First, I primed Mandy’s face with the Kjaer Weis Cream Foundation in the shade Illusion. It comes in a handy compact (with a wonderful refill system!) and can be applied well with your fingers – even on-the-go. For an ideal result, you can prep the skin using The Beautiful Oil by Kjaer Weis, so that the primer blends more easily into the skin. If necessary, you can also apply a thicker layer of primer to cover impurities and dark circles (which means that you don’t need to bring a concealer as well, saving you some much-needed space in your toiletries bag). For a slightly more matte finish, you can also powder the T-zone with Kjaer Weis’s Pressed Powder.
Mandy’s eyes were first prepped with some primer & powder – so that the eyeshadow can perform as consistently as you will throughout the busy work day. Using the Silken Shadow Stick in the color In Between Days by ILIA Beauty, I shaded the eyelids and then darkened the edges with their Silken Shadow Stick in Take On Me. To frame the eye even more, I drew a soft wide line from the middle of the lid to the outer corner with an oblique eye brush and one of the HIRO Pressed Eyeshadows in .wav (a deeper brown shade) – on both the top and bottom of the eyes. This eyeshadow subtly emphasizes the eye brows.
I first slightly contoured the cheeks with one of the HIRO Multisticks in Voodoo Ray, and then applied one of Kjaer Weis’s Cream Blushes (in Desired Glow) with my fingers to the upper part of my cheeks for a warm, fresh touch. But the true focal point of this look is the red lips; to give this area an even more defined contour, I also primed it with foundation and then outlined using a sharpened Lip Pencil by Kjaer Weis (in the color Classic). Lastly, I filled the rest of her lips with one of their lipsticks – in the rich red color, Adore. With this stunning look, you’ll rock every city and every meeting 😉
Tags: Eye Shadow, Foundation, Highlighter, Lipstick, Makeup, Tutorial
J. R. Thesis Smith is a mixed-race millenial in the dawn of their 30s & a wordsmith of sorts. They've spent most of their waking life in the U.S. – in the urban sprawl of NYC that is New Jersey, in the depths of its suburban echoes – but always dreamed of making their way across a bigger pond, to a place where opportunity would knock a little more often. After completing their training at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts (effectively spending three poor years in NYC) as a dance major, they gifted themselves a semester of studying abroad in Berlin, and in doing so kept a vow made in early adolescence – thereby inciting a metamorphosis of promise into full-bodied intention: to eventually fully emigrate to Berlin, the first space that had ever allowed them the freedom to find their own breath, their pace of existence. Now that they finally live there, they're learning how to breathe again – striving to become a more active member of the Undercommons as they continue on the odyssey that is their self-realization as an artistic being. Their most resonant hope is that they will be able to say what is true & necessary & kind; that people will find the time to listen, to themselves and each other; and that their voice will inspire other voices to speak out in turn.
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