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Favorite neutral highlighter?: Brule, Phloof!
Easiest neutral look?: mascara, highlighter and a subtle crease
Best nude lip?: YSL Rouge Volupté #1 & Lancome Color Fever Gloss #262
bisque
medium brown shadow, smudged liner, mascara
bare truth lipglass
Favorite neutral highlighter?: Vanilla pigment all the way! 🙂
Easiest neutral look?: mac prep and prime eye, mac bare study paint pot, urban decay half baked eye shadow, mac soba eye shadow, brown eyeliner, mascara
Best nude lip?: mac dazzleglass in baby sparks
Favorite neutral highlighter?: MAC Femme-Fi e/s
Easiest neutral look?: MAC Soft Ochre p/p, Melon pigment all over the lid & Femme-Fi as a highlight. And mascara of course. 😀
Best nude lip?: MAC Hug me l/s
Favorite neutral highlighter?: MAC Vanilla Pigment
Easiest neutral look?: MAC all that glitters and woodwinked with some black liner and mascara (more warm golden, but on me it’s very basic and classic)
Best nude lip?: MAC Hug Me is my YLBB
Favorite neutral highlighter?: MAC Shroom!
Easiest neutral look?: Lipstain, smoky liner, mascara, a bit of blush. If we’re talking about SUPER easy, the naked face is the most neutral AND it’s pretty darn easy as far as I’m concerned 😉
Best nude lip?: Revlon Matte lipstick in Nude Attitude. It has a bit of peachyness so I don’t have concealer lips. I prefer some color to my lips when I sport dramatic makeup, though, so I wear Cherry Chapstick on my pigmented lips. It’s a really soft, plummy pink on me. 😀
Favourite neutral highlight: Blanc Type. It’s beautiful to work with, the same colour as my skintone and balances my eye look if I have a lot of shimmer going on.
Easiest neutral look: Blanc type from lashline to brow, Soft Brown in the crease, eyeliner, mascara, Pink Swoon on the cheeks and Nymphette lipglass.
Best nude lip: Marquise D’ from BBR. The peach tones in it stop me from looking dead.
Favorite neutral highlighter?: Blanc Type, Solar White
Easiest neutral look?: mascara, Vanilla on lid and Cork in the crease
Best nude lip?: YSL Rouge Volupté #1 and MAC Blankety
Favourite Neutral Highlighter: tied between MAC Shroom and NYX Nude. For face highlight is MAC Golden Nectar
Easiest Neutral look: MAC Paint in Sublime Natural with Kid in crease and one of the above shadow highlighters and Urban decay 24/7 Bourbon eyeliner.
Best Nude Lip: MAC High TEa
Favorite neutral highlighter?: Tie: Dazzlelight (MAC) , Kitten (Stila)
Easiest neutral look?: UD Scratch-lid, Stila Kitten (inner corner) VS Royalty, outer 1/3 of lid and crease/outer v…also used as eyeliner
Best nude lip: …Don’t know the name of it…an old lipgloss I bought from Smashbox
Favorite neutral highlighter — Blanc Type, Vanilla
Easiest neutral look — Bisque on lid, Blanc Type as highlight, Folie through crease/ blending to outer V. Add black liquid liner to top lashes. Black Mascara. Blushbaby blush, nude gloss.
Best nude lip: MAC High Tea with Napoleon set lipgloss (Target) in “Corfu” on top or Blankety with a dab of gloss on the center of lid.
Favorite neutral highlighter — vanilla e/s
Easiest neutral look — bisque on lid, quarry on crease and blended, vanilla as highlight, black eyeliner and mascara. On a Mission blush. Goes with any lipstick.
Best nude lip: Blankety is my fave but High tea is OK too, specially with a more dark, smokey eye.
Neutral highlight: Lancome matte e/s in Daylight (I think that mattes are just about the only highlighters that work for a totally natural look, but I’m an NW15, and Daylight would probably look ashy on someone with a deeper skintone)
-Neutral look: A soft gold all over the lid with a neutral grey lightly applied in the crease. A matte or slightly shimmery off-white as a highlight on the browbone and the inner corner. SUPER thin black or navy blue liner just on the upper lashline. Finally, a couple coats of mascara and a swipe of tinted lip balm.
-Best nude lip: Mac Myth for when I’m feeling dramatic, Mac Modesty applied very sheer when I need a bit more substance.
