Hello! My Makeup Fun

Hi everyone! I realise the blog has been very quiet of late. I've been busy doing loads of makeup work, photoshoots, films, and fashion shows! It's been rather a whirlwind.

I'll stagger the posts so I don't overwhelm you all at once. Here are some pictures I did with a photographer called Harpers Syan, and model Leone P. Check them out!

She wanted some colourful, eccentric shots for her portfolio, so I whipped out the Sugarpill! On the lips I used Sleek Pout Paints. Eyebrows are Illamasqua powder eyeshadow in Dance.

Tropical Fish Collaboration with Robyn: Dory Eyes!

I've been so bad with the blog lately! Sorry! My makeup for photographic work and college seems to have sucked the creative bug out of me. But I'm back with a tropical fish collaboration with Robyn of Stay Beautiful, which has been in the pipelines a long long time!

We decided to do Nemo and Dory, aka the clownfish and regal blue tang. I did an interpretation of a blue tang on my eyes:



                                 
                            

For the blue, I used Illamasqua powder eyeshadow in Dance. The yellow is Sugarpill Buttercupcake. To blend out the blue, I used Fyrinnae Winter Again.

This is a pretty basic interpretation to be honest, but I'm trying to get back into the swing of blogging still. If you have any ideas of what sort of looks you'd like to see from me, let me know!

Make sure to check out Robyn's look here!

Recent Work

Hi everyone! Just dropping in to let you know what I've been up to. Last week I got the chance to work on a studio photoshoot with Syan Photography, which was great fun and we got some fantastic shots. I hope you agree, here are a few of my favourites:

I don't have enough space here to tell you everything I used, but the bright eyeshadow colours are Sugarpill.

Anyway, I hope you've all had a happy and safe Christmas! See you in the New Year :)

Party in the Park Makeup!

Hi guys! I'm back from my holiday, well rested and ready to go again. After I got back I went to Party in the Park, which is a one-day festival near where I live. The music was not my usual kind of thing, but I still had a good time with some of the girls from my college.

Here's the look I went with:

I used Sleek eyeshadows from the Acid and Curacao palettes, over Too Faced Shadow Insurance and Nyx Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk. For the blue-ish sparkle I used a little of Fyrinnae City Glam: Lights of Kyoto.

Hope you are all enjoying your Summer!

EOTD: Summer Brights

Hi guys, hope you are all well. I've been feeling ill this weekend so I wanted to relax this morning and put some makeup on. Again, I used the Sleek Acid and Caribbean palettes because the warm weather we're having really makes me want to use bright colours.

I used:

Too Faced Shadow Insurance
Nyx Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk
Sleek Acid Palette
Sleek Caribbean Palette
Smashbox Limitless Liquid Liner Pen in Jet Black
Illamasqua Volume Mascara in Harness
Urban Decay Naked and Buck on eyebrows

Hope you enjoy!

P.S. Very soon I will be having a giveaway on my blog, as I am about to reach 100 subscribers! Pass my link on to speed things up ;)

EOTD: Sleek Acid and Caribbean

I'm baaack! Just got an EOTD today. I wanted to wear some bright colours so I used the Sleek Acid and Caribbean palettes.

I used:
Too Faced Shadow Insurance
Nyx Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk
Sleek Acid Palette
Sleek Caribbean Palette
Hi Fi Morbid Faith
Illamasqua Volume Mascara

Hope you like it!

Catching Up

Hey all, sorry for the long gap in posting. I've just completed a big project for college so hopefully now I'll have a bit more time to spend on the blog.

Last Sunday we had some friends round to watch the Superbowl, which was really fun, but very tiring. I live in the UK so it finished around 3am for us! Of course I had to do a makeup look to match the event, so I did a red, white&blue look on my eyes:

The glitter spread around a lot but whatever. I still thought it looked cool. I used Sugarpill eyeshadows, with glitter from The Body Needs and Helen E pressed on top. I also did some face paint on my bf, but I won't show you that haha!

The other exciting thing to happen lately was winning a contest on Wendy's blog Turtle Beauty! Here's a pic of most of the goodies (there was even more but some stuff got passed on to friends or into my kit):

I'm hoping to swatch some of this stuff for you soon, but so far I'm loving it! I was so glad to get my hands on the Day 2 Night eyeshadow quad, it's so pretty. Let me know if there's anything you see here you want a review/swatches of. I also have a cream eyeshadow that's not pictured here, in Dawn.

