EOTD (Eye Of The Day): MAC Rare Find

Here’s a look I did with MAC’s Rare Find mineralized eyeshadow from the Semi Precious collection. I’m actually really glad I picked this up cause it’s so pretty. It looks even better in real life than it does on the picture.

These are the products I used and how I used them:

- Urban Decay Primer Potion: all over the lid up to the brow, blended out with my finger.

- MAC Brun eyeshadow: to fill in my brows, with an angled brush (MAC 268).

- MAC Vanilla eyeshadow: as a browbone highlight, applied with a flat shader brush (MAC 239) and  inner corner highlight with a pencil brush (MAC 219).

- MAC Rare Find mineralized eyeshadow: all over the lid, applied with a damp flat shader brush (MAC 239, I used Fix + to wet my brush, but you could also use water) and used dry to blend it out just above the crease with a fluffier brush ( MAC 217).
Also applied wet on the lower lashline with a short bristle shader brush (MAC 214)

- Urban Decay 24/7 eyeliner in Zero: on top and bottom waterline and smudged between the lashes.

- Max Factor False Lash Effect mascara: few coats on the top lashes, one coat on bottom lashes.

- False Eyelashes from Claire’s (no name or number) with Duo lash glue.

I love the shimmer in this eyeshadow and I think it looks great on its own!

You could make this look a little darker and more smokey by adding some black on the outer corner.

Thanks for stopping by!

X

Tanja

Tutorial: Sunset on the Beach Look

Hey guys,

This is the latest tutorial that I've decided to re-upload from my old channel. This is one of my favorite looks when I created it last year, I love the contrast of the gold and purple. This is also one of my sister's favorite looks which she often asks me to recreate on her.

EYES:
- Two Faced Shadow Insurance
- Indianwood paint pot
- Amber Lights eye shadow
- Inglot #430 (true gold) eye shadow - Goldmine eye shadow would work too, although it wouldnt be as dramatic
- NYX "Milk" jumbo eye pencil
- Naked "Blue Duochrome" pigment - this comes from the Ivory Stack and actually has a number but I don't remember what it is. If you have Vellum eye shadow it would work too
- Cork eye shadow
- Brown Down eye shadow
- Carbon eye shadow
- Vanilla eye shadow
- Non-Conformist fluidline
- Inglot #379 (matte blue-purple) eye shadow - you could also use Parfait Amour eye shadow
- Smolder eyeliner
- Blacktrack fluidline
- Ardell "Demi Whispies" lashes (optional)


CHEEKS:
- Inglot #35 (neutral cantaloupe with silver shimmer) blush
- Inglot #57 (neutral pink-based brown with silver shimmer) blush

LIPS:
- Plastique lipstick
- Pupa Ultra Reflects lipgloss in "#07"

 

 

I hope you guys like this look as much as I do. Please send me photos if you try it out and I'll feature them on my blog. Thanks again

OOTD & my first time using false lashes

Hi all!
 I'm so glad you all enjoyed my BB cream review! Just a quick note on that, I notice a lot of people mentioning that the downfall about BB creams is that the colour doesn't match them. However, I'm pretty certain that Missha has released their BB creams in a few other shades, so maybe check that out? Please don't forget, most BB creams need a few minutes to oxidise before they match your skin colour. Hope that helps! Oh, and also there was a point about the oiliness, I find that if you put translucent powder or a tiny bit of mineral foundation after, that tends to help too.

Ok, enough with the long lecture, this was suppose to be a short post!

My first time using false eyelashes.

I have a phobia of false eyelashes. A few years ago when I did a photoshoot in Beijing I had asked during the last frames, whether the make-up artist could try false lashes on me. That night after the shoot, I kept the lashes on and to my horror, whilst I was getting my hair cut I saw half of it hanging off. It was so embarrassing! Ever since then, i've never touched false lashes again because of my constant fear that someone would see my lashes hanging off, which isn't a good look might i add!

However, after watching a million youtube videos on how to apply false lashes, i felt confident enough to give it another go.

I chose these eylure ones as they were the most natural ones I could find, I'm not too keen on dramatic or overly obvious ones. Also, I think the shape of these ones suit my eye shape more. I thought the eylure glue wasn't that great, I had to buy a separate one.
It turns out I was no professional even after all those prep videos!! Here are some lessons i leart:
1. once you applied the lash glue, don't wait a whole five minutes before applying them, my glue was totally dry by the time i applied them, i think i took "wait till the glue gets tacky" a little too seriously
2. apply mascara after the lashes have been attached.
3. apply the lashes as close to your real lash line as possible, don't leave a huge gap, doh!
4. a pair of pointy tweezers are very useful for poking glue under the lashes that hadn't stuck.

