Fairytale Series: Evil Queen

Hey there, Miss. Slacker here! This may or may not be the last look in my fairytale series, but if is the last one at least I love the look! I tried to keep these from being too Disney inspired but a little might've slipped in this one, lol. Honestly I got more inspiration from Regina's makeup on Once Upon a Time. But that aside from that I wanted this makeup to be a bit contradictory: dark but still colorful, sudden but not stark, and only a little bit sinister. ;D Let's go see!

First I placed an eye shadow primer to my eyelids, face, and put on some lip balm. You want everything primed before you start. Then I applied a white cream base to my eyelids.  Then starting in the center and moving towards the outside I patted a matte red eyeshadow onto the lid. With a bright matte purple I did the same thing on the outer side of my eyelids.  I blended this shades together in the middle little bit but this doesn't have to be pretty this needs to just the right pigmented base for the rest the eyeshadow to go on top of. Over those two colors (leaving the outside of both clean) I patted a deep shimmering magenta with a blue shift. Then moving in from the right onto the white lid space that's left I put a little bit of a cranberry color. Then the fluffy brush and went in with a mauve eyeshadow as a transition color all around the area where my crease color will be. Then with the same matte purple as before I started to slowly deepen the crease, blending out the edges into a cat eye shape. Once the purple was blended I went with a matte black closer to my natural crease and pulled it through the socket. After that I took a skin toned color and a fluffy brush and cleaned up my brow bone. Careful not to blend too much away though, you don't want the mauve to disappear. Then with a black pencil liner I lined the entirety of my water line. I took a bit of the pencil liner on the outer corner of my lower lash line line and blended it out a little. Then with a little more of the purple I blended it up into the eyeshadow a little more. Then I took a black gel eyeliner I made a tapered line from thick to barely there across my lids. I didn't want to leave my inner corner highlight just plain white, so I patted a opalescent shimmer over it, which give a really 'glowy' effect. Then I did my brows and applied black mascara.

For my face I started out with a luxurious amount of full coverage foundation. Because evil queens don't mess around when it comes to coverage.  After that I concealed under my eyes and lightly dusted there and my t zone to  make sure everything set.  With a taupe contouring powder I went under my cheekbones, a more lightly on my temples, jaw and nose. Then with a deep fuchsia blush on a fan brush I lightly applied it on my cheek bones. The had shimmer in it, so I skipped highlighter. I didn't want this look to be very shimmery. 

For my lips I applied a blue toned red lip liner under a berry-purple lip stain balm.

Products Used:

(In Order of Application)

Eyes: Urban Decay Primer Potion, NYX Jumbo Eyeshadow Pencil, Sugarpill Love +, Sugarpill Poison Plum, Fyrinnae Conjuror, Sleek Cosmetics Sunset Palette 'Cranberry Color', Two Cosmetics Heartache Duo (Pinky Mauve Side), Urban Decay Blackout Eyeshadow, Urban Decay Kinky Eyeshadow, Urban Decay Perversion 24/7 Pencil Liner, MAC Black Track Fluidline, MAC Redhead Brow Cream, Fluidline, Benefit They're Real! Mascara.

Face: Smashbox Photo Finish Primer, Kat Von D Lock it Tattoo Foundation in Light 48, Tarte Maracuja Creaseless Concealer, Baremineral Original Mineral Veil, NYX Blush in Taupe, Milani Baked Blush in Red Vino.

Lips: Burt's Bees Original Lip Balm, MAC Cherry Lip Liner, Revlon Just Bitten Kissable Lip Stain in Crush. 

So what do you guys think? Let me know in the comments, I love hearing from you guys!

Fairytale Series: The Big Bad Wolf

Who's afraid of the bug bad wolf? Today I have the next look in my fairytale makeup series! I didn't just want to do hero's, and frankly Little Red's makeup is sort normal: Pale, flushed cheeks, doe eyes. Sort of a less elaborate version of my Hansel and Gretel look. I actually really like how the eyes turned out this look, it made them super big and dramatic looking with out being too dark or harsh. But that aside, lets get started on the tutorial!

            

 So I started out with my face makeup. To make a even base to start off on a used a little bit of a full coverage foundation and buffed it all over my face. Then to make my skin a little darker (my body is darker then my body right now) I dusted a light brozer over the edges of my face. Then with a darker bronzer I contoured my cheeks, temples, and along the sides of my nose.

