Dublin's High Street Makeup Look
It's becoming more and more apparent that us Dublin gals are as up to date with makeup trends as any other nation. Which is not surprising knowing that Ireland spends the most on cosmetics than any other European country (I kid you not).
"People watching" is definitely my guilty pleasure. Looking at people's individual style and their makeup trends. One trend I have definitely seen a lot of is a pop of colour on the lip and a lick of eye liner.
This look is super achievable and affordable if you want to go drug store brands or my fav LA Creative brand which is what I will be blogging on.
What you will need:
All LA Creative products......
Skin Transforming Foundation in Linen (I'm super pale!)
Bronzer in Safari (love the look of this product)
Brow Palette in Soft Smoke (big fan)
Gel Liner
3 Piece Palette in Natural
Blusher in Coral Sun
Translucent Powder
Primer in Pore Perfecting (for that oily area)
Cream concealer in Light and Medium
Mascara in Sensitive (eyes need some TLC)
Luxurious Matte Lipstick in Red Carpet
Luminizer Stick
Step by step:
1. CTM!! Cleanse, Tone and Moisturise. It's the only way to get that flawless finish.
2. Prime the face with Pore Perfecting Primer
3. Apply foundation preferably with a large stippling brush blending it in nicely to the face making sure never to use too much.
4. Taking LA Creative's Cream Concealer in Medium with your ring finger, lightly dab the concealer under the eye. The ring finger is used because it is the finger that uses the least amount of pressure. I use the Medium concealer because I do not want to highlight the under yet so I used a slightly darker concealer to counteract the grey, purple and blues under the eye.
5.I always like to contour next simply because it is how I always apply my makeup. Using a contouring brush (angled fluffy brush) find the underside of our cheekbone and using inward sweeps gently apply Safari bronzer in towards the nose. I don't like applying bronzer in the hollows of the face (under cheekbone) because it makes people look gaunt more than anything. Unless that is the look you are going for of course!
6. Taking your blusher brush apply Coral Sun from the outer side of the eye outwards. We want to keep the under eye area nice and bright so avoid putting your blusher there.
7. Moving on to the brows (my fav part), I'm loving Cara Delevinge and her Power Brow cult she has accidentally created so taking a small angled brush and our soft smoke palette (a dark brown eye shadow can also be used) we start at the inside of the brow using flicking feather like motions to create natural hairs. Creating a boxy effect stencil out the brow underneath and on top until you get to the arch. Ignoring the arch (for our power brow look) and sloping downwards for the end. Using our feather like motions fill in the brow where colour is needed to make the brow look full and complete. I prefer using shadow as opposed to pencil because I feel pencil looks too stamped on the face.
8. On to the eyes, I'm not sure if I think eye primers are a little gimmicky or not. I prefer to use a dab of concealer on the lid and the a pat of translucent powder on top. Always worked for me. So taking our eye palette using the lightest colour sweep the base onto the lid. Then using the second lightest colour blend it into the crease and all the way towards the inner corner of the eye almost creating a cut crease but keeping it a little more natural. Finally using the darkest colour, blend it on the outer corner of the eye to elongate the eye.
Side Note:
People most commonly have eyes slightly too close together so to counteract this, brighten the inside corner of the eye darken the outer corners. Ta-da!
9. Next is the dreaded gel liner. Using either an angled brush or a liner brush (whichever you feel most comfortable with) take a little amount of the gel liner starting with the eye your weakest at create the flick first, then mimic this flick on the other eye. Connect the flick with the lash line and this is where you decide how thick or thin your are going to go. I like to keep it slightly thin because it makes my eyes look larger. I also like to bring the liner in to the inner corner of the eye but that's up to how you like your liner yourself.
10. Lick some mascara onto those lashes. The more the merrier in my opinion!
11. Take the Luminizer Stick the dab it on top of the cheekbone and underneath the eye area. Take your ring finger and blend it into the skin.
12. On to the lips, you can use a lip line if you wish, I always like to because I feel my lippy stays on so much longer with it. Pencil in the entire lip in a red lip liner. Taking a lip brush or a brush that you can use as a lip brush. Generally you should look for a small dense sturdy brush that won't move on you or create sticky out hairs that ruin your lip colour. I actually use Bobbi Browns Smokey Eye brush. Taking your Red Carpet lipstick paint your lips in with this beautiful colour. You don't have to use red, you can use pink, purples or even browns. I prefer a matte lipstick because it doesn't move on my lips.
You can drop or add different parts to this look. You don't necessarily have to use liner and you can go as strong or light as you like with the contouring depending on if it is day or night look.
Here's some photos of the makeup from Dublin Fashion Week
Love Rach x
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