Crazy bird

I went out clubbing and wanted to do something with my eyes that was blue and pink. This is what I came up with.

I think if I did it again I would want the pink to be a bit more obvious, but I'm happy with everything otherwise. It was something different and cool for the night. Again, I can't tell you exactly what I used but it was mostly sugarpill and Ben Nye colours. Go look at their range if you want wonderful vibrant colours. 

Something less outrageous

Today I've got something more subtle. Or subtle for me, anyway. Nice and purple, which I think looks good with any eye colour. I haven't done my eye brows because I forget to do them most of the time. 

I actually did this ages ago, so I'm unsure of exactly which colours I used but I do remember that two of the purples used were from a Maybelline duo (or trio?) that had a light silver purple that was shimmery and a darker purple. It was the first purple eyeshadow I ever found. The eyelashes I'm wearing are from Chi Chi.

Purple and red fun

Make-up look today because I cut my nails off and it makes me sad to look at them. I will post pictures of the latest manicure in a day or two.
 In the meantime this is a purple and red look I did a while ago.

Apologies about the weird colour of the last one. It was too dark so I tried to fix it and I just made it weird then I couldn't work out how to make it better. I suck at operating photo programs. 

Anyway, as per usual I can't tell you what colours I used because I don't have the names. I can safely say I used Love + from sugarpill for the red. That is all.

(For the record it is REALLY hard to type with nails this short. Who would have thought that short nails made my typing abilities worse? I prefer not being able to feel the tips of my fingers.)

In your face, Valentines

I entered a competition on facebook to win some Sugarpill stuffs which I'm not about to win but I thought that I would post some pictures here anyway.

This isn't actually what I was originally going to do. What I had been thinking of doing was a red/pink/purple army print mask thing. I tried that twice before I gave up on that idea. The second time I was almost up to doing the mascara before I decided it looked horrid.

Then I thought of this. I did the whole outline in a white eyeliner first to make sure it looked okay and filled the whole thing in with it as well (I don't have a jumbo eye pencil yet - it's on it's way, though!). Then I went over the outline with black eyeliner and then set that with black eyeshadow, pulling the eyeshadow in as I went around so that the inner part faded out. Then half over the black and half over the white that hasn't been coloured I went used a deep shimmer red, then bright red (Love+ from sugarpill) then a bright pink then a more white pink and another pink just over the lids of my eyes. Using magentric (sugarpill) and another red shimmer loose shadow I went over the pink & red parts. Regular eyeliner but I pulled it out quite far in the inner corners and added lashes. I went over the outline with a liquid liner, and went for a basic lip with some bright blush!

I'm going slightly mad

So I was bored and home alone and wanted to try something a bit different. So I picked out some random colours and started applying them over my lids. Then I went a little bit more over the top. Then I went even more over the top and this is what I came up with:

I also discovered that the powder that I was using to set my foundation made my face look really odd in pictures but it looked fantastic in real life. Very weird. You can see I don't have mascara in one of the pictures, too. Whoops. This was using only Sugarpill colours.

Then I went to fix a couple of things and I was like "I wonder what it would look like if I extended this bit of colour? Ooh and if I added this? I really like this colour, I wonder where I can put it?"

Then this is what happened:

The verdict? I shouldn't be trusted home alone with make-up and nothing to do. I did wear this for another good 6 hours after I did it, though. 

Did someone say BLUE?

Why yes, I did! Hurrah!! I grabbed this fabulous girl the other day and was like "Let's play FACE!!" then we picked a colour and ran with it. All in all I'm really happy with how this turned out.

For colours I've got some Ben Nye and some Sugarpill on this (again, hopeless, and don't have the actual colour names). The really dark blue eyeliner/crease bit? That's Sugarpill.

Impressively awesome? I can't wait to torture her with make up again!! Bwahahahaah

Purple. I like purple.

I love how beautiful purple looks with green eyes. Actually, I love how beautiful purple looks with any coloured eye. Purple is just a wonderful colour. I think I use purple a little too often I love it so much...

