Light Spring Makeup Kit

In this post I’m giving you a peek into my professional makeup kit, at all the products I use for my Light Spring clients.

I also show you how to create custom palettes and eye looks using these products.

Enjoy!

Products

Eyeshadow

Top row: Shell, Suburbia, Mermaid Green

2nd row: Banana, Golden Apricot, Taupe, Mink Stole

3rd row: Rapunzel, Let Me Explain, Shimma Shimma, Ringer, Hipster, Chestnut-Napped Apalis

Bottom row: Hear Me Out, Ready Or Yacht, Issues, Lay Low, Wait For It

Ben Nye Banana, Golden Apricot, Mermaid Green, Mink Stole, Shell, Taupe

Colour Pop Hear Me Out, Issues, Lay Low, Let Me Explain, Ready Or Yacht, Ringer, Wait For It

Makeup Geek Hipster, Rapunzel, Shimma Shimma

Rouge Bunny Rouge Chestnut-Napped Apalis

Sugarpill Suburbia

These eyeshadows all come in tin pans that can be put into a magnetic palette. The Colour Pop, Makeup Geek and Rouge Bunny Rouge shadows will fit in 26mm wells; the Ben Nye and Sugarpill shadows will fit in 37mm wells. They’ll all, obviously, fit in a freestyle magnetic palette.

The Ben Nye shadows can be used both wet and dry – applying with a damp brush is useful for intensifying colour and shine, and for eyeliner.

There is a good range here of shimmers and mattes in the neutral and peachy colour families, which are the most useful for day-to-day makeup, while Mermaid Green is a fun, colourful shimmer shadow with a perfect name for this tone.

As you’d expect, most of these shadows are in the lighter range. If you’d like to use eyeshadow as your eyeliner, as I do, I recommend Mink Stole as a darker colour that’s still within the palette.

The shadows I use on clients most frequently are Shell, Banana, Taupe and Mink Stole. For brows I usually use Taupe.

Mascara

Taupe, Ginger Brown

Ben Nye Taupe

Just For Redheads Ginger Brown

Blush

Bliss, Romance, XOXO, Strawberry

Ben Nye Strawberry

Makeup Geek Bliss, Romance, XOXO

These blushes all come in tin pans that can be put into a magnetic palette. Strawberry will fit in a 37mm well, but the Makeup Geek blushes will need a freestyle palette.

Suburbia eyeshadow, shown above, also doubles as a lovely blush.

Lipstick

Mighty Mimosa, Corail In Love, Flamingo

Clinique Mighty Mimosa

Lancôme 322M Corail In Love

MAC Flamingo

Palettes

I’ve written already about how to make your own custom palette. You can use any of the products listed above, in any of the magnetic palettes linked in that post, to create your ideal palette.

To get you started, I’ve put together some example palettes for Light Spring.

Eyeshadow Palettes

4 well palette from Coastal Scents, similar palettes also available from Nyx and Anastasia Beverly Hills

Clockwise from top left: Hear Me Out, Issues, Chestnut-Napped Apalis, Wait For It

5 small/3 large well palette from eBay

Top row: Banana, Golden Apricot, Mink Stole

Middle row: Hear Me Out, Lay Low

Bottom row: Let Me Explain, Issues, Chestnut-Napped Apalis

Freestyle palette from Salt New York in French Grey, also available in Black

Large pans:

Top row: Shell, Banana

Middle row: Mermaid Green

Bottom row: Taupe, Mink Stole

Small pans:

1st row: Rapunzel, Let Me Explain, Shimma Shimma

2nd row: Hear Me Out, Ready Or Yacht

3rd row: Issues, Lay Low, Wait For It

4th row:: Ringer, Hipster, Chestnut-Napped Apalis

Eyeshadow & Blush palettes

8 large well palette from Ben Nye

Top row: Shell, Golden Apricot, Suburbia, Strawberry (blush)

Bottom row: Banana, Taupe, Mink Stole, Mermaid Green

5 small/3 large well palette from eBay

Top row: Strawberry (blush), Suburbia, Mink Stole

Middle row: Hear Me Out, Issues

Bottom row: Let Me Explain, Ready Or Yacht, Chestnut-Napped Apalis

Large freestyle palette from Colour Pop

Top row: Rapunzel, Let Me Explain, Shimma Shimma, Ringer, Hipster, Chestnut-Napped Apalis

Middle row: Hear Me Out, Ready Or Yacht, Issues, Lay Low, Wait For It

Bottom row (blushes): XOXO, Romance, Bliss

Eye Looks

I used Taupe mascara in all the looks below.

These first three looks are simple, easy and wearable. They use 1, 2 or 3 eyeshadows, so it’s up to you how much or how little you want to do.

1 Eyeshadow

I used Issues on the lid and up to slightly above the socket.

2 Eyeshadows

To the previous look, I added Wait For It through the socket.

3 Eyeshadows

To the previous look, I added Chestnut-Napped Apalis on the outer corner.

I haven’t used liner in these three looks, but you certainly could if you prefer.

These next three include looks with more colour or drama, but the first two are still simple to do. The last is a more involved, dramatic look, great for the evening. While these may not seem as intense as the True Spring or Bright Spring iterations I’ve done previously, these will be dramatic on a Light Spring, without veering too heavy or too dark.

Colourful Liner

I used Mermaid Green with a damp liner brush.

Smoky Eye

I used Taupe all over the lid, up to just above the socket, and under the lower lashline, and the same with Mink Stole, but not blending it out as far. I also used Shimma Shimma around the tear duct.

Dramatic Eye

I used:

Shell under the brow

Banana just below shell

Suburbia through the socket

Shimma Shimma around the tear duct

Golden Apricot on the lid

Taupe on the outer corner out to a winged shape, to deepen the socket, and along the lower lashline

Mink Stole to deepen the outer corner

I used the mascara with an angled liner brush to create the flicked liner.

For some reason, in the closed eye picture the Golden Apricot on the lid is not appearing shimmery at all, but in real life it definitely is, especially applied with a damp brush.

And that’s it! Happy makeup-ing to all the beautiful Light Springs out there.

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