Simple Holiday Makeup

Hey everyone! I hope you are all having a fabulous weekend! Today I wanted to show you a super simple holiday makeup look. This can be worn day or night and literally takes 10 minutes at the most to do! I'm not sure if you guys enjoy these kinds of posts but they are my favorite to do so I hope you enjoy! (:

Alright, the first thing I do is make sure my face is clean and moisturized! 

The next step really helps speed the process up and helps make everything simple. I am going to start off by using a cream highlight and contour. To achieve this I am using Revlon's Photoready Concealer, I use a shade thats about 2 shades lighter than my foundation. To contour I used NYX HD Concealer, this time I used one 2 shades darker then my foundation. I then used my regular foundation (recently I went back to an oldy but a goody, Revlon Colorstay). I blended everything out using my Real Techniques Sponge. 

Next I quickly threw on some blush, and highlight and did my eyebrows. You can see me doing this in my "Everyday Makeup".

I am in love with this eye look for this winter. It is so simple and can pretty much be worn with ANYTHING! I start out by using my Urban Decay Naked 2 palette. (I only do my right eye so you can see the difference)

I start off by using the shade "Tease" and blend that all over my lid and into my crease.

I then spray a flat shader brush with a makeup setting spray and pick up the color "Half Baked". I pack this all over my lid. Spraying your brush helps to intensify the color.

With a more defined crease brush I used the color "Snakebite" and focused that into the outter "V". I then took a blending brush and made sure everything was blended together. I then went in with "Bootycall" and highlighted my brow bone and the inner part of my eye. The eyeshadow is complete! 

The next thing I did was create winged eyeliner. I don't usually go for eyeliner but I felt like it really brings the look together and makes it look a little more glam. 

I topped everything off with some mascara, and the eye look is complete! Simple right?

The final step to bring everything together is the lips. I wanted to do 3 different lip combos so you can have a choice for what you feel most comfortable in. I went with a nude, red, and a dark purple. I personally love me some dark lips but I know its not for everyone.

Here is the nude lip. I used ELF's lip crayon in "In The Nude", topped with Revlon's lipgloss in 

"Peach Petal"

Here is the red lip. I used NYX lip liner in "Auburn" followed by NYX Xtreme Shine lip cream in "Absolute Red".

The third and final look is the dark purple. I used NYX lip liner in "Plum" followed by NYX Simply Vamp Lip Cream in "Bewitching", and topped off with NYX Butter Gloss in "Devil's Food Cake". (As you can tell Courtney loves her some NYX lip products.) 

Those are the completed make up looks! I hope you enjoyed and i'll be sure to do more makeup looks for you guys because they're my favorite! Have a safe weekend!

Love Always,
The Crazy Collards

My Everyday Make Up

Hello everyone! I hope you are all having a great start to your weekend! Today I am doing my everyday make up because it seemed like a lot of people were interested in it so here it is! Let me know if you have any questions, enjoy! (:

Here I am with NO makeup, help me.. 

The face products

Okay so to start off I ALWAYS use a primer, not so much to help my makeup stay in place but to add an extra layer of moisture to my skin. I have extremely dry skin and I love the dewy look so my favorite primer at the moment is L’Oreal Magic Lumi light infusing primer. As you can tell below it kind of makes me look “greasy” but it comes together in the end and gives my skin that extra glow that I love!

The next step is foundation. My fav is Covergirl outlast stay fabulous 3 in 1. People this is AMAZING, if you haven’t tried it you need to. Like now. I own M.A.C Studio fix fluid and would pick this over that any day! To blend in my foundation I use a Real Techniques miracle complexion sponge. I do not understand how people put on foundation without this. It’s similar to the Beauty blender but half the price (come on who wants to pay $20.00 for a sponge, not me). This bad boy is only $6.99! I dot my foundation on my skin and then press it in with my sponge.

After foundation I go in with my concealer. For every day I use NYX HD Concealer, this is THEE BEST DRUGSTORE concealer out, I swear! It works amazing, not as well as my MAC Pro longwear concealer but I only use that on special occasions. This concealer is defiantly worth a try and for only $4.99 you can’t go wrong!!

I focus my concealer under my eyes

I set my concealer with a loose powder

 Cheek products 

Next I use blush, I don’t know if it’s just my skin or what but I’m not a huge fan of blush. Maybe it’s because I just haven’t found that right one but it never looks good on me, but when I do wear it I usually go for my NYX powder blush in Amber. After blush I get to do my FAVORITE part, highlighting. Seriously people if you don’t highlight your face you are missing out. My Holy Grail highlighter is Stilas highlighting duo in Kitten. I get mine at Ulta and if you ever see it in stalk you need to pick it up!! It’s so gorgeous, but always sold out! I swear by this.

I love it so much! (: 

That glow, I CANT TAKE IT! 

 Eyebrow products 

The next step is life changing, seriously. I fill in my brows. If you don’t do this you need to. It transforms your face and I promise you’ll never look back. I use ELFs eyebrow kit in medium, I’ve tried tons of brow products but I always go back to this. I just love it! It comes with a creamy dark shade and a lighter powder shade.

Eye products 

My last and final step is my eyes. I love to play around with different looks on my eyes and this is where I tend to splurge on products (Urban Decay, just have all my money.) My everyday eye is just quick and simply. I start out by using NYXs nude matte shadow in Dance the Tides in my crease. It’s just a very warm chocolate brown. Next I use Maybelline Color Tattoo in, Bad to the Bronze and blend on my entire lid with my finger. After that I use Urban Decays, Naked 3 palette and use the color Mugshot on my outer v area. Then I went in with Naked 3 again and highlighted my brow bone and inner tear duct with Strange. I topped it off with Covergirls bombshell volume mascara.

You can see I did the crease on my right eye (looks like I got punched I know) but it comes together

The angle I took the pictures at has a bad shadow in my right eye. That is not eye shadow I promise! 

And bam this is the completed look! I did use NYX butter gloss in Éclair to top off my lips. I hope you all enjoyed my little "everyday" look. And be looking out for my everyday hair soon, that is probably the one thing people ask the most questions about so its on its way!! Thank you all for stopping by and checking out my blog. I really appreciate all the love! (:

Love always, 

The Crazy Collards