EOTD: The Cut Crease

I meant to post this look the other day when I actually did it, but then never did. Better late than never eh?

I wanted to practise my cut-crease, and get the technique down so I could do it on a client/model if needed. This isn't perfect by any means, but I think I'm getting there. What do you think?

I don't remember exactly what I used as I was experimenting, but it was something like:

Nyx Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk
Claire's hot pink body art crayon
Black pencil liner
88 palette pink
Too Faced Glampire
Helen E hot pink glitter
Kryolan liquid liner
Urban Decay Naked & Buck
Sleek black eyeshadow
MAC Vanilla pigment

Hope you like it, let me know in the comments if there is anything in particular you want to see me write about or do. I get a bit stuck sometimes!

EOTD: Bad Seed

Hi-Fi Cosmetics' Bad Seed is one of my all-time favourite eye shadows. I love golden, olivey greens, because they're so close to my eye colour, I find them really flattering.

I think this type of colour actually suits most people, give it a try! It's an easy way to wear green if you're a bit scared of colour.

I used:
Too Faced Shadow Insurance
Hi Fi Cosmetics Bad Seed
Geek Chic Cosmetics The Pointy End
Urban Decay Naked (brows)
Smashbox Limitless Liquid Liner Pen
Black Mascara

Quick EOTD

Hello everyone! I'm in the final stretch of my college course now so in the next week I will be finished! Just a quick EOTD today to ease myself back into blogging (and doing my own makeup!)

All I used was TFSS, Urban Decay 24/7 Liner in Zero, MUA eyeshadow in shade 12, and Sugarpill Lumi.

Hope you like it! Better posts are on their way :)

FOTD: Naked Palette

The Urban Decay Naked palette is, admittedly, not something I reach for all that often. I find most of the colours too warm for me, and the textures are a little soft so they drop all over your face. Anyway, I was feeling summery recently so I fancied the golden tones in the palette.

I tried to make my skin look better in the full-face picture, but unfortunately I'm suffering from a bout of acne at the moment, and have a big scar above my lip I couldn't really photoshop out (with my limited skills!) Anyway, here's what I used:

Too Faced Shadow Insurance
Urban Decay Naked Palette - Half Baked (lid), Smog (crease), Virgin (inner corner and brow highlight), Darkhorse (upper lashline)
Sleek Curacao Palette -Blue Hawaiian (lower lashline), Blue Lagoon (waterline), Martini (inner corner)

Cheeks: Fyrinnae Enchant blush, Primark Shimmer Blush Hearts, Accessorize Bronzer in Monaco

My earrings I got for Christmas from my sister and I love them! They're from Tribal Style on etsy I believe. Also, you can just see the ends of my hair where I had a dye-job disaster and they turned green. Derp.

Hope you are all well :)

EOTD: Fyrinnae Dressed To Kill

This an eye of the day I did using one of my favourite shadows of all time, Dressed to Kill. It's a beautiful olive-y green with loads of golden sparkles.

As a base I used Urban Decay 24/7 Liner Pencil in Stash, which closely matches the colour of the shadow. I often use this combination as I love it so much.

What I used:

Too Faced Shadow Insurance
Urban Decay 24/7 Liner Pencil in Stash
Fyrinnae Dressed to Kill (lid and lower lashline)
Hi Fi Shadow in Bad Seed - a gorgeous golden olive green (inner corner)
Sleek Curacao Palette - the dark olive green (crease)
Sleek Oh So Special Palette - matte cream colour (brow highlight)
Nyx Candy Glitter Liner in Tangerine (upper lashline)
Black mascara

Hope you like it!

EOTD: Fyrinnae Equality

Just a really quick EOTD post from the look I wore a couple of days ago :)

Too Faced Shadow Insurance
Urban Decay Cream Shadow in Mushroom
Fyrinnae Equality
Fyrinnae Darling Misfit
Hi-Fi Shadow in Dark Star Capricorn

EOTD: Christmas Cut-Crease

Hi everyone, I hope you've all had a good festive season and that you are well. I've been so busy, with working  on Christmas Eve, back on the 27th, then a wedding to attend. Phew! The last couple of days I have had a well-earned rest. Anyway, this is a look I did on the 23rd for a Christmas meal with friends. I've only just got round to posting it!

I'm really enjoying this kind of look lately! I like pushing myself :)

What I used:

Too Faced Shadow Insurance
Nyx Jumbo Eye Pencil in Cottage Cheese (lid)
Nyx Jumbo Eye Pencil in Rocky Mountain Green (crease)
GOSH Effect Powder in Steel (used wet on the lid)
The Body Needs Glitter in Snow Flake (lid) - doesn't really show in the photos
Sleek Acid Palette greens
Urban Decay Mildew (from Ammo palette)
Sugarpill Midori Pressed Shadow
Sleek black eyeshadow
Black liquid eyeliner, can't remember the brand, but it's not great
Sugarpill Tako pressed shadow
MAC Pigment in Frozen White (inner corner)


I like this look, it reminds me of Slytherin haha! Hope you do too :)

FOTD: Living Dead Dragon

This is a look I wore last weekend when I went out for a friend's Hen party. I wanted to do something slightly 1920s inspired, so I went for a dark eye with green tones, which was darker at the inner eye area.

Sorry I look so miserable in the full face pic, I hate taking them haha! Anyway, here's what I used:

Eyes

Too Faced Shadow Insurance

Nyx Jumbo Eye Pencil in Black Bean

Spellbound Cosmetics Dragon Scales

Hi Fi Cosmetics Living Dead Girl

MAC White Gold Pigment

Urban Decay 24/7 Liner in Zero

Illamasqua Volume Mascara in Harness

Face

e.l.f. Flawless Finish Foundation in Porcelain

Illamasqua Powder Blusher in Sin

Lips

Collection 2000 CreamPuff Moisturising Lip Cream in Angel Delight

Dragon Scales is the main colour in this look, it's a MAC Club-esque brown/green duochrome which, as usual, looks awesome over a black base. For this look, rather than my usual smoky look with this type of colour, I brought more of the dark colours into the inner eye area, quite high up which reminds me of the silent movie stars. I hope you like it!

