Fables in Fashion

This look feels very rocker-chick to me, what with the hair style and blue star. After shooting the look, I couldn’t bring myself to remove the makeup till the end of the day! It just took so much time to draw the star on my face, but I’ll admit to getting a couple of stares when I left the house to pick up some dinner hehe.

Generally, I can’t see myself ever finding a suitable situation to wear this out, but I do love to experiment and go wild in the comfort of my own home all in the name of art! Certainly one of my less subtle looks

Products used:

Face
MAC Prep + Prime Skin Base Visage
MAC Mineralize Satinfinish SPF15 Foundation NC20
MAC Select Sheer / Loose – NC15

Cheeks
NYX Blush Stone
Canmake Highlighter

Eyes
MAC Fluidline Royal Wink
Anna Sui Long 01
L’Oreal Extra-Volume Collagene Noir/Black
NYX Eye/Eyebrow Pencil Electric Blue
Lime Crime Magic Dust Pompadour

Lips
MAC Lip Pencil – Cherry
MAC Lipstick – Russian Red

I’m loving this look, I’m not sure where I could wear it, but I love how virbate the colours are! And I have to thank pigments for that, unless I apply my eyeshadows wet, I can never get the colours to be this stand out.

My face powder did have quite a bit of shine in it too, something in retrospect I probably would avoid in the future. I’d rather got more matte, and then selectively highlight later. In some of the photos I feel like my entire face is glowing, not exactly the image I was going for.

As for the name, I came up with the idea when I was thinking of the shell of beetles (and you can blame my current addiction to StarCraft 2 for that), how there sometimes is a rainbow effect under certain lights. As much as I hate insects, I think the pattern is really beautiful.

Products used:
Face
MAC Prep + Prime Skin Base Visage
MAC Mineralize Satinfinish SPF15 Foundation NC20
MAC Iridescent Powder / Loose Silver Dusk
Bobbi Brown Creamy Concealer Beige
Bobbi Brown Sheer Finish Loose Powder Pale Yellow

Cheeks
NARS Orgasm Illuminator
NARS Blush Orgasm
Canmake Highlighter

Eyes
Urban Decay Shadow Primer Potion
MAC Fluidline Blacktrack
Anna Sui Eye Shadow 001
L’Oreal Extra-Volume Collagene Noir/Black
Lime Crime Eye Shadow Empress
Lime Crime Eye Shadow Lime Criminal
Lime Crime Eye Shadow Circus Girl
Diorshow Brow 000

Lips
NYX Lipstick Frosted Beige
Chanel Levres Scintillantes 96

Start of last year my friend Shi Tenshi put together a Disney Princess group for Melbourne’s Supanova, in which I went as Snow White. Later that year she decided to do a Disney Villian group, in which I was to be Snow White’s Evil Step-mother! Unfortunately due to work I never managed to finish the costume (though I now have metres upon metres of beautiful purple silk collecting dust).

Figured either way I’d give her makeup a shot, I don’t have the sharpest of features, so I reckon a lot more contouring would have helped enhance the over all “evil” feel, but I still think I look pretty annoyed one way of another hehe.

Products used:
Face
MAC Studio Sculpt SPF 15 Foundation NC15
MAC Iridescent Loose Silver Dusk
Canmake Highlighter – 01

Cheeks & Lips
Bobbi Brown Pot Rouge – Powder Pink

Eyes
MAC Paints – Bare Canvas
Coastal Scents Matte 88 Palette
Rimmel Kohl Eyeliner – Black
MAC Fluidline – Blacktrack

Nails
Zoya – Freja (my favourite gray / blue polish ever!)