Book of the Dead Look

This is my look from yesterday, I wanted to use Book of the Dead by Fyrinnae which I got a while ago, so I picked other colours to go with it. Book of the Dead is a gorgeous golden colour with small blue and teal glitter. I'm bummed that I didn't remember to take an outfit photo, I wore a shirt my mom brought me from New York, it has a glittery spider on it. It's bling and goth at the same time ;P

I used:

Eyes
Fyrinnae Book of the Dead (on the lid
Fyrinnae Damn Paladins (inner part of lids)
Concrete Minerals Doe-eyed (crease, blended up)

Face
Missha Perfect Cover BB-cream in nro. 13
Evil Shades Matte Silk powder
Elf blush in Glow

Lips
Gosh lipstain in 003 Berry

Neutral for the Day, Dramatic for the Evening

I did a neutral look in the morning to wear at work and upgraded it to a more dramatic look in the evening to go to listen to Oldschool Union at a private event.

I put Moonchild from the inner corners to the centre of the lid and continued with Wraith for the rest of the lid and also put in the crease. For the evening, I added some Wraith to make the colour more vibrant (or it might have faded a bit during the day) and put a small amount of Bulletproof in the crease and blended it with Wraith. I lined my waterline with Blacktrack and added some mascara, too.

I used:
Detrivore Cosmetics Wraith
Fyrinnae Moonchild
Sugarpill Bulletproof (added for the evening look)
MAC Fluidline Blacktrack
Lumene blush Sweet Blush

Lips
Lumene Lingonberry Lip Stain Eternity (for the day)
Elf lipstick Classy (for the evening)

Morning look

Just leaving for work!

Morning look

Evening look

Evening look, I also put my hair up!

And here's the evening outfit! I added a bolero on top before going out, just in case it would be cold at the venue.

Dress - Lip Service

Shoes - Spirit Store

Turquoise Look and Outfit

I bought a black lace tunic last week and noticed at home that I only own black dresses to wear underneath it. I do have some purple, pink and patterned clothes, but no basic stretchy fabric dresses. So, yesterday after work I went and purchased a turquoise dress (and lavender hotpants, but I have no picture of those since the temperature was still below zero), I would have wanted a purple one, but after checking three shops and finding no purple dresses, I made do with the turquoise. Today I put the new dress on and the lace tunic on top of it, slapped on some matching eyeshadow and went off to work. I felt a bit insecure wearing something so colourful, but I think the outfit worked.

For the makeup, I used:

Glamour Doll Eyes Fabulous!
Sugarpill Tako
Lumene Lingonberry Lip Stain Eternity
Elf Natural Radiance Blusher Flushed
MAC Fluidline Blacktrack

 

My earrings are also new, I made them myself!

Turquoise and black lace

Lace tunic - GinaTricot

Dress - H&M

Shoes - New Rock

Here's bonus pictures of yesterday's outfit, this is what happens with very interested cats participating! I also have a belt to lessen the sausage look that came from wearing black lace on a black base.

Nana wants attention

My hair is a mess and Möttönen squeezed into the pic

Apparently she just needed to stretch!

Nails: The Nude Elf

I wanted something light on my nails this time, since I've had them done in dark purple for a few weeks, so I decided to try a nude polish. I ordered the polish from ELF during a sale and hadn't tried it before but it turned out really nice! The polish colour matches my skin well and makes my fingers look really long and slim.

The name of the shade is Innocent. It was opaque in two layers and dried quickly with a drying top coat.

Green Look With Sugarpill

Hooray, natural light! The sun came out briefly this morning so I sprung to action and took a few pics of my green smoky eye look. I came across this excellent tutorial for eyeliner on the Makeuptalk forums and decided to give it a go. I used Bulletproof on my lashline to do the lining.

I first put Vanilla on the whole lid to make blending easier, then added Midori on top from the lashline up above the crease. Then I put Bulletproof on top of Midori on the lid and blended it a bit. Added some Tako on brow bone and inner corner of the eye.

I put ELF liquid lipstick in Pink Lemonade on my lips not to have them bare and added some Evil Shades China Doll blush on my cheeks.

What I used:

Eyes

Urban Decay Primer Potion

Make-up Store Vanilla (on whole lid as a base)

Sugarpill Midori

Sugarpill Bulletproof

Sugarpill Tako

Lips

ELF Pink Lemonade

Cheeks

Evil Shades China Doll

My first lip shot! Sorry about the messy piercing, I forgot to wipe the ball clean.

