From day makeup to night makeup

I wanted to do a tutorial on how to change a day makeup look into a night time look.

From this... (yes with the mascara messes on the lid...)

... to this.



I had on MAC Bare Study paint pot, IsaDora's eyebrow pencil and mascara to start with.

Start with a skin colored shadow and apply that with a shader brush to the browbone and down to the crease. This is done because a color like matte black is difficult to blend otherwise if it's directly on skin. I used the lightest matte shade from Wet n Wild's Vanity palette. I used Sigma's E60 large shader. You can add the shadow all the way under the brow to the inner corner.

Like so. The red brush is from The Cities collection from the Paris kit.

Flip the E60 over if you want, and apply a matte white shadow to the moving lid. I used Grimas shadows in the rest of the tutorial. 

With a E45 small tapered blending brush take the tiniest amount of matte black shadow and start applying that with a very light hand to your crease and outer V area. It is best to start with minute amounts of dark, and especially matte shadows as it is easier to apply more than to take off. 

With windshield wiper motion make the brush follow your crease. It should apply the matte black and blend at the same time.

Now take an E25 blending brush and the skin colored shadow again and start blending the outside area of the black. We don't want any sharp edges. If you want you can add more matte white on the lid. My E25 is travel-sized and it is a gift that comes with your purchase when your purchase is over $30.

Add eyeliner to the top lash line and some kajal liner to the waterline. You could tightline as well. Add more mascara and fake eyelashes if you want.

If you want more black, you can add more like I did.

You can bring the black on the outer lid part as well with the tapered blending brush. 

The red brushes are by Sigma Beauty. They are from the Cities Paris kit they were selling a while back. I bought mine during the Black Friday sale. The travel-sized E25 you get when your order is over $30. I am a Sigma Affiliate and the links to the brushes are affiliate links. If you visit their website, decide to purchase something, and appreciate my honesty, please use my affiliate links. I earn a small commision from every sale, and affiliate that I bring and I would really appreciate it if you would use my affiliate links. Thank you.

How black & purple appear green & purple.

A look.

MAC Delft paint pot on the lid. Grimas matte black, about 5mm up from the lash line, kind of a liner. Shimmery black gray by NYX (trio eyeshadow palette Rock & Roll) about 5mm above the matte black.

Shaded Orchid by Glamour Doll to the crease, outer corner and lower lashline.

MUS black gel eyeliner. Black mascara. Shimmery golden beige as a highlight.

PS. Really, NO green shadows used at all. Delft paint pot by Mac brings the green.

Hope you like it! I'm lovin' it.

Green & Black

I did this look by using my 88 palette, which is not like the Coastal Scents one. I bought mine from Ebay, and stupid me thought it would be exactly like the coastal scents warm palette, but no it is not, and only a few of the 88 are pigmented which is a shame. There are a couple good colors though. The rest is just blah. Well, it's not like it was that expensive anyway.

There's the overall look. I used NYX's jumbo pencil in Milk, again, as a base. Why do I feel like all the posts in my blog have become really repetitive? All I use nowadays are Glamour Doll eyeshadows and the Milk jumbo pencil... I am getting annoyed. Well it's because I had a no-cosmetics buying month which I'm still sort of continuing, yet I ordered stuff from Glamour Doll last week... Oopsie... Well, I gotta save money for the summer and the possible European tour.

I just packed the green (marked with #1 on the palette) on the lid. I know it looks kind of blue now, but the real color can be seen from the palette. There's a picture of it in the end of this post, where I circled the shadows I used.

I took a sharp small brush and took Grimas matte black and created the sharp line to the crease. I used the black with golden glitter (#2) and blended the matte black upwards to the brows...

I lined my eyes just and just on the upper and lower lashline and the lower waterline.

I circled the shadows I used from the picture below.

Have you bought makeup from Ebay? How did it turn out?


Ps. The poll is still open for quite a few days so please go answer it if you haven't already! Thanks! :)

Modern day Cleopatra

Edit. 24.4.2010 Unfortunately all the comments on this post and a couple others have disappeared due to my mistake at IntenseDebate, the comment system I use. I had gotten so many lovely comments recently and then I had to mess up. I'm still a little upset about this.


I think I need to buy some more eyeshadows, because the only ones I use now are Glamour Doll Eyeshadows and my infatuation with them isn't going down because I ordered some more on Tuesday... Ooops. :D

As I wrote yesterday today's look is a little Cleopatra-inspired. Or not. :D

First I put Secretive in the inner corner, Summer skies to the middle of the lid. Then I took a business card and placed on edge in my outer corner and then added some Dusk so that I'd get an extremely sharp edge aligned with my lower lashline. Took Dusk up to the crease and blended it in with Summer Skies and Secretive.

Then I took Graffiti and lined my lower lash line with it, and with a sharp small brush I brought Graffiti up the sharp edge previously created by the business card + Dusk.

Such a shame that Secretive does not photograph properly!!! It is soo nice when applied but totally washed out in a photo. :(

After creating the wing with Graffiti I took a gel eyeliner and lined my top lash line and sort of connected that to the wing. Then I added some mascara to the top and bottom lashes.

If you want to do a look along the lines of this, I highly suggest that you have clean and strong eyebrows. If you normally don't fill your eyebrows in with eyeshadow or a brow pencil, with this look you kinda have to or else (in my opinion) you wont look as good as you would if you would have strong eyebrows. Then go with a rather nude lip and the entire blush palette does not have to be on your face. ;)

I have a rather square face so I like to bring the focus up to my eyes. I'm not a big fan of my jaw. I feel like I look a little bit silly if I have like a very simple eye with red lips because it doesn't really fade out my jaw, and I have gotten a lot of compliments about my eyes so I want the focus there instead of other places.