I first primed my eye area. Then with brow cream and a small angled brush I filled and shaped my brows normally. After that I started to to draw small strokes up and outward, I slowly brought them further up until they were where I wanted them. After that I added a second layer with a darker color, and then made small hair like strokes to make it more realistic looking.

Moving on the eyes I started by patting a light brown over my eyelids. Then with the same brown I started making a a elongated V deepening my crease. Then I blended a medium dark brown into the V and crease. With a dark red brown I smudged along my upper and lower lash lines for a smokey effect.  Then with a small brush I added an inner corner highlight to brighten up a bit. To blend out the colors a bit more naturally I used a medium nude pink on a fluffy brush of the V. And finally to finish it off I added some black gel liner to the outer half of my upper lash line and added a lot of mascara for fullness.

On my lips I used a neutral pinky brown shade to balance things out.

Products Used:

Face: Kat Von D Lock it Tattoo Foundation in Light 48, NYC Smooth Skin Bronzer in Sunny, Too Faced Chocolate Soleil Bronzer.

Eyebrows: Urban Decay Primer Potion, MAC Redhead Brow Cream, Urban Decay Eyeshadow in Buck, Urban Decay Eyeshadow in Backdoor.

Eyes: Urban Decay Primer Potion, Urban Decay Eyeshadow in Buck, Urban Decay Eyeshadow in Backdoor, Wet n Wild Comfort Palette Dark Red Brown, Wet n Wild Comfort Palette Light Shimmery Shade, Wet n Wild Comfort Palette Medium Pink Shade, MAC Blacktrack Fluidgel liner, Benefit They're Real! Mascara.

Lips: MAC Mocha Lipstick

Sugarpill Burning Heart Palette/ Look

Ugh I'm such a slacker! I've had these pictures for a week and I've been so preoccupied by other stuff that I kept putting off posting. :P

Anyway! Sugarpill has been one of my favorite brands for awhile and I've wanted this palette for a long time. But when ever I had extra cash it was sold out! But thankfully the makeup stars were aligned the other day. So heres my new baby!

(LR: Outside, Inside)

 (LR: Flamepoint, Buttercupcake, Love +, Poison Plum)

Ughhh look at those colors! They're so fantastic! Buttercupcake the yellow shade I found extra impressive, because there are so few well pigmented yellows on the market. They're all matte, although Poison Plum and Buttercupcake have shimmer in the pan. They're so smooth and blendable, especially for matte colors. Very impressed! So I decided to do a look with all the colors to show them off.

       

 So to start out I primed my eyes and laid out a white base all over my lid, but not into the outer V.
I took Buttercupcake on a flat brush and packed it into my inner corner and wiggled what was left on the brush toward the center of my lid. Then with Flamepoint I first worked on building the intensity in the center and then blended out gently into the yellow and out into the unfilled space. I then took Love + and blended it into my crease. I really like this bit because it disappears, but really stands out when I blink, or close my eyes. And then I blended Poison Plum into V in a sort of faux cut crease fashion, and took it under my eye in a continuation of the V. After that I added a teeny bit of liner and some mascara, nothin' special. However to finish off the look I put on some bright magenta lipstick (Covergirl LipPerfection in Embrace) and then patted Poison Plum in the outer corners for some matchy gradient action.

Final verdict? This is a perfection, a must have for anyone who likes colorful makeup or MUAs.

This slice of heaven in $34 USD at Sugarpill's website.

Happy St. Patricks Day!

Hello lovelies, how's everyone today? I'm pretty alright myself. =) I must admit, I'm not super into St. Patrick's day. Just not my thing, even though I am actually super Irish. But I wanted to do a fun look for  you guys today because its one of the few days you can get away with this kind of stuff! If you'd like a more grown up/ normal green look I have a few here.

I started on the rainbow and I recommend doing the same. (That way you can just take that off if you mess up!) First put down eye shadow primer all over the area that you'll be using. Then take a white pencil of white base and map out the area for your rainbow and cloud. I took a picture of this for you.

Like that! I changed the shape of the bottom a little afterward.

