The Coonass' Beauty Obsession: Chocolate Candy Cane

I decided to do this look to get into the holiday spirit. I don't know about you guys but Christmas has COME fast!!!!!! To me, the winter seasons remind me of Cranberry colors and white and shimmer and glitter! There's nothing more in this world that I love and despise more than glitter. ALAS, glitter always seems to creep into my winter and holiday looks because I'm obsessed. So, I really hope you enjoy this pepperminty cranberry brownish look:)

First: Start off by applying of course Mac's Painterly Paintpot and then followed that with NYX's Jumbo Eye Pencil in MILK. Be sure to blend the Milk out really well as it will be gross and crease and make you look like you're a 16 year old who just put lipgloss on your eyes.

Second: You have this beautiful opaque canvas of white that will make any white whiter and make your eyes POP! I mixed Mac's Crystal Avalanche and Mac's Gesso. Gesso is a matte white and Crystal Avalanche is a shimmery over the top white that I'm OBSESSED with for an inner corner highlight. By mixing the shimmer and the matte together it will give a crazy effect that when someone looks at you're eye they'll be like OMGWTFOMG?! Just kidding. You probably won't be able to tell a difference, but I've been into mixing shadows lately so go with it.;)

Third: I took Sugar Pill's Love+ and tapped it lightly onto the outer third of my lid and took Mac's 224 shading brush and blended it out and into the white. You want this look to be blended out. Otherwise you will look like a PROSTITUTION WHORE (said in my best Teresa Accent)

Fourth: Here comes the chocolate part! I mixed Mac's Brown Script and Mac's Cranberry and lightly feathered it into the crease.

Fifth: GLITTAHHHHH! As you may or may not know when glitter is applied to your eyes it will be annoying and somehow float around your body and end up on your butt if you do not apply it to something sticky! Glitter's amazing like that. I like to use LaSplash's glitter adhesive. It's cheap and works great! Take a small amount on your finger and dab it onto the inner third of your eyelid. (where you applied the whites earlier) (also if you do not have the adhesive you can always use lash glue it probably works better, just be sure you have the as it will dry clear. If you have the dark you will look retarded if you apply a big goop of it to your eye). I then took Mac's Glitter reflects in pearl and dabbed it onto my eye while the adhesive was still wet. You can skip the glitter part if you want and just stick with the white but that only means you're not cool or sparkly like ME:)

Sixth: I took my usual highlight and blended out the harsh edges. I used Mac's Vanilla. Be sure to take and swoop your highlight down a little it will clean up some edges if they're ugly. Picture below if you can't imagine what the hell I'm talking about lol.

Seventh: To make this look a bit more tamed and pretty I lightly mixed a Matte black from Make up Forever with Mac's Sketch and threw that into the crease to deepen up my look. Remember if you use Black shadows lightly and I do mean LIGHTLY you can always build the color up. It's not so easy to back track once you look like you've got a tar pit on your eye.

Eighth: I took that Love + and swiped it over my lower lash line. Don't put too much red below your eye because then you will look like you are dying! Unless you're going for that look, THEN by all means, GO AHEAD.

Face time!!!! I do my face after I do my eyes when I'm working with products that produce a lot of fallout.... such as.... GLITTER BITCHES!

I used my Skin Perfekt Gel as a primer. I find that this primer is awesome for my peeps with big ole pores like MOI!

Because I love full coverage I do apply 2 Foundations. Call me crazy. I don't care! I'M PRETTY! lolololol. I applied it with my long lost friend that I bought from Coastalscents.com. I believe it's called a Kabuki Paddle brush??? Not sure I've had it for 2 years. I believe it's a Crown brush though.

I THEN apply my concealer which is Mac's Select Moisture Cover in Nw15 which means I'm as light as they come. I then blended it into the skin with my Sephora Mineral powder brush. I do not like this brush for powder so that's stupid on Sephora's part but whaterrr.

After blending in the concealer I used the same Crown brush to apply my Make Up Forever foundation. WHICH, by the way, I'm LOVE love LOVING! Be sure to blend down your neck girl! Don't nobody wanna see a line that makes you look like you're wearing a mask. The point of make up is for it to be NATURAL! Duh!

Then to lock in my foundation and smooth everything out I Used my Mac MSFN. Love this product! Die~!

Now usually the rule of thumb is you never apply anything wet to a powder. It will cake and cause more harm that none. But Benefit's Highbeam dries to a powdery finish so don't worry about it. By the way they have this smaller and cheaper one for $10.00 at Sephora right now which is a great bargain! I don't see how I would really run out of this. Dot the product on your forehead, Upper cheeks, temples, center of nose, top of lips and chin. Anywhere a light naturally hits your face. Blend it into your skin and then I took Mac's Shimmertime Pigment and placed it on top of all the places I put Highbeam. This will make you look youthful and dewy and not greasy. Just like an angle. Just like me;) I used Mac's Azalea Blossom blush on my cheeks and then C

ontoured with Nars Laguna Bronzer. Contouring makes you look skinny, so girl, INVEST!

This is my number one without a doubt never do without will die happy with this on my face product. Make Up Forever HD Powder. YOU will die. It's so good. You're looking at it thinking there's no possible way I will put that on my face but women and men of color can also use this product IF you use it right. It doesn't take much but this mattifies your skin and smooths it. It will also make your make up stay ALL DAY! I apply it with my MAC 188.

On my lips I wore Revlon's Pink Sky and Mac's Lipglass in Culture Clash.

Now it's time to finish your eye. I used Urban Decay's 24/7 eyeliner in Zero. I used it on my waterline and I tightlined with it. After that I took Kat Von D's Trooper and lined my eyes.

Curl your lashes with Shu Uemura because in my opinion, no other eyelash curler exists. My new favorite Mascara is Revlon's Grow Luscious Fabulash. I don't know, or havent noticed, if my lashes have grown but I do believe there are natural ingrediants to enrich your lashes and make them healthier. I will let you know if I wake up and my lashes are touching my eyebrows.

My sister got into town Last night! Her Birthday is tomorrow so Happy birthday Sister I loooovvveee youuuu! Also Happy birthday BIRTHDAY to my two little godbabies who were born on Dec. 17. I am in love!