In natural lighting...

I added some Graffiti to the very outside part of the crease to add depth.

With a flash...

For some reason in some of the pictures the wing does not look straight, but it pretty much was almost in a 45 degree angle... Now it just looks curved and like it would be 'pulling' my eye down from the outside corner... :(

Are you feeling the power of Cleopatra? What do you think of the look?

PS. There is a poll for you all to answer, so please answer it if you haven't already. Thank you!

Also I got a formspring. Link to it can be found from the top of the blog page. Next to my Twitter link.

Tutorial - Recreation of MissChievous' Dark Androgynous look

This look is a recreation of this look. It's by a youtube makeup guru MissChievous.

Final result. Not an everyday makeup look for sure! But great still.


And this is how you do it:

I used NYX jumbo eyeshadow pencil in Black bean as a base. I put some MAC Delft paint pot on top of that. Don't worry, it looks like a mess, but it will end up looking great. :D

Dusk by Glamour Doll in the crease using like a windshield wiper motion, like so.

If you can, add some black base to your lower lash line and some eyeshadow you wish to use in the crease. I'm not using the exact same products as Julia/MissChievous because I don't have them, so you can replase all the products by what you have of course.

Take a soft black liner pencil and put that on your lid, not just a small thin line, but on your entire lid up to the crease. Pat it down with a finger and blend the line a little with the eyeshadow in the crease. Then I put some matte black eyeshadow by Grimas on top of the black liner.

If you feel like you didn't put enough of eyeshadow in the crease feel free to add some. I did.

Line your lower lash line and lower water line with a black pencil liner, add some matte black eyeshadow to set it. I have some Dusk and NYX's Black bean in there as well.

Take a skin colored eyeshadow to clean up and blend the outlines and possible mess you made! I sure did.

Make sure your eyebrows are strong and clean looking. Add a highlight of choice below your brows. I used Grimas' matte offwhite.

Add some mascara to both upper and lower lashes.

Voíla

(Disclaimer: All products bought by me, am not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned.)

Tutorial - Silver sparkles and Valentine's day rant.

I realized I had neglected my blog. I had to correct that and so I made this "tutorial". Why it is only a "tutorial", is because I only remembered to take the pictures in the beginning and when I had put on all the eyeshadows and some eyeliner. Not a very detailed tutorial, if I may say so myself.

I used silvers, blacks and whites. I used silver and black eye liner. And black mascara that is a disappoiment. I will write a separate blogpost about that, I wont even say which one it is that I used in this look. There's so much hype about it, and I have tried it so, so many times, applied it in several different ways, but it really is not good. Take a look at the pictures if you doubt me.

The picture below shows you all the products I used. I used NYX's Jumbo Eye shadow pencils in Black Bean and Pots & Pans. I depenciled them because I don't like them as pencils, it is so much easier to apply them from these pots. I also used Katie's Storm and Graffiti from Glamour Doll Eyes. The round eyeshadows are from NYX 5 color shadow palette from the Caribbean collection. The palette's name is I dream of Barbados.

I first put Pots & Pans on the inner 2/3 of the upper lid and the rest is Black Bean.

(In this picture above, you can actually see my eyebrows when I haven't done anything to them. In the other pictures I have used an eyebrow pencil.)

Katie's Storm (number 3) in the very inner corner, light silver/gray (4), then the darker shimmery soot color (5) in the inner part of the outer half of the lid and the outer V. Graffiti (6) to the outer corner between the darker shimmery soot color eyeshadow.

I put some matte white eyeshadow to the inner corner and a shimmery white eyeshadow as a highlight and to blend in the darker eyeshadows.

I lined the top lid halfway with a silver eyeliner pencil. Then I lined the rest of the lid with a black liner and also put that in the upper and lower waterlines. I lined the lower lash line with Graffiti and Katie's Storm.

Hope you like it!

Is anyone else feeling suffocated because soooo many people write about makeup looks for Valentine's day?! I'm not a fan of Valentine's day, I have never been. It seems as though every year the Valentine's day stuff can be found in stores in the middle of January or earlier. People seem to go crazy because of one day.

You should enjoy everyday with your loved ones, it shouldn't just be that just on February 14th that you do something special. Make everyday a special day!


(Disclaimer: I have bought all products myself. Not affiliated with any of the companies.)

Minty black

I looked like this a couple days ago.

I used a very black base on the lid only. I added some shimmery minty green/greenish turqoise on the whole lid.

Added some black eye shadow and created a strong v-shape to the outer corner connecting it to the crease. I used a mixture of a shimmery white and a shimmery beige eye shadow as the highlight and also used it to blend in the black in the crease.

To the inside of the v-shape I put some light brown primarily to blend in the black a little and so that the color difference between the minty green and black wouldn't be that big.

I used a soft eye liner pencil to line the top lash line and both waterlines. I used the black eye shadow to line the outer half of the lower lid and the minty green/greenish turqoise in the inner half. Added some black mascara to finalize the look.

I cleaned the small mess in the outer corner with some makeup remover. I wanted the wing to look a little sharper. You can use the tape technique to get a really sharp line going from your outer corner to your eye brow, but I feel like I get a more "natural" finish on the line so I didn't use tape. With the tape you need to blend a little anyway, unless you really go for the dramatic look.