Green With Envy LOTD

Hi y’all! I’m back from my holiday – I had an awesome time snowboarding in Italy, eating lots of cake, cheese and pizza and twatting about on the mountain. Thankyou to my guest bloggers Rachael and RaeRae for holding the fort for me – please go and check out their fabby and marvellous posts if you've not already.

Todays look is for the weekly showcase that Wendi hosts in her Facebook group Never Too Much Sparkle – the theme is Green With Envy. I had some new Jessies Girl pigments from Wendy (Sheesh, how many  bloggers can I name drop in one post?!) that I hadn’t played with yet so it was a perfect excuse!

I like my face better this way. Deal with it.

Eyes: Lid,Jessie’s Girl Pure Pigment Eye Dust in Majestic Green . Crease, Jessie’s Girl Pure Pigment Eye Dust in Key Lime. Upper crease, Jessie’s Girl Pure Pigment Eye Dust in Antique Green . Highlight, Jessie’s Girl Pure Pigment Eye Dust in . Lower lashline, Wet N Wild Colour Icon liner in Green, Illamasqua Liquid Metal in Stoic. Liner, Collection 2000 Extreme 24/7 liner in black, MUA Glitter liner.
Lips: Wet N Wild Megalast Lipstick in Ravin’ Raisin
Cheeks: Evil Shades blush in Violet Skies

I’m loving these Jessie’s Girl Pigments – cute colours and super finely milled. I’ve seen lots of people on blogs and YT using Pixie Dust as a highlight and it’s easy to see why – it’s a perfect light gold.None of my pictures really show – this look photogrpahed horribly – but I was going for a sort of double crease thing. Ah well.

 

What are your favourite green eyeshadows?

Disney Collaboration with Fierce Nerditude: Peter Pan!

I can never work out if Peter Pan is a hero or a little shit. I’m erring on the side of ‘little shit,’ but on the other hand, he does have a pretty awesome hat.

Behold the look for which I have no good pictures:

Derp derp derp, sideways derp.

Eyes: Lid/lower lashline, green from Sleek Acid. Crease, Ulta Olive Gold, Wet N Wild Envy. Liner, red matte gel liner from Inglot, Collection 2000 Extreme 24/7 pen liner in black. Waterline, NYX Milk. Highlight, green from MUA Pretty Pastels.
Cheeks: BeautyUk baked blush in Peaches and Cream, Darling Girl Boardwalk
Lips: Morgana Cryptoria Bees Knees

 

Apart from the fact I struggled to take photos of this look (cheers for raining, England) as  well as the fact that I *couldn’t* take too many photos of it because my stupid memory card is being stupid, I realy, really liked this look. Red liner, green eyeshadow and orange lipstick? I don’t think this could be more me!

 

I gave Vijaya Gurgi from The Black Cauldron to do this week, because he is sooo cute – “Munching and crunchings!” – and because The Black Cauldron rocks. So go check that out!

LOTD, OOTD: Cheap and cheerful

I wore this outfit on Sunday and thought it was really cute, so snapped a few quick pics before I went to a shoot for the day. It was only as I was on the train later on that I realised my most expensive item was my lipstick!

 

Skirt: Primark, £8
Tights (leopard print back seam): Primark, £2.50
Pumps: Primark, £6 (don’t do it, kids!)
Jumper: Primark, £5
Belt: New Look, present from ages ago
Gypsy top: eBay, £4.50
Bunny earrings: Claires, £1 on sale

 

Good old Primarni! I’m such a tight ass. But my bag was designer?!

 

(Make it biggerer to see the bunny earrings!)

Eyes: Wet n Wild Nutty, Sleek Bohemian palette.
Cheeks: Darling Girl Fuji
Lips: MAC Such Flare!

My face is pretty purse friendly as well. Do you guys spend more money on clothes or on makeup?

Disney Collaboration with Fierce Nerditude: Dr Drakken!

Vijaya gave me Dr Drakken from Kim Possible this week. I have to admit, it’s not a show I’ve ever watched! I know, a Disney character I don’t know! Shocker. Anyway, I spent this morning watching clips on You Tube and this shiz is hilarious. From what I can gather, Dr Drakken is a pretty shitty villain and hasn’t managed to take over the world yet.

Eyes: Lid, outer V and lower lashline, all Wet n Wild ‘Blue Had Me at Hello’ palette. Crease and highlight, Sleek Bohemian.
Cheeks: Inglot Cream Blush in 81 to contour, Accessorize baked blusher in Pretty Pink.
Lips: MAC Viva Glam Gaga 2.

Hmmm. I quite like the result, but it’s not really what I was going for. I probably should have made it all matte, and had a stronger blue on the lid, but the colours are kind of muted still, which is what I wanted. I still don’t think I can get away with nude lips, though. I think everything just looks jizzy on me. Maybe I’ll try it with a really obnoxiously dark eye, but I think that’s a touch more Jodie Marsh than I want to wear out of the house. Ah, well.

 

I stuck to the T.V show thing and gave Vijaya from Perry Phineas and Ferb, mainly because he’s a platypus, so go check it out!

Take some makeup, add some more…

Understated, yes? One shadow, one liner, glitter on brows and in lashes.

A nice shimmery highlight, some more glitter over the existing liner.



Some nail art sparkly things… yes, let’s pop some of those on.



Enormous gold lashes? Why the frack not?





