Last weekend I was invited to attend Circa Nocturna, Melbourne’s Alternative Fashion Parade. This particular look is to me, more about the hair than the makeup.

Cause I’m hardcore like a fox cosplayer, I decided to cut parts of my hair to get this look. I have to create the fringe and longer side strands to achieve that “rocker” feel to my hair. The makeup is pretty basic, a standard pink / purple look (that would have photographed a lot better in my home studio!).

Special thanks to Surfaced Music for taking these photos for me~

MAC Prep + Prime – Skin Base Visage
Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk Foundation – 4
Bobbi Brown Creamy Concealer – Beige
MAC Mineralize Skinfinish Natural – Light
NARS Powder Blush – Orgasm
NYX Mosaic Powder – Highlighter
NARS Smudge Proof Eyeshadow Base
Prestige Eyeliner – White
Estee Lauder Eye Shadow Powder – Pink Flash
MAC Eye Shadow – Vibrant Grape
MAC Eye Shadow – Parfait Amour
MAC Eye Shadow – Hepcat
MAC Fluidline – Blacktrack
Coastal Scents – Brow Tones
Maybelline Falsies Volume Express – Very Black
Maybelline Brow Styling Gel – Clear
DUO Lash Glue – Dark Tone
False Lashes
Lancome Color Fever Lipstick – 312

Face
Nothing new here, primer, foundation, concealer then powder. Apply pink blush to the apples of your cheeks and then a matte highlighter to all your high points.

Eyes
After primer, use a white eye liner pencil and apply to the inner corner of your eyes and brow bone. Blend with your finger. Then on top of that, apply a shimmery white powder to intensify the effect. Bring the shadow to under your lower lash line.

Then apply a medium purple shadow all over the lid and blend into the crease. Then take a darker purple to the outer corner of your eyes and blend. Apply just a tiny bit of the dark purple to the outer 1/3 of your lower lash line. Take a shimmery pink shadow and apply to the inner 2/3 of your eye lid and lightly apply just above your crease.

Apply your gel cream liner and make a thicker line than you normally would whilst winging it out at the same time.

Curl your lashes and apply two coats of mascara. Apply your false lashes.

Take a brow eye brow powder and fill in your brows, then set with a clear brow gel.

Lips
Lightly apply a fuchsia pink lip stick.

Hair
Pretty simple! Separate the majority of your hair from your fringe, and pull out a few strands for the side of your head. Tie your hair up in a ponytail. If you have short hair, you can flip your ponytail up and start pinning strands of it to the top of your head. Spray with hair spray to get the strands to stand up more and flick out.

But if you have longer hair like me, what I did was still flip my ponytail up, but created a small loop at the base of my ponytail, then tied it down with another hair tie. Next I took a few strands of hair and then pinned it over the loop to disguise it. This (hopefully) gives the illusion that I had shorter than what I really did

Sometimes I don’t know what colours work for me until I’ve seen myself in a photo wearing said colour, this is the case with this nude lipstick. I got it as a free gift with purchase and always loved it but never worn it since I figured it didn’t suit me. But now, I like it!

As for the look, I’ve always dreamed of working in a fashion house, whether for a fashion designer or fashion magazine (what beauty blogger doesn’t think this!?) and so I thought this would be a fun look to play with. I can’t remember which Korean band I saw rock eyes similar to this, but I thought it would be fun and “fierce” *flips hair*… lol

The more I stare at the photos, the more I think the two wings are not exactly the same. They probably aren’t, and honestly it’s crazy hard to get them perfectly the same too! Just gotta keep practicing!

MAC Prep + Prime – Skin Base Visage
MAC Studio Sculpt SPF 15 Foundation – MC15
MAC Mineralize Skinfinish Natural – Light Medium
MAC Pro Longwear Concealer – NC15
Bobbi Brown Bronzing Powder – Light
MAC Powder Blush – Margin
Canmake Highlighter – 01
e.l.f Eyelid Primer – Sheer
Coastal Scents 78 Eye Shadow & Blush Combo Palette
MAC Fluidline – Blacktrack
Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencils – Zero
Milani Crystal Eyez – Lovely & Luminous
MAC Glitter – Reflects Pearl
Maybelline Falsies Volume Express – Very Black
Maybelline Brow Styling Gel – Clear
DUO Lash Glue – Dark Tone
False Lashes
Revlon Colorburst Lipstick – Soft Nude
NYX Mega Shine Lip Gloss – Frosted Beige

Face
Nothing new here, primer, foundation, concealer then powder. Take a bronze to help contour your features, such as cheek hollows, sides of nose, temples and chin. Then take a beige blush to your cheeks, and finish off with a shimmery highlighter.

