Festive Makeup Tutorial 1: Retro Smoky Eyes

BAD NEWS: I sent my phone for servicing and all the photos of my new Gelish manicure are gone… and all the photos I took over 2 weeks for the review I promised about Gelish Night Reflection are gone as well :(

GOOD NEWS: I got together a makeup tutorial today!! Yay! So let's get on with it!

This look is heavy and intense and smoky! Perfect for year-end parties, and goes with outfits of ANY color. It already looks intense in photos, so you can imagine how intense it is in real life!

Here we go…!

Before makeup

     

 1. Apply a black cream liner/ cream shadow over a large area of your eyelid. I used kajal eyeliner here. As long as the product is black, dark and blend-able, you can use it here.

2. Blend the color upwards till your eye socket. You could use a gel liner brush or finger. I prefer brush as I have better control with it.

3. Apply matte black eyeshadow over the black liner. Use a blending brush to blend the eyeshadow upwards to soften the harsh edges.

You should not see any distinctive black line on your eyelid after blending

4. Apply a matte khaki brown eyeshadow over the area of eyelid where you had just blended the black eyeshadow. Do not apply any to your crease. Blend, blend, and blend the black and the brown.

 5. Apply white eyeshadow over the brow bow area as highlight. Blend with the brown.

 6. Rim your whole eye with black crayon eyeliner pencil. Then use a small brush and apply black eyeshadow to the lower lash line. Be careful of fall-outs! Do not use too much black on lower lash line or you might get the 'panda' look ^^;

7. Intensify the eye look with black liquid liner. Rim the eye with it. Apply to the tear duct area as well.

Should look like this at this point

 8. Apply mascara to both upper and lower lashes. Apply more to lower lashes.

9. Apply dramatic false lashes. Do not use those natural looking ones as they won't be suitable for this look :) Combine your real and false lashes together with an eyelash curler.

10. Apply a beige-coral blusher.

11. Since the eye makeup is really strong, apply a nude lipstick and finish with lipgloss. Luvshuca Moist Melting Rouge BE7 is my favourite nude lipstick color.

DONE!

Love the lashes!

'Wow' look for the eyes (sorry for the poor lighting - the left eye makeup is not supposed to look green…)

The key to making this look work is to really blend well!! If the black is not blended well, I could end up looking 'punched in the eye'. LOL.

Hope you like this tutorial!! I will be back with more festive looks soon.

Tutorial: Anna Sui Glamorous Angelic Glittering Mermaid Inspired Look

I loved this look the moment I set my eyes on it!

Anna Sui Glamorous Angelic Look

Image from~ http://rockonannasui.tumblr.com/page/2

I photographed this tutorial before I looked at the original again, so after doing the tutorial I realised that my version is sort of different from original… oh well… hope you will like it nevertheless!

Inspired Look

Products used:

1. Anna Sui Double Eye Color 01 (reddish brown + indigo blue)

2. Anna Sui Double Eye Color 07 (silver)

3. Shu Uemura drawing pencil 03 ME Blue

4. Stella Eyelashes AG3312

(have not bought from their online shop before, but I always go to their physical shop...)

5. Anna Sui Glittering Color 01

The Steps:

1. Apply the reddish brown of Anna Sui Double Eye Color all over eyelid.

2. Apply indigo blue to the outer corner of eyelid. Blend using a small blending brush.

3. Apply indigo blue to the lower lash line. Intensify the color of upper eyelid if necessary and blend out any harsh edges. If you want to do this look, make sure the blue is intense. If you prefer a more 'natural' look and use less blue, this kind of vibrant shade will look 'dirty' instead of 'natural'.

4. Line your upper and lower lash line with a dark blue eyeliner with shimmer. Using a liner without shimmer will make the look more serious and less chic.

5. Apply a silver shimmery eyeshadow to the upper and lower inner corner of eyes.

6. Apply black mascara.

7. Apply eye glitter to the middle of eyelid and over the indigo blue eyeshadow.

8. To make the look more fun I put on blue eyelashes.

I aim to make my looks wearable and simple, suitable for everyone! I hope you have liked this one =D

Tutorial: Majolica Majorca Sugary Trap Inspired Look

Today's tutorial is an inspired look because I don't think the final result looks exactly the same as the poster below.

As I accidentally 'poked' my eye with the brush while applying eyeshadow, my eye might appear red in some pictures! Hope that won't look too scary! -_-

Palette used - Majolica Majorca Jeweling Eyes PK330 Strawberry Cake

Left to right, top to bottom: Highlight color- shimmery light pink, Light color- pale pink, Medium color- strawberry pink, Liner color- purplish pink

THE STEPS:

1. Apply the shimmery light pink under the brow bow area.

2. Using an eyeshadow brush, apply the pale pink to the inner crease. It is ok to pat on more color.

3. Apply the strawberry pink to the outer crease.

4. Using a small blending brush, apply the purplish pink to the outer corner, using circular motions, as shown (I hope) in the photos above.

5. Apply the same purple pink to the lower lash line, concentrating on the outer corner.

6. Line your upper lash line with a reddish brown eyeliner. If you want a more smoky effect, use a sponge and smudge the liner at the outer corner. I didn't smudge the color here. The line shouldn't be thick, as a thick line will make the eye appear smaller (as you can't see the crease anymore).

7. Line the 3/4 of the lower lash line as well. The line should be thicker at the outer corner, and thinner as you line towards the inner corner. It will be better to line the waterline as well.

8. Apply the shimmery light pink to the inner corner of the lower lash line. Finish off with mascara/ false lashes.

9. To intensify the sweetness of the look, apply lip tint. Apply a sweet pink lip gloss to the middle of lips to create lollipop-like glossy lips.

DONE!

Colors much more intense in real life

Whenever you apply pink eyeshadow, it is important to draw eyeliner and apply mascara as well. If you don't do so, your eyes might appear swollen, or worse, looks like someone just punched you in the eye! =D

Hopefully you like this tutorial!

Anyway, 10 more days to the closing of my Jill Stuart Giveaway!

Products used:

Eyes:

1. Majolica Majorca Jeweling Eyes, PK330 Strawberry Cake

2. Majolica Majorca Cream Pencil Liner, BR611 Mocha Brown

Cheeks:

1. Majolica Majorca

Puff de Cheek, PK303 Strawberry Macaroon

Lips:

1. Shu Uemura Takano blush tint, Miracle Cherry

2. Clinique Long Last Glosswear SPF15,12 Kissyfit