The Snowmageddon Makeover

Another snow day and this day I decided to spend it with my mom. After much prodding, I was finally able to convince her to sit for a beauty make over.

My mom, Roxy has good features, but several of her complaints were her close set eyes, dark circles and full round face. Now I could do something about the close set eyes and dark circles, but as for the full face, she'll haven to replace that cinnamon roll she had earlier with a carrot stick.

Here's her before pic (she said I owe her big time for posting it):



After we accessed the flaws, she told me she wanted a glamorous, yet natural look. So here's what I did:

1. After starting with a freshly cleansed, moisturized and primed face I applied concealer under her eyes, in the inner corner of her eyes, as well as the outer corners of her mouth and under her lower lips . This helped with dark pigmentation which is common for women of color as they age.

2. I used a medium coverage foundation as to not cover her freckles. I used Mary Kay's Medium-Coverage Foundation in Bronze 500.

3. To warm her skin, I dusted her cheekbones with bronzer (MAC Bronzing Powder in Refined Golden)and to give her cheekbones more emphasis, I followed up with MAC Powder Blush in Blunt in the hollows of her cheek.

4. Her eyebrows are naturally arched, but I did have to fill them in with Georgio Armani's Eyebrow Pencil in #2. Which goes on smoothly and it has a grooming brush on the tip. I then applied highlighter to her brow bone.

5. Because of her close set eyes, the idea was to pull the eyes apart. How I achieved that was by using a light color on the inner corners of the eye. Then I dusted a brown shimmer shadow on her lids and finished with a dark brown shadow on the outer corners and swept it into the crease.

6. I then applied black eyeliner (Stila Smudge Pot in Black)on the upper eye lids mid point to the out corners. To add a little pizazz and soften the look, I used Stila's Smudge Pot in Starry Kit on the lower lash line, ensuring that I stopped the liner right at midpoint under the eye. This technique, again, pulls the eyes apart.

7. Roxy is fortunately blessed with thick, long lashes which unfortunately I did not inherit. Her lashes were finished with Maybelline's Define-A-Lash Mascara in Very Black.

8. For her lips, I lined the lips with MAC's Lip Pencil in Spice and filled in her lips with Sephora's Super Shimmer Lip Gloss in Rosy Glow.

9. To finish the look, I applied MAC's Mineralize Skinfinish to set her make-up.


Here is the end result:


Rox in her mid 40's and this makeover actually made her look 10 years younger. What do you think?