What To Wear: To A Dinner Get Together with Friends

This is what happens when you force a beauty blogger to stop buying cosmetics... She takes up the challenge, stops buying makeup products, ends up buying new clothes and shoes with the money saved and slowly makes "space" in her beauty blog for some fashion and outfit posts... Yes I am Samyukta and I am a Shop-a-holic and of course I am guilty as charged to the phenomenon described above.

So yeah yesterday I had a happy co-incidence of buying myself a new top and then was invited to dinner. Needless to say I wore my new top to dinner and well my today's "What To Wear" post is all about it :)

Outfit
What I wore was a navy blue chiffon "bandage" top from Van Heusen and paired with Black super skinny Jeans from Lee and my suede peep-toe pumps from Enroute... I carried a dull green lizard skin clutch from Hidesign... Ideally a long gold chain necklace would have looked fabulous with the outfit but since I hate (read allergic to) wearing imitation jewellery, I skipped that part :)

Top: Van Heusen
Skinny Jeans: Lee
Peeptoe Pumps: Enroute
Green Clutch: Hidesign

MakeUp
For my makeup I made a crease with MAC Folie, then applied MAC Genuine Treasure Paint Pot on my lids and accentuated the outer-V with a dark blue eye shadow from my Sleek Bad Girl Palette :)
Then I applied a bit of bronzer to my cheeks over NYX Cream Blush "Glow".
On my lips I used Maxfactor's Lip Pencil in Shade 14 Raspberry and topped it with Chambor Silk Lipstick in Cherry.

Hair
For my hair, I teased my hair at the crown area and clipped the "pouf" thus created. Then I wore a hair band as you can see and let my hair fall in waves around my face :)

Hope you guys liked the look :)

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EOTD & TUTORIAL: Yellow Brown Smoky Eyes Look

I don't know if it happens to you guys but it sure does to me. What? LOL... The time when I get used to a particular thing and I just cannot let go of it :) Well yes it happens to the best of us but I guess it happens to me a tad bit more than most of you can even imagine! Why does this happen to me I cannot fathom but then yes you will now say that I am blabbering away to glory :P ha ha! So before I get carried away a bit more, let me tell you guys that what I am talking about is the fact that I get stuck not only to particular products but also to specific EOTDs and LOTDs... Yes! I am a habitual EOTD repeater in real life! Ha! There I said it! :D

So anyways, today I am posting a tutorial on the summery smoky look that I am nowadays sporting with anything and everything :) It's a very pretty and versatile (you bet!) EOTD using golden yellow and brown and well it just makes my eyes look so bright and full of life :) So here goes...

But first here's a sneak peak at my EOTD :) Tell me guys how much you like it :)

Yellow Brown Smoky Eyes

STEPS

1. Primed lids with Faces Eye-shadow Base and then buffed with some loose 

    powder/compact.

2. Taking a bit of yellow eye shadow from my Faces Brilliants Palette using a flat fluffy 

    eye shadow brush again from Faces, I applied the shadow on my eye lids in a 

    "pat-pat" motion.

Yellow from Faces Brilliants Palette

Applying the yellow shadow using a Faces Flat Fluffy brush

3. Next using my Faces Blending Brush number 106, I picked up some Colorbar eye 

    shadow called Spicy Brown, which is a warm brown shade and applied it on my 

    crease, blending the yellow and brown shadows in a to and fro motion from the inner    

    corner of the eye to the outer.

Colorbar Eye-shadow in Spicy Brown

Applying the Colorbar Eye-shadow in the crease using Faces Brush 106

   

4. Taking a highlighter shade like MAC Nylon, I applied it on my brow bone in order to 

    bring focus to my eyes.

5. Now, I lined my eyes with Maybelline's Gel Liner (waterline+upper lashline) and 

    finished off with some mascara. I have used Maxfactor's False Lash Effect Mascara 

    here.

Maybelline Eye Studio Gel Liner

6. This look can generally be paired with either a nude lippy or a red lippy and 

    sometimes even a coral lippy :)

7. On my cheeks, I have used NYX cream blush in Golden on the cheekbone and 

    Colorbar powder blush in Plum Brown on the hollows of my cheeks.

All the products used

Final Look!

 

The products used for this look are as follows:

Face:

1. Colorbar Spot Correction Concealer

Eyes:

1. Faces Eye-shadow base

2. Faces Brilliants Eye-shadow Palette

3. Colorbar Eye shadow in Spicy Brown (review here)

4. Maybelline Gel Eye-liner (review here)

5. Maxfactor False Lash Effect Mascara

Lips:

1. Colorbar Velvet Matte Lipstick in Hot Hot Hot (review here)

Cheeks:

1. NYX Cream Blush in Golden

2. Colorbar blush in Plum Brown (review here)

Hope you guys like the look and find the tutorial helpful :) Do give me comments and share your opinions!

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