Eyes
After primer, I applied a silver shimmery eye shadow to the to my lids. Take a matte white eye shadow to the inner corners of your eyes and directly under your lower lash line.

Now take a black gel liner to draw the winged eye look as shown in the photos. Go slow with this, even after all my makeup experience I still had to do this step twice to get the right shape. I used the shape of my eyes as a guide, be prepare to step back and look at your face as a whole to see if they are as you want them to appear.

Then with a black pencil liner blend the colour into the silver eye shadow. Line your upper lash line and waterline. At this point you may need to take some silver shadow to blend into the black liner, just work with it till you achieve the desired result.

Take a glitter gel and apply directly to your lids, then while still wet apply pearl glitter. I tend to use glitter gel than lip gloss since it is lighter and less prone to creasing.

Curl your lashes and apply two coats of mascara. Apply your false lashes.

Take a black eyeshadow and heavily shape your eye brows. I wanted a strong look here, finally set with a clear brow gel. Then take a tiny bit and apply to your lower lash line.

Lips
Apply a nude lipstick and top with a nude lip gloss.

Another entry to MUG‘s bi-monthly competition, this time we have an Arabian look, though I reckon I came out looking a bit more Indian than Arabian

Special thanks goes out to Elias and Annie, Elias is responsible for taking these amazing photos! If you haven’t seen his work yet, you must check it out~! And Annie for being my stylist and makeup advisor~! This girl seriously needs to be at every single shoot I ever attend, she is the best stylist, makeup artist, fashion designer and photographer assistant all in one! I love these guys <3

Also shout out goes to the talented Sam <3 Who organised an amazing shoot that day which I attended to play makeup artist and graciously allowed me to borrow some space for this shoot I will post about the shoot very soon~

All my jewellery was on sale at Diva and have been altered by myself. The scarf is one of my beautiful Louis Vuitton scarves, I absolutely love it (though haven’t worn it out yet) it has a map of the entire world on it~ I confess, I’m a huge LV addict though I do my best to hide my addiction from most people

MAC Prep + Prime – Base Face Visage
Maybelline Super Stay Makeup 24hr – Nude *
Bobbi Brown Bronzing Powder – Light
NARS Powder Blush – Orgasm
NYX Mosaic Powder – Highlighter
Coastal Scents – 78 Eye Shadow and Blush Combo Palette
MAC Fluidline – Blacktrack
Maybelline Falsies – Very Black
Maybelline Clear Brow Gel
False Lashes
DUO Eyelash Glue – Dark Tone
Savvy by DB Lipliner – Cosmos
Maybelline Color Sensational Lipstick – Yummy Plummy

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Face
After primer and foundation, take a bronzing powder and contour the face to sharpen all your features. Use a matte highlighter to highlight the high points to assist with this, and finish off with a pink blush to the cheeks. This process will probably the take the longest, but do take your time because if done well it will stand out!

Eyes
Prime your lids, then dust a white eye shadow all over the brow bone, inner corner of your eyes and lower lash line. Take a gold eye shadow and apply with your finger directly on the lid. Next take a maroon shadow and apply directly into the crease, blending upwards. Don’t blend into the eye lid, we want a distinct cut look.

Next take a black gel liner and line your upper lash line, winging it out. I would next time consider either drawing a thicker liner or smudging it out a bit, I don’t think I used enough liner for my look. Draw a line just below your lower lash line, traditionally Arabian women line their water line, but for a bit of a different twist to the look I decided on this instead

Curl your lashes, apply a coat of mascara and then apply your false lashes.

Define and extend your brows with a dark brown eye shadow and set with a clear gel.

Lips
Line and fill in your lips with a dark red lip liner, then cover up with a plummy lipstick.

Ever since I last swatched Bobbi Brown’s Modern Classic Lip & Eye Palette, I’ve had a real liking towards Bobbi Brown’s palettes~ The packaging is solid, classy yet cute and the quality has improved by leaps and bounds over the last few years!

When the Pretty Face Palette and Powerful Face Palette were released I knew I had to buy one of them (did I mention I’m a palette addict?!). Outside of the blog I tend to wear soft neutral “barely there” colours, and so opted for the Pretty Face Palette knowing I’d probably get the most use out of it.

The palette comes with four eye shadows, one blush, three lip products.

I’d recommend applying the lip products either with your fingers or trying to scoop a bit more product to your lips. I say fingers just to help melt the product a bit for easier application. The shades are very pink and neutral, very everyday friendly.

The blush is a bright bubblegum pink shade that applies much sheerer with a brush.

The eye shadows have great pigmentation and help to create a soft pink look, the shades feel rather youthful to me so would be great for those seeking that kind of look. If you want something more mature, I’d consider looking into the Powerful Face Palette instead.

