A summer wedding look with NARS Abbey Road and MAC Gentle Coral

Weddings are one of the perfect occasions to try out edgy looks in makeup! If you are going to a weeding and you're not the bride you should take the risk and have fun with your makeup (that said it doesn’t mean that if you are the bride you should not have fun with it too!!!).

In early June I had the chance to makeup my dear sister for a wedding she attended and, after several days of planning and discussing, we decided to go for a modern take on 50s eyeliner, with perfect skin and sultry lips. This is the final look, keep reading for the details :-)

I started by preparing her skin with the amazing SKII facial treatment essence (the most outrageously stunning product I ever tried) followed with Clarins beauty flash balm. This gave me the perfect base to work with, providing amazing hydration without stimulating oil production in the skin.

I left them work in the skin for a couple of minutes while I was doing her hair and then I applied Shu Uemura brightening uv under base mousse with my fingers, very gently. It is really important to apply a base if you are going to a long event such as a weeding, since you don’t want to look cakey nor spending the entire time in the ladies room re-touching your makeup…. The foundation we picked was the Shu Uemura smooth fit fluid foundation, and it worked amazingly beautiful on her skin, leaving it looking really like baby skin. It has a slight matte finish but without looking too much made up. I have applied it with a foundation brush by MUFE (the HD collection one). 

 

My sister actually does not need concealer (she doesn’t have kids hahahaha) so I used a product by Boticário (a Brazilian brand) very similar to YSL’s touche éclat only to lighten up under the eyes, on the sides of the nose and around the lips. I used Benefit high beam to lighten her cheek bones and setted with MUFE translucent loose powder. It is crucial to set makeup with translucent powder if you want it to be long wear (forget dewy if you want a long wear makeup). For the eyebrows I used Anastasia Beverly Hills powder brow duo in medium ash and groomed with MAC eyebrow gel.

Before I made her eyes I applied blush since I wanted to focus on achieving a doll skin and by applying your blush first you kind of have a gauge and you won’t go too far on the eyes. I mixed up NARS deep throat with DIOR rosy glow awakening blush to achieve a girly shade that matched her skin tone. I worked the blush with Shu Uemura blush travel brush in circular moves, focusing on the centre of the cheeks, not going too far in the direction of the temples. 

On the eyes, I applied a nude shade from Urban Decay naked 2 palette all over the eyelid and defined the socket with the baked shade from the naked 1 palette (a nice excuse to be able to use both palettes hehe). The main focus of our makeup was done next, by applying a really defined cat eyeliner with NARS Abbey Road long-wear pencil. Started really thin in the inner corner of the eye and let it become more thick and obvious from the middle to the outer corner of the eye, finishing with a graphic flick in the direction of the eyebrow tail. Lots of mascara (Maybelline Great Lash)!

For the lips I decided to use MAC gentle coral tinted lip conditioner, since it was really easy for her to retouch throughout the day with her finger. By the way, don’t you girls think that retouching you lipstick/lipbalm in public is really feminine and sexy? I just loooove to see that. Another view on the eyeliner, it was really gorgeous:

Makeup was done and she was ready to go and have a fun day! (except the heels part) [Note from the sis: I should have known better not to use heels in traditional cobblestone pavements.... lucky me they were not damaged beyond the effort of re-heel. Other than that, it was a really fun day!]