The Simon Duncan fashion show had me excited to try out my first ever tutorial for you guys. I have to give a huge round of applause for the ladies and gents that do this on a regular basis because it is a painstaking process - do you know how many pictures and editing goes into it?!

The look was a pretty natural face & a smokey, black eye with gold sparkle in it and very light bronze contour with a neutral lip. The first thing I thought of when I saw this look was my Stila 24k smudge pot. I dug around for some more Stila goodies and created a one brand look.

I'm already a fan of Stila as you may know, their shadows & gel liners are ultra longlasting and apply like silk. Plus - who hasn't had a clickable lipgloss from them? I used them up like candy! Click after the jump to see the good stuff.

A month ago, I had the pleasure of attending the Simon Duncan Fashion Show. The fabrics and models left me in a fashionable frenzy, as I started to think of my upcoming vacation to Barbados & how many outfits I'd love to bring with me straight from the runway. But that wasn't it.

As the show came to a close, I got to thank my lucky stars for not having it during Fashion Week. The models walked around in the ready to wear creations and modeled and posed for closeups. Upon close inspection, said closeups showed a smoldering black shadowed eye with subtle but standout gold shimmer. As I took pictures I vowed to go home and attempt to recreate the look. That's coming tomorrow. Today? Check out the closeups after the jump!

I'm still catching up with posts without doing 5 a day, but I figured I'd let y'all in on something. I went to a Simon Duncan fashion show on Halloween rather than trick or treat. My adventure was most definitely a treat starting from the chic location in Brooklyn, NYC I never heard of (Kai Studios), and the fashion and beauty featured in the show was great. The highlight of the night for me was seeing models that had muscles on top of their bones (albeit still sample size slim), diversity in the ethnicities, and models with attitude. Think of your fave girl from ANTM and they probably walked like them.

My camera was behaving very well that day so I figured I'd dedicate a post stritcly to some photography before I continued with the rest of my story.

Check back for the beauty photos & my first tutorial on the look!