This is my Kerrigan look, my failed look I was talking about earlier on twitter, because this looks nothing like Kerrigan. But with the support of Toby I decided to post it anyways.

For those who don’t know, Kerrigan, otherwise known as the Queen of Blades is the main villain in my latest gaming obsession Star Craft 2. She was originally part of the Terran army, betrayed by her fellow man and then left to become infected and rule the Zerg race. I absolutely love her character design, if I was daring enough to appear naked, I’d totally cosplay her~

One thing I did really love about this look is how different it appears depending on the lighting. See below in one shot when taken at twilight, I look like a muddy forest nymph! Yet, when taken with candlelight, I look completely different

Hope you enjoy the look, it sure took me a long time to put together~

Ingredients

MAC Prep + Prime
MAC Pigment Emerald Green
NYX Ultra Pearl Mania – Black Pearl
NYX Ultra Pearl Mania – Lime Pearl
NYX Eye/Eyebrow Pencil Medium Brown

NARS Smudge Proof Eyeshadow Base
NYX Jumbo Eyeshadow Pencil Black Bean
Coastal Scents 88 Ultra Shimmer Palette
NYX Triple Eyeshadow Tropical / Yellow / Lime Green
Rimmel Quad Eye Shadow – Smokey Noir

Rimmel Soft Kohl Jet Black
Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-on Eye Pencil Zero
L’oreal Extra-Volume Collagene Black

NYX Lipliner Pencil Black Berry
NYX Jumbo Lip Pencil Narcisse

Recipe

Face
Prime your entire face, dark green pigment (I mixed a green pigment with a black pigment). Buff the dark green all over the face, focusing stronger pigmentation to hollows of your cheeks, temples and any place you want to create shadows. Use a lighter green pigment as a highlight, use on your forehead, cheekbones, bridge of your nose and chin.

Using a brown pencil liner, simulate the look of veins over your cheeks, chin and forehead.

Eyes
I used light gray contacts for this look. Next prime the eyes, then line and cover the lids with a black cream shadow. Using some left over dark green pigment, apply this to your crease to create a smoky look. Then take a black eye shadow to the outer corner of your eye, flick it out for a cat eye effect.

Under your eyes, simulate “dark circles” with a berry like eye shadow. Then just under the berry colour apply a yellow shadow. This is suppose to emphasise tired, drained, dark circles to a more extreme level. Make sure to blend out any harsh lines, but avoid over blending as we don’t want muddy colours.

With a black pencil eye liner, use a heavy hand to line your eyes and smudge it out. After smudging, it will be worth lining them again. We want a very heavy dark black appearance around the eyes. Be sure to line your waterline as well for the full impact. Don’t be afraid to be messy with it, we want a smudgy drained wrecked look

Curl your lashes and cover them with black mascara.

Using a black eyeliner, colour in your brow and extend them to create a high arch. Go heavy with the liner, no need to be subtle here!

Lips
Line your lips with a black lip liner, then apply a berry red colour to the lips. Blend it into the black liner for a “gothic” effect.

“The day is cold. The day is cold and dark and dreary.” ~ Rainy Days

Welcome to my Halloween look, and the “first” chapter to my newly renamed Book of Fables. (or the 28th edition of looks in general). This look was inspired by Sefie’s cosplay of Edea, I love the look of veins or cracks slowly infecting someone’s perfectly porcelain face. It’s hauntingly beautiful.

This look was shot completely in the dark, with our only lighting provided by tea candles We managed to experiment a lot with light photography (but that’s for another post). And by we, I mean myself and my partner Toby~ Who is an amazing photographer (he does 95% of my cosplay shoots) and is eternally loving and patient with my insane fussy and cranky attitudes on shoots! XD *love*

I unfortunately could not find the appropriate contacts and had to digital enhance my iris, I’ll find them one day!

INGREDIENTS
Face
MAC Prep + Prime
MAC Studio Sculpt Foundation in NC15

Cheeks
NARS Bronzer in Laguna
NARS Highlighter in Albatross
NARS Powder Blush in Orgasm
Revlon Colorstay Eyeliner in Black

Eyes
Rimmel Quad Eyeshadow Snokey Noir
NARS Smudge Proof Eyeshadow Base
MAC Duo Eyeshadow in My Dark Magic
Cezanne Liquid Eyeliner in Black
Savvy by DB Luxury Liner in Shimmering Slate
Cover Girl Lash Blast Fusion in Very Black

Lips
NYX Lipliner in Deep Purple
NYX Jumbo Lip Pencil in Vixen
NYX Lipstick in Penelope

SPELLS
Face
Prime your face with a primer, then apply foundation all over the face.

Cheeks
Contour with bronzer, highlight with highlighter and apply a pink / golden blush to the apples of your cheeks.

Using a black eyeliner, creatively draw veins where ever you see fit! Don’t be scared to make mistakes, it’s just makeup and can easily be removed and redone~

Eyes
Shape brows with the black shadow, give it a sharp / harsh edge.

Prime your lids and apply an almost black shadow into your crease and blend out. Line upper lashline with a black liquid liner, wing out for a cat eye effect. Apply a smudge proof pencil eyeliner in black onto your waterline.

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

Lips
Line your lips with a dark berry lipliner, then apply a dark berry lipstick to your lips, use a black lipstick to the center of your lips for a more gothic look.

Happy Halloween~

My candy and 70-80s rock star inspired look~ Been making good use of my glitter collection lately Some things I wish I had done better was stronger pigmentation and done a better job of drawing that star on my face, I used a stencil and it still looks rather dull I also found using a spritz of water or MAC Fix+ to be much better glitter adhesive, as opposed to using clear lip gloss as it feels lighter and allows my skin to breathe more. Enjoy!

