A couple of weeks ago I tried out my new cream contouring palette from Anastasia Beverly Hills. I usually don’t like palettes because I end up using only one or two select items, but guess what. Together, the cream and powder palettes from this line give you an entire face: foundation, blush, setting powder, highlight, contour, eye shadow, lips, concealer, corrector, and brows.
Items left-to-right, then top-to-bottom:
- Anastasia Beverly Hills Cream Contour Kit in Medium:
- ABH Powder Contour Kit in Light:
- Maybelline Falsies Mascara
- NARS Lipgloss in Greek Holiday
- NARS Satin Lip Pencil in Floralies
- Jouer Luminizing Moisture Tint (this is my sunscreen, so you can skip if you get your SPF elsewhere)
- MAC Eye Kohl in Costa Riche and Smolder
- NARS eye shadow in Galapagos
Not pictured: Urban Decay All-Nighter Setting Spray
Here’s the finished product:
Here are the steps:
- Apply tinted moisturizer all over face
- Blend the peach cream into apple of cheeks (I used my fingers for the creams)
- Blend a light shade of the cream under your eyes, around nose, center of forehead, and eyelids; use a corresponding powder to set
- Blend a dark shade of the cream in hollows of cheeks, down sides of nose, around jawline, and around hair line; use a corresponding powder to set
- Use an appropriate powder to fill in brows
- Apply a dark powder in the eye crease and a lighter powder just under the eyebrow and inner corners
- Apply the brown eye shadow to the outer eye corners in a sideways V and blend towards inner corners; apply same shadow under bottom lash line
- Apply brown liner to top lash line and smudge (or use one of the creams…this is optional, especially if you have a smaller lid area), then apply black liner to roots of lashes and add mascara
- Line lips with the pencil and push the peach cream into lips; top with a little gloss
- Set with setting spray (if you’re oily, blot with one ply of a tissue first)
{This post, like all the rest, is not sponsored – I’ll let you know if that ever happens.}