Our first "Before and After" Post!

Hey Everyone!!!

Today for our "Before and After" I decided to show you how to create Finger waves/Roller sets with a 1 inch Marcel Iron, Thermal Styling spray 19 from Kenra, Kenra Artformation Spray 18 hairspray, and Bumble and Bumble pomade.

STEP 1:  Start from the bottom of your hairline right at the base of your neck and you work your way up. Take a 1” x 1” section of hair, spray with a thermal protectant/setting spray and wrap over the top of and around your iron. DO NOT release the tension of the hair as you wrap it all the way to the end of the strand. * Make sure you are wrapping the curl “on base” as you would with a real roller set.  This ensures Volume and a consistent curl pattern! Spray generously with hairspray as you go.

*As you release the curl from your Iron DO NOT tug on the curl, by NOT tugging on the curl it sets in the way you release it from the iron. If you were to tug the curl it would fall flat.

Once you’ve completed the entire head of hair like this, you then get to move on to the fun part; back combing, comb out and getting to see the pattern come to life!

STEP 2:  Starting at the base of the neck, begin to back comb, the more you back comb the greater the volume you will have. Do this to the entire head section by section.

STEP 3: Take your comb and start to mold your “S” pattern! If you would like the pattern slightly softer use a boar bristle brush. Spray with hairspray as needed. I like to use small pelican or double pronged clips to hold the pattern in place until show time! Once you get your “S” pattern constructed spray liberally with hairspray. I then took a couple of bobby pins and pinned her hair off to one side and introduced a fun flower and feather combo for a hair piece!!!

 

                                      Following our Hair we move into Makeup!

STEP 1:  Starting with our foundation. Today I used Clinique’s Perfectly Real shade 18G for Lisa’s perfect match. 

STEP 2:  After I applied the foundation I moved into highlighting and concealing, and I used Clinique’s Perfectly Real shade 4G which is 2 shades lighter than Lisa’s perfect match. I started at the top of her cheekbone and moved to the under eye area and feathered the lighter shade into the foundation match. This instantly brightens the under eye area as well as makes your cheekbones a main focus!

 

STEP 3: Another way to make your cheekbones “Pop” is to use blush. My blush choice for this look was Carnation by Smashbox. This color introduces a fresh bright look to go with our lighter pigmented eye look. Starting on and slightly underneath your cheekbone apply your blush all the way back to your temples. This also helps to contour the face.

STEP 4: Onto EYES, my favorite part! In the eye look I used 3 shades of eye shadow. Start with the lightest and move to your darkest. With the light or highlight color, in this case, Linen from Smashbox, sweep all over the entire lid all the way up to the brows. This will help to open and lift the eye.  The medium toned shadow, Golden Orchid from Smashbox is meant to compliment your eye color. Sweep the medium tone from the lash line to the crease on the main part of your lid. Next is our deep tone, Chestnut from Smashbox, also known as our contour color. This draws drama and depth to your eyes, at this point it will wow your friends, family or your significant other with how (Insert eye color) your eyes are. Start at your lash line and then move into the crease. Think “C” or Backwards “C” for whatever eye you work on. 

STEP 5:  Using a gel liner, line your top lash line with a bold line from the outer corner to the inner eye. Also use the gel liner to line the bottom lash line going only about half way across the lash line. Blend with a Q-tip until bottom lash line looks soft. We used Sephora’s Gel liner in 01 Black Night. Next we added Maybelline’s Lash Blast Mascara to finish our eye look.

STEP 6:  Using a Nude/ Pink lip color from Marvelips and a gloss from Elizabeth Arden in Rosegold we were able to finish off our natural yet striking look!

Thanks for viewing!!!

The Style Retaliation Team