The end result 

Eyeshadow: Sleek original pallete

Blush: Chanel Tweed, coral

Face: Skin 79 BB cream

Lips: nothing (I normally leave doing my lipstick in the car, I'm weird like that).

Really happy that they look natural and aren't that obvious! 

After what seemed like forever trying to poke the lashes in place, I think it went well! It didn't come off once during the whole day (I attended a wedding). Most of all, it was very comfortable, I actually forgot I had these on. I am probably going to stick with these, but I'm still going to leave them for special events, the stress of applying them still scares me! As for reusing lashes, I chucked them away as I took them off with make-up remover and it looks really gross after.

My outfit

Dress: Mango

Clutch: Coast

Necklace: Swarovski

This is like the smallest bag in the world, I was so frustrated with it, I couldn't fit much in here at all! Why do women use such pointless things? Evidently this bag really tests your priorities, and I chose my lipstick, lash glue and tissues over my phone.

Hope you guys enjoyed this post, I was going to do another review, but I wanted to break it up with a different post to keep it interesting.

Lots of love! xX <3

Smokey eye tutorial n°2 (using MAC eyeshadows)

Hey everyone!


So here's my second smokey eye tutorial.
I'm going to do kind of the opposite of what we did l did for the first smokey eye where I put the darkest shades on the lid and the lighter one in the crease. This time I'm keeping the lid light and putting the darker shades in the crease.
I'm using All That Glitters as my lightest shade, Twinks as my medium shade and Beauty Marked as the darkest (all from MAC). The other products I used are the same ones I used last time: Zero 24/7 eyeliner pencil from Urban Decay, False Lash Effect mascara from Max Factor, lashes from Claire's and Select Cover-up concealer from MAC. 


(BTW: all pictures are clickable for larger views!)

I started off with my brows (using Brun eyeshadow / MAC), brow highlight (using Vanilla eyeshadow / MAC) and primed my eyes with Urban Decay Primer Potion.

Next I applied the lightest shade, 
All That Glitters from MAC, on the lid with a flat shader brush (MAC 239) and the inner corner with a pencil brush (MAC 219), fading it towards the crease.

I then put the medium shade, Twinks from MAC, in the crease and outer corner with a blending/crease brush (MAC 217) and smudged it along the lashes with a pencil brush.

I lined my upper lashline with a black eyeliner pencil (Zero / Urban Decay). This doesn't have to be perfect cause we're going to smudge it out anyway.

I used Beauty Marked from MAC and a pencil brush to smudge out the liner and darken the outer corner.

On the lower lashline, I applied the same eye pencil to the waterline and smudged it in to the lashline. Again, doesn't have to be perfect, just make sure the line is thicker on the outer corner and thinner towards the inner corner.

I then put All That Glitters on the inner half of the lower lashline and Twinks on the outer half.

Finally, to finish the look I applied mascara (False Lash Effect / Max Factor) to the top and bottom lashes, added false lashes (Claire's, they don't have a name or number sorry) and concealer (Select cover-up NW20 / MAC).

And that's it, all done!


Hope this helped and if you have any questions, feel free to ask!




x
Tanja

Smokey eye tutorial n°1 (using Urban Decay's Naked palette)

Hello!
Remember me :)?  I've been super busy, but I'm back and I have a tutorial for you!

This is gonna be a tutorial on one way of doing a smokey eye. For this look u only need 3 shades in whatever color you choose, a light one (Toasted / Urban Decay), medium ( Hustle / Urban Decay) and a dark shade (Creep / Urban Decay), a highlight color (Virgin / Urban Decay),an eyeliner pencil (Zero / Urban Decay) and mascara (False Lash Effect / Max Factor). The light color doesn't really have to be light. You can go as dark as you want, the light color just has to be lighter than the medium color and the medium color has to be lighter than the darkest one. Did that make sense? Yes? Good :)

I put my Tumblr url on the pictures before I decided to post them on here too, so ignore that or go check out my Tumblr!

I started off by doing what I do before pretty much any eye look. I primed my eye with Urban Decay Primer Potion (UDPP), filled in my brow with Brun and highlighted my brow bone with Vanilla, both from MAC.
I then lined my top and bottom lashline and waterline (tightline) with Zero 24/7 pencil form Urban Decay. Doesn't have to be neat, we're going to smudge it out anyway.






















Next, I smudged out the liner on the top and bottom with Hustle from Urban Decay (Naked Palette) with a pencil brush (MAC 219) and brought it up to the crease with a flat shader brush (MAC 239) and blended it out a little.

