So now that you’ve figured out the best shade for your skin tone, it’s time to get some new lippies! Again, I don’t like to spend tons of money on makeup (I’m struggling as it is on a college student income), so I’m going to be sharing a product review for one of my favorite drugstore lipstick brands, NYX!
I adore NYX and all of their beauty products. Their lipsticks are amazing and can be found at your local Walgreens, CVS, and Target! My absolute favorite lipstick from their line is Lip Lingerie.
The bottle is gorgeous and it applies so slick. The matte finish it creates is to die for! I’ve gone out with this lipstick plenty of times and it’s lasted me all night! I usually wear the shade French Maid – It’s not too dark or light and goes perfectly with my skin tone!
A little goes a long way with this liquid matte lipstick. Keep this in mind when applying because if you apply too much, your lips will look caked on.
There’s an abundance of shades offered so anyone can find their desired color! Whether you’re ordering online or in store, you can find these at such a great price.
Lipstick can make or break your look. In this post I’m going to be talking about which lipstick shade is best for your skin tone.
Before going after the brightest color your eyes spots first, keep your undertone in mind. This will be extremely helpful when choosing the best shade for your skin tone.
Some people have pink undertones while others have more of a yellow. If the veins on your wrist are more blue, you’re leaning more toward a pink undertone. On the other hand, if your veins are more green, you’ll be drifting toward the yellow undertone spectrum.
Tip #1: Yellow undertones should stick to warmer colors while pink undertones should gravitate toward shades that have purple or blue tones in them.
Tip #2: Olive skin tones go best with nudes. This can be light pink, orange, etc. This skin tone also goes great with shades of red.
Tip #3: If you have fair skin, you should try to avoid anything too light as it can make you look ill. With fair skin, you can’t go wrong with bold reds or deep colors. A night out on the town with a bold red on your lip makes one hell of a statement.
Tip #4: Darker skin tones go great with deep purples or reds. These deeper shades are flattering and compliment this type of skin tone.
These are some tips I’ve learned over the years. Notice I didn’t call them rules because at the end of the day, there are none to go by. If you really love a color, but it clashes with your skin tone, go for it! The thing I’ve always loved about makeup is that you can experiment all the time! At the end of the day, you should always wear what makes YOU feel best!
Like most of us in class, this was my first time doing a screencast. It was definitely easier and more straight forward than I thought it would be. At first, I wasn’t sure which website to choose. I chose Total Sorority Move because I love their social media pages. This website is an entertainment college women’s site. The content is mainly scandalous, funny, and informal, which is why I enjoy following their social media pages.
I’ve never checked their main site before this assignment, but it’s very similar to the social media platforms they use. Looking at their site made me learn a lot more about their brand as a whole. After I decided to choose this site, I wasn’t sure how to prepare for the recording, so I just quickly looked through the different areas of the website. Although I wrote notes to go off of for my recording, I ended up just going off the ideas that popped in my head at the moment.
After relating this site back to the Dunn article in my screencast, I realized how important it is to make your site user-friendly and how crucial it is to follow those simple advice topics mentioned by Dunn. As I stated in my screencast, this website is straightforward and user-friendly, but very cluttered. The website would benefit from a categories section to filter out different themes covered or even section out the authors. Having a cluttered site can easily make a reader feel overwhelmed and not even want to read through the site. Besides that, the site does a great job with targeting their main audience and connecting the site to other platforms they use.
Screencasting comes in handy in various career fields. For example, professors who teach online courses can use screencasting to upload virtual lectures. This makes it easier for students to follow online lectures and know what to focus on at specific times. This is especially true for math classes!
I’m glad I learned this skill because I believe it will be valued by potential employers. Since technology is constantly evolving in the workplace, knowing this skill will definitely help during job interviews. In many fields, you have to talk in front of large crowds filled with your peers. An easy way to present your ideas would be to share a screencast for the audience to easily be able follow. For example, in the PR world, you are constantly pitching ideas, whether it’s to your superiors or the media. Being able to screencast and presenting your ideas through this handy tool would make your presentation that much better.
