tisdag 30 oktober 2012

Scorpio

So, here comes the next look in the Zodiac series, Scorpio. To me Scorpio is a dark and mysterious sign and the color I associate with it is dark red. I figured that the makeup look that best would describe this Zodiac sign is a grey smokey eye with sharp, red eyeliner. :)



As eyeliner I have used the rusty, blood-red gel liner Poison by Makeup Geek. I like it a lot, even though it clogs my brush just as Fame did. Another drawback with it is that it doesn't show up as good if you use it on a darker background. I tried doing this look with a darker shade of grey but the red just "disappeared".


For the lips, a burgundy red suits the Scorpio ladies. :) To emphasize it I applied black in the corners of my lips.


Positive traits
*Hard-working and determined
*Intense and vigorous
*Intelligent, intuitive and analytical
*Charming and elegant
*Sexy and mysterious

Negative traits
*Jealous and wants to control their partner
*Introvert and sometimes too secretive
*Suspicious and tends to overblow things
*Often takes life a bit too seriously
*Vengeful, bitter and cruel

Good matches: Cancer, Pisces and Capricorn

Bad matches: Scorpio, Aquarius, Aries and Virgo




Face
*Skin base foundation 02 (Illamasqua)
*Studio Finish Concealer (M.A.C.)

Eyebrows
*Corrupt (Makeup Geek) 

Eyes
*Milk Jumbo Pencil (NYX)
*Galaxy (Makeup Geek)
*White lies (Makeup Geek)
*Corrupt (Makeup Geek)
*Medium Pencil S.O.P.H.I.E. (Illamasqua)
*Lashes: Ardell #105 

Lips
*Medium Pencil S.O.P.H.I.E. (Illamasqua)
*Burgundy red lip pencil 

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Well, that's about it! :) I was planning to participate in the monthly theme challenge at sophistiquenoir.com but we'll see if I manage to create a look for it tomorrow or on Thursday.

Thank you so much for reading and hope to see you soon! Have a lovely day, evening or whatever it is where you are! :)



måndag 29 oktober 2012

Weekly confession: Perfumes

Thank all of you who participated in last weeks Weekly confession! :) I really enjoyed reading your confessions and some of them made me laugh.

This time it is about perfumes. A fragrance may smell heavenly good to one nose but completely awful to another. So, now it's time to confess; what fragrances are terrible vs. wonderful to you?

Personally, I love sweet and heavy perfumes. :) My favorite perfume right now is probably Vanillary by Lush. I LOVE it! :D


As for scents that I really hate the first thing that comes to mind is perfumes that smells of roses. *Urrgh!!* It may sound a bit strange; doesn't everyone love the smell of roses? Well, I don't. The smell of roses gives me headache! :(


So those are my love and hate perfumes, what are yours? :)

I will try and upload another look before Halloween but since we are having a guest from England to stay at our home this week I might not have time. We'll see about that! :)

Thank you for reading and hope to see you soon!





torsdag 25 oktober 2012

Illamasqua Halloween Face Chart Look 6

Since I've been so obsessed about red eyeshadow lately I couldn't resist to recreate this look from Illamasquas Halloween look face-charts. It's definitely my type of look. :)


I was so inspired by this look that I had to recreate it right away. :) And here is the result! 


Unfortunately I haven't got all the Illamasqua products required for this look so I used some Sugarpill and Makeup Geek as well. :3


And what would a Halloween look be without a funny wig? :P


When I put this pic into greyscale I think it turned out very Morticia Addams-y. This is how I would've done the makeup for Morticia Addams. :3 Not red, of course, but grey and black.

Anyway...



Face
*Skin base foundation 02 (Illamasqua)
*Studio Finish Concealer (M.A.C.)
*Stargazer white pressed powder
*Eyeshadow Charcoal brown (for contouring) (M.A.C.)
*Eyeshadow Corrupt (Makeup Geek)
*Wonderblush Cleopatra (Make Up Store)

Eyebrows
*Corrupt (Makeup Geek) 

Eyes
*Love+ (Sugarpill)
*Wonderblush Cleopatra (Make Up Store)
*White lies (Makeup Geek)
*Corrupt (Makeup Geek)
*Jumbo pencil Milk (NYX)
*Medium Pencil S.O.P.H.I.E. (Illamasqua)
*Lashes: Ardell #105 (top) and #108 (bottom)

Lips
*Medium Pencil S.O.P.H.I.E. (Illamasqua)
*Goth (Viva la Diva)


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Here are the other Illamasqua Halloween face-charts! 


Here are the other Illamasqua Halloween looks. :) I don't know why I can't find them via the Illamasqua website, but if you Google them you will most certainly find larger pics of each look. I think I will do Look 3 tomorrow, but I'm very tempted by the pink "blood" tears in Look 4 as well. :3 Which one of these looks are your favorite?

Thank you so much for reading and a heartly welcome to my new followers! :)