BFF Contest (YouTube makeup contest) WINNERS

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This is. The moment has come, the wait is over and it’s now time to announce the winners of the BFF contest.





For those of you who are new to following my blog, nearly a month ago, ended a makeup contest I organised on YouTube. The theme was BFF. BFF not as in best friend for ever, but Bird, Fruit, Flower where the idea was to create a makeup look either based from a bird, a fruit, and/or a flower. (you can see my blog post about it here). This was my second makeup contest on YouTube, and there is no way I expected such an amazing  turn out. Contest video reached more than 6000 views (which my absolute record ever) and I received no less than 167 entries for it.



I’ve said it before and I’d like to say it again. There’s nothing like the feeling of having someone creating a makeup look for you, making a video of it and publishing it on YouTube. You feel ever so special. Having entered many makeup contests myself before, I know from first hand experience how much work they involve: the inspiration and creation process as any makeup look would take but the courage to post it on YouTube with fierce competition and critique.


Now for the not so good part of makeup contests. This year, I had the help of my two BFF’s to help me with the judging but it was still a heart wrenching process to have to choose the winners. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it.


So without further ado and sincere apologies for the delay, below find the long awaited video of winners of the BFF contest. Contest Winners Video is posted here on YouTube and in much better resolution, but I’ll spare you the adverts: 


Meet my BFF’s :)

I am not going to lie, this video took me a bit of time to do, shall we say, but it was the least I could do to show tribute to everyone. Any makeup looks which caught your attention? Let me know in the comments below xx

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Toucan Inspired Makeup / FOTD

As part of my BFF  (Bird, Fruit, Flower) series, I was itching a create a makeup look based from the toucan bird. This has been a pain in the b hard work to say the least. Previous two attempts looked like I was wearing the flag of Germany on my lids.
I hope you like it.





 



To create this look I used:
eyes: nyx mellow yellow
yellow sleek bohemian palette
orange from 120 palette
burgundy from sleek bohemian palette
h&M black eyeliner
snazaroo blue water based face paint
red eyeshadow from 88 matte palette
black eyeshadow from nyx trio 
claire accessories lashes



face:
revlon colorstay foundation
orange eyeshadow for blusher
lips: I am so mad, I can't find my orange lipstick!!
this is Mac Blankety, Orange & Yellow eyeshadow, natural collection clear gloss

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After the rain come the frangipani – Makeup Look FOTD

Another week end, another missed opportunity for taking photos for my blog. Hats down to all of you who manage to post regularly quality posts and pictures come rain, snow, shine and busy schedules. I do not have any kids, boyfriends or family to look after but I totally depend on natural daylight to take my photos as I own a very basic camera (and powerful flash) and I live in a flat where natural daylight is limited. Today for example, the artificial light (that lovely light which makes all your photos yellow when you use a basic camera) has been on.


Hey ho, such is life. For you today, just a simple makeup I made as a mock entry for my YouTube BFF (Bird, Fruit, Flower) contest at the moment. I took inspiration from the frangipani flower, otherwise known as 'plumeria'




To achieve this look, I used nyx mellow yellow, nyx white, orange from the eBay 120 palette, a generic brown from the gosh smoky brown trio palette. Lashes are my usual eylure naturalites 101. Blush is made from the same orange from the 120 palette. Lips are made from mac Velvet Teddy and orange eyeshadow. Did I say I liked orange eyeshadow? :P








And the flower in the hair comes from accessorize, pretty huh? I love bright colours so much, especially yellow and orange. They keep me sane in this dreary weather.








If you’re interested, the YouTube makeup contest ends on 16 Feb. More than 50 entries have been received, so the Urban Decay Alice in Wonderland Book of Shadows is now definitely on the cards ^_^

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CLOSED :¦: YouTube BFF Makeup Contest (Sleek Makeup, Nyx, No.7, Urban Decay)

More than a year since my last YouTube Makeup contest.
About time for another one don't you think?





