can i ask how you did the lesbian flag makeup with all the hearts? it's so pretty
You can indeed :p - this is going to be a long answer, I just hope I explain it ok lol
So first of all, I always start with the eyes, I decided what colors I'd use and in what order while looking at the flag, I decided to go with darker pink, dusty pink, white, dusty orange and bright orange. I picked the order just because I liked it like that, you can do the inverse and it'll probably still work.
Now I applied concealer on the lid and my first mistake was applying a white eyeshadow all over the lid, what I'd recommend would be to use a white eyeshadow primer all over the lid, or just apply your shadows on top of the concealer, because that'll help the colors show up better.
Then I started with the dusty orange on the inner corner up to where I wanted the white to be and tried to blend it with the white just before the middle, after that I applied the bright orange just on the inner corner, which I admit I could've done a better job of making it show up but I liked the mix of the dusty and bright orange so I just shrugged it off. Now you have to blend those very carefully, with a clean brush, not to lose the dusty orange into the bright one (like I kinda did lol), to the eye the difference will be subtle once finished, but you still want it there.
Onto the next step: because I wanted a cohesive color palette on my face, I used the dusty pink that I usually use as blush for eyeshadow.
Now on the other side, I did the same with the dusty pink in the opposite direction, for the dark pink I used a red lipstick with a pink undertone, I used an angled brush so I could be more precise with it. Because it was a matte lipstick, which I personally recommend to use as eyeshadow, you kinda have to work quick, so I used the brush to kind of sketch the shape I wanted and then I'd be able to more comfortably blend it in afterwards when the shape I wanted was already in place. Mind you I wanted the outer parts of the pink to be darker to mark the shape, so if you can't blend it all that's exactly what we want.
After I've done that and carefully blended the lighter and darker pink, the lighter and darker orange, I noticed my white eyeshadow wasn't as present as I'd like, so I used a little bit of a silver shimmer to trick the eye into thinking it was white or closer to it than before.
Apply concealer on the under eye area, set it and proceed to do the same just under the lower lashes.
Now I don't use foundation, I don't like it and that's all, but if you do I'm assuming this would be the part in which you do that.
I do my blush with that same dusty pink, where I'd normally place my blush, for the little hearts what I did was do the dark pink ones with the same lipstick I used for eyeshadow and the orange and white ones with concealer - a liner brush will help you do that easily, the hearts don't need to be perfect -, the orange ones I place the heart shape with concealer and then apply eyeshadow right on top of it, then I brush it off, the white hearts it's mostly just concealer but you can apply the silver shimmer on top of it too.
Though if you have liquid eyeliner in those colors, just go for that, it's much easier lol
Then I carefully applied the tiniest bit of highlighter, used a clear mascara on my eyebrows and a lip balm on the lips.
Oh and mascara on the lashes.
Here's a tip, mascara is the glue that pulls the whole makeup together, you're only gonna know how it actually looks after you apply mascara in my personal experience, so... Trust the process.
Done.
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