It’s been a while since I’ve done a What’s In My Makeup Bag post. Nothing much as changed; I pretty much still carried the same stuff with me from day one, give or take a few items. This is more like an inventory check for me every 6 months, plus I want to show you my new makeup bag 😀
The makeup bag I’m currently using is from Mimco. It came with some makeup sent to me for consideration. I admit it; I was a lot more excited about the makeup bag than I was about the makeup 😉
I’m crap at applying eye makeup, even more when it comes to doing smokey eyes. To this day, I still don’t know how to do the gradient where it’s dark on the outer corners of the eyes and then blend in. I can’t get mine right. So I stick to the old-school way of doing it, which is dark on the upper lashline and blend upwards to a lighter shade.
This method of smokey eye is just that, but so much easier. It was something I discovered when I tried out the Clinique Quickliner for Eyes Intense eyeliner. It’s such a quick and easy way to simple smokey eyes. Completely idiot-proof too (hey, if I can do it, you can).
The method takes a grand total of 8 minutes for both eyes. Oh yeah, I timed myself.
All you need are three items. These are the eye makeup products I used.
Eyeliner: Clinique Quickliner for Eyes Intense
One eyeshadow as base: Maybelline Color Tattoo eyeshadow in Tough as Taupe
Black mascara: INNOXA Lash Define mascara
Hands up if you are a Pinterest addict. There you go, I’m guessing there’s a lot of you who love Pinterest. It’s a great source for beautiful, inspirational images that users ‘pinned’ from different websites they visit, essentially creating a huge picture database.
I’ve noticed a lot of bloggers using images from Pinterest on their blogs of late. I know I have. Nothing wrong with that if you credit the image source (usually from the person who pinned the image). But with more and more of these image websites popping up (Pinterest, We Heart It, Tumblr etc), are you actually crediting the RIGHT source?
You see, when we use an image out of Pinterest, we credit the person who pinned the image. That person may not be the only person who pinned the image. That’s the point of Pinterest, isn’t it, to pin and repin images to share on social media? Ah see, when A pins an image, B repins the image, C repins the image B repinned, all the way to Z who repinned that same image … who gets the credit for the image? Z? A? What if the image was taken from Pinterest, who took it from We Heart It, who took it from Tumblr, who took it from goodness-knows-what website? Who gets the credit? Am I confusing you yet?
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