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?

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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?

Playing and testing

I am quite sure that I have had this look on this blog already, because it probably is one of my most used color combinations, and with this one it is also extremely simple to go from a day look to an evening, going out look.

Basically I am just using a light purplish pink on the lid and a maroon-like red/purple in the crease and outer corner. And a cat-eyeish black eyeliner on the top lid.

These pictures are from the evening look, where I lined my lower lash line and waterline with Gosh's Woody Green, Velvet Touch eyeliner pencil and added some soot-colored eyeshadow into the outer corner to darken the look.

And the rare picture of both of my eyes. I honestly cannot take a decent picture of my left eye. I'm right-handed and holding the camera in my left hand or taking the camera to my left with my right hand is just impossible, I can't focus, I don't get a picture of my whole eye, because my aim isn't good and my left eyebrow always looks weird for some odd reason. I know eyebrows aren't supposed to be identical twins, but instead sisters, and that's how they are now, but I'd like to have them look a little more like sisters anyway. Haha, like a typical woman, we can always come up with a fault in everything. :D

How do you change your day look into an evening look?

My version of Pink *Ice Princess*

This look is my version of Julieg713's Pink *Ice Princess* Makeup-look

edit few minutes later: (And now I realized why this look looked so familiar, it's because I already did a look using very similar colors, only the eye liner is different.)

I don't own a single matte pink eyeshadow (I think) so this is a shimmery version without fake lashes.

The only same makeup product was the NYX Jumbo eyeshadow pencil in Milk which I bought recently with the other NYX stuff. So check out Julieg713's video for the tutorial and how the look is achieved.

I have a couple eyeshadows that I find are quite difficult to use on a skintone base, the colors just don't show up as well as I'd like. So I tried them on NYX jumbo pen in Black Bean and they're a whole lot better! Didn't look as good on Milk as they did on Black bean.

Wowza

Sometime in the fall I bought an eyeshadow trio by Lumene Natural code, 5 Punk. It has a black, a white and a pink eye shadow. I used the pink and white in today's look and I put some NYX Black Bean jumbo eyeshadow pencil on my lid first. I had thought I'd seen some blue tones in the pink, but before I had not gotten the blue to show like this.

I put the same pink on my lower lash line and you can see the difference, and believe me or not but it really is the same eyeshadow!

Products used:

NYX Black Bean Jumbo Eyeshadow Pencil
Pink from Lumene Natural Code eyeshadow trio 5 Punk
White from the same Lumene eyeshadow trio as a highlight
GOSH black liquid eye liner
Lumene Natural Code Volumizing mascara (lime green&black bottle)

Well, you impressed?

3rd Holiday look

Happy Tuesday everyone!

I never really plan how I will do my makeup for the day, neither do I plan what "extreme" looks I will do and post on here. Today's Holiday look is the result of me just opening my makeup drawers and picking up some random items and just starting to paint on my face. Granted this is quite an extreme looks so no, I will not be leaving my house, not today at least, looking like this because I need to look more subtle, today especially of all days. So now after writing this blog post I'll take a shower, remove this makeup and then do a very, very neutral makeup, one that I probably have already posted on here.

I guess the focus on this look lands on the eyeliner (and lashes), not so much on the eyeshadows. On the inner half of my eye lid I used a shimmery off-white. Outer half got some hot pink eye shadow that I lifted slightly above my crease. I saw a fellow blogger write three great posts about lining your eyes, this is Karkkipäivä, her blog is not in English though. If I'm bored or out of ideas I always go to her blog for new inspiration. Thanks for a great blog, Inkivääri!

I used a deeper hot pink in my crease, and a matteish vanilla eye shadow as a highlight.

Thick and winged dark gray liquid eye liner on the top lid. I don't exactly know how to describe the eye liner in the inner corner, but I believe that you can get a good idea by looking at the pictures. Also you might want to line your upper waterline with some black/dark gray eye liner, which I didn't do as you can see.

Same thing with the lower eye liner, I don't really know how to describe it. It is a little difficult at first to use a liquid eye liner on the lower lid because it can easily look a little funny. There are ways around that, so let me explain what I did. I took a black pencil eye liner, one that you have found to be the best on your waterline, so apply it to the middle third or so on your waterline. Or like on the middle half of your waterline if you decide to divide your waterline into 4 parts.

