The new midlife crisis

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The new midlife crisis
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Source: instagram_Photo_collage Do you use Instagram? I know I LOVE Instagram. It's so fun. Have you ever wanted to print these photos and incorporate it into your room decor? I am featuring this awesome tutorial that gives you a FREE template to make this perfect. You can make your Instagram photo collage have all your friends in them. I mean, you can only have selfies. It is YOUR Collage! haha. Did you know Courtney and I our on Instagram? I'm @Tannerbell1023 and Courtney is @Courtneychamb.

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The new midlife crisis
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The new midlife crisis
Instagram Photo Collage

Source: instagram_Photo_collage Do you use Instagram? I know I LOVE Instagram. It's so fun. Have you ever wanted to print these photos and incorporate it into your room decor? I am featuring this awesome tutorial that gives you a FREE template to make this perfect. You can make your Instagram photo collage have all your friends in them. I mean, you can only have selfies. It is YOUR Collage! haha. Did you know Courtney and I our on Instagram? I'm @Tannerbell1023 and Courtney is @Courtneychamb.

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The new midlife crisis
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Carmel from Our Fifth House shares this super fun way to bring new life to those dirty and mix matched make up brushes. Use you favorite colors and patterns or make them to match your bathroom. I think they would also make a super fun handmade gift. If you're making them as a gift tho, I would recommend easing new brushes. Using these cuties in your morning routine would be so cool especially knowing that you made them!

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As Spotify declare that 42 is the age people start listening to chart music again, we examine the new rules of having a midlife crisis. How did we swap the Ferrari for Taylor Swift?

Wear it dry, and you’ve got your standard dusting of color—classic and predictable (in a good way). But wet! Wearing it wet opens a whole new world of opportunity. “What you’re doing is bringing out the pigmented nature of the shadow,” makeup artist Vincent Oquendo says. “Whenever I wet an eye shadow, it’s when I really want it to pop—but it really has to be a special kind of product to be able to blend after it sets. Because a lot of the times when it sets, you get streaking.” Nobody wants that. In order to avoid any wet shadow mishaps, follow these guidelines:

Product

Midlife crises are still alive and well.
Midlife crises are still alive and well.

First, go with the obvious: any eye shadow labeled wet-to-dry. The Nars Dual-Intensity line is the standout—the singles come in 12 different shimmery shades, and there’s a corresponding brush (then there’s the newly released Dual Intensity Blush line, which was all over Fashion Week—but that’s a product for another post). Burberry also makes a few very versatile shades specifically for this in their Wet & Dry Silk Shadows. And the technique-specific eye shadow category isn’t just a ploy to get you to buy more product. “You can’t just use any eye shadow for this,” Vincent says. “Certain ones will harden up on top and become unusable because they’re not made for this.”

Baked shadows are also fair game—we’re fans of Laura Mercier’s Baked Eye Colour Wet/Dry and Lorac’s Starry-Eyed Baked Eye Shadow Trio in particular.

For more advanced players, Vincent suggests moving on to straight pigment (MAC or even OCC’s Pure Cosmetic Pigments). With the added moisture, they’ll become easier to layer with other products. For a look with more depth, try using a cream shadow as a based before swiping with a wet powder shadow. “It’s like insurance,” Vincent says. “You’re doubling your wearability.

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This all depends on exactly what you want to do. “Mind the resistance,” Vincent says, particularly if you’re looking for uniform color across the lid. “I tend to recommend a blender brush, which is the brush that looks like a feather duster. If you do it with a stiff brush, you’re defeating yourself before you even start. The joy of a wet-to-dry is you have to get it right amount of product loaded up, and then it blends itself. If the brush is too stiff, it will leave the shadow streaky and then much harder to control.”

However, if tightlining or waterlining is in the cards, a much thinner brush is required accordingly.

Liquid
Do not, repeat, do not put eye drops, water, or any other sort of liquid directly on your eye shadow. This’ll screw up your product for later use. “Lately, I’ve been wetting the brush with the Glossier Soothing Face Mist, but Evian Mineral Water Spray is good for sensitive eyes,” Vincent says. If the top of your powder does get a little hardened by wet application, there’s a trick to remove it: Get a clean mascara spoolie and “exfoliate” your compact, Vincent recommends. This won’t crack the compact and will make it ready to go once more.

Photographed by Tom Newton.

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