DIY On-The-Go Girl Portable Makeup Palette!!

Me, wearing all of the products I put in my portable palette. :)--
I'm wearing every single product in the palette, all of the lip colors mixed together in different ratios, over a separate NYX lip liner called pinky beige.

Hi guys.  Thankyou so much to anyone who is still reading in spite of my long hiatuses (hiati?  Uh...How do you pluralize that?  Lol.)

I have currently been living, essentially like a gypsy...I commute from where I currently live (in which, I have no internet, just a small phone data plan), and sometimes I have to stay at a midpoint in order to use said internet and to get to my job and have a little more time to relax (midpoint being my boyfriend's house).  Plus, my sister visited and I was going back and forth an hour out of the way to visit her where she was staying.  It has been kind of nutty.  So, essentially what I am saying is, I've had little time and opportunity to blog, although many times I have wished I could!!

I'm finally enjoying a four day break, and I've reached another midpoint (my dad's place) :)  So here I am.  LET'S GET ON WITH THIS :)  Are you ready?!  Okay I am so excited!!!  I hope you guys love this DIY as much as I do.

DIY Portable Palette :)
Scroll down to the bottom for the list of products/supplies I used.

This is a super easy little project to do.  I'M TALKING AN AWFUL LOT HERE FOR SOMETHING SO SIMPLE.  You can skip all of the words and look at the pictures if you like.  They are pretty darn self-explanatory.  However, I have written some extra fun ideas in the last few paragraphs, uses for the palette, and ways you can get creative :)

So obviously, living like the gypsy that I have been living like lately, I NEEDED something like this. I work at a makeup store, and my bag was getting FULL because I kept having to grab stuff that I needed and store it in my big work bag.  It was getting out of control :)

I have had this L'oreal True Match Powder :)  Truthfully, I'm not L'oreal's biggest fan due to their animal testing/business practices and such, but I got this for an amazing discount at my job.  What is cool about this particular packaging, as rather than have one large compartment, in one snug space, this compact has two separate compartments.  One side is the side with the powder, and the other side carries the mirror and fits a cotton pad/sponge.

Happy accident, I suppose, my powder tray was falling out of where it'd been glued in.  So I easily pulled it out...and then I thought, wait a minute.  This could easily be a makeup mixing palette.  I wiped away the glue (I used Marcelle Cleansing Water--it was what I had on hand--I think isopropyl alcohol would be much better for this particular glue removal) with half of a makeup cotton pad, scrubbing and wiping until all of the glue was gone.  Then I took the dry half of the cotton pad and dried the freshly cleaned, shiny inside of the compact (for lack of a word for that) :)  I then hot glued the powder to the OTHER side of the compact--the side that includes the mirror.

And here is my lovely palette :)  Well, maybe not LOVELY in that it is pretty to look at, but lovely in that it is useful ;)

The Portable Palette ;)

You can also fit other powders inside.  Here, I've inserted an Estee Lauder double wear powder foundation pan in Ecru.  This true match setting powder in N1 is the closest match to Ecru, almost exactly the same shade, the true match being just a hair or two pinker in tone.  It fits perfectly in here!! :)

Estee Lauder Powder Foundation Pan in Ecru, inserted here to show what it looks like.

You can't fit a powder puff or sponge in here, at least none I have tried.  Nothing is flat enough :)  But in my opinion, brushes work FAR better than those anyway!!!  I wouldn't trade a retractable brush for a powder puff or sponge.  Nope.  Wouldn't do it.  I use this eco-tools one I got on amazon for around $6.  There's plenty out there.  I also use an elf retractable lip-brush, which cost me $1.50 with a coupon code. :)  These cost me very little and they make everything easier, cleaner, and less messy in my makeup bag than I think sponges and puffs do.

My retractable brushes for my purse makeup bag.





