Birthstones: Pearl

This is very, very late but I haven't had time to do this look until now, when June is drawing to an end.

In real life this look was way more shimmery than it looks here. I wanted to create a sort of marine, ethereal look with shimmer, glitter (that hardly showed up at all on the pictures...) and pearls.

The white dots are drawn with Illmasqua's Scribe, which is beyond awesome in every way! :) I will make a special post about my recent Illamasqua haul during this upcoming week.

Shimmer and pearls. Elegant or tacky? Or maybe both? :)

Warm, orangey pink lips and blush matches the eyemakeup perfectly!

Face

*CC cream Light  (Lumene)

*Studio Finish Concealer (M.A.C.)

*Touche Éclat #1 (YSL)

*Mineral Veil (Bare minerals)

*Blush Glow (e.l.f.)

Eyebrows

*Velvet revolver (Too Faced)

*Brow powder Dark brown (Anastasia)

Eyes

*Shadow Insurance (original) (Too Faced)

*#391 (Inglot) 

*Pigment Afterglow (Makeup Geek)

*Pigment New Years Eve (Makeup Geek)

*Pigment Enchanted (Makeup Geek)

*Precision liner Scribe (Illamasqua)

*Glitter liner Disco (Viva la Diva)

*False eyelashes #601 (Red Cherry)

Lips

*Natural Code lipgloss Soft Papaya (Lumene)

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Well, tomorrow July starts bearing a new month stone with it; the ruby. We'll see what I'll come up with for that one. :) 

I hope you all have had a lovely weekend! Thanks for reading!

The Vintage (or Tacky) Iron Man

One of the Youtube gurus that has inspired me most throughout the years is Cora from Vintageortacky. She's funny and extremely talented which makes it delightful to watch her videos! :)
Recently she posted this tutorial on an Iron Man look and I totally fell in love with it. Plus, I do own many of the products she uses in the video so recreating this look was a must for me. ;)

I did decide to put an extra element on this look, that would make it more me and add some more craziness to it (as if that is needed :P...); hence the rhinestones along the lower lash line.

Honestly, I have no idea why but red eyeshadow always look un-blended and as if I've sloppily painted it on in some ancient drawing program (remember Paint anyone?) or something. -___- It helps to turn down the saturation a bit but I still can't capture the smooth blending that actually existed there in real life. So frustrating!

Face

*CC cream Light  (Lumene)

*Studio Finish Concealer (M.A.C.)*

*Touche Éclat #1 (YSL)*

*Mineral Veil (Bare minerals)

*Purely naked (Makeup Geek)

*Blush Glow (e.l.f.)

Eyebrows

*Brow powder Dark brown (Anastasia)

Eyes

*Shadow Insurance (original) (Too Faced)

*#391 (Inglot) 

*#351 (Inglot)

*Love+ (Sugarpill)

*Pigment Liquid gold (Makeup Geek)

*Gel liner Poison (Makeup Geek)

*Gel liner Rave (Makeup Geek)

*Goldilux (Sugarpill)

*False eyelashes #43 (Red Cherry)

Lips

*Russian red (M.A.C.)*

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Youtube tutorial by Vintageortacky

Last but not least I would love to thank you all for the wonderful comments you've sent me on my past few posts! I have read them all but haven't been able to find time to respond to everyone of them yet so please don't feel offended if you're awaiting a response! As always I really appreciate that you actually take your time reading my posts, commenting and subscribing! It means a lot to me and makes blogging so much more worth it. :D

I sincerely hope that you have had a lovely summer so far (or winter if you live on the Southern hemisphere)! :)

* Not cruelty-free