Beauty Noobz Guide to Beaty (Part Four- Eye Shadow Bases)

If you're new to the make up world the idea of an eye shadow base may be kind of confusing. What's it for? What about the different colored bases? What kind should you buy? etc.

Here are the answers to any of the questions you may have, also putting a high end shadow base against a dollar base. 

What is an eye shadow base for?

Eye shadow bases (a.k.a. eye primers) are used to prepare a base for your eye shadow. They help them last longer, look more vivid, help guard against creasing and some new bases even claim to have anti-aging benefits.

What about the different color bases?

A new big trend with primers/bases is to add different dimension or color to them and that means that your eye shadows may show up a bit differently.

Black Bases- You can achieve a black base by using any black pencil liner or gel liner, but when doing this be very careful to smudge out the liner before applying the eye shadow if not the black may over power your eye shadow. A good tip I learned in school was to first apply a light wash of a light brown shadow to the crease so that you don't smudge your liner too far.

White bases- White bases are supposed to present you with a perfectly blank canvas, making your shadow present itself as vivid as possible. It doesn't have to compete with your natural eye color or any color. Keep in mind that when speaking art terms White is the Lack of Color which is why your colors will be more vibrant.

Skin Toned bases- Skin toned bases are meant to be more natural, something to adjust the color of your eyelids. Some eye lids are more naturally red than others so by adjusting the color on your lids you make it easier for your eye shadow to be as pure a color as possible.

What kind of base should you buy?

Most people use money and reputation of a brand to decide what base they should buy. Too Faced Shadow Insurance and Urban Decays Primer Potion are two very popular eye primers that are also kind of pricey. However, there are so many types and tricks for things you might already have in your collection that you don't necessarily need to go out and buy an expensive one. So lets expand on this question with some swatches shall we?

(left to right: Color Tattoo -Barely Beige, Covergirl + Olay concealer balm, NYX Eyeshadow Base, ELF Mineral Eyeshadow Primer, Too Faced Perfect Eyes liner, Cherimoya liner, and Urban Decay Primer Potion)

As you can see the so called "primers" come in all different colors, textures, and some aren't even primers. Concealer is a good option for a primer and something that most of us already have in our collection. The creamier the concealer the more likely it is to crease.

Let's see how these bad boys preform now.

As you can see the different colored bases make for a different finish to the same eye shadow. A shimmer base like the Color Tattoo does add an extra amount of sparkle that shows up through the shadow. That means if you are going for a Matte look I wouldn't recommend a cream eyeshadow with shimmer as your base. So, does expensive technically mean better? No. I use ELF primer (which is $1) all the time and have no problems. But as you can tell ANY base is better than NO base. 

So go out there, try a primer/base of some sort, just keep in mind that moderation should be used on whichever you pick, also for a smokey eye It's always pick a black base (smoked out and in moderation). 

Hope that helped.

Urban Decay Vice 2 and Anarchy Pallet Swatches and Reviews

The much anticipated holiday pallets are making their way into stores rather quickly. The company that caught my eye the most though? Urban Decay with their Vice 2 pallet and their Face Cases. I personally have come to the conclusion that my collection of make up has enough browns in every finish so I get super excited when something is released  with some really fun colors. Plus ladies, Halloween is approaching quickly and some of these colors in Vice 2 are just what the doctor ordered. So lets get on with it. 

Vice 2

Retails $59.00 at Sephora and UrbanDecay.com

The pallet comes with 20 shadows, all new and exclusive to this Limited Edition pallet. You also receive a double sided brush with this pallet.

First Row

Smokeout is a dark black/grey "satin" that honestly has a hint of duo chrome to me actually with a hint of taupe. Lovesick is a black glitter (if you've ever tried their stardust shadows, it's basically that) that has silver micro-glitter. Shellshock is a beautiful true silver metallic with no glitter. Coax is a pink metallic with hints of gold shimmer. X-Rated is a baby pink shimmer.

Second Row

Prank (even though it looks purple) is a navy blue with green shimmer. Madness is a metallic blue. Strike is a metallic gold. Stash is an olive color with gold shimmer making it look duo chrome as well. Poison is charcoal color with silver glitter. 

Third Row

Radar is a Metallic brown with glitter. Damaged is an emerald green shimmer. Voodoo is a jewel toned purple with shimmer. Betrayal is a light purple with a blue shimmer to it (again very duo-chrome). Derailed is a metallic taupe shimmer.

