Wild Side New Years Eve Look

The Look: Wild Side

The Why: It's a great way to brighten up that little black dress! The black lace dress is by Nightcap Clothing and shoes are Report Signature. 

Feather earrings are from karmaloop.com. 

The Steps: Starting with a clean, moisturized face, my first step is always the eye makeup. Do your eyes first!!!

Once they're done you'll be able to clean up any eye shadow fallout or smudges that may have happened while you were at work without worrying about screwing up your foundation, concealer, etc.

For the Eyes:

1 -Apply an eyeshadow primer on upper and lower eyelids, sweeping out across the brow bone towards your temples.

2 -Use a white eyeliner pencil and fill in your eyelid below the crease. Blend this up and out towards your brow. This provides a better base for the shadow to stick to. 

3 -For the center of the eye, apply a light but bright color, I chose a matte yellow, using a patting motion. 

4 -Next I applied a champagne gold color onto the brown bone, the inner corners of the eyes, and a bit on top of the yellow. 

5 -Start working out towards the corners of the eyes. Apply a darker shade (I chose a bright shimmery violet, and working into the crease of the eyelid. If you'd like you can add this darker color to the inner portion of the eyelid, just inside of where you have your lightest shade on the upper eyelid. Putting a darker color can add more depth and shape to your eyes, *however*, if you have smaller eyes you may want to opt out of this. The lighter you keep the inner corners of your eyes, the more open you make them appear. 

6 -In between your darker violet and the yellow, I applied a bit of a pale pink/purple shade I had throughout and just above the crease to help blend the two shades together.

7 -Finally take deep colors such as blue violet, smoky plum, or charcoal, and apply with a small brush to the outer V portion of your eyelid (imagine where the upper and lower lids meet). You can sweep some of the darker shade beneath the outer portion of your lower eyelids, and can use this color both to line your upper eyelids as well as be drawn out towards the temple to create more of a cat eye effect.

8 -Line the waterline with a white eye liner, and pull it out across the temple under your cat eye if you chose to make one. 

9 -Take a black eyeliner to define the outer edges of your winged look, and you can create a second wing below the white eyeliner, along the lower lashes as I did.

10 -Fill brows in with a pencil and extend just a bit past the natural brow line. I like doing this when I have winged eyeliner as I feel it helps balance the look. 

11 -Blend shadow with a fluffy brush to soften the look.

12 -Apply mascara and clean up around eyes wherever you had fallout from your eyeshadow. Apply falsies for more drama!

For the Face:

1 -Apply a foundation primer to help foundation go on smoothly and last longer.

2 -Apply your concealer in the desired places, if needed. Blend.

3 -Apply foundation, if desired. Liquid, powder, whatever works best for you.

4 -Choose a blush that is going to apply softly. A pinky-peach tone works nicely on pretty much everyone if you're not sure what to choose. 

5 -Contour with a bronzer in the hollows of your cheeks, sweeping up around the temples and down around the jaw line.

6 -A highlight shade is optional but can be a nice touch when applied to the upper portion of the cheekbones, bridge of the nose, and cupid's bow.

For the Lips:

1 -Make sure they're well exfoliated and I find it useful to apply lip balm about 30 minutes prior to whenever I'm going to wear lipstick.

2 -Take a peachy nude lipliner, and lightly line lips.

3 -Apply a coat of sheer pink gloss.

You're done! Much easier for touch ups and no worrying about smudged lipstick!

For any questions or further directions please comment! Instructions written by guest writer, Amanda Brady.