Album Cover Art Day 7: Iron Maiden

Now, I didn't pick a specfic Iron Maiden album cover because they are all basically the same:



Something like that. Often dark blues, always Eddie (the mummy guy) and thier bold logo, which I took inspiration from for this look. Why do I like Iron Maiden? Because if you like metal music of any description and you're British, you HAVE TO. Its like, the law.





Again, this was in a total rush. This project was a total FAIL. I was just going to do the red, white and black triple liner, but then I realised I wanted some blue, and adding a lid colour after you've put all that liner on.... yeesh. Anyway, I got lots of compliments on this look today, and I realised when I uploaded these pics it actually looks pretty cool with my eyes open. The lady on the till at Boots asked me if I was 'an artist or something,' which made me smile.

I bought Revlon Colourstay today, and I have some e.l.f brushes waiting for me at the post office (omgyay) so after a week or so we'll see how my skin is looking. Maybelline Dream Satin Liquid has been breaking me out... I hope to the Lawd Colourstay is better for me.

Also I really, really want this:



Its from cbtscloset.com. Isn't it really tacky? They have other cool stuff like Polaroid cameras and Space Invaders, and moustaches!


Love and gahIleftthehouse15hoursagobedtime kisses,

Robyn xxx

Album Cover Art Project: Incubus

'Make Yourself' by Incubus was one of those albums that I listened to literally about ten billion times. I still love it, and Brandon Boyd was one of the first singers that got me a bit hot and bothered. (I'd click that link if I were you.)I chose this album because of that gorgeous green/rusty colour combo.

Anyway, I was in a rush, so here are those colours... on my eye :|







I in no way had time to encapsulate the floaty organicness and the grapic elements of the cover album, but hey, I really like how this came out! If you ignore my scraggly eyebrows, that is.


I have NO idea what to do tomorrow :(

Love and pondering kisses,

Robyn x

Album Cover Art Project: Guns N' Roses (and NOTD)

So day... er, five is Guns N' Roses. My favorite Guns album iz zees one:



Guns N' Roses are just awesome and this album has three of my favourite G N' R songs on, Civil War, the un-original Don't Cry, which I prefer and Estranged, which has the most badass video where Slash COMES OUT OF A LAKE AND STARTS SHREDDING :) What can I say, I like my rock ridiculous.

Anyway, the look!







I promise you my nose is not that big. Perhaps that is why I look so startled!

I liked this look from far away but NOT from close up! I wanted the white and black liner to be much more crisp. For the white liner I used NYX Milk pencil, and it is not the best to get a crisp line, and then I put my normal liquid liner over it, and that kind of went wierd on top of the Milk. Does anyone know where you can get a decentley priced white liquid liner? Sigh. This mini-project really has been 'Stuff Eden is rubbish at.'

I did finally get my crappy Maybelline Dream Satin Liquid to look ok though, but I am still ditching it. It is just awful, sheer, oily feeling rubbish. I'm going to get Colourstay and I've ordered some e.l.f studio brushes so we'll see how my skin looks at the end of this week!



And as a bonus, the nails I've had on this week. Its the first time I tried to make a shape with my marbling. It was inspired by mysimplelittlepleasures' Black and Silver Turtorial, which I urge you not to click on because it makes my mani look really poo.

Love and Kisses,

Robyn xxx

Album Cover Inspired Make-up: Days 2, 3 & 4

So this is the album from day 2. I absolutley adore Manic Street Preachers. I think they're a severely underrated and an excellent, excellent live band. This album is one of those ones full of unreleased stuff, B-sides, etc, but it actually has some of my favourite Manics tunes on it. Anyway, I had a very bad day this day, and had to do this album cover very quickly, and it came out, well, shit. I wanted to do really big leopard spots, but this is the crappy look I came up with with the ten minutes I had:






Its not the worst, its just not what I had in mind. Its not even a good everyday look, though I did like my liner. I'm going to redo it.



