My favorite, most flattering look.

I feel like this is my favorite look. In real life, this looks really flatterin on me, my eyes are it. Really nice looking, this is very easy to over-do and make it look horrible. But with the right shades this makes eyes look wonderful. I have darkish green eyes, with a little blue (and yellow). Contacts enhance the blue-ness a little, without contacts my eyes are more green-yellow.

I used GDE's Infectious on the lid. I softened the inner corner with NYX's beige from the trio Rock'n'Roll. I also used that to blend in the crease. I used MAC's Satin taupe in the crease and outer corner. Also under my lower lash line I put Infectious and Satin Taupe. 

Same picture without the text of products used. 

MAC's Satin taupe is probably my best MAC purchase. Probably the best, most versatile eyeshadow that I own. I use it in the crease just with MAC's Bare Study paint pot on the lid. Wonderful and simple.

Also, can I just say I love my eyebrows? I love, love, love them. Fine, they need a little cleaning up, but the shape in general is just awesome. :D

Holiday look - Fall leaves

You know, I have a great imagination. I'm sure no one else has drawn inspiration from the fall leaves. ;)

Here's my version of the many.

I used my newest baby, the Manly 120 Palette. (Just wait till I get my other babies that are on their way from the States. Yes, I did some shopping on several occasions. If my calculations are correct, I should be getting the first package this week!)

But back to this look. As I said, I used the Manly 120 palette. 

Click on the picture to see the numbering and have a closer look on the colors!(See the written numbers by each eyeshadow? Yeah, that's my nerdiness kicking in. I recently created a log system that I know what products I use etc... I know the ThePinkLadyJ (on youtube) has one like mine, I basically copied her A LOT.)

And here are the drawings or something on my lid.

I put NYX's Jumbo eyeshadow pencil in Pots&Pans on the whole lid. Also a matte skin colored shadow under the brows to ease blending later.

Then color #2 on the middle quarters of the lid.

 Color #3 in the crease, and color #5 to the outer corner.

 Color #1 to the inner corner. Color #6 to the outer corner. Color #4 I used as a liner. It applied ridiculously well with a Coastal Scents IB113 Taklon liner brush.

Then I noticed that the line on my browbone is a little too harsh, so I added color #1 (earlier put in the inner corner) to the harsh line and blended that with the highlight I used in the very beginning. 

(Remember, the colors are not modified at all in a photo editing program. I only changed places where I took the photos. In a darker corner, by a lamp, on my sunny balcony, but not in direct sunlight.)

What's your favorite look for the fall? 

Tutorial - Favorite team's colors.

Time for a little tutorial... Inspired by my favorite hockey team; team colors are blue, orange and white. The season begins in 10 days... :D Cannot wait!!!

In the finished looked the orange isn't as in your face-type as it is on my teams hockey pants...

I didn't have enough individual lashes left, so the lashes look like they end too far away from the inner corner, and they do, but I just had the lashes for this tutorial. I need to go buy new ones...

First I put some eyeshadow primer on and a light layer of NYX jumbo eyeshadow pencil in Milk on the eyelid.

The I put Glamour Doll Eyes Disco White to the inner corner and tear duct area. GDE orange Jailhouse Jumpsuit to the rest of the lid. I now realized I should have only put Jailhouse Jumpsuit to the middle of the lid, you'll see why soon...

This is why. The GDE MIngles began turning a little greenish because, if you know your color theory, yellow and blue make green, and orange is a little yellow...

I intensified the blue quite a lot by just packing on the color. I also put some of the blue MIngles to the lower lash line area.

I tried to create kind of a triangle area to the outer corner with the blue. I like that look.

I used Makeup Store's black gel liner and matte black eyeshadow as a liner. I put gel eyeliner and the black eyeshadow on the lower water line as well. I added several coats of black eyeshadow and added individual lashes. I only had 1 short one left, so majority of these are the long ones, and then there's a few medium length ones. Should've put a couple long ones more so then I would have had some fake lashes near the inner corner as well, now they kind of end abruptly. :/

End result.

What are your thoughts? :D What are you favorite fake lashes? Do you use them often?

Recreation - oranges and pinks/reds

I saw this post by Phyrra and I told her I'd do something like that on Tuesday, as in today.

I used Jailhouse Jumpsuit by GDE and a matte pinkish red eyeshadow (nr. 545) by Grimas.

