Two Cyan and Purple EOTDs (one high-end, one low-end) and NOTD

Above is what I am terming the high-end cyan look I did last Saturday. I used NYX jumbo pencil in Milk and MAC pigment in Hi-Def Cyan patted on top. The browns were from the Urban Decay 15th Anniversary palette and I added dramatic liner just because! There ended up being a Sikh wedding at work on the day, so the liner felt kind of appropriate. A little bit Bollywood? (ps did you know Sikhs drink alcohol... a lot? Judging by this wedding anyhow. You live and learn!)

Today I ended up doing another light blue/cyan look using the Sleek Curacao eyeshadow palette - Blue Lagoon, Blue Hawaiian, Singapore Sling and Purple Haze (again using the NYX Jumbo pencil in Milk as a white base to help it pop). I also used the Wet n Wild I'm Feeling Retro palette (the white as inner-corner highlight and the pink for blending). Urban Decay 24/7 liner in Asphyxia was a base for the crease and also Perversion (blackest black pencil liner) was a softer version of my usual black liner. 

More pictures and a NOTD under the cut.

Look one -

It sadly kept printing onto the brown crease no matter what. It's such a pretty colour though, so I think it's worth the hassle. It's matte but I feel will probably work better used with a mixing medium in future.

Look two -

I've had a couple of beauty disasters this week. I managed to poke myself in the right eye on Saturday night whilst taking my make-up off (or perhaps a fleck of glitter got in there and scratched it) and my eyeball is still in recovery, so I haven't been able to do anything too dramatic with my eyes. Infact, today's look (drugstore cyan) is my first eyeshadow look since then. Glad that's over. Normal service should resume soon.

My nails this Bank Holiday weekend are another free-handed half moon manicure of creamy baby pink (Inglot 337) and dark shimmering green (Illamasqua Viridian).

Today I also managed to cut into my thumb nail tip with a knife (could've been worse, could've been my nail bed) whilst cutting up chocolate into chunks for muffins I baked (nomnom) so I now have nubby little thumbs that don't match up with the rest of my claws. Sigh. It had to happen sooner or later. I had actually forgotten how short my nail beds are, they've been so long for SO long. Worse things happen at sea!


Hope you are all eye and nail disaster free and had a good weekend!

Ruth x