As many of you know, I am a working make-up artist, so I thought I would share some of my favourite looks with you from this past week. Weekends are the busiest period for me, as Liverpool girls like to get their make up done quite regularly and it's coming up to wedding season too!
The first was a night out make up - a beautiful warm brown/bronze smokey eye and a gorgeous dark lip. Very vampy and wintry. I know that there are some gorgeous summer looks coming out but since it's still very much freezing outside, I thought we would embrace the darkness that winter brings with it! Here is the look:
To create this look, I used loads of strobe cream to get that beautiful eery, wintry glow to the skin and then on top of this, I perfected the skin with Chanel Vitalumiere Aqua. I then added Estee Lauder Maximum coverage as a concealer, and sculpted the skin with MAC sculpting cream in Copper Beech. I then warmed the cheek slightly with some MAC Mineralize blush in Warm Soul, but only very slightly. As the look was very strong in 3 areas (eyes, brows, lips), I wanted to keep the cheeks free of any strong colour.
For the eyes, I used MAC Dipdown Fluidline as a base, and then pressed Antiqued eyeshadow over the top, buffing out with texture to get that gorgeous, blown out winged effect. (All by MAC) I then used Folie to give the crease some depth and Blanc Type as a brow highlight. I then lined the eyes with Avon Supershock Gel Liner in black. (I love the new colours in these by the way and will be blogging about them soon! I then added lashings of MAC False Lashes Mascara and some Eldora lashes in H126.
For the lip, I used MAC Nightmoth pencil to even out the shape and create a base colour, by colouring the entire lip with the pencil. On top of this, I put some MAC Media lipstick and for extra depth and staying power, we added some texture by pressing MAC Sketch eyeshadow over the top.
Amy has really strong brows anyway so I just brushed them upwards with some Illamasqua brow gel.
The second look is the complete opposite to this one!
I am always so inspired by the red carpet, and as I was looking back on some make up images I saw a gorgeous lilac-grey tone being used on Hayden Panetiere (or whatever her name is), and decided to use it on a model that I had to make up for a wedding fayre. The look was teamed with a modern 1920s flapper hairstyle and would be perfect for any glamorous occasion.
On this look, I used MAC studio Sculpt in NC35 on the skin, perfecting it with some select moisturecover concealer in NW20 under the eyes. I then powdered the skin with MAC mineralize skinfinish natural, along the centre, and added some Posey creme blush and some Creme Colour base in Hush along the top of the cheekbones. I added a slight contour using Matte Bronze.
For the eyes, I used Painterly Paint Pot as a base, and then buffed some Satin Taupe eyeshadow over the top. I then blended this out with a little bit of Bamboo eyeshadow, which I think is discontinued now, but something similar would be Samoa Silk. I used blanc type on the brow bone again, and accentuated the brows with some lingering pencil, as well as some Illamasqua brow gel. I then lined the eyes with some graph black, buffed out with carbon, and on the water line added a flesh coloured pencil. I added some Eldora H153 lashes.
On the lips was Subculture pencil and some Modesty lipstick. All the products that I haven't mentioned a brand to, are MAC.
I hope you enjoyed learning what I used. I usually review things, so let me know what you think of this style of blogging.
Lisa x
