How To - Define a Hooded Eye Crease

Hey guys! Today I am going to tackle the question I get answered the most. A lot of people with hooded eyes feel at a disadvantage because they don’t have a lot of lid space and their crease is not naturally deep. That’s understandable since most of the looks we see on Instagram feature models with doe eyes, sharp crease and large lid space. The drag techniques so popular these days like huge winged liner, severe creases, lid focused looks, giant falsies cannot be applied to hooded eyes for the most part. So when a person with hooded eyes fails to recreate them they are disappointed.

First of all, every eye shape is beautiful and has its own unique advantages. Hooded eyed beauties can flaunt their crease unlike any other. Some of the most gorgeous and famous international celebrities have hooded eyes and they rock their natural features confidently. Anyone know Gigi Hadid, Blake Lively, Jennifer Lawrence, Selena Gomez, Taylor Swift, Catherine Zeta Jones, Emma Stone or Rachel McAdams? Makeup is about definition not changing your features. This is the no.1 mistake hooded eyed ladies make. 

I have partially hooded eyes with uneven hoods and a prominent hood on days when I am tired or my eyes are swollen for some reason. Follow the steps below to respect your natural shape and bring out your eyes.

Step by Step Tutorial

I used BH Cosmetics 120 shade 5th edition palette and their Carli Bybel palette one for the golden lid shade. In the video, I applied a light warm matte brown as the transition colour unlike the pictorial. Its purpose is to show you placement and blending.

Step 1: Prep Your Eyes

You can’t blame the shadow then you skip eye primer or any sort of base (Makeup Revolution Focus and Fix eye primer-Matte) and don’t lock it in with a mattifying powder (Catrice Prime and Fine translucent powder).

Step 2: Transition

You need a shade that your actual crease colour may blend into preferably be matte. I used a slightly shimmery one here because I don’t own a matte like this and I really wanted to show you how a warm tan, mustard, orange can bring out amazing contrast. You will need a big fluffy brush like Morphe MB23. 

Step 3: Crease 

Place this right into the socket with a fluffy brush (pointed ones can be very painful) so it blends into your transition but sits below it and above the lid. I used a warm matte medium brown.

Step 4: Deepen Crease

I don’t usually use black but I know most people don’t think drama can be achieved without black. Here I used a matte black in the outer crease only (not the outer corner of the lid!) using DMGM Eye Smudge brush, which is dome shaped but not s narrow.  Remember to gently blend it with a fluffy brush to avoid looking harsh. 

Step 5: Lid Shading

Look straight in the mirror to find your mobile lid. Your lid colour cannot go outside this zone. Shimmer in the crease will destroy the hard work you just did to make your crease recede. Pat it on gently with a lid brush like Colorstudio Pro shader.

Step 6: Lower Lash Line

Blend the transition and crease shades in the lower lash line to create a similar gradient effect with any brush you prefer.

Apply mascara and tightline. You can add some highlight to the inner corner and brow bone as you wish. I paired these eyes with Colourpop Ultramatte lip in Clueless and Makeup Revolution powder blush in Now.

How to Define Hooded Eye Crease by thepoutpainters

How do you prefer to define a hooded crease?

Love,

Sadaf

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Summer's Treat - My Bronzer Collection

Hey girls! Summer is almost here, well here actually, so what better way to welcome it then getting our tan on? I prefer bronzing over contouring so I have a couple of options for my fair to medium neutral skin tone. Some may seem too warm to you but I have figured out ways to make them work for me because I hate perfectly good products going to waste.

What Is A Bronzer?

Just a little info for those of you who are confused about its purpose, contrary to popular belief, bronzer is NOT meant to make you look DARK. It gives you a sun kissed tan meaning it brings warmth to your skin (red/orange tones). It prevents you from looking pale like a mannequin especially after you apply foundation because that covers up your skin’s natural shadows, highlights, flush and tan. The idea is make your skin look healthy. However, if you are naturally pale and wish to keep it that way, that’s your choice. 

Contour vs. Bronzer

Contour creates shadows with its cool tone (grey hint) and bronzer warms up the skin (orange, yellow, red hints). Here is a comparison of MUR Ultrabronze with a cool tone medium brown eye shadow from BH 120 shade 5th edition palette, which I sometimes use to contour my face.

So, let’s begin shall we?

Makeup Academy Mosaic Bronzer - Natural Glow

This is the first one I got because well, look at it and of course, the price tag was too good to resist. You will notice it has many cool toned browns, which are basically for contouring, but fear not. It has shimmer so it cannot be used for contouring. Swirling my brush in the pan creates a pale neutral-ish brown that is excellent for cool toned fair/pale ladies because it is not too warm to make them look orange. The pigmentation is moderate so you don’t have to be afraid with this one.

Makeup Revolution Ultrabronze

I have had this for a couple of months now and I am in love. It’s bigger than my palm and costs only PKR 500. I mean come on! It’s matte, not orange and blends so well. It’s a slightly warm light brown and works well on light to medium skin. 

