Bronze Town Look

I went shopping on Thursday (no surprises there) for my friend’s birthday present- she turned 19 yesterday- and I went into Postie Plus to look for some things, and I ended up coming out with the most inexpensive foundation I have ever found… that matched my skin perfectly. The product is Boots No7 Lifting & Firming foundation, and the colour is 01 Opal. It’s fantastic quality for what I paid for it- $10NZD- considering I put it on about 7pm last night, woke up at 9.15 this morning… and it’s about 80% still intact. Compared to my other foundations in the past, that’s brilliant. Of course, my skin is no doubt going to reap the downfall of wearing my makeup to bed in the next few days.

Anyway, for my friend’s birthday we went out for drinks, so naturally, had to do some pretty awesome evening makeup. I had originally meant to try to do a look like Sophie-Anne Leclerq (Evan Rachel Wood) from True Blood, which you can almost see in the photo.  Scarlet lips, heavy mascara, silver eyeliner and natural brown contouring, but I ended up deciding that even with the dramatic red lips, it wasn't quite 'town' enough for going to the bar down the road.  

The look I ended up going with is after the jump.  Let me know what you think!

Day... uhm... I forgot.

I'm starting to get so lazy with this blog already... but I think that's because I'm going to run out of ideas if I post every day. So now, I'm going to post once, maybe twice, a week with my favourite look, or looks, for the week.

Also, I have allergic conjunctivitis or something- it's not the yucky contagious one though, thank god.  It just makes my right eye lid really itchy and my eyeball a bit blood shot... which is good for getting out of having to get my eyelashes tinted, again... but I'm pretty sure that's the actual reason.  The skin surrounding the eye is incredibly delicate and thin, and I'm positive it's not designed to have a 3% hydrogen peroxide mix tint on it every week.  Unfortunately, while I'm not vain enough to allow myself to have my eyelashes redone which would make it worse, I'm still too vain to stop wearing my makeup.
Anyway, here's my favourite two looks for the week that's been. They're pretty lax on the eyeliner because we've had facials twice this week and tinting, and I couldn't be bothered doing my makeup great only to have it wiped off in the morning. Let me know what you think in the comments box.

Day Sixteen: Cinderell....y.

Today is a cold, miserable and grey day, so I decided I might do something cute with my makeup to try and counteract the ugliness outside.  I saw my blue bow headband and thought I might try a very simple, casual Cinderella inspired look for day.  For me, this meant none of those frosted blues or hard liquid lines, and instead something soft, feminine and easy.  I would have lined along the edge of my eyelid, but all my black eyeliners seem to have disappeared.  I must have put them somewhere, and forgot where!  Oops.

Anyway, let me know what you think about my version of Cinderella.

Day Fifteen: Just Line It

I wrote this nice blogpost… and then I somehow managed to delete it.  Damnit.  Anyway, it went like this:  I can now do CPR, I like how vivid the eyeliner showed up in the photos, let me know what you think, have a good weekend.  :D

Day Thirteen/Fourteen: Double Dose!

Uhoh… guess what I forgot to do again yesterday?  I took pictures and everything.  Anyway, less typing, more makeup!  If you have a Body Shop near you, I highly recommend their Matte It face primer.  It costs $30 for a tube about an index and a half in volume.  You barely need to use any; I get smooth and full primer cover from using about half the size of a 10c piece!

Now, here are the looks for today and yesterday.  Let me know what you think.

Day Twelve: Lavender Grey

Went shopping (again!) today and spent too much (again!) on things.  I got new sheets in a pretty mint green for winter- a bargain, considering they were half price... and I got a ChiChi blush and eyeshadow dust for $5 each- a REALLY great bargain- but that's where they end.  I got a graphite/silicon/ionised QVS tail comb, the 'Matte It' primer from the Body Shop,  a Natio lip balm (with jojoba, honey and cocoa butter), and no doubt wasted my money on some weight management products I've been meaning to try for a while.

Today's makeup comes entirely from the blackbox palette, and is just a mixture of the lavender and the grey shades that are in it.  Let me know what you think.

Day Eleven: Jaguar Green

Having a family friend over for a casual dinner tonight, but it could be my nonna coming for dinner and I'd still put my face on, haha.  Anyway, I've had a pretty boring Easter Sunday; one of my roleplaying buddies is online but doesn't feel like it, and the other hasn't been online since Wednesday or so, and she owes me a post.  GRR.

Today's makeup is inspired by a beautiful car, an amazing Jaguar XKE from 1974.  I love that signature Jaguar green colour, adn there just happens to be a shade similar in the new eyeshadow palette I got!  So excited, I just had to try it out after seeing a Jag in this colour yesterday.  Let me know what you think!

Day Ten: Accidentally Farrah

Had drinks last night... or at least, I was meant to.  Unfortunately, only my friend and his parents came (which is fine because they're awesome), but I was really looking forward to a few drinking games and a hangover this morning.  Anyway, that was probably a good thing anyway, considering I have gastroenteritis... very unpleasant.

On the other hand, here's my makeup from last night.  I meant to get volume in my hair, but I rolled the velcro curlers the wrong way, so I ended up with Farrah hair!  Oops.  I tried out the new makeup set I got last night; it's Blackbox, and an eyeshadow kit with about... 64 or so colours, I think.  There are matte, frosted and shimmer ones, so for only $15NZD, it's a pretty good steal!  Let me know what you think of the makeup.

Day Nine: Almost Typically Vintage

Yesterday, I wasn't able to spare the horrors of having my face cleansed, so my makeup only lasted a few hours before it was gone.  Bummer.  Anyway!

Today's look is as vintage as I can manage while still keeping to the few makeup rules we have on the course.  The most annoying one is 'no red lipstick' which completely defeats the possibility for a classical vintage look.  It's been so long since I've used a liquid liner, I'm surprised I managed to put it on okay!  Let me know what you think.