Happily posting a makeup tutorial after forever... Oops.
Smoky looks aren't normally my thing, but I thought I would try it out today anyway.
Having such a flat eye shape, I think it's particularly a struggle to make neutral, dark, smoky eyeshadow look flattering on me, especially with non matte colors. Surprisingly, I'm pretty happy with the results, though it was definitely something that had to grow on me. I hardly ever like neutral makeup on myself, and I generally have a hard time keeping myself from continuing to add and just leave things looking simple.
To balance out all the shimmer that I used, I kept my lid light and matte, which stops those beautiful, potentially devastatingly shiny eyeshadows from taking away as much dimension as it would otherwise. The shape that I decided to go with also allows me to use a lot of black without it being overwhelming, or consuming the look, but it still has the effect that I wanted from it. If there was one thing I could add to this in post, it would be just a quick dab of silver glitter in the outer corner, of course.
So, I may be at a point where I feel like doing my makeup again, as may be apparent from two posts in a relatively short time frame. Especially considering my over a year of blank space. *cough* But anyway! This look was inspired...
Wait for it...
By Donkey Kong!
I was watching Dan and Phil Games play the too-long-a-title Wii U game, and the Mountain Top Tussle boss was an owl, hoo's color palette was freakin' awesome. All the pictures I found on Google didn't quite give me the same feeling as what I felt when I was watching Dan and Phil play, so I'm not going to post a picture because it doesn't accurately show my inspiration. The second or third stage of the battle also had this beautiful background with hot pink and purple that I might use as inspiration one day. I love it when people use color schemes that excite me emotionally. I only wish that I added more glitter right before taking pictures, but at least it's still there in the video. It makes it feel more nocturnal.
Also, I'm still really shit at false lashes... #fail
So, I haven't really been blogging, or vlogging, because of my skin, which I'll make a video about soon, hopefully. I've maybe done my makeup a handful of times since the last video I posted. But! ...My skin is a lot better, though the remains of those horrible times are pretty apparent in these pictures, so I think, maybe, I'll start posting more. Things haven't been going too swell recently, which is irrelevant, but what is relevant, is that out of the not-so-swell things, came the feeling to combine the two things that always put me in a good mood: Makeup and my Disney playlist.
So, of course, being on youtube all the time, I see ads a lot. Though, I suppose everyone sees a lot of ads, regardless... But! I saw this ad, and I totally loved the makeup, so I decided to recreate it as best as I could... slight alterations... you know. It kinda looks alienish, or techo-fabulous on me, but I tried. I almost didn't post it, because I filmed basically the whole thing in the wrong white balance (read: OMGIWANTEDTOSHOOTMYSELFINTHEFACEWTF), and I wasn't sure if I even liked the way it turned out on camera, but everything turned out okay, and I stopped being such a wet uh... towel? Is that the saying? Well, whatever they say, that's what I meant.
But yeah, this look was really liner heavy, and um... I feel like I haven't dealt with liquid liner in a long time... But then again, I don't ever really do my makeup at all, outside of making these videos. But liquid liner is the hardest part! But regardless, I did a damn good job on the non-tutorial eye! I surprised my damn self when I was taking out my blemishy face for the pictures. The tutorial eye is another story. We don't talk about them...
Watch, in five years, I'm gonna look back and be like "what in the hells was I thinking..."
Blurry, and slightly weird in color, but it's a cool thumbnail.