Unfortunately I don't have colours for my makeup otherwise I'd tell you what I used. I de-potted all my makeup a while ago and never thought to keep what colours they were. But it works a inspiration so I'll still post it. This was a rush job that I did in about half the time it normally takes me to do makeup for clubbing, but I was mostly happy with how it turned out. 

Rainbows!! Sugarpill Rainbows!

So sometime mid last year I got the Sugarpill Burning Heart palette. For the record Sugarpill is awesome. Super long wearing (as in I wore the look below for 24 hours and it still looked PERFECT). Super bright and amazing colours in the pressed shadows and the loose ones are so sparkly! One time I actually tried to fit as many different sugarpill colours into a look as I could. It didn't turn out so well because I have zero talent some days. I shall post pictures of that failed attempt, though. It's always good for inspiration! haha.

So, burning heart palette. It is awesome. Although every time I use it I keep doing very similar looks.

Example number one (using ONLY Sugarpill eye shadow, August 2010):

Two faced shadow insurance followed by the colours in the burning heart palette. White Kohl eyeliner on the waterline then the same coloured eye shadows as on the lid over the top (this was still on the next morning when I woke up hungover as hell). Random fake eyelashes that turned out to be the same length as my own lashes.

I did this and thought that I was pretty awesome. Then I got the palette out again and I thought, "Right, something TOTALLY different this time!"

And this happened:

Different? Not so much? I look at them now and I think that they are more different than I thought at first. But then if I just think about it while I'm trying to think of new things to do I just think that they look exactly the same and I'm being unoriginal. *sigh*

Go buy Sugarpill cosmetics!! I cannot recommend it enough.

Christmas Eyes

I went to a Human Nature concert recently, and thought I'd do a Christmas themed eyeshadow look for the hell of it.  I went with green, red and gold. The concert was amazingly good. So much so that I'm considering going to Vegas on my own just so I can see them again (also so I can catch the Cirque du Soleil shows).

These pictures were taken after the concert. Look at the amazing staying power of my makeup!

For this I used a Too Faced Shadow Insurance to prime the lid. Then I used a gold eyeliner at the corner to help intensify the colour, and a white kohl pencil for the rest of the lid. I then used gold eye shadow, Midori by Sugarpill Cosmetics (green) and a MAC burgundy colour for the crease. Over the burgundy colour I then used a black eyeshadow just in the crease, then I blended that out using Love+ by Sugarpill Cosmetics (a really vibrant red) to intensify the red. Over the Midori on the lid I used a moss coloured eyeshadow to blend the gold and green together a bit better. Then I sparkled it all up by using Sugarpill Cosmetics loose eyeshadows in Goldilux (gold), Tipsy (green) and Magentric (a magenta/pink). The sparkle doesn't show up in the picture because I couldn't get the picture very bright. I blended out the very edges using a light pink eyeshadow, and then used gel eyeliner and fake eyelashes. 

The fake eyelashes look super long in the box then I put them on and they're a teeny bit longer than my natural lash. Very annoying. 

Muse concert? Hurrah!

So I went to the Muse concert and it was amazing. I wasn't really that into Muse before I went, but now I am an obsessed Muse fan.

For the concert I wore a blue and green make-up look. I forgot to fix my eyebrows up for the pictures, whoops.

I used Sugarpill Cosmetics in Absinthe for the light green across the lid, and two Ben Nye blue colours for the crease (Sorry, I don't have the names - I have only just started to note the names of my different eye shadows, and the de-potted ones don't have anything attached.) Any bright blue and slightly darker blue should work. Then I used Sugarpill Cosmetics in Taco for highlighting. Lancome kohl pencil in a weird blue/green colour for the eyeliner.

Overall the look kinda feels a little mermaid-ish to me. I like it.

Also after moshing for the entirety of the concert in the hot Australian summer my clothes desperately needed a wash as they were damp with sweat, but my eye make-up was fully intact. I could've gone out clubbing after if I didn't feel so icky sticky. Thumbs up for staying power!