NFL cheerleader Laura Vikmanis: how to video for NFL opening game look

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Hey Gorgeous!
Are you ready for some football? The NFL season
opens up on September 8th with the New Orleans Saints and Green Bay Packers.
This beautiful single mom is NFL Ben-Gals cheerleader for the Cincinnati Bengals NFL team.
What's so special you say?
She is the oldest cheerleader in the NFL-and that's something to brag about because she auditioned at age 39 after her husband made the
decision to break up his family for a younger woman.
Laura Vikmanis is obviously bright, intelligent and beautiful because she pursued a dream of becoming a cheerleader.
She didn't maket the cut the first year-but, she kept working towards her dream and made it a reality the following season!

Ms. Vikmanis is now 42, gorgeous, and still on the cheerleading team as a Cincinnati Ben-Gal.

The NFL season is starting and you can get cheerleader ready with this short how to video!
Here is a list of the products I used:
YBF face primer
Avon Extra Lasting foundation
Josie Maran lip/cheek stain marker in Cha Cha
Milani Baked Blush in Bellissimo Bronze
Jemma Kidd Pro wrinkle serum/concealer for eyes
Too Faced Insurance eyelid primer
Makeup Designory summer palette
Milani LiquifEye in purple
L'Oreal Voluminous in black
Jordana lip liner in Mahogany
Avon Extra Lasting lipstick in X50
L'Occitane Pivoine Flora in Rose Ballerine
Tools: Eco Tools smudger and kabuki brush, Arbonne eyeshadow brushes, Trucco powder brush


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Pirates of the Caribbean 4: Captain Jack Sparrow-how to get your pirate on

Hi Gorgeous! Argghhh! Matey!
Welcome my model Teddy who in a few short photos is going to get his Captain Jack Sparrow look on and be ready for the premeire of Pirates of the Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides starring Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz.
In this first photo, the face is clean and moisturized.


Next I apply 'sunburn' to his cheeks using Milani baked eyeshadow in "I Heart You".
Captain Jack Sparrow photos seem to always show him with a bit of flush to his cheeks and it's either a sunburn or the rum!




Next I use Luminess Airbrush tanning system to brown and bronze over the sunburn of the cheeks and just give the fair skin a very sun kissed tan look.
*Note* This Luminess Airbrush tanning system is so easy to use! Stay tuned for a how to video!




I begin to apply Captain Jack Sparrow's defining facial hair. I mention it in the video-I bought at the last minute from a party shop a "Jack" facial hair kit-but it has the consistency of a rug!
To do it over, I suggest and plan to visit the real costume shop/theatre makeup place and get some spirit gum and a moustache, soul patch, and goatee.

While the glue is setting-sort of-but not very well-I begin to apply the trademark eyeshadow/eyeliner of Captain Jack Sparrow. It at first appears messy and smudgey but it is actually very precise!
1. I rim the eye with Makeup Designory Moss shadow
2. I use Ardell black matte shadow to 'line' over the Moss shadow which is a green gold fleck shadow. In the still photos of Johnny Depp it sometimes


brown? Sometimes purple? I just happened to have this gorgeous green on hand! Use the color you feel best in!
3. I take Sheercover Espresso Shot creme eyeliner and make the defined line around the eye.

Now! Half way there! I have one eye made up
and the other is being done in the how to video.
I add on the hair extensions. I am using my dark brown Dancing with the Stars pieces. There are two layers of Go!Go! on him. I did some braids and added a few pieces. I can't seem to tell in the photos what that bone/defeathered looking feather is that hangs off the top of Capt. Jack's bandana.
Now, the look is complete and Teddy is ready
for a Pirates of the Caribbean 4 movie premiere party!
On a side note-getting your pirate on is for any age, race, size, shape, or gender!
Here is my Mancub-in full Captain Jack Sparrow HMU!
No rum for the kid though!
Enjoy the how to video and I've also posted the funny trailer for the movie. I like that it's not the traditional scene by scene trailer. Enjoy!





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Hello Gorgeous!

If summer fun is in your future-as it is in mine-you may want to try a brow sealer to help hold the very full brow look that is being worn this spring/summer.

I have tried the Makeup Designory brand and like it!

Vote-with your comments on which brow you think is actually held up in place? Do you think it's the left? Or the right?

Then, visit http://mudshop.com/ because they have so much to offer from product to classes!

Enjoy
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Hello friends and fam! Welcome to my first ever contest where you get to vote and decide on which "look" I'm going to wear to a benefit concert. I am using two different product lines and each is really lovely! The first in this post is product featured from Makeup Designory, which I think is pronounced 'dee sigh nor ee' and not dez sig nor ee, which is how I said it in the video. Sorry about that!

Now what you are looking at here on the left is the lovely makeup bag that came filled with all sorts of goodies!

Specifically:

one super soft black eyeliner

one quad palette of shimmer/matte shadows ( and boy do these have a high pigment load!)

The quad is magnetic and the colors can be changed out as you like! Or custom mix your faves!

a sheer pink cheek color called rose petal

and a sheer lipgloss called java

Now in the photo to the left I have on a quick day look and I used all the products you see in the photos. Alas! Knowing that I have to travel this weekend to attend the concert I started to create a look to go with this lovely green shirt that I just got! So this is the beauty of makeup: you can make it what you want and change it whenever you want!

So please watch the videos and comment on which is the better look to wear to the concert.

Now, about the concert: http://www.oneloveforchi.com money is being raised for Chi Cheng from The Deftones. After an accident he has been in a coma like state and his insurance dropped him and his whole family. So now is the time to come together and share some love and some money too. Any and every bit helps so visit the website, donate, come out to the free concert and if you like, vote on which look I should wear to it! Enjoy!



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