Russet Eye Glitter Dust (Beauty UK) and EOTD

What can I say. I think I might have a little crush on Beauty UK. After Lily from Beauty’s Bad Habit was raving about the metallic eye sparks, I wanted to get some for myself. Alas there was none in my Superdrug: instead 2 little pots (the last ones) of  glitter eye dust were begging me to grab them: Russet and Green. The glitter lover in me couldn’t resist at £2.99 each.




Let’s cut to chase and go right into it: the packaging is far from ideal but let it not deter you as the product it contains it’s gorgeous. It is like your traditional loose glitter but more finely milled to look almost like an eyeshadow. With this product, you get the best of both worlds: vibrancy, glitter and drama which you would get with a loose glitter, but a product very similar to eyeshadow as far as the removal goes: a cotton dampened with eye make up remover will take it off very easily, while traditional glitter would be more tedious (I usually resort to sellotape to remove the excess first)





Talking of packaging, this is what it looks like inside. I feel like the product dissipates itself around its little opening at the top.

 



You can actually remove the whole plastic protector inside and just use the lid. I happened to have some mini jars (5ml) left so I decided to depot them.



 
Are you still with me yet?
Now for the look. This is not very elaborate at all. Look at it more like it’s a swatch of the product but made directly on the eyelid.

 





To create this look, I used 3 colours from the Day and Night Palette (reviewed and fotd’ed here) and the russet glitter eye dust. Eyepencil and eyeliner are the same usual ones, I won’t bore you with it :P Again, I must point out that you won’t usually see me using shimmery shadows in my crease.  But the shimmery burgundy from this palette as well as the other colours don’t have an overpowering shimmer at all, it’s more of a mix between subtle sheen and shimmer.

I treated the glitter eye dust exactly like it was chunky loose glitter and applied it with my beloved and trusty splash proof sealer. In retrospect, I wish I had darkened the crease a bit more with a bit of black. Never mind.


 


Now what am I going to do with 2 jars of the same glitter, huh? ;)
Oh, anyone want to have a guess at the nail polish I am wearing? answer tomorrow. I know, you just can't contain yourself ... and I need to get out more

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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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Splash Proof Sealer: I'd be lost without you. Review, Tutorial & FOTD

Do you own something in your beauty collection which would leave you upset if you suddenly misplaced it? I do. A few months ago, my stomach literally churned when I thought I had lost my splash cosmetics sealer.


 


This was originally given to me by my very thoughtful and generous  friend Jo, makeup artist in Bristol. Jo knows how much I love using ‘full on’ loose glitter on my lids for going out / party makeup. One first try of this and I immediately understood why she was raving about it: This little sealer is simply the BEST base I have ever used to make loose glitter adhere to your lids. And when I saw  my ultimate YouTube makeup  guru petrilude was using it too, I was literally squealing with excitement. (If you click here, it will direct you to precisely the bit where he’s talking about it at 4 minutes 14 )










In my pre splash days, I would use regular eyelash glue to make loose glitter adhere to my lids, but the removal process was very tedious and I always felt it was harsh to the poor tender skin of my lids. When I use the splash proof sealer I apply a fine layer of  product on my lids, then dab the glitter with a sponge applicator (I love sponge applicators and not ashamed to say it) and the glitter stays on all day or all night and it does not budge one bit.

The applicator dispenses just the right amount of product, but sadly as I discovered with clear lipgloss, you are best to apply the product on the back of your hands first and then transfer it to your lids as you don’t want to the wand to get dirty with the colour you have on your lids, and then colour contaminate the whole tube.





When I turned myself into a little devil on new year’s eve, I used this sealer on my eyes and some random red cosmetic glitter I bought on eBay. I usually never take step by step pictures of my makeup, but for some reason this time I did and I thought I would share them. Please Excuse the deep/crazy smoothing of my magic camera.


First, and before applying any makeup, I applied my false eyelashes (very controversial but this is the way I like to do it)  and worked on my crease. I applied some twofaced shadow insurance on the whole surface of the eye, then applied brown eyeshadow, blended it with vanilla or blanc type from MAC, then applied some black. Looks Like there’s a lot of black huh? Well, wait till my fat droopy lid covers it aaaaaaaall up.





See, by magic, my lids have covered all the black! Man these are my no.2 favourite lashes in the whole world but more on them in another post. Look below how neat they look and that they barely need any eyeliner at all. I am in love.






Then, it looks like I’ve applied some red eyeshadow on top of the brown and some red shadow on the main lid too. I took the red from the 120 eyeshadow palette from eBay.





And then I applied the sealer on my lids, and voila:
Better pictures of this look on my red devil post and on youtube if you fancy it.
My eyebrows look a mess but that didn’t prevent me to pull that night :)





To remove the glitter, I stuck some regular sellotape on my eyelids to remove most of it, and then, I pressed a cotton pad wet with oily makeup remover, and pressed it to make it soft and easy to lift off.  The removal process was a doddle compared to when I would use eyelash glue when i had to scrape it off.


The splash sealer is very affordable (about £5 I believe) but it’s not very easy to find, which traumatised me a bit when I thought I had lost it. In the UK, It seems to be sold in ‘dancewear’ places, with theatrical-ish makeup. Here’s a list of stockists if you are interested.  In America, I believe you can find at ULTA, under its real original name of L.A Splash Cosmetics. Blimey, you’ve made till the end of this long post. Well done. I am finding it hard to be concise when I am really excited about a product.
Thank you for reading. Let know about some makeup items of yours, which would leave you in total disarray if you lost them. I’d love to hear xx

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