FOTD Friday: Pop of pink!

Hey there, Sabrina/Rose reporting! I finally got off my ass to make another post for the blog. Alina/Sparkle's done a great job of holding up the fort while I was away. I could make excuses but instead, let's get on with the makeup shall we?

I was browsing youtube for some inspiration and stumbled on bubzbeauty's Electric Doll look - I LOVED it because it's wearable but also has that hint of rebellion to it. It suits my personality perfectly! She balances out the pop of crazy colour on the eye with a strong splash of colour on the lips. 

Tyra Banks, thank you for teaching us the smize heheh

I'd totally wear this to go out for coffee or to go shopping if I was feeling a little edgy and fancy! Check out bubzbeauty's video if you want to know how to do it: Bubzbeauty "Electric Doll" youtube video  

Here's what I used:

• Foundation: I was too lazy to put any foundation or BB cream. This is my real face texture with freckles / moles and all! And who's got time for mascara or brows? Not me today!
• Cream blush: Jemma Kidd Blush Concentrate 02 Masquerade
• Eye primer: Too faced Shadow Insurance - as always
• Pink shadow: Sugarpill Dollipop - if you like bright colours, you MUST get sugarpill shadows
• Matte lids: MAC Orb - It's a matte, paler-than-skin neutral shadow
• Tearduct and under eyes: Stila Kitten - this stuff packs some serious sparkle
• Lower outer corners: MAC Espresso - a matte dark brown shadow
• Liquid liner (winged, top only!): Stila all day waterproof liquid eyeliner dark brown - LOVE
• Lipstick: Secret Kisses "Kiss It" - if you missed it, I reviewed it here!

Thank you bubzbeauty for showing us how to make bright colours wearable!! I might actually get some more use out of my beloved crazy-coloured sugarpill shadows now ;) Totally want to try this look with different colours in place of the pink, perhaps purple, blue, green or orange!

Do you like it or is it way too crazy for you?
If you try this out, I'd love to see the results, hit me up on facebook or leave us a comment :D

♥ Sabrina / Rose

FOTD Friday: NAKED again

I wanted to try using the Urban Decay NAKED 2 palette for a simple daytime look that emphasizes my crease. I love darkening the crease as opposed to the lid area because it gives my puffy hooded lids more depth and makes them appear larger. I wanted the lids to come forwards (and thus it is a lighter colour) and my eye socket to recede more (thus it is a darker colour,as if there is a shadow casted there). 

I am LOVING my Stila liquid liner (which is a texta style liner) in Dark Brown! Using a dark brown is a lot less severe than liquid black liner for day-time looks. I was told at my Colours consultation that since I was a "Winter", I should not wear brown eyeliner as it would make my skin look muddy and this has haunted me for the last few years. I will talk about "getting your Colours done" one day but to avoid long tangents, I'll leave that for another day. I finally decided to give dark brown liner another go (Xiaxue uses brown liquid liner and she looks rockin' with that colour). I like it! 

Note to self: Use a less wide angle lens the next time I do selfies, yikes.

I used:

• Primer: Toofaced Shadow Insurance
• Crease colour and lower outer third: Tease (matte brown with hints of purple) from NAKED 2 palette
• Lid colour: Half Baked (wonderfully sparkly yellowy gold)
• Tearduct / browbone: Foxy and/or Bootycall, I don't remember, sorry!
• Liner: Stila All Day Waterproof Liquid Eye Liner Dark Brown
• Cheeks: NARS Orgasm
• Foundation / lips: Too lazy to do anything ;)

<3 Sabrina / Rose

P.S.: Since returning from my US trip, my crease application has improved a little - I don't know if you can tell though! A wonderful makeup artist at the Florida mall MAC store gave me some blending tips for hooded lids which I will share in a future post! I never miss the chance to ask retail makeup artists for tips and tricks, if they're happy to share :)

Changing my eyeshapes courtesy of Promise Phan

Today's post was inspired by Promise Phan - she posted video where she shows Changing Eye Shapes with Eyeliner and I just HAD to try this out for myself :) It is both a way to show you how to transform your eye shape into something else, and also to show you different looks that you can try on your own eyes. Would be great as a reference if I ever wanted to try to attempt a celebrity face-imitation-look-thing.

A summary of Promise's 4 eyeliner shape looks:
#1 round - line both top and bottom with more width across the centre of the eye
#2 upwards - upward wing, tapered eye liner across the bottom outer half
#3 elongated - outward wing, tapered eye liner across whole bottom lash line, add black pencil into waterline
#4 droopy - downward wing, bottom lash line as follows: starts below lash line in outer half, joining with lash line inner half.

Here's my attempt at these looks on my own eyes:

Full face after the jump!