a *natural* look

Shout out to Miss Halle for sharing her blog post so early so I could follow along :)

I put green on blemishes to cancel the red and yellow under my eyes to cancel out the under eye bags. The yellow is from a little quad I have of color correctors which is why it looks blended, but I promise it isn't.

This is the yellow and green blended. I always struggle blending the green because I have a difficult time finding the balance between keeping it too green or blending it so much that it doesn't cancel out the red. 

I put on my medium foundation shade. At this moment I realized that I might have used too much cold cream, which is why I look a little oily. 

These are the contour lines. Using lines makes it look more natural once blended. I contoured the areas of my face that I want to appear deeper (cheekbones, forehead, temple, under lip). This is different than how I normally contour, as this isn't super complimentary to my face shape. 

These are the highlight bubbles. I applied them to the areas that I wanted to be more prominent (forehead, nose, cheekbones). In hindsight, I may have put too much on my forehead. 

This is everything blended. This is honestly the best work I've done with the Ben Nye kit, normally it doesn't stick to parts of my face. I think the cold cream helped this. 

side angle of post blend

I put on blush (too much, I tried blending it out, but was unsuccessful) and eyebrows. I used the eyebrow pencil from the Ben Nye kit which worked well for one eyebrow. It was a little too waxy for my liking and kept picking up, it was just hard to work with. 

I added mascara and used the lipliner and filled in with the lip color wheel. I'm a big fan of the lip color. This is the finished "natural" look. 

This is the glam which is sort of based off of Halle's. I used the blush as eyeshadow and tried using the pencil liner as winged eyeliner, but it wasn't really working out for me. I also used the red from the bruise wheel on my lips to create a more dramatic color.