Fourth Row

Dope is a champagne satin. Toxic is a rose gold shimmer with glitter. Habit is a nude matte shade. Ambush is a metallic brown. And Rewind is a medium brown matte shade.

All of these shadows are incredibly pigmented. Be very aware of the shades with glitter because those have some fall out. I really did enjoy the entire set up of this pallet. It came with a lot of fun shades to give you a bright look, enough dark shades to give you a smokey eye (not exactly a matte black smokey eye but you know) and enough neutrals to make a soft look with it. Not to mention the mirror is huge and stays up on it's own. The brush is nice, I personally wish the fluffy side was a bit more fluffy to allow better blending (like the naked 2 brush) but I'm happy with it over all. If you want to try using shimmers, colors, metallics, or glitters I say go for it. You won't find a dud in this puppy. 

Anarchy Face Case

Retails for $44.00 and I've only seen it sold at Sephora.com

This pallet comes with five shadows, two blushes, one highlight, a 24/7 travel size liner and a travel sized Super-Saturated High Gloss Lip Color in Scandal. Scandal isn't available in the normal line of Urban Decay products and is exclusive to this pallet. The five eyeshadows are also exclusive to this pallet. I think the darker blush used to be part of the line of blushes but has been discontinued (don't quote me on this) but the other blush, and the highlight are also exclusive to this pallet.

It also comes with two full sized mirrors.

The Shadows

Redemption is a charcoal satin with a hint of shimmer. Fray is a matte nude shade. Vaporize is a metallic taupe/grey shade. Provocateur is a metallic muave with chunky glitter. Revolt is a silver metallic with glitter.

Face

Fetish is a mauve/pink with a hint of shimmer. Quickie is a bright barbie doll pink that's matte. Highlight which is the highlight shade is a golden metallic shade.

Pencils

Scandal is a berry colored, deeper pink shade and Perversion is a really dark matte black pencil. 

Does anyone remember getting the Naked pallet when it first came out and reaching into Sidecar and trying to apply it only to realize that was a horrible idea because of all of that chunky glitter fall out? That is exactly what happened when I reached into Provocateur which was super disappointing. Other than that as I said before the shimmers have a bit of fall out, nothing drastic. The colors aren't exactly something to bounce with joy over and they actually weren't the reason I bought the pallet. Work yourself a nice classic smokey eye or a soft romantic eye with this pallet. 

The blushes are really nice but be aware that Quickie is super pigmented so a little bit goes a long ways guys. You can go overboard really quickly with the blushes not to mention that highlight. It's nice that it's a golden color but a little goes a super long way. You don't want to light up like a light bulb.

Now for the reason I bought this pallet. I was super intrigued by this lip shade and as we go into fall/winter it's a perfect bight shade with a hint of darkness because of the berry shade. If you've never tried these lip pencils you do have to sharpen them, and they aren't very moisturizing either. They are pigmented (their lipsticks have better pigmentation) and the staying power is fair. Now Perversion is a really popular black pencil. It's super creamy, and really black. This pencil completely lives up to it's hype of being better than Zero (as someone who has owned zero before) in every way, shape, and form. I'm so happy they finally put it into a pallet.

If you are curious about the pencils like I am, do yourself the favor and just buy yourself the pencils, unless you are super curious about any of these shades it isn't worth the money. Then again I'm not super big on blushes to begin with so maybe that's why this pallet felt a little lacking to me. I'm still going to use the hell out of this pallet though.

Thanks for reading!

NYX Mortal Instruments Parallel Worlds Review (Espanol)

Ahora puedo seguir durante días y días sobre cómo leer todas las novelas de Cassandra Clare Instrumento Mortal dentro de dos semanas, cómo me encantan y lo contenta que estoy por el ultimo envio . También podria hablar sobre por qué estoy súper emocionada por la película y cómo el final puede hacer o romper la película para mí. Sin embargo, eso no es lo que pasa aqui, pero debería comenzar un blog club para adolescentes de literatura de libros porque me encanta leer .

De todos modos, parece como si NYX decidió colaborar con la película para crear el conjunto de caja de instrumentos mortales que se puede encontrar en su página web y en las tiendas Ulta y sitio web. La caja dispone de seis productos y es aproximadamente $25.00 pero Ulta siempre envía $3.50 a $10 que pasa del precio si lo compras por separado así que usted puede conseguir por sobre $21 el valor de todo .

