Frankly Scarlett EOTD

I don't yet have a red MAC eyeshadow, and even if I did, we don't sell any at the counter and so I wouldn't be able to wear it to work. How did I do this then? (Most of you will have noticed, the answer is in the title...) I love red eyeshadow (Sugarpill Love+, Fyrinnae Kamikaze etc) so I decided to use red powder blusher instead! One of the girls on the counter had done this a few weeks ago and I have been meaning to try it ever since... this is that.

More photos and products to follow.

Grey EOTD

Really simple quick FOTD I wore to work last week. The eyeshadows are Vex (centre of lid) with Quarry, Copperplate and Charcoal Brown in the crease and Blanc Type to blend. I am trying to perfect a non-winged eye, but to be honest I think it looks a bit weird on me (I'm too used to flicky-eyeliner!)

I am falling in love with Vex! Also Select Cover-Up concealer, as it turns out, is much better over a foundation. I had steered well clear of this concealer since first buying it when I was 15 (and had some spots to cover). Yeah... doesn't work on it's own. Glad I rediscovered it! It's great on my eye bags...

Ruth x

Blue and Yella FOTD

If you've followed my blog for a while you know that blue and yellow are two of my favourite colours, especially in combination. Here is a look I wore to work last week using these colours more subtly (at least by my standards). More photos and products beneath a jump under here...

A Cliche Pastel Springtime Post!

This was what I wore to see The Hunger Games film numero uno this week. (Mini-review: I quite liked it! Not as good as the book but kinda nice in a simplified way.)

I used my Urban Decay 15th Anniversary palette (Vanilla, Tainted, Omen and Deep End) over their Eden Primer Potion. Kryolan blue gel liner in the waterline and Fyrinnae Winter Again on the inner corner. The Balm Cabana Boy blush and a MAC cremesheen glass from the Daphne Guinness collection (pale pink) finished the look. Foundation was my old trusty Laura Mercier oil-free tinted moisturiser with a drop of my Illamasqua Skinbase foundation in it (as the former is too light and the latter WAY too dark for me).

This look I wore to work. I wanted a soft look that felt really comfortable and easy to wear. This is Butterfly Dreams pigment from the Vera collection (used wet with water-based mixing medium from MAC pro) with a little Omega, Texture and Charcoal Brown in the crease. Lips are Butterfly Dreams plushglass over the top.

Ok, not strictly pastels but quite au naturel and Spring-y. This has been my go-to make-up since I discovered liquid eyeliner when I was 15; a decade of love...only now I have Omega eyeshadow for soft eyebrow filling and eye-crease defining. Lips are Prolongwear lip pencil in Absolutely It with Butterfly Dreams plushglass on top.

Posting regularly seems easy again, I'm on it! :) I finally ordered some Face and Body foundation and Fix+ etc for my kit. Exciting stuff.

Ruth x

Strong Brows (First Day Back at MAC) FOTD

The focus of this look was my brows (it's not just a clever title...) which I am still trying to perfect. I sometimes feel I create them too heavy in the centre(?) I finally picked up Fling pencil (when at the store in Birmingham for my basic) to see whether it works better as a base for my brows than Studio Sculpt concealer. It looks more subtle to me; Electric Eel and Atlantic Blue appear more like my faded hair over the beige eyebrow pencil and I like having this option!
The eye was mostly Quarry and Blanc Type eyeshadows (over Soft Ochre paint pot), with a little Charcoal Brown underneath and in the socket to deepen it up slightly. Finished off with Blacktrack gel liner and one coat of Studio Fix Boldblack lash. I think the blush was Blushbaby. Argh. Can't remember what the skin was. Possibly Studio Sculpt NW15. Lip conditioner stick on the lips.

I'll be back with more interesting things very soon.

Ruth x

Photodump part 100,000! (now with added cat goodness)

These photos are from a few weeks back because I'm once again behind on explaining myself! I wish I could post smaller daily updates. I apologise it's coming to you all at once, once more... it's that or i'll be playing catch-up forever, which in turn makes me procrastinate (possibly the longest sentence in this blog ever?)

The above is the second time I wore Max Factor Fantasy Fire, this time two layers over one coat of Illamasqua Propaganda (dark blue jelly-like cream). This really brought out the duochrome, certainly better than when I layered it over a purple cream. It almost looks like it does in the bottle over this one! I added a Konad stamp to my ring finger, just because.

I have once again cut my nails down to nothing because they're still peeling pretty badly, no matter how much OPI Avoplex I apply. :( No more Nail Of The Days for a while.

The above is a Chen Man Love and Water collection inspired look I designed (based on a facechart from the official collection release). I forgot to put the dots under the eye for my photos! D'oh. Had to fix it when I got into work. I did a facechart and everyone wore it at the counter for a day. It was pretty sweet! I was ill-prepared and I still SUCK at facecharts and need to give myself a few days to just focus on practicing that. As an aside, I actually wrecked the first one I made by putting it in a puddle of water and drying it under a hand dryer. FACEPALM. It was all wrinkled and smudged when I got to work because I'm daft. I made a new one that was slightly better, got a bit of practice in that way. When life gives you lemons and all that... make orange juice?!

I used the Call me Bubble quad from Shop/Cook MAC collection and  Naval Blue pigment from Chen Man, with Plumage to darken the crease.

MAC Basic Training

Hi...

Sorry for being a crap blogger yet again. When I get out of the habit, I feel unable to start anything at all. Plus I have always been a procrastinator. I'll try to be more consistent with my posting from now on, for my own sanity if nothing else. 
A week of my absense was taken up by Basic Training last week in Birmingham. Five nights in a hotel with free food and talking about make-up all the time? Yes please! Haha, actually it was kind of intense!