Jesse's Girl Eyedust: Applying pigments wet!

So, I like color, most of you know that if you know me. However, though it may be hard to believe, I've never applied my minerals/pigments wet! So, I decided to do that today. I love Jesse's Girl eyedusts as the best cheap pigments, but I've had them fade/crease without using adequate primer/base so I decided to see how they would do wet. All the products used in this tutorial are drugstore and therefore pretty affordable. You can get great color for a small price!!! (Jesse's Girl can be found at Rite Aid and online)

Lets get to it..........



This is the finished look on my eyes. The look is a green/blue/black mix. Not too dark, more bold.




The finished look overall.




So, to start, of course, always use a primer. Any primer will work. For the eyedusts (and bare minerals loose shadows), I use BOTH a primer and a cream shadow for extra staying power. This did prevent the Jesse's girl from creasing, btw. I use the skin tone pink here in the Revlon Illuminance cream pallette.




Unfortunately, once you open the package of Jesse's girl, you loose the color name! I believe this is called 'majestic green'. This is how the outside of the packaging looks.

To apply loose pigments, place some color in the lid and then dip your brush into it. You can use a brush specially designed for loose shadow (bare minerals line) or any stiff shadow brush. Here, I'm using the E.L.F. eyeshadow brush.

To apply the shadows wet, the easiest technique is to buy an empty sprayer bottle (at target or anywhere else) and use it to spray the brush with water. I give the brush two sprays only so I don't overwet the brush and then pack on the shadow. Pat the shadow on, don't rub. If you need more color, redip the brush -> you shouldn't have to rewet again.

Now for the crease color. I've chosen "blackstar blue" from Jesse's girl (i just happened to remember that name for some reason). We will apply this dry since it's going into the crease. I used my Essence of Beauty crease brush to pick up the color.

Pick up the color as you do with any other mineral -> place color in lid, tap of excess and apply to crease and outer corner.

Now, blend the crease color out and blend it into the green a bit. I'm using my Kat Von D clean crease brush to blend.

I'm turning to Wet N' Wild's sweet as candy color trio for the browbone color. I'm using the lightest color in this pallette for the browbone.

I always like a little extra depth, so I'm using my essence of beauty brush (came in the crease brush duo set -> this one is smaller than the other crease brush I use). The reason I'm using the smaller crease brush is for precision; I just want the matte black in the outer V and it's easier to use a smaller brush for this application. The color I'm using is the matte black in Wet N' Wild's Greed pallette.

Now, I line my eyes with liquid liner everyday. Again, you don't have to use liquid; you can use a gel or pencil. However, a liquid or gel will show up better against the colors we used. I'm using maybelline's ultra liner for this. I wing out the liner just a little on the upper lashline only.

For the lower lashline, liquid is typically too harsh. So, I'm using two colors. For the outer 3/4 of the lower lashline, I'm using L'oreal HIP's color chrome eyeliner. This is just a black eyeliner but I like HIP for staying power.

For the inner 1/4 of the lower lashline that is yet unlined, I'm using Revlon's colorstay liner in Teal.

I want to reinforce that pencil eyeliner to make it stay longer, so I'm using the same matte black I used before from Wet N' Wild's Greed pallette to place over the liner. For lining with shadow, my favorite brush ever is Bare Minerals Soft focus liner brush. These brushes are made to place shadow on the lashline so they are tops for this purpose. I only apply the black to the portion of the lower lashline that we used the black pencil for.

To finish off the look, I use Revlon's super lustrous lip gloss. The color I'm using is in 'pink whisper' (see below). I LOVE revlon's super lustrous glosses. I'd compare the super lustrous to the high end bare minreals glosses I own.

Urban Decay Book of Shadows III Tutorial

And now.........for a high end look! My favorite high end brand is Urban Decay. Their products are just top notch as far as quality goes and the selection is amazing. The colors are just perfect and suit my makeup taste perfectly.

This is a look I created with the purple colors in the palette. It combines glitter, matte, and shimmer. This is a moderately complicated look.

First, as always apply primer to lids. You can use any primer, but I'm using Urban Decay Primer Potion since I'm going with Urban Decay products.



After applying primer, use a clean eyeshadow brush to apply 'bordello' to the inner lids only. For this look, we will split the eyelid into thirds. Apply this color to the inner third. As usual, I'm using my E.L.F. eyeshadow brush.



Next, clean the eyeshadow brush on a clean cloth and grab the darker purple color labeled 'psychedelic sister' and apply to the middle third of the lid. No need to blend the colors yet; just apply like paint by numbers.



Finally, we will apply the darkest purple to the outer third of the lids. Clean the eyshadow brush again and apply 'rockstar' to the outer third of the lid. With all colors, apply all over lid to crease.



Now, use a clean blending brush to lightly blend the three purles so that they gradually blend into each other. What you are trying to get rid of are harsh lines between the colors. Since they are all very similar, this shouldn't take an awful lot of blending. Again, I'm using my Kat Von D blending brush (avaliable at Sephora).


Finally, use a crease brush (here I'm using Essence of beauty's crease brush) to blend the matte black 'perversion' into the crease.


Now, use a clean blending brush (wipe on soft cloth if this is the same brush used earlier) to blend the crease color so no harsh lines exist. For me, this sometimes mutes the color too much and I go back and add more color to the edges with my color crease brush.



Finally, we take my favorite shade ever, 'midnight cowboy rides again' and place it as a highlight to the brow bone and inner eyes. You can use a fluffy shadow brush for this and blend with this same brush. Here, I'm using sonia kashuk's eyeshadow brush (target stores).


Next, it's time for eyeliner. For my lower lash line, I use the Urban Decay 24/7 liner pencils. Now, let me say these are my favorite liner pencils ever! I'm currently looking for a cheaper dupe though because a full size pencil is 17 dollars each. So, I'm using the two pencils that come with the set. The black color, 'zero' goes on the outer lower lash line (only line half). On the inner lower lash line (the inner half to completely line the lower lash line), I use the purple color, 'ransom'. Blend where the two colors meet and smudge out the lower lash line if desired.


For the upper lash line, I use black liquid liner. So, again, I'm using E.L.F. liquid liner in black.

Now, this is my favorite part. I like to add a little more sparkle to the look. I love the NYX candy glitter liners. You can use these as liner, or just anywhere you want. It's a glitter gel and they come in different colors. For this, I'm using the green candy glitter liner. The above picture is a close up of the brush.

This is a better view of the glitter liner tube. Since NYX makes this, it means it's affordable and avaliable at either Ulta or a variety of online sites (such as cherryculture.com). Each costs aboout 4.79 at Ulta or ulta.com (and they're worth every penny!). If you don't like glitter you can skip this step. What I do is apply the liner over the black liquid liner on my upper lash line. I usually only apply to the outer half of the lid unless it's for a nighttime look; for nighttime, I apply all over the upper lashline. The key is to do a thin line. The only downside to these liners is that they take a little while to dry, so you must keep your eyes half closed for a little while.

Now, curl your lashes and apply your favorite black mascara. Right now, I'm using Rimmel's glam' eyes.

This is the finished look on just the eyes. You can see the glitter, graduated purples, and the black.

This is the finished look! thanks so much~!