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

Playing Around

Just a quick post to show you one of my experiments in make-up. I was inspired by some art I found on tumblr.

I used:

Nyx Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk
Sugarpill Buttercupcake & Tako
Sleek black
Cheap liquid liner
Revlon corner lashes
Individual lashes
Illamasqua Liquid Metal in Electrum

It's Fashion Baby!

I recently got the chance to work on a huge fashion show in Leeds as part of the Pamela Clare make-up team. Although I have done shows before, this was the biggest and best. I thought some of you might be interested in seeing some pictures from backstage and the catwalk.

© Anna Louise Crossley

I love working backstage as it's so frantic and high energy! Love how the girls looked on the runway! Hope this was interesting!

This is Halloween!

Hey all. A couple of weeks ago someone posted an awesome eye look on a make-up forum, asking people to recreate it. I thought I'd have a go. The original look was done by an artist named Kiki. Her look is here. Here's my result:

The last picture is a retouched version by a photographer friend of mine, Bryony, here's her website: http://www.purestorm.com/bryonyphotography

Make-up was mostly Sugarpill. I used Buttercupcake, Flamepoint and Love+, with a random Sleek black on the lid and brows. For the bats I used a cheapo liquid liner and a fine nail art brush. Hope you like!

Cover to Cover: Magazine Project

Hi everyone. Thought I'd post about a project I've been working on for absolutely ages. My tutor at college suggested this actually, as a way of practising my skills as a make-up artist. She said a good way to learn would be to go through a magazine, and try to recreate every single look in it yourself. While I haven't quite done all the looks in one magazine, I've done a lot. I went for mostly adverts, where you can see the make-up. It challenged me to try things I wouldn't normally, which I think is awesome.

Here's the looks:

What I've Been Up To!

For those of you who don't know, I don't just blog about my love for makeup, I study it too! Last year I took a course in Fashion & Photographic Make-up, and just received my certificate, so I'm now officially a qualified make-up artist! This year I will be adding to my skillset by learning Hair & Media Make-up, which I just started a couple of weeks ago. I'm enjoying it thoroughly so far and have already learnt so much.

The hair component of my course was particularly scary at first but I am definitely improving! Here's a few pictures of what I did today in class:

Eyeshadow on the Lips?!

Hi everyone. Just a quick post because I'm not putting enough content on here lately. I have been playing with makeup a lot though, so I thought I'd show you one of my experiments. Hope you enjoy.

A lot of people think you can only use a product for a specific use, or just stick to what the name suggests you should do with something. It's often fun to play around though, using lip products on the eyes or cheeks, and eye colours elsewhere on the face. One of the easiest ways to experiment is to mix a loose pigment or eyeshadow with a clear lipgloss (or Vaseline) to create your own custom lipstick. For these I used Fyrinnae eye shadows mixed with just a clear gloss. All you need to do is check on the label or company website to see if your product is safe to use in the area. Here are the looks I created:

 Arcane Magic: Faerie Glamour. This one says it's not safe for lips, but I took it off straight after :p Just don't try this at home haha!

 Arcane Magic: Velvet Vampire. Looks patchy in the photos, but in real life it looked great. I actually love this on the lips and would definitely wear it out.

Biker Chic. This was hard to get on neatly, as are all really dark or pigmented lipglosses. It also came out a lot blacker than I expected, and the turquoise sparkles don't show up much.

Playing around with make-up is a lot of fun, trial and error is required but just go for it! It's only make-up remember, it washes off :) Hope you liked this post!