Another Bobbi Brown palette that hasn’t disappointed me, Bobbi Brown is one of those more work friendly neutral brands I lean on when I’m looking to wear makeup to work or seeking for a “natural” look. It makes me feel polished~ If you are interested, you can purchase this palette from any Bobbi Brown counter for $130AU or online from Sephora or the official Bobbi Brown website for $60US~

This season’s Shu Uemura‘s Spring 2011 catalogue had a highly inspiring makeup cover, it was tropical, it was fresh and best of all it was blue! So I knew I had to give this look a go~ I was initially a bit concerned because when I first swatched the colours for the first time they were not at all pigmented :/ But after I applied some primer, that all changed! Hope you enjoy the look

Face
MAC Prep + Prime – Base Visage
MAC Mineralize Satinfinish SPF 15 Foundation – NC20
MAC Mineralize Skinfinish Natural – Light Medium
Bobbi Brown Creamy Concealer – Beige
Bobbi Brown Sheer Finish Loose Powder – Pale Yellow
Canmake Highlighter – 01
Bobbi Brown Bronzing Powder – Light

Eyes
e.l.f Eyelid Primer – Sheer
Shu Uemura Morphorium Blue Palette *
Coastal Scents 78 Eye Shadow & Blush Combo Palette
MAC Fluidline Non-Conformist
Stila Kajal Eye Liner – Topaz
NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil – Pure Gold
DUO Lash Glue – Dark Tone
False Lashes
Coastal Scents – Brow Tones
Maybelline Falsies Volume Express – Very Black
Shu Uemura – Lash Curler
Maybelline Brow Styling Gel – Clear

Lips
MAC Lipstick – Angel
Christian Dior Gloss Levres – Smoothie Peche

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Face
Prepare face as usual, and then using a bronzing powder, start contouring your face, apply it to the sides of your forehead, under your cheek bows, sides of your nose and below the jaw line. Take a candy pink blush and apply to the apples of your cheeks. Then take a shimmery highlighter and place on your forehead, cheek bones, bridge of your nose, cupids bow and chin.

Eyes
Prime your lids with a skin tone primer, then apply a shimmery yellow powder to your brows. Take a shimmery lime green shadow and apply generously to the crease so it covers part of the lid and brow bone. Next take a rich shimmery ocean blue shadow and apply to your lids, extending to the crease. Take a dark matte purple and apply to the inner 1/3 of your eyes and outer 1/3. Make sure to blend any harsh lines between all the colours, but do not over blend. We want the colours to look like they are fading into one another, not mixing them.

Take a matte pink colour and apply to the inner corner of your eyes and 1/3 of your lash line. Take the same blue and apply to the outer 2/3 of your lower lash line, then apply a thinner line of purple over the blue.

Take a purple gel liner and line your upper lash line. Curl your lashes and apply two coats of mascara. Line your waterline with a peach coloured eyeliner pencil.

Next take a pair of false eye lashes, and cut out about 3/4 of a cm. Two for your upper lash line, and two for your lower, these should be smaller than the previous two. Coat the false lashes for your upper lash line in the purple gel liner, and then coat the lower false lashes with a gold cream eye shadow. Wait for the lashes to dry, and then apply to your lash line with eye lash glue.

Fill in your brows with a dark brown powder, and define with a clear brow gel.

Lips
Apply a candy pink lipstick, then dab a touch of gloss to the centre of your bottom lips, press your lips towards to transfer and even out the shine.

I’m really getting into entering as many makeup competitions lately, not so much to win (though it would be nice) but it helps give me ideas and inspiration on what looks to do next. This is my next entry into Makeup Geek’s Valentine look~ It’s much more toned down than usual, to me it almost looks wearable, just need to lose the excess blush and hearts ;D

Face
MAC Prep + Prime – Skin Base Visage
Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk Foundation – 4
Giorgio Armani Micro-Fil Loose Powder – 1
Bobbi Brown Creamy Concealer – Beige

Cheeks
NARS Powder Blush – Orgasm
MAC Powder Blush – Azalea
NYX Mosaic Powder – Highlighter

Eyes
e.l.f Eye Primer
NP Set – New Neutrals Palette
Prestige Eyeliner – White
MAC Fluidline Blacktrack
Maybelline Falsies Mascara – Very Black
Maybelline Brow Styling Gel – Clear
Shu Uemura Eye Lash Curler
False Lashes
DUO Glue

Lips
Revlon Colorburst Lipstick – True Red
Revlon Colorburst Lipstick – Carnation
Savvy by DB Lipliner – Poppy

Face
Prime, foundation, conceal and set with powder as usual.

