7UP EOTD

 All Hallows Eve draws closer upon us and you have a number of hooded males waiting for slutty girls in costumes, it's absolutely frightful if you think about the concept especially in terms of college kids like myself. Anyways Nan and I had an idea, we wanted to do an look on commercial soft drinks. I picked 7up and she picked pepsi max(otherwise known as her kyptonite)

So the initial look was to use the red as lipstick but it was JUST TOO MUCH when i tried it so, I scrapped that and added the 7up red circle (like from the logos) I admit, it was a last minute decision which is why it looks rubbish.I apologise. I look back on it, you could totally rock this as a clown look, just whiten your face first. :D

Happy Halloween!

Inspiration photo


Products used:
Sleek Bohemian palette: matte yellow/matte green
UD alice palette absolem. (Shimmery green)
Kate palette white silver
Illamasqua liquid metal in pewter (bottom liner)
Kate palette black shadow (Liner)
No7 Lipliner in red(red circle)

The obligatory 'I'm honestly not dead' blogpost.

Missing Blogger, last seen approximately a month ago.

I realise that I do this quite alot, and in my defence, I'm a flaky person. (it's a really crap defence, I know.) My commitment to writing is temperamental at most, I write when inspiration comes to me but inspiration alone doesn't even cut it for me, it has to go hand in hand with my old friend Mr. Motivation. (FLASHBACK: Anyone else remember Mr Motivator on GMTV like years back?! LOL) Sadly, my old friend is busy at work with my academic life because that part of my life is a shambles and I need all the help I can get. On top of that, I;ve been so busy with starting a new course at University and also getting ill with a week long flu, my blogging has been pushed back.

However! My new mantra/plan/seasonal resolution/[insert motivational plan word here] is to write at least one blogpost a week. :)

Anyways, here's a peek at what my skincare post in the next week might feature?! (sadly, as a poor student again, I'm not giving away a set, but watch out for new year. I might pull it out the hat and send one lucky reader a 1.2.3 Shiseido Skincare set!

Pikachu's Thunderbolt Attack EOTD

So I've been teasing you readers about a pokemon inspired made up look and here it is. The wait is OVER. I can finally reveal to you what I've been racking my brains about for the past 3 weeks since I've received my Shiro Cosmetics Pokeshadows. But even today's look isn't perfect. Not for me anyways, I still feel like I have something missing, an element that has come to me just as I am writing this blogpost. I'll explain later.

Here's the inspiration Photo: I know the Thunderbolt is yellow, but I already used the Yellow eyeshadow for the top and I need a contrast so I just picked the background colour. I know, I know, Thunderbolt should be either bright white or bright yellow, but in this case, blue seemed to portray how electrifying this Pokemon truly is. (and now I sound like David Attenborough! LOL)


Here's the final face look. I did put on red blush on the cheeks (Like Pikachu's red cheeks!) but they seem to wash out under flash. Probably would have been better off using a very strong cream blush. (Number 1 of my imperfections!)The Black on the outer V of the eyes is a creative take on Pikachu's ears. and the yellow, of course is Pikachu.

Here's a close up of the eye. Here's number two of my second imperfection, the lashes aren't done. The reasons are twofold. Firstly, I was creating this look around 8pm and I didn't really want to spend 15 minutes trying to get my mascara off. And secondly, I should've used BROWN mascara because Pikachu has brown stripes but I don't have a brown mascara in my collection. So in the ideal world, the lashes would be down and finished off with brown. But instead you have my imperfect eye makeup! I hope you don't mind!

Products Used:
Face
Benefit Coralista Blush
Eyes 
Muji Brown Palette: Pale yellow champagne colour as base
Shiro Cosmetics in Pikachu (Yellow)
UD Alice palette in Jabberwocky (Black)
Shiseido MM automatic Liner (Black)
NYX black eyeliner to tightline
UD 24/7 Liner in Flipside (Blue)
UD Alice Palette in Alice (Blue) to set the blue liner because 24/7 liner is pretty smudgy at times.