Showing posts with label blue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blue. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Very simple blue tips

I loved this concept, but am not as pleased with the results. It was intended to be worn to work as a not too flashy mani, but instead I took it off and redid them at like midnight. None the less I did like the idea and wanted to share it.

This is 3 coats of Sinful Colors Pearl Harbor and the tips are 2 coats of Sally Hansen's Blue me Away

I was really hopeful for Pearl Harbor, but alas another disappointing glitter. It is very hard to see the sparkles and especially hard to capture on camera.

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

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


Monday, July 18, 2011

Simple Sparkly Tip

Both of these colors belong to my future sister-in-law, so I actually have no idea what they are. XD

I was feeling simple and blue, I think this pretty much covered that. :)

Friday, July 8, 2011

Sea Horses in the current

More beach inspired nails from my beach week. We had limited work space and light since we were camping, so the first image looks better since it was lighter out than the second. 
Color Club with Zoya Yummy stamped over top

Sea Horses done over top of that with Konad Special white

I actually like the first image better, but without that lighting it was too subtle, so the sea horses were necessary. 

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Wave tips from my beach week

The whole time I was at the beach I did water inspired nails. I like pretty much everything I did, this however was prob my least fav.
Done with Color Club nail polish, which I do not know the name of because they are not on the bottles.
And stamped with Konad's Special White

I'll prob be doing a lot more tips now. I have gotten better since these. 

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Nail Foils Collection and Descriptions - Blue and Teal Foils

The next installment of my nail art foil collection from Dollar Nail Art is the blue and teal foils. I bought these foils using my own money. This post will consist of product photos, close up images of each foil and a brief description.

If you do not know what nail art foil is or how to use it please follow this link here to my Introduction to Nail Foils post for more information.




 Aqua AB:
Aqua AB is another foil similar to Gold Spectrum as it reflects a rainbow flash depending on how the light hits it. This rainbow reflection give a holographic effect to the foil. When applied to the nail it creates rainbow flashes across the nail.


 Blue Mist:
Blue Mist is a little lighter than Sapphire and a little more on the grey blue side. It is a mirror like reflecting metallic foil with no pattern only solid colour. As Sapphire and Blue Mist are so similar, there is no need to purchase both. I would recommend Sapphire over Blue Mist though because it is a nicer blue.


 Electric Blue:
As the name suggests, Electric Blue is just that, a solid electric blue foil which has a mirror line metallic finish to it. Like Sapphire and Blue Mist, this foil has no pattern and it just solid colour.


 Gradient Crush:
Gradient Crush is a electric blue foil that fades into a nice emerald green as you go across the width of the foil. The pattern on this foils is similar to Diamond Red or Gold Crush in the tile effect. The tiles reflect blue, green, teal and slightly purple depending on which way the light hits it giving this foil a holographic effect.


 Ocean Mist:
Ocean Mist is a mirror like reflecting foil which changed from orange, gold, red, green teal and blue depending on which way the light touches it. It also has an almost leopard print look to the patterning which in turn changes different colours to the background depending on how the light touches it. This is definitely the more unique foil of the lot.


 Pacific Blue:
Pacific Blue is an electric medium blue foil that reflects blue, light blue, teal and green depending on where the light hits it. This rainbow reflections creates a holographic effect on the nail.


 Peacock Dazzle:
Peacock Dazzle is more of blue based teal colour with a water ripple like pattern covering the entire length of the foil. The ripple pattern of this foil sends out flashes of teal, light and dark blue and purple depending on where the light hits it creating a holographic look on the nail.


 Sapphire:
Sapphire is a royal blue foil with a mirror like reflecting metallic finish. There is no pattern to this foil only solid colour.


 Starburst Blue:
Like its name suggests, Starburst Blue is a royal blue foil with a starburst pattern covering the entire length of the foil. This pattern can also be seen in Gold Starburst foil. The starbursts then reflect teal, light and dark blue and green depending on which way the light hits it creating a holographic effect.


 Teal:
Teal is like its name suggests also, a blue green foil with mirror like metallic finish. This is more on the blue side than a green like some other teal colours you can get. If you want to see this foil in action, please check out Miss80Million's tutorial on Youtube here.


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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

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






Sunday, May 8, 2011

ModMatte Pheobe

I got in my Zoya Earthday purchases. One of the colors I picked was the new ModMatte Pheobe. She is described as being a matte shimmer, but you mostly get the shimmer when you put a topcoat in, in which case you also lose the matte.


I started off with 2 coats. And this picture is taken in the shade. I LOVE it plain.

This was stamped with a BM12 design and Zoya Ibiza, another of my Earthday buys.

As the mattes chip easily with my use of my hands. I added a top coat before removing the polish, just to see the effect it gives. 

It did chip VERY fast for me. I only wore it for 11 hours before it started chipping.

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Water Inspiration - Blue gradiant

I really love the four elements that people thought were what made up all life before science ruined all the philosophical fun, earth, wind, water, and fire. This is water inspired and I absolutely love these 2 colors.
They are both SinfulColors, the lighter is Gorgeous, and the darker is Midnight Blue.
I sponged the darker onto the lighter.

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Orbital Blue.

Orbital Blue
Done with MoondancerJen's polish's and unfortunately do not know the brands. Bundle Monster plate.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Blue Smokey Eye using WnW


Decided to try a look with the Blue Had Me At Hello palette and it turned into an effortless navy/gray smokey eye. It definitely looks more blue in person, sadly I couldn't capture the blue sparkles on camera (need to start taking pictures in natural light!)


Products Used:
Wet N Wild 8 pan blue had me at hello: right hand browbone on inner corner, right hand crease color on lid and crease, left hand crease on outer v, and then the right hand definer to deepen the outer v!
Mac wedge (to help blend out the edges)
Urban Decay 24/7 black eyeliner pencil
Anastasia brow powder duo
Covergirl lashblast

From the pictures, it looks like the blue sparkles really stuck to the black eyeliner near my upper lashline, so i might try using that as a base next time to make the blue show up better. Eyeshadows applied and blended beautifully, I'm so glad I picked this palette up.

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Wet N Wild Blue Had Me At Hello Swatches & Comparisons

Finally got my hands on a Wet N Wild 8 pan palette,
Found it at Walgreens for about $4.99. Unfortunately they didn't have the green Comfort Zone palette in stock (was looking for that one)!

I think it's nice they labeled them "browbone", "eyelid", "crease", "definer" but i'm probably going to switch them around!
All swatches are done w/o a primer! Great pigmentation! 


You can see here neither of my mac eyeshadows are a dupe for the Wet N Wild left hand browbone color. Crystal Avalanche is probably closest..it's a bit more pigmented.

Couldn't find a match with any of my grays either! I bet these four colors together would make a GORGEOUS smokey eye though ;)

This didn't quite photograph true to color. Both the wet n wild left definer and too faced stiletto  (two on the left) have NO glitter but it looks like there is in this photograph. The other three all have silver shimmer/glitter in it. The wet n wild one is pigmented, but not quite as pigmented as oil slick. Creep is also much more gray.

I love this aqua color in the palette! It's gorgeous! Couldn't find a good dupe in my makeup.
Hope these were swatches were helpful! I would definitely recommend this palette...based on swatching and wearing a few colors today, they are really wonderful quality for drugstore eyeshadow. Over my mac pain pot, I didn't experience ANY creasing. The colors are very, very smooth. I will admit I can be a bit of an eyeshadow snob (most of my eyeshadows are not drugstore),but these are very impressive and a similar quality for an amazing price tag! Definitely recommend!
Let me know if you've picked up any of the palettes!