Reader's question and request - Rimmel's base coat

LightPinkPearl asked me some questions about the Rimmel London Base coat.

I did my nails today again, and applied the base coat again. 

She asked me how the color turnout was. Unfortunately the color does not show at all, so I did not even take pictures, because you'd see a nail with clear polish on. It's like I would have applied a top coat. No difference in appearance. So if you wanted to buy the base coat because of it's color, I suggest you don't. It applies like a clear polish. The little shimmer's that you could see in the bottle are not visible. Even if applied 2-3 coats, it's a clear polish. 

Her other question was that does the nail polish have any bad ingredients such as toluene or formaldehyde. And I do not have an answer to that. The nail polish bottle does not have an ingredient list. Rimmel London's webpage does not have an ingredient list for this nail polish. I looked at my other Rimmel polishes and they don't have ingredient lists either, on the bottles at least. Okay, shouldn't there be mention of the ingredients?  Isn't that in the law? I looked and looked the bottle over and there is nothing. They only mention the polish is "Enriched with calcium and keratin." In five different languages. 

My Orly nail polishes say they do not have toluene, formaldehyde or DBP in them. Rimmel's polishes make no mention about these or any ingredients unfortunately. Safest bet would be to try Orly, or some other brand that clearly states the polish does not include these ingredients.

Ideas?

Hey everyone,

I know I haven't been posting much, and I don't really have a valid reason as to why, but I just haven't really felt like doing "crazy" eye makeup, let alone photograph it. Would you be so kind and give me some ideas or requests for me to do? :D I'd really appreciate it. The next two months my computer time will be limited anyways so I'll need to stock up on posts and I'd like those to be requested looks/tags/whatever so that everyone would be happy. Yes?

Please help me out!

Cheers!

Requested tutorial - "outgoable" peacock/turquoise/petrol look

A while ago I received a request being an "outgoable" peacock/turquoise/petrol look - requested by Sternchen.

I googled some pictures of peacocks and especially their tails. Using those colors I found some eyeshadows that I had that I could use and this is the look I came up with. I did not plan this really, I just got the eyeshadows out and started placing them on my eyes. Now I'm thinking that I should have planned this a little better, yeah the colors are there, but I'm not necessarily that happy about the way it turned out. If I come up with something else, I'll do a following blogpost later.

But here is the final look.

I used NYX's Jumbo eyeshadow pencils in Milk and in French Fries as a base.

I placed some matte offwhite eyeshadow to the inner corner. Then Glamour Doll Eyes (GDE) shadows in Skinny Jeans and MIngles to the places where are in the picture. I tend to blend in the eyeshadows once I place them on my eye so that I don't have to do it later.

I added some GDE Flashdance! and Olivia Green. Flashdance! on top of MIngles and Skinny Jeans. Olivia green to the crease, outer corner and lower lash line.

I wanted to intensify the outer corner a little by adding a matte medium brown to the corner. I took a light turqoise eyeliner pencil and lined my eyes, top and bottom, with that. I added some black eyeliner pencil to the lashline so that my lashes would look thicker. Only to the outer half though. I lined my upper and lower waterlines with the black eyeliner as well.

Here are pictures of the GDE eyeshadows I used.

I have them swatched when wrote about them the first time, but I don't think I did the swatches right, I didn't even use any primer or base, and Skinny Jeans was one of the ones I wasn't too pleased with but now that I tried it again last week I could not get over how green (and gray) it actually was. I was sure I had used a brush that I previously used with green eyeshadow, but no!

Here are the swatches of Skinny Jeans on NYX's French Fries, Milk and Black bean jumbo eyeshadow pencils. Aye, it's a bit blurry. :S

Here are a couple shots of the final look.


I want to add false lashes to this look!