Then to the inner and outer thirds/quarters you put a white eye liner and take that eyeliner out as well. For example, in the inner corner, you paint the area between the top and bottom lines white and that continues to your waterline. And then do the same thing to your outer corner.

Also, you can put some white eye shadow, or an eyeshadow that is a tad lighter than your skin tone and soften then middle part of the eyeliner on your lower lid, like in the picture.

Here is a perfect example of a bad mascara, or not really a bad mascara, just one that "promises" the wrong things. I bought this one a while ago, and I am happy with how it stays on, how it separates my lashes and it doesn't dry out that fast. What I don't like is that this mascara is supposed to be a volumizing mascara. Do you see any volume? I sure don't. I've tried applying it a few different ways but I just don't get a better result concerning volume. It does however, lengthen my lashes. So I guess that's good then. It did not promise any lengthening action though. This mascara is a good everyday mascara, but not one for parties or looks where you need ridiculous lashes. If I'd put some fake lashes on then this would be good though. Especially in this look cause the eyeliner is so strong and eye catching, it just looks like I'd have no mascara on whatsoever.

Also in these pictures you might be able to see that I filled in my eyebrows with eyeshadow, I have used an eye brow pencil always before. Either I don't know how to use eyeshadow on my eyebrows, or I have the wrong eye shadow color. I just don't like the way it looks. I'm returning to my eye brow pencil ASAP.


edit. I added some mascara and intensified the eyeliners a little. So two new pictures. Enjoy.

And I added a little white eye liner to the inner and outer corners between the grey/black eye liners..

What do you think of the look? Do you prefer to use eye shadow or eye brow pencil on your eye brows? Do you do anything to your eye brows?

Fire and Stars

I'm not really sure, but for some reason I have wanted to use eye shadows that are not necessarily the colors you would first pair up together.

I got the idea yesterday when I did my makeup for our little Christmas Party when I used green and red eye shadows. I didn't really believe they would work together, but tried them anyways and really they did work together quite well. Clearly brown and black aren't the only colors to be used when intensifying the look. Unfortunately I did not take pictures of that look.

I used a hot pink eye shadow on the lid (made it a little less hot with some burgundy eye shadow) and a little of electric blue in the outer corner and crease. I darkened the electric blue with a midnight blue.

I used an offwhite highlight and a blue eye liner and some black mascara. More of like a lengthening mascara than a volumizing one.

Some midnight blue on the lower lash line and the lower water line is also lined with the blue eye liner pencil, although it cannot be seen on the water line anymore... this eye liner stays on for a long time, even on the water line, but not forever. Pictures were taken about 6 hours after applying..

These colors, pink&blue, are not the first combination I think of when deciding what eyeshadows I will use.

Thoughts?

Modified Tricolore

I just started playing with my eye shadows today and this is what I came up with. It is a really simple look, nothing too difficult.

I used a lemony yellow in the inner corner and as my highlight. Some hot pink in the middle third of my eye lid and some moss green in the outer corner. I used the same colors (in the same order of course) on my lower lash line.

Black cake eye liner and black mascara.

I have to admit I am quite proud of this look, because eventhough I am using colors that some people consider crazy, as in hot pink, I feel like this is actually a decent, everyday look. I would say that this is for those who are just starting to get used to using brighter colors.

What do you think?

Unlikely match, maybe?

I do not really know what inspired this look. I was watching a youtube-video by MakeUp By Risa, and I did my makeup at the same time. But now I will have to wash this right off, cause I'm going to bed soon. I got the swine flu -vaccine this morning, hence no makeup cause that's the only place I went to today. As expected, I got a little feverish and a headache. But before I go to sleep, I'll wash my brushes and post this post.

I put a black base on the lid only. I covered the black with the green. I added some navy blue to the outer corner and outmost crease. I put some light yellow/gold to the inner corner of my eye to brighten up the look a little.