Then you want to go in with your rainbow colors with small flat liner brushes. You don't need a brush for each color, but I do recommend having at least two. One for warm colors, the other for cool. Take your time and try to get the stripes even. Don't blend too much and stop at the top of the cloud. Once your done with the rainbow set your white cloud base with matte white eyeshadow. This'll keep it from smearing, and makes it look fluffier. To add a little more definition  to my cloud I took a pale blue on a small brush and added some detail. That wasn't so hard! =)

Now for the lids. You could go all out but I didn't want to overpower the cloud. If you have green eyeliner just use that and make a nice cat eye shape. I used that same white base and green eyeshadow on an angled brush. It works out fine but takes a little extra time. After that I took gold glitter eyeliner and took it right under the green eyeliner. Because hell yeah gold glitter. Then I added black eyeliner to my waterline. On my lower lashline I added a bit of gold eyeliner, but its not showing up too well. Then I finished off with lots of mascara. You could also add some falsies, I think winged ones would be fun.

For lips I just added some pink tinted lip balm, I didn't want too much going on there with out being nude. and Now your done!

Products Used:

Rainbow: Nyx Jumbo Eyeshadow Pencil in Milk, Sugarpill Love + Eyeshadow, Sugarpill Flamepoint Eyeshadow, Sugarpill Buttercupcake Eyeshadow, Kiss my Sass Poison Ivy Eyeshadow, Sleek Blue Eyeshadow (Original Palette), Sugarpill Poison Plum Eyeshadow, Sugarpill Tako Eyeshadow, Lime Crime Parasol Eyeshadow (Chinadoll Palette).

Eyes: Urdan Decay Primer Potion, Nyx Jumbo Eyeshadow Pencil in Milk, Lime Crime Jade o Lade Eyeshadow (Chinadoll), Nyx Liquid Crystal Eyeliner in Crystal Gold, Urban Decay Zero Eyeliner Pencil, Benefit They're Real! Mascara.

Face: Kat Von D Tattoo Lock It Foundation in Light 48, Tarte Smooth Operator Loose Powder.

Lips: Fresh Sugar Rose Lip Balm.

Hope you liked the look! Any St. Patrick's Day plans? =)

Chocolate Covered Cherry (Valentines!)

Hello my lovely readers! I decided to do a Valentines look inspired by a valentines classic, chocolate covered cherries. If you'd prefer a a cute pink valentines look, I have one here that might suit you. :)

Now I'm a firm believer that should always make yourself feel special, especially on special occasions. So after evenly spreading primer all over your eye take a white eye shadow base ( or eyeliner) and put it in your inner corner and brow bone. Start from where ever the highest part of your brows and smooth the base down.
Next take a raspberry colored eyeshadow, and pat it slightly off the center of your lids. After that I blended a bronze color into the outer edge of the raspberry color. After that take a light brown color on a fluffy brush and softly blend it around your crease for a soft smoky effect. After that take a darker brown and fill in your crease. Then bring the dark brown down a little and blend it into your lower lash line. Next step take a pink eyeshadow and blend the raspberry toward the inner corner with it, but don't go all the way. After that gently pat a nude color over the white base over your brow bone. This makes it look really smooth and perfect. The for the inner corner highlight I used a shimmery white gold color. ( tip use your face high liter if you can!) That I lined my upper water line and my lash line part way, both with black. After a quick coat of black mascara, I put on my favorite little half lashes. These will elongate your eye and add a little more drama.

After you finish your eye makeup do your foundation. I start out with concealer under my eyes and then put on a full coverage foundation. Blend blend blend! Then I highlighted and contoured, then added a rosary flush with a shimmering blush.

To finish it off I put on my favorite red lipstick, and called it good!


Products used:
Eyes: Too Faced shadow, Nyx jumbo eyeshadow pencil, Sleek raspberry eyeshadow ( original palette), MAC woodwinked, Urban Decay Buck, Urban Decay Backdoor, Urban Decay foxy, MAC free to be, theBalm Mary Lou manizer luminizer, Urban Decay 24/7 perversion pencil, MAC black track eyeliner, Maybelline the Rocket mMascara, Ardell 305 lashes.

Face: Bobbi Brown Concealer, Kat Von D Tattoo Lock it foundation in Light 48, NYC Smooth Skin Bronzer in Sunny, MAC Ring of Saturn Blush

Lips: Covergirl Lip Perfection Lipstick in Enthrall.

Happy Valentines everyone, love you guys! If you love this look, feel free to tell me about it in the comments. ;D

Blue Green Look!

