Working with Red Eye Shadow ❤ A Valentine's Inspired Look

One of my first high-end eye shadows ever was MAC's Cranberry. I've long since lost it, but I remember always looking at it and wondering how I could use it (since it was actually given to me, I didn't pick it out.)

Red eye shadow is intimidating, and understandably so - red eyes aren't normally positive indicators, and red around your eyes isn't either. But red eye shadows do exist, so obviously, there's ways to wear them.

So, I took the opportunity to use red in a Valentine's-inspired look, pairing it with a red lip as well.

I'm happy with how it turned out, though I do want to invest in a new blending brush at some point, since one of mine has started to irritate my eyes in recent weeks. But I digress. 

Products Used:

Two Faced Shadow Insurance

NYX Jumbo Eyeshadow Pencil in Milk

Makeup Forever Eyeshadow in 

Coastal Scents Metal Mania Eyeshadow Palette (The shimmery cranberry color)

Urban Decay Darkhorse Eye Shadow

Urban Decay Blackout Eye Shadow

Urban Decay Virgin Eye Shadow

Mally Pencil Liner in 

Skiin Concealer in Light

Maybelline's the Falsies Flared

Benefit High Beam

Benefit Hoola Bronzer

MAC Russian Red Lipstick

Girl's Day In!

Ever since my  first post where I did my beyoooootiful friend Sharon's makeup, I've been wanting to have another go at someone's face. Luckily, I have two lovely friends who happened to be around and volunteered to be made-up, so I went for it. 

Sydney, my friend pictured below, has gigantic eyes. I mean really. Just look at the size of them.

Needless to say, I was a bit intimidated. But, I ventured on, determined to do a good job. She had on her Revlon BB cream and some concealer to start.

I generally use Sydney as my bright-color muse, since I normally go for such neutral looks on myself. She's no stranger to color, especially with her own makeup, so it seemed like a good fit. I used a mix of NYX, Urban Decay, and Sephora on her eyes, running into a bit of a rut when I tried to use a purple shade that refused to be anything but muddy and uncooperative on her. Apparently this is an issue she's run into herself, but I managed to make it work, adding a bit of a bright pink from Urban Decay into the mix and creating a super-obnoxious peacock-esque look.

Face of the Day! ❤ 1/21/13

I woke up super early today and ended up browsing Reddit, which I don't do very often, and looking at /r/MakeupAddiction. All the before and afters inspired me to do one, which I posted here!

These are the same pictures I linked there, minus the "before" picture just cause I didn't feel like having my naked face on here juuuuust yet.

This one's just because I can never take serious facial pictures for long.

If you're interested in any of the products I used, I listed them over on the post I linked above, or comment below if you're too lazy to go read it.