You may also decorate this if you are feeling crafty and wanting it to be a little more beautiful.  I personally am fine with it the way it is.  Here I show you how you can remove the sticker and the glue.  You simply peel off the sticker and start patting it over the left over glue spots, and the sticker will pull up all of the remaining glue.  Easy trick.  My true match powder is only a few weeks old, so I am not sure if this trick will work for older compacts.  You might need another cotton pad and some isopropyl alcohol.  You can use swarovski crystals, stickers, labels, or mod-podge...whatever.  I would add crystals, except I think they would make this bulky.  Maybe I will think of something pretty to decorate this with later, if I have time.  If so I'll definitely post the new picture on here :)

How to remove the stuck on glue residue with the sticker itself.


This has literally made the weight of my purse makeup bag half as heavy...half of the products are gone.  I was able to completely remove most of my lip products and just swatch them into the palette. :)  I have here, three shades of Too Faced Melted Liquid Lipsticks, one lavender colored LA Girl Lip Glaze, and my favorite concealer I have ever tried, Physician's Formula RX in the Fair/Light shade, which I put in just to dab on with my finger for touch-ups.  The problem with the concealer is it likes to ooze itself out of the tube even when you are not squeezing it...by putting it in this palette I have eliminated that problem!!!

You can also smush lipsticks in here.  You can smush in concealer sticks.  You don't have to be restricted to liquid products.  Powders will be more difficult, but you can always glue powder pans where you feel they will fit, or if you use a different variation of palette, you can keep certain eyeshadows you really like that came inside the palette, and remove the other ones you don't like using a needle and dental floss :) (the needle prys up the pan, poke the floss and wedge it underneath with the needle and then floss it beneath the pan until it's released from the glue).

I'm so thrilled because it is also SO much easier to mix lip colors and control how much product I get on my lip brush.  I've also found that when I apply with a lip brush, my application looks so much better and what I have applied lasts so much longer, disperses so much more evenly, and I use up less product as well.

Plus, at the makeup store I work at, we can't bring in products we have bought at the store most of the time.  This pretty much eliminates that problem, at least with liquid products and setting powders, because I can simply dab a little of anything I need onto the palette and leave the full-size product at home.  Plus I don't have to worry about losing those products!!!  YAY.  I just adore this.  AND everything is all in one place.  Going to make putting my makeup on quickly during lunch breaks and such a snap, and I can get the color I want quickly too!!

As you can see, I absolutely am in love with it!!!

I have been carrying it around, using it all day, and it is stored sideways in my bag.  Because my swatches are small, they really haven't budged or mixed together.  Your results may vary if you use something very watery/oily.  With that in mind, you may want to make a portable palette out of something with separators, keeping the deepness of the separators in mind.  The most liquidy thing I have put in this is the LA Girl Lip Glaze, and it just spread out a little bit, and now it has set and stayed in one small spot without budging.  I like the layout of this True Match compact because I have all of my touch-up products in one place, but you may enjoy a different set-up :)

Hope you guys enjoy this too :)  It is definitely a time-saver, a clutter-clearer, and a creativity-inducer.  As I mentioned a little bit in the last paragraph, you can do this with so many other kinds of palettes.  Not just this one, but you can also make at least lip/foundation/concealer/whatever palettes by removing eyeshadows from little drugstore eye palettes (I'm thinking Wet N' Wild--they have some new six pan white ones that would be great :) ).  Then you'll have little separators in those ones as well :)  You could even press powders you would like into empty pans you have and keep powders and liquids in the palette, if you feel inclined to.

I hope I have helped everyone.  Yay!!!  Just so thrilled, I truly think this has made my life a lot easier, and my makeup more creative and managable.  You can add in and remove what you are using currently.  All of your favorite colors and products in one place, not taking up bulk and there to mix together and play with.  It is so much fun!!  Like a grown up Polly Pocket!! :)  At least for someone who loves makeup.  And at the least, it will clear out your bag of some clutter and make it easier to find what you need.

