Graduation Beauty Tutorial

I graduated yesterday! It's been a long 5 years but I finally got to walk the stage. For the last couple weeks I've been thinking about the dress, the hair and the makeup. The dress was the easy part, a nice little summer piece from the Gap... hair and makeup on the other-hand... I don't do my hair and makeup often. It is very rare that I have anything more than mascara on. I watched numerous youtube tutorials about how to get the perfect cat-eye or awesome red lips. Youtube told me it was easy. Youtube told me I'd get it right the first time.... WRONG. It is not easy for someone who never does it. So here is my beauty tutorial for all of you non-makeup wearing regulars.

Also, this song was on repeat as I was getting ready. It's just too catchy!!

Here's the fresh face and washed hair. I used the big bottle of Dove shampoo from Costco and some conditioner I took from a hotel... no costly products here my friends!

I put on, what I find to be the best face cream... because it is the only one I've tried. It's from Kiehl's and it probably has some voodoo ingredients to make my face feel nice. I bought this Dove frizz-proof cream and applied that to my t-shirt dried hair before blow drying. It smells good and my hair felt a bit softer but I still had frizziness. But I looked professional while putting it in, so there's that.  

Now it was time to start on my hair. I had this perfect vision of nice wavy hair. First step: part your hair into chunks... just any chunks. Mine was in two chunks. Don't waste your time with layers and shit... ain't no one got time for that! Also, don't worry about clipping it up nicely. Get the 5-year old pig-tail look going on. I did half my head in four curls and then felt so done with it I needed a bagel break. 

Testing out the hat with my 8 curls hair. Who thought these hats were a good idea? It makes everyone look like they're trying to hide a slight cone head. In order to cover the forehead, I decided to leave the bangs out. I then sprayed some cheap hairspray all over my head and in both my eyes. 

All my makeup products... and they are all old. 

After about 15 minutes on the hair, I moved on to the makeup. I used old makeup. I know it's probably bad for my face but it's nice for my bank account. And honestly, it did not make a difference for the one day.

First, take some powder junk and put it all over your face. I have these nice makeup brushes but I have no idea which one is supposed to be used for what. I chose the brush that looked like it belonged with powder... because of the colour at the end of the brush.

  

Did that even do anything? Maybe

Blush - that is as hard as a rock. I still seem to get enough powder on the brush. Put this somewhere in the cheek area... but not enough to make you look like a China doll. We still want to look classy ladies! 

I used the lighter brown to cover my lid. Brown shadow matches brown eyes.. because brown goes with more brown...or something. Whatever, don't worry about it being perfect, as you can hardly see it. 

I then used the dark gold to do the crease. And yes, I used the same brush during this entire process. I tried to "highlight" my brow and the inner corner of my eyes... and that's as good as it was going to get.

 I used the purple from the above eye-shadow to line my eyes.... and you can't even tell I did that. I debated going over it again and trying to make a thicker line... but then I remembered how lining your eyes is a terrible process. One always looks thicker than the other and then you spend 20 minutes trying to even them out and end up creating a smoky eye that looks like it was done after pre-drinking on a Friday night. 

Thumbs up! Hair curled: 15 minutes. Makeup: 15 minutes. A total of half an hour. Throw on a classy dress that makes me feel like a house wife from the 50's and I was ALMOST reading to go.

Trying to put on the hood. I sent this photo to my friend looking for her guidance on how this thing was suppose to go. I had it right the first time but didn't think so much fabric would just hang there! Another silly graduate accessory. 

One more picture for good measure. My OFFICIAL degree in a beautiful frame from Jordon.

And there you have it. You don't need all those silly tutorials and you don't need to feel awful when you can't achieve the Zooey Deschanel eyes or the Emma Watson lips. It can be a quick and easy process!

-Vanessa xo