Favorite neutral highlighter?: MAC Vapour
Easiest neutral look?: Wolf pearlglide liner, Vapour all over
Best nude lip?: Luminary Lustreglass
Body shop white shimmer liquid
GOSH i love beige eyeshadow stick all over lid , mulch and carbon on crease and corner
Myth lipstick with underage lipglass over top
Favorite neutral highlighter?: brule
Easiest neutral look?: All that Glitters with Twinks e/s, Blitz and Glitz liner
Best nude lip?: NYC Au Naturel
Favorite neutral highlighter?: MAC Ricepaper
Easiest neutral look?: MAC Ricepaper on inner lid, Soba on middle lid, Smut on outer lid
Best nude lip?: MAC Freckletone
Favorite neutral highlighter?: Vanilla e/s
Easiest neutral look?: painterly, grain e/s (lid), vanilla (brow bone), Cork e/s in outer corner only – not in crease. Lancome Artliner in Black or Brown – depending on day or night
Best nude lip?: Hug Me or Jubilee
Favorite neutral highlighter: MAC Ricepaper or shrrom
Easiest Neutral look: MAC Painterly, Stila Kitten on lid, Shu Uemura ME Brown 810 in crease, black liner (currently Rock& Republic SMUT
Best Nude lip: MAC Subculture and Viva Glam 5
Favorite neutral highlighter?: MAC Femme Fi e/s
Easiest neutral look?: MAC Era e/s on the lid, MAC Dark Edge in the crease and MAC Vanilla e/s as highlight.
Best nude lip?: MAC Patisserie l/s
Favorite neutral highlighter?: MAC ricepaper
Easiest neutral look?: ricepaper highlight, wedge on lid, smut in crease
Best nude lip?: Clinique Rootbeer Superbalm
Favorite neutral highlighter?: Bisque
Easiest neutral look?: all that glitters on lid, soft brown in crease, swiss chocolate in outer v, bisque as highlight.
Best nude lip?: High Tea
Highlight: naked lunch
Neutral look: naked lunch on lid, foile in crease, naked lunch/nylon in tear duct and highlight.
nude lip:Hue
Favorite neutral highlighter?: It’s a tie between Shroom and Phloof.
Easiest neutral look?: Shroom on lids, browbone, tearducts, and lower lash line. About as easy as it gets.
Best nude lip?: Creme d’Nude & Sugarrimmed Dazzlegass.
Favorite neutral highlighter?: Wet N Wild Bronzzer in Acapulco
Easiest neutral look?: Smudged Out Black liner and maybe a wash of woodwinked or smoke and diamonds.
Best nude lip?: NYX Lipgloss in Smokey Look
Favorite neutral highlighter?: MAC FEMME-FI ALL THE WAY! I have two back ups =)
Easiest neutral look?: MAC fluidline in Blacktrack for just eyeliner and highlight with Femmi-Fi (for my most laziest days) or MAC Soft Ochre PP with Femme-Fi all over lid and MAC Rich Flesh in the crease and MAC Daisychain for highlight. But for sure, my eyebrows are ALWAYS filled in. Makeup or no makeup, they are done.
Best nude lip?: MAC Brew with MAC Bonus Beat (Heatherette collection)
NEUTRAL HIGHLIGHTER MOST DEF RICE PAPER
EASIEST NEUTRAL LOOK FOR ME IS A LIL MORE NOT NEUTRAL BUT I LOVE COLOR SO FOR ME WOULD BE ANTIQUED ON THE LID SOME FORM OF BROWN IN THE CREASE RICE PAPER FOR THE HIGHLIGHTER SHARP FILLED IN BROW AND BROWN EYELINER BY MAYBELLINE LIQUID LINER
BEST NUDE LIP FOR ME LOL IS BRAVE NEW BRONZE WITH C THRU LIPGLASS OVER THE TOP BOTH BY MAC OR LOREAL COLOR RICHE IN FAIREST NUDE LIPSTICK
Favorite neutral highlighter?: Shroom ^^
Easiest neutral look?: Using the colours from my Dior Quint Incognito and just a flush of Brown Down / Mulch in the crease and outer V. But always a nice, black, thin winged eyeliner.
Best nude lip?: Dior Addict in Beige Dessous
Favorite neutral highlighter?:Vanilla
Easiest neutral look?: Grand entrance all over the lid, all that glitters on the out corner, vanilla as highlight and black or brown gel eyeliner, don’t forget to apply mascara, of course!
Best nude lip?: Creme d’nude
Favorite neutral highlighter?: Dazzelight (for a not-too-strong shimmery highlight), Next to Nothing (for just a hint of shine), Blanc Type (my all-time favourite – my perfect skintone-matching highlight, matte)
Easiest neutral look?: Lid: Blanc Type, Crease: Era, Outter Corner: Mulch, Liner: A very dark brown shadow pressed against the upper lashline, just a hint dragged into the lower lashline. A pale peach blush, a subtle highlight. Naked brows.
