• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Makeup and Beauty Blog | Makeup Reviews, Swatches and How-To MakeupMakeup and Beauty Blog | Makeup Reviews, Swatches and How-To Makeup

A beauty blog blooming with fresh makeup reviews, swatches and beauty tips from your friendly neighborhood beauty addict

  • Home
  • About
    • About
    • Contact
    • FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
    • Advertising & Media
  • Categories
    • Product Reviews
    • Makeup
    • Skincare & Fragrance
    • Style & Fashion
    • Hair
    • Nails
    • Tips & Tutorials
    • Just for Fun
  • Brands
  • Store

21 Makeup Tutorials

May 5th, 2009 by Karen 23 Comments

21 Makeup Tutorials

Hi, ladies (and gents!). Here are 21 makeup tutorials and guides showing some of my favorite application techniques.

My favorite tutorials aren’t necessarily the ones with the highest production value, aka the sharpest looking videos and pictures. I like tutorials that stand out for some reason because that helps me remember the material.

When I find a particularly helpful new makeup tutorial, I’ll copy/paste some of the pictures (or take screenshots if it’s a video, or save pics to my phone) into Word or something and print them out with notes.

A BIG thanks to the people who put these tutorials together. Keep up the great work!

If you enjoyed this post, you may also like…

  • 101 Wedding Makeup Looks
  • 101 Hairstyle Tutorials
  • 21 Ways to Store Your Makeup
  • 21 MORE Ways to Store Your Makeup
  1. Undereye Concealer Tutorial: Raquel13 has a lot to offer (like a great smokey eye tutorial, a sultry red lip tutorial and a tutorial that shows how to tightline your eyes), including this pictorial tutorial showing how to banish those dreaded raccoon eyes. No one has to be the wiser!
  2. r

  3. How to: An All-Day Flawless Finish: Armed with these tips, your makeup won’t give up on you before the end of the day.
  4. 298x232_lb_skin_makeupmyth_st

  5. The Sophisticated Eye Look: Got a dinner date or an important meeting at work? Wear this eye look and show ’em who’s boss!
  6. eyeshadowsolent_468x695

  7. Elegant, Dramatic Eyes: Make the kind of entrance no one forgets with the help of this show-stopping eye look.
  8. jenniferlopez_2

  9. Natural Looking Eyeliner: Sometimes all it takes is a single finishing touch to bring an entire makeup look together.
  10. eyeliner

  11. Eyebrow Shaping and Shading: Never struggle with angry eyebrows again with the help of this tutorial.
  12. eyebrow480

  13. A Simple Guide to Applying Red Lips: POP! This fantastic red lip how-to really breaks it down for beginners.
  14. tutorial_redlips013
    [Continue reading…]

There are 23 comments on this post. Leave yours.

Categories: Makeup Tips/How To

Philosophy Unconditional Love Firming Body Lotion: When Blackberries, Britney Spears and Bomb-Arse Hydration Collide

May 5th, 2009 by Karen 16 Comments

040509-philosophy-unconditional-love

Dagnabbit, Philosophy! It’s bad enough you got me addicted to your yummilicious shower gels and Purity Made Simple cleanser, but you couldn’t stop there, could you? No, you had to release Unconditional Love Firming Body Emulsion lotion ($34), too?

Some nerve!
[Continue reading…]

There are 16 comments on this post. Leave yours.

Categories: Product Reviews, Skin Care

Smashbox Untamed Swatches and Pictures

May 4th, 2009 by Karen 22 Comments

smashbox-untamed-top-final

Smashbox is breaking away from the summer pack with the new Untamed collection (on sale now), ditching their teal, bronze and gold competitors (hello, Estee Lauder Bronze Goddess, Laura Mercier Mediterranean Sea and Urban Decay Get Baked) with a palette of tan, reddish brown, taupe, purple and green.

The six-piece collection…

  • Untamed Waterproof Shadow Liner Trio in Exotic ($29): shimmery tan, eggplant and taupe cream eyeliners
  • Untamed Waterproof Shadow Liner Trio in Savage ($29): shimmery peach, shimmery green and shimmery brown cream eyeliners
  • Double-Ended Eye Brightener ($22): two products in one — a shimmery gold eye pencil on one end; shimmery peachy pink on the other
  • Untamed Creamy Cheek Color in Terracotta ($24): a warm, reddish brown cream blush
  • Untamed Lipgloss in Raw ($18): a creamy, deep brownish red gloss
  • Untamed Lipgloss in Flesh ($18): a creamy, golden nude gloss

It’s a relatively small collection with a minimalist vibe, yet there’s enough color among the blend of creamy and shimmery finishes to create some interesting looks. 🙂

Pictures and swatches

smashbox-untamed-all-final
Everything except Untamed Waterproof Shadow Liner Trio in Savage

smashbox-untamed-shadow-trio-exotic
Untamed Waterproof Shadow Liner Trio in Exotic

smashbox-untamed-untamed-creamy-cheek-color
Untamed Creamy Cheek Color in Terracotta

smashbox-untamed-double-ended-eye-brightener
Double-Ended Eye Brightener
[Continue reading…]

There are 22 comments on this post. Leave yours.

Categories: Makeup

Aquis Hair Towel: A Hair Do

May 4th, 2009 by Karen 38 Comments

aquis-microfiber-towel

While having dinner with a couple of my BFFs last month, my girl J-Money surprised me with a gift — the Aquis Microfiber Hair Towel ($18).