I want to start this post by berating myself for being lazy and not posting enough. I've been crazy busy... but thats still no excuse! So anyway I've been doing brighter looks lately because I hate winter, and this is another one! This look uses some stuff I've recently gotten, but the main pont was to use some products that have been gathering dust in my makeup collection. So I hope you like the look!

So I started out with primer all over my eye (Shocking I know!), and then I took a shimmering lime green and applied it to the inner third of my eye lids. Then I took a turquoise eyeshadow and patted it on the center of my lid. It wasn't blending into a nice enough gradient with the lime for me, so I added a bit of a slightly blue toned medium green and used it to transition the two colors. Then taking a dark emerald shade, I deepened my crease and extended my eyeshade out a little into a point. Then bringing it down I smudged the emerald into the outer third of my eye. I really loved the colors in this look so I kept the liner minimal, just on my upper water line. Then I added black mascara and did my brows.

After my eye makeup I put on foundation and concealed under my eyes. No blush on this one, but I added a little light golden cream highlighter to my cheeks.

For lips I just added a little plum tinted lip balm, to add a little color without competing with my eye makeup.

Products Used:

Eyes: Urban Decay Primer Potion, Nyx Ultra Pearl Pigment in Grass, Sleek Turquoise Color (Orignal Palette), Lime Crime Jade O Lade (Chinadoll Palette), Urban Decay Loaded Eyeshadow, Urban Decay 24/7 Liner in Perversion, Benefit They're Real! Mascara, Mac Brow Creme Fluidline in Redhead, Nyx Brow Cake in Red.

Face: (I totally forgot what foundation I used XD),  Bobbi Brown Concealer in Porcelain Peach, Benefit Watts Up! Highlighter.

Lips: Korres Plum Lip Butter.

Hope you guys liked this look, it was fun to do and gave my Grass Pigment and Sleek Orignal Palette a little love. =)

Pink Blossom Look!

Sooo.... I'm done with winter. It needs to end now. So I did this pinky look to cheer me up. Sorry I haven't posted in awhile, I hope you like this look!

After putting on bb cream I put primer all over my eyes. Then with a fluffy brush I put a pale shimmery pink all over my lid. Then I took a bright coral color and blended it in to my crease. To deepen the crease color just a little I added red to the outer corner and blended it in the coral. Then I made a thick line across my lid with gel liner and added a little wing. Then my upper waterline with black pencil. I thought it was a little top heavy, so I added a little light brown under my eyes. After that I filled in my brows and put on mascara.

I put a peachy cream highlighter, and then put on pink blush. I used quite a heavy hand with the blush and almost blended it to the edge of my eye makeup for a rosy almost doll like effect. Then to finish it off I applied a pink tinted lip balm.

Products Used:

Eyes: UD Primer Potion, Wet n Wild Color icon trio in Walking on Eggshells (light pink color), MAC Free to Be, Lime Crime Fly Dragon Fly (Chinadoll), Urban Decay Buck, MAC Blacktrack Fluidline, Urban Decay Perversion, Maybelline Lash Stiletto Mascara, MAC Brow GelCreme Fluidline, Nyx Brow Powder in Red.

Face: Holika Holika Petit Clearing BB Cream, Bobbi Brown Concealer in Porcelain Peach, MAC Cream Color Base in Hush, Tarina Tarantino Dollskin Blush in Parasol.

Lips: Avon Shine Attract Lipstick in Guava.

I really like this look, I feel like a pink macaroon! And I hope you liked it too, have a great day everyone! XOXO A.

Winter Solstice Part 2

So the longest night of the year is over! Its mid morning now, and bright and sunny. And while tonight will still be dark, it'll stay a little lighter for longer every day to come now! =) It just makes me so happy! So I made this brightly colored sunny look, in sort of the opposite style of my first look.

So I started out with a primer all over my eyes, and the put some tape along the sides to make a clean edge. Then I took a white cream base and put it all over my eyes. On my lids I patted a bright yellow color all over. Then going to the edge of the tape I took a bright orange and made a wing connecting to the yellow. Then I added red to my crease to add more depth, and blended it between the yellow and orange well. Then I made a wing following the tape line again. Then I took my tape off and lined under my eye a little bit. I filled my brows super lightly and applied mascara.

For my face I wanted a light shimmery finish, the reverse of my pervious look. So I put on a bb cream for a light coverage base. Then I took a shimmery golden peach toned blush and blended it in. Then add some light bronzer around your face to brighten you up. (I'm actually wearing a TON of bronzer in this, because the light is so blue grey today! I'm like an oompa loompa in real life.)