What’s the theme of the contest?
There are 3 themes to choose from. The name of the contest is called BFF and BFF stands for Bird, Fruit or Flower. Your mission is to create a makeup look either based on a bird, OR a fruit OR a flower and to post it as a response to the contest video here on my YouTube Channel. Contest will End Wednesday 16 February 2011 23.59 GMT (London, England)


What are the prizes? ( Complete and bigger Pictures at the bottom of this post)
1 Sleek Makeup I-Divine SAFARI Eyeshadow Palette + 2 eyeshadow brushes: {No.7 blend & contour eyeshadow brush and No.7 smokey brush}
1 Sleek Makeup I-Divine CURIOUS Eyeshadow Palette + 2 eyeshadow brushes.
1 Nyx Runway Collection STRIKE A POSE Eyeshadow Palette + 2 eyeshadow brushes
1 Nyx Runway Collection VERSUS Eyeshadow Palette + 2 eyeshadow brushes
1 Urban Decay Alice in Wonderland Book of Shadows




 


Important information about the prizes
0-2 Entries: Contest is cancelled. Participants get a consolation prize :)
3-10 Entries: 1 eyeshadow palette (with 2 brushes) to be won
11-20 Entries: 2 palettes (with brushes) to be won
21-30 Entries: 3 palettes (with brushes) to be won
31-40 Entries: 4 palettes (with brushes) to be won
50 entries and over: There will be 5 prizes, 5 winners and the grand prize winner wins the limited edition Urban Decay Alice in Wonderland Book of Shadows. Yep. That’s right.

:¦: RULES :¦:
1. Must be a Subscriber to my channel on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/tsunimee
2. Must be a video response to this contest video
3. Can be video or Picture Slideshow
4. Must list the products you've used in the sidebar or in the video/slideshow
5. If you have never posted a makeup video on YouTube before, please include a photo of you holding a piece of paper showing your YouTube username
6. Please make sure to explain/state your inspiration so that I can understand your look, and where you took your inspiration from
7. If you show your final in a live video, please include clear photos of your look.

-- Your look can be wearable or Dramatic
-- You may enter as many times as you want
-- You can do a tutorial if you want.
-- Open Internationally
-- Anyone can enter, No matter your age.

If under 18 please make sure to get parental permission
Contest will End Wednesday 16 February 2011 23.59 GMT (London, England)
Stuck for inspiration? I’ve put up 3 albums with pictures of birds, fruits and flowers for you. The albums contain a LOT of pictures. Only go & see them if you’re stuck for ideas, because it might be a bit overwhelming.
http://bit.ly/tsufruit
http://bit.ly/tsuflo
http://bit.ly/tsubird

Wanna have a better look at the prizes, then?
















To help me judge this contest, my very own BFF's, Bri aka spittingglitter on youtube and Jo aka joannadelilah on youtube.




Eee, feeling a little bit nervous about this. A whole year since the last one!
Show me your BFF, your bird, fruit or flower and let me give you some makeup :)

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Bonsoir Kitty – Evening 'Spurkle' Cut Crease Party Look

YouTube Makeup Guru Carly aka Glitterdollz7 is doing a makeup contest at the moment. The mission is to recreate one of her makeup  looks. This is my favourite kind of contests: we do after all watch makeup tutorials in the hope of recreating them, right? It was  hard to choose what to do. For ages, I wanted to recreate her Barbie loves Mac look. I was also toying with the idea to recreate her  interpretation of Nina Flowers Drag Look since my eyebrows are very much ready for this kind of look at the moment.






But I eventually  settled for her 'H&M Cut Crease Spurkle’ Look (sparkle and purple). This was such such such such a pleasure to do: I love glitter so  much I could have it for Breakfast. My favourite kind of makeup is drag-gy exaggerated elevated cut crease look at it helps to lift  my droopy lids and and and I've got this one shoulder dress I am thinking of maybe wear for new year's eve and I really wanted to  try my hands at a sparkly and festive purple look.







In reality, the glitter is much much more vibrant and it was hard to capture with  the camera but I hope you'll still be able to see it.




Carly used mainly the purse friendly H&M Hello Kitty Palette to create her look. I didn't have this so I used the following  ingredients:
- purple from Sleek Acid Makeup Palette
- black from Sleek Acid Makeup Palette
- darkest purple from eBay 120 palette
- Mac Blanc Type Eyeshadow
- Fashion Lashes (101 I think?) from Ardell (Ugh, can't stand invisiband lashes, hate them!!) & Eylure Glue
- White eyeshadow from Nyx Trio
- Splash Proof Sealer to stick the glitter on
- Glitter: mixture of mac 3D silver (just a liiiiiiitle bit) and main one used was White Fairy Dust (white and green glitter) from eBay (the one with the  white lid below)




They have also other colours if you want to see on my twitpic here. I love loose glitter. Next I want to buy  bright royal blue mixed with peacock blue glitter.





