ABH Subculture palette

ABH Subculture Palette: Lime Green Look

Hello everyone! As promised, here is another look that I created with the Anastasia Beverly Hills Subculture palette. I tried to focus on the greens in this palette. If you would like to know how I created this look, keep on reading!

As usual, I started off by priming my lids. I used my UD primer potion.

The Subculture palette does not have a cream shade to set primer so I went into my Lorac Pro palette and used the shade light pink.

For the crease, I used a bit of the shade edge, which is kind of a chick yellow.

I also used the shade New Wave which is a pumpkin-like shade and applied that to the crease as well.

I applied the shade untamed to the outer corner. This is a camo-green type shade.

For the lid, I applied the shade electric, which is a duochrome that looks lime green on the eyes. I figured it seems easier to apply these shades with my fingers as I cannot seem to pick up a lot of color with my brushes.

I moisturized my face using farsali's rose gold oil.

For under eyes, I applied my Nyx under eye corrector and Too Faced Born This Way concealer.

For foundation, I used Sonia Kashuk soft focus. I really do not enjoy this foundation. I think I may have mentioned this before but it is difficult to apply over face oils and it is too fragrant.

To set my under eyes, I used my Laura Mercier secretly brightening powder and a dry beautyblender.

I used Physicians Formula powder and a big powder brush to set the foundation.

I used a small angled brush to remove the excess under eye powder.

For brows, I used my Nyx eye brow pencil in dark brown and my essence gel in brownie brow.

For highlight, I went back in with light pink again.

I used Too Faced Sun Bunny for my bronzer.

I used Tarte Peaceful blush. 

I used my UD Gwen face palette and the shade Angel as a face highlight

I set my makeup with Mario Badescu rose water spray.

For mascara, I used my Benefit roller lash.

For lips, I used my Sola Look LE liquid lipstick in baby.

That's the final product. I hope you all enjoyed this look! I definitely enjoyed using this palette for the month of October.

Thanks for taking the time to read this!

       ~Naty

Weekly Basket: November 6^th – November 12^th

^{Hello all! I wanted to come here quickly and post a weekly basket. This week, I will be focusing on the following products:}

^{For palettes, I want to focus on my Ulta and Miss Fabulous palette and the Sola Look Dirty Dancing palette.} 

^{For blush, I will be focusing on iSOCiETY COSMETICS in the shade lady bug. I believe this is a perfect shade for fall and winter.}

^{One of the lipstick shades I will use this week is my Lolita II from Kat Von D. I may also pull some berry shades depending on the outfit of that day.} 

^{Stay tuned for some looks! I still have to post a look with the ABH Subculture palette, a look with the Lorac Pro palette, and looks with this weeks' basket.} 

^{Thanks for reading!}

  ^~Naty

Brand Spotlight: Anastasia Beverly Hills Look 1

Hello everyone! Welcome back! I have been missing from the blogging world for about a month. October was pretty hectic and I did not find time to follow through on my posts. I do have several looks that I began but I never got around to posting. 

This past month, I focused on using my new palette by ABH, the Subculture palette. I can honestly say, yes the shadows are crumbly and there is a decent amount of fall out, but you can definitely make them work. I took some pictures of several looks and will be posting them slowly. 

So, without further ado, here is the first look I created. If you want to know how I achieved it, keep on reading!

To start off, I began by prepping my eyelids with my UD primer potion and setting that with the shade light pink from my Lorac Pro palette. Please note, the ABH subculture palette does not have a shade to highlight or set primer for those of us that are on the procelain/fair range. The shade Dawn is a tad too dark.

I then picked up the shade Edge, which is a nice yellow toned shadow and applied that to the crease. 

I then applied the shade Axis all over the lid and blended it towards the crease shade. I used an It Cosmetics All over shadow brush. The key with these dark shades is to pick up tiny amounts of product and apply them. I did notice some patchiness but I could easily go back in with some more color and apply over it.

I moisturized my face with my farsali rose oil.

I concealed my under eye circles with my NYX dark circle concealer. I then brightened a bit using Too Faced Born this Way concealer in fair. 

For my face, I used my Sonia Kashuk foundation in 01, bisque. I am honestly not a fan of this foundation. It does not blend well over my face oil and the perfume smell is just too overwhelming!

I set my under eyes with my Laura Mercier secretly brightening powder and a dry beauty blender.

I set my face with my Physicians Formula powder.

I used a clean angled brush to remove excess powder from my under eyes.

For brows, I used my NYX brow pencil and my essence make me brow in brownie brow.

For bronzer, I used my Too Faced Sun bunny.

For blush, I went with Tarte in the shade peaceful, a shimmery coral.

For highlight, I used Angel by UD Gwen face palette.

I set my face using my Mario Badescu Rose water spray.

For mascara, I used my Benefit Roller Lash mascara.

For lips, I used my liquid velvet lipstick from iSOCiETY in the shade on ice, a champagne shimmery shade.

I honestly really enjoyed this palette all month. The shades are beautiful and they are highly highly pigmented. I did notice that there was a ton of fall out from the darker shades so make sure to wipe your under eyes before you proceed with the rest of your makeup or you will smear the color all over your face (learned that the hard way!). Other than that, if you have patience to work with this palette, it is definitely worth it!

Here  is a close up of the darker shades on my eyes:

What are your thoughts? Did you get your hands on this palette?

As usual, thanks so much for reading!

~Naty