Sleek Sunset eyes

Wow, I finally got around to trying the Sleek Makeup eyeshadow palettes!
The main colors in this look are from the Snapshot palette. It's pretty much worth it just for those two colors I'm wearing here. So super smooth, pigmented and easy to blend. What's not to love?

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Love+

It's funny how Sugarpill's Love+ is an intense red but turns bright pink when blended out. I love it both ways though!

Contrasts

I've done variations of this color combination several times. Yellow+Orange eyeshadow and some sort of blue liner.
For some reason , I just really like this combination of contrasting colors and I'm quite happy with the way it turned out this time :)

Red. Purple. Gold.

Purple and red is a long time favorite of mine as far as color combinations go. Add a little gold and I'm in love!
This look turned out a bit darker than I intended thanks to the dramatic black liner.

And I have no idea what's up with all the nude lips lately. Challenge to myself: The next look I post needs to be featuring BRIGHT GLITTERY lips. Or something like that...

The Red Shoes tutorial

This is such an old look that I never got around to posting - probably mostly because the pictures are quite terrible.

However, I really wanted to share the look since I love the makeup itself.
Inspired by The Red Shoes, which you should absolutely watch if you haven't ;)

There's the inspiration picture as well as a video tutorial behind the cut :)

Face of the Day: Love+

I'm loving the combination of red and purple at the moment, so it seemed like an obvious choice to use those colors when I had some time to play around with my makeup today.

I used my very favorite red eyeshadow: Sugarpill's Love+, but was quite surprised to see how pink it looked with the other colors. Oh well, I still think it's purrrtty :)

There are two different lip looks behind the cut - one version that's more matte and one that's more glossy. I did the matte one first, but while I liked the fading effect, I really didn't like how it looked with the eyes, so I ended up putting a gloss on top :)

Make Up Store Magazine inspired: Bold brows, eyes & lips!

Have I told you that I love Make Up Store Magazine?!
They're always super inspiring, and the latest issue is no exception :)

I wanted to do a look inspired by the picture on page 150 in the newest magazine (issue #15), and this is what I came up with :)

Brights!

Bright makeup is always fun, isn't it? :D

FOTD: Sunset/rainbow/something fun :)

FOTD: Velvet Vampire

I'm still really excited about Fyrinnae so here's another look with some of their products! :)

I filmed a tutorial but I'm not sure if this look is actually exciting enough to upload a tutorial for, so let me know what you think :)
Edit: I uploaded the tutorial! ;)

The tutorial for yesterday's look is up on YouTube as well :)

FOTD: Testing Fyrinnae :D

This was just a quick FOTD to try out a couple of the Fyrinnae shadows I got :)
I also used the Pixie Epoxie (which it amazing so far), so I'm hoping I'll have time to do a review on that soon :)

FOTD: Testing the lip tars!

This FOTD was done super quick (we're talking 5 minutes... maybe 10) so it's really not that exciting... But I wanted to put the lip tars to the test.

These pictures were taken just after applying the lip tar, so they're not meant to show you the staying power. But I will tell you, that even though I didn't wear primer or liner with this, it didn't bleed at all on me! Sure, it smeared a little after eating and drinking, and it did fade a bit as well but it really wasn't bad at all!
Now, 8 hours after application, I still have red lips. Not perfect red lips, and definitely not as bright as they were when I first applied the color, but not lips I wouldn't leave the house with either.

And the most crazy thing about it? It didn't even take a drop to cover my entire lip!

MAC Trend S/S '10: Dye-A-Tribe Tutorial

As promised, here's a tutorial for the MAC Dye-A-Tribe trend for spring and summer 2010! :)

Keep reading to see more pictures, the tutorial and list of products used :)

High Voltage "Fairy Blood" look + tutorial! :)

I'm not going to lie. This look is so simple that I find it a bit on the boring side.
I did record a tutorial though, and I really do like the colors so I wanted to share the look :)

Keep reading to see tutorial, more pictures and list of products used :)

Burning Heart look + tutorial

So, this is actually my very first look using Sugarpill!
Make sure to check out my swatches and review if you haven't :)

 

Keep reading to see tutorial, more pictures and list of products used :)

Old Gold look + tutorial

Another recreation of an old look ;)

Keep reading to see the old look, the tutorial, more pictures and list of products used :)

Valentine's look + tutorial

I just did a recreation of an old look inspired by Valentine's day - even though I'm not a fan of that day at all, haha :)

So here's the recreation:

 

Read more to see the old look, the tutorial and a list of products used!

Another Christmas look - this one includes a tutorial! ;)

I really wanted to do a tutorial for a Christmas-y look, but I didn't want to do the same as the other look I posted, so this is what I came up with :)
It looks a more autumn-y than Christmas-y though... Fail ;)

A mask! - contest entry!

NikkieTutorials on youtube has a contest going on where you have to do both a mask and a "different" smokey eye.

I've never done a contest entry before, but it was fun! It was a great way to get inspired and do something different than usual. It's been forever since I've done a mask!

These are the looks I did! :)

First, the mask!








I used:

Mask:
Mehron Black (from the Basic palette)
MAC Dark Soul pigment
MAC Black Black pigment (PRO)
DUO glue
MAC 3D silver glitter (PRO)
MAC Aquamarine glitter (LE or DC?)

Eyes:
Mehron Black (from the Basic palette)
MAC Dark Soul pigment
MAC Black Black pigment (PRO)
MAC Teal pigment
MAC Violet pigment
MAC Point black lll
MAC Iris Eyes lll
MAC #48 lashes (LE '09)
MAC Silverstroke f/l (DC)

Face:
MAC Studio Sculpt foundation NC15

Lips:
MAC Lip Erase "pale" (PRO)


Aaaand, a "different" smokey eye ;)





Eyes:
ArtDeco eyeshadow base
GOSH Fox effect powder
MAC Motif e/s
MAC 100 Strokes e/s
MAC Smolder e/k
MAC Carbon e/s
MAC Gold glitter (PRO)
MAC #48 lashes

Cheeks:
MAC Style blush

Lips:
MAC Brave New Bronze l/s (LE w/ Style Warriors '09)

Graphic Garden: Fresh Cut

I used the Fresh Cut palette from the MAC Graphic Garden collection to create this look :) I do love the palette, but didn't get it myself since I have dupes of almost all the colours. I wish Sun-Shy eyeshadow(the peachy orange one) came as a single though - I would totally get that! :) And I really do think that the palette is worth the money if you don't already have similar shades. They work amazingly well with green and blue eyes :)
The pictures were taken after a whole day of work, so please keep that in mind, haha :)












I used:
Face:
Don't remember.

Eyes:
MAC Bare Canvas paint
MAC Artifact p/p
MAC Foxy Lady e/l
MAC Poppy noir e/s(Fresh Cut palette. LE w/ Graphic Garden '09)
MAC Part Peony e/s(Fresh Cut palette. LE w/ Graphic Garden '09)
MAC Sun-Shy e/s(Fresh Cut palette. LE w/ Graphic Garden '09)
MAC Vanilla pigment
MAC Vanilla e/s
MAC Point Black lll
MAC Electrolady lll

Cheeks:
MAC Part Peony e/s(Fresh Cut palette. LE w/ Graphic Garden '09)
MAC Sun-Shy e/s(Fresh Cut palette. LE w/ Graphic Garden '09)

Lips:
MAC Just a Smidge tinted lip balm (LE w/ Baby Bloom '09)