How To Do Your Own Makeup

Transfer-Resistant Cream Foundation

The inspiration for this Transfer-Resistant Cream Foundation came from 2 places. Place #1 was my 2020 2d Skin Cream Foundation, which was inspired by RCMA'south cream foundations. I beloved this formulation and have been using it ever since. My beloved (and use) was...

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Frosted Cranberry Matte Lip & Cheek Colour

This Frosted Cranberry Matte Lip & Cheek Color is really neat; it'due south a hybrid between a matte liquid lipstick and a lip stain. It has a creamy consistency that dries down to a powdery, transfer-resistant cease. Richly coloured, it both wears and re-applies well,...

Frosted Cranberry Lip Oil

I've had a ton of requests for a lip oil recently, and I idea this year's Frosted Cranberry theme was a groovy backdrop for a shiny new lip oil conception 😄 This cheery cherry oil imparts moisture and shine to our lips and it smells softly of fresh, juicy...

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Long-Wear Foam Eyeliner

Today I'chiliad sharing a formulation I have been working on for months—a Long-Wear Foam Eyeliner. It goes on like a dream, wears beautifully, and hands holds its own when compared to products similar Bobbi Brown's Long-Wear Gel Eyeliner and KVD's Tattoo Waterproof Liquid...

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DIY Pressed Shimmer Eyeshadow

It's been almost five years since my first book, Make it Up: The Essential Guide to DIY Makeup and Pare Intendance, was released (!). I'm nevertheless really proud of information technology, but today I want to share an update to the eyeshadow formulation that I think is a pretty big upgrade. It'south...

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Long-Wearing Shimmer Cream Eyeshadow

I am so excited to share this formulation with you guys! Today we are making Sephora-quality long-wearing shimmer cream eyeshadow. You will need three specialty ingredients, only if you love foam eyeshadows, it is absolutely worth information technology. Just as I did in my volume, Make it...

Clear Lip Gloss Base (without Versagel!)

If you've been wanting a transparent lip gloss base of operations from scratch, this is the formulation for you. You lot'll demand but three ingredients to make a clear and versatile gloss base that you tin can customize in oh-so-many means, with different carrier oils, colours, micas, and...

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Blackberry Lip Gloss

Lip gloss is one of the commencement things I ever made (this post from late 2011 is virtually a decade sometime, wowza), with my first batches pre-dating Humblebee & Me! I've experimented with many different ways to go that feature soft creamy, glossy consistency, and...

Golden Dust Lip Cream

Today we're fully embracing summer with a rich, sparkly Gold Grit Lip Foam ✨ A creamy base carries a generous helping of shimmery golden things to bring some beautiful 24 karat loveliness to your days. Enjoy! Want to watch this project instead of reading it?...

Soothing Makeup Finishing Spray

Today I'thou sharing something I've been loving lately—a Soothing Makeup Finishing Spray. You lot certainly don't have to utilise information technology over makeup (information technology'southward also a slap-up soothing & hydrating mist for bare skin!), just I've been using this as the terminal step in my makeup routine (and...

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Liquid Blurring Peel Tint

If you're questing for a sorta-foundation that offers some peel-perfecting goodness without a whole lot of coverage, this Liquid Blurring Skin Tint is for you! Information technology lightly blurs imperfections and gently evens out skin tone, pairing beautifully with a bit of concealer...

Second Skin Cream Foundation

This Second Skin Foam Foundation was borne of some very early morning I-tin't-sleep-any-more YouTube makeup tutorial watching. Beingness the sucker I am for all things Kate Winslet I clicked on a thumbnail for a tutorial titled "Trying to do my makeup like the movies......

Glossy Lip Stain

Today'south DIY was inspired by a lip gloss advert I saw some time terminal year. It was for the Glossier lip gloss, and for some reason, the ad caught my center. I clicked through and took a expect at the ingredients, and the first ingredient was "Hydrogenated Polyisobutene"—and...

Rosé Cream Blush

Today nosotros're continuing our Rosé DIY serial with a lovely Rosé Cream Blush. Instead of working with a rosé wine inspired odour blend, this creamy pot of color takes its inspiration from the cheery pink colour of rosé. It'll lend a like pinky, summery affluent to your...

Cream Luminizer

Today's DIY is inspired by a product sold past a well-known natural cosmetic brand. A simple base of beeswax, castor oil, and coconut oil is heavily laced with a alloy of shimmery micas to create a creamy highlighter that'south brilliant for illuminating cheekbones, brow...

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Even Better Makeup Brush Cleanser

Over the last year or and so I've been working on all kinds of dissimilar waterproof makeup formulas—a gel eyeliner, in item, is a big goal of mine, as is a long-wearing liquid lipstick. While the formulas yet need work before they volition stay on my face for ages, I...

Silky Foam Foundation

I'thou really excited to share this recipe with you guys—it'south a formula that's been heavily requested, and I've been working on it and testing it for months now. This is a cute solid cream foundation that you can put in a compact or a stick for easy awarding. It...

Sheer Satin Cheek & Lip Tint

This punchy red liquid cheek and lip tint has go a fast favourite of mine. On offset glance it's a sparse, vibrant cerise liquid. Information technology'due south less cerise than you expect on awarding, and the slip is divine; lightweight and satiny, with a finish that is unexpectedly rich...

Flossy Stick Lip Tints

When it comes to makeup I actually article of clothing on a regular basis I discover I tend towards subtle, easy-to-utilize stuff (read: stuff that goes on easily and lightly enough that it disguises my amateurish makeup application skills). These lip tints were born of my initial...

Basic Moldable Lipstick Base of operations

When I got my awesome petty TKB Trading Lipstick Mold one of the first things I wanted to investigate was the compatibility of the lipstick recipes in my book with the mold. The compatibility was resoundingly… not. Efforts to use the lipstick bases from my book...

Center Phase Glow Serum

This project was inspired past one of the first bits of makeup I ever barbarous in love with. When I was growing upward my mom fabricated a betoken of taking advantage of those "spend $10 and go this miraculous goody pocketbook of sample-sized treats for free" at the Estée Lauder makeup...

Making Lipstick in a Lipstick Mold!

I'thou frequently asked about making stick lipsticks, and turning the lipsticks from Brand information technology Up into stick lipsticks, so I was super excited when TKB Trading got in touch and asked if I wanted to try their new (inexpensive!) lipstick mould. I've definitely looked at lipstick...

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Makeup Eraser Sticks

This idea was born out of perusing one of those in-flight catalogues whilst I was undoubtedly quite bored. Yous know the type—you tin can order Arwen Evenstar's pendant, a mini-putt for the corner of your part, and a brand of makeup you've never heard of that is...

Champagne Glow Highlighting Powder

With bound and sunshine finally here, I want to get my glow on. I've been loving looks featuring glowy highlights that become their punch from catching the light with a touch on of glimmer, only non outright sparkle. A sort of optical effervescence, you could say—like...