Saturday, 17 March 2012

St Patrick's Day Nails


I've been looking for a special occasion to show you this. I thought what better  than St Patrick's Day to devote a little part of my blog to this stunning green  nail polish. This miniature nail polish from BeautyUk, would you believe doesn't  have a name and was quite difficult to source. It used to be part of a 6-piece  miniature gift set called Midnight Minx. Whilst it still seems to be available on the website, it looks like that this particular shade is now discontinued in the new sets.


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This green polish  was applied very smoothly, gave me perfect coverage in 2  coats. Fans of 'Cha Cha' from China Glaze will love this much more budget  friendly alternative. I am in love.

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Whether you celebrate St Patrick's Day or not, have a lovely week end everyone :)
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Friday, 8 July 2011

Un petit papillon inspired makeup look

I have gazillions of things to write about and how do I decide to spend my Friday night on? Faffing about with makeup! The day I wore my pink look at work, I asked a friend/colleague of mine to pick a colour combination for me to wear for the following day. 'How about something with purple and orange, you know a bit like a butterfly' she instantly came up with. I do love a makeup challenge but after looking for inspiration, and having a first practice, it was clear that I was never going to have the guts to wear something so colourful in the office.



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So I chickened out. I actually wore no make up at work on that day (yesterday) but I still wanted to try to make an orange/yellow and purple butterfly inspired makeup look. It has been a while since I had attempted a dramatic cut crease so this is what I came up with.



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On my eyes, for the main colours I have used:

- Purple from Sleek Makeup Acid Palette
- Purple from Sleek Makeup Bohemian Palette
- Black from Sleek Makeup Acid Palette
- NYX Mellow Yellow Eyeshadow
- Orange (my favourite orange in the whole while world) from the 120 palette.


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Incidentally the next picture will show you an example of the smoothing effect of my camera. The picture below is my real skin with all its crap showing. Massive difference hey? It is worth noting that while it smoothes my skin, it does not change the blending on the eyes so much


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I won't bore you with my highlight colour and lower lashline action.
My lashes are a combination of cheaptastic shiny lashes from eBay on top of Eylure Girls Aloud Nadine (Original) Lashes.  On my lips, Mac Velvet Teddy and Sally Hansen Lip Inflation Extreme Lip Gloss.



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Eyebrows are a bit of a fail, they were meant to be purpley but maybe that's a good thing, as otherwise there would have been too much purple?
I had lots of fun creating this look. It reminded me of my first cut crease look (well,the  first one I was happy with) with also some butterfly action, which you may have seen somewhere ... 



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Saturday, 12 June 2010

Quick and Easy 'Football' Inspired Eye Makeup

Do I even need to introduce the context? The Football World Cup has started and I wanted to do have fun and do some makeup this time, instead of just wearing a French top. So what happens when your French football t-shirt has shrunk in the wash and you only have 15 minutes to do a makeup to support your team? You wear a plain white t-shirt and you do this makeup…


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I used mainly plain matte colours:  1 white, 2 blue, and 1 red with some dark purple to darken the crease of both the blue and the red eye. Looking at it now, it looks like the purple had some shimmer in it. Oops. Oh and no time to do anything with the lashline.



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I got the red from the 88 ebay matte palette and the blue from my W7 neon palette. The white is from my trusted nyx trio palette, which is always knocking about. I then used some vanilla from mac to do some quick blending. I didn't even have to do blush or anything. Oh and some false lashes for good measure of course. I am amazed they did not blow in the wind, as the application was super rushed.


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Tomorrow, (well later on today) I got to do a England Inspired Makeup Look. Any ideas girlies?  ^_^
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