Beauty Breakdown: 1

Beauty breakdown is a new series I am starting involving a random picture from Pinterest, or a celebrity, and giving you tips and tricks that I find within that picture.

This picture was found on Pinterest:

She's beautiful isn't she? The makeup artist did an amazing job with her. Her brows are filled perfectly and don't even get me started on the amazing highlighting and contouring job! Okay... I for myself started! 

The Face:

When it comes to the contouring, it is bolder than normal! It begins with the typical E3 format! 

For those of you who do not know, the E3 is when you create an E on one side and a 3 on the other. You start on your forehead near the hairline, work your way around to under the cheekbone, and back out and following the jawline, just like you were drawing an E (or a 3 depending on what side of the face you are on). Then, they added extra contouring around the chin to really emphasize it! Next, they proceeded to contour the nose by taking a bronzer (or darker foundation) down the sides of the nose, and bringing them together at the bottom to form a "v" shape. You can see it was also used on the neck and on the collarbones. This helps create definition.

For the highlighting, the makeup artist stuck to the basics, but like the contouring, made it bold. When highlighting, you should apply a highlighter, or a lighter foundation, to all the areas where the sun hits. This includes: 

- Forehead

- The Bridge of the Nose

- The Cheekbones

- The Chin

- The Undereyes

When doing the undereyes, to make it appear more natural, create a triangle shape. Apply highlighter to the outer corner of your undereye to the inner corner. From there highlight straight down to the tip of the nose, then connect it back up to the outer corner, and fill in inbetween. 

The Eyes: 

One thing I am jealous of is her beautiful blue eyes! To make those blue eyes pop the makeup artist applied brown eyeshadow to the lid and crease, and mimicked it under the eye as well. Brown is opposite on the color wheel to blue which causes the controversy and makes the eyes appear brighter! 

Her eyes are not particularly small, but a trick that has been discovered is to apply white eyeliner to your lower waterline to make your eyes appear bigger.

- Samantha

Eyebrows: Thick or Thin?

Some people look better with thick eyebrows, and some people look better with thin. Personally, I find I look better with thick. Having an oval face, I believe it fills it in nicely. Whereas, other people with smaller faces need to be careful, because having thick eyebrows can easily overcrowd the face.

My thin eyebrows: (May 2013)

My thick eyebrows: (October 2013) 

See how they make my eyes pop more, rather than making them sink into my head? It is up to you to determine whether having thick eyebrows is going to be beneficial to you or not. If not, do not waste your time growing them in. It typically takes about three months and is a real pain. 

To see the tips and tricks I learned while growing mine out, check out my blogpost by clicking here.

Model's everywhere are even growing thick eyebrows. It is in style. 

Support Your Team

Although my team may not be the top ranked, I am still a loyal fan to the Dallas Cowboys. Football actually is not my favorite sport to watch out of them all but that is another blog for another time. In these pictures I was wearing a Dallas Cowboys flex-back hat, and a Nike "Cowboys Just Do It" t-shirt. I got a little bored, what can I say! 

I have to say my personal favorite out of the four is this one: 

Haha, I need something more productive to do in my spare time I guess.

- Samantha