Sex Vixen Valentine's Look

For every sweet woman, there is a sex vixen :) In order to represent Valentine's day fully, I had to do the opposite of anything sweet and classy. When I think of a sex vixen I picture sculpted cheek bones, dramatic eye makeup, and glossy full lips.

This is what I came up with...

EYES:

1. Prime eyes with Too Faced Shadow Insurance

2. Using a fluffy brush apply Dark Heart Designs e/s in St. Valentine to your lid, blending out towards the brow bone.

3. Starting from the inner crease working your way out apply Dark Heart Designs e/s in Charmed to your crease in a windshield wiper motion.

4. To accentuate the crease, wing out using Dark Heart Designs e/s Audrey. My best advice is to use tape to create a sharp edge, and a stiff angled brush to draw out the wing. 

5. Drag Audrey from the tail, along the lower lash line and into the tear duct.

6. Line your waterline with Urban Decay Perversion.

7. Apply mascara

8. Fill in brows using Anastasia Dip Brow Pomade

FACE:

1. Apply a primer to your face.

2. Apply Tarte's Amazonian Clay Liquid Foundation.

3. Hilight under your eyes, cupids bow, and forehead with Anna Sui Mystic Rose.

4. Using Too Faced Chocolate bronzer, sculpt out your cheek bones, or fake them like me

5. For the blush use Nars Orgasm

LIPS:

1. Prime your lips using Too Faced Lip Primer - You don't want your lipstick to feather or move

2. Apply Mac Viva Glam Rihanna to the middle portion of your lips

3. Apply Mac Rebel to the outer portion of your lips

4. Apply Mac Oversexed lip gloss over your entire lips

Practice your sex kitten growl

Inner Confidence + Red Lips = Your man won't know what hit em'

Until next time

XO

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Adventure Time Series: Princess Bubblegum

What time is it???? Well, if you guessed the theme, have kids, or are actually a fan you would know that the answer is always going to be ADVENTURE TIME!

I am a relatively new fan of AT. My young cousins who are 6 and 8 are obsessed with it, and while I was staying at their house over the holidays thats all we watched. After a while I found myself watching it without them, and then also found myself downloading seasons so I could fit in with all their references to certain episodes... for example...

I had no idea what they were talking about, but now I do, and quite frankly it's hilarious! So, now that I am on Season 5, and I kind of feel like I know the characters that make up AT, what better way to bring them to life than to do makeup looks inspired by my favorite characters.

Princess Bubblegum is one of my favorites on the show firstly because she is a princess and rules a place called Candy Kingdom, second because she is made of bubblegum, and third because she is a scientist and extremely smart. Being a princess, and also being comprised of bubblegum, makes it pretty easy to pick a color palette: ALL PINK ERRYTHANG!

Yay Princess Bubblegum!!! Now, this photo is obviously edited like crazy, sadly, I DO NOT live in the Candy Kingdom, have pink hair, or violet eyes (sigh), but it does represent the Princess pretty well if I do say so myself :) 

If you're asking how I did my makeup, look no further!

I first moisturized and primed the hell out of my face. PB's complexion is absolutely flawless (cartoons always have amazing skin) so to emulate that I need as much help as I can get. I used Kat Von D's lock it tattoo foundation for this look because its extremely heavy and full coverage. I then went over it with Tarte's Amazonian Clay Powder Foundation to set everything nicely. To highlight my face, and make it appear even more flawless I used Dark Heart Designs Seeing Stars under my eyes, on my forehead, my cupids bow, and my brow bone. I then contoured my nose using Em cosmetics by Michelle Phan's chiaroscuro contour/highlight stick. I did not apply bronzer because PB has a pinky complexion and is not tan in any way lol Next step was blush, and I used NYX rouge cream blush in glow and applied it liberally to the cheeks. Any pink blush will do!

For the eyes I started by priming them with Too faced shadow insurance. I then applied Dark Heart Designs e/s in Beautiful Nightmare to the lid. In the crease I used the pink color from the Limecrime D'Antoinette palette, and then blended it out with Sugarpill's dollipop. For the inner corner, I used Dark Heart Designs e/s in Bonedaddy to give the inner corners of my eyes some sparkle, and to highlight my eyes. The brows are a mixture of the Limecrime pink and Sugarpills Poison plum. The lower lash line is lined using Royal Amethyst Waterliner from Em Cosmetics. I then applied mascara, and called the eyes DONE!