Cheeks
Apply a soft coral pink to the apples of your cheeks and extend all the way to your temples. Then take a more pigmented magenta pink blush and work that into your temples. Take a matte white highlighting powder and highlight all your high points.

Taking a red lipstick, draw 5 hearts along your cheek bone and place a heart shaped rhinestone at the end of one of the lines.

Eyes
Prime your lids, take a white eyeliner pencil to the inner corner of your eyes, inner lower lash line and brow bone. This is my way of “priming” for white eye shadow to make it stand out more. Then apply a white eye shadow over the white eye liner.

We’re going for a generic neutral brown eye hear, so take a medium brown to the lid and a dark brown to your crease, concentrating on the outer corner of your eye. Blend! Pat on a bit of white eye shadow to the center of your lids.

Line your upper lash line with a black gel liner, curl your lashes and apply mascara. Then apply your false eye lashes.

Define your eyebrows and extend them using a dark brown eye shadow. Then set them with a clear brow gel.

Lips
Line your lips with a red lipliner and fill in, I always fill in as this is my way of priming the lips but also ensuring the colour stays on for longer. Go over the liner with a red lipstick, then apply a pink link stick to the center of your lips for added dimension.

Welcome to probably my favourite look in the series thus far, despite missing the mark quite considerably, I’m happy enough to make it a chapter in my book and work on to becoming hopefully better Another reason this look is so special is because it’s officially the first video to hit my “new” YouTube channel! I created the look for a competition, and have decided it would make for a great first video~ I plan on uploading a tutorial version soon so be sure to subscribe for hopefully many more videos in the future!

I only just opened up my video editting tool for the first time two days ago and so everything is still very new to me, and I know there is much room to improve with regard to my video editting skills! So much to learn too! Let me tell you one thing, major props to the big youtubers to make amazingly complexed videos, it is -not- easy at all, very time consuming.

Videos most likely will take an extra long time to make since currently my music is custom made, yes! Special thanks to Surfaced Music for creating the stunning music for my video, such an insanely talented musician~ Since I am a pianist, I fully intend to produce my own music too, of course my music will be pure piano instead XD; I love creating works of art, productions! (This doesn’t mean I am not willing to use other people’s music, please contact me if you are a musician and are interested in collaborating in the future)

I work extra hard to ensure all my content is unique, original, entertaining and creative and I really hope you guys enjoy it all

Be sure to check out Surfaced Music’s website and YouTube channel, where you will be able to find lots more of his original music

Oh and the photos that are blue, was all thanks to simply changing the white balance No fancy image editing~ I liked the blue effect, made me look “cool”. Pun totally intended.

Face
MAC Prep + Prime
NARS Sheer Glow Foundation – Gobi
NARS Powder Bronzer – Laguna
NYX Mosaic Powder – Highlighter
MAC Full Coverage Foundation – White
Revlon PhotoReady Translucent Finisher
Australis Intensif Eye – Out of the Blue

Eyes
NARS Smudge Proof Eye Shadow Base
Savvy by DB – Shimmering Slate
MAC Fluidline Blacktrack
L’Oreal Extra-Volume Collagene – Noir
Shu Uemura Eye Lash Curler
DUO Lash Glue
False Lashes
Blue Circle Lenses

Lips
Bobbi Brown Creamy Concealer – Beige

Face
Prime your face, and apply a liquid foundation 1-2 shades lighter than your natural skin tone to the upper 3/4 of your face. Contour your face with a soft bronzer and highlight any areas with a matte white powder. Next take a white cream foundation and dab it all over the lower 1/3 of your face, to your temples, down your neck, on the lower 1/4 of your ears and creeping towards your shoulders and chest. Next set everything with a translucent powder.

Take a dark aqua eye shadow and slowly apply it over the white cream foundation. Makes sure to blend blend blend.

Next take a sharp angled brush, and start drawing “cracks” on your face, I googled images of ice cracking to help me along. Then take the same aqua eye shadow and add shadowing to each of the cracks.

Eyes
Prime your lids, then apply shimmering white eye shadow all over the lid, inner corner of your eye and brow bone. Take the aqua colour and work it into your crease and lower lash line. Then take a black eye shadow and work it into the outer corner of your eyes and slightly over your lower lash line.

Next take a black gel liner and line your upper lash line, wing it out. Take a pencil black eyeliner and line your water line. Curl your lashes, apply mascara then apply your false eyelashes.

Make sure to fill in and extend your brows, we want your eyes to be strong and stand out against all the ice.

Lips
Apply concealer over your lips, then dab some of the aqua eye shadow on the center. This should all help dry out your lips, and give you a more deathly look.

Be sure to check back, I’ll be linking my first video here very soon