FOTD: Trying Something New

If you have a quick scroll through this blog, you will see that I'm a lover of natural colours. Simple, subtle, browns and neutrals. That kind of thing. However, for my birthday (have I mentioned it much?) I recieved a Collection palette full of colours: greens, purples, blues etc, and I thought, why not mess about a bit.

I've seen that blue liner is quite 'in' right now, and found myself with a little time on my hands, and decided to mess about; and I'm quite impressed with the result!

I began with my liquid liner (which again is new for me) and set a thinish line on my upper lash line. 

I then wet my RT angled brush and dabbed it in the lighter blue colour of the palette. I placed that above and on top of the black liner. I then took the deeper blue (which wouldn't pick up as well) and placed that on top as a kind of 'ombre' effect.

I'm really pleased with how this turned out, and who knows, I may even brave it out of the house. Who knows!

What do you think?

Laura xoxo

Breaking Out of the Comfort Zone

If you scroll through my blog, you will see that I am a lover of neutrals. I like a simple face, and the most daring I get is a bright pink lipstick. Well, that is about to change.

A while back, I was meant to do a guest post swap with someone, but it never went through, so I thought I would share it with you today instead, 'cause a couple of people have asked me to do a look with colour.

The idea for this swap was to create a dramatic look, and I didn't fancy going for the usual 'dramatic' look of bold lips and winged liner, so I decided to go for something colourful.

Here is what I used to create it:

Base:

Maybelline Dream Nude Airfoam (don’t really like this foundation but trying to use it up)

Rimmel Match Perfection Concelaer – Eyes

Collection 2000 concealer – Blemishes

Maybelline Dream Matte Powder

Eyes:

The Bottom blue (over the lid) and the blue above (in the crease)

Maybelline Colour Tattoo In On and On Bronze (upper lash line)

MAC Powersurge, waterline

Maybelline One by One Mascara

Face:

MAC Frankly Scarlett

Bourjois Bronzer

No.7 Vital Enlightening Highlighter

Lips:

No.17 Lipstick in All About the Sass

So Shen and Rachel, I hope this satisfies your need for colour, but whilst this was fun to create, I don't know if I will be wearing it out anytime soon.

Do you like playing with colour?

Laura xoxo