For my lips I put on a bright shimmery coral, and patted a golden shimmer over it.

Products Used:

Eyes: Urban Decay PP, Nyx Jumbo Eyeshadow Pencil in Milk, Lime Crime Goldfish Eyeshadow (Chinadoll), Sleek Orange eyeshadow (Sunset Palette), Lime Crime Fly Dragon Fly Eyeshadow (Chinadoll), Mac Blacktrack Fluidliner, Maybelline Full n Soft Mascara.

Face: Holika Holika Petit Clearing BB Cream, Mai Couture Highlighter Sheets in St. Barts, Benefit 10 Bronzer.

Lips: Nyx Round Lipstick in Miracle, Hard Candy Tropics Bronzer.

Hope you liked this look, and that things get a little bit brighter for you! 

Winter Solstice Part 1

Happy end of the world! Lol not really, but it is the winter solstice which is one of the coolest times of the year. For those of you who don't know, the winter solstice is the longest night of the year, and every day after gets a little lighter. So I did two looks a dark one for today, and a light one for tomorrow.

I started out out with eyeshadow primer all over my eye. After that I applied a white cream base to the outer corners of my eyes, and a creamy black base to the rest of my lid with a brush. This will make the look pop more. Then I took a matte black eyeshadow and patted over where I put my base, make sure its very black. Next I took a pale blue eyeshadow on a different brush and placed it on top of the white, blending out the edge so it transitions well. Then I took sparkle powder and patted it on top of the blue for extra shimmer prettiness. After that I lined my lid and waterline, and smudged some eyeliner under my eyes in the corner.  Then I lined my lower waterline with white. To finish it off I buffed a nude eyeshadow on my brow bone, applied mascara, and lightly filled in my brows.

I applied foundation after that, because dark colors and glitter can have fallout. I went with a full coverage foundation, and concealed under my eyes. I applied a very light contour blush but I wanted to keep the face pretty neutral. Likewise with my lips, I used the lightest lipstick I own.

And that completes my winter solstice look, come back tomorrow to see part two!

Products Used:

Eyes: Too Faced Shadow Insurance, Nyx Jumbo Eye Shadow Pencil in Milk, Nyx Jumbo Eye Shadow Pencil in Black Bean, Urban Decay Blackout Eyeshadow, Lime Crime Parasol Eyeshadow (Chinadoll Palette), Tarina Tarantino Sparklicity Powder in Pure Opal, Urban Decay Perversion 24/7 Eyeliner, Urban Decay Foxy Eyeshadow, Maybelline Full n' Soft Mascara, Nyx Red Brow Powder.

Face: Kat Von D Lock-It Tattoo Foundation in Light 48, Maybelline Age Rewind Concealer in Light, Hard Candy Baked Blush in Pin Up.

Lips: Nyx Stella Lipstick.

Happy Solstice! =)

Sugar Plum Look

It is so snowy outside! I seriously haven't seen this much of the white stuff since I was kid. So I thought I'd do another holiday look, I sort of had the sugar plum fairy in mind when I did this. This look is super easy and very festive, I think its wearable but you could always tone it down to your taste. Enjoy!

I started with full coverage foundation all over my face, and skipped straight to blush. I took a plummy cream blush and blended it like crazy on to my cheekbone. Then I concealed under my eyes.

Then I took a primer and applied it all over my eyes and brows then I took a nude colored shadow and placed it all over my lid and brow bone. Then I mixed together a purple and rust color to create a cranberry shade and took it in the outer V and the crease. Next I took more of the nude shadow and blended it around the crease to clean it up a bit. To finish it off I applied a gold glitter liner, a light coat of mascara, and did my brows.

After that I went back and added highlighter to my cheekbones, and a put on a magenta-ish lipstick.

Products Used:

Face: Kat Von D Lock It Foundation in Light 48, E.LF HD Blush in Show-stopper, theBalm Mary Lou Luminizer.

Eyes: Urban Decay Primer Potion, Urban Decay Kinky Eyeshadow, Sleek Purple eyeshadow (original palette)  Sleek Rust eyeshadow (sunset palette), Nyx Crystal Gold Eyeliner, Maybelline Full n' soft black mascara, Nyx Red Brow Powder.

Lips: Covergirl LipPerfection Lipstick in Embrace.

