Step by step smokey golden eyes with Motives

Here is my step by step guide to smokey golden eyes with Motives cosmetics :)

1) It's always best to start with a thin layer of eyeshadow primer all over the lid from lash line to eyebrow and a thin line under lower lash line. Next I put the medium shade, Motives eyeshadow in Pink gold, up into the crease a little higher to make the eyes appear larger. Also put a thin line under the eye from just inside inner corner to just inside outer corner (other shadows will fill in the inner and outer corner).

2) I put the dark shade, Motives eyeshadow in Hazelnut, a bit above the crease to keep the eye looking larger.

3) To make sure the eyes don’t look droopy, never let the shadow go past the line you see in picture 3. In the picture I have the brush past the line just so you can see the line better. Place a brush on side of nose and up to outer corner of eye, just a little past outer corner so you can connect a thin line of the dark shadow on bottom outer corner to the outer corner of crease. If needed, blend a bit more of the medium shade to where the dark shade starts under the eye.

4) With a blender brush put the highlight, Motives eyeshadow in Creme fresh, under the eyebrow and make sure it is blended well with the dark shadow. If it looks too harsh of a line and doesn't look blended well enough you can blend a bit of the medium shade where the highlight and dark meet, to make it look smoother and add a tiny bit more color. For this look I blended a lighter gold, Motives eyeshadow in Whipped cream, between highlight and dark. Also I used the lighter gold to blend the highlight on inner corner with the medium.

5) For the eyeliner, Motives Gel liner in Onyx, I used an angled liner brush to make a thin line from inner corner to just past pupil and then gradually make line thicker and slanted up. Where the shadow ends is a good guide to where the liner should slant up and end. Next, with a small angled shadow brush, put black shadow on and just on edge of gel liner to set it in place so it wont budge all day and to give it a smokier look. Also to make the look a little darker I blended a bit of that black shadow with the angle brush under outer corner. If you wanted to make it more dramatic you could also put a waterproof liner in waterline of eye, upper and lower. After liner I curl my lashes and put on lots of mascara, top and bottom! To make eyes even bigger I usually put fake lashes on outer third of eye, this makes the outer corner look more lifted and gives a cat eye effect. Didn’t put any on this time but usually do!

6) For the rest of the look I made sure to keep all of my makeup in warmer tones so that nothing will clash. It's always best to keep all of your makeup in the same color tones, if you mix warm and cool together it can make your makeup look way over done and not fitting together. Sometimes fun looks can be made with mixing colors but usually just for crazy night looks. :)

List of makeup used:

Eyes:

• Medium shadow -Motives Pink gold + Motives Whipped cream
• Highlight shadow -Motives Creme fresh + Motives Whipped cream
• Dark shadow -Motives Hazelnut
• Liner -Motives Gel liner Onyx + Motives Onyx shadow
• Mascara -Motives mascara plus a couple other types (I layer a couple different mascaras most of the time) 

Face:

• Primer -Motives Perfecting face primer
•  Foundation -Motives Dual Perfection pressed powder -Neutral
• Bronzer -Motives Miami glow bronze
• Blush -Motives So Peachy

 

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New Motives Makeup Look!

Finally a new look! Sorry it has taken so long, I will be making new posts a lot more often now! :)

I'm so excited, a friend showed me Motives cosmetics, I've been trying it all out and I love it! I've tried out so many different makeup companies and wow, I can't believe how amazing Motives is. The makeup goes on so much better, stays so much better and feels so much better! Usually I have a couple favorites from different brands but now I'm pretty sure almost all my favorites are Motives! I'm very impressed with how great Motives is so I wanted to share some great new looks with all of my followers! If you aren't a follower yet, please follow :D

  

This smokey purple look is great for making green eyes really stand out but any other eye colour can still rock this look! ;)

 

 For the eyes I started out with the Motives eye shadow primer all over the eyelid and a thin line under the eye. A good eye shadow primer will make sure it will stay in place all day without creasing or fading away and it will make the colour show up much better.

 Here are the Motives products used on the eyes:

 • Medium shadow - Pink diamond

• Dark shadow - Sweet plum

• Highlight shadow - Creme fresh. (White liner on inner corner first)

• Motives gel liner - Little black dress, with Onyx shadow on liner to set it and on edge of liner to soften the line and make it look smoother.

• Motives Lustrafy high definition mascara - Onyx (Lots of mascara!)

Here are the rest of the Motives products used:

• Foundation - Dual Perfection pressed powder - Neutral

• Bronzer - Miami glow bronze

• Blush - Shooting star

The only product I used that wasn't Motives is Garnier skin renew B.B. cream in Light/medium. I have recently started using this cream as a primer and I love it! I put a thin layer on all over my face and neck before I put any of my makeup on. It helps so much to even out my skin tone and make my skin kinda glow, but not fake looking.

