Makeup and glasses

This week I got home a press sample on a pair of glasses without strength from Firmoo.com, and I love them!

Glasses without strength are such a good accessory, I think, because it does not cost as much as regular glasses, so if you do not have bad eyesight, you just have to go shopping :) And you can do that with bad eyesight too, if you have the lenses below.

Here you see two different ways to put on make-up if you have glasses, which are easy to think about no matter what kind of frames you have:

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When I wear glasses, I try to get balance in the face - If you have a lot of everything, the whole can look a bit messy, if you have a little of everything, you "disappear" behind the glasses, and if you have a lot of just something, all focus is on a place. None of this is necessarily wrong, but it does not create a balance in the face.

A simple tip is to try to think "lips, blush, eyes" and only choose two of them. If you have a lot of make-up around the eyes, you can choose a colorful blush and discreet lips, and if you have a lot on both lips and eyes, choose a weaker shade on the blush.

In these pictures above I have:
Left picture - Little eyes, but colorful blush and colorful lips.
Right image - Slight lips, but colorful blush and dark eyes.

What the glasses then do is to draw a little attention to the eyes in the left image, even though they are completely unmade up, and in the right image the glasses make the sooting look milder as they remove the focus from the darkness around the eyes a bit. And you get these effects at the same time as you get a nice balance in the face.

The glasses I have in the picture seem to be out of silver, but are available in black here!

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More makeup tips for people with glasses:

Highlight the eyes
Work a lot with both light and dark eye shadows, as well as shimmery and matte. This creates contrasts which in turn will attract more attention to the eyes. You apply the light / shimmery shadows on the areas you want to emphasize more - the corner of the eye and the eyelid for example. You can use the dark / matte shadows to create more depth in the make-up, for example along the globe line.

Enlarge the eyes
Highlighting the eyes and enlarging them is a bit of the same principle, but two details that are very useful for the eye to look bigger and more open are first and foremost to lighten the waterline with a light eyeliner. If you have small eyes / drooping eyelids, I also recommend painting the dark shadow in the globe line a little higher up than what your globe line actually sits - this gives the impression of a larger eyelid and a more open look.

Myopia / farsightedness
If you are nearsighted, the glass in the glasses makes your eyes look smaller - work hard to enlarge the eyes.

If you are farsighted, the glass in the glasses makes your eyes look bigger - this is usually not a problem as many of us like big eyes, then you can just follow your natural features to emphasize what you already have. If, on the other hand, you want to reduce the eyes, you can apply very dark closest to the eyes (eg dark eyeliner along the waterline and lash lines) and then apply lightly along the crease.

Adapt to the shape of the glasses
Put on your glasses and look straight ahead in the mirror. Which parts of the eyes are hidden, and which are clearly visible? In the areas where the spectacle frame takes up a lot of space, it can be a good idea to work mostly with light shadows to highlight, and in the areas where it is completely open, you can focus, e.g. a nice color or a darker shade.

Eyebrows
Do not forget to fill in the eyebrows, otherwise they disappear easily behind the frames.

Primer
An eyeshadow primer is important if you want to bring out the pigments in the eyeshadows properly, so that they are more visible under the glasses. An eye shadow primer is applied after foundation, before eye shadows.

Complementary colors
Color will always make your eyes more visible during makeup, and it's so beautiful! A tip for emphasizing your particular eye color is to use the complementary color.

Blue eyes - Yellow, orange, gold, copper, bronze and such warm shades.
Brown eyes - Cold shades, e.g. blue, silver and other cool tones.
Green eyes - Shades that go towards purple, pink and red.

The basic make-up
The basic make-up can often get dirty on the glasses during the day, which destroys both your good-looking foundation and soils the frames. Apply a lot of powder around the eyes when you put on make-up, and improve during the day even if you are prone to getting oily. Then your basic make-up is more "fixed" and will not slip around and get stuck on the frames. This tip is especially important for large and round arches, which often touch the cheeks very much if you, like me, have large "apple cheeks".

You can also apply smaller make-up right where the frames touch if you do not necessarily have to cover much there, e.g. on the sides of the nose. Because the less makeup you have, the less can be rubbed off and leave a mark.

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I personally like to have a little eye makeup and a lot of lips and blush when I wear glasses, it's so heavenly nice :)

Hope the tips are helpful fine you ♥

Brown sweeping

Today's make-up is a look I myself enjoy very much, softly smoky eyes in brown with a focus on the top of the eyes, and bright red lips to it. So nice!

