In the past couple of years I have gotten pretty good at doing makeup, and I love doing it!  I’ve had fun sharing some of my video makeup tutorials with you, and last month, I even had the honor of doing one of my friend’s makeup for her wedding day!

Doing my friend Angie’s makeup for her wedding day.  Captured by her photographer, Luke Eshelman Photography.  If you are looking for a great photographer in the Washington, DC area, he’s your guy!

At BlissDom last weekend, I also got to make up my roommates, my co-blogger Emily and my good friend Cortney.  Mary Kay generously sent Emily and I makeup to wear at BlissDom and I had a great time using it to play up Emily’s and Cortney’s beautiful features, in addition to creating my own makeup looks.  Here’s how our faces turned out!

Cortney is one of my best friends in “real life” and I see her usually at least once a week. I have been dying to get my makeup brushed on her beautiful face for awhile because I am weird like that! I started with Mary Kay concealer and mineral powder foundation in Ivory 2.  I used a lovely neutral pinky-beige blush, called Shy Blush on her cheeks, and just above that applied some mineral highlighting powder in Pink Stardust to add some shimmer.  Since we were doing a night time look, I went a little darker with her eyes.  I applied Mary Kay mineral eye color in the light shimmery cream color, Crystalline on her browbone and lid to highlight, then I used the gray-brown Granite in the crease of her eye to add depth.  For a little extra drama, I added Espresso a dark brown-gray in a “V” on her lashline and the outer edge of her crease.  Then I blend, blend, blended it all together.  Finally, I used Mary Kay lip liner in neutral (my favorite!) to line and fill in her lips, then topped that off with Frosted Rose lipstick and a little Nourishine lip gloss in Pink Diamonds in the center of her top and bottom lip.

Emily let me do her makeup this past summer at BlogHer, so I was pleased she let me give it another go!  For her look, I also used Mary Kay concealer and mineral powder foundation in Ivory 2.  Her blush is another one of my favorites, Sunny Spice.  It’s a great color!  I also used mineral highlighting powder on her brow bone.  Emily had on a gorgeous blue dress and she has gorgeous blue eyes so I wanted to bring them out.  I used Crystalline mineral eye color on her browbone and lid to highlight, then used a rich, shimmery dark brown called Chocolate Kiss in the crease.  To really make her eyes pop, I used Mary Kay eyeliner in navy.  She wore Mary Kay Ultimate Mascara in deep brown to complete her eye makeup.  On her lips, I used two of my favorites, neutral lip liner with Mocha Freeze lipstick, and applied a dab of Cream & Sugar lip gloss to finish off her glamorous look.

Of course, I also did my own face.  And of course, since I am a makeup junkie, I used more product on myself that I did anyone else!  Here’s a couple of shots of the colorful makeup look I did for Friday during the day.

I used Mary Kay concealer and mineral powder foundation in Ivory 1.  For my cheeks, I used a lighter, shimmery shade called Sparkling Cider.  I used mineral highligher in Pink Stardust above my cheekbones, and mineral bronzer in Desert Sands just below my blush to create some facial contour.  On my eyes, I highlighted my lid and browbone with Crystalline, then used Raisin in the crease of my eye.  To add some more drama, I used Navy Blue eye color and made a “V” in the outer part of my crease and my lashline.  I topped it off with navy eyeliner and deep brown Ultimate mascara.  For my lips, it was neutral liner, Frosted Rose lipstick, and Fancy Nancy lip gloss.  I wanted to go a little more subtle with the lip color and blush with this look because there was so much color on my eyes.

So there you have it!  All of these makeup looks would be great for YOU to try!  Thanks again to Mary Kay for helping us bring beauty to BlissDom!