Sleek Contouring Kit-Medium

Yes I know it says “contouring” but this can only be used as a contour on warm dark skin like African American origin dark. This Sleek Contouring Kit is a matte dark neutral brown which is quite warm and dark for my skin but it works with a light hand and a big fluffy brush as a bronzer. 

LA Girl Pro Conceal - Toast

L.A. Girl Pro Conceal Toast is another product I originally bought for contouring but like the Sleek Contouring Kit, it cannot be used as a contour unless you fall into that very dark warm category. It is HELL to blend unless you use a buffing brush that eats up product like kids stuff down candy on Halloween. This praise is for the Real Techniques dupe I was recently scammed with (Review coming soon). I apply it sparingly over a dewy foundation so that helps. Otherwise you could try spraying your brush or sponge with rosewater for smoother blending. I do love the look of a cream bronzer honestly. It’s very natural. 

Makeup Revolution Baked Bronzer- Rock on World

The only baked bronzer in my stash. Swatching it is just Heaven! If you have ever tried a baked product from MUR you will know what I mean. Not only does it feel like Heaven it looks and blends like it too. I have never seen a rich copper bronzer like this ever. It might look scary in the pan but it blends out to give that lit from within glow we crave so badly. I have used it just over my sun block and it looked fine. However, I recommend applying it sparingly over a matte bronzer for a more even look if you are fair or have large pores.

ELF Blush Palette- Shade

I won this blush palette in a giveaway by The Beauty Finds and trust me, it is a gem. The pigmentation of all four shades is excellent and they all blend out well. It comes with a big mirror and the price cannot be beat for the packaging is sleek and sturdy too. This is the most orange out of all the bronzers I own. It has tiny specks of shimmer which look very pretty. Like Rock on World, it is better to use it over a matte bronzer if you feel like you want it a bit more orange toned appearance. Blending it backwards into your bronzer on your cheek also gives great results.

I have another bronzer in my BH Carli Bybel palette which is actually the darkest highlighter. It’s a pure deep baked copper-y bronze which will look great on dark skin but is a bit too much for mine.

I hope you guys now have a better idea about the drugstore bronzers available in the market and how they perform. I like MUR Ultrabronze best out of all these.

Which is your favorite bronzer for the summer?

Love,

Sadaf

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BH Cosmetics Carli Bybel Palette – Review & Swatches

Neutral eye shadows and highlighters are our weakness. Give us as much and we still drool over every other new neutrals palette out there. Since this time it was by Carli Bybel, whom we have been following for quite some time now, we had to give it a try. We ended up ordering from the first stock of the palettes which went out of stock within just a few days.

Product Description

Beauty expert and YouTube sensation Carli Bybel designed this versatile 14 Color Eyeshadow and Highlighter Palette to dial up the drama and add excitement to your look. Carli's taste for chic refinement and modern elegance inspired her to select a collection of earthy neutrals and plummy brown shadows with four face highlighters that complement every skin tone. The mix of mattes and shimmers makes it easy to go from amped-up evening intensity to toned-down daytime options.

Features & Benefits:

• Highlighting Powders Can Be Used for Face and Eyes
• Vegan 
• Paraben Free
• Non-Irritating
• Allergy Tested
• Clinically Tested
• Cruelty Free Product

What Do We Think?

The palette comes in a pretty unconventional white cardboard travel-friendly packaging. You get 10 eye-shadows out of which 4 are matte and 6 shimmers, 4 highlighters and a mirror inside. I smell new makeup, it’s weird but I cannot help it, and when I took a whiff from the pans of this palette it made me nostalgic about the old school days, the odour resembled the one that usually comes from brand new school shoes; yes I am not kidding guys. The odour however has vanished after the palette is in use for a few weeks now. The mirror is useless for me. My face appears squished from top and bottom and a lot broader in it most probably due to its rectangular shape plus I tried looking into it for a minute or so but couldn’t really focus on anything and my eyes started to hurt.

You might have given up on it after reading until here but the good stuff is coming guys.

There are 4 matte and 6 shimmer shades. The matte shades include a cream-beige, a cool rosy-brown, a cool toned mauve and a burgundy. The burgundy is quite long lasting but that makes it a bit harder to blend than the others. They are not completely matte but do contain tiny very fine shimmer which you see only if you really look into the pans but the cool brown shade, which some may categorize as matte, contains a lot more visible yet fine shimmer. It has a greenish tinge to it which we are not huge fans of. The obviously visible shimmer shades include a cool-toned rose, a duo-chrome pale gold-pink, another duo-chrome but a lot more golden, a deep brown-toned bronze, a deep orange-toned copper. All of the shades are amazingly pigmented and feel really creamy at touch.