Complete List of Products Used
LA Girl Glazed, Coy
Too Faced Melted Peony
Too Faced Melted Fuschia
Too Faced Melted Berry
Physicians Formula RX Concealer, Fair Light
L'oreal True Match Setting Powder, N1
ELF Lip Brush
Ecotools Retractable Kabuki Brush
Hot glue gun
Alcohol (or in my case cleansing water...I'd recommend alcohol over that!)
Cotton Pads

Me at the end of the day wearing all of the touch-up products, using computer screen light for lighting.  Several true match powder touch-ups had been done through the day.  I did not touch up the concealer--I more or less have it because it works wonderfully, and may need to touch it up at work when I'm sweating under fluorescent lighting, or apply it at my boyfriend's where I have no other makeup :)  Not too shabby with those lip colors... I highly recommend mixing all of those!!  The melted's last, and the LA girl gives it some much needed hydration without taking away from the longevity.  I really love the type of purple this combo creates! :)  Only did one touch-up with this lip-color.

Earthy Barbie Makeup Tutorial :)

A couple days ago, I decided to do a makeup look that I call, “Earthy Barbie.”
 
Because let’s face it…Barbie may have been ALMOST perfect, but one thing was missing...



Ain’t one barbie that was ever played with had perfect hair.


I wanted to do something different from your typical dolly-look—something that popped somehow and created an edge, but brought the dolly-look down to earth in a way, so you’d have the girly cutesyness, but you’d also have something that kept barbie a bit real, a bit more rugged and up-front, whilst still upholding that girly-girl component. I LOVE contrast, I don’t usually like to do looks that are solidly based on one theme. It’s more fun to bring something new to the table that’s equally as exciting or moreso!! (or boring, if you don’t like makeup…in that case, get out of here!!! Haha just kidding…).

In this look, I did a smokey eye with some neutral tones, a bright pink lip, and of course, pink blush.  To open the eyes, I did not use any eyeliner.  Feel like you've got it?  Then unless you like seeing me embarrass myself trying to put my makeup on, you can feel free to be done reading!!!

(goofing around, trying to act like how I think a Barbie would act for the sake of this blog post :P  What I do for you people...HAHA just kidding.  It was actually pretty fun!!)

If you like the look, read on for the tutorial!! (or just to see me goofily try to put my makeup on :P ).  I personally would wear this makeup look...well, anywhere!

If you want a hair tutorial..... Here's the concensus of what I do:

Twist hair into a bun, wear in bun all day.  Take bun out, hair is curly and messy.  Shake it around, keep changing the part, don't brush it much and mess it up as much as possible (this will vary amongst hair types...with my hair, it takes little to no effort to mess up).

(FYI, this is not a hair blog.)

Step 1

(Read this whole paragraph before starting if you have sparse lashes and don't like false eyelashes!!).  First, put on your mascara.  The reason I think you should do this first is because you won't be putting any eyeliner on, so your eyeliner/eyeliner brush isn't going to mess up/tangle the lashes--and since that's out of the way, mascara fall-out can really mess up your foundation, as I'm sure you know.  Putting on mascara first eliminates the problem of cleaning up those black dots and ruining your foundation! :)  Got sparse lashes?  NO problem, apply some false eyelashes...If you have no false eyelashes (or just don't like them), you can use a thin layer of eyeliner, right at the base of your lashes before you put on the mascara, to at least give you some volume to compensate for the length!  Dolly-looks typically involve long eyelashes, but do whatever you are comfortable with.

Step 2

Put on a clean, freshly foundationed, concealed, set with powder, face.  I won't show you how I put on my foundation in this tutorial, as I think it's kind of boring to mention here and I'd like to elaborate more on my face routine when I do, and also, I don't like my current foundation (I use Revlon Colorstay 24 Hour in Ivory) and am in the process of switching.

Step 3

Now that THAT'S out of the way, it's time to get down to BIDNESS... YAY.

I decided to do the lips first :)  (A Little Note:  You can do your eyes first also.  I like to do eyes before blush because I think your blush brush and your blush can wipe away and cover any fall-out that may have occurred.  You could also do the eyes at the same time as you do the mascara (before foundation), eliminating any chance of fall-out ruining your makeup--I just did them after my foundation here as I already had my makeup on because it was the end of the day!!!)

