I did a rockerbilly make up look at the weekend for a friends 30th birthday and thought I would take you through the steps of how I achieved the look. But first here's the before.
Let me first say that everything on my face was Actiderm makeup apart from the mascara, lipstick and eyeliner, all of the makeup is paraben free, talc free and anti allergen, the HD foundation is great for an oily skin although I'm fairly normal and it was fine on me. I have OCC lip tar on my lips, elf liquid eyeliner and a maybeline mascara.
First off I made sure that my face cream had fully absorbed before I applied my foundation, I personally find my foundation doesn't sit right if I don't wait. I used a buffing brush to buff this in and then used a tapping motion to build it up in areas that need more coverage.
I mix my concealer with a little bit of my foundation as I want it to be a little bit more seemless, I do use a brightening concealer but for this look I wanted to keep it as classic as possible so used a full coverage concealer. I used this under my eyes and for my blemishes.
While this was settling into my skin I moved onto my eyes. First I primed my lids, Then I set it with a face powder, I then layered the base colour down which was a little darker than a cream, now,because I have hooded eyes I put the darker colour Just above my crease and in a strait line across to the outer edge of my eye, I then blend this backwards and forwards and slightly up to give the illusion af a crease, if I were to put the colour in my actual crease it wouldnt be seen as the upper part of my lid comes down over the mobile lid. I didn't join this up to the lower lash line as I put liner there so I didn't need to join it up.
This is a little liner trick that really works for hooded eyes if you want to achieve that real 50's flick. look ahead into a mirror and using your liner draw a line from the lower lashes up to where you want the flick to end, it will look weird to start with as you need to go back and fill in the gaps, I then did the rest of the liner at the lash line and just got it to as thick as I wanted as you kind of have to do 2 different parts to the liner for this to work. I then looked downward to fill the gaps in the first line, looking strait ahead again I drew across from the tip of the flick a line to where the upper lid meets the lower lid, again looking down I almost coloured in the outer triangle of the flick. If you want this to be as neat as possible then you need to carry it on to meet the liner on the lid, I like to be quirky so just left it as it was, it looked pretty cool when my eyes were closed.
I then took a face tissue pulled it apart and blotted my face just to make sure there weren't any oils resting on top of the foundation, this breaks it down over time and can cause oxidisation. I then set my base.
Curled lashes and added 2 coats of mascara.
A dark tinted brow wax on an angled brush following the natural growth of the hairs, don't worry if it looks a little strong, just brush them through.
No bronzer, I am naturally very fair skined so it really worked for this look in particular, I put a lovely plum pink blush on the cheek bone and blended back to the hair line and a little way forward but not all the way to the apple of the cheek, I find this does not suit my face shape so I stick to the cheek bone .
High light on the very top of the cheek bone and cupid's bow.
Two layers of red lip tar applied with a lip brush blotted in between coats.
And voila the end result. I was so happy with the end result. I don't think I could ever get bored of playing with make up.
Hope you enjoyed reading about how I got this look. You never know I may even do videos one day.
Lots of love
Mrs G xxx
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