The best part of this palette, however, is the highlighters, which is actually why I bought it. Embossed with pretty floral design, a pink-champagne shade, a beige shade, a peachy-gold and a pretty bronze shade is included as highlighters. These are just as pigmented as the eye shadows so you only need a little product and they work wonderfully as eye shadows too. The brush really picks up a lot of the product so be careful. Highlighter shades are a lot more prone to fall out than the eye shadow shades and make the palette a mess. The formula is creamy powder which blends amazingly well even with fingers. The pink-champagne gives the most intense look and can be mixed with the others to get the shade you want. It gives a cool sheen to my medium complexion. I avoid using pink-toned highlighters because they do not really go well with my warm complexion but the one in this palette once blended out does not look odd at all. The beige shade is perfect for light to medium skin tones as a daytime highlight while the golden-toned highlighter works great for ultra-glam looks. The bronze shade works more like a bronzer on my medium skin tone and on lighter ones too.

Here are some comparisons between the similar looking shades in this palette by Sadaf on her fair to medium neutral skin. She was disappointed because they could have been substituted with more diverse colours. The mid-tone matte crease colours look the same on the eyes and some highlighters are way too close to some shimmer eye shadows in every sense.

Sadaf rummaged through her stash to check for dupes and here is what she ended up with.

With its considerable pros and some obvious cons, we think this palette is a great steal for the price even if not discounted.

Price

Original Price: $20.00

Sale Price: $12.50

Availability

Online at BH Cosmetics

Pros

Creamy texture

Very pigmented

Mix of mattes and shimmers

Easy to blend except for the burgundy shade

Travel-friendly packaging

Highlighters double as eye shadows

Affordable with a current discount

Cons

Mirror is difficult to work with

Highlighters are prone to fall-out

Some colour repetition

Our Rating

3.5/5

Have you tried this palette yet?

Love,

Fizzah & Sadaf

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BH Cosmetics Wild Eyeshadow Palettes - Review & Swatches

Hello makeup junkies! Today we will be talking about baked eye shadows from the BH Cosmetics Wild series. It featured three nine-shade all baked shimmer eye shadow palettes, two of which I currently own: Wild Child and Wild & Free. The great thing about baked shadows is that they have a sophisticated shine, which is not over the top, and may be used wet or dry.

Product Claims

Build lustrous and exotic eye looks with this palette of nine totally gorgeous, baked eyeshadows. Whether you want to go neutral, bold or add a pop color-- you’re sure to find a shade to fit your mood. Featuring highly-pigmented, wet-to-dry shadows with a lightweight feel that delivers fierce color impact to satisfy your desire to be absolutely wild!

What Do I Think?

The Wild palettes come in light weight, travel-friendly, square cardboard packaging with a mirror incased on one side covered by a transparent plastic sheet and magnetic closure. They both showcase different themes so their designs vary too. Wild Child is based on neutrals with some corals and purples thrown in for good measure. It has a leopard print packaging with hints of pink. Wild & Free has tiger stripes running down its cover in black and teal and Aztec yellow around the mirror. It contains earthy greens and browns with splashes of blues and purples.

First let us look at Wild Child. If you love shimmers and prefer staying on the safe side with neutrals then this is for you. It has a creamy white, deep violet, mauve, golden brown, bright coral, antique gold, deep chocolate brown, pale coral and a light rosy brown. All these work wonderfully on the lid and the lighter colours serve to brighten up the inner corners. The texture is soft and creamy with minimal fall out using the right brush and technique. As you may notice from the swatches the lovely baked appearance dulls down the colour you actually see in the pan so it is appropriate for daytime as well.

I was very excited about Wild & Free but was disappointed by the shades I was anticipating the most. It contains a Nutella-brown, intense blue, pale frosty blue, light green with gold shimmer, vibrant copper, forest green, bright purple, sea green and a pale gold. The pale frosty blue, intense blue and bright purple had quite poor texture with loads of fallout and low pigmentation. You can make them work by using a pencil/cream base or a matte shadow underneath of a similar colour. A fixing spray like MAC Fix plus or the Stageline one could help solve some issues too. The rest of the shades presented no such problems and glided on smoothly.

The swatches were taken dry over a drugstore eye primer. I highly suggest using a good eye primer and matte eye shadow in a similar or nude colour underneath all the shades to increase longevity. They cannot withstand oily lids on their own if you are getting dolled up for an event. They start creasing after 5-6 hours even with an eye primer if you have oily eyelids or a habit of applying moisturizer on your eye lids like me.

If you can grab these at retail or sale price then it is a good bargain. However, if you plan to pre-order them or get from a Facebook page’s instock items, they may cost around PKR 1500 each. Since the quality is inconsistent and I have not yet tried the third one: Wild at Heart, I don’t recommend Wild & Free to regular folks. Unless you are an eye palette hoarder like me and don’t mind spending a few extra bucks or effort in making some shadows work, steer clear. Wild Child is the one I would recommend because I have no complaints about its quality and I adore the shade range.

Price

PKR 1500

Availability

BH Cosmetics official website

Pros

Good texture

Minimal fallout

Good shade range

Attractive packaging

Travel friendly

Use wet or dry

Affordable

Cons

Some problematic shades

My Rating

Wild Child 4/5

Wild & Free 3/5

Have you tried any of the BH Wild baked eye shadow palettes?

Love,

Sadaf

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