Matching eyes and nails

I got a few new nail polishes the other day from feelunique.com. I hadn't realised they stocked nubar polishes and bought some on ebay (for a higher price + postage...) before finding this out. They also stock Essie for lower than RRP, so I got myself a new bottle of Good to go! (my favourite top coat). And with free postage this may be my new nail polish website... for now.

While we're on the subject I recently resisted an orly polish sale on brand alley. I'm proud of myself.

I got another of the nubar green polishes - Wildlife. They still have Reclaim in stock so UK holographic polish lovers, go get one. I resisted getting a back up because I've only used my original twice but yanno. I could look at these two all day! Green + pretty shimmering effects = I am all over it. Instead of holo, this one's a duochrome. A really pronounced, green and gold-copperish-pink duochrome. I adore it.

So to match my nails I decided to do a green and gold eye for work (not very exciting but, I thought, quite pretty and simple)...

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Base: UDPP and Urban Decay 24/7 liner in Mildew
Eyeshadows: Urban Decay Ammo palette - Mildew (middle lid) and Sin (inner highlight), Sleek Acid - Palette khaki green and black  (crease).
Lower lid: UD 24/7 liner in Baked
Mascara and liner: Tiny line of Illamasqua precision ink in Abyss (it's seen better days/on it's last legs) and Revlon Grow Luscious mascara in Brown.
Brows: MAC brow pencil in Stud (just to lightly fill in tail and gaps)
Blush: MAC l/e Wonder Woman in Mighty Aphrodite.

Also used my usual Clinique tinted moisturizer and powder (this was before a horrible giant spot burst out on my chin two days ago... good times).

Ruth x

Couple of Easter EOTD's - now with bonus nails/cake

This eye look used MUA Make-up Academy shade 6 (pearly turqoise) on the lid with a mixture of Sugarpill Darling (matte teal with glitter) and Illamasqua Sadist (matte royal blue) in the crease. A tiny bit of Barry M number 65 (a green glitter/shimmer on white base) on the inner corner. I also tightlined with Urban Decay Zero 24/7 liner.

This look used lots of my Inglot colours that are listed in this post! I have yet to use my yellow AMC Matte gel liner and might do a similar look for work tomorrow using it instead of the green one. I liked the more subtle effect (if you could call it that) that not using a coloured base provides (I didn't even use NYX jumbo pencil this day). I know this is a rainbow of colours, but it's somehow quite soft. My only problem with it was my right eye 'leaked' that day, and ruined the liner. I find if Illamasqua precision ink gets wet it becomes tacky and peels off... which means it doesn't streak down your face but does make big patches which is equally as bad if not worse. Anyway...

I cannot be bothered to fill in my brows recently. In other news, I didn't wear any make-up at all today because I woke up with a splitting headache. Seems to have passed thanks to some trusty paracetamols and lots of fluids. In a video about vintage make-up this week, Lisa Eldridge mentioned a book called Warpaint about the lives of Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein. I bought it off amazon and I started reading it today at work, sat at the shop till. Interesting stuff.

Thanks for looking, I'm feeling really happy because I got to forty followers which is more than I ever expected. Woo!

Ruth x

PS

Gel food colourings are nearly as good as gel liners! I made this cupcakes earlier this week. Chocolate icing. Om nom nom.

 Nubar Reclaim mani after two days handling small change at a cash register, small chips but so pretty in the recent sunshine.

Red & Green Spring eyes and some nail stuff.

I did this look about a week back and I might struggle to recall all the colours. I really like red and green together... so there! At the Illamasqua course they said 50's flick eyeliner should look like an almost straight line when your eyes are shut... I think I'm improving. 

Base: UDPP, NYX Jumbo pencil in Milk (inner corner) and Illamasqua cream pigment in Bedaub (pale mint green) under eye and on waterline.

On top lid - Urban Decay Heat (golden shimmering rusty red) with Inglot AMC 74 (matte Raspberry with glitter) in crease blended out with Inglot 352 (matte skin tone colour).

On lower lid - Fyrinnae's Jade Ghost (inner corner) and Anenome with a little Inglot 372 (matte teal) on outer corner.

Eyebrows: I *think* this was MAC Stud eyebrow pencil.

To finish off I used Illamasqua Precision Ink in Abyss as my liner, Boujois Volumizer mascara and my usual foundation (a mix of Illamasqua Rich Liquid in 140 and Clinique Almost Make-up in shade 1, set with Clinique translucent powder). I contoured with Sleek's contour/highlight set in light. It looks as if I used a little of the lighter half of MAC Mighty Aphrodite WW blush, but I might be wrong.

I've been having a nail loving and obsessing time recently. I have bought four new polishes in the last two weeks! Ut-oh. I got two new Illamasqua ones in an ASOS.com sale for about £10 (the two from Art of Darkness - Scarab and Viridian) At that price, how could I resist?

I also got a flakey topcoat back-up (my first *ever* nail polish back up) and green holographic colour from an ebay seller (Nubar 2010 - as a back-up for my Andrea Fullerton gemstone topcoat and Nubar Reclaim, the latter which I spotted in this post here and fell in love with.) These two arrived today and I have yet to try my new (and first ever) holographic little baby. I love it just that much... aaah!

I paint my nails every few days. As a bonus (or is it?), here is a photo of them. My excuse is 'I work in a children's museum - ok?!'

Illamasqua nail polishes in Alarm, Insanity, Wayward, Radium and Fern.

I need to sort my nail tags and dry cuticles out... Thanks for looking (if you did),

Ruth x