Hope you also like it :)

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Eyeshadow primer, Pixi Eye Bright Primer
Golden brown eye shadow innermost on the eyelid, Paese Opal Eyeshadow (Golden Brown)
Matte brown eye shadow at the end of the eyelid, at the end of the lower lash line and along the globe line, Paese Kashmir Eyeshadow (604)
Light eye shadow In the corner of the eye, Paese Opal Eyeshadow (Golden Brown)
Black eye shadow along the upper lash line, and smoked a little at the end of the eyelid for a more smoky effect, Paese Kashmir Eyeshadow (602)
Black mascara on the upper lashes, Paese Adore 3D Lash Mascara.

Brow pen, Benecos Eyebrow Designer (Brown)
Lipstick, Paese Lipstick with Argan Oil (43)

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Hope you all have a wonderful Friday night! ♥

IsaDora Face Sculptor 03 Nude

I got home press samples of IsaDora's news that I think are in store now, blog at my mother's home and do not have the press material with me, but I can not find them anywhere on the internet but it is published on IsaDora's website anyway :)

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IsaDora already has some palettes in the range, although they contain a blush, a sun powder and a highlighter. They have a palette for warm skin tones, one for cold and one that is extra summery as well. This new one is called 03 Nude (nude for people with fair skin).

This one contains no blush at all so you have to choose another one you like, instead it contains two darker shades (one warm and one cold) and a highlighter.

A real shadow goes in the cold direction, so to create natural shadows on the face, you should use a cold tone. The warm one can instead have a little extra in e.g. forehead or cheeks to look a little more tan. The highlighter is then used to highlight the high parts of the face.

Watch my video on shading, highlighter and blush here if you want to see more about the application technology itself :)

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For me who is a little tan (not quite as pale as I usually am anyway) but still light in the skin, it becomes incredibly natural and nice. The dark colors are not super dark so they are still easy to handle even if you are a beginner, and it is a fairly discreet color scale in general. So I like it!

Personally, I only use a cold shade + highlighter, I do not usually use a warm one at all, but it is very nice if you want to emphasize the tan like this in the summer :)

But the first time I tested it, I had a too dark foundation on me (not super dark but darker than I am) so then the shades became incredibly discreet, so it can only be known to you who are not as light as me, you will not have much effect on your skin tone.

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Here you see a close-up of the shades on the skin. Highlighter, bronzer and contour. They are all matte but give a nice luster.

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I like highlighters that either give more luster than this, or are completely matte but lighter, so I will not use it very much but I think it is very nice. On my skin tone, it does not make a super big difference purely in terms of brightness, but gives a discreet glow - which is also very nice and gives a natural and everyday result. In other words no wow effect but natural and nice :)

Bronzer
This is a perfectly warm tone that is super nice. It is the most pigment-rich of all shades in the palette, and is warm without turning orange or unnatural. Great, two thumbs up!

Contour
This shade is cooler and more like a natural shade. Natural and nice and easy to use even if you are a beginner with this.

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Summary - A good palette that I recommend for you who want a natural, nice and "reasonable" result and that can be quickly applied in the morning.

Hug, hug ♥

Portfolio makeup

Offers a nice picture like this on the evening twig! I got it from the photographer Elina Meuller exactly, it's a picture from a shoot we did together for type, 2 years ago maybe, but we did more make-up and this look was not the one we used on the end result.

But now she has edited it anyway and sent it to me recently, fun to see something was done so long ago but not seen the result of :)

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Cool picture huh? Ethnicity was the theme.

Now Miska and I are going to lie down in a warm bath and cuddle in the evening with grapes before bedtime ♥

Hugs are!

Idun Minerals Creme Lipstick

A few weeks ago, I received a home test of Idun mineral's new lipstick series "Crème lipstick", which was launched in May. They are a new series in six different shades, all of which are transparent. Perfect when you want a nice tone on the lips that is a little more discreet than a full-coverage lipstick :)

I got home three of the shades that I now intended to show you!

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Fina va? From the left you see the shade Ingrid Marie, Elise and Sylvia. All names come from Nordic apple varieties.

IMG_9077_111I got them home in a nice box, I love Idun's style, such nice illustrations! And the lipstick sleeve itself is super nice too, love frosted glass ♥

idun lipstickHere you see a small swatch on the colors!

The lipsticks are very beautiful on the lips, creamy and soft without being the least bit sticky. They are caring and moisturizing for the lips and contain, among other things, shea butter and Nordic cloudberry oil.

Idun itself is a mineral brand with incredibly good quality and fine natural ingredients.

The lipsticks get two big thumbs up from me! Here are more pictures:

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Light pink shade Elise.

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Ingrid Marie has a soft pink tone.

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And Sylvia is a darker shade with a little glitter in it as well. Great!

The lipsticks cost SEK 149 and are available at, among other places Apotea.se.

Hugs are ♥

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