To the lower lash line I used GDE Dusk mixed with NYX trio eyeshadow Rock&Roll palettes gray eyeshadow. I guess I could've used a purple like Phyrra or just simply a black, but I wanted to use something else this time.

I lined my eyes with MUS black gel eyeliner.

Also the lower and upper waterlines (or tightline), whatever it is. What is it by the way?

I will fix the lower waterline before I leave... with a pencil eyeliner. So much better for that.

The lowest picture I took in natural light. The rest I took when I was standing by the window, but with a flash and the cuisine-program. The more closer it gets to summer the better the pictures turn out... :D Otherwise I'd with it would be a snowy winter for the whole year!

What do you think?

St. Patrick's Day inspired look

St. Patrick's Day is March 17th. So this Wednesday. St. Patrick's Day is also known as St. Paddy's day. St. Patrick is one of the most recognized patron saints of Ireland.

If you don't wear anything green on St. Patrick's day someone will pinch you.

Where I live St. Patrick's Day is not that known, the only place I know that celebrates on this day is the local Irish Pub. The Pub is turned green, drinks, food etc all will be green.

It seems that my friends and I are going to this pub on Wednesday after our classes. Dressed in green and of course the makeup has to match. Well, mine has to, they don't really care about makeup that much. :D

I'm sure I'm not the only who associates green and orange to Ireland ;) which is why I did this look inspired by Ireland and St. Patrick's Day.

I used NYX's jumbo eyeshadow pencil in Milk (white) as a base.

Then I used Jailhouse Jumpsuit and Olivia Green by Glamour Doll Eyes. Jailhouse Jumpsuit has become one of my favorite Glamour Doll eyeshadows. I didn't think I'd like orange eyeshadow this much. :D So Jailhouse Jumpsuit I placed in the inner corner. Olivia Green to the outer corner and crease.

I took a matte white and a shimmery white eyeshadow and placed it in between the green and orange. Black eyeliner and black mascara.

Have you heard of St. Patrick's Day? Are you going to celebrate on that day?

Glamour Doll Eyes

In December an American company called Glamour Doll had a little sale. (FYI, not being paid for mentioning the company and I bought these shadows myself. etc) They are getting new eyeshadows that are released this Friday (Jan. 8th). The website is mostly closed right now, I'm not entirely sure whether or not you can order anything from there now, except for a few exceptions. The website opens tomorrow, Wednesday January 6th again and the Twilight-collection is released on Friday January 8th.

I hope I got all that right so that I don't give wrong info... I'm pretty sure I did.

I bought 17 eyeshadow samples, most of them created by the owner Vee, and one was created by Mel. Also I got two free samples with my purchase. Those samples Vee chose herself, so I couldn't choose the two. If I remember correctly each eyeshadow purchase gets some samples. For example if you only buy the Goody Balms (lip balms) that are made by Mel, you wont get eyeshadow samples. Only when buying eyeshadows you can get free samples, that you cannot choose yourself, they are chosen for you.

This look I did by Jailhouse Jumpsuit (orange), Glam Girl (purple) and Dusk (blue). Jailhouse Jumpsuit in the inner corner, Glam Girl on the lid and Dusk in the outer corner and a little in the crease.

When I was ordering these I was a little daring if I may say so. I mean I never thought I'd order an orange eyeshadow, let alone that bright of an orange. I didn't think it would be wearable, but it really is! I'm so happy that I'm wrong sometimes. Another "crazy" eyeshadow that I got is Island Chic. My dream is to use the Jailhouse Jumpsuit and Island Chic together, but honestly can you imagine orange eyeshadow with a greenish turquoise eyeshadow? Another favorite of mine is DinoSpotz. Holy smokes what a unique eyeshadow color! In some lighting it looks burgundy but in other lighting it's green! I've never seen anything like it.

Black pencil eyeliner and black mascara. As a highlight I used a matte offwhite eyeshadow by Grimas that I recently bought. I went and bought the eyeshadow palette with 4 shadows that you choose yourself. More about that in a later post.

The other Glamour Doll eyeshadows that I got are: DinoSpotz, Lovers Lane, Disco White, Island Chic, Urban Trash, Graffiti, Skinny Jeans, Shaded Orchid, Katie's Storm, Flashdance!, MIngles, Olivia Green, Summer Skies and Secretive. The two free samples are Bare Naked and Violent.

Island Chic is by Mel, the rest is by Vee. I tried to take pictures of the sample baggies for you, but it didn't quite work yet. I'll do that when I do the swatches... So stay tuned. :D