You always want what you can’t have, and what I’d love right now is a bit of sunshine and warmth. Winter in Australia (well Melbourne at least) means no snow, but a lot of icy cold winds and rain. Whilst I love wrapping myself in lots of layers, I’ll admit that I find it hard to really move around when I’m sporting about 5 layers of clothing.

So I decided to throw together a bit of a sunset look, using no liner on my upper lid gives my eyes a much softer look. Despite the weather, the Winter sun is beautiful. Especially through my bedroom window, at around 3-4pm the sun rays pierce through the clouds and bathe my room in a beautiful rich glow.

Products used:

Face
MAC Prep + Prime Skin Base Visage
MAC Mineralize Satinfinish SPF15 Foundation NC20
MAC Select Sheer / Loose NC15
MAC Studio Finish Concealer SPF30+ NC20

Cheeks
NARS Blush Orgasm
NARS Highlighter Albatross
NARS Bronzer Laguna

Eyes
Urban Decay Primer Potion
Lime Crime Magic Dust Siren
Lime Crime Magic Dust Cleopatra
Lime Crime Magic Dust Circus Girl
NYX Jumbo Eyeshadow Pencil Cherry
MAC Technakohl Liner Eye-Liner Kajal Graphblack
Covergirl Lash Blast Very Black

Lips
MAC Lipstick Creme D Nude
NYX Lipgloss Frosted Beige

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