'diva eyes'

finally! a make-up-only post - i.e. the point of the blog lol.

i have a book called 'Beautiful Eyes' by Rae Morris.  it has twenty-four different eye looks that i will try to work my way through.  today for work, i did 'diva eyes'.

the face photos are taken after a late night of being locked out of my house and a full day at work, so i hope you can excuse the heinous wrinkles under my eyes!

i think this will be my new 'go-to' format for eyeshadow - do the same thing with any combination of colours and it will look amazing - i have used a pinky-coppery-neutral palette, but you could easily use blues, greens, greys, etc.  the format is: three similar toned shadows in varying shades - first one all over, second one up onto the brow bone, third one on the lid.  but make sure they're all blended nicely (fluffy eyeshadow brush), not just three lines!

this eye is all MAC (apart from mascara because MAC's irritates my eyes), so i'll just say the colours in my descriptions.

- first, i put a wash of Naked Lunch (pale pinky gold) over the lid, brow bone and up under the brow - this is your base.

- then, over the lid and just over the brow bone, with a flat brush, Expensive Pink (darker goldy pink).

- over that, i put Coppering (the name explains the colour.  it's gorgeous.) just on the lid - not as high as the Expensive Pink.  these colours blend perfectly, but you could use a fluffy brush to smooth it out.

- i lined the lower rim of my eye and the outer third of my upper lid with Eye Kohl in Smolder.

- using an angle brush, i put Beauty Marked shadow under my lower lash line on the outer third to deepen the liner.

- using my bullet brush, i put Beauty Marked on the outside corner of my eyelid in a smoky triangle.

- lastly, of course, lots of Diorshow Blackout mascara on upper and lower lashes :)

cheeks just have MAC Bronzer in golden and a little bit of Becca loose shadow in Nymph along the top of the cheekbone.  lips are lined with MAC Cremestick Liner in Summerfruit (orange-y neutral colour), then old Revlon Living Lipstick in Night Shimmer Pink and Napoleon Decade Limited Edition Satin Lips in Christiana.

as i said in a previous post, braids are my staple - these are today's :)

still haven't used my new paintpot in Painterly... psyching myself up... not sure if my nails will fit in the pot though lol speaking of which, at the moment, i have Chanel Blue Satin (black-blue) on my left hand and Chanel Vendetta (black-purple) on my right hand.