LOTD ~ Queen of Gold

"A queen of gold I made
A silver bride I built
From the northern summer nights
From the winter moon
Responded not my girl
No beating heart I felt
I brought no sighs to the silver lips
No warmth from the gold"

Amorphis - Silver Bride

 

So yes yesterday's and today's look names are from that song.

On eyes I have Inglot gold and matte white eyeshadows and some browns from 28 Neutral palette plus Hi-Fi Cosmetics Paparazzi Flash Powder in Rich Man's War. On lips I have Alexander McQueen for MAC - Nothingless.

My neck has been really bad today, hopefully it will get better by tomorrow.

And since today is the last day of October:

LOTD ~ Silver Bride

I wanted to use silver today but didn't really know what I was going to do before I started makeup. Ended up looking like this:

Silver eyeshadow is from Too Faced Smokey Eye palette and glitter is Hi-Fi Cosmetics' Paparazzi Flash Powder in Forget My Name.

I really liked this look. Easy and fast to do yet flashy enough for my taste.

Back to work tomorrow. I bet there would be nicer ways to spend Halloween but also worse. Have a great start to the week everyone!

No Halloween party to attend...

... so I had fun with make up today. I didn't have any props so had to go for simple looks.

Can you guess who these are?

I think lower one is easier to get since she doesn't require much extra. I did both looks today after I got back home. Didn't take long - about 20-30mins per look.

Happy Halloween!

Answer: first one is Sylvanas Windrunner from WoW and second is Jeanette Voerman from Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines

LOTD ~ Blue Smoke

I committed a crime - a makeup crime. I don't know who came up with a rule that never use the same colour eyeshadow as your eyes are. My eyes are blue-grey and guess what - so is my makeup! Tbh I think it accentuates my eye colour instead of making it look boring.

Here are the pics so you can make your own decision.

This look was done with Too Faced Smokey Eye palette. On lips I have MaxFactor Angel Pink and on cheeks MUA blush in Shade 2.

I'm not going to any Halloween party this weekend so I will be at home relaxing. My daughter's at her grandmum's so I have peace and quiet in this flat.

To those who go to Halloween parties - have a great time! And hopefully rest will have a great weekend :)

LOTD ~ Upside Down

I think I've done this look before, or similar. It was quick enough for this morning - a simple lid with liner and smokier lower lashline. Done with Wet n Wild Vanity palette.

My throat's been sore few weeks now and now my chest has started to feel weird. I really really really don't want to get ill right now. I just got back to work. Let's just hope it's something else annoying then. I think I will make tea now!

LOTD ~ I Desire: Purple

Wet n Wild Lust -palette look again. I thought of doing a pink look today but then I didn't really know what to do in the morning and the Lust palette was calling out my name. So I did basic look with it.

Pictures taken 7h after applying the makeup.

And there you can see my new necklace at work. It's so pretty!

Tomorrow is Friday! My first full work week (even if only less than 4h/day) will be over. And it has gone fast!

LOTD ~ Going Orange

Wendi from Makeup Zombie requested others to do an orange and black makeup (for yesterday but it was evening already here when she said it) so I thought of doing the look today. I know I did orange and black makeup look week or two ago but this is slightly different.

 I went to buy my daughter's birthday gift after work today and I also found a cute necklace on sale. It's elk/deer head and only cost me 4€.

I also walked past a fudge pop-up shop and couldn't resist so I bought some fudge. YUMMY!

I'm having an explosion of spots on my chin after few months of them keeping out so I just have to hope this is some hormonal mess up instead of starting to happen again few times a month. Damn acne-prone skin!

Review: Chanel Le Vernis in 531 Péridot

Péridot is my first Chanel nail varnish so can't really say how it compares to other Chanel varnishes. I've heard some people have problems with the varnishes.

Also when I first put this on I thought of Gosh's Golden Dragon but Golden Dragon doesn't shift colour. It's more like green with golden shimmer in it but it's really far from Péridot even if I like it too.

Company

Straight from Wikipedia:

Chanel S.A., commonly known as Chanel is a French fashion house founded by the couturier Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, well established in haute couture, specializing in luxury goods (haute couture, couture, ready-to-wear, handbags, perfumery, and cosmetics among others).

Where to buy it and how much for?

Chanel counters (it’s Limited Edition so act fast!). I paid 27,20€ for mine (this is expensive in Finland) and then I went to another shop that has Chanel counter and it was there for 26€. Only slightly cheaper but still annoying.

Péridot is already sold out on Chanel.com so head to your closest counter to find out if they still have one!

The packaging

I like the look of the bottle a lot. I also love that it has removable chunky cap and has smaller rounded cap underneath from which you hold when applying the varnish.

Product itself

 Upper photographed in daylight, lower with flash

It’s quite opaque even on first layer but I need 2 to get the colour to show right. It’s not too thin or thick but due to metallic finish it shows a bit streaky. Also I have a major issue with bubbling – I have to apply two really thin layers and try to apply one layer with max 4 strokes which is quite hard since the brush is really narrow. I got it right on the third try and then I was too scared to use top coat in case it would make it bubble.

And yeah, I LOVE THE COLOUR! I can take the bubbling just because of the colour.

Ingredients

Butyl acetate, ethyl acetate, nitrocellulose, phthalic anhydride/trimellitic nhydride/glycols copolymer, isopropyl alcohol, isobutyl acetate, acetyl tributyl citrate, stearalkonium hectorite, styrene/acrylates copolymer, silica, benzophenone-1, trihydroxypalmitamidohydroxypropyl myristyl ether, algae extract, tin oxide, dimethicone

And a lot of colours etc it may contain but yeah, I’m not gonna type them all since really that trihydro-something pretty much killed me already. Couldn’t find ingredients typed out online so had to type them myself from the label. Sorry if there are any typos!

Would I suggest it or buy it again?

YES! I love the colour – like I said, I know – and I can take the problem with bubbling just because of that. And I’d pay the price again – unfortunately this will be sold out by the time I’ve used this bottle.

Winged Out -tutorial

I was requested to do a tutorial for my Winged Out look and today I finally had time to do a picture tutorial for it. I'm sorry if the final look from today is a bit different from the original since I pretty much forgot exact what colours I used from 28 Neutral palette for it so it was guessing work. Also I apologise for not groomed eyebrows.

And here's the pic of 28 Neutral palette from CS and I numbered the ones I used.

So let's start!

1. Start with primed eyes. I used UDPP and MAC Painterly Paint Pot.

2.  Pack on about your skin colour eyeshadow (or a bit lighter) to lid and browbone. I used MAC Vanilla.

3. Use an eyeshadow about a shade darker than your skintone and swipe it to crease with fluffy blending brush (no 1).

4. Use a crease blending brush to darken the crease a bit more with mid-tone brown (no 2).

5. Use small crease brush and add dark brown on top of the previous eyeshadows in the crease (no 3).

6. Take a small stiff brush and apply dark brown (either same as above or different, for this I used dark brown from Sleek Storm palette) to lower lashline.

7. Add black liquid eyeliner (or gel, I think I used gel for the original one but wanted easy-to-remove makeup today so used liquid which was Gosh's Eye Liner Pen).

8. Add the lid colour (MAC Vanilla for me) to space between brown and liner with angled brush.

9. Add light pencil on lower waterline (I used IsaDora inliner kajal in Blonde).

10. Add mascara (and if you want false eyelashes) and you're done!

Hopefully this helped! If you want photo tutorial of something else just request for it and I will see if I can do it. Unfortunately don't have good enough camera to do video tutorials.