Bare Escentuals | SwipeSomeGloss

30
Sep

TUTORIAL: Using Bare Escentuals Well Rested

Just because am really determined to prove that BE’s Well Rested is my Photoshop in a pot, here goes a short tutorial on how I use WR.

Oh and yes, I DID use Photoshop on the photos below but its use was only limited to image cropping and putting the before and after pics together. It’s totally pointless to perfect make-up application if you’re gonna use Photoshop to edit, right?

Tools of Trade:

BE Well Rested
Taklon Concealer Brush

Step 1: Prep your face and eye area

It’s your call if you want to moisturize or use a primer. I used BE’s Prime Time on my face and Olay TE on my eye area.

Step 2: Apply your foundation

I used Bare Escentuals Medium + Tan.

Step 3: Spritz up

That’s pretty mandatory for me since I want to make my foundation last the whole day.

Step 4: Buff in some finishing powder

I used Bare Escentuals Mineral Veil.

Step 5: Get some Well-Rested

This is how much I use for one eye. This is good enough for the whole eye area. Don’t forget to swirl and tap!

Step 6: Apply WR on the eye area

I personally pat in the color first and then VERY gently swipe everything after to smoothen and perfect.

Step 7: Check for patches

See that area between the side of my (barely there) nose bridge and eye corner? Don’t forget to put some WR on that area too!

All done!

I look pretty well-rested huh? If you must, add another layer of finishing powder.

The mandatory before and after photo:

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23
Sep

TUTORIAL: My Beauty and Minerals Day EOTD

Per request, I made a tutorial on one of the looks I sported from the B&M events. Hope you like it!

Tools of Trade aka. what I used for this tutorial:

Step 1: Prime your eyes/face

I actually did not for today’s look since it’s too cold for a melt down or creasing ;p Although for the B&M event itself, I used ARTDECO Eye Shadow Base.

Step 2: Apply your usual face stuff

This is me after BE mineral veil -spritz- BE foundation -spritz- Well Rested (wooohooo my fave product of the moment).

Step 3: Apply crease color

I applied BE Glimmer in TAN LINES in a buffing motion. TAN LINES I believe is a perfect shade that’s crossed between bronze and copper.

Step 4: Apply highlight

I used BE Glimmer in NUDE BEACH using a shader brush in a patting motion.

Step 5: BLEND, BLEND, BLEND

For this EOTD, I didn’t do the usual wiper motion. I buffed where the colors met.

Step 6: Eye line those peepers

I mixed a pinch of BE Glimmer in ENCHANTING with 2 drops of BE Liner Sealer and applied it with the slanted brush.

Ignore the dot on my lid…my cam’s not in very good shape anymore…

Step 7: Fix those brows and lashes

I can’t find my brow gel so the result’s a bit messy… :p

All done!

My B&M Day EOTD…part 2

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19
Sep

More toys

There’s more to come but heck, I can’t wait to post them

BE Foundation in MEDIUM and BE Mineral Veil

Weee freebees!

If only I won’t be going to school today I’ll play with these til my blood pressure drops LOL Thanks much again, (sis) Diana! Love the freebees!

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18
Sep

Meeting Bare Escentuals Weather Everything Liner Sealer

Just because I don’t just rave over products I don’t really push to their limits LOL

For this review, I used the following:
1 layer of BE Tan Lines (applied dry)
a bit of BE Turquoise Sea + BE True Gold
a drop of BE Weather Everything Liner Sealer (good for wet lining both eyes)

These photos were taken after cooking and working in the kitchen for SIX hours. My eye shadow has faded but if you look very closely, there’s no creasing considering I have very oily skin.

If it’s not enough that my liner served me a total of TEN hours (4 hours outdoors, 6 hours in the kitchen as mentioned earlier), I even splashed it with water and wiped with a tissue only after 1 full minute. Am surprised that there’s still some color on my lids and the liner’s still as vivid as how it was earlier that day!