How To Get The Look - Seductive Siren

This tutorial is for a gorgeous look that uses shades from our new Hot Brights summer makeup line. The shades are vibrant and bold, which is perfect for summer skin, but the best part is that this look seems more involved than it actually is. It’s an easy look with a major payout.

Face

• Begin with an evenly applied foundation. In the summertime, with the humidity and the heat, I like to use Oil Free Foundation with SPF 15 in shade 04. If all goes well, I’ll be a shade 05 by the end of the summer!

• Prime your lids with Matte It Face & Lips. This will help ensure that your bold look doesn’t get hijacked by creasing or melting.

• Take your shade of the tinted Glow Enhancer and either apply all over your face, or just in certain spots you want to catch the light, like cheekbones or the top of your nose. This isn’t a sparkly product by any means. It’s a very subtle shimmer that goes on smoothly, like foundation but with a lighter consistency.

• Next, take Hot Brights Blush Shade 02: Bronze Horizon and sweep the lighter shade all over your face with the Face & Body Brush. Take the darker golden shade and apply just to the apples of the cheeks using the Blusher Brush.

• Take the Lip & Cheek Stain Shade 02: Coral Sand and use the stain side to place 3 little dots diagonally on your cheekbone. Blend upward using your fingers in a light stroke. This will help bring an added flush of color to the area.

Eyes

The eyes are super intense, but really very easy to do. I’ll take you through the steps with photos.

• First, use the Hot Brights Eyeliner Shade 01: Purple Haze to color in the lid. This eyeliner is very creamy and will create a sticky base for your eye color to hang on to all day long.

• Next, take the fluffy Eyeshadow Blender Brush and dampen it slightly. Pack Hot Brights Eye Color Shade 01: Violet Sunset (the darker shade) onto the brush and blend over your entire eyelid. You can also pull the color down underneath your eye, but don’t go any further than ¼ of the way in. You can take the color up as high as you want to, and blend out the corners in either a rounded or pointed shape. It’s up to your boldness preference.

• Next take Hot Brights Eyeliner Shade 02: Sapphire Sea and glide underneath the lower lash line. Then take the Slanted Brush and Hot Brights Eye Color Shade 02: Pearly Sky and apply the darker shade over the eyeliner to intensify the shade. Take the lighter shade and gently touch it to the corner of the eye to brighten. You can also use this lighter shade as your under-eyebrow highlight to further open the eye.

• Put on 2 full coats of your favorite mascara (mine is Divide & Multiply in black).

Finish up with a coat of Lip & Cheek Stain Shade 02: Coral Sand gloss on your lips. This look is really very focused on the intense eyes, so just make sure the rest of your makeup is subtle and golden. You don’t need your eyes and lips competing for attention.

Here’s the final look with the eyes. Enjoy!

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