Rainbow Eyes!

Hello everyone! Today I felt like playing with make-up so I attempted my own version of a rainbow eye. I know it's similar to things I have done in the past but this is my first time doing a true rainbow on the eye.

I photographed it without mascara or any black/grey first because I like how bright and 'clean' it looked, but the lashes do look a bit weird with all that fallout on haha.

In the last picture the lower lashline looks really unblended but it didn't look that bad in real life I swear!

For this look I used:

Too Faced Shadow Insurance
Nyx Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk
Sleek Acid and Curacao palettes.

I hope you like this look!

Eyes of the Day - Tanja's Curacao Look

Today I wanted to recreate a look Tanja did on her blog using the Sleek 
Curaçao Palette. It's smoky yet really colourful and pretty. The colours she picked out go really well together.

Instead of the fluidline she used as a base, I used a Smashbox Cream Eye Liner from their Vixen palette in the Burlesque box. I used the Navy shade.

On my cheeks I used Sleek blusher in Aruba.


From the Curacao Palette on the eyes I used the shades Green Iguana (top right in the palette), Purple Haze (the matte purple), and Singapore Sling (shimmery pink). On the inner corner I used Martini (shimmery cream), and on the brow bone I used a matte skin colour shadow. Black pencil liner is on my waterline and upper lashline, and black mascara on the lashes.

Hope you like this look!

Eyes of the Day - Curacao Palette

Hey everyone! Sorry for being MIA for a while, between having a stye, a cold and loads of work to do, the blogging got kinda pushed down my list of priorities. But I'm back now. I recently received the Sleek Curaçao palette which I really love and have enjoyed playing with very much. I especially love the bright turquoise and blue colours as they are shades which have been missing from my collection. The pigmentation of them is amazing. I previously only had the Acid Palette from Sleek which I love, but this one is more pigmented and easier to apply. So here is the look I did today using colours from the palette.

What I used:


Urban Decay Primer Potion
Sleek Curacao Palette Blue Hawaiian (bright matte turquoise) - lid
Sleek Curacao Palette Purple Haze (matte purple) - outer corner & crease, outer lower lashline
Sleek Curacao Palette Green Iguana (shimmery emerald green) - lower lashline
Sleek Curacao Palette Blue Lagoon (matte bright blue) - lower lashline
Nyx Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk - inner corner
Sleek Curacao Palette Martini (shimmery cream) - inner corner
Sleek Curacao Palette Espresso Martini (matte black) - upper lashline
mascara

Hope you like it!

FOTD: Fyrinnae Sennyo

This is the look I did on Friday night when I went out for a friend's birthday meal. It was really lovely and we had a great time. We went to a Chinese restaurant which I love, ordered a ton of yummy food and drank wine :) I did a look which was quick but I love the combo and my bf always complements it. Sennyo is one of my all-time favourite colours; it's bright but pretty, not to dark, not too blue, and goes with so many other eyeshadows.

I realise there is liner on my lashes, you couldn't tell from a normal distance :p

What I used:

Urban Decay Primer Potion
NYC Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk (inner corner)
Fyrinnae Sennyo - bright pinky purple (lid)
Hi Fi Cosmetics Rockstar Loose Eyeshadow in Top 40 - raspberry pink (crease)
Hi Fi Cosmetics Shadow in In Bloom - bubblegum pink (above crease & inner corner)
Beauty From The Earth Big Ego - deep purple (lower lashline)
Collection 2000 Glam Crystals Dazzling Gel Liner in Le Freak

Hi Fi's In Bloom reminds me of Sugarpill's Dollipop, except loose. I sometimes use it instead because it's easier to get off for me. Dollipop can sometimes stain my eyelids a bit. I love Hi Fi's shadows so much, they're so soft and blendable and the shades are mostly unique :) Hope you like this look!

P.S. I'm thinking of doing some more tutorials soon, maybe how to use glitter eyeliner, and how to wear bright coloured eyeshadow. Let me know if any of you are interested!