The hair price I’m using was provided by Headline Hairpieces from the Melbourne Beauty Bloggers Event! I think I need to get some blue ones eventually, it would make a killer look

Steps to reproduce:

Face
As always, prime your face with MAC Prep + Prime. Apply MAC Mineralise Satinfinish SPF15 Foundation in NC20 all over the face, conceal with Bobbi Brown Creamy Concealer in Beige and set with NARS Loose Powder in Flesh.

Cheeks
Standard cheeks with NARS Bronzer in Laguna to contour, NARS Powder Blush in Orgasm for the apples and NARS Highlighter in Albatross to highlight.

Eyes
Prime lids and both lash lines with NARS Smudge Proof Eyeshadow base. From the Coastal Scents 88 Ultra Shimmer Palette, apply a light pink all over the lid, inner corner of your eye and brow bone, and a hot pink into and above the crease and under your lower lash line. On the right side of your face, extend the hot pink all the way to your temple, shape till desired and blend! Take NYX Ultra Pearl Mania in True Purple Pearl to your crease. Next place a stencil of a star (or any shape you want) to your cheek bone and colour one side with the hot pink, and another with the purple pigment.

Use MAC Powerpoint Eye Pencil in Engraved to line your lash and water line. Fill and shape your brows with a medium to dark brown colour from the 88 palette. Next, hold your bottle of MAC Fix+ opposite your right temple about 20-30cms away and spray all over your eye makeup. Quickly (before the Fix+ dries) dab Coastal Scent Glitter Powder in Pinky, near the outer corner of your eye and out towards your temple. Do a second spray with your Fix+ and apply NYX Glitter Mania in Crystal over the pink glitter.

Curl your lashes, apply two coats of L’Oreal Extra Volume Collagene in Black and glue on your false lashes.

Lips
For the lips apply MAC Pro Longwear Lipcreme in Goes and Goes, then apply MAC Dazzle Lipstick in Troublemaker on your “inner” lips for added dimension.

Recently there appears to be a new trend in mascara land, called the 3 Dial Mascaras.

Essentially how they work is you can reduce or expand the size of the barrel that the mascara wand is pulled through. Reducing the size will wipe off more of the product, where as increasing the diameter of the barrel will wipe off less of the product. The idea is the more product on the wand, the more volumising your mascara application will be, and the less you use, the more defined and “daytime friendly” your mascara will become.

It’s an interesting concept that hasn’t particularly wowed me since I tend to go full volume at all times since my lashes are naturally dark, just defining them has no impact. But I can see this being popular among people who either don’t wear very much makeup, or those with lighter hair so that the difference between a light and heavy mascara application is more apparent on them.

So far I’ve been able to try the Rimmel 3 Dial which was given to me at the Melbourne Beauty Bloggers Event (but you can purchase it from Priceline or any supermarket for $18.95AU) and Almay which I purchased from Priceline for $19.95AU, and each of them have 3 dials.

1 – lightest coverage
2 – medium coverage
3 – heaviest coverage

Out of the two, my vote goes to Almay just for the packaging and formula. Some notes that came to mind, note that the swatch images were taken with dials set to 3.

Rimmel

• No smudging for over 10 hours
• Dial 3 gives me clumpy lashes
• Dial 1 gives me some definition with a little length
• Other than the text printed on the bottle, no way to tell whether you are sitting on your selected dial or not.

Almay

• No smudging for over 10 hours
• Dial 3 gives me very clean relatively thick defined lashes
• Dial 1 clearly defines my lashes with a little length
• The bottle clicks each time you hit a particular dial so you know without looking at the bottle that you currently sitting on an actual dial.

MAC’s Haute and Naughty Lash had a similar concept, minus the dial feature. I think it’s really cool that the makeup industry is trying to find new ways to improve existing items such as mascara

Lately I seem to be “hitting the pan” for many of the products I use, and you know what that mean! Time to repurchase the lot =D But it got me thinking about products I still will try to use (because unless the product is absolutely terrible, I can’t bare to throw it away, wasteful!), but will not ever be repurchasing again. Let’s start with eyeshadows, snapped below.

All of these shadows have disappointed me, which isn’t too bad if you saw how many shadows I own. Generally tho, I know in the future to stay clear of these brands. The main problem with all them are their lack of pigmentation, wear and general “pop”. They make my eyes appear dull, not what an eyeshadow should be doing in my opinion! This doesn’t mean the brands themselves are terrible, maybe just their eyeshadows?

For example, Rimmel have great Eye Soft Kohl pencils that I do use very often, and Integrate also have great pencil and liquid eye liners. (Cute note, the Integrate neutral palette to the left has 2 liners, the white and brown which are actually quite good! I intend to at least finish them up)

I wish more bloggers would talk about products they won’t be repurchasing, imagine all the dud products I could avoid (not to mention money I could save!), if you have any let me know! I have a major rant of a review coming up on a product I plan to throw away whilst still virtually full!!

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!)

Thought I forgot about last week’s lookbook entry, right? Nah, I was just too caught up with other things. Anyways, last week I ran out of my usual daily contact lenses, which means having to fall back on my coloured lenses. I hadn’t used my gray ones before, so decided to give them a whirl and was happily surprised!

They gave me this ghostly look, I loved it! Going to be perfect for some future costumes I can see Having coloured contacts that actually work on me is rare (dark natural eye colours) so I was pretty stoked when I saw these on me Twas inspired to try a semi-vampireish / zombie look, I think I came out looking more tired than anything else, but I figured it wasn’t a terrible attempt

Products I used:

Face
Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk Foundation – 4 Light Sand
Giorgio Armani Micro-fil Loose Powder – 1 Porcelaine Rose
Bobbi Brown Creamy Concealer Kit – Beige

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

Lips
MAC Lipstick – Creme d Nude

Check out these contacts