An Indian's Makeup Blog

Day / Night Smokey Eye Kit
Make your own Day & Night Smokey Eye Kit for a gift !
Get a purple / taupe shadow trio ( Smashbox Panorama) and a gray/black shadow trio ( Smashbox Twilight). Add in a fluffy brush , an eyeliner and its a smokey eye kit to love !






RODIAL LA Face Lift ($99)
Give your complexion the celebrity treatment with these luxe lifting formulas: a-list cleanser, glamtox peel, SPF 15 glamtox eye light, SPF 18 glamtox and glam balm.

I've tried the glam balm - its amazing !






The Ultimate Blackhead Survival Kit
Another make your own kit with simple but effective drugstore products like the Biore Anti Black Head Cream Cleanser + The Super Popular Deep Cleansing Pore Strips.










Philip B Travel Kit ($30)
Peppermint & Avocado Volumizing & Clarifying Shampoo
African Shea Butter Gentle & Conditioning Shampoo
Nordic Wood Hair & Body Shampoo
Light-Weight Deep Conditioning Crème Rinse (available in Classic and paraben free Formula)

I am going on a small trip soon. I wish I had this one !




Clinique Acne Solutions Clear Skin System Starter Kit $32.50

A great gift for adults or for younger teens ! The kit comes with a
Cleansing Foam, Clarifying Lotion & a Moisturizer all
designed to treat Acne.







Love
Indian Girl

Rani Mukherji is a popular Bollywood actress.

Gosh the lady looks positively radiant in this picture ! Love the blue Saree and the clean simple makeup !

Face :

A clean even looking face is an absolute must for the rest of the makeup to look good. This look especially has a satin finish with zero shimmer other a little bit in the gloss.

Start with a primer (SKINN Orchid Gel Mattifying Primer) and apply all over face. Follow with a tinted moisturizer / light - medium coverage foundation. Set it with powder foundation / translucent powder.

Eyes :

Rani has been doing the smudged black liner + brown shadow look for quite a while now. It works great on her and will on almost anybody. Its easy fool proof and brings attention to your eyes.

Apply concealer all over your eye lids and under. Apply a matte brown shadow ( Thevi Matte Shadow - Dark Brown) all over your lids and blend it upwards and outwards at the crease to create a soft brown eye look.

Using a black pencil liner, line upper lash line, lower lash line and lower waterline. Now using a smudging brush or your ring finger smudge out the pencil liner so the black shade gently frames your eyes. You can also go over the liner with a black shadow ( Thevi Matte Shadow - Charcoal) and delicately blend it so the black looks soft and not sharp.

Smudge the same brown matte shadow along your lower lash line. Do your brows and apply mascara.

Cheeks

For fair to medium skin try Thevi Sheer Matte Blush - Whisper Apricot. For Medium - Deeper Skin tones the Thevi Sheer Matte Blush - Hint Of Red is a great choice !

Lips

A nude shade with a hint of pink like Urban Decay 's Naked Lipstick or Sally Hansen Natural Beauty Lip Gloss - Mystical Mauve

Love,
Indian Girl

These Holiday beauty tips from Skyy Hadley of As “U” Wish Nail Spa in Hoboken, NJ. Its nothing you don't know. What it is, is a a great reinforcement of what you do know. For everybody running around trying to decide on the Holiday looks, this will be a small push to get one started !

Metallics are golden – no matter what your color scheme, a shimmery gold, silver, or bronze will finish the look.

Here are a couple of my favorites.

For Eyes : Silver , Gold , Bronze


For Face : This Opulent Shimmer Powder adds glitzy glamor sparkle for the holidays !
Or go the Golden Bronzer route with this one here from Tarte - it never gets old !


For Lips : I have two shades that will be perfect for a golden lip look - Smashbox Lip Gloss in Luster and the lip lush - Tish from Julie Hewett. Both are sparkly golden shimmers done Oh So Tastefully ! I promise it looks like nude golden sparkle and not like a strip of metallic goop.

Cool tones are perfect with the chilly weather – don’t be afraid to strut darker colors.

If we don't get out the darker lip colors now, we might as well bury them and never look at it again. A few days back I reorganized my makeup drawers and arranged them in such a way that I see wintery shades up front and the other ones are at the back. Of course few days later its all a big mess again ! Must go digging again...


There are few cool toned oldies that I love ...

There is the Stay Mauve from Estee Lauder the only time I loved purple.