Hope you're having a great day! Whats your favorite holiday treat? Mine is ginger bread or peppermint bark! =)

Snow Bunny Look

Well the weather decided to turn seasonally appropriate on Thanksgiving night, and now everything has a fresh white blanket of snow. I love snow (at the beginning of winter at least) so I thought I'd do a snow inspired look for you guys. I also wanted to try out Fyrinnae Pixie Epoxy as a glitter glue... because glitter happens. Lol enjoy!

I started out by concealing under my eyes and applying a even layer of BB cream all over my face. And then big shocker here–– I applied primer all over my eye. After that I put a white base all over my lids and then toped it with matte white eyeshadow for ultra white lids. Then with a medium grey eyeshadow I gently blended into the crease and pulled it out slightly following the natural line of my eye into a small soft wing. 

Taking a sticky base for glitter I carefully patted it starting just after the grey through the center of my lids. Then I took holo style cosmetic glitter and and pressed it on to the sticky base with my finger. I went under my eyes with a fan brush to get rid of fallout glitter. Then I lined my lower waterline with white eyeliner. After that I took a little more of the grey from earlier and softly brought it in about halfway under my eyes with a smudge brush, following the same line from earlier. Then I defined my brows and applied black mascara to my upper lashes.

The skin I wanted to keep fairly pale but flushed and healthy looking. So I took a natural looking bright pink blush and brushed it on my apples and up. Then I highlighted variously places on my face lightly to give a little glow. I finished it off with a light peachy lipgloss.

Products Used:

Eyes:  Urban Decay Primer Potion, Nyx Jumbo Eyeshadow Pencil in Milk (as base), Sugarpill Pressed Eyeshadow in Tako, Urban Decay Eyeshadow in Mushroom, Fryinnae Pixie Epoxy, Random Cosmetic Glitter, Nyx Jumbo Eyeshadow Pencil in Milk (as liner), Nyx Brow Powder in Red, Maybelline Lash Stiletto Waterproof Black Mascara.

Face: Maybelline Age Rewind Concealer in Light, Holika Holika petit clearing BB cream, Tarina Tarantino Doll Skin Blush in Parasol, theBalm Mary Lou Manizer Luminizer.

Lips: Nyx Megashine Lipgloss in Nude Peach.

Hope you enjoyed the look! Whats your favorite part of winter?

Marina and the Diamonds Electra Heart Look

So I feel in love with the makeup that Marina has on the cover of her most recent album, Electra Heart. For those who haven't heard of her Marina is a British pop singer (the Diamonds refers to her fans not her band) who I'm mildly obsessed with. So I put together this look, I think I did a pretty good job; however something to remember is that we have very different face, eye, and lip shapes so its bound to differ a little. 

After applying liquid foundation even;y all over with a buffing bush I took my normal primer and went all over my eyes and brows. Then taking a small liner brush I marked where to end the crease on both sides of my eye. (It should be right where you lid starts to get narrower) Using a dark brown color I carefully filled in the crease, it should be fairly thick but make sure not to blend too far down. After that I used a q-tip with makeup remover to keep the edges sharp and went around the edges with a nude color to keep the crease uniform. For the lid I took a peachy color and put it in the center, and then I blended white in the corners to make the crease stand out more. 

I lined my lids with wet black eyeshadow and a angled brush, I made a little wing angling downward. Then with a smudge brush I took the same dark brown from before and took it about 3/4th's the way out making sure to taper the end. After that I applied black mascara, I'm almost certain she's wearing falseies in that picture but I don't have any that would suit this. To finish the eyes off I drew the little heart with a red lipliner pencil.

Remember how I mentioned that Marina and I have different face shapes? By that I meant we look absolutely nothing alike. So to help remedy this I contoured my face to look a little more like her. I went under my cheekbones because she always has quite a bit of cheek going on and then went along my jawline to make my face a little more heart shaped. I also added some highlighter to make the contour stand out more.

On to lips! Like the face her lips are also shaped differently then my own. Her lips are fuller and her cupids bow is much softer. So with a red lip pencil I rounded out my lip shape. With a lip brush I filled im my lips with red and then blotted the excess. With a dark lipgloss I darkened the center of my lips just like the cover.

Products Used:

(In order of Application)

Eyes: Too Faced Shadow Insurance, Urban Decay Backdoor, Urban Decay Kinky, Urban Decay Freestyle, Sugarpill Tako,  Urban Decay Blackout, Maybelline Full n Soft Waterproof Mascara in Black, Mac Cherry Lipliner.

