Teal and Chocolate make-up look

UPDATED Feb 20, 2012

Avon tests on animals and I felt I need to let you know

I will not be buying from them again. You can further read about this issue HERE

Hey, gals! 

This is a post to make up for the not so pretty MU look from few days back.

In case you missed them, you can view my two previous looks here: yucky-teal-and-orange  + Blacky smokey with Avon SuperShock

All I did was layer (over teal)  a matter brown from IsaDora Classic Browns palette, I have a look with it already, check the right side for Chocolate Smokey Eyes post.

I ended up with a daytime look, with just a pop of color. much nicer than the original imo

The awesome thing was that the teal was shining through the brown. So pretty!

 

What's the verdict? Do you like it, do you hate it?

I prefer it over full-on teal, actually :D

<3, ~ V.

Yucky Teal and Orange Makeup look

Good evening, everyone!

To start off the weekend I have a colorful fail of a look to show you  gals. Now, the idea behind was to have a teal look with brown winged out liner

and orange liner in the waterline. Result:

At first glance It doesn't look too bad. The gold sparkles and liner make my eyes look very blue. Yay for that. Liner is Nxy lipliner thingy.

However, it looked sooo wrong as whole with my yellowed tone complexion.

Full-face pictures made me cringe and I seriously though it to be the uggliest combination I've ever put on my face.

You can see in the middle picture, how strange this color looks against my skin.
EWWW. Just ewww.

So I decided to layer another color over it. And it turn out lovely!

I'm saving it for my next post so keep an eye out for that, if you are interested, of course :D

Apart from that, I was checking out Nihrida's blog and I found instructions for making your own lightbox. I'll try it out tomorrow and we'll see if my pictures will be of better quality.

Have a fun Friday!

<3,

~V.

Black smokey with Avon Super Shock gel liner

UPDATED Feb 20, 2012

Avon tests on animals and I felt I need to let you know

I will not be buying from them again. You can further read about this issue HERE 

Hey, everyone.

Here is a very quick and easy look. No eyeshadows, just Avon Super Shock gel liner. Blended out with ecotools little ''highlighter'' brush.

I have hairy swatches of the pencil at the bottom of the post.

Blogger sure has been confusing lately, it refuses to work with me.
And I have no time to resolve the problems.

And a bit of a photo fail: I have a small red fiber thing on my nose. In every single picture :D
haha, i'm a dork

The liner itself is blue based black with silver sparkles. Very, very pretty. And quite longlasting once it sets.

A non-apettizing swatch :P

I'm composing this at school while I'm wating for my bus. :)
Multitasking ftw.

So what are you guys up to, any plans for the holidays yet?

=) V.

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In Taupe I trust

 

Hi, tis me. Again.

This time with a taupy smokey.

Face:  argan oil + aloe (gel)

         Revlon Colorstay in Buff mixed

         with Barry M 0 (White) in 50: 50 ratio  

&

Lily Lolo Blondie foundation 

Lily Lolo Translucent Silk Setting powder

EyES using all IsaDora products from the Pearls palette, Delirious Palette and 
and a duo. There's a touch of black from Sleek Storm palette. I have swatches of this under my tab/tag swatches.

You'll need, from inner to outer corner: a champange color, a warm taupe, a cool taupe, and a matte black color. Repeat the sequnce on the lower lashline.



A bit of showing off.

 

One last close-up with my pin-needle pupils LOL.

 

And that's all I've got. :) Hope you're all having a good time this weekend.

Regards,

~ V.

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Redish Purples are the Prettiest

Hey girlies!

This is yet another simple application technique, using  a shimery merlot purple with red undertones. In pictures it looks bright pink, but I assure you it IS purple.

On the lid I have a frosty grey and then a matte grey-black color to darken the corner. Close-ups look a bit crazy, but check more pictures below to get a better idea of what it looked like as a whole.

For a change, I matched my eyebrows to my hair because it was going to be seen

in public at daylight. For taking pictures I always use a cooled tone medium grey

as it looks the least fake with flash photography.

Sweetscent Angleface Ivory foundation as my highlight color.
On my face I'm wearing Lily Lolo foundation, it's a mix of Lily Lolo Translucent Silk setting powder, Lily Lolo foundation in Blondie and Lily Lolo concealer in PeepO. All mixed together and applied as any foundation would be.

                  Click to enlarge ;)
                 It's some kind of magiiiiic! *sings*  *sings badly*

The reason why I tend to go for the same techinque over and over is that I have small hooded eyes. And this works out the best for me so yeah, that's why :D

apart from that; I have very senstive eyes so if there is any fall out it will tear me up. If I bring shadow to my outer corner, it will make my eyes tear as well. I always rush to take pictures before I cry out all my sorrow :P

Foiling is the only thing that helps, though.