Experiments: Cut-Crease Attempt #1

Hello! I've been obsessing over makeup by Lauren aka queenofblending lately, and she is an expert in the cut crease look, so I wanted to see if I could do it myself! I've had a go using just simple colours and some glitter. Hopefully I will be able to do a modified version of this over the Christmas period, as I feel dragalicious makeup is totally appropriate for works do's, family gatherings and the like...

Aaand the obligatory blurry omg sparkly picture:

I'm actually really pleased with how this turned out. The lid looks a little dirty, so I would probably use a different colour other than white next time, and I'd use glitter which is closer to the eyeshadow colour. Cool as this one with reflects is, maybe its not perfect with this look.

I used:

Too Faced Shadow Insurance
Urban Decay 24/7 Eyeliner in Zero
Nyx Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk
Sugarpill Tako
Sleek black from Curacao palette
Silvery/grey colour and dark grey from cheapo Claire's palette
White/green duochrome colour from Sue Moxley palette
No-name glitter eyeliner (as a base)
MAC Glitter Reflects Blue
Smashbox liquid eyeliner pen
Covergirl Lashblast

Hope you like it!

EOTD: It only hurts when I mauve!

Hello! Just a quick post to show you today's look and one from Saturday night. My skin is quite bad at the moment so full face shots are not looking great.

I just used Too Faced Shadow Insurance, MAC Pigment in Mauvement all over the lid, and Hi Fi Cosmetics My Pain in the crease/outer corner. I used Urban Decay Virgin as my brow and inner corner highlight. Then I used a tiny bit of elf brown cream liner on the upper lashline, and black mascara.

Sorry these pictures are a bit blurry, and the last one is horrible, but shows the makeup :p

I used:

Nyx Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk
Sleek Acid and Curacao palettes
Sugarpill Dollipop and Poison Plum.
HiFi Cosmetics Morbid Faith
Sleek Suede blusher.

Hope you like these looks!

Eyes of the Day - Hell Frozen

Hi everyone! Just a quick EOTD for you. I used some Hi Fi shadows that I feel don't get enough love from me.

I like the eyeliner actually. It makes a change having liner on the waterline for me, as I usually think it makes my eyes look too small but it looked ok today.

Here's what I used:

Too Faced Shadow Insurance
Hi Fi Shadow in Hell Frozen (lid)
Hi Fi Shadow in My Pain (crease)
Hi Fi Shadow in Journey of a Gemini (inner corner)
Urban Decay Virgin (brow highlight)
Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-on Eye Pencil in Zero
Black mascara

Hope you like it!

Eyes of the Day - Dinosaur Plushie

So in my last Fyrinnae order I finally got Dinosaur Plushie! Everyone goes on about it, so I don't know why I've left it so long to let it join my collection. But I have it now, and it's true, photos do no justice to how sparkly and pretty it is.

Click photos to enlarge.

Products used:

Urban Decay Primer Potion
Fyrinnae Pixie Epoxy
Fyrinnae Dinosaur Plushie
Hi Fi Cosmetics Dark Star Capricorn
Fyrinnae Daemon's Tail
Sleek Oh So Special Palette (matte cream and matte light brown)
Mascara

Hope you like the 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!

Eyes of the Day - Smoky Blue

So it's late at night and I'm about to change my bedsheets. Naturally this seems like a good time to start playing with makeup. I thought I would try something which I normally shy away from, namely navy blue and blackened colours. I don't think they flatter me at all but I thought I would give it a go. Also this is the first time I've tried doing macro shots with a flash. I'm semi-happy with it but obviously the pictures aren't perfect!

I started with Urban Decay's 24/7 Liner in Binge, which is a navy blue. Over that I applied Barry M's Dazzle Dust in 98 which I believe is Petrol Black. Very pretty shadow. Then I dabbed a tiny bit of Fyrinnae's Pixie Epoxy and patted Fyrinnae Biker Chic over the top. I added a bit of silver and blue from the Sleek Acid Palette and a matte skin colour to highlight.

Products used:

Urban Decay 24/7 Glide On Eye Pencil in Binge - all over lid & lower lashline.
Barry M Dazzle Dust 98 Petrol Black
Fyrinnae Pixie Epoxy
Fyrinnae Biker Chic
Sleek Acid Palette (silver and lightest blue colours)
Asda George 4 Colour Eye Palette in 01 Chestnut (matte cream) - highlight

I do like this look, I love the sparkles and the contrast between the almost greasy lid and the matte highlight. However I'm still not sure it's for me. I think it would look beautiful on brown eyes though!

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!

FOTD: Too Faced Glampire

Today I wanted to use my Too Faced Glamour Dust in Glampire since it's so so pretty but I hardly use it. It's kinda like a flaky glitter eyeshadow, glittery, duochromey goodness! Here it is on it's own:

FOTD: MAC Teal Pigment

I don't use MAC Teal Pigment enough. It's really pretty and goes with a surprising amount of colours.

Products used:

Eyes
UDPP
MAC Teal Pigment
BFTE Truffle
Urban Decay Naked, Virgin
Rimmel Soft Kohl Kajal Eye Pencil in Jungle Green
Mascara

Cheeks
Asda George Cheeky Tint

Lips
BeautyUK Lipstick in Snob
Collection 2000 Lock n Hold Lipgloss in Twisted Disco

Hope you like it :)