A creative project that will benefit from screencasting would be explaining student understanding. To really know if students are understanding class concepts, professors could have students use screencasting as a way to explain what they know in their own words. Students can record themselves working through a math problem or explaining the main points of a class concept. This could help students get a better understanding of class topics and help professors know which topics need more focus.
All in all, I believe more people should learn this technique as it can be beneficial in various situations!
I know how frustrating it can be to have a tub of gel eyeliner or brow liner get dried up after just a few weeks of buying it. Instead of tossing it and getting a new one, I’m gonna share a bulletproof trick that will make your liner last the longest or revive it if it’s already dried up.
Step 1: Add 2-3 drops of eyedrops to your tub of liner. If the liner seems like it’s excessively dry, make some holes before adding the drops so it can seep in really well.
Step 2: Mix the liner using a toothpick until it becomes a creamy consistency. Make sure to get the bottom and corners of the tub as well so that there aren’t any dry parts left.
Step 3: Smooth out the surface to create the slick look it had when you first bought it. I would suggest using the stick you use to apply the liner. Lastly, absorb any excess, left over liquid with a q-tip.
And there you have it, your revived liner! Make sure to do a swatch on your hand before closing it to make sure it worked! Good luck!
Hello everyone! For class this week, we were told to create our own image on Pixlr. This was my first time ever using a photo editing site like Pixlr. For this being my first time, I actually didn’t have that many difficulties. The step-by-step video was very helpful as well. The image I made isn’t going to be used as my banner as of now because I really like the one I have picked out already, but my site is still in the early stages, so I may change my mind later on.
Choosing two pictures to go together was a bit difficult at first because I wasn’t sure what I was exactly going for or expecting to come out of merging the two together. After choosing my two desired images, I only stumbled upon a few issues. The first one was changing the dimensions to the images. The second one was using the wand tool. The picture I chose to add to the background layer was difficult to use with the wand tool because there was so much going on in one photo. After multiple tries, I decided to just use a whole other picture instead. I chose a white background with lips and since it was a very basic picture to crop out, it was way easier to use with the wand tool. After these steps, everything was pretty straight forward and I didn’t have any issues. I’m very surprised how easy this website is to use as a first-timer.
I can use this website in various ways for the future. In one of my classes, I have to make a flyer for a client and it’s useful to be able to edit images and add it to the flyer to make it pop more. Being able to navigate this site will also help me post-college in the PR world as well. I’m glad I got to learn how to use this site as I was a bit nervous to try it out in the beginning.
Doing makeup is hard, and you have to know what you’re doing. Eyeliner is one of the hardest concepts of makeup because everyone has different eyelid shapes and looks they desire. This is important to keep in mind when you’re scrolling through makeup “inspo” pictures or watching YouTube tutorials. For this post, I will be providing eyeliner hacks based on eyelid shapes!
Almond: These are the easiest eye shapes to work with because you can basically pull off any eyeliner look. Whether you’re feeling bold and want to do a thick wing, or rocking an everyday look and want to go thin, these eyes look great with any type of winged liner.
Monolid: If you have monolid eyes, you should apply a line that is visibly thick when you look down and perfectly straight when you look up. It’s hard to see the liner with this shape, so it’s important to make the lines thick.
Upturned: This shape lid is my favorite for winged eyeliner – I feel like it makes the eyes pop perfectly! For this shape, you should use a thin line and a little wing. Also, to avoid making the look seem uneven, you should connect the wing to some eyeliner under the eye.
Downturned: Downturned eyes are tricky. The inner corner of your eye should have thin liner and as you’re reaching the outer, it should gradually get thicker. Make sure to also angle it upwards on the end to give your eye a quick lift!
Round: Lastly, the round eyelids! To perfect the cat eye look, you must create a sort of triangle shape. This will elongate your eyes and make you feel totally fierce!
These are just some of the many types of eyelids! I hope this helps all you eyeliner lovers!
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