If you are interested, you can see more photos of my look on my video here.
I’ve made a little montage of some bloopers for you below. Excuse the yellow lighting, it’s the best I can do with my silly camera:

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Sunset Stilettos – Makeup Look

 

Sometimes there simply just aren’t enough hours in the day to do all the things you want to do. When my twitter and blogger friend Amrita (The 6 inch Stilettos) invited her readers to take part in her ‘1 week sunset makeup challenge’ I was super excited and couldn’t wait to take part, even though I already owned and loved the prize which was up for grabs (the ‘sunset’ 12 eyeshadow palette from Sleek Makeup) I just wanted to take part for the fun of it, but frustratingly I ran out of time. Anyway, enough of crying of spilt milk, I still  wanted to play with my bright eyeshadows and create a classic sunset look inspired from this photo: A beautiful sunset over Oakland Beach, in Rhode Island. (source: Google Omages)






and this is my interpretation.






For the eyes, I used, layered over two faced shadow insurance and nyx jumbo pencil in milk, 2 colours Sleek Makeup Acid palette on the crease (the purple and the fuchsia) Shu Uemura Yellow Eyeliner as a base for my yellow, Nyx single eyeshadow in mellow yelllow, the orange I use aaaalll the time from the ‘eBay makeup palette’ . As a highlighter I used Mac Vanilla (quelle surprise?) and 17 Cosmetics Lilac Shimmer. 


 


For the undereye area, my favourite eyepencil from revlon matte in oure white,  Eyeko line and shine on the lower lashline, layered with the purple from the acid palette from Sleek Makeup. I don’t know quite frankly, I keep on buying purple eyeshadows, coz I always instinctively reach out for the acid purple for my purple cravings.






I leave you with other sunset pictures. Are you inspired to create a look? You won’t win anything, other than the pleasure of playing with bright colours just for the fun of it :)  x






 

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Been a busy bee…

Woah, it feels like such  a long time I have not blogged. Yes, I have been a busy bee but I think it’s fairer to say that I’ve not been making the most productive use of my spare time. Meanwhile on the YouTube scene, one of my favourite makeup guru, sharksbiteoflife has invited me to be one of her judges for her latest makeup contest. I was so happy  to have been invited that I could not resist making a little mock entry makeup look for it. The theme for the contest? To create a makeup look based on ‘Saturday Morning Makeup Cartoons’.


I chose to create my look around a French cartoon I used to love love love so much as a kid. The cartoon is called ‘Maya l’abeille’ (Maya the bee) and tells the adventures of a little but mischievous bee. She goes through a lot, she cries a lot, but she is a fighting little beast lol.


 



 





To create this look, I used pretty much all highstreet/drugstore makeup. My trusted nyx palette for the white and black, then my lipglossiping shu uemura eyeliner in yellow as a base for my ‘mellow yellow’ eyeshadow from nyx. Looking back, the look could have benefited from black or yellow rhinestones to emulate the ends of a bee’s antenna. Never mind.





If you have a minute, have a look at my youtube video, and see a little extract of the actual cartoon & leave me a comment :) Brownie Points if you can recognise the tune to the other childhood cartoon I used to love watch too. Plenty of clues were posted on twitter tonight haha.




Man, I’ve had so much fun doing this look and reminiscing the happy times of my childhood. Excuse the lame pun, but what would  your favourite childhood cartoon bee? :) Let me know, I’d love to hear.
liloo/@tsunimee

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Alliglittor Eyes – Green Glitter Party Eyes

When my twitter friend Thomcat decided to do a makeup contest based on the theme of ‘glitter’, I hesitated about a nano second. I just had to enter. I love glitter Nothing screams more party and fun to me, than glitter in a makeup look or hairdo. I have so many glitter eye products in my makeup collection it’s ridiculous. Ironically it’s the very glitter liner I didn't own from my little stash of the collection 2000 glitter liners that I wanted to use: the glittery black one.


 





For this look, I mainly used 2 colours from the Sleek Makeup Acid Palette: The Green over a black base (sleek ink pot gel liner in ‘dominatrix’ black ) and the purple on the lower lashline. The piece de resistance was my little pot of  loose glitter (from eBay – I used the purple lid one) which I applied over my splash proof sealer.





The rest is boring and I used my traditional white eyeliner pen from Revlon for the waterline, and the nyx trio palette in white/grey/black for deepening the crease and for highlighting. Lips was a mixture of MAC Hello Kitty ‘Fashion Mews’ and sleekmakeup amethyst.





Do you like glitter? You got some crazy glitter you never have the chance to use?
Join me and enter thom_cat’s contest on youtube. It ends on 1st July.

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