Burgundy smokey eyes with golden shimmer using Sleek Oh So Special Palette

3 looks in 1 (using W7 In The Buff)

For the first look just apply your foundation, set with powder, contour and highlight as usual, fill-in your eyebrows (for this look I have used Anastasia Dipbrow pomade in Chocolate). I used light brown eyeshadow to define my crease and light shimmery white (with salmon undertone) to inner corner of my eyes and under the browbone as well. Then I applied some mascara (Million Lashes So Couture from L'Oréal). Afterwards some neutral light brown lipstick (24h Super Stay from Maybelline). To finish off I applied nice glowy pinky blush. You can see that creating this look is nothing extra difficult and pretty quick. This look is very daytime appropriate, for work, school, pretty much any occasion where light make up is required.


If you wish to turn this look into something more outstanding and bit more dramatic all you have to do is apply thin line of black eyeshadow along the lashline and extend it towards your temples a bit which gives you nice cat-eye liner. And there you go - look number 2 is achieved!
It is very simple and quick as well, just make sure to use correct brush for applying your black eyeshadow because if you use brush which is too soft or too stiff you might get nasty fallouts all over your face and then it might be very tricky to remove it. If your (black) eyeshadow tends to leave fall outs, you might have to apply it while holding tissue under your eye (or use shadow shields). Don't make the line too harsh neither too thick. If you find the line not natural or too harsh, just smudge it a bit. You might also substitute black eyeshadow with black gel or pen liner.

If you want to switch from day time to night time look you might be able to do it in few minutes. All you have to do is apply black eyeshadow into outer-V and bit into the inner corners as well, make sure it's blended very well. To make it more vibrant, apply shimmery bronze or brown shadow directly onto centre of your eyelid (the moving part of course). Blend it with black shadow so transmission is smooth and you have no harsh lines. After you are satisfied with intensity move along to lower lid. Apply black shadow all over the lower lid and blend it. You might apply the shimmer bronze of brown on top of it. Use black kohl pencil (or gel liner) onto waterline (top and bottom). I have also applied that shimmery salmon white shadow into inner corners once again for more bright look - you might skip this step of you want. Or you can use some light golden shadow instead. It would look nice too.
To create of these 3 looks I have used W7 In the Buff Palette which is perfect duplicate (much cheaper version) of Urban Decay Naked 2 palette I believe. You can use whatever palette (or single shadows) you wish, result will be same....
I hope you enjoyed this article and I'm looking forward to your comments!

Rainbow butterfly feat. Sleek Acid Palette

I was in quite creative mood today and I wanted to do some summer appropriate look including bright colours. Than it occurred to me that I have never actually used Acid palette for more than 2 years and I don't understand why - I totally love those neon shades. So here was a perfect opportunity to create something extraordinary with it - and this is a result!

For start I have applied white pencil all over my lid and smudged it with my finger. Then I started with bright yellow shade in my inner corner. Then followed orange, bright pink and fuchsia. I used sponge applicator (which I never use on regular basis) for pressing shadow into the crease. Those shadows are very matt so it takes quite an technique to put them into lid the way they appear as bright as they supposed to. After applying fuchsia shadow into outer-V I took soft fluffy precision brush and blended the edges with white shadow. Then I blended violet shade into the fuchsia so it was nice transmission between pink and purple. Then I applied darker blue onto the outer-V which made violet shadow look more purple.

Afterwards I applied white pencil all along my lower lid and smudged a bit with my finger. Than I applied yellow shade into inner corner and light green thereafter followed by grass green shade. That shade I connected to the blue one which I applied into outer-V earlier.
Now was the time for foundation which is few shades lighter than my skin because I really wanted the colours to stand up against my skin. I chose Vichy dermablend corrective stick in shade 12 Opal. I set everything with a loose powder (Vichy dermablend as well). I used white eyeshadow from Acid palette for highlighting (under my eyes, on bridge of the nose, forehead, above my lid and on chin).
I continued the eyes with creating very intense lines with gel eyeliner. I used white pencil onto arch of my brow to make it less visible. I made the butterfly wings with green shadows on top and light blue on bottom and I made the lines around with gel eyeliner as well. I set all lines with black eyeshadow afterwards to make them look matt and very intense.
I finished off the eyes with black mascara (Scandal eyes form Rimmel) and some false lashes.
I used some light contouring but no blush nor highlight.

For lips I decided to create more "doll" shape with pink pencil and fuchsia lipstick into inner part.
I am very happy how did this look turned out. Hope you like it.

