I grew up doing my stage make-up and would reference magazines, in particular Guess advertisments for ideas. I loved the drama of the black and white pictures with Claudia Schiffer and Eva Herizgova’s huge hair, bold lips and smokey eyes. I still wear eye make-up to work-out, to the pool, during labor, in the morning, even if I think I’m gonna cry, you get the picture. I have been doing my eye make-up since I was about 8 and had a ton of Nutcracker performances. I would also practice at home plenty without any performance excuse, and would just watch TV with my friends in full make-up, not kidding. Ask my sister, all of us had full make-up on, usually because I had applied it on them. When I have eye make-up on I feel more awake, confident and “done”. Even if I eat my lipstick off or have a huge pimple, my eye make-up stays put!
Now, with no time, if I make it down the make-up aisles I can usually pick-up a few eyeshadows or eyeliners in record time before my kids notice so that I can expirment later. I have been wearing this look for about a month and I really love it because it’s doable for day, easily converts into a night-time look and the pop of color is great for Spring, which is here today! With just a few tweaks in either the eyeshadow or eyeliner color, it can look really different. This look is super easy, and should take you about 3 minutes once you get comfortable, 5 minutes max! I’ve put up a video in case you’re a visual learner. But here is the step by step:
- Grab a creamy eyeshadow in light golden brown or taupe. Warm it up with your finger in the jar so it goes on smoothly! A clean beauty eyeshadow here.
- Sweep across your lid under your brow bone into the crease. Start at the inside lower corner and move across to the outside of your eye. You can wing it at the outside corner with your finger if you are going for a winged eye look or later adding eye-liner.
- Repeat until you have the desired shade or intensity.
- Add the kohl pencil eyeliner to the bottom inside of your eyelid. In honor of Spring I used a blue eyeliner and I would encourage you to try light brown, green, purple or gold! The blue that I used is pretty flattering on most eye colors.
- Add a volumizing mascara.
- Add highligher to your browbone for extra light and dimension.
- Add more mascara for drama and/or liquid eyeliner to your top lid if you want an evening look.
The products I used plus similar options:
The accessories and outfit:
Let me know if you tried it and if there’s anything else you’d like to see here! Happy you’re here, happy Spring! XO, Z