Tuesday 24 December 2013

Mermaid/fantasy look

Yesterday I had a lot of fun creating a makeup look on one of my good friends for my portfolio (I wanna be a makeup artist) and this is what I ended up with a sort of mermaid/ fantasy look. So here's afew pictures showing you the different stages of the process, Enjoy...



So this was the sort of first stage of the process, by the time this was taken I had applied mac's studio fix foundation to all of the face and blended it in using my real techniques stippling brush. I then took the body shops concealer stick and applied it to any spot congested areas and all around the eyes to highlight them, then taking soap and glorys translucent  powder I applied that all over the face to set it. Moving on to the eyes I used NYX' jumbo pencil in milk as an eyeshadow base applying all over the lid and slightly under the eyes for a more flawless look ad blended it out, I then took a white eyeshadow over the top of that to make the white even stronger. After that I applied a black eye shadow into the crease and created a triangle shape to really lengthen the eyes and draw them out. After this I went in with barrym' dazzle dust in purple and dabbed it all over the lid for a pop of colour which looked lovely, it did drop down off my brush as you can see in the photo however I left it there as I blended it in later to make her look more... Mermaidy if you like! I also went over the eyebrows with a brow shadow to make them more diffined. 

This was the second stage I went back in on the eyes and made them more pointed on the edges and making them slightly darker for a more dramatic effect. I then started to contour her face with a blue eyeshadow especially where I was going to put the clusters of sparkles across her face, then I went over it in purple to darken the hollows of the cheeks and the forehead and again where the clusters of sparkles were going. I then started to apply the sequins and sparkles to the left side of the face using duo eyelash glue and gently pressing them on with my finger.



Here is a closer picture of this stage :) 



In this photo you can see I have applied a lot more sequins to give that sort of scaley look, I have also used the body shops dark purple lipstick all over the lips (same one as in my 'hooked on purple' blog) to make her lips really pop and the colour goes perfectly with the sparkles. Also I have applied some very long eyelashes but only on one eye to show you the dramatic difference between the eyes with and without. 

And this is the finished look! I applied the other lash and made afew touch ups! I also sprayed blue in the ends of her hair to finish the look.
Here's afew more photos...






Hope you've enjoyed this and you all have a wonderful Christmas :)

Hannah xoxo

Thursday 28 November 2013

Hooked on purple




 
 
So this week I brought myself a nice purple lipstick from the body shop and I must say... I absolutely love it. I don't normally wear dark colours on my lips but I saw this deep purple colour and just fell in love (think my heart melted a little) and I cant rave about it enough. the colour is deep as I have already said but its so easy to apply and if you were going for that high fashion/glamorous look then this is perfect for you as it just looks stunning on the lips. This little baby only cost me £10 which at first I wasn't sure on as I hadn't used there lipsticks before and wasn't sure on the quality but after using it I must say I was so impressed that I would be happy to pay that again and again and will definitely be back there for more very soon!

This is part of the 'colour crush' range in the body shop in the colour '240' if you were wondering :)

Hannah xoxo

Saturday 16 November 2013

Nail designs!

Here is just acouple nail art designs I came up with using my fav polishes O.P.I and orly! Enjoy...

Hannah xoxo

Friday 15 November 2013

Just can't help myself...

Today I was walking round town and unfortunately I had money on me. So of course I ended up in all the make up shops (oh no) and this is what I ended up with! Can't wait to use the double wear Estée Lauder foundation, I had a sample of it and loved it so I ended up buying it, but on the bright side it was 10% off in debenhams. The stay matte powder was a repurchase as I simply ran out and all the rest is just little bits I thought I would try :) really need to start saving my money...

Hannah xoxo

Thursday 7 November 2013

A New Purchase!


I was having a little wonder around the shops today and decided to have a look in Superdrug. I have previously been looking for some really pigmented eye shadows and suddenly stumbled across these beauties! Not only are they very highly pigmented but they were only a pound each! and they were also in a 3 for 2 deal so I ended up with 6...

I am in love with these colours and cant wait to use them all! Very pleased with todays purchase :)


Hannah xoxo