The original tutorial can be found here, if I’ve not mistaken in the February 2006 archive or September 2005 archive.

http://xiaxue.blogspot.com

Products used: 

[face]

Shiseido 2 way cake

Estee Lauder bronzer

[eyes]

Silkygirl brow pencil in soft black

Shiseido brown contrast duo e/s

Shiseido pn pink cream e/s

Fasio mascara base

Clarins volumizing mascara

Lancome eye kohl

[lips]

Ettusais pink lipstick

1. Start off with a clean and moisturized face.

2. Wet your sponge and apply powder foundation.

Quote from Xiaxue, “Do it in the direction your facial hair grows.”

3. Massage your face in circular motion. *like washing your face - i find that this makes the powder blend in with your skin better, giving it a more natural effect*

4. Pick up some light gold eyeshadow and apply it to your lids.

5. Next, take some pink eyeshadow (or whichever colour which suits your outfit for the day) and apply it according to the shape of your eye socket.

Like so:

5. Then add some brown eyeshadow for a smokey effect. *dark purple would look great on a night out*

 7. Line your lower lids with a pencil liner and smudge it with your pinky.

8. Curl lashes.

9. Apply mascara base.

10. While waiting for the base to dry up, I draw in my brows first. Only use light strokes at the end of your brows for amore natural effect. You wouldn’t want to end up looking like Shin Chan.

11. Black mascara goes on.

12. Blusher on the apples.

13. Dab some lipstick on your finger, then gently pat it on your lips.

Quote from Xiaxue, “don’t spread it on your lips because it is very dry and will be too thick and pasty. Instead, PAT the lipstick on your lips.”

Done!~

First, you want to open the picture that you wish to edit. Resize it to whatever size you want it to be. In this case, I have chosen a cute picture of my bf and my puppy, Smokey sleeping/falling asleep; resized it to 500×375px.

Next, create a duplicate layer of the picture by holding the ctrl key and the “j” key. You may rename it to whatever you want at this point but as you can see, I have left it as “Layer 1 copy”.

As per the picture above, change the settings to “overlay” from “normal”.

Your picture should now look like this.

Then, go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur.

Choose a radius of 4.0pixels. Your picture should start to look great already (as u can see in the background of the above picture).

Now, create a duplicate of the “Layer 1 copy”. When you do this, you will see that the “original picture” has now changed to “background” and the “layer 1 copy” has now changed to “layer 1″ and the latest duplicate will be called “layer 1 copy”. I hope this doesn’t confuse anyone. It’s pretty much common sense. This time change the settings of the latest duplicate to “screen”.

Oh no! The picture is now too bright.

No worries, fix this by changing the opacity to 50%.

Now your picture is perfect. You can stop here if you want.

For a more polished look, select the “background” layer, choose the blur tool and run it through your subject’s face.

For better precision, enlarge the picture and toggle the size of the brush.

This is how your final product should look like. Nice and dreamy looking right? You can stop here if you want.

However, I decided to go a step further and fade the edges of my picture for an even more dreamy effect. Choose the “brush” feature and choose a soft brush as you can see in the picture above.

I used white as the brush color but you can feel free to use any other color that you want. Run the brush carefully all along the corners of your picture. Your picture should then look liek this.

This is MY final product. I added the words “sweet dreams” and some hearts.

 That is the end of my tutorial. I hope you enjoyed that and have found it useful. Have fun photoshop-ing!!!

Hi this is my first post here Comments are most welcomed. Enjoy!

Products used:

Face:

Silkygirl 2way cake

Baby Pink cheek jelly in natural pink

KATE concealer

Baby Pink milky base

Eyes:

Ettusais gold pigment stick

Jordana auto-pencil eyeliner

ZA cutie curl volume mascara

Lips:

Silkygirl lipgloss in peach nectar

Tools:

Cyber Colours eyelash curler

1. Wash your face clean, apply moisturizer and lipbalm.

2. Smooth on a primer/base to even out your skintone a little bit and it helps control oil plus your make up stays longer too.

Blend blend blend!

4. Pat on 2 way cake and smooth it with your finger tips to make sure it blends in well with your complexion for a flawless finish.

p/s patting on your powder foundation gives it a lighter and more natural finish

5. Apply gold e/s or pigment onto your eye sockets. (too much will make you look a tad bit like a hooker or drag queen). Blend again.

6. Draw a thick line on your top eyelid with a pencil/liquid liner.

9. Fill in the space with pencil liner or black e/s.

10. Use the same gold pigment or e/s to draw the front part of your lower eyeline. Blend it again.

13. Apply lipgloss as usual.