With the care one reserves for items of great value and importance, she looked me dead in the eyes, placed the package in my hands and said, “You’ll understand its power soon enough.”

The Aquis Hair Towel is made from a special microfiber fabric supposedly able to absorb far more water than a regular cotton towel. Awesome, because my hair retains a lot of water and takes forever to dry.

After two weeks with the Aquis, I think I understand why J-Money treated it with such reverence — the thing really works!

Normally, I wrap my hair up with a towel when I step out of the shower and leave it on for about 15 minutes before taking it off to air dry. The process takes about three hours to thoroughly dry my hair.
[Continue reading…]

There are 38 comments on this post. Leave yours.

Categories: Beauty Tips, Hair, Product Reviews

Lil’ Green Bug

May 4th, 2009 by Karen 10 Comments


When I took this picture a few months ago I didn’t realize that there was a lil’ green bug up in the mix.

There are 10 comments on this post. Leave yours.

Categories: Daily Photo

My Precious

May 4th, 2009 by Karen 14 Comments


We wants it. We needs it. Must have the precious…

(Limited edition Precious Pearl Palette by Stila, $40)

There are 14 comments on this post. Leave yours.

Categories: Daily Beauty

Makeup and Beauty Blog Monday Poll, May 4

May 4th, 2009 by Karen 68 Comments

mbb-monday-poll

  1. Mood:
  2. Equal parts sleepy, mellow and happy

  3. What’s a quality you like about yourself?
  4. I’m good at making friends.

  5. Describe your fashion style:
  6. I’m like a fashion chameleon! 🙂 Mostly, I’m a jeans/tank top kinda girl with a penchant for funky shoes and costume jewelry, but I’m also comfy in preppy clothes, retro ’40s or edgy clothes, too. It really depends.

  7. Lips:
  8. Urban Decay Pocket Rocket Lipgloss in Kirk ($19)

  9. Hair:
  10. Down, with side-swept bangs and soft waves

  11. Outfit:
  12. Skinny jeans, navy blue tank top, silver hoop earrings and black high heel sandals

  13. What do you do for a living?
  14. Freelance writer, part-time blogger

  15. What do you like about your job/s?
  16. I like that they give me an excuse to talk to strangers and to express my creative side.

  17. What don’t you like about your job/s?
  18. I wish the work was more predictable and steady. I can never tell how many freelance assignments I’m going to get in a given month.

  19. Weekly goals:
  20. To start working some push-ups into my daily routine, to take a couple 10-minute walking breaks throughout the day, to get to bed by a decent hour every night and to squeeze in a couple cheesy Lifetime movies on TV

What’s up, girls?

What happened to the weekend? I swear it was just Friday night! I’m not quite ready for today…

Let me know how you’re doing. 🙂

Just copy the following empty list, and paste it with your answers to the Monday Poll in the comments.

Le list

Mood:
What’s a quality you like about yourself?
Describe your fashion style:
Lips:
Hair:
Outfit:
What do you do for a living?
What do you like about your job/s?
What don’t you like about your job/s?
Weekly goals:

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

There are 68 comments on this post. Leave yours.

Categories: Just For Fun

Sundays with Tabs the Cat, Makeup and Beauty Blog Mascot, May. 3

May 3rd, 2009 by Karen 18 Comments

Clinique Aromatics Elixr and Tabs

How’s it going, girls? What are you up to?

Did you see any movies this weekend? I saw a hilarious, campy Bachelor parody on Lifetime called I Want to Marry Ryan Banks, LOL! It’s starring Jason Priestly, who appears to have stopped aging in 1990.

Right now El Hub and I are off to catch X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

I asked Tabs if he wanted to come with us, but he’s busy looking for his signature scent. He’s not a fan of spicy perfumes like Clinique Aromatics Elixr, which he described as “sketchy.”

He’s more a J’adore kind of cat.

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

There are 18 comments on this post. Leave yours.

Categories: Just For Fun Keywords: tabs

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Go to page 1
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 1735
  • Go to page 1736
  • Go to page 1737
  • Go to page 1738
  • Go to page 1739
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 1912
  • Go to Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Welcome to Makeup and Beauty Blog

Welcome to Makeup and Beauty Blog! My name is Karen, and I’m a freelance writer obsessed with makeup.

Makeup and Beauty Blog features daily product reviews, makeup tips and beauty news — like an interactive version of a monthly print magazine, except with occasional pictures of my cat.

Recent Posts

Sundays With Tabs the Cat, Makeup and Beauty Blog Mascot, Vol. 878

Makeup and Beauty Blog Monday Poll, Vol. 894

Makeup and Beauty Blog Monday Poll, Vol. 893

Makeup and Beauty Blog Monday Poll, Vol. 892

Makeup and Beauty Blog Monday Poll, Vol. 891

/* real people should not fill this in and expect good things – do not remove this or risk form bot signups */

Social

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Featured Posts

Sundays With Tabs the Cat, Makeup and Beauty Blog Mascot, Vol. 771

Lady Unicorn

Weird Things I Like to Do

brows fill out beforehand

Before You Pluck or Wax Your Brows, You Must Do This

current bare skin status

What’s One Thing That Drastically Changed Your Skin for the Better?

Copyright © 2025 Makeup and Beauty Blog. Get in touch.