One of my students took this picture of me last week (thanks W!), and I thought I'd show you that even on workdays when you feel like you have no time to do any makeup in the morning... you can still do a great face in 5 minutes.
A while ago I was asked to redo an old MAC look for binasheikh1974. The look she requested was this old MAC Facechart The look I did in August 2008 was this one (click on picture for the old post):
I redid the look on Nouk, and I created this eye on her:
Here is Challenge 18, it's going to be a very short post because I'm sort of in a hurry all of a sudden, so I hope you don't mind.
Kate's eyes looked like this:
I did the look over the makeup I had on today (which was only perfecting the skin, my eyes were actually nude except for Smashbox - Photo Op and Urban Decay Primer Potion).
As a colourbase I used Bourjois - Liquid Eyeshadow Shimmering Shine in the colour 37 blanc chrome, I used a little extra on my browbone and I placed this with the applicator in the shadow and blended with my finger. Kate doesn't have extra highlighter on her inner eyecorners, so I didn't do that on mine either. On my waterline I used Smashbox - Jetset in Midnight Black, placing this with the Smashbox Arched Liner brush no. 21. Go into the inner corner with this!! I use JetSet because this won't run or budge after it's dried. The shimmery grey on Kate's eyes is right to the crease but not over it, she does have a little wing at the ends though. I did this with the shimmery grey from the Smashbox trio - Pretty Eyes and I used their no. 15 Definer brush. I also placed a little grey under the eyes (with the same brush). I lined my eyes (top and bottom lashlines) with a Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-on Eye Pencil in Zero, creating a soft flick at the outer corners and making the line thin at the inner corners. I curled my lashes (with the Shu Uemura lashcurler) and I have my lashes 2 coats of Diorshow Iconic in black.
This look took me about 7 minutes and this is the final eye:
This is a look I was challenged to do my Eu a long time ago, I did it in January only I wasn't able to upload any pictures for a while and then forgot all about it, so now I don't remember exactly what I did. I do have a great solution for this though, I found a video on YouTube by Sam Chapman who did this look using almost exactly the same products I did. I did use a golden colour under my brows and in the original example there is a green just above the blue. I chose not to do that because that made it look very odd on my eye (I did one and then deceided not to do it on the other).
I'd been doing some research on the picture Eu challenged me with. I found out that the model is Anna Selezneva. The picture was taken backstage at the Gucci fashionshow.
The magazine is New York Look bi-annual Magazine! The Spring 2009 Fashion issue came out in November 2008. This magazine really goes in-depth into the fashion and beauty in this issue bringing pages filled with back stage info and pictures, fresh faces, trends, what editors said, wore and how they behavied.
I'm sad to say I haven't been able to get my hands on the magazine or flip though it. No scans online either, butttt I did find these backstage pictures of Anna at the Gucci Fashion Show:
And a runway picture:
If you compare these pictures to the cover: you see that there's been some manipulation in the intensity of the colours. The blues are darker and more intense and the highlight colour under the brow seems different too.
That's the research part of the look _______________________________________________________________________________________
So here is the final eye, I don't have time right now to tell you what I used and how I achieved it, but I did want to show you as soon as I could what I did.
I'll be back to posting and blogging new looks very soon, after the whole unable to upload pictures thing, some family stuff happened that's very sad and that's been taking up most of my time. I won't go into it any more, I think you guys know me well enough by now to know that family always comes first to me.
I do really miss you though!!
Big :hug:
________________________________________________________________________________________ A great matching nailpolish to go with this look is Curacoa by Sephora.
(Rachel McAdams at the Hollywood Film Festival Gala in 2009).
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