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LMFF Runway 07 Inspired Makeup: Scarlet Love

The look that Rae Morris created for Frankie Magazine sponsored runway 07 (Karen Walker, Kuwaii, Limedrop, Gormon, and more) combined an intense powdery white exaggerated inner corner eye look with a bright fuschia lip.

I thought it would be a fun look to try for a FOTD.

I tried staying true to the original products that Rae Morris used as much as possible, so that you get an idea of how the ‘runway’ colours look under natural day lighting. I find that the colours look VERY different to the runway/backstage images- especially the lip colour, which looks far pinker in real life than it does on the runway photos.

Fuschia Lips, white eyeshadow Runway Inspired Makeup FOTD

Some of the products that I felt didn’t work well on me I omitted (the L’Oreal Nude Magique BB cream makes me look like I have jaundice).

In retrospect, I think I should have done a much bolder brow to go with the soft, undefined quality of the eye makeup- just like what Rae Morris did on her 07 runway models. Without a bold brow look to frame the eyes with these type of looks, things just seem a little bit out of balance.

FOTD makeup breakdown:

Base:

- NARS Sheer Glow in Fiji

- MAC Studiosculpt concealor

Eyes:

- L’Oreal Colour Riche Le Kohl in Immaculate Snow drawn on the ‘inner V’ – inner 1/2 top lashline, inner 1/3rd bottom lashline, connected at the inner corner. I blended this with a small pencil brush after applying straight from the pencil.

- L’Oreal Glam Bronze ‘La Terra’ blended in the crease

- MAC Omega eyeshadow to blend edges above crease

- Physician’s Formula shimmer strips eyeliner in black from Brown Eyes Set to line upper lashline

Brows:

- L’Oreal Color Riche Le Sourcil Eyebrow Pencil in Deep Brown

Cheeks:

- L’Oreal Nude Magique BB Blush on apples.

- L’Oreal Glam Bronze La Terra to contour cheekbones

Lips:

- Colour Riche Lipstick Intense Fuschia

If you want to see Rae Morris in action, here she is demonstrating the makeup application for this look on a model.

Posted by myfunnyvalentine on May 7th, 2013 in Drugstore, FOTD, Runway | 0 comments.

Tags: Bold Makeup FOTD, Runway Inspired

The Edit: Autumn/Winter 2013 Fashion Week Beauty Looks

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I had a great time seeing the makeup artistry on the runways this season, and I’ve put together some of my favourite looks from Style.com here. Hope you enjoy these as much as I did!

Chanel

For the A/W 2013 runway, Peter Philips wanted makeup that would be beautiful close up and equally as eye catching from a distance. The silver sequins/jumbo glitter, which were placed from the inner corner of the eyes and extended outwards is makeup art perfection, and I can imagine the extra sequins placed on the model’s lashes would have caught the lights beautifully on the runway as they moved their eyes.

Thakoon

Dianne Kendal created an amazing dimensional smoky eye that brings to mind stars in the night sky. She layered 3 different types of glitter on top of NARS Outremer and the yet to be released NARS Solomon Islands Eye Paint to achieve the dazzling effect. Ah-mazing.

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Posted by myfunnyvalentine on Apr 24th, 2013 in Runway, Style and Fashion | 0 comments.

L’Oreal Color Riche Lipstick: Review and Swatches

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L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival took place a couple of weeks ago, and I fortunately enough to get a preview of the products that makeup artist extraordinaire Rae Morris created for the runway shows. I won’t have the time to cover all the makeup that I had received- I am only going to concentrate on the products that really stood out for me.

These Color Riche lipsticks were used on the runways (you can find images of the runway look on the L’Oreal Paris Ausralia facebook page) and having never tried these before, I was quite impressed with the product texture and performance . My favourites are Intense Fuschia, Plum Passion, and Nude.

Color Riche lipsticks pictured above (from left to right):

Sensual Rose, Velvet Rose, Nude, Intense Fuschia, Plum Passion, Rose Tendre

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Posted by myfunnyvalentine on Apr 6th, 2013 in Drugstore, Lipstick, Reviews, Runway, Swatches | 0 comments.

Tags: L'oreal Paris

Marni, Modigliani, and Me: A Runway Inspired FOTD

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I’m hardly what you would call a high fashion type of a girl in general, but I do love looking to the runways for makeup art inspiration each year- particularly Autumn/Winter RTW.

One of the runway looks that has stuck in my head over the years (possibly due to the simplicity and the resemblance to Modigliani paintings, which I adore) is the looks that Tom Pecheaux created for Marni A/W RTW 2010 back when he was working for MAC Cosmetics. He used MAC Flourishing matte eyeshadow as a soft wash all over the lid right up to the brows, and MAC Spice lip pencil in the centre of the lips.

I used his idea of having MAC Flourishing eyeshadow all the way up to the brows, and switched up the lipstick to something a little bit vampier.

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Posted by myfunnyvalentine on Jan 18th, 2013 in FOTD, Lipstick, MAC, Runway | 0 comments.

Tags: Makeup Forever, Runway Inspired, Vampy

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.