Golden Smoke

Today's glam session centers around a golden, bronzey smokey eye with flawless airbrushed, sunkissed skin.  Katie has the perfect face to begin with, I mean - can you get more amazing bone structure?! Nope. No contouring needed! Not fair at all.  (At least the rest of us have makeup to help ;))

Katie's every day makeup routine is simple and low maintenance so she wanted to learn a few more glam tips and tricks to jazz up her look.  We did a wearable, day time appropriate, neutral smokey eye with warm gold and bronze tones to make her blue eyes pop!  What accentuates gold better than a tan? Since she just got back from Cali, she was lucky enough to have a natural glow so we based her whole look around that...

Seriously, she's so pretty! *sigh*

To achieve her look, I used:

COMPLEXION

Base: MAC Strobe Liquid Lotion (Similar)

Primer: Garnier 5 Second Blur

Foundation: Airbrush (Perfect to cover imperfections but leave the skin with a natural, skin like texture, I wanted to leave Katie's freckles visible :)

Concealer: MAC ProLongwear Concealer

Setting Powder: Anastasia Beverly Hills Contour Kit

Blush: MAC Melba & Milani Luminoso

Highlight: theBalm Mary-LouManizer - I layered this over her cheekbones, cupids bow, along her nose, and above her brow bone to add a glow everywhere.  (Katie has dry skin and NO visible pores so she can get away with a shimmery glow all over - if you have more oily skin, keep the shimmer to the tops of your cheekbones)
Lips: Rimmel Lip Liner in 'Natural', L'Oreal Infallible Lip Gloss #601 'Nude ballet'

EYES

Primer: MAC Pro Longwear Paint Pot in Painterly
Shadows: Urban Decay Naked Palette 'Buck' in crease and outer corner with 'Half Baked' packed all over lid in layers. I used a matte black to smudge along her upper lash line.  Under her lower lashes I used Lorac 'copper'.

Brows:  Katie is growing out and reshaping her brows so we kept them very natural and just added some 'naked' shadow to fill in some sparse areas.

Eyeliner: L'oreal Paris Infallible Gel Liner in Black (top) and Rimmel Waterproof Kohl Kajal in '005 Nude' in lower waterline.

Lashes: Kiss in '11'

Happy Saturday Everyone!