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How To Do A Simple Half Cut Crease 

Materials used in this tutorial: 

• Too Faced Primed & Poreless Primer
• Tarte Shape Tape Concealer
• Elf Small Angled Brush
• Morphe M433 Brush: fluffy blending brush
• Morphe M441 Brush: firm blending brush
• Anastasia Beverly Hills Soft Glam Eyeshadow Palette 
• Anastasia Beverly Hills Norvina Eyeshadow Palette 

Extra materials that could be used:

• Stila Glitter and Glow Liquid Eye Shadow

Step 1) Prime your entire eyelid with any primer of your choice. You could use eyeshadow primer or you could also use concealer. The primer will help the eyeshadow go on smooth and pigmented.

NOTE: Your concealer should be one shade lighter than your natural skin color or foundation.

Step 2)(Above) Use your fluffy blending brush to apply your transition shade to the crease of your eye. Depending on what kind of look you are going for, the transition shade should be a medium shade. A light matte brown, warm or cool, serves as a    great transition shade.
NOTE: Something a little darker than your skin tone will ease the transition from skin to shadow. 

Step 3)(Above) Use your firm blending brush to apply darker browns and neutrals to deepen your crease. Apply in the outside corner of your eye and slightly over your transition shade in the crease.

TIP: Hold the brush upward and at an angle for a softer application.

NOTE: BLENDING IS EVERYTHING. Get rid of those harsh lines by using your blending brushes and going back and forth between your transition shade and dark shade.

Step 4) After the shadows are blended, take your small angled brush and dip it slightly into your concealer. You will want to use the brush and concealer to trace your crease starting from the inner corner of your eye to the middle of your eyelid. 

NOTE: Be sure to make this line sharp and well defined.

Step 5) Now fill in the space beneath the line you made with the concealer in your crease with more concealer. Start from the line in your crease down to the bottom of your eyelid and up until the half way mark where your outline ends.

Step 6) Take your darker shades from step 3 and deepen the line right above your crease with your firm blending brush. Take the deep shades to the outside corner of your eye to make it deeper there as well.

WARNING: Be sure not to place the dark shade right on top of the outline you made with the concealer. Keep the line well defined by placing the dark shade right above the line (like a shadow).

Step 7) Use your transition shade from step 2 and blend in the end of the concealer with the darker shade so that there is no harsh vertical line in the middle of your eyelid.

EXTRA: For a more glam look, take a glitter, either a loose glitter with glitter glue or a shadow from any palette, and apply the glitter right on top of the concealer you put down.

Step 8) Complete your look with your own routine of a full face of makeup as well as eyebrows and lashes!

Trip Report

This weekend I decided to take a trip down to the rose garden with two of my best friends, Kelsea and China. It is hard for me to get around because I don’t have a car and Uber is very expensive. But we ended up getting an Uber anyways. Our ultimate goal for this trip was to take cute pictures of the flowers and ourselves obviously… because what else do you go to a rose garden for?

It was a very nice day. The sun was shining down hard enough so that my eyes were almost non-existent and the areas behind my knees were sweating. I was never a rose lover. I happen to be a tulip and baby's breath fan. But these roses were beyond beautiful. There were so many different colored roses that I’ve never seen before. Everyone looked so happy to be there. We weren’t able to go to the Japanese garden because there was a fee to get in and like I said, we’re on a college student budget. We walked around the rose garden for about 2 hours and then decided to leave and walk around Nob Hill. We went to Urban Outfitters, which is one of my favorite stores, and Levis.

This trip was more than a picture-taking trip for me. It really helped me reflect and get myself together. The past two weeks here has been really hard on me considering I am so far from home. Not trying to sound like a baby or anything but I’ve been crying almost everyday on the phone with my family because I miss them so much. Things are very different here and I am having trouble adjusting. But this trip helped me to realize that things aren’t so bad. I was able to bond with my two friends and understand that they’re here to help me and make this experience the best that it can be.

About Me

About Me
My name is Alaina Kaylie
Kilinahemalieokalani Kedro. My middle name is Hawaiian and was given to me by my aunty who had it given to her in a dream. It means the soft gentle mist from the heavens above. I was born and raised in Kāneʻohe, Hawaiʻi on the island of Oʻahu.


I was raised in a traditional Hawaiian family with Hawaiian morals and values. I am very family oriented being that I have a very blended family. I was raised by my grandparents because my mom was a single parent and had to work a lot in order to provide for me. My mom met my step dad when I was around 1 and he became a really close man in my life. So when people ask, I always say that I have 4 parents. I have a very big family that goes on with our favorite saying "It takes a village." And it really did take a village to raise me. I am so blessed to have had this village as my support system.

I went to an all Hawaiian private school since 4^th grade called Kamehameha Schools. This is where I made all of my friends that I have today including my best friend, Kelsea Casabar, who is a sophomore here at Concordia and also my roommate.

My mom is a flight attendant for Hawaiian Airlines so we fly free. This also means that we travel a lot, which is one of my hobbies. My favorite places to travel to is Japan or Utah.

I was a competitive cheerleader for my school from 6^th grade to sophomore year and I also cheered for Aloha Cheer Academy, which is an all-star team in Hawaii. I stopped cheering because of the three concussions that I got from it. 

My senior year of high school I joined the speech and debate team and competed in Duo Interpretation and Dramatic Interpretation. This became one of my passions. I enjoyed it so much because of my team and just the fact that you could really be yourself with no judgment. 

My music taste includes rap, indie, country, Hawaiian and a lot more. I have a lot of favorite artists like The 1975, Arctic Monkeys, Lana Del Rey, Post Malone, Sam Smith and many more. 

I am a book lover. I love reading any of John Greens books and Jennifer Niven. My favorite book is All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven. 

My short-term goals: 

Quit my habits of procrastination and create better study habits.

Succeed in college and the nursing program. 

Make as many memories as I can and try to be more social and make friends. 

My long-term goals:  

Explore as much of the world as I can and learn about all of the different cultures and religions. 

Become a nurse.

Find a good job

Create a family of my own 

Have a house in the country with my own garden and ranch with many animals.