This album is 'In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3' by Coheed and Cambria who are another one of my favourite, favourite, bands ever. They are very geeky, epic, and pretentious, and I just looove them. I wasn't going to do this for this mini project because its quite a boring cover, but I wanted a little bit of a challenge and I couldn't not include Coheed and Cambria in some way.






Overall, I liked this look. I'm struggling with dark looks at the moment, and the tiny pop of copper I thought looked really good.



DON'T JUDGE ME! I effing love Meatloaf. If you're not judging me for liking them, then you're probably judging me for doing Bat out of Hell II, not the first one, but I liked this cover better, and I always remember my Dad listening to this album. Anyway, I wanted a brown and gold with dark blue cut crease look. This cover called for something bold. I didn't choose the right colours really, the blues are all wrong, and the rust colour I used didn't show up in the pics, but hey, I love the look anyway.







Look at my shitty skin. Can anyone recommend a good UK drugstore concealer I can use under my eyes?! And a wrinkle cream?!


I wish I didn't have to do all these looks on days where I have to go out or go to work, so they didn't have to be LOTD too, but hey, its been fun, and I think I should post even where I screw up or its not right. Guns N' Roses look tomorrow :)

Love and musical kisses,

Robyn x

P.S... I finally decided I'm going to go to make-up school. I can't afford it for at least a year, but I am going to go. I'm looking at courses and going on open days anyway!

Mini Blog Project: Album Cover Inspired Make-up

I thought I would do a mini little project, and every day for the next week, I'm going to post a look that I've done based on the cover art for one of my favourite albums. I've decided to do this for two reasons: The lovely RaeRae asked in her post the other day whether people wanted to see more 'alt' beauty, i.e., tattoos and piercings and things. Now, I was brought up by bikers and hippies, so obviously I looooove tattoos and piercings but I don't have enough to even nearly warrant that kind of alternative beauty post. The second reason is that I'm finding blogging really rewarding and have 'met' some amazing girls, and I think its fabulous we all have something so expressive - make-up - in common with each other, and that it's a great platform for getting to know each other.

So, I thought that doing make-up inspired by my favourite music might tell you all a little bit more about myself personally as well as my style, and that it would be something fun and creative for me to do. Also, if people want to try this idea themselves, they can. I'm going to pick albums I both love and love the cover art to. But be warned, my taste in music is horrific :D

Day 1: 'Razorblade Romance' by HIM



If you've heard this album, you will know it is cheesetastic. However, I love HIM, and I love them even more because they're that little bit cheesy and ridiculous. This is my favourite HIM album by faaaar, and I love the gorgeous pinks on the cover (as well as the gorgeous Ville ;)

So I thought this called for a soft yet bright, graduated pink look, so I used matte pinks from my 120 palette. I used heavy liner on the bottom of my eyes because that would be what I did when I first listened to this album, except I blended it out with pink. I used only contour and highlight, no blush, to echo Villes lovely cheekbones, and added a little balm and nude lipstick. If I were going out, I would have added falsies, a lot more contour and done a glossy orange lip like Villes in the 'Join Me in Death Video.' As always, the pics don't show my vibrant this is and my highlight and colour by my lashes is utterly washed out :|









What do you think? Its very hard to do a graduated look starting from the lashline up. I could have done better, but I love the pink and I was in a bit of a rush as I was taking my friend from New Zealand round Camden for the first time today! (She loved it!)

And as this was partly inspired by RaeRae talking about tattoos, here is my pair.



I modified a Tokidoki bird to make him look happy. 'Bluebird' is a snowboarding/skiing term for a bright sunny day with lots of fresh snow, and I got it in Vancouver to remind me of the lovely year I spent there. We had lots of bluebird days :)



The script says 'Blood and wounds,' and it my totally badass family motto. I drew the rose myself and hope to add at least three more in the near future. This was my first tattoo and its completion is taking too long. I'm just too poor at the momemt.


Hope this wasn't too long a post and that you like this idea :) Please do it yourself if you do because I'd love to get to know everyone better. If you're not really into music, then do something inspired by your favourite books, films, poetry, artists, whatever!

Love and happier-than-last-time kisses,

Robyn xxx