Ladybug Makeup Tutorial

I am so sorry guys for not posting in ages! I really have been so busy (as usual) with the store and I was just on vacation for two weeks. I have actually contemplated giving up this blog, however I got some sad responses and people who were very upset about it. So here I am :) Eresmuybella is here to stay! :D

So I was at a loss at what tutorial to do for you guys. I wanted to do something kinda different and unique. My intention was to do something that you could wear everyday however it turned into a Halloween type tutorial.

This has got to be the easiest tutorial I have ever done. :p It might be helpful if you looked at a picture of a ladybug to create this look.

First start with a red eyeshadow and apply it all over your eye continuing up to the eyebrow. Working with red is a difficult task because it actually will stain your skin with a pinkish tint. But don't worry that can be removed with some makeup remover :) So my tip is to have either eye makeup remover handy or the makeup remover wipes. Q-tips work the best with eye makeup remover however for this look I used the wipes.

Next take a black liquid eyeliner and draw a circle at the outer corner of your eyes and fill the circle in. I am using two different eyeliners, a felt tip and just a regular liquid eyeliner. Next draw the legs don't draw them right underneath your lashes start about a half an inch away from your eye. That is where you will fill in the red eyeshadow. I drew just two legs, you could draw more but I didn't want it to make the makeup look messy.




Next draw the spots, you can draw them sporadically or in some kind of pattern. Now draw the antennas right above the circle you created.

Then take the red eyeshadow on a thin brush and fill the color right underneath your waterline. Make sure the corners of your eyes are filled with the red color.

Then take the black liquid eyeliner and line your eye to give it a little bit of definition.

Next fix any mistakes and touch ups. I didn't put any mascara on for this look because I thought it would be too much.








And there you go! You are finished! See how easy that was? ;)

Go try it and impress your friends. This makeup look can also substitute as a fast and creative Halloween costume :)






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Eyebrows

Eyebrows are the most important element on your face. You don't think much of them, but they really can change your look drastically. They have the power to make you look younger or older, scary or cute. :p So it is really important to take care of them and groom them. Just to prove my point I will show you some pictures of celebrities without eyebrows.

Some of the prettiest women look really awkward without eyebrows. So as you can see eyebrows play an important role in the look of your face. First things first if you wear glasses like me, stay away from round eyebrows. When wearing glasses your eyebrows should complement. Since glasses draw attention directly to your eyebrows. Also you have to watch the thickness of your eyebrows. The thinner the older you look, and the thicker the older you look. I let my eyebrows grow a little for this tutorial :p

Every woman has a different shape to her eyebrow. Not every woman can wear an arch, so to determine the shape of your eyebrow my best advice is to get them done professionally. Go to a salon and get them done. Personally I prefer threading opposed to waxing. It hurts less and is faster. Threading isn't that much it usually is about $8 - 11 depending on where you go. They are really good at determining your brow shape. The way they achieve this is by having you pull your eyebrow up creating an arch like this:

To keep them up is not that hard just a couple steps that you could even do before bed! All you need is

• Eyebrow brush
• Tweezers
• Scissors
• Eyebrow pencil

Let me tell you that there are a lot of different tweezers out there and the Tweezerman brand is the best it is the sharpest and grabs the hair.

First take your eyebrow brush and brush the hair up

Then take your scissors and cut the long hairs.

Then take your tweezers and clean up the middle, right above your nose and any place you may have little hairs that are in an unwanted place :p

Then for the last step take a eyebrow pencil and color your eyebrows in. Remember the beginning of your eyebrow should be lighter then the back. Color in any sparse areas, this is good if you accidentally plucked too many hairs. :p I am using my favorite MAC eyebrow pencil.

And finished! :) See that wasn't so hard!

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Valentine's Day look

Valentine's Day is right around the corner, a week from today actually :p I wanted to do something with a sexy and sultry. Mission accomplished I think ;)

First as always ladies the same old same old. Moisturizer, foundation, concealer, powder and eyeshadow primer. Keep your eye brows light but make sure they have a shape. I am using MAC's eyebrow pencil in taupe. I love this pencil it looks so natural and fills my brows help giving them a gorgeous shape! :D If you haven't tried it, YOU MUST.

Now that we got past the boring part :p I mixed a red and a pink eyeshadow from my Coastal Scents palette. I put more red then pink however. I wanted it to be dramatic, but I thought red would be too dramatic for a daytime/date look. So I took a pink and toned it down a bit. Apply the eyeshadow all over your lid just up to your crease if you go beyond your crease don't worry just blend it out. What I found out is using my fingers for the Coastal Scents Palette works better because using a brush takes longer to get the dark color. It always goes on light with a brush and you have to work up the color. Apply the eyeshadow underneath your eye as well as close to your waterline as possible. Connect the color from the inner corner of your eye to the outer corner.

