Trying to perfect a smokey eye...

Last of the July 2011 EOTDs

These are my last few looks from July. Where has the first half of the year gone? Ah!
I thought I'd do a little end of the month round up with these as there's nothing too unusual about them, but I feel like they're worth posting. I was trying out my The Balm eyeshadows and Hot Mama blush and the gel liner as a base technique.

Products under the cut.

Neutral shimmer eye FOTD

       

This look was based on a comment from the lovely Vintage Makeup, as a few posts back I had accidently repeated a look and she suggested a shimmery neutral eye. I hadn't tried this kind of make-up since going blue, and therefore I did on Monday.

I thought the result was super flattering and (for me) really different so here it is.

Products 

Eye base - UDPP in Eden, Pixie Epoxy (lid) and NYX Jumbo pencil in Milk (tearduct and browbone).

Eyeshadows - Virgin (tearduct and browbone), Naked (crease), Buck (crease) and Creep (outer v) from the Urban Decay Naked palette. Fyrinnae's Dinosaur Plushie on the lid (the most amazing multi-glittery silvery-taupe).

Eyeliner/Mascara/Lashes/Brows -  Boujois Clubbing liner intense in Black, Rimmel Lash Accelerator (one coat on top lashes only), Mister Mascara black lashes (the longer set of the two), Gosh brow powder (darkest of the three).

Foundation/Powder/Blush - MAC face primer (not sure which one, it's a mini sample I got months ago and am using up so I can try my No7 one), Laura Mercier oil-free tinted moisturizer in Porcelain, Collection 2000 lasting perfection concealer in light (under eyes, around nose and chin), Clinique loose translucent powder, MAC l/e Wonder Woman blush in Amazon Princess.

Lips - MAC lipliner in Cherry and lipstick in Russian Red. (I added a little lip balm on top as I had very cracked lips that day and it was not working for me matte!)

Ruth x

P.S Anyone who hasn't seen, you still have a week to enter my first ever giveaway so go right ahead, 

and thanks for looking.

Karma Chameleon inspired EOTD

 'Aye!' - it was hard to keep a straight face with this much eyeshadow on...

This morning I got bored and did this. Since discovering my love for Pascal the chameleon, I've had Culture Club all up in my head. Therefore I did what any sane girl would do - a Boy George-esque look using the Sleek Curacao palette. I extended the yellow shadow up to my hairline, this was the main Karma Chameleon element. His look is more liner based and less OMG LOOK AT ALL THE EYESHADOW. I went with it, this was what came out.

I have snagged another of this to giveaway, along with the matching lipbalm and blush, and will be announcing it officially this afternoon. Stay tuned! So far, incase you can't tell, it's up there with Sleek's finest. I think you will want to enter. Just sayin'

 

Products 

Base - UDPP Eden and NYX Jumbo pencil in Milk, UD 24/7 liner in Zero (around entire eye to map out liner) 

Eyeshadows - Sleek palette in Curacao! (The only two I didn't use are Green Iguana and Blue Lagoon). This look seemed brighter and crazier in real life but there you go!

Blush - MAC l/e Wonder Woman blush in Amazon Princess and Sleek blush in Santorini.

Brows - GOSH brow powder (the darkest of the three)

Lashes/Liner - Mister Mascara blue half lashes, Rimmel lash accelerator mascara in black and Boujois clubbing liner intense also in black. Rimmed eyes with UD 24/7 liner in Perversion.

Face - Laura Mercier oil-free tinted moisurizer in Porcelain, set with Clinique powder.

I hope you are all well. I am. I'm excited because I'm seeing Harry Potter on Friday with my mother and brother fo shiz. 

Ruth x

Summery Sky Eyes

 When I was playing make-up artist with Emily (in the previous post) this was the make-up I was rockin'. It is my Inglot blue (371) and lilac (379), the tearduct had AMC Shine 28 over NYX Jumbo pencil in Milk with a dark Inglot brown (378) in the crease. This was my first try of UDPP Eden and I like it. It does seem to work best with mattes. I used my Kryolan gel liner in aqua blue on the waterline and my usual mascara and eyeliner. I tried out the middle colour from my new swapped GOSH eyebrow set, I like it. It's a really precise, fine powder and I think it works well.

My nails that day were Grace Green from Model's Own with Inglot 204 blue flakie on four of the nails. I clearly needed to moisturize my cuticles >.< sorry.

I am currently in the process of dyeing my hair blue. Eep!

Ruth x