Best nude lip?: Lipstick: Viva Glam V, Lipgloss: Love Nectar
FAVORITE Neutral highlighter: Brule
Easiest Neutral look: Goldmine on lid, Bronze in crease and Mulch on outer crease with Dipdown eyeliner and mascara, of course some orangey blush and complimenting lipgloss
Best Nude Lip: Soft Pause l/s
Favorite neutral highlighter?: It’s not a neutral neutral but i love it for higlight. It’s Vex eyeshadow from MAC.
Easiest neutral look?: With the CARGO neutral palette using the 4 shadows that come in. Then eyeliner with the Make Up For Ever black eyeshadow in wet, and mascara. A pinky neutral blush and some neutral pink lipstick with gloss too.
Best nude lip?: One of the Sephora Lip Glamour (i don’t remember now the number)
Favorite neutral highlighter?: MAC Shroom because it goes with everything
Easiest neutral look?: Something like Shroom from lashes to eyebrow, a neutral, matte brown e/s to deepen the crease and smudged as liner, mascara, foundation, a liquid blush like Benefit Posie Tint, and a gloss on the lips. And I always fill in my eyebrows with a matte eyeshadow 🙂
Best nude lip?: MAC Fulfilled plushglass
Favorite neutral highlighter?: Femme-fi (2 back-ups! 🙂 ) and Blanc Type; for face Refined MSF or Soft & Gentle MSF
Easiest neutral look?: Femme-fi for highlight & inner corner, Soft Brown over middle to outer corner of lid & above crease, then Espresso in crease, lastly line with Teddy eyeliner
Best nude lip?: MAC Honeylove, still has a hint of pink to it so I don’t look too ghostly!
Favorite neutral highlighter?: Shroom. Used to be Phloof! but now the shimmer is too in-your-face for me
Easiest neutral look?: Grand Entrance, Woodwinked, Bronze and Shroom
Best nude lip?: Dabbed on concealer with Love Nectar lustreglass. For a more pink nude, Oyster Girl or Underage lipglasses 🙂
Favorite neutral highlighter?: Shroom…I wear it all the time
Easiest neutral look?: Brun in crease, Shroom as a highlight, and Blanc Type on lid.
Best nude lip?: I really like Lust lipglass and Benefit lipstick in Good-to-Go.
Favorite Neutral Highlighter: The shimmer part of the Natural/Shimmer MSF
Easiest Neutral Look: Blacktrack fluidline and loads of mascara!
Best Nude Lip: Currently I’m loving the GOSH Darling I got from my trip to Bahrain. I used to use Brave New Bronze for a really natural looking nude lip.
Favorite neutral highlighter?: MAC Shroom e/s
Easiest neutral look?: MAC Bare Canvas paint, MAC Shroom e/s, MAC Soft Brown e/s, MAC Twinks e/s, Stila Brown Smudgepot, Smashbox Lash DNA, Smashbox brunette brow tech, BE Medium Beige Matte, MAC Solar Riche bronzer, MAC Love Nector l/g
Best nude lip?: MAC High Tea l/g
Favorite neutral highlighter?: Shroom (and from shinier ones Femme Fi & Solar White)
Easiest neutral look?: a blush and a golden/copper l/g
Best nude lip?: form recent releases Madly Creative l/s, otherwise Blow Dry l/s
favorite neutral highlighter: Blanc Type!! had this for a month or so now and I use it everyday!
Easiest neutral look: era, wedge, espresso in the outer v. / grain/ wedge mascara and liner
best nude lip: underage lipgloss
Favorite neutral highlighter?: marcelle bronzing gel mixed with some moisturizer
Easiest neutral look?: shroom all over the lid and brown eyeliner with black mascara. brule as a highlight
Best nude lip?: lovenectar lustreglass with bare slimshine. 😀
Favorite neutral highlighter: METEORITES POUDRE DE PERLES, 03
Easiest neutral look?: Dior Quint Spring Bouquet 470 (first I thought I did a big mistake purchasing that quint, but I received so many compliments each time I put it on!)
Best nude lip?: Dior Rita Beige 298, I love Lancome Caramel (but it is discontinued)
Mylar
All that glitters on lid, bronze in crease crystal avalanche on inner corner, mylar as highlight. Nars orgasm on cheek, Clinique Air kiss on lips
Creme de nude with clear lip gelee ontop