EOTD: Green smokey eye with a hint of purple

Hey everyone!

Just a quick EOTD for today!

Products used:
- MAC Select cover up concealer in NW20
- Catrice Brow Kit to fill in my brows 
- MAC Blanc Type on the browbone
- MAC Wedge to blend out the crease
- MAC Bows & Curtseys (LE*) on the lid and lower lashline
- Inglot 418  in the crease
- MAC Fresh Approach (LE) on the top inner corner
- Inglot 441 and 439 on the bottom inner corner
- MAC Blacktrack fluidline on top and bottom waterline
- Covergirl Lashblast Mascara
- Ardell Demi Wispies

Until next time!

x
Tanja

Quick question: Do you prefer large pictures like these, or slightly smaller ones?

* LE = Limited Edition

EOTD/Tutorial/Swatches: Sleek Au Naturel eye shadow palette (from the Nude collection)

Hey everyone!

Today I have another EOTD for you with step by step pictures, but first I'm going to start off with pictures and swatches of the Au Naturel palette from Sleek. This palette came out with the Nude collection. It has a good selection of neutral colours, great for light daytime looks or darker looks for a night out. Three of the colours have a frost finish, one has a more satin finish, the others are matte.

Here are some pictures of the palette.






The colours swatched over concealer (MAC Select Cover-up in NW20)







On to the tutorial!

I started of by priming my eye with MAC Paint Pot in Nubile (this came out recently with the Posh Paradise collection, swatches coming soon!)
I filled in my brow mixing Nubuck and Bark and used Nougat with a flat shader brush as a brow bone highlight.



Next, I applied Taupe all over the lid and in the inner corner with a flat shader brush.



To define the crease and add some shading, I mixed Cappuccino and Bark and applied in the crease with a blending brush. Then I darkened up the crease and defined it even more using a crease brush with Mineral earth right in the crease and outer corner.




With the same crease brush, I used Noir in the outer corner.




On the bottom lash line I applied Conker with a pencil brush. On the bottom waterline I used a skin coloured eyeliner (Isa Dora Inliner Kajal in 56 Blonde).



I added MAC's Blacktrack fluidline to the top lash line.




Then applied mascara, Max Factor False Lash Effect, to the top and bottom lashes.



You could leave it like this, but I wanted to add some extra drama so I applied Ardell's Demi Wispies.





And that's how I created this look. I hope you like it!
If you want to know more about the brushes I use and which are my favorites, click here.


I purchased this palette from Boozyshop for €8.50. You can also order it from the Sleek website for €9 or £6.49


Thanks for stopping by!


Up next: MAC Posh Paradise haul;


x
Tanja

EOTD: Sleek Makeup - Oh So Special palette

Hiya!

I have another EOTD for you all today! For this look I used the Oh So Special palette from Sleek Makeup. This palette was added to their permanent line not too long ago. I bought it together with the Curaçao palette. I did a look with that palette here, and if you want to see my post on both palettes click here.

Sleek products can be purchased at SleekMakeup.com, or if you live close to the Netherlands, check out these online stores: Boozyshop.nl, Enchantra.eu, or Alicejohavesentials.nl.

On to the EOTD:



The Oh So Special palette:

Products used:

- MAC Brun: to fill in my brows, with an angled bush (MAC 263).

- NYX Jumbo pencil in Milk: applied on the lid all the way up to the brow with my finger

- Sleek Bow: on the entire lid and inner corner and as a brow highlight, with a flat shader brush (MAC 239).

- Sleek The Mail: applied in the crease to make it easier to blend the darker colours, with a blending brush (MAC 217)

- Sleek Gift Basket: applied on the lid  with a flat shader brush (MAC 239)

- MAC Naked Lunch: in the inner corner, with a pencil brush (MAC 219)

- Sleek Boxed and Celebrate: mixed both and applied in the crease with a blending brush (MAC 217)

- Sleek Celebrate: to darken up the crease and outer corner, also applied on the lower lashline with a pencil brush (MAC 219)

- Sleek Noir: used with an angled brush (MAC 266) to line top and bottom lashline softly.

- Urban Decay 24/7 eyeliner in Zero: to line lower waterline.

- False lashes from Claire's, with DUO Lash adhesive.

- Max Factor False Lash Effect mascara: few coats on the top lashes, one coat on bottom lashes.



Some more pictures:

  



This palette is really nice if you like neutral colours. I like that it has matte and shimmery colours!

Thank you for stopping by!

Up next: one of my favorite blogs for inspiration.

x
Tanja

EOTD: MAC Club eyeshadow and Blue Brown pigment

Hey hey!!