Doesn't matter, in most cases you don't even see my make-up as it is covered by

my glasses.

So what is your make-up nightmare? Is there anything you can't wear?

<3,

~V,

ExOTD

Hey, babes.

I wanted to see how gold and purple would work on me so I did a very quick look.Unfornutely, my cam wouldn't focus. Or maybe my hands were particulary shaky that day :D. I definately like it, so I'll do a real post with better pictures. Eventually. 

I used Isadora eyeshadows, all depotted but I think they might be discontinued.

And see, no mascara!

Blue is not what I was looking for

I wanted to do a bright blue look with lashes and everything.

Due to poor shadow quality (essence) I couldn't blend it out perfectly and still have some color showing.

It was so grossly blotchy. Eww. I tried pulling the darker blue deep into the crease with no success.

Here are some pictures of what I was going for. I think with some precautions
this could potentially turn out really pretty.
Should I chose to re-do it, y'all will be the first to know :D

Kinda sucks all that work went down the drain. Literally.

Regards,

~V.

Daily simplicity

Yeah, I know another wearable look :) A bit of brown to sculpt the crease where there is none, liner, mascara and that's it.  I'm sharing it anyway :D

 

Just my typical no-nonsense Friday make-up.

 

I don't have much to say, really as I'm tired.

Just enjoy yor week. And hang in there, Friday is coming soon :P

<3,

~ V.

Deep purple smokey eyes

Hey there, good lookin' !

As you may know, I adore dark smokey eyes, purple shades in particular.

So here's another purple smokey using mineral make-up.

The key to this look is to use a base that allows you to blend well. For me, drying primers are out of the question, the base needs to be able to move on the skin, thus blending out the shade on top perfectly.  

Click to enlarge

 Products used:
Alverde cream concealer as my base
Sweetscent Midnight Burgundy Mineral Eyeshadow
Barry M Dazzle Dust in Cherry Red  the crease but layered over the blended-out Midnight Burgundy.
Everday Minerals eyeshadow for the inner corner highlight.

            The look required a loooooooot of blending and I even had to clean up my whole face with make-up     remover before putting foundation on.

 

And a smiling face :) wearing a regular tee, how very low maintenance of me :P

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Face of. The. Day.

Picture heavy self-indulgent post. Naughty of me, I know.

But Saturday's make-up turned out way too cute not to share it with you all.

A nerd deep in thought:

More piccies without my completely awesome orange glasses ahead.

Note: no skin editing here, so if you find my skin texture offensive you need to leave and never turn back :P:P. same goes if you have something against plus size girls.

It's been blackhead city lately :( and I'm above size 14, just fyi

Lips: brick dark red lipstick topped with Essence stick gloss in Trend Setter

Face:  argan oil

                   aloe (gel)

         Revlon Colorstay in Buff mixed

                    with Barry M 0 (White) in 50: 50 ratio  

&

Lily Lolo Blondie foundation 

Lily Lolo Translucent Silk Setting powder

Cheeks: Logona blusher 03 Peche

Under eye concealing: EDM matte base in Fair (tis pink)

Highlight: Sweetscents Angelface Ivory foundation

Crease: blue eyeshadow blended out with a lavander color (Alverde eyeshadows)

Lid: have no clue, but it's a pumpink color with copper shimmer (however, ArtDeco has a color just like it)
outer corner: matte chocolate brown
inner corner: Isadora quad (the one with champange gold in it)

Another eye close-up

I wuv orange. A lot.

And I can't believe I'm close to 100 followers already. I get crazy excited with each new one I get.

Thank you everybody for being amazing. When I started this I didn't think people would be interested in this blog as there are so many good ones out there.

Means a bunch that you take the time to to read and comment. Thank you, darling reader <3 <3

Regards,

~V

Misplaced EOTD

Hey, everybody.

This another simple look from a few weeks ago I never got a chance 

to put up, so I'm doing it now.

Sliver on the lid, plum in the crease and a bit of black 

in the outer corner and outher third of the crease.

CLICK TO ENLARGE ;)

 

So, it's not exactly elaborate and I still have a couple of non-elaborate school looks to share. However, I am looking forward to creating more colorful EOTD. I'd also love to do some reviews on EDM foundation, was thinking of doing half of my face to show difference to my bare face and fun stuff like that. Hehe.

Fingers crossed I don't get overwhelmed with school work.

I feel like I'm neglecting my blog, make-up wise XDD

How are all of you ladies doing? Done any winter clothing shopping yet? :)

Regards,

~ V.