Tienes la plataforma Smokey que solo se vende a $7.00

La plataforma viene con un color blanco, un brillante color taupe, un azul marino, una ciruela, negro suave y un brillo de color gris. Todos los colores son muy suaves y pigmentado, usted fácilmente puede mezclarse todo juntos. También hay suficiente variedad en esta plataforma que puede crear una mirada del ojo suave con un estallido de color (si quieres) o un muy intenso ojos ahumado con cualquiera de los colores.

Usted también consiguir uno de los lápices de ojos NYX Jumbo en Cachemira que generalmente se vende por $4.50

Cachemira es descrita como un brillante color champagne en el sitio web. El color es tan bonito como la base de un ojo, como una sombra en crema o como un delineador de ojos. Se desliza sobre y se pigmenta muy bien (como todos sus lápices jumbo ojo) ahora soy dueña de cinco de ellos y son todos tan suaves y sorprendente que les compraba todo si pudiera. Sin duda podrías usar esto como una sombra en crema, utilizar el topo de la paleta de smokey para definir el pliegue y luego usar el blanco como su punto culminante para un look más suave.

Sube el rimel Boudoir Le Frou Frou que se vende por $6.00.

Esta máscara se ha convertido en mi favorito rimel. No roce sobre mí (incluso cuando estoy cansada y sudorosa) y ayuda a alargar, rizo y no agrupan a mí mientras está espesando mis pestañas. Esto puede haber sido el mejor producto en la platforma para mí, pero como con las fundaciones algunas cosas que me encanta pueden no funcionar tan bien para ti. Es un poco de una fórmula más húmeda (que para mí significa que queda mojado ya en mis pestañas), así que ten cuidado cuando te pones el maquillage porque puede transferir a tu párpado. También tiene una varita del rimel normal, sin cerdas de goma complicadas aquí.

Usted también tiene el aclamado mate suave crema de labios en Estambul $6,00. Es descrito como un limpio rosado. Ahora éste fue un gran exito conmigo. La fórmula fue increíble. Me encantó que se sintió como una crema labial suave, no brillante, casi líqauido. No siente sequedad y no tenía lustre o brillo a él en absoluto que funciona bastante bien para mí. Cómodamente la llevé y era realmente mucho el tiempo que lo traje , duro unas cuatro horas antes de que comí y entonces quedo casi a la perfección a través de mi comida. Aunque lo malo fue el color para mí . No era lo bastante pálido o nude, no fuera lo suficientemente rosado al ser vivo. Me lavó horriblemente. Me encanta el producto es solo en mi tono de piel parecía absolutamente horrible pero funciona es que poner un brillo color encima.

Recibe un rubor en polvo $5,00.

Es descrito como un coral rosa con brillo de oro e iridiscencia. Este polvo es un poco polvoriento y por eso no pretendo decir lo obvio pero polvoriento como cómo habrá caerse una vez que se sumergir el cepillo en él. El color es altamente pigmentado y aunque es un poco un color increíble recorrer un largo camino con éste. Era capaz de llevarlo todo el día sin cualquier decoloración (que puede tener más que ver con mi decisión de Fundación) también seguía siendo apenas tan brillante. En mi opinión tenía cualidades más iridiscentes que glitter Oro. Dio de un resalte natural agadable a la sombra. No soy una gran fan de rubor, pero estoy seguro de que si lo fuera seguro que usaria este.

Por último obtienes un estudio Liner líquido en extremo negro $4,50. Este forro era mi menos favorito y puede tener más que ver con el cepillo que cualquier otra cosa. Me he vuelto muy acostumbrada a un cepillo/rotulador o un pincel para gel liner. Yo solía usar el liner líquido con una punta de pincel y se me olvidó cómo totalmente molestos son para mí. Mis pestañas al final rizar naturalmente (Sí, pobre de mi * sarcástico *) cuando trato de usar el liner líquido se pone en mis pestañas y se seca muy lento si no lo elimino se regara en todo mi parpado y si lo hago luego se prone en las manos. De todos modos, estoylo estoy pensando, estaba teniendo un enojo con el maquillage jaja allí, es sólo el revestimiento líquido negro básico. Tiene un cepillo corto y no seca mate. También no es contra el agua.

De todos modos, gracias por leer, espero que sea informativo.