Next step apply a lighter pink then before right above your crease. Just to help fade the color out a bit and plus I really like these colors together :p Then take a pearly white color and apply right on your brow bone. Blend the white and the pink together.

Next take a felt tip eyeliner and draw your line. Start in the middle and wing out the ends. The best advice I have for this is have eye makeup remover right at hand to tweak the line if it isn't what you want. Practice makes perfect ;) I start with the felt tip because it easier to whip away then liquid eyeliner. It is a lot easier to work with as well. We will go over the line with a liquid eyeliner in a bit but first apply your eyelashes.


First apply mascara to your own top and bottom eyelashes to help with the look of thick and full eyelashes. Then apply your lashes, I am using MAC's eyelashes. Take your glue and apply a thin strip across the lashes then wait 30 seconds to dry. I am using MAC's glue which is really amazing and sticky so your eyelashes stay in place! Press the eyelashes to the middle of your eye and lightly tap the eyelashes across your eye. After you get the lashes on keep your eyes slightly closed for a few minutes. So that the eyelashes stay in place.





After you have your eyelashes in place, take a liquid eyeliner and trace over the line. Make sure you go right over the eyelashes so your line looks more defined. Next take a white eyeliner and line your waterline. This helps brighten up your eyes a bit.

 This is how the how the finished eye should look:

For your cheeks take a light pink and apply it right on the apple of your cheeks. Then take Benefit's High Beam and apply that right above the apples of your cheeks and on your cupids bpow (right above your lip)

For the finishing touch your lips, if you are going on a date for Valentine's Day you have to have super kissable lips. So first take your lip balm my favorite is EOS and apply it on your lips. Then take your lip stick in this case use a super light pink color. Then take a tissue and dab your lips with it to get most of it off. And voila! Because your boyfriend/husband does not want to kiss you and have a lipstick taste in his mouth :p Dabbing the color keeps your lip color but not too much for kissing :)

Fix your hair and put on a cute outfit and DONE! :D You're ready! ;)
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Marney!

Meet Marney! :) My sister's good friend/roommate from high school. I did her hair and makeup and stuffed her in a dress to take picture for our store. Which is now officially open! :D I kept the eyes pretty neutral with a pop of purple color.

I won't show how to do this tutorial since I didn't take pictures throughout the process and was planning on doing wedding makeup. But to give you an idea of a good look for your wedding. :)


I think she looks absolutely gorgeous if I do say so myself :p
I kept the look light and natural adding false eyelashes for a bit of a dramatic look. Rosy cheeks and highlights on the apples of her cheeks to give her that "in love" glow :)

Her hair was just little curls with the You Curl curling iron and teased at the crown to give her a little bump for the tiara to sit on. :)



Sorry for no tutorial guys! I am hoping to get one up soon! If you have any questions or ideas email me! Even if you have comments or complaints I'm all ears ;)

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Princess Peach Tutorial

I love the old Nintendo Mario games, Super Mario Bros 3 was my favorite :) So I thought of doing an easy and quick tutorial for those last minute Halloween parties.



First apply an eyelid primer to make the colors pop, especially with pink because sometimes the color is not bright enough to see. Apply a bright pink eyeshadow all over your eyelid. I used my Coastal Scents 88 palette. Any pink will be fine. Next apply a dark purple color to the crease for definition and for a pretty color palette. Buff the color up towards your brow bone. Next take a pearl shimmery white color and apply it right on your brow bone. Blend the color down to the purple to fade the purple out. The purple should be dark in the crease and light toward the brow bone.

For eyeliner I used a felt tip eyeliner pen, but you are welcome to use liquid eyeliner. I prefer to use the felt tip for this specific look because you can manipulate the brush to your liking. Create a line beginning from the inner corner of your eye to the outer corner, wing it out. For best results start the line in the middle of your eye and work your way out. Make the line thicker toward your outer corner and wing it out. If you make any mistakes use a q-tip with a little bit of makeup remover.

Next take a white eyeliner and line your waterline. Really pack that eyeliner on, you want to brighten up your eyes and also give them a doll like appearance.

For eyebrows, lightly fill them in, I used a light brown to just color them in. You want to keep them light especially if you are going to be wearing a blonde wig.

Next apply the individual false lashes, apply them to the outer corner of your eyes. Two or three should be sufficient enough. Heat your lash curler, then curl your lashes with the fake lashes and apply mascara. Heating your eyelash curler acts as a curling iron for them. Make sure its not too hot to put on your eyelid though. Just warm enough to curl them. I didn't apply the fake lashes because I like the way my lashes looked. Curl your lashes again to give them an extra boost.