Here you can see that I have my mascara and foundation on...and then my lips are quite stained from lipstain!!  I already tried scrubbing it off to no avail, but since I'd tried 3 different lipstains that day (different blog post), no dice!!!  So here is what I'm going to do.

Since I didn't have the shade of lipstick I wanted (a light, baby pink), and my lips were also stained, I opted to do the mixing option.  If you've already got a color that works for you and don't like messing around, then just put it on and skip this step!!!

First, get out concealer or white eyeliner.  If you are using white eyeliner, you need to put on a thicker layer for a lighter color now, because it's hard to go back and add white eyeliner after you've already applied lipstick.  I ended up using Glamoflauge concealer in the shade Ultra Light.  You can purchase it at Walmart for around 7 bucks.  Conceal a thin layer all over lips, till they are somewhat of a blanker canvas.

Alrighty, now that that is done, just add your lipstick/lip gloss.  I chose a random deep pink gloss that I am totally not recommending to you because it's a balmstain that stained my lips cherry red when I took the concealer off, but anyway, at the surface level the concealer lightened it to a baby pink :)  Add any translucent powder to set the color, then blot.  You could also use baby powder. :)

Step 4

Eyes.  This is actually pretty simple.  I only used three colors!!  I used a palette that was discontinued from ELF, but these are pretty general shades, so feel free to use whatever and experiment.  I think that the NYX Love In Paris eyeshadow palettes in Pardon My French and C'est La Vie would work well :)  There are SO many neutral palettes out there, all you need is a matte brown, an emerald green, and any highlight ranging from beige to gold (ooh, that could be really pretty with this) to white and you are good to go.

The shades I used are:
A deep emerald green with just a little sheen to it.
A matte yellow-toned poop brown with a small amount of gold glitter (what?  I don't know what else to call the shade...It is pretty though.  Heh heh :) ).
A pearly beige.

The matte brown defines the eye and creates some definition (since using all shimmer colors can take away from definition), the darkness of the emerald contours and brightens your eye-color, and the pearly beige highlights and brightens your eye.  You can interchange these three colors with other tones, but that was the logic for the shades I chose :)

1.  Cover the entire lid of the eye with the matte brown, from corner to corner, blending out into the brow-bone but not allowing the color to enter the brow-bone.  Put it on the inner corners of your eyes.  Line directly underneath the eye on the inner and outer corners like you would an eyeliner, making sure to blend out, but do not line underneath the middle of the eye.

(I promise my eyebrows don't look this messy in person...But if they did, SO WHAT :P )

2.  Take the emerald shade and put it on the outer corners of your eyes, blending into the lid and traveling the color into your crease.  Line the bottom center of your lid with the color, like you would an eyeliner, blending out into where you lined the eye with the matte-brown on each side.

3.  Take the pearly shade and put it all over the brow-bone, traveling to the the spot right around the inner-corners of the eyes where you put the matte brown.

Eyes are done. :)

Step 5

Now you just apply a baby pink blush to the apples of your cheeks, blending out across your cheekbones, to create that dolly-look.  Apply it pretty high up on the cheeks, I like to get it almost right under my eyes.  If you apply too low it can age you.  I also like to put a little blush on the tip of my nose for a little glow, but you don't have to do that!

And you are done!! :)  Shine on, Miss!!

(A real barbie has some JANKED UP hair!!!!!!!  We all know it.)

Hope that was fun!!  I understand it might not be for everyone, but for anyone girly and daring, I think it's a really fun, pretty way to express yourself!!  Of course HAHA, you do NOT have to go out in public with a messy, crazy mop of hair :)  I did that for the sake of the blog post, but I think messy in a pretty way would be cute with this look.  And not that I conform to seasonal makeup in the least, but it could also be a great Fall to Summer look!!  Most of all, I hope any tips I shared helped somebody!!  Or you at least laughed a little.  Take care!! :)