10-Minute Work or Weekend Makeup With Red Blush, Red Lipstick and Smudgy Bronze-Black Cat Eyeliner

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Today’s 10-minute makeup

A few things:

  1. It’s Saturday morning, and I’m wearing the same pajamas I put on Thursday night.
  2. My head feels like it’s being squished in a vice (yes, I’m still a walking germ factory).
  3. I haven’t washed my hair in three (four?) days.

But thanks to the healing power of makeup, I can pretend I briefly look like I’m a somewhat functioning adult, LOL!

This 10-minute makeup look was 1) to help myself feel better, and 2) for Sheena (yay for the Bay, girl, woo-hoo!), who liked the NUDESTIX Intense Lip + Cheek Pencil in Purity post earlier this week but wanted to see me use a darker color from the line.

This time I used warm red Stiletto, and I used it as both a blush and a sheer lip color. And then I also did a smudgy, bronze-y black cat eye.

Everything I used is listed below, and if you have any questions, you know where to find me (hints: it involves Netflix, a laptop and my couch).

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When you’re trying to not look like you’re a walking germ factory…
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Oh, this? I always look like this when I have a 101-degree fever…

One note about the skin. I used a very sheer liquid skin tint to even everything out just a touch, then boosted the coverage on my cheeks with a loose foundation. This is a very cool shortcut I like to do when I’m pressed for time/have very little patience.

Also, because I went into this look planning to only spend 10 minutes on it, and because the pencil was an opaque bright red, I opted for the sheer lip stain because I figured I’d be able to fudge the edge of the lip line (which I did).

After I was done with the look and snapped pictures, I went full out for five more minutes by lining and filling in my lips for the red lip in the pic below…

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If you have an extra five minutes, then line and fill in your lips with the red pencil, and add a little bit of eyeliner and mascara to the lower lash lines

BAM!

I also added more liner on the lower lash and water lines, MOAR mascara (because why the heck not?) and blended the bronzer into the blush a little more thoroughly.

I feel like this is a pretty polished enough work look, yeah? Or, a look to perhaps just sit on the couch and watch the season 4 finale of The Great British Baking Show?

I’m just saying.

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

P.S. Happy Caturday, friend. Hope you’re staying warm and having a great weekend so far. I’m just mostly chilling out because I still don’t feel fantastic. I don’t know if this is that flu they’re talking about (I did get a flu shot this year) or just a cold, but if it is just a cold, it’s the worst cold I’ve had in a while.

I think it’s getting a little better, though. My face still hurts from sinus pressure, but I can walk around without moaning like a zombie now, and I desperately want to bake something today…so that’s progress. 👩‍🍳

P.P.S.

Products worn in this look

  • Neutrogena Hydro Boost Hydrating Tint in Honey and Natural Beige — I’m somewhere between the two, so I dot a bit of both shades all over my face, then blend them together with a beautyblender.
  • Sweat Cosmetics Mineral Foundation SPF 30 in Shade 200 — This is the same loose foundation as Sweat’s to-go brush applicator…but in a jar.
  • MAC Matchmaster Concealer in Shade 4 — Still crabby 🦀 that this is being discontinued…
  • NARS Light Reflecting Setting Powder — The best under-eye concealer setting powder ever, IMO
  • Hourglass Arch Brow Shaping Gel in Clear — This just launched this week. It has a softer hold, comparable to the MAC clear brow gel.
  • Hourglass Arch Brow Sculpting Pencil in Dark Brunette — Very pigmented, needs the lightest of touches
  • Chanel Stylo Yeux in Horizon — For the tight line
  • NUDESTIX Magnetic Eye Color in Night — For the smudgy cat eye liner
  • MAC Eyeshadow in Mulch — Buffed out the edges of the cat eye liner with this bronzed brown.
  • Tom Ford Full Screen Mascara — Lashes
  • NUDESTIX Intense Matte Lip + Cheek Pencil in Stiletto — Blush and lipstick
  • Hourglass Ambient Lighting Bronzer in Radiant Bronze Light — Cheeks, and in the crease