Gracias por leer xoxo

NYX Mortal Instruments Parallel Worlds Box Review

Now I can go on for days and days about how I read all of the Cassandra Clare Mortal Instrument novels in about two weeks, how I loved them and how excited I am for the last installment. I could also spoiler it up and talk about why I'm super excited for the movie and how the ending may make or break the movie for me. However, that isn't what this is about, but I should start a teen lit book club blog because I devour those books. 

Anyway, it seems as though NYX decided to collaborate with the movie to create the Mortal Instruments Box set which can be found on their website and at the Ulta stores and website. The box has six products and is about $25.00 but Ulta always sends out $3.50 off any $10 you spend so you can get it for about $21-ish.

You get the Smokey pallet which on it's own retails for $7.00.

The pallet comes with a white color, a brighter taupe color, a navy blue, a plum, a soft black, and a shimmer gray. All of the colors are really soft and pigmented, you can easily blend everything together. There is also enough variety in this pallet that you can create a soft eye look with a pop of color (if you want) or a really intense smokey eyes with any of the colors. 

You also get one of the NYX Jumbo Eye Pencils in Cashmere which usually retails for $4.50.

Cashmere is described as a shimmery champagne color on the website. The color is so pretty as an eye base, as a cream shadow, or as an eye liner. It glides on and is pretty nicely pigmented (like all of their jumbo eye pencils are) I own about five of them now and they are all so soft and amazing that I'd buy them all if I could. You could definitely use this as a cream shadow, use the taupe from the smokey pallet to define the crease and then use the white as your highlight for a softer look.

You get the Boudoir Mascara in Le Frou Frou which retails for $6.00.

This mascara has become my go to mascara. It doesn't smudge on me (even when I'm gross and sweaty) and it helps to lengthen, curl, and doesn't clump up on me while it's thickening my lashes. This may have been the biggest stand out in the pallet to me, but like with foundations somethings that I love may not work as well for you. It's a bit of a wetter formula (which to me means it stays wet longer on my lashes) so beware when you are doing your make up because it may transfer to your eyelid. It also does have a normal mascara wand, no fancy rubber bristles here.

You also have the highly acclaimed Soft Matte Lip Cream in Istanbul $6.00.

It's described as a clean pink. Now this one was hit and miss with me. The formula was amazing. I loved that it felt like a creamy soft, not glossy, almost liquid lipstick feel to it. It didn't feel drying and had no gloss or shimmer to it at all which works well enough for me. I comfortably wore it and it was really long wearing, lasting for about four hours before I ate, and then staying almost perfectly through my meal. The miss for me though was the color. It wasn't pale enough to be nude, it wasn't pink enough to be vivid. It washed me out horribly. So I love the product it's just on my skin tone it looked absolutely hideous but works is I put a colored gloss on top of it.

You receive a Powder Blush in Pinched $5.00.

It's described as a coral pink with gold glitter and iridescence. This powder is a little powdery and by that I do not mean to state the obvious but powdery like how there will be fall out once you dip your brush into it. The color is highly pigmented and while it's an amazing color a little does go a long way with this one. I was able to wear it all day without any fading (which may have more to do with my foundation choice) it also remained just as bright. It did have more iridescent qualities than gold glitter in my opinion. It gave off a nice natural highlight to the shade. I'm not a big fan of blush but I'm sure if I was I'd be raving about this one.

Lastly you get a Studio Liquid Liner in Extreme Black $4.50.

This liner was my least favorite and it may have more to do with the brush than anything else. I've become very accustomed to a felt tip brush/pen or a gel liner brush. I used to use the liquid liner with a brush tip and I forgot how completely annoying they are to me. My lashes at the end curl naturally (yeah I know, poor me. *sarcastic*) so when I try to use the liquid liner it gets on my lashes and dries really slow so if I don't remove it will get all over my eye lid and if I do then it gets all over my hands. ANYWAY, I digress, I was having some make up rage there haha, it really is just your basic black liquid liner. It has a short brush, and does not dry matte. It's also not waterproof.

Anyway, thank you for reading, I hope that was informative. 

Thanks for reading xoxo

The Beauty Noobz Guide to Make up (part two- nails)

Beauty and make up in the past few years has completely ventured from just things you'd use like foundation, blush, eye shadow and lipstick to beauty tools, skin care and also nail polish. These things have also gotten more innovative and creative as the years have passed.

