Monday, March 30, 2015

The Elements: Earth


This is the second look in The Elements series and it is the element Earth! But before I get started, shoutout to my mom for participating! I have been wanting to get practice on painting others' faces and she bravely volunteered. (Also, I thought the "earth" look would look great with her hair color). And again, this look is using all simple products that you have in your home!

What we used today was: eyeshadow, eyeliner, lipstick, foundation, and bronzer.

This is the finished look: (sorry about the lighting)





We first used a foundation that was two shades darker than my mother's skin tone. I wanted her skin to look almost like earth so we slightly darkened it. This also hid her rosy cheeks. I finished her cheeks with a very bright bronzer, so she wouldn't look dirty and I liked the sparkleyness of it. Her lips were a dark, dark rose shade of lipstick. I also darkened and sharpened her eyebrows. 

For her eyes, we used a very shimmery bronze orange on her lids. I then used a dark brown in her crease and brought it all the way back to her hairline (with a hard edge on the bottom of the color), blending the color slightly towards her forehead. I used a sage green for under her eyes and continued that color back towards her hairline, doing the opposite than what I did with the brown. I did a simple Cleopatra look with her eyeliner and finished her off with some mascara, and that was it!

Let me know what you think!