Dark Sider Tips: Easy Way To Achieve a Colorful Eyeliner

If you saw my Darth Vader inspired eye look, you might already guess what this tip is all about. But in case you missed it, I want to re-iterate it here. This eye makeup look required to do a bright red eyeliner with the rest of the lid having intense black eyeshadow. It is really difficult to get a bright color on top of a dark color like black, so what can you do to make sure your eyeliner comes out looking super bright? Sometimes we do not have a bright red liquid liner or gel eyeliner, so how can we achieve the same type of look without those products? This might seem like common sense, but you can use a white eyeliner as a base! Using a base does not just have to apply to all-over eyeshadow color, it can also be applied with eyeliner on both the top or bottom lash lines.

Dark Side Tips: Storing Indie Eyeshadow Samples

Hello lovelies!

For any of you who love indie makeup brands as much as I do, today's tip might be super useful. I order so many eyeshadows from various indie brands, and I usually end up with lots of eyeshadow sample baggies. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, I'll try to explain. When you order from indie brands, full size eyeshadows usually come in small jars. But if you order a sample, it comes in a small baggie. As you can imagine, using an eyeshadow from a baggie is problematic; it can cause a huge mess! I usually never order samples, but orders sometimes come with samples and sometimes I get sent samples for review. I hate having tons of baggies full of eyeshadows, so I needed a better way to store them. I ended up using the storing boxes that are meant for beads!

This is basically a small acrylic box that has 30 small jars. This is perfect for housing one sample in each jar and having all the jars super organized! And if you finish one sample, you can just re-use the jar.

Dark Side Tips: How to Use Maybelline Color Tattoos

Greetings from the Dark Side!

I can't tell you guys just how much I have been loving the Maybelline Color Tattoo eyeshadows! I think they are such phenomenal eyeshadows. They are by far the best cream shadows I have ever used. They get even better because they are easily available to me for a very great price ($5-$6). After showing you the four new Maybelline Color Tattoos that are a part of the Fall 2012 Collection I received some questions about the Color Tattoos so I decided to make a quick post on them. Today I want to show you how you can maximize the use of your Color Tattoos (or any other cream eyeshadow). They are not only great as eyeshadow bases for powder eyeshadows, but they also make amazing eyeliners and they work great on their own!

1. Eyeshadow Bases
Here is an example of using the Color Tattoos as eyeshadow bases. For this look, I used 'Fierce & Tangy' as a base for my orange eyehshadows. This made the eyeshadows stay in place all day as well as helped to make the eyeshadows more vibrant.

Maybelline Fierce & Tangy

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Dark Side Tips: Concert Makeup

Are you a concert fiend like me? Are you afraid that your makeup will melt off while moshing? Or are you simply confused about what makeup to wear to a concert? Don't fear, the Dark Side of Beauty is here! Although my tips are going to focus on rock/metal type of concerts, these tips could be applied to all sorts of concerts.

1. Avoid the cake face / overdone foundation. 
This is a huge no-no, and I can say this by personal experience. Go light with your foundation or apply a lightweight and sweat-proof foundation. If you can, avoid applying foundation at all. Maybe stick with a long lasting concealer instead.
Why is this? Well because you will sweat and your foundation will look patchy and gross. If you are in a crowded area, with other pushed up so close against you that their sweat will get on you, you beat that your face will start to sweat and the foundation will just melt off. So keep it simple; apply something that will be easy to touch up. Concealer and a light but long lasting foundation will be better than a high coverage, mask-like foundation.

YSL Teint Resist Foundation / MAC Studio Finish Concealer  /  Everyday Minerals Kabuki brush