Hola señoritas :)))
If you happen to be going out tonight or tomorrow, here's a makeup look that will work with any eye color, outfit, or special occasion. My look of the day is J. Lo's Golden Globes makeup and though it's "inspired", I also tried to recreate her features on my face. Let me know if I pulled it off haha!! Please enjoy, and keep voting in my POLL on the right sidebar, Merci y Gracias!!!
besos,
Maryam Maquillage
How do you like my skills in imitating J.Lo's signature pose??
I don't know about you, but I think J. Lo looks damn great for her age!!! She's def got the youthful glow... who's to say there's almost 2 decades in our age difference!!? Go J. Lo!!!
The angle is a bit off, but I tried... Hope you ENJOY :)))
THE LOOK: This look is super glam and sleek and I had so much fun recreating it :)) My favorite part was contouring and highlighting my face to transform it to look more like hers. Now, there are obviously some differences in our bone structures. I have a wider forehead, she's got a longer, pointier chin... Some similarities that I think we have is our jaw and cheekbone structure, though I think my cheeks are plumper and my jaw slightly wider... our noses are way different and so are our eyes, but the way the features are situated on the face is similar. In creating this look, I tried to highlight the similarities and hide the differences and I did this just for fun :)))
THE FACE: After moisturizing, I primed my face with my favorite primer,
Laura Mercier mineral foundation primer
, and applied my concealer,
Lancome maquicomplet in medium bisque
, to all the places that needed concealing: under the eyes, around the nose, and on any blemishes or dark spots. J. Lo's skin is flawless and I tried to make mine appear that way :))) Afterwards, I used my Bare Minerals original foundation in golden medium (I typically use matte), the original is slightly shimmery--perfect for a J. Lo glow. Then, I took a dark matte bronzer, I used the one from a
Coastal Scents contouring palette
, and with a big ol' brush contoured the sides of my forehead, making it appear narrower. I did the same to my jaw and blended it out with a
kabuki brush
I typically use for my mineral foundation application. Since my cheekbones are already prominent, I contoured underneath ever so slightly, just to provide a base for my blush and applied peachy blush to the apples of my cheeks, blending towards the hairline. With a light golden highlighter,
Nars Albatross
, I highlighted the tops of my cheekbones, the center of my nose and right above the cupid's bow.
THE NOSE: Super tricky... but I have to share this lol. My nose has no bridge... rather the bridge is there, but it starts very low and goes right to the point of my nose (my little brother has the same bridge--he's cool like that). The only way I can explain this is by placing my finger flat between my eyes, horizontally, to show that it just rests there comfortably. So, in creating a bridge, I literally took a flat eyeshadow brush and drew from my eyebrow down to the point of my nose and blended it out with my finger. So the shadows that you see are all fake created by moi!!! J. Lo's nose is wider in the middle, so I highlighted that part some more. I left my nostrils alone, there's just nothing I could've done to those suckers... they just flare lol...
- Prime the lids with a good primer. You know the one I like--Urban Decay primer potion
.
- Use a silver color of a creamy/sticky consistency and apply all over the lid and above the crease. Blend out with your finger. I used NYX jumbo eyeshadow pencil in Pots and pans
.
- Take a gray eyeliner (NYX pencil in charcoal) and create a fake crease, slightly above your natural crease. Keep the shape straighter than you typically would. This gives a nice retro elongated effect. This shape doesn't have to be perfect (yet).
- Taking a silver eyeshadow on a flat brush, pack it on top of your lid and inner tear duct. There tends to be a lot of fallout with metallic/shimmery shadows, so place a tissue under your eye to catch it.
- With the same brush, take a champagne color and apply it over the silver, just on the outer third of the lid.
- Take a small pencil brush
and apply a dark shimmery charcoal color on top of that fake crease you created earlier and right underneath your bottom lash line, stopping half way in.
- Apply the silver underneath the inner portion of the eyebrow, blending with the metallic charcoal. Since this part has no silver base, the color won't be as overpowering as on the lid.
- Take a dome-shaped contouring brush and a matte flesh-tone eyeshadow and apply it right above the charcoal crease, concentrating on the outer portion.
- With a shimmery white color, highlight under the brow and in the inner tear duct.
- Line the top lash line with your favorite black liquid, gel, or cream liner. I used Clinique cream liner in True Black
. Create a very small outer wing and line the remaining color slightly under the eye where you placed the charcoal shadow.
- Take a nude or peach eyeliner (Stila kajal pencil in Topaz
is good) and rim the waterline for an extra pop.
- Apply your lashes and coat the bottom lashes with mascara.
THE EYEBROWS: Muy, muy tricky for me, cuz my brows are black and thick... I actually had to use a white pencil to cancel them out and draw on top with a brown pencil. I kept the shape shorter than I normally would and brushed the hairs down, like J. Lo's.
Now I wanna go out!!! But I'm sick and snowed in... :((( Party en mi casa!!!
P. S. Bring your face mask :/
STAY TUNED FOR MORE CELEBRITY INSPIRED LOOKS :DDD
P. S. I'm ready for the Red Carpet ;)
and Urban Decay 
! Voila!!!
.
and applied 
. It's a shimmery pale pink with small glitters. 
(shimmery) and 
(matte). Add a light gold highlight to the tops of the cheekbones and around the eyes, on the temples. My favorite highlighter is 
, and for this look I used their white pencil in Milk. White base will make any bright shadow appear brighter. Apply the base to your lid only, staying under the crease, and blend out with your finger.
in Warm Me Up. This color is unfortunately discontinued, but check out MAC's amplified formulas, they are awesome. They really plump the lips, making them look velvety :)))