Lips are Limecrime's Great Pink Planet

I want to make this a series, so any suggestions would be great! Who is your favorite character?

Until next time.. Cheeeeeckkkk Pleeeeaassseeeee

Tranquility

The holidays are over (for now), so I figured this would be the best time to focus on relaxation. I didn't relax much over my break (yeah, I know I am weird). Instead, I spent all my time entertaining children, and worrying about everything lol. I don't care who you are, Christmas is stressful. Then there's new years, and you have no idea where your going, what you're going to wear, or what your makeup is going to look like. My first makeup look of 2014 is all about tranquility, and what is more tranquil than a beach? Seriously, it's like 30 degrees here right now (which is warm for a lot of the world, I know, I shouldn't complain!), but I am friggin freezing.

To get the full details on how I created this look, keep reading!

FACE:
For the face I kept it easy peasy sense my skin is dry (stupid winter!), and I don't think being tranquil means piling on foundation. The foundation I used was Tarte's Airbrush Amazonian Clay Airbrush Foundation. I then used Tarte's blush in the shade honored to give my cheeks a little life.
EYES:
I primed my eyes with Too Faced Shadow Insurance and then applied Dark Heart Designs shadow Rag Doll to the lid, stopping halfway up. In the inner corner, blending out towards the Rag Doll shade, I applied  DHD e/s in Frost to highlight my eyes. In the crease I dabbed on DHD e/s in Ultraviolet, and blended it towards the center of the lid and upwards. I continued adding Ultraviolet and blending until I was happy with the gradation. After I had my shadow the way I like it, I took a smaller detail brush and applied Ultraviolet to the lower lash line. I then took a matte black shadow and carefully lined my upper lash line, staying as close to the lashes as possible. I then curled my lashes, and applied mascara liberally. I used Rimmell's glam eyes mascara in black for this look.

Are you relaxed yet?

I love doing makeup because it allows me to be creative, but also relaxes me. I put in my headphones, pick up a brush and begin to paint. I encourage you all to sort of de frag your brain in any way that you can. Take time for you!

Check out Dark Heart Designs!! Their products are insanely good!! http://darkheartdesigns.storenvy.com/

Thanks for sticking by me, I hope you like this look, and as always if there's anything you would like to see, I love a challenge, so let me know!

Purple Smokey Day To Night Look

I have been sick for what seems like a few weeks now so I decided I needed to put my face on and tell the flu to kiss my booty.

For the first look I wanted to keep it soft, sweet, and natural.

Face: I used Rimmel Stay Matte mousse for my foundation, and Dark Heart Designs Scarlet Starlet Blush.

Eyes:I first primed my eyes using too faced shadow insurance, and then began with the lids. I used Dark Heart Designs e/s in St. Valentine all over the lid, and then I softly blended Dark Heart Designs e/s in Heartkiller from the center of my crease outwards. My eyelashes are tinted, so I just curled my lashes and left them in their natural state.

Lips: I applied Urban Decay Lip Love gloss in Drizzle for just a touch of shine.

Now for the night makeup, I really wanted to accentuate my crease, smoke it out a bit, and make it sexy. You can't do sexy eyes without a wicked cat eye, so I added that a few other things to amp up the look.

When I was doing this I kept telling myself I just wanted my eyes to go POW!! So, I guess I did a pretty good job. I know there is a rule where it says if you do a lot to your eyes you should tone down the lips, but this is makeup honey, go on with your misbehaving!

Face: Since I already had my foundation on, I added a touch more blush, and a bunch more highlighter to my face. I used Dark Heart Designs Scarlet Starlet for the cheeks, and EM Michelle Phan's Chiaroscuro contour stick/highlighter for the highlight on the bridge of the nose, cupids bow, inner corner of eyes, and brow bone. 

Eyes: I used the Kat Von D Poetica Palette e/s in Wonderland in the crease to darken it up and stick with the purple and pink theme. I then used my Jessies Girl liquid liner and gave myself a wicked wing (which I screwed up, and ran with!). For the lower lash line, I lined my inner rim with kat von d puro amor (black) eyeliner, and tightlined my eyes as well. I then used EM Michelle Phan's waterliner in amethyst to line my lower lash line, and used the built in smudger to smudge it out a bit. I then applied Kat Von D's Para Amor mascara to my lashes.

