Her daughter is 15, a freshman, and was asked to PROM! I was never asked to prom. My junior year I went with a girlfriend and my senior year I wasn't asked so I didn't go...sad day. Her daughter and I do not share any similar coloring. She's fair with freckles, dark brown close to black hair and has greenish hazel ambery eyes (very pretty). Besides the dark hair we have nothing physically in common. She's wearing a beautiful black and white gown that is very sophisticated and classically beautiful. So I went to youtube for the answer.
My favorite YouTube Beauty Guru is EmilyNoel83 and a few years ago or two she did a deep and sultry look that I'm going to try to replicate. Here are the tools I'll be using...
Because we don't have the same coloring I decided to utilize the BB Cream/Foundation she already uses. This girl is advanced y'all she's using BB Cream from theBalm! I didn't even know about theBalm till like a year ago, it's good stuff. So not wanting to cover her gorgeous freckles too much I put on a very light layer of this. Since she said she has kinda dry skin we also didn't use a primer. Her skin is beautiful baby high schooler skin so she didn't need too much base at all.
For her eyes I took just a little bit of peach Pixi concealer to hide some of the blue under her eyes, not much we're talking about 15 year old dark circles which I wouldn't even bother to cover if I had them, but alas I have 30 year old dark circles, they're here to party. Anyways back to the pretty girl- next I used an ELF eye primer on her and spread all over from lash to brow. I tried to explain things as I went along about why I was doing certain things and Celeste tried not to seem too bored with my explanations ;)
I usually like to do something else while eye primer sets so we moved onto her face for a minute. I took the beautiful Park Ave Princess Palette from Tarte to warm up her face. Because she has such pretty freckles in the center of her face we really only needed to bronze up her hairline and a little around her ears and neck. I explained it all along the way and even tried to explain contouring before I realized it really didn't matter- this girl needed no contouring. Then I went in with the pale pink blush in the palette showing Celeste how pretty it looked with her skin. Then just a little champagne highlight from the palette on the tops of her cheeks and down her nose.
Next I broke into the eye shadow. I used my giant ELF palette with a million and one colors and my small Wet N Wild trio in Walking on Eggshells. I used the trio first with the pearly cream color under her brow and the shimmery pink all over the moving part of her lid. Then I moved on to the ELF Palette monster. I found a medium shimmery taupe that wasn't too brown or too grey (definition of taupe anyone?) and added that on top of the pink over 1/3 of her lid starting from the outer corner. I was really trying to leave the inner and center corner bright. I put a pretty even layer of this color then decided we needed a dark shimmery brown for the outer v. I put just a touch of that shimmery brown in the outer corner and smudged some on the lower lash line as well. At this point I stressed to Celeste the importance of blending out the eye shadow, blend, blend blend, I probably said a hundred times. Lots of back and forth from eye to eye to get it right. When I was satisfied with the outer corner I took a little more shimmery pink to the inner lid and center to make sure it was sparklie enough!
At this point I commented on how still she was being and that she was being so good with keeping her eyes still and everything and she said she'd had a lot of practice being the guinea pig for her little sister. Her little sister loves makeup too!
Then it came time to do the eye liner. Since I knew she was going to be dancing the night away we decided liquid eyeliner was probably going to be the best choice. I am not normally a liquid eye liner person and felt incredibly nervous doing her eye liner but she put her trust in me and I just went really slow and made it work. After the first layer my beautiful subject did share that she usually wore a pretty thick eye liner which is a drastic contrast to what I normally do, which is an eyeliner you can barely tell is there. So I went back in and thickened it back up. For mascara I was definitely not going to try that on my own so I just had her apply her own mascara and come back to me for the rest.
She asked me to fill in her brows a little, and they didn't need much. She had recently had them waxed so the shape was perfect, but I added a little wax to hold them in place and then filled in a few sparse places. The final step was lips. I brought two shades for her to chose from and she went with the deep red NARS sample I got for my birthday. It looked gorgeous on her, perfect choice. Once her lips were applied I sprayed her down with some NYX Setting Spray and she was ready for the ball!
This was such a fun and scary and exciting project for me. It was fun to research prom looks and to help a little girl transform into a woman. I should have taken a before picture, but one of my friends said I made her look 25...so I'm going to call it a success. She looked gorgeous and was happy with the look which is the most important thing. I don't think I'll run out and start my own makeup artist business anytime soon, but if any of my friends want me to do their makeup now, I am way less likely to say no.
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