It is time for me to buy some new makeup and I need a new or just and updated look.Any suggestions would be helpful.Feel free to completely give me a new look.I am so bored I am game for pretty much anything.

Don't mind the pic it was the only one i could find w/o makeup(okay okay i have concealer on for my hideous dark circles).Jon happened to catch me off guard and snapped away!
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Your skin looks fine without much makeup!
For eyeshadows, I might suggest trying a brown, maybe a green as well. Maybe some of the opulent lustres, they are gorge(Cypress, it seems to pop into my head as a green, for a brown fig.) I strongly suggest eyeshadow samples, as you can try so many shades at a very reasonable price. If you find one you love, I suggest ordering a full size. A pink blush like dolly would look similar to your natural blush, I can't speak for the ROCKS! line, but they get wonderful reviews! For lips, I'd suggest notorious, it looked hideous on my skin tone, but I think it might look good on yours. For a matte brown, I'd suggest trying willow, it looks to be a warm brown. I don't have a sample, but it looks interesting! Let us know what works for you!

Melissa, I know you said you're bored and game for pretty much anything, but I think lifestyle and priorities have a lot to do w/how my own makeup (and even to some degree my clothing style) has evolved over the years: two really big influencing factors have been/are my kids (and how much time I have to myself depending on their ages/needs), and finally figuring out that I can be a mom and still be sexy (something that I think almost every woman struggles with when she becomes a mom, esp for the first time)...

since you're getting ready to enter a whole new and very exciting stage in your life as a mommy, lemme give this some thought and see if I can come up w/a few basic ideas for different looks you could try

*MWAH!*
Tanya

okay Melissa, I've never attempted to make over anyone I've never met in person before, but here's my first shot at helping you (or anyone online, for that matter ) find a new look:

Pure Romance
the idea here is to create a soft, romantic foil for the edgy side of you that's sporting all of those tats

a trick I learned a long time ago from the various makeup artists who'd do my makeup for photo shoots was to do my eyes first - that way any fallout from e/s, esp if you're using dark colours - is easily swept away w/o smudging your foundation, plus we have a tendency to use less foundation (and reduce our risk of looking cakey) when our eyes are already done, so I'm going to start w/your eyes...

we're going to use pink ("the" feminine colour) as your "signature" colour here, and we'll mix in a few other colours to provide some variety while maintaining a cohesive style - I'm only going to do a couple of basic looks, so let's start w/a mid-toned pink like Baby PEf as our core colour and then add other colours around it...

apply an eye shadow primer (I really like the nude-coloured creme e/s's for this), then sweep petit fours Plush over your entire lid; apply baby PEf to the middle 1/3 of your lid, and apply circe Lustre (yes, this is brown, not pink) in the V and crease; using an eye brush w/a small head, apply angel wing PH to the inside of your eyelid right above your tear duct and then also just below your eyebrow. line w/chocolate mousse gel liner, creating a thin line at the inside of your upper lash line and working into a slightly thicker line at the outer corner, "winging" the end slightly up and out (I hope that makes sense!); on the lower lash line, line only halfway under your eye, the line being thicker at the outer corner of your eye and thinning to nothing by the time you reach directly under your pupil; smudge over this w/the circe to soften the liner on the lower lash line, and apply a bit more angel wing to the inner corner of your eye, around and under the tear duct and blending toward the circe. apply a coat of lash primer, then top w/a dark brown (or black-brown) or auburn mascara... do groom your brows, but since I'm the world's worst at doing this myself, I'll leave you to your own devices there... LOL

if you usually apply a bit of concealer under your eyes to cover any dark circles (I can't tell that you have that problem), do that step here, now that your eyes are done - I think you'll be surprised by how finished you look already, and you haven't even done your full face yet!

now, from what I can tell from your pix, you have beautiful skin, but I seem to recall you mentioning that you do have a bit of redness in places, so let's tone that down w/a bit of Coquille Vert applied very lightly w/a fluffy brush. apply your usual foundation, apply dolly GL rouge just on the apples of your cheeks, and whisk whisper Perle over your cheekbones to create a soft highlight. using a fiber-optic face brush, apply plum blossom DR FP very sparingly to the center of your forehead, down the center of your nose, on the tip of your chin, and to the apples of your cheeks (I find that this gives the impression of a dewy complexion); finish everything off w/a final THIN layer of URFP in english rose.

lips are simple, w/a light application of smitten Lustre NCC.

to change up the basic eye, substitute circe w/other colours that coordinate w/a "core" pink - for example, to amp this up for a night out, simply go over the circe w/burnt roses GL, making sure you blend well, esp under the lower lash line, and apply lisette BN over the baby PEf.

I hope this is helpful for a first attempt if you'd like me to try another, totally different look for you, just LMK...

*MWAH!*
Tanya