It's me again with another eye of the day. Today I did a look using one of my favorite MAC eyeshadows: Club. I love this duochrome eyeshadow. Its a dark warm brown colour, with blue-ish green shimmer in it. Gorgeous!! These are the kind of colours that look different depending on how you apply them and once they're on your eye, it seems as though you're wearing multiple eyeshadows. (I get too carried away when I'm doing my makeup so I did use multiple colours :) )

Here’s a list of all the products I used and how I used them:

- MAC Blackground paintpot: as a base all over the lid up to the crease, applied with a stiff flat shader brush (MAC 252), blended out with a blending brush (MAC 217). Also applied on the lower lashline with a short shader brush (MAC 214).

- MAC Wedge: used with a blending brush (MAC 217) to blend out the paintpot.


- MAC Brun: to fill in my brows with an angled brush (MAC 263).

- MAC Vanilla eyeshadow: as a browbone highlight, applied with a flat shader brush (MAC 239)

- MAC Blacktrack fluidline: lined along the upper lashline, on the top a bottom waterline and smudged between the lashes (to make it super dark, so no skin is visible) with a small liner brush (MAC 209).

- MAC Club: applied with a flat shader brush (MAC 239) all over the lid and on the lower lashline

- MAC Blue Brown pigment: this is like a more shimmery/metallic version of Club. I applied this right in the middle of the lid and lower lashline with a flat shader brush (MAC 239). This just adds a little more shimmer and is very subtle. 

- Sleek Green Iguana (from the Curaçao palette (click)): used a little bit of this colour on the bottom part of the inner corner for a pop of teal, using a pencil brush (MAC 219).

- Max Factor False Lash Effect mascara: few coats on the top lashes, one coat on bottom lashes.

A couple more pictures from different angles cause I love this eyeshadow so much :).

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by!

x

Tanja

EOTD: MAC's Bows & Curtseys: green smokey eye

Hello!!

Today I did  a look using Bows & Curtseys eyeshadow from MAC which came out with the Fashion Flower collection not too long ago. It's a blackened green with shimmer, perfect for a smokey eye, so that's what I did! 

Here’s a list of all the products I used and how I used them:

- Urban Decay Primer Potion: all over the lid up to the brow, blended out with my finger.

- MAC Brun: to fill in my brows, with an angled brush (MAC 263).

- MAC Vanilla eyeshadow: as a browbone highlight, applied with a flat shader brush (MAC 239)

- MAC Ricepaper: inner corner highlight, applied with a pencil brush (MAC 219)

- MAC Wedge: applied with a blending brush (MAC 217) right above the crease, as a transition colour between the dark green and the brow highlight.

- MAC Fresh Approach (LE: Makeup Art Cosmetics collection: Photo Realism quad): on the lid and lower lashline, applied with a flat shader brush (MAC 239).

- MAC Bows & Curtseys (LE: Fashion Flower collection): applied in the crease and outer corner with a blending brush (MAC 217) and on the lower lashline with a short bristle shader brush (MAC 214).

- MAC Blacktrack fluidline: lined along the upper lashline, on the lower waterline and smudged between the lashes with a small liner brush (MAC 209).

- Max Factor False Lash Effect mascara: few coats on the top lashes, one coat on bottom lashes.

- False Eyelashes from H&M (no name or number) with Duo lash glue.




For a softer, less dramatic look, just skip the liner and lashes.

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by!

X

Tanja

EOTD (Eye Of The Day): MAC Rare Find

Here’s a look I did with MAC’s Rare Find mineralized eyeshadow from the Semi Precious collection. I’m actually really glad I picked this up cause it’s so pretty. It looks even better in real life than it does on the picture.

These are the products I used and how I used them:

- Urban Decay Primer Potion: all over the lid up to the brow, blended out with my finger.

- MAC Brun eyeshadow: to fill in my brows, with an angled brush (MAC 263).

- MAC Vanilla eyeshadow: as a browbone highlight, applied with a flat shader brush (MAC 239) and  inner corner highlight with a pencil brush (MAC 219).

- MAC Rare Find mineralized eyeshadow: all over the lid, applied with a damp flat shader brush (MAC 239, I used Fix + to wet my brush, but you could also use water) and used dry to blend it out just above the crease with a fluffier brush ( MAC 217).
Also applied wet on the lower lashline with a short bristle shader brush (MAC 214)

- Urban Decay 24/7 eyeliner in Zero: on top and bottom waterline and smudged between the lashes.

- Max Factor False Lash Effect mascara: few coats on the top lashes, one coat on bottom lashes.

- False Eyelashes from Claire’s (no name or number) with Duo lash glue.