 I really hope everyone loves this look and I hope you'll all try it out :)



Purple smokey eye makeup lesson video

Here's a makeup tutorial on a good friend, she made it so easy because she's so beautiful but I still got to bring out her natural beauty even more. I never want makeup to hide natural beauty, I always want makeup to just bring it out more. I always like to bring out the eyes the most because I find that it's the most beautiful feature on pretty much everyone, when talking to someone you'll always look into their eyes and usually remember that part of a person. Hope everyone has a great time trying this out!! :D

Bronzed cut crease smokey eye shadow

Hope everyone loves this look and trys it out! =)

Smokey gold eye makeup video

The makeup I used for eyes:


NYX -Eyeshadow base, pearl esb02
Wet and Wild -Vanity 249 set (medium and both dark shades)
Prestige -eyeliner, white (inner corner)
Covergirl -Snow blossom (inner corner)
Covergirl -Shimmering onyx (to shade edge of liner)
Maybelline -Eyestudio creme liner, blackest black (top liner)
Annabelle -Smoothliner waterproof, black (bottom and inner rim liner)
Revlon -grow luscious mascara, blackest black

For face:

Merle norman -luxiva purely mineral loose powder foundation L60
NYC -Sun 2 sun bronzing powder, terracotta tan
The Body Shop -roseflower blush 02

Light retro look

Heres a look I did with kind of a retro look to it but it isn't too dramatic. First I put an eyeshadow primer on then I put the medium shade on the inner three quarters of my eyelids just up to the crease. Next I blend the dark shade on the outer corner and in the crease and make sure to blend the dark shade very well so you dont see the edges too harsh. Next I put black creme eye liner on, making it thicker on the outer corner and slanting up. I put a small bit of black shadow on the edge of the liner with a small angle brush just to make it a softer line. Under my brow and on the inner corner I put the highlight, it always brightens the eyes. Something different about this look is what I did under my bottom lashes, instead of a liner I put the medium shade all the way acoss the bottom and its quite a light shade so that brightens the eyes a lot and gives it quite a retro look. You can put primer under aswell to make sure it'll stay and show up more. Next I put on some lenghtening mascara and then thickening mascara to make my lashes really stand out. Hope everyone loves this look! I'll make another one of these for shading and highlighting the face very soon! 

 

Medium:Wet n Wild~set 249 vanity-light matte cream shade
Dark:Wet n Wild~set 249 vanity-dark bronze shade on outer corner and crease and the darker brown blended with it on the outer corner

Highlight:Under brow~ Cover girl-snowblossom, Inner corner~ White liner with Cover girl-snow blossom on top

Liner: Maybelline eyestudio -blackest black, black shadow

Makeover

This is my beautiful friend who let me take some pictures of her after I  had fun putting a bit of makeup on her. The first picture is a before picture, and of course, the next three are after we had way too much fun. I used golden brown colours to bring out her blue eyes more, you cant tell as much in the pictures but it really did make her eyes look a lot more blue. I also made sure to keep the rest of her makeup in warmer tones too, i didn't want to add any pinks or purples(anything with cool blue tones)because it could clash with the golden/copper tones on her eyes.

Inner three quarter of eye: Gold

Outer corner and Crease: Dark Brown(Make sure it's well blended)

Just outer corner: Black

Highlight and Inner corner: Sheer Ivory

Under eye: Outer half, put a small bit of black liner just under lash line then blend dark brown shadow into liner to soften the line. Inner half, gold shadow.

Liner-For the top eyeliner, it should be quite thin on the inner corner and start getting thicker around or just after the pupil and slightly slant up at the outer corner of your eye. Also I like to soften the edge of the liner by taking a small angle brush and putting a just bit of black shadow along it.

Great look for green eyes (still good for other eye colours too)

 Here is a makeup look that im showing the steps for so its a little easier to follow.

Unless you're going clubbing, eye shadows should sort of stay in the same colour family. Pick a medium shade and a darker shade of the a similar colour and a highlight in ivory usually works with most colours.

-With a normal shadow brush put the medium shade on the inner three quarters of your eyelid, just up to your crease and not all the way to the outer corner. Also put a thin amount of the medium shade under your eye just on the inner half.

-With more of a blending brush put the dark shade in the outer corner and blend into the crease and lash line, make sure everything is blended well because it can look quite bad when you see harsh lines. Also put a thin amount of the dark shade under the eye on the outer corner, blended into the medium shade. For a more dramatic look, put some pencil liner just under the lash line and then blend the dark shadow into the liner.

-For the top eyeliner, it should be quite thin on the inner corner and start getting thicker around or just after the pupil and slightly slant up at the outer corner of your eye. Also I like to soften the edge of the liner by taking a small angle brush and putting a just bit of black shadow along it.

-I couldn't show this on the sketch but like it shows on the picture, it's always nice to have highlight on your eyes. Highlight is a little bit dramatic in this picture bit it does look nice when it's more subtle also. I just put the highlight on the inner corner, blended it into the medium shade a little and under the eyebrow blended into the dark shade.
-When you want a more dramatic look add a little bit of black shadow to the outer corner shading on lash line and crease and making sure it all blends together well. the bottom picture has just a little bit of black on it but you can see where it is darker.

Hope this helps!

            For green eyes purples, plums, and pinks will bring out the green in your eyes the most because its opposite on the colour wheel. These colours are good for other peoples eyes too but it will really make green eyes pop. Here are the colours i used: Light pink one from a set(Medium),  Highlight from a set, Merle Norman -Bordeaux(Dark), Cover Girl -Shimmering Onyx(Black). Merle Norman creme eyeliner -black, Fake lashes just on outer half of lashes.