Makeup Post: Red and Burgundy

Now, one of the basic rules of makeup is emphasize one feature or the other. Eyes or lips, never both at the same time.
However, I'm stubborn and adventurous, so I'm always willing to push the envelope.
Here I'm pairing a deep burgundy lip with dark red red eyeshadow.

I also did something very dramatic with my blush, its a pale pink colour, so I'm using it to highlight my cheekbones, rather than give my cheeks a rosy flush. i LOVE the way light is bouncing off my cheekbones!

Oh you see the nails? here's a closer look... Sally Hansen Lacquer Shine nail polish in "Glossy". It's a deliciously vampy wine shade with little gleams of red. Here it is with flash.

Without flash

With the bottle.

The native? i think its the perfect outfit to go with the makeup. There's nothing more dramatic than a woman in "Iro and buba" dressed to kill! Outfit post coming next!

Meanwhile, here's another peek at the cheekbones!

ciao dolls!

Oatmeal Linen

I was sorting through my closet a few weeks ago, and I rediscovered my long-lost loose, slouchy linen pants! Must confess I’ve only ever worn them as pajamas, but for some reason, seeing them again after a long time, they looked really new to me! And as it often happens, I got a brainwave.

I was inspired by the utilitarian no nonsense fabric, paired with the wide legs. Also, these days I’m really into emphasizing my waist! Anything that can be dragged up to the waist and belted? Good with me! So I did just that, hiked up the pants and cinched them at my waist with an old ribbon tie belt from another outfit.

I paired them with a loose cotton top, and some wood toned accessories. There was also a slightly safari feel to it, which I played up with the leopard print wide bangle.

Nothing fancy, but it just goes to show that almost any item of clothing can be made to look fresh again, with the right extras thrown in.

Ciao dolls!

Lime Green Claws.

This nail polish is supposed to glow under black light. however i haven't gone near any such thing since i painted my nails this color, therefore, I'll have to satisfy myself with them being suitably shocking enough in regular light.

The nail polish is called "can you dig it?" by LA Girl. here it is with flash....

Love it!!!

Makeup Post: Birds of Paradise

One fine day, as i was trekking to work and listening to Florence + The Machine on my Ipod, i saw this truly gorgeous birdie! it was all cool gray feathers with a flash of lime green at the breast. It was stunning! I loved the way the colors were so unexpected, the neutral paired with the pop of fluorescent! And this was simply the work of nature! It just goes to show that even God likes "all things bright and beautiful".
So i made a mental note and as soon as i could i Googled pictures of all sorts of tropical, colorful birds, and i decided to do a series of makeup posts on them! So in the weeks ahead, you'll be getting quite a few surprises!
To start the trend, here's my first birdie

I love the turquoise feathers, the jet black area on the face? Do birds have faces? As well as the red ring around the eye matching the beak and feet.

So i decided to do my own take on it, and here are the results!

I kept my lips a pale, glossy pink to avoid any unnecessary distraction from the eyes. i didnt use any blush either, and the bronzy glow? sigh, its sweat and my camera flash doing the tango together all over my face.

And what do we have here? Feather earrings!!! Lmao... Joblessness is a crime i swear... However i am a little obsessed with feather earrings. Ooh! The lime green nails match my bou-bou as well! Well that's just fabulous! Swag never sleeps! Loolz!

Ciao dolls!!!!

Green lipstick? Really?

Hi guys!
It was one of those weekends, and I got a little bored, so I decided to play around with one of the more unusual make-up ideas rattling around in my brain. These days fashion is much more individualistic than it has been in the past, it’s not merely about pairing the right bag with the right shoes, but about expressing yourself through what you choose to adorn yourself with. A few weeks ago I came across a picture of an urban model wearing the most shocking green lipstick!

Loving the matching nails!

Instead of being repelled I kind of fell in love with it! I’ve been playing around with extreme lip colour recently and her look resounded with me and I thought, why not? This is me in black lipstick...

So here goes!
I have on some base (MAC NW45 applied with a damp sponge)

I have on some beige eye shadow from the Sleek iDivine Sunset palette, I took it from the eyelid up to the brow bone.

I didn’t want the look to get too Halloween (too late!) so I only used some liquid liner (outer top lid only) and mascara. I also filled in my eyebrows with black pencil liner. I used black because dark brown doesn’t blend in as well with my eyebrows.

For the lips I used some nude brown lip liner to define my lips.

I then used some of my Sleek iDivine coloured eye shadow Primer as a base for my green lips.

I then used some transparent lip gloss over that to give the eye shadow I'm planning to use as a lip colour something to cling to. Sorry, I forgot to take a picture of that step!
So to get the green lips, I tapped some dark green eye shadow all over my lips with my index finger.

To finish it all off I patted on a touch of peachy blush to the apples of my cheeks. I didn’t want it too bright, so it wouldn’t clash with the lip colour, but I wanted to brighten my face up a little.

There you go! Not as bad as you thought right?

At the end of the day, it’s just make-up. It washes off! Have a little fun people!

Ciao!