Full face, you can barely see the blush!

Green With Envy Look

I wanted to participate in Never Too Much Shimmer Facebook group's weekly make-up showcase, this week the theme was Green with Envy. I don't really use green much, I think it takes the colour out of my green-blue eyes, but I decided to give it a go anyway! I have some green shadows so it's about time I learned how to use them :P

To help with my fear of green, I decided to add some pink to the look and it seemed to work out nicely. I managed to catch some natural light today as I was working from home, so the colours look good and true to life.

Open eye

Closed eye

Full face

This shows the eyeshadows better, I think!

This is what I used, I listed the colour descriptions also so this can be done with any similar products!

Eyes
Sugarpill Absinthe (Light grass green with green and gold sparkle)
Sugarpill Junebug (Dark army green with green shimmer and glitter)
Sugarpill Tako (plain matte white)
Fyrinnae Dragon Magic (Forest green with teal glitter)
Antoinette's Revolution Liaisons (Strong cool pink, close to magenta)
Antoinette's Revolution Le Soleil (Greenish yellow)
Evil Shades Suffocation (The perfect pink! A cool light pink with a blue shift)
Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-on Pencil in Zero (Black)
Random false eyelashes

Lips & Face
ELF Liquid Lipstick in Pink Lemonade (Dark cool pink)
ELF Natural Radiance Blush in Flushed (A dark shimmery cool pink)

I started with Urban Decay Primer Potion and went on applying some Sugarpill Tako to the inner corner of my eyes. Continued with some Antoinette's Revolution Le Soleil on upper lid towards the center of the lid and switched to Sugarpill Absinthe, working it on the rest of the lid and up past the crease. Added some Fyrinnae Dragon Magic to darken the crease, but it didn't show up that well, so I went over it with Sugarpill Junebug. Added Tako as a highlight below the brow.

On lower lid I did the outer corner and a wing with Antoinette's Revolution Liaisons and switched to Evil Shades Suffocation at the inner corner. Also faded the lower edge of Liaisons with Suffocation. Added black eyeliner and falsies.

Lips were simply done with ELF liquid lipstick, they are one of my favourite products from ELF. Very easy to use, have a nice amount of colour but not so much that they would need lipliner or look silly as they fade away. The blush is nearly the same shade as the lipstick and I just thought it went well with the pink eyeshadow and lipstick, I didn't want to have many different shades of pink on at the same time.

As an afterthought, I maybe should have put Absinthe even higher above the crease towards the eyebrows, or fade it out with some other colour to make a smoother border between it and the Taco highlight. I'll try that next time.

Bonus pic with a smile! I'm so shy about smiling in photos, but I wanted to experiment and thought this picture came out nice :)

Am I green with envy?

Storing A Ton Of Stockings

Today I took on the task of organizing my huge pile of stockings. They were all tangled up and I just used the top ones in the pile, because it I wasn't up for detangling stuff early in the morning when dressing. I did some googling and the best advice I found was to store every pantyhose in its own ziplock bag. So basically that's what I did. Bought a ton of bags and spent an hour neatly packing the 'hose. I put the bags in empty shoe boxes so I wouldn't have to put them on top of each other and risk ending up with a mess again.

I also got new batteries for the camera flash, so I had to take some pictures!

Tons of stockings. Also a kitty in the background.

Neatly arranged box of coloured pantyhose.

Bonus picture of today's make-up! I was very funny and wore Unity eyeshadow by Concrete Minerals to go to a Unity 3D workshop. Also on the eyes Chroma from the same company, and some Tako by Sugarpill. A random elf lipstick, can't remember the name.

Sorry about the powder on the eyelashes, it was late!

Closeup of the purple eyeshadow.

Nails: ELF and OPI

 

Polishes used are ELF Dark Glitter Purple with OPI I Juggle... Men. I used Mavadry for a top coat, it dries the polish super fast and is perfect for an impatient person like me, who can't stay still until the polish sets!

ELF Dark Glitter Purple is really dark in the bottle, but a bit lighter on the nails. It's opaque with only two coats and has tiny blue and red glitter, as well as bigger pale pink glitter.

OPI I Juggle... Men was an impulse buy on eBay, it's a sheer polish with blue and red sparkle. The picture suggests a blue shift, but there's none in real life, it must be the light!