Makeup Class 101 on V DAY!!!

Hello Divas,

I am back after being quite for quite some times… Today, I am sharing with you a few pics that were taken during a makeup class that I organized on Valentine’s day at my house.

The goal of this makeup class was to teach some of my makeup techniques and give a few tips to women of color when it comes to makeup application. The session took place in the afternoon because I wanted to take full advantage of the beautiful sun of Dakar…

My first model below was my dear friend Shoon, she has medium to light complexion with a beautiful bone structure. I first did a very natural day look and then showed how this day look could be transformed in more sophisticated night look by adding just one or 2 colors.

 

ALL MAC unless specified

SHOON’s Day Look:

FACE

Powder: Lose Mineralize Powder in Deep Dark

Blush: Ablaze

EYES

Eyebrows: Spiked pencil (Shoon has already beautiful shaped eyebrows ; she threads them to get that shape, I just added spiked pencil to define them a lil bit more)

Base: Concealer select cover up

Eyelid: Bamboo with brush # 242

Crease: Folie with brush # 224

Highlighter: Arena with brush # 252

Eyeliner: Boot Black on top and graphblack in the inner eye rim

Mascara: LANCOME High Definicils

LIPS

Liner:  Cork

Lipglass: C-thru (very softly)

SHOON’s Night Look:

I just added the following products to her day look to create a night look:

FACE

ILLUMINATING POWDER: Mineralize powder Global glow on the T-zone

BRONZER: Bobbi Brown DEEP 4

EYES

Corner crease: Beauty Marked with brush # 217

LIPS

Liner: Nightmoth

Lipglass: Peroxide

SHOON’S DAY LOOK

SHOON’S NIGHT LOOK

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

***Bday Party Look***

Hello Divas,

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! Mine was just soooo GREAT!!! It was my birthday on Friday and I had the best birthday party ever with all my friends!!! I hope I will be able to match that for the big 30…lol

So I was so excited the whole night that I didn’t even think about taking a close-up picture of my makeup…Here is the best picture I could find to describe what I was wearing…

ALL MAC unless otherwise specified

FACE

Foundation: Select SPF 15 NW45

Powder: Mineralize Skin Finish Lose Powder Deep Dark

Blush:  Raizin

Shimmer Powder: Global Glow mineralize

EYES

Base: Concealer NW35

Eyelid: Electra

Crease: Dovefeather

Corner Crease: Carbon

Highlighter: Concealer NW 35 + Vanilla Pigment

Inner corner eye: Electra

Bottom contour: Carbon

Eyeliner: Blactrack fluidline

Eyeliner: Graphblack

Lashes: MAC # 33

LIPS

Liner: Chocolate by Bobbi Brown

Gloss: Fine China (limited edition)

XoXo

eVaDiVa

Amber-lights…galapagos…bronze…

ALL M.A.C unless specified

FACE

Foundation : Studio Tech NW45

Concealer: Studio Finish NW45

Blush: Blunt

Powder: Mineralized Skinfinish Natural DEEP DARK

EYES

Eyebrows: Spiked (did I tell you I made the appointment next week to get them tatooed???)

Eyebase: Shell cream color base

Lid: Amber Lights

Crease: Galapagos from NARS

Upper crease: Bronze

Outer corner: Espresso

Highlighter: Concealer select spf 15 NW40

Eyeliner: Fluidline Blacktrack, graphbalck

Lashes: I have some permanent lashes on!!! will post a close up pic of them! I looove them and they feel very light…you do not see the glue packed like most people usually have them! I will provide the address and who did them for me in a separate post.

LIPS

Liner: Current (lined very thickly)

Gloss: Desire (blend well with the liner)

 

Special Thanks to Miss Amina for pulling me out of my laziness to do this look for all of you divas…

XoXo

eVaDiVa

 

 

 

Spring is almost here!!!

Spring time Divas!!!…at least almost…

 

FACE

Foundation: Select SPF 15 NW45

Powder: Mineralize Skin finish Dark

Concealer: Select Cover up NW 45

Blush: Format & Raizin

EYES

Eyebrows: Spiked and Show off brow set

Eyebase: Cream color base Improper Copper

Eyelid: Chrome Yellow and Electric Coral (pigment)

Crease: Orange and Bronze

Outer Corner: Embark

Highlighter: Arena

Eyeliner: Blacktrack and graphblack

Lashes: MAC #33

LIPS

Liner: Mahagony

Lipglass: Sock Hope (Heatherette)

 

 

 

Purple eyes…using pigments

I got a new hair cut last week and felt like adorning my eyes done with bright colors…I used a pigment that I bought during my trip to NY last month…Some of you asked me how they could use pigments, so this is right on time!

Pigments are a loose form of high pigmented eyeshadows. They can be very messy if you do not know how to use them but here are a few hints:

• Use a flat brush like MAC # 242
• Appy a base first on the lid(otherwise it will not stay on). My favorite are the cream color base or the MAC eye paint.
• Put a little bit of powder on the lid of the jar and work from there.
• Apply the powder using your 242 brush by dabbing and gently putting pressure on your lid to make sure that the color pops out. Add more color if you feel like it is not bright enough. Remember that the eye color base you use can significantly enhance the final color, so the brighter the eye color base, the brighter the pigment color.

I am using on this picture:

FACE

Foundation: Mineralize Satin Finish liquid NW 45

Powder: Mineralize skinfinish natural Deep Dark

Blush: Slave to love and Raizin

EYES

Eyebrows: my usual spiked mixed with some show-off brow set

Eye base: Cream color base Full Fuchsia

Eyelid: Pigment Cool Pink

Crease: Trax and Nocturnelle

Crease outer corner: Beauty Marked

Highlighter: Concealer NW 35 and a touch of Vanilla Pigment eyeshadow

Eyeliner: Blacktrack and Smolder

Lashes: Mac # 7 (my lashes look dusty because I “smartly” decided to apply more of the pigment eyeshadow after putting them on…never do this as all the pigment will fall on your lashes…always use your mascara when you are sure that you are done with your eyeshadow)

LIPS

Velvettela lipliner with Florabundance lipgloss (make sure you blend the liner with the lipgloss to avoid that horrible dark line around your lips…)

Silver smokey eyes

At the request of one of my beloved readers, I am detailing the eye makeup I was wearing at the “Makeup, stilletos, Martinis & Chocolates” party.

Eyebrows: Spiked pencil and show-off brow gel

Eye base: Shell cream color base

Eyelid lower part: electra

Crease: Knight Divine

Crease outer corner: Carbon

Highlighter: Concealer select moisture cover NW 35

Eyeliner: Blacktrack and smolder

Eyelashes: MAC #33

 

Getting old…feeling the blues…

I got home today after a long day at work and decided to do the only thing that makes me feel good and relaxed…MAKEUP!!! As the time of reaching the big 27 approaches…(yes i’m getting older in less then 24hrs…HAPPY BDAY to me!!!) I m feeling the “blues”…

Special thanks to my lovely sis Gaby for taking the pics!

 

 

- Eye base: Paint in architecture

-Eyelid: lower part: Jewel blue

-Eyelid: crease brown script

-Eyelid: outer crease Plumage

-Inner corner of the eye: Electra

- Highlighter: Concealer NW40 (shade lighter)

- Lashes # 7

- Auto-blue eyeliner bottom

- Boot Black liquid eyeline on top

-Blush: Raizin

-Lipliner : cork

-Lipglass: Beaux

My foundation is Studio Tech in NW43 with a touch of the mineralized powder