Face: Rimmel Lashing Finish Foundation in Ivory, Hard Candy Pin Up Baked Blush, theBalm Mary-Lou Manizer Luminizer.

Lips: Mac Cherry Lipliner, OCC Lip Tar in NSFW, Illamsqua Intense Lipgloss in Hermetic.

If you like the look please comment! Also if you're a fan of Florence and the Machine or Natalia Kills definitely check out Marina and the Diamonds.

Halloween Series: Cat Look

Hello pretty kitties! Today we have the next part in my halloween series, a cat look from yours truly.
I decided to be a rust colored cat with spots, but you can change up the color of the eyeshadow and lipstick to suit the color of your cat costume. I'll have recommendations for different colors below the instructions.

I started out with a light layer of my normal foundation, but then I blended a layer of cream bronzer around the edges of my face and down my neck to deepen my skin tone a little. Then to add depth back to my face I contoured a little under my cheeks with a powder bronzer.

Moving on to the eyes I started out by priming my lids up through the brow underneath my eyes and the surrounding area. To get my lid color I mixed a bronzy gold with a dark red orange to create my rust colored cat shade. I sort of out lined where I wanted the wing to be, and then filled in the lid. Then I cleaned up the shape with a nude colored shadow. Add black mascara, to you top lashes only. Now cats don't have eyebrows, however my eyebrows are SUPER blond so I filled them in a bit so it didn't look weird, but I imagine you normal people with eyebrows could probably get away with not doing them. ;D

Then taking black gel eyeliner on an angled brush I made a fairly thick wing then brought it in to the corner making the cat like dip in the inner corner. After that I took a white shadow pencil and lined my water line and just under connecting it to the corner of the liner in the inner corner. Then I outlined the the white with more black liner to complete the eye shape. Underneath I added more of the rust color (I used less of the bronzy gold though) and extended the cat eye shape.

The spots are totally optional, but I took a bronze cream and pretty much just added random spot to start out with. Then with a much smaller liner brush then I used before I took more gel liner and outlined the spots. I added a few small spot with just black to fill the space in a bit too. You could probably do the black with just pencil liner if you prefer. Then draw on your little whiskers.

I couldn't find a lipstick that matched perfectly, so I applied a sheer bronze lipstick and put a orangey gloss over it.

Tips for Different Colors:

Black Cat: I suggest using a shimmery grey or sliver, not black. That way it'll suit your costume but the liner will still be visible.

Tiger: Do stripes instead of spots. 

White Cat: Skip bronzer, just add a little contour and lots of highlight. Use white and or light pink eyeshadow.

Products Used:

Face: Rimmel Lasting Finish Foundation in Ivory, Hard Candy Glow All the Way Cream Bronzer in Glamazon Bronze, Hard Candy Baked Blush in Pin Up.

Eyes: Too Faced Shadow Insurance, MAC Amber Lights + Sleek Sunset Red Orange color, Urban Decay Foxy Eyeshadow, Maybelline Lash Stiletto Black Mascara, Nyx Red Blonde Brow Powder, Maybelline Eyestudio Gel Eyeliner in Blackest Black, Nyx Jumbo Eye Shadow Pencil in Milk.

Spots: MAC Rich Ground Fluidline, Maybelline Eyestudio Gel Eyeliner in Blackest Black.

Lips: Avon Ultra Color Rich Lipstick in Burnished Gold, and Nyx Round Girls Gloss in Apricot.

Thanks for reading! Please comment if you liked the look!

Halloween Series: Cute Pumpkin Look!

Now after my last Halloween look (Wonder Woman, for those who missed it ;D) I had a poll asking what look I should do next, and it actually had a three way tie! So I just picked this one. The goal of these looks is to be fun and festive while being fairly easy and I think this one fits the bill.

   

I think I make a rather cute pumpkin! =)

As always I started out with a primer as always applied to my whole eye. Then taking a bright orange color, I put it all over my lid this is the main color so use the bright orange you have. Then I took and orangey gold and put a little in my inner corner for dimension. Then taking a dark matte brown I really deepened the crease and outer corner, you could also use black, but I like the way the brown transitions with the orange.