Lips: I applied Kat Von D's Foiled love lipstick in FTW

It seems like a lot of work, but I was able to do the first look in about 5 minutes, and the second one took about 10 (because I suck at using liquid liner lol). From day to night in 15 minutes flat, is pretty much a beauty miracle. I would totally rock this look out to dinner, a concert, bar, party, wherever -I'm there.

Make sure y'all check out Dark Heart Designs! Their products are amazeballs, and right now you can get it for 50% off by entering coupon code blknovemeber at checkout. Products can be found by clicking here

Thats it for now! I sure did kick my sickness's ass, if I do say so myself. Who needs a red nose, save that ish for Rudolph. 

Until next time, stay beautiful!

XO

Vampy Look of The Day

Who doesn't love Vampires, they're usually hott!! haha I didn't do this look thinking that I wanted to look like a vampire, but it kind of reminded me of one. The dark, deep set eyes, dark lips, and pale skin (I get that naturally). I am loving my Dark Heart Designs products a lot lately, they really are as amazing as I keep telling you, so you should really check them out.

1. Prime eyes with Too Faced Shadow Insurance.
2. Using a fluffy brush apply Marry The Night (the dark blue) to your entire lid, blending outward and upward. Blend until the color looks uniform with no empty spots. You want the outer edges to fade out, so make sure to blend out the hard lines.
3. Using the same brush, pat on Rag Doll onto the center of your lid. This gives your lid the iridescent look seen in the pictures above.
4. Apply Fairy tale to the inner corners of your eyes.
5. Using your favorite black eyeliner, line your waterline heavily and then take a flat brush or eye smudger and smudge the lower lash line to create a heavy, defined waterline.
6. Using your favorite liquid liner, line your upper lash line with a thin line. (You can wing out if you'd like, but I chose not too)
7. Apply Mascara.
8. Next is the skin. Apply your favorite foundation. I used the new Airbrush Amazonian Clay Powder Foundation from Tarte.
9. Apply a deep plum blush like the one from Dark Heart called Dark Paradise.
10. For the lips I lined them with Perversion from Urban Decay (the same eyeliner I used on my waterline), and then using a lip brush patted on Venom lipstick from Urban Decay. 
11. Put your fangs in (optional)

Sit there and sparkle like a Cullen, cus you look good!

This was a super easy, simple look to do. I hope that you guys like it. Be sure to like me on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/24-Karat-Dime/346926852073610 and become a follower of my blog if you like it :)

Protect that neck, the creepers come out this time of year!


Until next time :)

There's a mermaid in all of us

Today I wanted NEEDED to be a Mermaid. Mermaids are mysterious, they don't have any bills as far as I can tell, and they don't have any reason to go to college, or at least its not proven that mermaids go to college. The point is I needed to escape today. I have had a really bad month; my husband and I are fighting everyday, I've had no time for fun because of college, and I am also on a diet. Whip all those issues in a blender and I am stressed to the max! Insert...Mermaid.
Now this is not a "real" mermaid, and I didn't really try to get all fancy with it. I just had fun (finally!!!).

I put some fishnet stockings over my head, and began to fill in my forehead with colors...

Its mermaid-esque ;)

Products used and application:

Forehead (scales) : I covered my forehead with fishnets by putting one stocking over your head, kind of like you would with a wig cap. With a shadow brush, I loaded Dark Heart Designs e/s in Grace (white) and covered my entire forehead. Over the Grace I used Betrayal from the Vice 2 Palette (its the purple color). Over that I patted on Pinkies Up by Dark Heart Designs. When I took it off it left just a slight effect. I'm sure if I would've pushed hard, it would've left a better indent, but I like the softness of it.

Eyes: I primed eyes really well with Too Faced Shadow Insurance and applied Sugarpill's Mochi to the lids. On top of Mochi I applied Dark Heart Designs e/s in Fairytale to the entire lid, and then applied Dark Heart Designs e/s in Rag Doll to the middle of the lid. For the lower lash line I applied a thick line of Dark Heart Designs e/s in Nymph. The purple brow color is the same color used on the forehead (Betrayal from the Vice 2 Palette). The eyeliner is by Jessies Girl. Mascara is Covergirl Lash Blast in Black.

