Some makeup inspiration from Allure and Nylon

I?ll be the first person to admit that I get stuck in makeup ruts. Smoky, neutral and/or brown ? any of the above, and I?ll wanna wear it.
I?m gonna fall back on human nature as my excuse/explanation? I think it?s just human nature to do what you think you?re pretty good at and what you?re comfortable with.
Right now, though, I?m on a mission to challenge myself in my life, and not just with makeup, so here?s to trying new things, yay!
This morning I sat in bed with the new issues of Allure and Nylon and a stack of Post-Its and bookmarked every look that caught my eye; I wrote down all of the little details I like about the looks on the Post-Its.
My plan is to try all of them over the next 30 days. (I recently came to the realization that I do better with projects when they have concrete deadlines? Yeah, the things you learn about yourself in your 40s!)
All over this like WHOA

Some of the looks are trademark Karen Makeup Crack®, like this one with smoky taupe gray, but I also picked some looks that are well out of my comfort zone, like the Chanel look, which seems deceptively simple, but that black line on her upper lash line is so perfectly precise that I can already tell that it?s gonna take all of my willpower to NOT smudge the living crap out of it.

Minimalist nude eyes with thin, precise black liner

I also took of some colorful looks that I would normally never think to try, like a glittery minimalist cut crease...