Baby Wipes = Best Friend

Just a quick entry here, but I wanted to bring this up as it is a good tip that I have used for YEARS.

There are a lot of face cleaning/makeup removal wipes on the market and they may work well; however, they are expensive!

For years, before they even had such things on the market I have used regular baby wipes for makeup removal/touch up and a few other things. I don’t even buy the name brand wipes, I get the generic wipes found at your local grocery store.

Some people don’t like the smell, but I suppose I have used them so long that I don’t mind and actually like the scent.  Baby wipes can be used in many ways, to remove all of your makeup. Especially your eye makeup. Now, I have had only one friend do this and she said they burned her eyes. Overall the majority of my friends that I have advised to use baby wipes or used them here at my house have not had a problem. They don’t burn my eyes in the least. They will really remove all of that caked on eyeliner and mascara and are very gentle to your eyes.

I recommend to still use a overall facial cleaner on your face after using a baby wipe, but the wipes will do a lot of the major work for you before hand.

Another thing is touch up, there have been many times where I keep a baby wipe on hand, especially if using liquid eyeliner or mascara. I am sure all of us have had that moment where your hand decides to jerk when applying, or you blink and get it underneath your eye. Wrap a baby wipe around the tip of your finger and use it for touch ups.

Finally, if you are using shadows or powders for eyeliner and you want a nice dark crisp line. Take you angled (or whatever eyeliner brush you use) brush and you can dampen your brush with a baby wipe before putting it in the shadow or powders.

So CHEAP and easy and you don’t feel guilty if you have to use more than one to remove all of your makeup!

Make Green Eyes POP!

I learned this on my own, long before they made kits for different colored eyes. I have dark green eyes and some colors of eyeshadow and eyeliner really hides the color of my eyes.

Bottom line is, if you use pink, mauve, maroon, purple, or any variance in between those shades it really makes green eyes stand out, especially if you use as your eyeliner also.

In the first picture, I used a white all over color all the way up to my brow. Then I used Morocco eyeshadow 
[discontinued] from EDM in my crease and also used it for my eyeliner. Morocco is a nice deep maroon shade which could be easily substituted with a shade like Wallaby from EDM or any other brand. Wallaby has a nice matte finish with no shimmer as the Morocco did.

In the following picture, it is the same concept. However, I used Mystic Night  from EDM. The picture is a bit overexposed and washes out the eyeshadow color. I just LOVE Mystic Night but you must be careful! It highly pigmented color and be very careful to not use too much or trust me, you will end up looking like a streetwalker! You must have a very light hand to apply this one. This, unlike the other color mentioned previously is a shimmer shadow. I used this for my eyeliner also. If you wanted to get REALLY dramatic, you could do black eyeliner on your top eyelid, then on your water line and lower lash line. Then top it off with a shade like Mystic Night.

I really love both of these looks, and every time I wear shades like this I get comments about my eyes.