FOTD - Hollister Skirt Inspired

So I bought this super cute blue, green and yellow Hollister Skirt, I'll put a pic up later, but this morning I saw it and thought of my new Alexander McQueen for MAC eyeshadows. So here's my FOTD:

Face

MAC Mineralize Foundation in NW25 (Foundation)

MAC Studio Sculpt Foundation (Concealer)

MAC Mineralize Skinfinish in Medium (Powder), Medium Deep (Contour) and Soft and Gentle (Highlight)

MAC Powder Blush in Pink Swoon

Eyes

Alexander McQueen for MAC Eyeshadows in Pagan (Lid) and Haunting (Crease)

MAC Eyeshadows in Brule (Blending) and Shroom (Highlight)

GOSH Velvet Touch Eyeliner in Alligator

MAC #7 False Lashes

MAC Plush Lash in Plush Black

MAC Eye Brows in Lingering

Lips

MAC Frost Lipstick in Angel

MAC Lustreglass in Morning Glory

xoxo

Alligatorrrr

Just a quickie post as I'm off to bed in a sec! I wasn't planning a review of this or anything but I have gone crazy for my GOSH Velvet Touch Eyeliner!! It has everything: staying power, pigment, ease of use.. the list goes on!

The day I bought this I swatched it for you guys, what I didn't say in the post was that after swatching I tested it's staying power, I figured if it could really stand up to handwashing, sanitizing, showering, blah, blah, blah then it would be worth the money. Well, this took 3 DAYS to come off properly, and now I've started using it regularly I have to use a heavy duty oil-based removed to get it off. The colour is gorgeous (see below!). It applies fully pigmented first time with great coverage. I can't praise this product enough and I'm so happy I just happened to grab it off the GOSH counter! I love wearing this in my lower lash line for work as a quick snap of colour, but it worked amazingly well as an eyeshadow base too!

Well... I have to sleep! Hope you all had a great Sunday and well done to all you marathon runners!


xoxo

Jeweled Eyes

So here's the second installment in my Rae Morris Series :) 

I used my Sleek Original and Sunset Palettes so all the colours you need can be found there, obviously MAC, NARS, NYX, etc., etc. do the same colours so you can use whatever you want! This look is super easy so have a go and email me pics or blog about how you did!! I love seeing what you guys can do! So here we go...

Prime your eyes as you normally would, with whatever you personally use. Here I have used a MAC Paint Pot in Painterly and dusted MAC Mineralize Skin Finish in Medium over the top to aid blending later on.

Using a fluffy dome brush (like a MAC 217) to blend a light coral into your crease. I've used one from the Sunset Palette.

Pack an intense purple all over your lid, you could use pigment or eyeshadow for this. Use a clean brush to blend this into the coral, then intensify the purple towards the lash line if necessary. If you want a really intense colour wet your brush before applying the colour.

Line your lower lash line with an aqua green, again wet the brush first if you want a more precise and intense line but leave it dry if you want a smudged look.

Next line your waterline with a green liner, I used a Gosh Velvet Touch in Alligator.

Finish the look with a champagne coloured highlight, falsies and mascara.

And there you have beautiful Jeweled Eyes :)

xoxo

Ocean Sunset

Hey girls!

So today I had my second driving lesson.. and there were lovely clear blue skies and I was inspired! For a long time I have wanted to re-create my Orange look that I did last year. Apparently since then I've gotten worse at eyeliner :( so this isn't quite the same, I also can't find my Liquidlast Liner so treat this more as an 'interpretation'. I also headed into London to get my hair cut and hit up Selfridges & Co. to shop around Illamasqua and MAC (haul to come!!) so this is what I wore :)

(excuse the stupid face pleasee)

(still getting used to my new camera and it's crazy flash!)

Well I hope you like it :) I never thought I could really pull off Orange! But I might try more of this kind of thing!

What else do you guys want to see? Tutorials.. Looks.. Themed Looks..??

Welllll.. My friends parents are stranded in Switzerland due to the volcanic ash airspace closure over the UK so I'm off over to hers to cook dinner and stay the night because she's out of money and lonely! Happy Saturday!

xoxo

Green & Blue

Hey guys!

Wow it has been over a week since I last posted.. disgraceful I know! So the other night I was messing around with colours with my friend who works at MAC and we came up with this... I can't remember the exact products (I need to learn to write them down!) but most of them are hers so I can't go look, so I've just put an approximate list on the end of the post.

Sorry for the awful photo quality! A few of the pictures are just photo booth on my laptop..

(Eeek Scary Eyebrows!!)

 

MAC Green Stroke Paint Pot (I think?!)(Lid Primer)

MAC Sunny Spot e/s (Lid)

MAC Lucky Green e/s (Inner Corner & Blended Up)

MAC Atlantic Blue e/s (Again I think?! But any bright blue will do!) (Crease & Outer Corner)

MAC Waveline Fluidline (Liner)

MAC #12 False Lashes

Duo Lash Glue

MAC Plush Lash Mascara

MAC Lingering Brow Liner

First pic is obviously the best quality.. but I figured you guys deserve some close ups!

Let me know what you think my lovelies!

xoxo

Neutral

Hey everyone!

So this is a look from a few weeks ago, I'm actually really proud of it! I just wanted a simple but sexy look and one happened to come up on MakeUpGeek  for making blue eyes pop. I changed it up a bit because I didn't have the right blue eyeshadows for it to work. I also added MAC #4 lashes for some glam! The link to the original tutorial is:

http://www.makeupgeek.com/tutorials/makeup-for-blue-eyes/

Hope you all like it!

 

MAC Bare Study Paint Pot (Primer)

MAC Woodwinked e/s (Lid)

MAC Cork e/s (Crease)

MAC Brule e/s (Highlight)

MAC Black Tied e/s (Outer V)

MAC Carbon e/s (Outer Third)

MAC Shroom e/s (Inner "Pop")

MAC Blacktrack Liner

MAC #4 Lashes

MAC Plush Lash

 

Orange

Okay! So this was going to be a competition entry but I didn't get good enough pictures and I didn't think it was really a good enough effort. I really like the colours and want to try something like this again soon. This was a look I did with a friend who is a professional makeup artist, the other eye was better because she did it and I copied the technique on this eye, but I wanted to show you guys my poor effort!

 

I think this had MAC's Rule and Paradisco on the lid and I think used the Penultimate Liner Pen and Liquidlast Liner in Blue Horizon.

Really want to have another go at this soon!

xoxo

Purple

This is definately one of my best pieces so far, definately the best I have done on a friend!

 

(Click to see bigger!)

First time I've applied lashes to someone else too (much easier than doing it on yourself!) If I remember correctly I used:

MAC Bare Study Paint Pot (Primer)

MAC Seedy Pearl e/s (inner corner)

MAC Stars 'n' Rockets e/s (lid)

MAC Plumage e/s (crease)

MAC Dazzlelight e/s (highlight)

MAC Smoulder Kohl Liner

Close up of the eye:

  

All thoughts welcome...

xoxo

Turquoise

Hey!

Well right now I'm talking to no one since no one reads this yet! Hopefully it will be picked up on soon!

Back in November this was my first go at really experimenting with colour. I watched had help from a friend with shaping and how to use black in the outer third of the eye and not making it look too harsh. For a first attempt I'm pretty pleased with the result:

 

(Sorry for the quality!! Click to see better!!)

Close up of the eyes:

 

I can't remember the products I used, unfortunately they belong to my friend! Once I get to more recent looks I will post swatches alongside them!

Let me know what you think! 

 xoxo