Showing posts with label bright makeup. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bright makeup. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Butterfly Fields: Fantasy-Green Eyeshadow Look (with Paperself Lashes)



I got requests for brighter or more dramatic color, and something green, so here's one that's kinda all those rolled into one.
I whipped out my 88 Shimmer palette for this. (I always forget I love this baby. It's not dusty and the colors are beautiful.) But like most shadows, it's very important to wear a primer or some kind of base on your lid for the pigments to cling to, if you want to get the most intense effect.
For this look, I used 3 shades circled below:
  • A nice bronze-brown near the top right
  • A deep emerald green near the bottom left
  • A saturated lime green shimmer along the same row as the emerald, 4th from top
I also used the following:
  • MAC Studiofinish Concealer over the lids as a base (a lot of these solid concealers work very well as a shadow primer if you have normal or dry lids like me)
  • An emerald green pencil (Catrice Khol Kajal in 060 "Don't Be Mean to Green!" 
  • Black liquid liner (Heroine Make Impact Liquid Liner) and pencil (Shahnaz Husain Kajal)
  • Black mascara (L'oreal Voluminous Carbon Black)

Friday, February 22, 2013

Cobalt Wing: Graphic "Duochrome" Liner and Poppy-red Lips (for a funky Valentine's)


Say you're doing away with the whole dinner and flowers thing, and having fun at the club or jazzing it up with the girls (or boys) this Valentine's. 
Who needs another neutral, barely-there makeup look? You want all eyes on you baby!
This is a very fun way to wear a classic red lip and liner retro "Bombshell" look, and while I picked blue because I have brown eyes, you can EASILY adapt this to any other color. This is good for any skin tone and most eye shapes, including mature skins and hooded lids. If you have mono-lids, the liner might not show up quite as well.
What you'll need are:
  • Nude beige shadow (you can use pressed powder, really)
  • A matte soft-brown (I got both shades from the 88 Warm palette)
  • Gel liner in a dark shade (I used a blackened blue; Japanese brand KATE's Gel Liner in BU-1)
  • Matching pearlescent shadow in a bright medium-tone (I used a metallic violet-blue, Kat von Shade Shifter in Stockholm)