And some MOAR glitter!  Okay, I probably could have done 2 pairs of lashes, and more glitter, and some different sized glitter, but hey. That’s a LOT of stuff. The lashes are pretty cool, no? They look like quail feathers, perhaps. Alright, so this look was a mental mishmash, but I hope to work out a more wearable look with blue brows and I’m sure I’ll be using little sequins again soon!

Products used: Sugarpill Goldilux, gold from Wet N Wild Dancing in The Clouds trio, Barry M Kohl Pencil in Navy (brows), Ulta Gel Liner in Ink, Sleek Dip It! Glitter Liner in Carribbean, nail art flowers from the £ shop, gold nail glitter from eBay, FE215 feather lashes sent for review from kkcenterhk.com  . (These lashes were *really* long, by the way! I wish I'd kept the portion I'd chopped off and used them on the outer corners. Oh well :( )

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Shop your Stash: Wet and Wild Looks

Last week I made an effort to use some of my Wet and Wild which hadn’t had much love from me recently. This is what I came up with:



Using the ‘Dancing in the Clouds’ trio with MUA pink mascara on the lower lashline





Both using the ‘Petal Pusher’ 8 pan which Rachael very kindly picked up for me from  her trip to the States.

Using the ‘Night Elf’ 6 pan palette. Love the red in this!



Using the single colours Nutty (lid) and Envy (crease and lower lashline), which is a great alternative to MAC Humid.  A touch of light gold from Night Elf on the inner corner.


I love Wet n Wild eyeshadows. Love, love, love. Apart from the fact I usually have to get my crack dealer (Wendy)  to pick them up for me, I can’t fault them. The mattes are excellent quality, there are some great MAC dupes in the range, range from singles to eight-pan palettes, and apart from an odd dud and questionable suggested placements of certain shadows, I've got nothing negative to say about them.  Come to the UK please, Wet n’ Wild!

Disney Collaboration with Fierce Nerditude: Frollo

This week, egged on strongly by Suzanne, Vijaya gave me Claude Frollo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame. What a douchebag. And a pervert. As per usual with Disney Villains, though, he has the best song in the film.

Pictured: Dickhead.

Lid:  Wet and Wild purple and deep plum from Lust palette.Liner/cut crease: Collection 2000 24/7 Extreme liner in Black. Waterline:  Inglot matte eyeliner gel in 79. Lower lashline: Inglot Matte 349. Glitter: eBay.

This looked SO much better in real life. That's what I get for doing this at 10pm! Sigh. Can you see what I was going for?! I really want to do this again so I can do justice to it and, you know, take photos in daylight. You can't see the grey wing underneath or the different coloured purples, or the red glitter in the inner corner. Siiigh. I like the red waterline, though!

I kept with the villains theme this week and gave Vijaya Ursula. I'm quite jealous that she go Ursuala even though I gave her the character! Ursula is a fucking badass, and she was based on Divine. What's not to love? So go and check out her look here, thankyouplease.

Disney Collaboration with Fierce Nerditude: Kevin from Up

Vijaya gave me Kevin from Up to do as my character this week and I’m so happy because I love her! (Yep, Kevin is a she!) I gave Vijaya the Cheshire Cat to do from Alice in Wonderland this week, so go check that out too

Eyes: Inglot yellow and teal, teal eyelid, silver browbone and both crease colours from Wet and Wild Blue Had Me At Hello Palette, Fyrinnae Bite Me and Electro Koi, pink from Sleek Circus, Barry M Opal Fine Glitter Dust, and probably also some other stuff….
Lips: Silk Naturals Butter Cream Lip thingy in Hibiscus
Cheeks: Inglot AMC Cream Blush 83

Man, this was challenging! I don’t know why I felt the need to do a cut crease because they never look good on me, being that I have enough more than enough crease to go around and that my eyes are very asymmetrical. And I used ALL the colours. But… if you don’t look too closely, I kind of like it! And I have something to practice now as well!

In which I wear green and enjoy it.

I never thought I would go completely nutso for green eyeshadow, but it turns out I do. I like them with my hair and you can go a bit brighter and funkier with greens without looking too OTT, if that bothers you.

Anyway, enough yakky, more look-y:

Eyes: Lid, Barry M Dazzle Dust in Mint. Crease and lower lashline, Wet & Wild Envy. To darken crease/lower lashline, black from Sleek circus. Highlight, Inglot matte 351.

 You don't get full-faced photos for this look because I looked like a twat in them. I hardly ever darken the crease with black, but where the two greens were so different I felt I ought to go a little more dramatic.

Eyes: Lid, Fyrinnae Danse Macabre. Crease, Fyrinnae Meerkat. Outer V, Wet & Wild Envy. Highlight, Inglot matte 351.

I'm trying to use up several makeup items and my sample of Meerkat is one of them. It's got gorgeous green sparkles so it's a perfect fit with Danse Macabre. And of course, Envy got another look-in because it's rad.

What are your favourite green eyeshadows?

Wet & Wild 'Comfort Zone' Looks

Soooo... since Wendy got me this palette, I've worn it a lot. I never thought I'd like a bunch of neutrals as much as I do and the fact that this palette has green in it just makes it a winner for me! Again, swatches of these are all over the interwebs, so here are a few quick looks I've been doing with it.

Sorry about mah eyebraus.

I think this palette is put together a little better than 'Blue Had Me At Hello,' (i.e., not too much black!) and it's pretty versatile. Most bloggers will probably have similar colours to these already, but for the price, convenience and the MAC 'Club' dupe, I'd say it's well worth getting. Oh, and did I mention the green? Yeah, screw you, UD Naked palette!*



*Except I really want the Naked palette.