Sleek Acid Look

Last night I wanted to use my Sleek Acid palette again, I love it :) I just basically copied xSparkage's look since she made it look so cool, but it's very similar to what I normally do with it. I skipped the black though since I wanted it to be mega bright. I also just got the Nyx Eyeshadow Pencil in Milk so I was excited to try that out. I'm suitably pleased with it :)

It would have probably looked better with false eyelashes I think, but they look weird on me :s So my eyelashes look a bit pants but never mind, I love this look.

Here's what I used:

Eyes
UDPP
NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk
Sleek Acid Palette (yellow, orange, neon pink, raspberry, purple, light blue, green, white)
Rimmel Professional Liquid Eye Line
Mascara

Cheeks
Fyrinnae Glow Blush in Charm

Lips
Collection 2000 Lock n Hold Lipgloss in Body Pop

Hope you like it!

Eyes of the Day - Orange & Purple

Here's a look using some of my favourite shadows. I think it goes really well with green eyes.

What I used:

UDPP
Hi Fi Cosmetics shadow in Mind Manipulator (orange) - lid
Fyrinnae Sennyo (pink-purple) - crease
Fyrinnae Parental Advisory (darker more blue purple) - outer corner & lower lashline
Hi Fi Cosmetics So What (shimmery pink with blue duochrome) - to blend crease upwards.
BeautyUK Pearl Eyeliner in Purple Haze
Accessorize Glitter Eyeliner in Electric Pink


On a side note, the Accessorize eyeliner is running out so fast on me! The tube seems half empty and I've only used it 3-4 times. It's like the Dazzleglass of eyeliners. :( Pretty but disappears too soon.

Makeup Looks: Bright and Neutral

Just thought I'd post a couple of makeup looks since I haven't posted one for a while! I took these pictures for going out last night and Friday night while just about to leave the house, so they aren't the best.

The first one was inspired by a few pictures I'd seen using orange pink and gold, so naturally I used Sugarpill :)

For this look I used:

Urban Decay Primer Potion
Sugarpill Dollipop, Buttercupcake and Flamepoint on the lid.
Goldilux loose eyeshadow wet on the lower lashline.

This one was inspired by Robyn of Stay Beautiful; she did a look using Fyrinnae Damn Paladins with MUA 12 that I had to copy! I think the combo looks super sexy :)

I used:
Urban Decay Primer Potion
Fyrinnae Damn Paladins
MUA shade 12
MAC Blue Brown pigment to intensify the outer corner.

Hope you like it!

Tropical Eyes

Today I was inspired by MacNC40's look, although I know I've done something almost identical before. I like this colour combo a lot though, and got complimented by the sales girls when I was out shopping twice! When I was out I also ended up buying 2 of the new Sleek lipsticks, which I will probably swatch and review soon, I really like them! Anyway, here's the pics:

Argh full face picture! You can see my crazy hair here. I'm actually getting rid of the red from it which I've been dying it for about 5 years or so now. I'm going for the ombre effect, but I think it needs a second go with the bleach. Let me know if you've tried it or if you want to know more about it :)

Products used:

Eyes:
UDPP
BFTE Seafoam (aqua) - lid
Sugarpill Poison Plum (purple) - crease & lower lashline
Sugarpill Dollipop (pink) - to blend out the crease
Sugarpill Tako (white) - inner corner
Sugarpill Buttercupcake (yellow) - over white on inner corner

Lips:
Bourjois Sweet Kiss Naturel in Rose Innocence
Jesse's Girl Liquid Crystal Lip gloss in Wicked

Cheeks:
Fyrinnae Glow Blush in Enchant
Primark Blush Hearts

Coral Reef

I did this look for a party I went to last night. I wanted to replicate a look I saw by Roxy Rouge she did with bright coral and pink, but I don't have a coral eyeshadow like I had in mind. Then I realised the Enchant blusher by Fyrinnae is an awesome neon coral so I used that. I think it turned out pretty well, I got a couple of compliments too which is always nice. I'm not too happy with the eyeliner though, don't think I can say I've mastered cateyes yet.

Last 3 pictures are colour altered, since the camera couldn't quite capture the brightness in normal settings :)

What I used:

Urban Decay Primer Potion
Fyrinnae Enchant Glow Blush
Sugarpill Flamepoint
Sugarpill Dollipop
Smashbox Limitless Liquid Liner Pen

Edit: just to note that the blush is NOT eye safe, so use at your own risk!