Products Used:
MAC Painterly paint pot
Inglot matte 387 eyeshadow (matte medium gray) + MAC 226
NYX Jumbo Eyeshadow Pencil in Milk (matte white)
MAC Steamy eyeshadow (frosted green) + MAC 239
Smashbox Platinum eyeshadow (frosted silver) + MAC 217
Inglot 391 eyeshadow (matte black) + MAC 266
MAC Fascinating eye kohl (matte white)
Inglot matte 318 (matte white) + Crown 160 1/4
Inglot 391 eyeshadow § + MAC 210
L'Oreal Lineur Intense in Carbon Black
MAC Saddle eyeshadow (matte warm brown) + MAC 109
Stila Grapefruit lipglaze
Non-boring Swatches:
IN THE LAND OF THE FORGOTTEN... DAMN IT
I felt like my whole body was shaking with tension during the entire liner part. I included all of the liner parts that were in frame, and I just cut out the re-dipping of the eyeliner parts. I wasn't sure if I wanted to keep them, but I thought it was funny because even as I was editing me doing the liner, I was getting so stressed out and anxious again, and it was so ridiculously suspenseful. But then I fast forwarded it, and it wasn't that bad. And I just remembered I have this weird thing with stripes, and not liking them... And this look is totally stripey. The closer pictures don't bother me, but the farther back ones are making my skin crawl.... Yeah....
And I wanted to point out that the layering of steamy and platinum was BEAUTIFUL! It gave such depth and complexity, and I loved it. That is all.
I think I've finally had enough, I think I maybe think too much,
xxFaia
P.S. It's late, and I caught several typos when writing this, so if shit doesn't make sense, that's why.
This was a 'sit down and let it come out' tutorial, so there wasn't really any inspiration for it. It's kind of boring, in my opinion, but at the same time, I think it's pretty. I feel like doing more neutral tutorials is so... awkward, because I could do something more colorful and fun instead. But I know everyone doesn't necessarily like bright and colorful, or are afraid of color, so I'm sure it might be helpful to someone out there. Even writing this now, I feel weird that I'm going to post a video on such a simple look. But anyway, after I was done with the tutorial, I could see the almost swan shape of the eyeshadow, and now every time I look at it, it's all I see. I like it, because when I typically think of swans, I think beautiful, elegant, pure, but then the colors I chose are kind of muddy, and dirty in comparison. I like that contradiction, and I think it's beautiful in itself. Like something that was once beautiful and free, drug through the mud, ripped from their reality, thrown into cold, unfeeling night. Chained to the ground forever... (see what I did there?)
Er, anyway...
But yeah, going along with that, it kinda worked out that the "body" is made of the murkier colors, and the neck and chest are more white, like it's retained its dignity, heart, and mind, holding its head up.
This is getting really sappy. I ain't no novelist, that's for sure.
For today's tutorial, I wanted to create a contrast of warmth and cool. Though, I guess it would be like sending an army to fight like, Cloud Strife or something, because I just wanted one thing on my face to be cool, which would have been the crease definition. However, with me not thinking ahead and just choosing a random purple obviously was not the smartest thing to do, so my crease didn't end up being cool at all. But I still liked the look, so I decided to just change the theme up a little bit, and let it be more summery. So I added some smokey-ness around my lashes and bam. I've got my bonfire night tutorial! I still want to do something with that temperature contrast in mind, but now I have to change up the color scheme, since obviously I don't want to make a tutorial with just one color slightly different than the original. Even though it could possibly make the world of a difference... I'll think of something else. And I totally went overboard with Fix+ on my face for this video, so my foundation was really dewy, which translated kinda funky on camera. Of course...
Todays' tutorial is a recreation of this look from the display ad for Maybelline's ExpertWear eyeshadows, which I saw when I was at CVS yesterday. I was looking for the picture on the internet so I could reference it on here, and I found it in the eyeshadow trios section, even though on the ad I saw, there's a picture of a quad underneath it... so that's kinda weird. And it totally colors look different too. On the website, they look more muted, but on the display, they were definitely bolder and deeper. But anyhow, I thought it was super pretty, and there was nothing else that I really wanted to do today, so this is what happened. I didn't realize until I was in the middle of the tutorial eye that it totally looked like a smokey rainbow look... kind of... if you squint... I'm not really sure if other people would think so, but it's blaringly obvious to me, now that I've noticed it. Mmmhm girl. Rainbows. All day, errday!
