tutorials – Page 2

short hair tutorial: boho braid

In celebration of the first week of summer take a look at this easy boho braid! We are building on top of the short hair tutorial: soft curls video previously posted. This look is great for a day at the beach, a wedding or a night on the town! Happy braiding and stay tuned for our next video! ❤️❤️

Today we bring you another summer makeup tutorial that is super easy to recreate for a summer BBQ, a music festival or a summer wedding as modeled by Kristina. I used the LORAC Pro Palette to create the eye look which has the best selection of half matte and half frost shadows to create any look. I love palettes like the LORAC Pro since it gives you a really large range of colors that is cheaper than buying individual shadows

We are back this week with a new video tutorial on how to create soft curls on short hair. Check out our video last week on the makeup look shown above. Kristina our model is going to be posting a full outfit on her blog to go with this hair and makeup look.

To celebrate our one year blogiversary (and my 26th birthday today-shameless plug) Stef and I decided to film a series of hair and makeup tutorials for summer looks. The first instalment, featuring the loveliest Kristina as our model, is going to be on makeup for a casual summer event (hence the cute caption on the photo) featuring the Naked 3 palette by Urban Decay. I got this palette earlier in the year and any chance I get to use it I jump on it. The colours are are tinted with a rosy pink which can lend to many different eye looks. Next week Kristina is going to be posting the full look with an outfit idea for those summer weddings coming up over on her blog. Check back with us on Monday for the tutorial on how to get the soft curls pictured above in our second video on hair. Better yet, get ahead of the game and subscribe to our new Youtube channel so you get first dibs on all of our tips and tricks. Let us know in the comments either below or in the video what kind of videos you would be interested in seeing from us. Thank you all for your support in this amazing first year of our blog!!

The other night over waiting for others to join Stefanie and I at a dinner meeting, I happen to notice and compliment the pretty lip colour Stef was rocking. The soft hint of orange looked so natural and pretty. Naturally, I asked her what lipstick she was wearing and she said it was MAC Pro Longwear Lipcreme in Good to Go. I would have NEVER guessed (and that’s alarming coming from a girl who works at MAC) that the shocking neon orange bold lipstick was the color Stef was wearing! Our dinner meeting was with web guru Paul Letourneau and our friend Kristina who is also starting a design and styling blog. I did a post over on one of Paul’s new blog’s I’m a Girl about embracing your inner girl and truly accepting the fun meant to be had with makeup, and that post gave me an idea to expand on. From working at MAC I’ve come to know that people are generally afraid to try on a super dark or really bold lip so I wanted to show the different ways you can rock some of the most popular MAC lipsticks. The inner deal-seeker in me appreciates how bold lipsticks actually give you more bang for your buck in that you can wear it at least 3 different ways! Put on a lipbalm then just take a bit of the lipstick on your ring finger and press it into your lips. This gives you the look of a lipstain. Once again put on lip balm then take the lipstick and apply it directly to only your top lip and press your lips together. This will be bolder than the first look but the color not as full on as the lipstick could actually go. Take some lipstick on a lip brush and carefully fill in your whole lip then blot with a tissue. Go back over your lips with a second coat using a lip brush and blot again. This is as bold as the lipstick can look without adding a lipliner and will last you several hours. Photos taken by the lovely Nicole Ashley

Making your own lipstick palette sounds way harder than it actually turned out to be. Yes, you can buy pre-made lip palettes like the ones MAC Cosmetics sells, but if you are as I was, stuck with the palettes on back order for over a month, sometimes a girl has to take action into her own hands. I even tried to buy the lip palettes from the MAC Pro store in New York when I was there in April but they were completely sold out. These palettes may be a bit much for an everyday lipstick lover but for Stefanie and myself as freelance makeup artists this lipstick palette makes life so much easier as you aren’t spending valuable time searching for lipsticks and sanitizing each lipstick one by one, not to mention all the space you save in your makeup kit. Step 1: gather supplies needed- empty palette, 24 well insert, label maker (we use this one), matches, candle, knife and spoon Step 2: get together all the lipstick you want to melt down Step 3: cut off a 3/4″ piece of the lipstick Step 4: hold the lipstick on the spoon over the flame until melted – caution it does get really hot Step 5: pour liquid into the well Step 6: continue to fill palette then let sit to solidify again Step 7: create labels for the back of the palette with the lipstick names 30 min later you have a finished lipstick palette!