A couple of pretty cool ones form Urban Decay - Confessions for the daring soul and Vinyl for the not so daring souls.

And then for the uber cool, uber dark vampire inspired looks there is this sexy thing

When in doubt, nudes are always your safe bet – classy and sophisticated, they never go out of style.

Nudes nudes nudes. This has been a decade of nudes. I don't think the word nude has been repeated as many times with respect to makeup. There is a nude for everybody !


The Smashbox Lip Pencils have been my most favorite things this year for a nude look . Such pretty shades.

Then there is the Bollywood inspired nude shade.

And the Kim K / Mila Kunis inspired nudey nude nude shade.

So there we go ! A bunch of things from this year and past but Holiday worthy ! What Holiday Beauty Tips Have We Missed out On ? I cant think of the red lips ! What is on your mind ?

Love,
Indian Girl

This one is an old fav.

An old fav that never retires.

An old fav that I will never get tired of.

An old fav that I have recommended 1667843.5 times.

The Revlon Super Lustrous Lipstick - Rum Raisin ($7.99) is the most flexible shade of lipstick . Its a classic but not in a retro way. In a will-stay-relevant-forever kinda way.


The shade Rum Raisin = soft burnt red + nude soft brown with some deep deep red-wine + amped up rose brown .

This is the LBD of lipsticks. Its a shade for everybody to wear everywhere.

To me, there are two kinds of everyday lipsticks. The regular kind and the special kind. The regular kind is like cereal - the one I eat everyday for breakfast & like.

Then there is the special kinda everyday lipstick which is like the breakfast I really really would like to eat - eggs, bacon, pancakes, warm syrup & the works. This shade is like that breakfast. Something that will make everyday feel like its special !

It looks great on women with pale / fair / light skin too but I'd especially recommend brown girls out there to give it a go. It is on BOGOF at CVS right now.


The flash washes the color out a little bit. The shade itself is little more deeper. You'll see what I'm talking about when you check it out at the store.

After you've tried it and fallen in love, don't forget to send me a letter telling me how it changed your life.

Or you'll probably put it on your Annual Christmas Letter !

Love,
Indian Girl

By GUESS. I want it. Love the flat chains. Christmas, Birthday - you pick.

Love,
Indian Girl

Last night I paid a visit to my neighborhood drugstore, CVS with a mission. I had to get tooth paste, Listerine and two Maybelline Color Sensational Lipsticks.

I've been wanting to try these lipsticks forever but somehow didn't. Unfortunate for me, they weren't even on sale. After much debate I picked up Pink Me Up & Mauve Me ($7.49).



Pink Me up , I knew would be very similar to my Avon U by Ungaro lipstick - a fuchsia pink. I wanted to confirm the hunch and so I picked it up. As far as Mauve Me goes , lets just say the color spoke to me and my love for hint of shimmer. Its a mauve with a hint of purple and a slightest bit of gold shimmer. One second its there, next its not !

Since when do Maybelline lipsticks have the weird scent. I used to love them for the absence of weird chemically scent but unfortunately this line has the same smell that Loreal lipsticks have. Its lighter than Loreal but scent nonetheless. However, we've got to hand it to Maybelline for putting out some super duper pigmented, almost opaque creamy lipsticks, in some very good shades !



Unfortunately the shades I picked up did not work well on me. I think its has got to do with the hint of purple in both the shades. Purple on my lips is not my thing. Pink me Up is similar to Ungaro lipstick but is different. It does nothing to my face. Mauve Me just plain fell flat. Really the shade in the tube and the one on my lips are two different stories.

I will return these and pick up some warmer nudes / browns from the same line or check out Revlon. If you have tried these, please give me a few recommendations / swatches please.

Love,
Indian Girl

Ladies !

If you don't have a youtube account, you need to get one now. Apart from thousands of everyday beauty gurus there are several brands which have their own channels. One of my favorite channels is the Smashbox one. They have their lead makeup artists showing us how to use products, teaching us the latest trends, colors and several new methods of makeup application !

Bobbi Brown also has a channel which is a great source to learn about their new collections and products !

Here are a couple of new tutorials from Smashbox. I love that drop shadow effect ! And the model is cute in a very unconventional way !





Love the makeup ! But the part where the model looks like she is rolling her eyes back into her head is scary ! LOL !



Have you checked out these Halo shadows ? I saw them at Sephora last weekend. But didn't play with them. Do you think its possible to get just one of the colors ? What if I don't want both the shades ?

Love,
Indian Girl