Red Lip Nation: The One Where Lucas and Dante Do My Makeup

Not terribly long ago, in the world of online video makeup challenges, there was one going around where the makeup artist would have their boyfriend do their makeup. You can watch a few of my favorites here and here. I would totally love to do that challenge. I'm not sure that my husband would love to do it, but I told my first born about it earlier tonight. I asked if he thought Dad would do it, and he said he didn't know, but that he would give it a shot. His friend Dante is spending the night tonight, and, ever the competitor, he decided they could split my face down the middle and each do half.

I mean, why not?

I brought all of my makeup downstairs to the basement mancave where they were playing xbox. I told them the only rules were that they had to use different stuff, no product overlap, and they had to try and make me look nice.

First off, can I just say, watching the two of them try to figure out what the heck they were doing was friggin precious. They both looked like they were on some archeological dig, looking at things from another civilization. I should have taped this experience, except they literally took an hour, and I'm not sure folks would watch for that long. They both agreed that makeup makes no sense, but that putting it on is harder than it looks.

So first, our brave participants:

Who better to do a face full of makeup than two 13 year old football players?

I let them pick all of their own products from my collection. Probably 20-30 minutes of this hour process was them picking stuff out, and trying to figure out what it was. Lucas (my beautiful first born, in the red) totally broke up one of my eyeshadows with his giant banana hands, so they both learned how to re-press eye shadow with mineral oil. Maybe they can use that skill to impress a girl one day.

So without further ado, here are their products of choice:

Dante:

He selected two Ulta brand eye shadow palettes, a sephora eyeshadow palette, Benefit They're Real Mascara and an Ulta eyeliner pencil. Not pictured is the lipstick he chose, which is Laura Geller Liquid Lipstick in the shade Fuchsia Fever. The grand total cost for all of this makeup is probably somewhere around $70.

Lucas:

Lucas chose an Ulta blush/contour/highlight palette, Bye Bye Undereye, Essence Nudes Palette and False Lash Mascara, Smashbox Always Sharp Eyeliner, Too Faced Air Buffed BB Cream, Balm Voyage II Palette and Besame Victory Red Lipstick, all of which comes to about $180. We always tease my boy about having champagne taste and caviar dreams, and it turns out we were right.

Ready to see their handiwork?

Are you sure???

It's pretty awesome!!!