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"If you'd like to try the makeup at home, then I would suggest starting on the outer perimeter of your face with the cool-toned colors first because the warm shades are typically more densely pigmented and get out of control really easily.In all of my posts about Instagram, I spend a lot of time explaining what you should do to see success. "Brightly colored eyeshadows are typically more difficult to blend out so you have to work with them a little bit more," she adds. "And I blended the colors using fluffy blending brushes like the Sugarpill Tapered Blending & Crease Brush." Oh yeah, and she needed a lot of patience, too. "To deposit the color, I used flat shading brushes like the Sugarpill Large Eyeshadow Brush," she tells Allure. Of course, I had to ask Link about the method behind her madness. Once I realized her heat map makeup was just that - makeup - I couldn't stop staring. The colors looks too vibrant and the edges looked too perfect to be done by hand - Link's blending was that seamless. When I first saw the look come up on my Instagram feed, I thought there was a new filter I needed to try out or someone took a picture of her with an infrared camera. She contoured her cheekbones with reds, oranges and yellows and shaded her jawline with a variety of blues. Using colorful Sugarpill eye shadows ( Love+, Flamepoint, Butter Cupcake, Acidberry, Mochi, Velocity, 2AM, and Poison Plum, to be specific), she turned her whole face, including her ears, into a heat map. Over the weekend, she posted her first heat map makeup look. Every day, she posts pictures of herself with completely different makeup looks. For the past 488 day, Link has been participating in the #1000daysofmakeup challenge on Instagram.
