Tutorial: Affordable way to get the lipstick colour you WANT!

Have you ever wanted a lipstick colour but didn't have the money to shell out for that specific colour?

Or have you ever felt like you wouldn't want to spend money on a lipstick colour that would only turn out to be a fad? That you'd only use it a couple of times and then never touch it again?

What if you just didn't know if you wanted to commit to a certain colour before you actually tried it out?

If you're somewhere around that category, then here's a trick I came up with just from experimenting a bit.

Lately, I've been in LOVE with plummy, magenta, and purple lip colours. But do I really want to go out and buy a new PURPLE lipstick? I know if I actually bought it I'd eventually regret it because it's not a very all-season friendly lipstick colour. Also, I didn't even know if it would even compliment my skin tone.

So this is what I did and it's REALLY simple:

1) Take a lipstick colour that's closest to the colour you're trying to achieve. If it's purple, take a pink lipstick that's on the blue side. If you don't have that just any pink will do. If you're looking for a red this will work too.

I chose Revlon's Pink Pout.

2) Take an eyeshadow or pigment of a colour closer to what you want your lipstick colour to be.

For purple I chose Wet n Wild's 248 Lust Palette. The matte purple shade. (excuse my yucky fingernail)

3) Use your finger and dab that shade on your lipstick. Pucker to blend.

Remember to start light! Don't pack on the colour cause you don't know how deep you want the colour to be.

4) If it's too light, add more!

So this is pretty much as dark as I would ever need my lips to be purple with.

Can't really tell the difference from the first picture here, but it's a lot darker.

6) Add some gloss if you want.

Here I just chose a clear gloss.

And there you have purple lipstick!

Now, if you wanted other colours you could also choose to use other colours for the same purpose. For example, if you wanted nude lips, you could use foundation or concealer and then build your colour from there. Add some rose/brown eyeshadow to make it not so close to your actual skin colour. 

You could also use nude lipstick for pretty much any colour you want. For purple lips I chose pink because it was closest to the purple. But if I had wanted to use a nude lip colour it would have been okay as well. Just keep playing around with shades until you reach your desired colour. I'm sure I don't need to talk about colour mixing =)

I apologize if the pictures I posted are not perfect, as I've never been too fond of my lip shape. But I hope whoever reads this get's the idea and just takes it in as information rather than telling me I have ugly lips or something hahaha. I hope this was helpful!

Until next time,

Love dove <3

Random Watsons mini haul!

Well I was feeling really upset about being cooped up at home almost all weekend so I decided to go out for a walk with my mom after dinner! I needed to grab a few necessities so we decided to shop around Watsons since it seemed like it was the ONLY store opened at that hour...

What I ended up getting were these:

Yeah, not a lot of stuff but enough to keep me happy for a bit =)

This is the Garnier Aqua Defense moisturizing gel for sensitive skin. It's supposed to replace my Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturizing Gel...We'll see how that goes! (Excuse the asian packaging)

Now here's the Maybelline Eye Studio Eyeliners. I already tried them and they're surprisingly good for a drugstore eyeliner and stay quite long. I already bought the pearl white prior to today but I thought I might as well put them together for this post.

As you can see, REALLY pigmented and it glides on SO smooth. It says it's a 2-in-1 impact shadow liner, so it can be worn both as an eyeliner and an eyeshadow. And it's supposed to be "waterproof and stays all day". I'll see if the stays that day part is true. I'm trying to find a replacement for my Urban Decay 24/7 in Zero because we don't have UD here... and it's my favourite eyeliner!

Here's a baked eyeshadow trio by Bourjois Paris. I know people in the states can get this brand (not sure where) but I've never seen it in Canada so I'm sorry to those that wanna get these but can't.

This is the Smoky Eyes Trio D'ombres a Paupieres in 02 - Baroque

Yup, these eyeshadows are baked. They're extremely pigmented when swatched, but when I was actually going in with my brushes to put them on.... they wouldn't go on my eyelid! I had to really dig in and pack it on for pigmentation. But after playing with it a bit more I think it's just the initial layer that has maybe a protective spray or something over it that I had to just break into. Cause it was fine afterwards. I love the colours and these pictures really don't do them justice. I definitely recommend these shadows and might pick up other trios next time!

Now here is the Fasio eye color palette in I-2 (I swear that's the best I can give for colour description.. the rest is in Japanese)

I had this same pigmentation problem with these eyeshadows when it actually came to putting it on. Especially the shimmery cream colour! But after that initial barrier I broke through it got better but still not as pigmented as I had hoped. The darker colours were way more pigmented than the lighter ones (but that's always the case).

Okay, so the back story behind buying this palette was because I was running out of my Lancome 4dreaming palette which was limited edition. It used to serve as an everyday shadow palette until I ran out of one of the colours and started worrying and stopped using it completely! So I actually brought the 4dreaming palette to Watsons today to colour match. This palette came closest! Even though it doesn't look like it in the picture, the colours are a bit more reddish in real life than in the picture (I need a new camera or learn how to fix the settings)

This is the 4dreaming palette

I didn't care much about not finding all of the colours but it's the copper/reddish colour that I really wanted to find. If anyone knows a dupe or a colour that's exactly like it please TELL ME! I'm thinking of going to check out NYX's eyeshadow in copper next time I go to another part of town that has a full section of NYX products.

Here's the 2 looks I did to show the quality/pigmentation of the eyeshadow. Keep in mind again, that I had to REALLY pack on the colour. So I'll see what the application is like the next time I use these shadows.

Yes, I realize I do look like a crazy person. 

No, I do not do this when I go out just for the heck of it lol.

The left side is the Bourjois trio and the Right side is the Fasio palette.

Everything else is standard:

Foundation: Smashbox HD Foundation

Setting Powder: MAC MSF Natural - Medium Plus (Review to come)

Cheeks: MSF - Petticoat

Lips: NYX lipgloss - Natural

Brows - Covergirl Brow pencil - Dark Brown

Okay lovelies!

Until next time,

Love Dove <3