Good Morning Angel.: makeup tag

Tuesday, 5 February 2013

Face of the Day ~ Arabian Mermaiden.

Lips

Portland Black Lipstick Company in Indigo Bridge

+ generic purple glitter

Face

Collection 2000 Lasting Perfection Concealer in Light

Illamasqua Rich Liquid Foundation in RF133

Collection 2000 Pressed Powder in Ivory
Sugarpill Pressed Eyeshadow in Velocity used as blusher

Eyes

Sugarpill Pressed Eyeshadow in Mochi, 2am and Velocity

Collection 2000 Dazzle Me! in Heavenly, Bewitch and Fairy Dust

Illamasqua Precision Ink in Scribe

Barry M Kohl Pencil in White

+ shimmery eye shadows from generic palette

I know what you're thinking, it's Mermaid week and I didn't use pearls!? Believe you me I was tempted, but I decided that actually I might prove that I'm not a one trick pony - plus gems are just as fun! On a plus, the stenciling worked out nice, unlike last time! Which I am pleased about. The whole look is still a bit messy, but I'm quite happy with the outcome. Doesn't help that I basically poured a lot of white liquid eyeliner into my eye whilst trying to apply is as mascara, the boyfriend was all "wash it all" and I was all "no way am I putting water on my nearly finished face" so I just sort of, cried it out. When I was researching inspiration for this look I realised I didn't want to go too generic and do a pastel mermaid or use that fishnet effect that is everywhere and occasionally looks like scales. Those two looks do look nice but I wasn't up for copying either of them. I sort of wanted to do a slightly creepy mermaid, hence the white eyelashes and eyeliner. If it isn't evident the shape on my forehead is inspired by a whale's tail and was sort of the boyfriend's idea, so kudos to him. Go here to see the rest of the Mermaid looks done for the tag. They both look awesome. Next look, in two weeks' time involves choosing our favourite spring/summer collection and doing a look inspired by it. Exciting! Don't forget you can always join in, just head over to the previous link and Bekki tells you how!

Tuesday, 25 December 2012

Face of the Day ~ Snow Maiden.

First of all, Merry Christmas! I expect you're all about to dig into some amazing food and then veg out for many hours, hopefully this will be perfect material to browse whilst digesting copious amounts of food. Onto the makeup!
This look was just so much fun. It is the first of a bi-weekly makeup tag challenge that my gorgeous friends Bekki, Charley and I are beginning together. This week's theme was (obviously) Christmas! To see everyone else's looks go here. It was kind of rushed, I did it at the same time as I was packing my bags (I'm spending Christmas and New Year's with family in France this year, along with the boyfriend) so I would have liked to have spent maybe a bit more time on it, but all in all I'm pretty pleased. I wanted to an ice queen style look, because snow is one of my favourite aspects of the Christmas season. It was my first attempt at coloured eyebrows, although usually I wouldn't go so light. It was hard to actually get rid of as much of my black hair as possible, as you can see, it's still visible, even after eyeliner, pout paint and glitter. I will definitely be experimenting with this in the future, probably in dark purple or blue to match my hair. Lips match the eyes, so there's not much to say about that, other than I'm glad I could put my Sweetpea & Fay blue grey lipstick to good use.
The swirls on the eyes are loosely inspired by the patterns made by the ice fairies from Fantasia, which I watched the other day (I absolutely love the mythology and fairy sections, so pretty). Although I'm pretty embarrassed at my horrendously wonky eye lining, but like I said, I was in a pretty big hurry.
I hope you like it! Let me know if you've seen any good snow/ice inspired looks!