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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Tuesday, 1 December 2009

Cut Crease & Butterflies

After false eyelashes, one of the things I have been obsessed about in makeup has been the so called ‘cut crease’ in a bid to make my heavy eyelids lifted and look a bit better :) So when I heard that YouTube Makeup Guru Krawls80 was hosting a big ‘Sigma Brushes’ Contest, with ‘cut crease’ as one of the themes, I got lots butterflies in my tummy and just could not resist to take part.



It would be great to win some brushes, but for me, really it was more an excuse to keep on practising on cut creasing, have fun with it and come up with a look. As a beginner still, it has not been easy! And at the last minute, after 6 trials, I still managed to mess it up: the shimmer from the light gold on the mobile part of the lid transferred on the crease, and I really did not want that to happen, but hey ho, I went along with and thought I would publish it anyway. I hope you like it :) x





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