Fables in Fashion

It’s a new year, so I wanted to start it off with quite figuratively a fresh face. Figuratively because my face only looks fresh, even in person I was told how awake and refreshed I looked.

But to me, “fresh” also means clean, when in fact I’m wearing a ton of foundation and concealer to get this so called “flawless fresh” look, not much more than the average Book of Fables though, but my skin without makeup is by no means as clear and flawless as it looks in my Book of Fables. It’s all in the makeup baby!

Face
MAC Prep + Prime
MAC Mineralized Satinfinish SPF 15 Foundation – NC20
Bobbi Brown Creamy Concealer – Beige
Bobbi Brown Sheer Finish Loose Powder – Pale Yellow
MAC Studio Fix – N4

Cheeks
NYX Powder Blush – Natural
NYX Mosaic Powder – Highlighter

Eyes
Covergirl Lash Blast Fusion – Very Black
NARS Smudgeproof Eyeshadow Base
ELF The Beauty Encyclopedia – Basic Eye Edition

Lips
MAC Tinted Lip Conditioner SPF15 – Petting Pink

Face
Prime the face, then apply 2 thin coats of foundation all over your face. Taking a concealer, go over all areas of the face as needed so that the skin appears flawless. Some areas with darker pigmentation may require 2 layers of concealer. Set the under eye area with a very finely milled powder, then set the rest of the face by patting on a powder foundation. This gives you extra coverage.

Cheeks
Lightly dust a soft pink powder blush over the apples of your cheeks, and apply a matte highlighter to your cheekbones. Don’t use a heavy hand, we want a very light application.

Eyes
Prime eyes and apply a matte eyeshadow either equal to your own skin colour, or at most 2-3 shades darker. We just want to try and cover up any darkness on the lids, or in my case the faint veins that show through.

Curl your lashes and apply 1 medium coat of mascara. Not too heavy, but enough to define and slightly lengthen your lashes.

Lips
Using a lip brush, apply a pink tinted lip balm.

Tomorrow is Christmas so a more festive look seemed appropriate Bit sad that my lighting set seems to have washed out the look quite a bit (most likely due to the change in backdrop colour too) and so the 3 stars I’ve draw above my left eye aren’t painfully obvious Still I do love my some glitter looks, not sure how I always managed to end up with more glitter on my desk and hands than face, but there you have it!

If you celebrate Christmas, hope you guys have a lovely Christmas, and if not, enjoy the public holidays and time away from work Thank you so so much for reading, commenting, tweeting me etc~ Each interaction means so much to me and each day I feel so motivated to do better thanks to you! Thank you and stay safe <3

Face
MAC Prep + Prime
MAC Mineralise Satinfinish SPF 15 Foundation NC20
MAC Mineralise Skinfinish Natural – Light Medium
Bobbi Brown Creamy Concealer Beige

Cheeks
MAC Blush Powder – Margin
MAC Eye Shadow – Crystal Avalanche

Eyes
NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil – Pots & Pans
NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil – Cottage Cheese
MAC Eye Shadow – Night Train
MAC Eye Shadow – Idol Eyes
MAC Eye Shadow – Forgery
Smashbox Eye Wish Palette
NP Set Liquid Eyeliner – Silver Glitter
Covergirl Liquiline Blast – Black
Covergirl Lash Blast – Block
Prestige Eyeliner – White
Red Earth – Silver Glitter
Daiso Demi False Lashes
Shu Uemura Eyelash Curler
DUO Lash Glue

Lips
Savvy by DB Lipliner – Carnation
NYX Jumbo Lip Pencil – Fuschia
NYX Jumbo Lip Pencil – Pink Nude

Face
Straight forward here, prime your face, foundation, concealer and then powder to set.

Cheeks
I applied a soft pink / brown blush to the hollows of my cheeks, then a shimmery white eye shadow to my cheekbones right up to my temples.

Eyes
Fill in your brows and extend them slightly with a dark gray eye shadow.

Prime the lids and crease with a silver cream shadow, then a shimmery white cream to the inner corner of my eyes and brow bone. Then apply a matching powder eye shadow colour to the cream colours. Using a gun metal eye shadow, apply to the crease and to the outer corner of your eye. Blend everything to remove any harsh lines.

Using a white eyeliner, draw stars just above your left eye brow and fill in the edges with a white eye shadow. Fill in the center with a silver eye shadow. Lightly pat silver glitter across all the stars.

Line your upper lash line with a dark gray gel liner creating a slight wing and smudge out. Now take a silver glitter liner and go over that gray line, making sure the silver line is slightly thinner. Extend the silver glitter liner beyond the eye and get creative! Create whatever designs you feel like! Dab some silver glitter over the silver liner to intensify the effect.

Curl your lashes and apply two coats of mascara and apply demi false lashes if needed.

Lips
Line your lips and fill in the outer corners of your lips, avoid filling in the direct center of your lips. Go over the lip pencil with a similar coloured lip stick, then fill in the center of your lips with a frost pink colour lipstick. Dab just a bit of silver glitter to the center of your lips.

This is not a new look, in fact I did a Geisha look back last year when I was toying with the idea of starting up my own beauty / cosplay blog. But I wanted to make a few tweeks and officially add it as a chapter to my Book of Fables series.

The top and makeup really don’t go together, if I had any foresight I would have use purple makeup instead Still, the top was from a Hinoto cosplay I was making a few years ago for the World Cosplay Summit (but my then cosplay partner left me high and dry and so the project got scrapped) at least I’m glad I could use a part of it for this look and who knows, maybe one day finish it too?

Sorry for the messy hair I did this look at a friend’s house during a Rock Band 3 party and forgot to bring any hair styling products

Ingredients
MAC Prep + Prime
MAC Full Coverage Foundation – White
MAC Set Powder – Invisible

MAC Powder Blush Azalea
MAC Powder Blush Apple Red
MAC Fluidline Blacktrack
Covergirl Lash Blast Fusion in Very Black
False Lashes

Savvy by DB in Tulip
NYX Lipstick Eucalyptus

Recipe

Face
Apply primer to the entire face, then with a brush or sponge apply a white foundation. I had to do this step 3 times to get the white intensity I was going for. Then set with clear or white powder.

Using a electric pink blush powder, apply the powder starting from your temples all the way to your cheek bones.

Eyes
Darken your brows with a black gel liner, then fade out with the same blush powder used before. Apply the blush to your lower lash line and on your crease and lids. Blend it out.

Line your upper lash line with the gel liner and wing it out. Curl your lashes, apply your mascara and then false lashes.

Lips
Line your lips with a red / dark pink lipliner, then apply a magenta lipstick. Next using the same blush powder, pat on the powder to your lips to mattify them. Lastly, apply a red blush to the center of your lips.