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Golden Eyes and Coral Lips: A Lipstick Bandits FOTD

Hi everyone

For today’s installment of Lipstick Bandits goodness- we bring you coral lips from our bandit bloggers around the world. As I was planning the post, I realised that I hardly touched any of my coral lippies throughout the Spring and Summer just gone, so it was a nice change bringing my MAC See Sheer out for a night on the town.

MAC See Sheer is a lustre finish lipstick. It is a peachy coral colour with medium to full pigmentation and a subtle glossy sheen- as with most MAC lustre finish lippies, See Sheer has a comfortable balmy feel on the lips and is non drying.

For a second I thought about making a pun in the title involving ‘Golden Eyes’ and ‘See Sheer’. I couldn’t think of anything that wasn’t totally lame so I will have to find another blog title to pun. One day!

You may have noticed that the lighting looks different in these images. I’m experimenting with artificial lighting to extend my useful blog photography hours to past daylight- the days are getting shorter and shorter here in Australia and most days it is dark when I get up in the morning, and getting dark by the time I get home from work. These pictures were taken in my tiny bathroom with some hand held reflectors to help with the shadows. I’m struggling to get the level of clarity that I get with daylight even with manual focus on the DSLR but I suppose it’s better than not taking the pictures at all.

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Posted by myfunnyvalentine on Apr 15th, 2013 in FOTD, Illamasqua, Inglot, Lipstick, Lipstick Bandits, MAC | 0 comments.

Tags: Gold/Bronze/Yellow Eye Makeup, Lipstick Bandits

Illamasqua I’MPERFECT speckled liner aka Jackson Pollock FOTD

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On Sunday morning I was having a play with the ‘speckled’ eyeliner look inspired by Illamasqua’s imagery with their new I’mperfect collection.

The initial plan was to keep it subtle and delicate, but I got a little bit over excited and went all Jackson Pollock on my face. P walked in, and asked me what was wrong with my eyes- I said I was doing ‘makeup art’ – he looked doubtful and asked whether I was going to wear it out to brunch.

Oh well.

FOTD makeup breakdown:

Eyes:

- Illamasqua Scribe Precision Ink eyeliner - pure white

- Lord and Berry Inkglam liquid liner- glossy black

- Majorca Majolica mascara

Cheeks:

- MAC Bronzing powder in Bronze to contour cheekbones

- Illamasqua Ambition Blush from Ambition/Katie Duo

Lips

-Illamasqua Immodest Lipstick from the I’mperfect collection

Posted by myfunnyvalentine on Mar 31st, 2013 in Drugstore, Ellis Faas, FOTD, Illamasqua, Inglot | 0 comments.

Tags: Bold Makeup FOTD

Giorgio Armani S/S 2013 runway inspired FOTD

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Giorgio Armani S/S 2013 runway inspired silvery blue makeup

Hello everyone!

One of the looks from the Spring/Summer Fashion week runways I really loved was the one created for the Giorgio Armani show in Milan. For the show, the makeup artist created a graphic silvery blue eye to go with a minimalist face, using the new Maestro Eyes to Kill Eyeshadow Quad from the new collection.

I don’t own the Armani Maestro Eyes To Kill quad, so I improvised with what I had in my stash, which were some items from MAC, Illamasqua, Urban Decay, and NARS – (AKA ‘The Usual Suspects’).

My version turned out a little softer, and less graphic, than the original makeup look.

Giorgio Armani S/S 2013 runway

Giorgio Armani S/S 2013 runway inspired silvery blue eye makeup

Giorgio Armani S/S 2013 runway inspired silvery blue makeup

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Posted by myfunnyvalentine on Nov 28th, 2012 in FOTD, Inglot, MAC, Runway | 0 comments.

Tags: Runway Inspired

Vampy lips with Tom Ford Bruised Plum: a Lipstick Bandit post.

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Vampy lips with Tom Ford Bruised Plum FOTD

The Lipstick Bandits strike again! And the brief for our international group of bandit beauty bloggers this month was to create a ‘vampy lip’ look for Fall.

I adore vampy lip colours, and Tom Ford Private Blend Lip Color in ‘Bruised Plum’ is one of my favourites. The colour is rich and deep; and the texture is perfection. I reviewed and swatched it some time ago here .

Vampy lips with Tom Ford Bruised Plum FOTD

FOTD makeup breakdown

Eyes:

- Two Faced Shadow Insurance to prime

- Medium grey taupe Inglot Matte 376 blended all over mobile lid to crease and smudged below bottom lashline.

- Inglot light dove grey ( Inglot matte 358 )blended into the crease. It is swatched here.

- Bobbi Brown Gel Liner in Black Ink to line upper and lower lashline and waterlines, extended out in a cat’s eye flick.

Cheeks:

Illamasqua Naked Rose powder blush (review and swatches here) on apples of cheeks.

Lips:

Tom Ford Private Blend Lip Color in Bruised Plum (review and swatches here)

FOTD products: Illamasqua Naked Rose blush, Tom Ford lipstick Bruised Plum, Inglot eyeshadows

Check out the other Lipstick Bandit takes on November Vamps!

I can’t wait to see the other looks- the Lipstick Bandits are posting simultaneously so everything is shrouded in mystery right up until the last moment. This is my little bit of excitement for the month

Posted by myfunnyvalentine on Nov 19th, 2012 in FOTD, Inglot, Lipstick, Lipstick Bandits | 0 comments.

Tags: Red Lipstick, Tom Ford Private Blend Lip Color, Vampy

Spring Racing Carnival appropriate fuschia smokey eye FOTD

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A couple of weeks ago I got an email from a reader with a makeup look request- the reader, Anna, wanted me to recreate the look on the model in the image with a few tweaks to suit her complexion.

I love these requests because they get me out of my makeup comfort zone and my blogging comfort zone. What a fun look you’ve chosen Anna-great pick! It was good timing too, because I think this look would work well with a fascinator and a glass of bubbly at the Melbourne Cup Spring Racing Carnival next Tuesday.

Spring Racing Carnival appropriate fuschia smokey eye

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I have pale olive skin, black hair and green eyes. I want the green to really ‘pop’.)

( I especially really like how vivid and colorful the eye makeup is, but that it still manages to look ‘soft‘, pretty and blended in (no hard lines or edges).

And lastly, for the lips, my lips are naturally a darker rose or cranberry color. So I would prefer something a slightly darker (instead of the pinkish color the model has), while still maintaining a pretty ‘flushed’ look.

I love dramatic makeup (in general), but I prefer to use as little black as possible. I like to get creative & use lots of color without looking too ‘circus-y’! ( Vibrant but soft at the same time. ) If / when you have time and think you might be able to do a step-by-step, I would be immensely grateful.

Thank you for listening & keep up the lovely work!

Kind wishes,

Anna

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As you can tell, the image of the requested look has been edited with photoshop to achieve the high contrast, surreal, effect. I played around the FOTD shot above with photoshop to approximate the high contrast effect so that it gives you a rough idea of how the makeup that I’ve done changes with editing.

To be honest, I don’t think it turned out like the requested look- I’m missing some serious bottom lash action and bleached brows, but I quite like this fuschia smokey eye.

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Posted by myfunnyvalentine on Nov 1st, 2012 in Eye shadow, FOTD, Illamasqua, Inglot | 0 comments.

Tags: Smoky Eye