I love the shimmer in this eyeshadow and I think it looks great on its own!

You could make this look a little darker and more smokey by adding some black on the outer corner.

Thanks for stopping by!

X

Tanja

Tutorial: Smokey eye tutorial n°2 (using MAC eyeshadows)

Hey everyone!


So here's my second smokey eye tutorial.
I'm going to do kind of the opposite of what we did l did for the first smokey eye where I put the darkest shades on the lid and the lighter one in the crease. This time I'm keeping the lid light and putting the darker shades in the crease.
I'm using All That Glitters as my lightest shade, Twinks as my medium shade and Beauty Marked as the darkest (all from MAC). The other products I used are the same ones I used last time: Zero 24/7 eyeliner pencil from Urban Decay, False Lash Effect mascara from Max Factor, lashes from Claire's and Select Cover-up concealer from MAC. 


(BTW: all pictures are clickable for larger views!)

I started off with my brows (using Brun eyeshadow / MAC), brow highlight (using Vanilla eyeshadow / MAC) and primed my eyes with Urban Decay Primer Potion.

Next I applied the lightest shade, 
All That Glitters from MAC, on the lid with a flat shader brush (MAC 239) and the inner corner with a pencil brush (MAC 219), fading it towards the crease.

I then put the medium shade, Twinks from MAC, in the crease and outer corner with a blending/crease brush (MAC 217) and smudged it along the lashes with a pencil brush.

I lined my upper lashline with a black eyeliner pencil (Zero / Urban Decay). This doesn't have to be perfect cause we're going to smudge it out anyway.

I used Beauty Marked from MAC and a pencil brush to smudge out the liner and darken the outer corner.

On the lower lashline, I applied the same eye pencil to the waterline and smudged it in to the lashline. Again, doesn't have to be perfect, just make sure the line is thicker on the outer corner and thinner towards the inner corner.

I then put All That Glitters on the inner half of the lower lashline and Twinks on the outer half.

Finally, to finish the look I applied mascara (False Lash Effect / Max Factor) to the top and bottom lashes, added false lashes (Claire's, they don't have a name or number sorry) and concealer (Select cover-up NW20 / MAC).

And that's it, all done!


Hope this helped and if you have any questions, feel free to ask!



x
Tanja

Tutorial: Smokey eye tutorial n°1 (using Urban Decay's Naked palette)

Hello!
Remember me :)?  I've been super busy, but I'm back and I have a tutorial for you!

This is gonna be a tutorial on one way of doing a smokey eye. For this look u only need 3 shades in whatever color you choose, a light one (Toasted / Urban Decay), medium ( Hustle / Urban Decay) and a dark shade (Creep / Urban Decay), a highlight color (Virgin / Urban Decay),an eyeliner pencil (Zero / Urban Decay) and mascara (False Lash Effect / Max Factor). The light color doesn't really have to be light. You can go as dark as you want, the light color just has to be lighter than the medium color and the medium color has to be lighter than the darkest one. Did that make sense? Yes? Good :)

I put my Tumblr url on the pictures before I decided to post them on here too, so ignore that or go check out my Tumblr!

I started off by doing what I do before pretty much any eye look. I primed my eye with Urban Decay Primer Potion (UDPP), filled in my brow with Brun and highlighted my brow bone with Vanilla, both from MAC.
I then lined my top and bottom lashline and waterline (tightline) with Zero 24/7 pencil form Urban Decay. Doesn't have to be neat, we're going to smudge it out anyway.






















Next, I smudged out the liner on the top and bottom with Hustle from Urban Decay (Naked Palette) with a pencil brush (MAC 219) and brought it up to the crease with a flat shader brush (MAC 239) and blended it out a little.

I then took my lightest shade, Toasted from Urban Decay (Naked Palette), and put it in the crease with a blending brush (MAC 217) and blended it upwards. You can go up to the brow as far as you like. Go back with your medium shade if you want to intensify it a little more after blending. I also smudged Toasted along the lower lashline with a pencil brush and put Virgin from Urban Decay (Naked Palette)in the inner corner as a highlight.

To make the lashline even darker, I used Creep from Urban Decay (Naked Palette) right along the top and bottom lashes. Add plenty off mascara. I used Max Factor False Lash Effect. I also applied false lashes (I used lashes from Claire's), but that's totally optional! Finish with concealer under the eyes, I used MAC's Select Cover-up in NW20. You can do your concealer before you do anything else, but I prefer doing it last so I can wipe away any fallout that might have dropped under my eyes.

Et Voilà! You're smokey eyes are done!

Hope this was helpful and I'll be back with the second smokey eye soon!

x
Tanja