I put some hot pink under my lower lashes and took the pink up towards my eye brows a little, connecting it with the navy blue corner. I know, it looks more purplish than pink, but it really is hot pink. Okay, so I used two hot pinks, one is pink pink and the other is pink with a tiny, tiny , tiny amount of blue in it.

I used a black eye liner pencil on the upper and lower waterlines, or is lining the top waterline called tightlining...? Something that at least sounds like 'tightlining'. 'typelining'. I have no idea. Tell me if you know, please? :)

To blend the navy blue in the crease I used a white shimmer eye shadow as a highlight. Once again. I need a new highlight color. Any suggestions? I feel like I'm always using the same one. Which I am. I have a matte highlight color, but it doesn't seem to do the trick as well as this shimmer white one.

I finished the look with a gray liquid liner and black mascara. I didn't want the gray liquid liner to be that visible, so it's a very subtle line. Well, as subtle as you can do with a liquid liner.

edit. Actually, this blog has it's advantages. I now know, that I need to pay more attention to the crease. It's too low at some points.. You can see it from the second picture. If I put the crease color a little higher it would look better. Now a part of the color is missing, in the crease. It could come a bit higher.


So what do you think? Is it an unlikely match, or not?

Haul, more blue and a little tip

Hey everyone! I don't know what has gotten into me, but I have really been liking blue eye shadows lately! I use them almost everyday.

I have a pinkish duocrome eye shadow on my lid. I have electric blue duocrome on the crease and above it. I have a dark midnight blue with golden glitter right in the crease in intensify the blue. Yellowish gold as a highlight.

I did a little shopping the other day and I got a new eye liner pencil. I'm in love! It's Lumene Natural Code Eye Dramatizer. So good on the waterline, it does not move.

Also I got two mineral powder blushes by Maybelline cause it was buy 2 Maybelline products for 15€.

I got 10 Topaz Rose (left) and 20 Moonlight Mauve (right). Topaz Rose is really pink. Really pink, perhaps like coral/orange pink. The Midnight Mauve looks a little brownish, at least the lid looks more brownish when it's right next to the Topaz Rose. Midnight Mauve is not really brown, I don't think. It seems a little more bluish pink. I see the colors that way, I don't know if you do.

Have you tried these blushes?

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Quick tip! A good way of finding out whether you blend the eye shadows well is to take a picture, preferably with the cuisine-program in your camera. It works the best I think and it really shows if you don't blend well enough.

Tutorial - Pink Punk

This is the second tutorial for this blog. A great look for going out with your friends.

I only used a white shimmery eye shadow, a black eye shadow and a hot pink eye shadow that has some blueish and purplish in it.

The pink I used looks better when applied with a moist brush. I concentrated the pink to the outer and inner corners, but I put a little in the middle of the eye lid. I also extended the pink over the crease. With a blending brush I added the white shimmery eye shadow. I blended them together so that there would not be any harsh lines. I added a tiny, tiny amount of the shimmery white to the middle of the lid on top of the pink. Remember to blend it in as well.

Take any liquid/gel/cake eye liner you have in black and apply that only to the top lid. Make sure the line is really thin in the inner corner and then more wide in the outer corner. A winged line works as well.

Apply some black eye shadow to the outer corner of your eye and then blend it out to the crease. As you can see from the picture above, I extended the black eye shadow on the lid to touch the eye liner a bit more. It creates like a C that is being pulled horizontally. I think that's like the best explanation I can give you. :D If you want you can add some of the black eye shadow the the lower lash line, about 2/3 from the outer corner to the inner corner.

This does look a little different than my profile picture. However I think this is a better version than the previous one. The first might look better from that angle, but this slightly modified version looks better from the front point of view. Small difference, but still big enough to notice, well I noticed a difference...

Finalize the look by adding some black mascara.

Voíla, you are done with the look. :D

Possible eye shadows you can use for this look:

Pinks:
- Passionate by MAC
- 279 purple pink (duocrome) by Artdeco
- Cheerleader by Makeup Store

White shimmer:
- Satin by Makeup Store
- White Frost by MAC
Basically any white shimmery eye shadow that works as a highlight

Black:
- Black tied or Carbon by MAC
Any black eye shadow with or without shimmer is fine.