Natural Beauty: Brown Eyes

Meet Kayla, she has one of the sweetest hearts and prettiest smiles around! She is going to her High School Senior Prom at the end of the month and asked me to help her figure out a look for the night.  She doesn't care for much makeup (and doesn't need any!) so she wanted a neutral, natural look and I wanted her to feel like her most beautiful self. So we kept things very soft and youthful, but added a few touches of glamour :)  Makeup is nothing but fun and it all washes off at the end of the day so I convinced her to try a few new things and we had a giggle along the way.

She just radiates so much sweetness, you all need to know her! 

We wanted to keep everything about her overall look very natural - but a "flawless natural".  The aim was to emphasize and draw attention to her beautiful brown eyes whilst not overwhelming her face with too much in the way of lashes or liner.  Kayla doesn't like to look like she's wearing makeup so my challenge was to use and layer products that added to her features, not covered them.  We used individual lashes in the outer corner of her eyes to add a little glamour and airbrush makeup to keep her skin looking youthful and skin-like.

COMPEXION

Kayla already had a light layer of tinted moisturizer on so we simply added a little primer and concealer under her eyes and followed with one light layer of airbrush foundation.

Bronzer: Laura Geller  (lightly dusted over cheeks as a blush too)

Powder: Neutrogena Shine Control 

Highlight: theBalm 'Promiscuous Pearl'

Contour: ABH in 'Fawn'

Lips: We tried a couple lip options, with a light nude gloss and Kayla's own mauve lipstick.

EYES

I kept her shadows very neutral and softly smokey - using only browns and champagne's.  All shadows used were from the LORAC MegaPro Palette, in order of use, 'Cream', 'Fawn', 'Khaki' in her crease and under brow bone.  'Smokey Topaz' all over the lid with 'Sand' smudged under her lower lashes and 'Opal' as an inner corner highlight.

Liner: Rimmel Scandaleyes Waterproof Kohl Kajal in 'Brown' and ELF Liquid to cover lash band and hide glue.

Brows: Khaki shadow

Mascara: (Kayla's own)

Lashes: (My all time favorite individual lashes!) Kiss Trio Lashes in 'short' (3 on each eye on outer most edge) I find mine at Walmart.  I think they add just enough volume to give the eyes definition without over powering the rest of the look.  

How pretty is she!

I can't wait to doll her up for the real thing and I'm so happy she liked the final look we created :)