Fall is my favorite for makeup looks, as it is for most people, for some reason. Personally, I think it’s because I find oranges, purples, and warm tones to look best on me–with my skin tone, eyes, and hair.
Some mornings I have plenty of time to go all out with my makeup, to experiment, and create really sultry, festive looks. But some days, I hit snooze a couple of times and need to rush a little more. That usually means I default to products I know work and work well together. That’s what we’re talking about today, my every day makeup look for fall.
Face
Creams
Sometimes I begin my makeup with either the Becca Backlight Priming Filter or Makeup Forever’s Skin Equalizer Primer in the matte finish, but sometimes I skip this step, too. I then will go in with my L’Oreal Infallible Pro-Glow foundation. I love this stuff, because it has a dewy finish but doesn’t look oily toward the end of the day. I generally apply with a Beauty Blender, but if I’m in a rush, I’ll use an Expert Face brush from Real Techniques. It blends into the skin so nicely and lasts all day. And a bonus is that there’s a color that’s a good match to my skin, which is uncommon for me in foundations.
After foundation, I conceal any under eye dark circles and redness with the Naked Skin concealer from Urban Decay. I also use this on my lids as eye shadow primer. Again, there is a god shade match to my skin and then an even lighter color that I can use for brightening under the eye and around my nose, where I tend to get a little red throughout the day. If I have any major blemishes I need to cover, I use the Amazing Concealer from Amazing Cosmetics (I got mine at Ulta), and it really is amazing. A little goes such a long way, and it’s a thick, heavy coverage concealer. Again, I usually apply concealer with a Beauty Blender, but if I’m hurrying, I pat it in with either my fingers or the Essential Foundation brush, again, from Real Techniques.
Powders
After liquid and cream products, I move onto my powders. If you apply cream products over powders, it turns into a goopy mess. It’s best to work in the opposite order. I’ve been loving and bouncing between the Ambient Lighting Edit in Surreal Light from Hourglass, a palette including a finishing powder, two blush shades, a bronzing shade, and a strobe highlight, and the Sheer Sculpting Palette from Fiona Stiles (Light/Medium). I will dust the finishing powder from the Hourglass palette all over my face and onto my eyes to set my foundation and concealer. Then I hop over to the Fiona Stiles palette for my contour. And then I go back to the Hourglass palette for bronzer and Surreal Glow blush. For powder and contour, I use a Real Techniques Multi-task brush and the Real Techniques Tapered Blush brush for blush. (Did that make you dizzy?)
After I bronze and blush my face, I use the fan brush from Real Techniques to apply the highlight in the shade Wisp from Colourpop. While it’s a true gold highlight, it’s not super obvious, especially applied with a fan brush. It creates more of a lit from within-ish glow and it really easy and lasts all day. I apply it to the tops of my cheekbones, down the bridge of my nose, and along my cupid’s bow (the dip in your top lip).
Eyes
After the face is done, I obviously move onto the eyes, which are super simple usually. Since I already primed when I did my face, I don’t take time for this step. I will take Colourpop’s Super Shock Shadow in Sequin and apply it all over my lid, up to my crease, with my finger. Then, I take a blending brush and smoke it out so it is blended nicely around the crease and looks clean. I finish up the shadow with a matte cream colored powder along my brow bone–sometimes from the contour palette or whatever shadow is closet to me at the moment. And I usually pop whatever highlight I’m using on my face on the inner corners of my eye, to brighten.
Sometimes I do winged liner with this look, but usually I don’t wear liner. When I do, I have been using the black Tattoo Liner from Kat Von D. It goes all day without smudging or fading. It’s amazing.
The I finish up with curling my lashes and mascara. I got the Ubame Mascara from Milk Makeup in last month’s Birchbox, and I am seriously in love. It doesn’t leave my lashes super crunchy (you know what I mean?). The finished application looks so natural but darkened and voluminous. I will definitely be repurchasing this when I run out.
Brows
One of the last steps in my routine are brows, because a few different things happen. If I have extra time, I use the brow pencil from Colourpop in Honey Blonde to fill in sparse areas and shape. I have really been loving warmer toned brows for the past few months, especially in conjunction with a darker brow gel. More often than not, though, I just take Benefit’s Gimme Brow in #3 and brush it through my brows to shape them and hold them in place.
Lips
With this look in particular, I bounce between a few lip shades. Again, it’s usually whatever is closest to me, but the three I’ve been loving are these:
- Wet n’ Wild Matte Lipstick (I forget what it’s actually called) in #902C ‘Bare It All’–It’s a little drying if you wear it more than one day at a time, but it lasts for hours and is super matte (not to mention really cheap).
- Milani Color Statement Lipstick in ‘Orange-Gina’–a metallic orange that, again, lasts for hours.
- Rimmel Provocalips in #750 ‘Heart Breaker’–This is my favorite liquid lipstick formula. It’s comfortable and literally lasts all day long without transferring or fading. It’s truly incredible. And I love this brick red shade for fall.
And that’s it. The post itself was wordy, but this look takes me 10 minutes, tops. It’s so fast and easy, but I can always trust the products are going to last, mesh well together, and look fantastic.
What are some of your go-to makeup products and looks for fall? Let me know in the comments and tag me in photos on Twitter and Instagram @jacqie__ . I would love to see your every day fall looks.
*This post was NOT sponsored by Real Techniques. I really just use a lot of these brushes.
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