Paranormal Encounters

At the end of April I wrote about Illamasqua's new collection Paranormal, which certainly contains a lot of goodies that most makeup lovers would love to sink their fangs into. Although I haven't tried any of the products yet, I got very inspired by the looks in this collection and decided to recreate one of them. :)

Coral is a great choice if you want to make green eyes pop.

Purple lips matches flawlessly with coral eyes. I don't know why but I have been very inspired by this color combo lately.

I don't know if orange eyebrows are my cup of tea but they where essential for an accurate recreation of this look. :)

Step 1. After priming your eyes, trace your crease with a warm midtone brown. I used Purely naked by Makeup Geek. This will work as our transition color.

Step 2. Apply a warm coral or copper shade to your entire lid. Blend it like a maniac, using a skin tone eyeshadow around the edges.

Step 3. Do your foundation and lighten your brows with concealer. Finish with a powder on the areas where you tend to get most shiny.

Step 4. Fill in your brows with a burnt orange. The one I used is also from Makeup Geek and it's called Chickadee.

Step 5. Now, dust a soft wash of shimmery eyeshadow over your lids. I used Shimma shimma by Makeup Geek.

Step 6. Concentrate the shimmer on your inner corners, browbones and center of the lids. To accentuate the shine even more apply the Jumbo Pencil in Milk by N.Y.X. underneath.

Step 7. Dip Illamasqua's medium pencil in Sophie into black gel liner and line the inner rims of your eyes as well as the lower lash line.

Step 8. Using a white eyeliner line your upper lash line starting at the inner corner and fading it so that it ends softly about 2/3 of the way.

Step 9. Curl your lashes and apply a lot of mascara. I chose not to apply false lashes because the model in my inspirational picture does not appear to have any.

Face

*Skin base foundation 02 (Illamasqua)

*Studio Finish Concealer (M.A.C.)* 

*Mineral Veil (Bare Minerals)

Eyebrows

*Studio Finish Concealer (M.A.C.) 

*Chickadee (Makeup Geek)

Eyes

*Shadow Insurance (original) (Too Faced)

*Mango tango (Makeup Geek)

*Shimma shimma (Makeup Geek)

*#351 (Inglot) 

*Jumbo Pencil Milk (NYX)

*Gel liner Immortal (Makeup Geek)

*Medium Pencil Sophie (Illamasqua)

*AquaColor White (Kryolan)

Lips

*Lipstick Kontrol (Illamasqua)

*Jumbo Pencil Milk (NYX)

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Inspirational picture:

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I sincerely hope you liked my take on this look! For a very long time now I have been planning to do a series of looks inspired by Illamasqua's different collections, and I might start that series some time soon, actually. :)

I'm also thinking about doing a Q&A post where you guys can ask whatever you want (makeup related or not) but I'm not sure about that. Do you have any questions that you would like me to answer? :)

Thanks for reading!

The Heart Breaker

This is the result of my playing around with the Heart Breaker palette by Sugarpill... I really wanted to do a look with all of the eyeshadows in this palette and this is what I came up with. It is very hard to use them all and get a coherent look.

These colors will look great both on blue and brown eyes. Here it is on my natural eye color.

On brown eyes. :3 Creative eyebrows that will get so much crap from people if Sugarpill decides to post it on their Facebook page. A lot of people there goes mental whenever they see eyebrows that diverts from their opinion of "normal". Most of the time I'm very indifferent to that, they may think what they want, but sometimes I get so tired of all haters... *___*

Unfortunately the sun went down before I managed to snap a full face picture of this look. Meh! Thank god that the days are now slowly becoming longer. It will definitely be an advantage for my photographing.

Face

*Skin base foundation 02 (Illamasqua)

*Studio finish concealer (M.A.C.)

*Loose powder (Isadora)

Eyebrows

*Corrupt (Makeup Geek)

Eyes

*Heart Breaker palette (Sugarpill)

*Tako (Sugarpill)

*Corrupt (Makeup Geek)

*Gel liner Mystic (Makeup Geek)

*Medium Pencil S.O.P.H.I.E. (Illamasqua)

*Waterproof Glossy Eyeliner (Isadora)

*False lashes #111 (Ardell)

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I hope you're all having a great time and have something fun planned for New Years Eve! :)
Thanks for reading!

The End Of The World

I just realized how long it has been since my last post. *___* Sorry! I've been busy... Well... Painting. And that's where all my creativity has gone.

Since the world is going to end today I thought it would be proper to do a makeup look inspired by that event. When I think of the doomsday I always think of this beautiful poem by Robert Frost.

"Some say the world will end in fire

Some say in ice

From what I've tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor fire

But if it had to perish twice

I think I know enough of hate

To say that for destruction ice

Is also great

And would suffice"

Long story short, this poem was my main inspiration for today's look. :)

Rather than involving any blue eyeshadow I decided to keep the "ice" in white and silver.

I think that the thing I liked best with this look was the eyebrows. :3

The whole face pictures of this look were terrible so here's a B&W one instead... With strange hair. XD

Face

*Skin base foundation 02 (Illamasqua)

*Studio finish concealer (M.A.C.)

Eyebrows

*Corrupt (Makeup Geek)

*Glitter eyeliner Disco (Viva la Diva)

*Silver glitter and rhinestones (no brand)

Eyes

*Gel liner Immortal (Makeup Geek)

*Love+ (Sugarpill)

*Flamepoint (Sugarpill)

*Buttercupcake (Sugarpill)

*Corrupt (Makeup Geek)

*Latte (Makeup Geek)

*Vanilla bean (Makeup Geek)

*Jumbo pencil Milk (Nyx)

*White lies (Makeup Geek)

*Ice Queen (Makeup Geek)
*Medium Pencil S.O.P.H.I.E. (Illamasqua)

*Glitter eyeliner Disco (Viva la Diva)

*Silver glitter and rhinestones (no brand)

*False lashes long black (H&M) 

Lips

*Nothing! :D 

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Anyway, thank you for reading and hope you all will have a great Christmas holidays! (If the world doesn't end before that, that is...)