Now as a make up artist they have a magnetic bracelet that you can put your pallet on so your hands are free. For the make up enthusiast you have the brush tree, so that your brushes can dry upside down and the water won't ruin them. (let me know if you'd like to know more about how water can ruin your brushes) For the skin care fanatics there are BB and CC creams to help you cover up flaws but still treat your skin. And for the Nail Polish people you have so many nail art options.

There are matte polishes, sparkle polishes, gel polishes, textured polishes, and so much more. Hell, they even make nail polish brushes for nail art now. 

I decided that since this is such a crazy that even my least girly friends are trying these things out that it would be good to review a few things and let you see what they look like for yourself.

The Nail Polish that I'd recommend to a beauty noob who wants to try nail art is something like the Maybelline Color Show Polka Dots.

 #85 Pretty in Polka $3.99 (website price)

One coat of the pink color in my opinion looks kind of cute. It's a really sheer pink with matte chunks of black and white glitter. It becomes a bit more opaque (Still a bit see through if your nails are long) However, I wouldn't exactly recommend more than the two coats because by the third you end up with a really big layer of nail polish on, too much glitter and you're still a bit see through. On the brighter side the glitter in this polish is not hard to get at all. There are some polishes that make you fish around for the glitter, not these. I think these are kind of perfect, they come in a few fun colors, they make you look like you put more effort into it than you did, the dry time is awesome. Be very aware though that the chunks of glitter may break off randomly without a top coat.

The polish usually lasts about 4 days before it starts to chip.

There are also things like nail stickers.

(I should have totally taken a picture of this before I did my nails)

I bought this from the dollar store so it was only $0.99. It came with a nail file and looked easy enough to work with.

This is what they look like on. Now these are honestly easy to apply but if you look closely at the picture you can see that it lifts in certain places. The stickers feel less like stickers and more like really tug-able tape. They stayed on really well and looked nice from far away. It's just the close up that made it look awful. So I wondered if maybe on a flatter nail bed they would go on smoothly.

(luckily I have the best support system ever) 

So I tried it out on a different persons hand and sure enough it worked. It went on easily, fit perfectly and didn't lift from anywhere. So these are totally worth a dollar if you have a flatter nail bed than I do.

Lastly, there are pretty awesome nail art kits that seem complete as they are. The Revlon double sided polishes seem like exactly that, a complete set. They have their Revlon Nail Art Moon Candy (which has one solid color on one side and a chunky glitter polish on the other side, or their Expressionist line which has two solid colors but one has a very fine tip brush, they have a Neon line which is one solid (white I think) and a highlighter color, and recently they released their Chalkboard line.

It is exactly what it sounds like. One side is a matte black color and the other is a very pastel color. 

I found this at CVS and it was $9.18 but on drugstore.com it's $7.19.

Now as you can see the black nail polish is matte. However, if you have a matte top coat (it's clear and makes all of your polishes matte -sans shine) then you might want to add that on top of your black coat. The nail polish instructions say you can use one-two coats but I highly recommend two coats because the matte black goes on streaky with the first coat. 

The white side has a nice texture to the polish, it isn't really glossy like normal polishes but it isn't matte either so it does give off a very chalk board feel to it. I do recommend using nail art brushes for this because the white brush may be thinner than the black but it's not thin enough to draw whatever you want nicely. 

I bought these from Forever 21 for $3.80.

I used the dotting (brush?) to make all of the little hearts and they came out way better than they did when I first tried it with the brush. I used two coats of the white though because I wanted it to be really pronounced. 

They awesomely didn't start chipping until day 3 without any form of a top coat.

Anyway, that's all for tonight. I'm thinking the next one I will try to mythbust on what actually helps your nail polish dry faster.

xoxo

The beauty noobz guide to make up (part one brushes)

Recently I was online and talking to a friend of mine who was asking me about make up. She started off by asking me if I subscribe to birchbox or ipsy. For those of you who don't already know both of these are companies where you subscribe to a monthly fee and they send you beauty products every month. Birchbox from what I know has a lot of hits and misses, everything is sample sized but it does have a shop to buy the full sized products. Ipsy also does the same thing but they ask you what kinds of things you like to use and dislike using and depending on that send you an array of items to try every month.

