What’s your favorite feature to play up with makeup? How do you do it?
I love playing up eyes, and for me, I like to do it by using brighter eyeshadow and lots of black mascara.
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i think…my eyes!! and sometimes my lips!
Definitely my eyes! When I do full makeup I have to make sure my eyebrows look perfect too, which involves a lot of filling in. Sometimes I like to play up my lips, like with bright lipstick. Especially Russian Red!
Eyes. Eyeliner always and lots of black mascara, eyeshadow 95% of the time.
Me too.
That is a toss up between eyes or lips, but for the most part it ends up with lots of mascara and red lips.
Putting mascara on is always my favorite part of my makeup routine!
Definitely the eyes! I have crazy eyeshadow colors such as red, orange, and yellow and I never have anywhere to wear colors like that. I just buy them to collect. But sometimes I will practice doing like a crazy eyeshadow editorial style look on myself just to be artistic. Some people write, paint, draw, or play music as an artistic outlet. Doing eyeshadow looks is mine! Lol
The eyes, with cheeks a darn close second!
it’s all about the eyes for me…!!! and less often the lips….
eyes, definitely 😀 I hate the bright lips no eye make-up look
as you, i love bright colors(blue, hot pink, green, teal, orange, red) or dark colors(grey, black, plum, brown) on eyes, black eyeliner and lots of mascara <3 but i can never find a lipstick HERE that is pale enough to go w/ it as a nude 😛
i feel weird if i wear very bright lipstick but i've been wearing a gorgeous medium blue-pink l/s and i love it and it looks good even tho i'm pale because it has some mauve in it(looks beige in the tube but almost lavender on lips)
I prefer to play up my eyes.
i would like to play with mascara and lip gloss..i never forget to apply both when i go somewhere
I like to add a glitter liquid eye liner on top with lots of mascara & some individual lashes. Compliments never fail when I do this look.
I have to agree with the majority here – it’s the eyes. Lips I tend to forget, but the holy alliance of eyeshadows + eyeliner + mascara is something I rarely skip.
My second favourite feature to play up is definately my bone structure and high cheekbones. Sometimes I wear only foundation with blush and contouring colour, it looks nice and fresh.
For me, it’s sometimes my eyes and sometimes my lips.
Hmmmm….probably lips! I guess because I talk a LOT (!) and figure that’s where the attention is focused. Keeping my lips unchapped and using a noticeable but not too too bright, pretty lip colour and applying it precisely (sometimes using lipliner for an even more precise outline) seems to do it. I do love wearing eye makeup but tend to go for neutral looks 90% of the time (with maybe a pop of colour). I guess neutral looks can still draw attention to the eyes but lips is where I always have colour.
Eyes or lips. There are so many more products and colors with eye makeup that there are more combinations that every day can be something different.
When I have the time, I like playing up my eyes. I love and am proud of my Chinese heritage, so I enjoy experimenting with shadows that will compliment my chinky eyes. 🙂 But when I’m in a rush (which I usually am), I sport a natural eye makeup and a bold lippie. So it’s either eyes or lips for me. 🙂
My lips are quite thin and I just wear a MLBB lipgloss, so I always focus on my eyes and eyebrows.
lips or cheeks!
I usually play up my eyes because I like the color of my eyes. But I’m starting to buy more lip products instead of eyeshadows because the makeup I usually do on my eyes nowadays is very natural looking (Urban Decay Primer Potion in Sin and brown-black mascara), and I want to start playing up my lips with fun colors. I just ordered two of the lipglasses from the Bloggers’ Obsessions collection, and I can’t wait to play with them.
Lips and cheekbones. Dark vampy lips and heavily contoured cheeks.
I have to say it really depends on my mood. I ALWAYS do eyeliner and mascara, and if I’m in the mood I skip eyeshadow (or just take a really light one) and go for a nice red lip. If not I just go for really eyecatching colors and do a nude lip.
eyes!
Definitely my cheeks! I’m a total blush-o-holic. And as a heritage of bad skin as a teenager I’m obsessed with (trying to) create flawless skin! So secondly, I would have to say skin!
My hazel eyes.
lips! eyes are always the first thing people look at, i like to play a little mind game and make people shift focus to a bright red lip or deep burgundy for fall 🙂
I’m an incorrigible lip girl. I have a fairly handsome collection of lipsticks/glosses, and they’re tucked away everywhere for me to use them at a moment’s notice. Especially the reds. I’m a complete pushover for a good red.
I also love dramatic eyes, but between full time work and schooling, I usually just don’t have the time to sit down and do them. As a result, I tend to settle on more organic eye makeup, like mattes or coppery/brown shimmers. Once I have a little more free time in my schedule, I’d love to get back into doing more daring looks. 🙂
Always the lips, I can pull off crazy shades, but eye makeup besides mascara/light champagne-y eyeshadow looks weird on me.
My lashes! Thank you to the great geniuses behind mascara!
I’m extremely fair with really dark eyes/hair naturally, so I love to focus on my complexion. I still haven’t gotten up the courage to getting matched for foundation, but I ELF color corrector to tone out some of the pink and darkness under my eyes and top off with matte powder.
When I am a blond I play up my lips with a lot of reds, as a redhead/misc. I’ll stick to bold eyeliner or heavy mascara.
my eyes and sometimes my cheeks 🙂 I’m a bit of a blush whore and sometimes I get tired of wearing light blushes or wearing brighter ones lightly!
Eyes also for me – and that includes brows. I can go out plain face but I have to put my brows on that are barely there from growing up to plucking age in the 60’s when they were super thin for fashion – and what came in yrs after that from chemo – not great brows left here!
95% of the time it’s the eyes. So I don’t know why I have so many lip products. Shrug
eye color! I have brown eyes with gold flecks, and little bit of green every now and then. When I wear gold eyeshadow my eyes look super pretty! I do have trouble pronouncing the green in my eyes though..
I like to play up my super long eyelashes with lots of dark mascara, and my very full lips with nude or very bright colors. I love playing around and having fun!
Eyeees!
it’s so fun 😀
since I’ve got some nice eyeshadows palettes as a gift I can’t stop playing with them
so much fun*
I love doing cheeks and lips. I like doing eyes too but experimenting with eyeliner/mascara makes it a downfall because of time it takes to remove the product.