For my lower lash line, I took a bright green color and ran it almost all the way to my tear ducts, I left a little room where I placed a lighter green eyeshadow. Then on a whim I decided to deepen the outer corner with a light more dark brown. Now to make my pumpkin tendrils I took a small flat liner brush (I used E.L.F's studio small smudge brush) and dipped it into the bright green from before. Starting at the point of my outer corner I made little loops going toward my earlobes. I did three loops, mine are fairly similar but they don't have to be perfectly matched so don't sweat it. After that that I lined my upper lash line with black gel eyeliner put on a quick coat of mascara (top only!) and then applied my half lashes. (I know I use them a lot, but they're my favorite!)

After that I filled in my brows orange, this is optional. My hair has a bit of an orangey tone right now so I think it looks cute, but it might come off a little clownish. Then I took a orangey cream blush and dabbed it on the apples of my cheeks for some color.

Okay now on to the lips, I started out with applying a red orange lipstick. Now if you want you can stop there and thats fine, but for extra fun I added a coat of tacky lipgloss and then pressed pretty orange/gold glitter. This glitter also has a beautiful green shift that isn't showing up, but you can imagine!

Products Used:

(In order of application)

Face: Holika Holika petit Clearing BB, Hard Candy Concealer in Light and Medium.

Eyes: Too Faced Shadow Insurance, Sleek Sunset Palette Orange Color, Sleek Sunset Palette Medium Gold Shade, Urban Decay Backdoor Eyeshadow, Wet n' Wild I Dream of Greenie Color Trio Lid and Brow Bone Colors, Maybelline Eyestudio Gel Liner in Blackest Black, Maybelline Lash Stiletto Waterproof Mascara in Black, Ardell 305 Black Lashes.

Brows: Sleek Sunset Palette Orange Color.

Cheeks: Maybelline Dream Bouncy Blush in Candy Coral.

Lips: Mac Sail La Vie Lipstick, Hard Candy Plexi Gloss in Genie, Nyx Glitter Powder in Apple.

If you liked this comment please comment below! Next week I'll either do a Cat or Nymph look as those were the other two in the tie. =)

Goin' Gold Childhood Cancer Awareness

September is national Childhood Cancer Awareness month. This obviously an important cause, however it doesn't get nearly the amount of attention it needs to raise support. Enter in the Goin' Gold Campaign, their goal is to raise awareness and support the afflicted children and their families. The gold ribbon should be just as easily recognizable as the pink, so today I've put together a tutorial in support.

I started out with a primer all over my lids and brows. Then I took a bright yellow-gold eyeshadow all over my lid up to my crease. Using a darker bronzy gold color I deepened the outer corner and crease. After that I took a the first bright yellow color and brought it along with a smudge brush. I stopped at my inner corner and added a much lighter white gold color. I just lined my eyes with black eyeshadow and applied a light coat of mascara, just enough to get them all black. Then I added fluttery lashes. After the lashes dried I added sparkly gold eyeliner on my lids.

I dotted fondation on my face and then buffed it out with a flat topped brush, then I applied a gold toned bronzer under my cheek bones and lightly around my face. Then I applied a liberal amounts of highlighter and shimmery golden blush.

To make my ribbon I first took a gold shadow pencil and mapped out the shape. Then I applied shimmery gold on top of the cream base. To make it stand out a little better I used a dark neutral color around the edges and put some concealer in the center.

For my lips I applied a lighter pink lipstick on to my prepped lips, and then patted a little gold powder in the center.

Thanks for reading and please pass along awareness to the people you know!

Products Used:

(In Order of Use)

Eyes: Too Faced Shadow Insurance, Lime Crime Goldfish Eyeshadow, MAC Woodwinked Eyeshadow, Lime Crime Lotus Noir Eyeshadow, Maybelline Full n Soft Waterproof Mascara, Ardell 117 Black False Eyelashes, Nyx Liquid Crystal Liner in Crystal Gold.

Face: Rimmel Lasting Finish Foundation in Ivory, Benefit Ten Bronzer, theBalm Mary-Lou Manizer Luminier, E.L.F Giddy Gold Studio Blush.

Ribbon: Nyx Jumbo Eyeshadow Pencil in Pure Gold, Sugarpill Loose Eyeshadow in Goldilux, MAC Omega Eyeshadow, Hard Candy Glamoflage Light Concealer.

Lips: Nyx Round Lipstick in Stella, Sugarpill Loose Eyeshadow in Goldilux.