After we talked about them (I do currently subscribe to Ipsy) she started picking my brain about make up, different types, and what works best, but she also confessed to me that she did have brushes but didn't know what to with all of them. So I got the idea to break it down right here. I'm going to be using the make up brushes I got while I went to make up school. They are 15 brushes and all have a unique use, however, go with what you feel. If you want to use a fluffy brush for a light contour down the sides of your nose go right ahead. This is just to give you a general idea and get you started.

1. Foundation Brush

The foundation brush is usually used for even application of moist products this includes your primes, moisturizers, and liquid foundations. Now most people enjoy using make up sponges, or face brushes for this task. The key to the even application is that if you start to develop a patch of skin that looks as though it has too much product, take your fluffy face brush and buff it out. By buffing it out in a circular motion you spread the product and no longer have a big blotch.

2. Powder Brush or Face Brush

This brush is usually used for powders. Anything that you want all over your face or applied in a concentrated amount. For example, powder foundations, setting powders, translucent powders, or something like a skin finish that is more sun kissed and bronze. However, if you want a more concentrated application of blush I found that these brushes work well for that. 

3. Angle Brush

The angled brush is usually used for powders, you can use them for blush, contouring the cheeks, forehead and chin. I've also found that they can work well with more liquid products like when you contour the face with a darker foundation or a liquid bronzer. They can also be used to apply highlight.

4. Concealer Brush

The concealer brush is usually used for patting on your concealer. However this is sometimes flawed since it may be harder to blend out with the brush as opposed to your finger, but most likely more sanitary. This brush can also be used to lay down primer, and to this day if my brushes aren't clean and all I have is this brush I'll pat down eye shadow with it. (That's a bad habit)

5. Firm Shadow

Brushes like this one are really kind of tough. You wanna get in pat down your product and really move along because that thing will start to hurt if you start to windshield wiper motion with it. It can be used for a really concentrated amount of color, or to apply glitter. Also works really well for applying a cream base to eyes.

6, 7 & 8. Eye Shadow Brushes

These pick up lots of color, and they also pat on like a dream. If you want an allover color these brushes are the way to go and they range in size usually for whatever comfort level you have. I have big eyes that are too small to comfortably use the large eye shadow brush on myself. However, the smaller one does the same thing and fits comfortably to my eyelid. You use 'em for eye shadow, any shimmer or sparkle you'd want to add on top of anything really.

9 & 10. Fluffy Brushes.

Fluffy brushes also come in all shapes and sizes. Some people prefer them bigger, rounded, coming to a point or thinner, they make them in all different shapes and sizes for you guys. The point of a fluffy brush is to blend. Usually you use the blending color in your crease to help make your eye shadow not look like it have very harsh lines. You don't want people to be able to clearly tell where your eye shadow ends and your under brow highlight begins. You want it all to blend. You can also use these without a product. By swiping a clean brush upon an area you can soften the amount of product applied. 

11. Pencil Brush

These brushes are usually used to apply color under the eye. Lets say you want to smoke out some black eye liner under your eye, you pick up shadow on this brush and sweep it back and forth. (Be careful though, if the brush is too big for your eye it can get into your eye.) it can also be used to smoke out pencil (or still wet gel lines) on your upper lash line. You don't want a harsh black line on your upper lash line, pick up a matte brown shadow and smoke out the top line.

12, 13 & 14. Liner Brushes

Now with these they also come in all shapes and sizes. These brushes can be used to apply powder to the eyebrows, apply eye shadow as an eyeliner or apply gel liners. Some people prefer the angled liner, especially when you are trying to wing out your eyeliner. The flat liner also works extremely well for winging out liner. (I'll teach you how to do that with the different liner brushes soon) Or some, myself included prefer the old long liner brush, which is usually harder to use for people new to make up.

Last but not least...

15.  Lip Brush

These little guys are used for lip products. Lipsticks, lip glosses, lip stains, you name it and you can use a lip brush with it. Now you don't need to use a lip brush (unless you are doing make up on other people) but the lip brush helps with the colors that are harder to keep in the lines. There are lipsticks shaped differently, or just too dark that stain so it's sometimes best to just fill in your lips with the brush.

Well for now that's all. Hope you liked it. Feel free to comment or ask any questions you still have.

Also don't let price fool you. You don't need high end Sigma or MAC or Crown Brushes to make something beautiful happen. There are plenty of brands that are great and way more affordable. Try EcoTools, ELF brushes, (Crown Brush usually has a sale once every two months on Hautelook.com) BH cosmetics has great brushes, Real Techniques works well also. So look around and find what works for you.