Face:I applied moisturizer and then Kat Von D Lock It Foundation to the entire face. On top of my foundation I used Dark Heart Designs e/s in Bone Daddy as a setting powder to give my face a pearlescent glow. On top of that I sweeped a light application of Urban Decay Naked Illuminator to the apples of my cheeks, and applied Dark Heart Designs Summertime Sadness Blush.

Lips: Nyx Soft Matte Lip Cream in Amsterdam

Photo Editor: PicMonkey/ Lomo Filter/ No photo retouching

Does it even look like a mermaid? hahaha oh well, it was fun!!!



Until next time :)


-Sam

Dark Heart Designs Look For Today (actually, yesterday! oops :P )

For the eyes:

1. Start by applying a good primer. I used the e/s primer by Dark Heart (not out yet!)

2. Using an e/s brush apply Beautiful Nightmare to the entire lid using a patting motion (these shadows work best when dabbed not swept)

3. Next, Apply Hope on the outer crease using a fluffy blending brush

4. Apply Bone Daddy (or any hi-lighter) to your brow bone area

5. Line Eyes using your favorite liner (wing out if you want!)

6. Using Nyx Jumbo Pencil in Milk (or any white liner) lightly line your lower lash line, and then go over it with Bone Daddy

7. Apply your favorite mascara

Face:

1. Apply your favorite foundation

2. Conceal if necessary

3. Apply your favorite bronzer to the hollows of your cheeks, around your hairline, and jawline.

4. Apply DHD blush in Summertime Sadness to apples of your cheeks.

5. Hi-light with your favorite hi-lighter (I used DHD Seeing Stars)

Lips:

1. Line your lips with a pink lip liner

2. Apply Sophia Lipstick (or a light pink)

3. Apply Marilyn Lipstick (or a deep red)

4. Using a black matte shadow (I used DHD e/s Audrey), take an angled brush and lightly dab the shadow on the corners of your mouth. Rub your lips together a few times to create a gorgeous ombre effect. 

DONE!

All Shadows can be purchased on Dark Heart Designs website by clicking here

Hope you guys enjoy!!

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Day to Night Look :)

I have a tendency to wear dramatic, colorful makeup. This will be no exception, except I have toned it down for the day portion of this makeup look. It's summer which means it's the perfect time to wear bright colors, and incorporate them into your everyday look. I wouldn't wear this to work (unless you can), but I would definitely wear this to a summer event like a barbecue, picnic, or beach day.

This look is super simple, and the color can be swapped out for any color you prefer, I just happen to really love green!!

To achieve this look apply your favorite sunscreen infused moisturizer and top it off with your favorite BB cream. For the eyes simply apply the eye shadow to your lids in an almond shape, and sweep it on your lower lash line to really make your eyes pop. Apply generous coats of waterproof mascara (a summer essential) and finish it off with a gorgeous coral or pink shade ( I used the Pop Beauty Pouty Lip Crayon in Coral Crush which I reviewed in a previous blog post).

*Link to purchase this eye shadow will be at the end of this blog post*

NIGHT LOOK

Time to glam things up a bit!!! Start off by priming your face, and applying your favorite foundation. Next step is the eyes :) Take a matte black shadow (I used In The Dark by Dark Heart Designs) and using a windshield wiper motion apply from inner to outer crease. Using a blending brush, blend upwards to soften any harsh lines. Take a highlighting shade (I used Bone Daddy by Dark Heart Designs) and pat it on your brow bone. At this point if you need to add a little bit more of your original color (for me that was Nymph) to your lower lash line as well as your lids. Apply more mascara as needed. For the lips, sex it up a bit by applying a dark plum or deep wine shade. 

There you have it!! Two completely different looks using a handful of products. I would say the first look took me about 10 minutes max to apply, and the night look took about 15 just because it takes me at least five just to do my lips lol

I am thinking of doing a day to night pictorial or YouTube tutorial for this look because its fab.

All Dark Heart Products can be found by clicking here

Shadows used: Nymph, In The Dark, & Bone Daddy