Christmas Eve

I tested this look on Friday, the day before Christmas Eve. On Christmas Eve I used a different base. These pictures are from the day before Christmas Eve.



We celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve. Christmas Day is nothing special. All the good food, presents and stuff happens on Christmas Eve. We just eat leftovers on Christmas Day.

I used NYX's jumbo pencil in Pots & Pans as a base on the lid.

I then applied Inglot's shadow pearl 419 on the lid on top of Pots & Pans. 



Then I used a shimmery golden beige and light brown in the crease to blend and in the outer corner.

The look.

On Christmas Eve I used MAC's Bare Study instead of Pots & Pans, but shadows were the same.

I am having some issues with my Inglot palette. That is also why there aren't many (if any) looks with the palette. I just don't grab for the palette. I have had it for 2,5 months now.

Christmas Look

It is time for a Christmas look! A dramatic one at that.

I used Glamour Doll Eyes shadows. 

I put NYX jumbo pencil in Cherry on the lid. I blended it out with my finger. I applied FrankenGlamour by Glamour Doll Eyes, GDE, to the top of the crease and a little on the browbone to help blending later.

I took Mutant (GDE) and applied that in the crease with a tapered blending brush. I also added Brewster (GDE) to the whole red part of the lid. Then I added Philadelphia (GDE) to the outer half of the red part of the lid. This part is not shown in the pictures because I forgot to take pics of it.

I took Backstabber (GDE) and applied that to the crease so that it did not cover all of FrankenGlamour and Mutant, but there was like a thin line in the crease. I used an angled eyeliner brush in Foil Me, a mixing medium by GDE, and got some Backstabber on it and lined my top and lower lash lines.

Here you can see a drawing of some sort where to apply the shadows.

I used a clean blending brush to blend in the crease color, Backstabber, and the red shadows.

I used Sensai's black liquid eyeliner and Estee Lauder's lengthening mascara.

I used Blacktrack fluidline on the lower waterline.

And the full look !

Hope you enjoyed this look!!!

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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.

A Night Out + hair and makeup

On Saturday night we went out to dinner with 11 other people. Two had just graduated with their Bachelor's degrees so this was like a celebration dinner and a Christmas party in one. 

We had a wonderful dinner in a restaurant which normally would be way too expensive for a student budget. 

I wanted to do something special with my hair because I never do anything. I don't know how to do different hair styles well.

At the blogger meet up we were given a lot of hair products and today I tried the sweetest one: Tigi BedHead Totally Baked Volumizing and Prepping Hair Meringue. Oh my goodness it smells sweet!!! It's like lemon meringue. Yummy! 

I put a small plum size dollop on my hand and applied it to towel dried hair. I blow dried my hair and used a round brush.

My hair is fine and there is usually hardly any volume.

I tried to take the front pieces of hair and braid them. Then I took a comb and backcombed in the crown area. I decided to do a side ponytail. I did the ponytail first, and then braided the front. I wanted to use the front part to conceal the hair tie, but that didn't work, so I had to do the ponytail again, this time with the braided front hair. And that's when I messed up more as my hair had no volume and the backcombing didn't work out. Sigh. Did I say I can't do hair??

I used some kind of a heat protectant that was also a shaper and then with a curling iron I got amazing curls for the first time in my life! They were perfect. I took this picture at the end of the night. The weather was horrible, rainy and horrible. The curls stayed for the most part, until the end when we left cause it was raining really heavily and I did not have an unbrella. . I added a ton of hair spray before we left from home.

I did my makeup with Wet n' Wild shadows.

First, I applied UDPP, then Painterly Paint pot by MAC. Then I used the matte skin colored color of the Vanity palette (leftmost palette) on the browbone area. I took the browbone color of the Petal Pusher palette (right) and applied that a little on my crease and above it, but so that it did not cover my whole browbone.

I applied the matte light pink from the Lust palette (middle) to the inner half, and then the crease color from the Petal Pusher palette to the outer half. I deepened that outer half by adding the darker purple from the Lust palette. I used the darkest purple from the Lust palette in the crease and outer V.

Picture do not do any justice to the makeup. It was darker than it looks here. I took these pictures after the night when we got home.

I added 2-3 extra lashes. They don't look like they would be in the right spot. First I put 1 coat of Estee Lauder's lengthening mascara, then two coats of Maybelline's Colossal volume mascara. Only Estee Lauder on the bottom lashes.

Both eyes.

I used Sensai's black liquid eyeliner, and then on the waterline MAC's Blacktrack fluidline.

I just noticed that my contacts makes it look like my eyes have rings on them. I don't remember that happening in pictures with my old contacts. These are new and they correct astigmatism. (And after a quick Wikipedia search, lenses that correct astigmatism are toric lenses, they have two different powers in two orientations.)

I got quite a few compliments on this makeup. I really like it too!

What do you do on a night out?

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Tigi Totally Baked hair product was given to me. Opinions are my own. Makeup I bought myself.

Recreation: MAC Pink Freeze

I had a look at MAC's facecharts... I wanted to recreate a look from there.

My version:

This is the original:

If you click on the face chart picture, it takes you to the website where I search for these..

I used:

2 Inglot shadows (both greens)

NYX jumbo eyeshadow pencil Milk 

matte white eyeshadow by Grimas

glittery white eyeshadow by Lumene Natural Code

GDE MIngles

MAC Blacktrack fluidline

Estee Lauder lengthening, smudge-proof mascara

Max Factor Masterpiece mascara

First I applied NYX eyeshadow pencil, Milk. I took the lighter green Inglot shadow with Sigma's E35, a tapered blending brush and applied the green to the crease and a little on the brow bone. I took a matte white by Grimas and applied that all over my lid.

I took some darker green with the same E35 and applied that on top of the lighter green, but just to the crease.

I took a glittery white shadow by Lumene natural code from the punk palette and applied that with an E25 by Sigma. I used the E25 for the matte white as well.

I took a flat eyeshadow brush and took GDE MIngles, a matte blue and applied that a little on my crease and lower, but so that it doesn't cover the white on the lid completely. 

I used MAC's Blacktrack fluidline to line my eyes. I took some matte black by Grimas and applied that on my lower lashline. Apparently the eyeliner brush (Sigma's E05) slipped a little because there's a very thin line that shouldn't be there. :D

I put Estee Lauder's lengthening, smudge-proof mascara. Then I added Max Factor's Masterpiece.

How does it look?! Would you like to see more of these?

PS. there's a poll on the right in case you haven't seen it yet.


Also, this is my 200th post!!!Okay it wasn't. I have some drafts, and the total is 200... :D Bummer

UD Naked-palette - look 3

Look 3

MAC Painterly Paint pot on the lid.

UD Naked palette's Naked on the inner half.

Smog on the outer half.

Darkhorse in the outer corner and crease.

Hustle on the lower lashline.

MAC Blacktrack fluidline and Maybelline's Falsies mascara. IsaDora's eyebrow pencil in light brown.