My everyday look and how to bump it up a bit

Hi everyone! Yes, this is my second post in as many days. Lol. Gotta keep the momentum going I guess.


Okay so yesterday I was talking about how I've been uninspired in my everyday life when it comes to makeup. I mean, I'm a mom of 2 kids, I work...I can't go around in neons all day. Not practical for my lifestyle but I've been starting to bore myself lately.

So here is my everyday look. Nothing special, just enough to get me through my day without scaring small children:

Products I used:
-MAC face and body foundation in C4
-Hard Candy glamoflage concealer in tan
-MAC MSF in medium dark
-Stila sun bronzing powder in 01
-MAC mineralized blush in superdupernatural
-Shu Uemura hard pencil in seal brown for brows
-Urban Decay primer potion on eyelids
-MAC ricepaper eyeshadow on the lid
-MAC one to watch pro longwear eyeshadow in the crease
-NYX eyeshadow in highlight for under my brows
-Clinique brush-on cream liner in true black
-Maybelline lash stiletto waterproof mascara
-MAC hug me lipstick (although I think at this point I'd already eaten it off)

Nudes and neutrals. Boring. I don't always use these exact colours but the outcome looks exactly the same. Lol. I have so many eyeshadows that are nudes and neutrals. Sometimes when I'm at work I'll wear a brighter lip (red, orange or hot pink) just so it doesn't get TOO boring for me. Actually during the summer I only wore bright lipsticks. I guess the cold has made me lazy! But do you see why I haven't been posting looks? So lame.

Well, I thought why not bump up the look a little bit? So IF I were to go out with friends for drinks after work, which has only happened once in the last 6 months, I can just bring a few key pieces of makeup to make the look a little more intense. Then I thought, well maybe some of you out there can get more use out of this than I can :P

So with just a few pieces that you can pop into your purse you can give the look a little oomph (not too much oomph...cuz I'm too lazy for that. haha) So here's the look with a little more makeup added on top of what I already had on:

So all I used to bump up this look is (what to pack in your makeup bag) :

-2 MAC eyeshadows: mystery (or any dark brown shadow) to deepen your crease and ricepaper (or any light shimmery colour) to accentuate your lid and on the inner eye...I used a MAC 226 for all of this

-L'oreal lineur intense in carbon black to thicken the winged liner

-a dark brown pencil liner, I used Inglot soft precision eyeliner in 41 to line the bottom lashline 2/3 of the way into my eye

-applied MAC's msf in gold deposit on my cheeks (used a MAC 187 for this)

-applied a bright pink lip, I used MAC's pink nouveau

Optional: I used an old discontinued MAC shape and sculpt to contour my cheekbones and used the highlighter under my eyes to help with shadows and I would probably bring my MAC msf natural in my nmakeup bag to get rid of any shine.

So I mean you can tweak this to suit you and your needs for the night. You can definitely go a bit further to make it more dramatic, too.

Well, hope you guys liked this post. And let me know if any of you guys try this!