Celeb-inspired: Twiggy

Party blue

We were trying out make up for wedding and my model said: "Don't make it too soft, I like bright colours and big eyes". So, I thought blue is the right colour to go for. It was beautiful, I love cobalt blue soooooo much. It fits perfectly with black hair and grey/blue/green eyes (also amazing with brown eyes by the way). However we have decided that this might be too harsh for a wedding. Might be looking nice and fresh and different but if you look through the photos ten years later you might think: "Wow, that was crazy". So we put idea of having this make up for wedding aside, but it is definitely something you might wear for night out. I made brows very dark and defined because it evens out the brightness of the eyes. If you create very outstanding bright eye look it always makes eyebrows disappear (or it takes attention away from them). Therefore it is necessary to enhance the eyebrows (more than usually). I kept rest of the face matt, with medium dark contouring, very neutral blush and shiny light pink lips.

Metallic smokey eyes

My model Djena has very beautiful big eyes and gorgeous full brows so I decided to enhance both of them. I went for very intense dark smokey eyes with metallic bronze-brown eyeshadow in the middle of the lid (using Sleek The Original palette). I have used only 2 eyeshadows - dark chocolate brown (pretty much all over the eye) and bronze metallic one (in the middle of the lid). To make it even more intense I dabbed the metallic shadow into eyelid with my finger instead of using brush. This way I also didn't get any fall-outs (which happens a lot with metallic shadows). I applied same eyeshadow onto lower lid and medium thick black gel liner (also into waterline). Lots and lots of mascara is very important for this look as well.

testing L'Oréal STUDIO SECRETS Magic Perfecting Base

I was searching for some base which would fill in imperfections in my skin - enlarged pores and acne scars. I know that this might be quite challenging because my acne scars are deep under the skin surface and kind of impossible to cover them perfectly but I am not expecting any miracles. Just searching for product which will make a difference.

Then I found this L'Oréal STUDIO SECRETS Magic Perfecting Base product which promised "perfect skin texture" and it is supposed to "minimize the look of pores and fine lines". Well, let's see how well it works.

The product itself is kind of very thick paste, it blends nice but I have feeling that it doesn't quite gets into the skin that well. It just keeps sticking at the surface.
First I have applied thin layer all over the face (while I was doing make-up on someone else). It was very nice and smooth but after I have applied foundation stick on top of it, IT TOTALLY CREASED!
It formed kind of tiny chunks so I had to remove it completely. I don't know where I went wrong, I didn't use much of this primer and I have never experienced that kind of reaction with foundation I was using...

Another time I used it, I did not apply any foundation on top but only translucent powder. And result was quite nice - it did not smoothen my skin very significantly but it made bit of a difference in texture and my pores seemed to be less "deep".

In the pictures below you will see my face first without any product on and on the second photo you will see the result after dabbing this primer into skin and using Maybelline Super Stay concealer afterwards. I have chosen this concealer because it has dry formula so it is working very well with rich base.

Skin without any product

skin after using Magic Perfecting Base and concealer on top of it

CONCLUSION: Quite good but not that special. I would give it 2 out of 5 points.

Spring lilacs

 I had very tired and red eyes today as a result of staring at the computer screen most of the day. So I was deciding quite a long time what colours should I use to hide the redness. Usually my go to look would be just some simple 60's look (I'm totally  "pin-ed up" this season) using some warm browns for contouring. But with this amount of redness would warm brown only make it worse...so what is the best solution to hide red? Find something on red colour scale...and I figured already some time ago that lilac, lavender of any other shades of purple make redness disappear. Therefore I reached for my not-so-new Sleek Garden of Eden Palette. In some previous posts I have used the greens of this palette so today I have used the purples. Light shimmery lilac all over the lid, deep shimmery purple in outer lid, warm brown smudged with matt taupe in outer V. For lower lid I have first applied lilac/lavender eye pencil all over my waterline and lash line, then I applied the shimmery deep purple from Sleek palette into outer 1/3rd and shimmery lilac to the rest of the lower lid. After while the lavender pencil from waterline moved to lash area so I applied amazing new product from Catrice Made to Stay Inside Eye Highlighter pen. Works just great. It is kind of nude waterproof pencil which perfectly highlights the waterline and also doesn't move. It brightens the eyes instantly. I am using this product all the time I put on make up. Rest of the face make up is same old same old routine, brows as well. I still don't know what should I think about Anastasia Beverly Hills Dipbrow Pomade...product itself is great, I just find it looking way too harsh - even when I use shade Chocolate (which is actually 2 shades lighter than my black hair). Maybe I will give it few more tries to figure out how to use it the most flattering way. For the lips I went also for lilacs, I am really not a fan of purple lips but I guess that's okay with this look.

Vintage (Dita von Teese inspired)

Dita von Teese

 I absolutely love this make up look. This season (spring/summer 2014) I am wearing toned down version of this make up almost all the time. I am just crazy about black eyeliner and bright red lips. With dark brows, black hair and pale skin it looks just amazing. I did not tried to re-create Dita von Teese look because I really don't care for copying celebrities but this is just something similar to her style (and what I personally think it fits me the best).

Sleek Oh So Special Palette

Fire eyes

Forest Fairy:-)

Spring 60s with pink lips