Moody Eyes

I was having a bad weekend so on Sunday I really felt like wearing some moody make-up.

All I used to create this look was E.L.F's Cream Eyeliner in Black, Vaseline and a few Q-tips.

I know it doesn't look great close-up but I think the overall effect is moody and brooding, wouldn't you agree?

I applied a thick line of the eyeliner then smudged it over my eyelid using a Q-tip with a tiny amount of Vaseline on. Then I just kept adding more and smudging it around!

EOTD Help with Hazel

I'm trying to accentuate what little green I have in my eyes and I think this leafy green really does work to bring out the green flecks. I only recently came to the conclusion that my eye colour is in fact hazel and not brown, as I have always thought my whole life! 

I used:

Primark Prime of your Life - In The Pink

MUA Eyshadow - Shade 7

Front Cover Freeze/Sizzle Palette - Toffee

E.L.F Cream Eyeliner - Black

EOTD Not So Silver Lining

These colours are all from the same E.L.F eye quad. The quad's called Silver Lining but amazingly, there isn't actually a silver on there! Not what I would call silver anyway - there is a glittery grey and a very light sparkly purple but not a true silver. 

I used 3 of the colours, leaving out the lavender shade, using the lightest on the inner corner, the purple shade on the remainder of the lid and the grey on the outer corner and crease.

I used:

Primark Prime of your Life - In The Pink

E.L.F Brightening Eye Colour - Silver Lining

E.L.F Cream Eyeliner - Black

Barbara Daly High Impact Mascara - Black

EOTD Smudgy Liner

I'm attempting to experiment with eyeliner a bit. I've worn liquid eyeliner in a cat's eye style for nearly 5 years now and as I'm slowly learning more about make-up and its application, I realise there are other ways to make my eyes appear wider without the bold black line. This is one of my little experiments, it's kind of smoky but inconspicuous at the same time.

I used:

Primark Prime of your Life - In The Pink

E.L.F Cream Eyeliner - Black (smudged in with a q-tip)

Front Cover Freeze/Sizzle Palette - Sand Shell and Bracken

Barbara Daly High Impact Mascara - Black

EOTD Purpley

 Purple is probably my favourite colour to wear on my eyes. I wear this look all the time, even though it's not very subtle, it just makes me feel like I have pretty eyes!

I used:

Primark Prime of your Life - In The Pink

MUA Eyeshadow - Shades 4, 9 and 13

Collection 2000 Fast Stroke Eyeliner - Black

Barbara Daly High Impact Mascara - Black

EOTD Totally Turquoise

 I'm so annoying. I want to change the name of this blog again! I'm currently brainstorming ideas. I'm aiming for something original, short and that will give new visitors a bit of an idea of what the blog is about. I really hate the current name, it just sounds wrong to me.

I used:

17 Eyeshadow Solo - Starstruck

MUA Eyeshadow - Shade 8

Front Cover Freeze/Sizzle Palette - Bayou

E.L.F Cream Eyeliner - Black

Barbara Daly - High Impact Mascara

EOTD Day or Night

I hope you can see these pictures okay. They looked fine on my camera but when I got them on the computer the colours didn't look quite right. I'm still getting the hang of this make-up thing so bear with me while I learn!

Please excuse all the stray eyebrows. They aren't visible to the naked eye, or at least not mine, but when you get this up close and personal with a camera everything comes to light.

This is quite a heavy eye for the daytime but I felt like rocking a bit of a moody look today. So I suppose this eye quad, Day 2 Night from Eyes Lips Face, does its job perfectly because I would quite happily wear this for a party look too.

I used (in this order):

Primark Prime of Your Life - In The Pink

E.L.F Brightening Eye Colour Quad - Day 2 Night

Collection 2000 Fast Stroke Eyeliner - Black

Dimples Eyelashes Style 118 - Black

My first EOTD

Here is my first ever EOTD post. I've been meaning to break in to these for ages but I've never been able to get pictures that I feel were up to scratch. Thanks to the camera that I got for Christmas with a great macro setting, those woes are over and hopefully there will be more of these to come.

I mostly wear a lot of purple and neutrals and my make-up collection is limited but I'll just keep posting pictures and hopefully my collection and make-up skills will both improve with time!

I've also been thinking for quite some time about making youtube videos. I really want to - especially for nails - but I'm hesitant about putting myself out there like that. Youtube is a world away from blogging in the sense that it's a completely different audience so we'll see how that goes. I need to get a memory card with a decent writing speed for my camera anyways, so I'll get over that milestone first!

I used (in order):

Primark Prime of Your Life - In The Pink

E.L.F Brightening Eye Colour Quad - Hazy Hazel

MUA Eyeshadow - Shade 1

E.L.F Cream Eyeliner - Black

Dimples Eyelashes Style 118 - Black