also reflects light and conceals blemishes with color correcting properties (generous trial size).

(3) Guerlain Meteorites Perles (my favorite) provide six colors to use as a finishing powder that creates a glowing look unlike anything I have achieved with other powders (generous trial size).

Here are photos from the set.

Guerlain Precious Lights Kit

Guerlian Meteorites. I love these.

Guerlian Meteroites

The Perles Primer. I find that it doesn’t color correct all that much, but it lends to the overall luminous glow that you can get when using these products together.

Guerlain Meteorite Perles Primer

Here is a swatch of the Guerlain Illuminator. This rubs in to diffuse and reflect light.

Guerlian Precious Light Illuminator Swatch

Overall, this is a very nice set and it can be a great way to try these products without dishing out a ton of money for full sizes of the meteorites and primer. One caveat, the shades are geared for fair to light skin. They can be pretty forgiving, but I still wouldn't recommend the kit for anyone who doesn't consider themselves fair or light.

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