The finished eye should look like this:


Cheeks are next, no not those ones :p Use a really pinky color. I used my Smashbox O-Glow blush. Which comes out of the tube clear but when applied on skin turns pink. Apply it to the apple and your cheek bones. Blend really well so the color is not as strong. You want to have a pink glow, not a i-obviously-put-blush-on look.



For the lips, well Peach has really tiny lips. But I lined my lips with a pink color and put a peach lip gloss on. You can exaggerate her lips if you would like, it is really up to you :)

If you have brown hair like I do, get a blonde wig. I made a paper crown out of construction paper and glued little craft gems to it for just a simple Princess look. Her crown is really tiny so one piece of construction paper should be fine. And to secure the crown so it doesn't fall off your head you can use blonde bobby pins. :)








VIOLA! DONE! :D You have now been transformed into Princess Peach :) If you have any questions, comment, concerns, complaints ect. Email me! :)

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Sensational Saturday

I am so sorry for not posting anything lately. I have been suppppper busy and so little time. But my life has slowed down just a little and I promise I am going to make more time for you guys :D I was at a loss of what tutorial to do, so today I sat down and just went with the flow and this is what I came up with ;) I wanted to start doing club makeup. I thought that it would be cool to switch back and forth between daytime looks and nighttime looks. So I can please everyone! Since I know not all of my readers wear JUST bright makeup. ;)


For today's look, I had no idea what I was going to do. I just put some colors on my brush and hoped for the best :p I really wanted to do something with yellow, I am loving the color yellow at the moment. And to be honest I love this look, it's not too much where you can wear it for daytime activities and the best part is it looks great with light and dark skin tones :D This look has pinks, purples, and a hint of yellow. The yellow really makes your eyes pop. Lets get beautiful...er ;P

First prime your face with Smashbox Primer.


Then you want to apply foundation. I am using Maybelline's Dream Matte Mousse. If you have ever used this foundation but thought it didn't blend well, try it with the primer. The primer helps smooth the foundation and helps you blend to get a clean layer without blotches. I love this foundation it really makes your skin look flawless. Next take your favorite powder and apply all over the face. This helps give you a airbrushed look. You will be amazed at how great your skin looks. I am using Maybelline Mineral Power Natural Perfecting Powder.







Next erase those dark circles. I am loving Bobbi Brown's Corrector. The pink tinted color is perfect and helps brighten my eyes. Look at the difference, my right eye is done and my left eye still has a dark circle. Look at the dramatic difference! It is amazing ;) Also apply along the sides of your nose, this helps reduce shadows and brighten up your face drawing attention to your eyes. Conceal any redness or any blemish you may have as well. Apply powder to set the concealer so it stays in place.



Next we need to attack those eyebrows. Take a brow brush and brush the hairs in place. Sometimes I wake up in the morning and my eyebrow hairs are all crazy and out of place. Brushing helps give you the look you want as well. Then take your eyebrow pencil and fill in and fill in any sparse areas, lighter in the front and darker towards the back. I usually make my eyebrows longer at the ends to make my face appear longer.
Finally time to do the eyes! :D I mixed three different colors for the lid color to give a vibrant color. I used two hot pinks and an orangeish color:









Apply the color all over your lid leaving the inner corner of your eye empty and not going past the crease. Blend well. If you get a little pink in the inner corner of your eye don't worry, that will help with blending the yellow and pink.




Next take two purple colors and apply right above the crease of your eye, blending into the pink. Start with the dark purple and then apply a lighter purple over it to lighten the color up a little. Make sure you blend the colors well. Don't apply all the way to your eyebrow leave a tiny space and add a white eyeshadow for some highlight. This also helps lighten the colors toward the eyebrow.

Then take a bright yellow color and apply it in the inner corners of your eyes, and also underneath just 1/3 of the way. Apply the pink color from the yellow to the outer corners of your eyes.

Eyeliner is next, using Stila's Smudge Pot in Black cat line the top of your eyes all the way to the inner corner to give you more of a dramatic look. Make the line as thin as possible, no wing at the corner, since your eyeshadow is dramatic enough.

Instead of blush we will just use bronzer. I am using Cargo's Waterproof Bronzer. Apply just below the apples of your cheeks and all the way back to your ear. This is where you should be the most bronzed. Also dust on your chin, nose, and forehead.


Then curl your lashes and apply your favorite mascara.
For lips I am using a matte lip color, Maple by Smashbox. You don't want your lips to be dramatic because you want your eyes to stand out.Finished! :)

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial :) Stay tuned for more!

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