I then took my lightest shade, Toasted from Urban Decay (Naked Palette), and put it in the crease with a blending brush (MAC 217) and blended it upwards. You can go up to the brow as far as you like. Go back with your medium shade if you want to intensify it a little more after blending. I also smudged Toasted along the lower lashline with a pencil brush and put Virgin from Urban Decay (Naked Palette)in the inner corner as a highlight.

To make the lashline even darker, I used Creep from Urban Decay (Naked Palette) right along the top and bottom lashes. Add plenty off mascara. I used Max Factor False Lash Effect. I also applied false lashes (I used lashes from Claire's), but that's totally optional! Finish with concealer under the eyes, I used MAC's Select Cover-up in NW20. You can do your concealer before you do anything else, but I prefer doing it last so I can wipe away any fallout that might have dropped under my eyes.

Et Voilà! You're smokey eyes are done!

Hope this was helpful and I'll be back with the second smokey eye soon!

x
Tanja

Tutorial: Smokey Olive and Gold Look

Hi guys,

This is the long awaited new tutorial that has been a long time coming. Sorry it has been so long since I have been able to upload one but I haven't been feeling up to doing much lately because the winter chill has really gotten to me. Anyway, enough excuses and on to the look!

This is a really simple gold and olive-green smokey look that would be perfect for any time of the day/night. It is created using a limited edition product (Techtonic mineralize eye shadow from the Flashtronic Collection ['07]) but this colour can easily be duped with any other olive gold eye shadow.

EYES:
- Indianwood paint pot
- Gorgeous Gold eye shadow
- Techtonic mineralise eye shadow
- Inglot #731 (matte olive) eye shadow
- Humid eye shadow
- Vanilla eye shadow
- Nylon eye shadow
- Blacktrack fluidline
- Smolder eyeliner
- Ardell "117" lashes

CHEEKS:
- Inglot #34 (peach with gold shimmer) blush

LIPS:
- Hug Me lipstick
- Inglot #545 (orange with multicolour reflects) lipsgloss

I hope you enjoyed this look, please let me know if you try it out :)

Tutorial: Golden Beach Sunset Look

YAY! Finally, the first tutorial for my new channel! This has been a long time coming I know but I wanted to get everything set up just the way I wanted it before I started posting anything on Youtube.

This is a really pretty look I came up with that is inspired by a new hair bow I got a few weeks ago. It is a really pretty sequin bow with blue, gold and silver sequins all over it. I thought that using gold and silver in the one look would be a little bit overkill so I changed the silver element to a champagne colour.

EYES:
- Indianwood paint pot
- Fade eye shadow
- All That Glitters eye shadow
- Inglot #430 (true gold) eye shadow
- Contrast eye shadow
- Inglot #61 (black with blue shimmer) eye shadow
- Vanilla eye shadow
- Pure Show super slick liner
- Prized eye shadow
- Inglot black liquid liner
- Smolder eyeliner
- Ardell "105" lashes

CHEEKS:
- Inglot #53 (light coral brown with silver shimmer) blush

LIPS:
- Inglot #03 (light pinky brown) lipstick
- Ingot #545 (holographic orange) lipgloss

Tutorial

As promised: my first tutorial.
I went for a gold with red/burgundy look. This took me FOREVER lol, but here it is, hope you enjoy.

(please ignore the redness caused by fanatical eye brow picking)


I started by putting MAC's paintpot in Soft Ochre all over the lid with my finger.

Then, I applied NYX jumbo eye pencil in milk on the lid to make the eyeshadows pop and blended it.

For the inner corner hightlight, I used Silky Gold from Catrice (LE from the Caramé collection) with a Sigma SS 214 (short bristle smudger brush).
(I know you can barely see it on the picture, sorry.)

I then put Woodwinked from MAC next to it, till about halfway my lid, with a MAC 239 (flat shader brush).

Next is Amber Lights, also from MAC, with the same brush.

The last colour I used for the lid is Spiced Red from Catrice (LE from the Caramé collection). Again, same brush.

For the lower lid I used the same colours, in the same order with the SS 214

To blend out and darken the crease I used Sketch from MAC with a Sigma SS 226 (tapered blending brush).

Next is eye liner. I put MAC's Fluidline in Blacktrack on the lower and upper waterline and smudged it in between my lashes using the Sigma SS 266 (angled eyeliner brush).

No look is complete without mascara! Lots and lots of masara. I used Masterpiece mascara from MaxFactor (like it but not as much as the False Lash Effect).

And for some extra glam, I added false lashes. I bought these at Claire's, but forgot what they're called.

And that completes the look. The lighting still needs work. These colours are so much more vibrant in person.
I really had fun making this, but my god did it take long...
Let me know what u think!




x
Tanja