Makeover! Hooray!

So this weekend my little sister came to stay with me. We spent the weekend mostly eating and drinking a whole lot of shit, watching The Breakfast Club and talking smack. Good times.

She wanted me to do her make-up so I grudgingly agreed. Her name is Toni, fyi, and here is her lovely before face:



And after:







Eyes:

UDPP
NYX JEP in Milk (inner half of eye)
Fyrinnae Pixie Epoxy
MAC Gesso (inner corner)
Sleek Candy Floss (outer half of eye)
Sleek Pink Punch (outer third of eye)
Sleek Lollipop (crease)
Evil Shades Zombie (just a little in the outer V)
Fyrinnae Crimson Ghost (under brows, middle of lid)
Kryolan black cake mascara
Evil Shades Devils Bonfire + Fyrinnae Sugar Skulls (mixed with eye drops as liner)
Active Cosmetics Razzle Dazzle lashes
Matte light brown from Sleek Storm (brows)


Face:
Revlon Colorstay in Buff and Ivory
Benefit It Stick
Almay Face Powder in Light
Sleek blusher in Flamingo

Lips:
MUA Lipstick in No 9
E.L.F Super Glossy something or other


She totally has Disney eyes, right?

Toni's style is normal style is somewhere between a tramp and a granny (in a fashionable, brogue-wearing type of way, though) so I wanted to do something bright. I think I used the wrong shaped lashes for her eyes and I borked up the liner (shitty ScreenFace brush) and had to put little stars on, but I really liked it. I thought the pinks were cute on her.

Anyway, afterwards she was moaning that she was rubbish at make-up, so I told her to do mine and that I would help her. She normally wear lots of liner and mascara and a coral lip, so I gave her the Sleek original palette to use on me so it wouldn't be too scary.





Eyes:
Gold from Sleek Original (lid)
Taupey-ish brown from Sleek Original (crease)
Copper from Sleek Original (outer V)
Rimmel Jungle Green Kohl liner
Fyrinnae Nijiro (highlight)
Maybelline 'The falsies' (it looks a little clumpy, but I'd been playing with my cake mascara earlier so thats why.)

Face:

Revlon ColorStay in Buff
Almay face powder in Light
MAC MSF in Stereo Rose

Lips: (not in all the pics, we forgot)
Natural Collection lipstick in Rosebud


Not bad, eh? The only thing I did myself were my brows. We thought maybe we'd added too much of Stereo Rose, but whatever. She did a really cute silver look on herself the next day so I like to think I imparted some wisdom!

xxx



P.S - If you say bad things about my sister I will hunt you down and shit in your slippers.

Lily Allen inspired FOTD and other looks...

If you got the issue of Glamour that had the free Benefit (if you didn't, clicky HERE to win an Eye Bright pencil) you probably noticed Lily Allens awesome 1960s style makeup. Well, my liner skills need some serious sharpening (ha!) so I gave it a little go...







I even tried to draw on Lily's moles! I think it came out ok... on one eye! Certainly need more practice with this sort of thing, and I need to get some more eyelinr brushes as I'm just using a 210 which is too small for fatty boombatty liner like this. I just used 120 shadows and Kryolan Aquacolor for the eyes, and Gosh Darling patted on with my fingers for the lips.

Todays... or yesterdays by the time I post this.. look is using Barry M Orange and one of my favourite combos, the purple and cranberry from Sleek Bohemian palette. Good ol' Kryolan Aquacolors for the liner, UD 24/7 on the waterline and Natural Collection lippy in Caramel.





An green look I wore a week or so ago using 120 palette and a Collection 2000 glitter liner (clicky here to win one!)





And lastly a 'crazy' look using my MAC 3d Silver glitter and a couple pairs of previously un-used falsies, purples from my 120 and Barry M Lip Paint in no 129 Palest Lavender. Didn't really like the look but... meh, here it is.







I can't tell you how much I love this glitter!

Thats all for now kids, don't forget to enter my awesome giveaway!

Love Robyn x

Chirpy chirpy cheap cheap

Why haven't you entered my giveaway yet?


I thought I'd do a quick post showing some uber cheap stuff I've got in the last whenever... to show you sometimes you get an absolute bargain and sometimes theres a reason something has that low pricetag...

First up are a couple of Boots Natural Collection Moisture Shine lippies. Now, I've bought these lippies before, when I was a teenager and haven't bought them since, probably because they are so cheap so I just had it in my head that they were total crap. And they're really not! Boots Natural Collection is always a fiver for three, so a while back I went to grab some. I was looking for the much coveted Apple Blossom shade but my local Boots is tiny and doesn't carry it. So I got:



Caramel. I adore this colour! its really subtle but it has a little bit of shine to make it that bit more glam. These lippies wear really well - I'm wearing this shade today and it stayed on pretty well while I ate dinner. While not exactly moisturising, they have a nice, fairly creamy texture and apply really smoothly and evenly.



Rose Bud. If you want to win a tube of this lippy, go and join my giveaway HERE! I adore this lippy. It really is a perfect rose colour. The pigmentation on these lippies is impressive for the price- when I swatched them all in Boots, my hand was stained for the whole day, and I only swatched the more natural colours, nrot the red or auberginey shades.


I bought some pigments on eBay because I thought they were glitter - there are a lot of Chinese sellers on eBay whose... well, its Engrish, not English! Anyway, it was 2.70 plus shipping for 12 so I'm not really that put out.






As you can see, these colours NEED a base. They're extremely fine and not the best pigmentation. But those pinks are really beautiful and the dark browns are lovely too. You can see you're getting a cheap product though - some of the jars are crammed with pigment and some are barely half full. Also, on a couple of the jars the top clear part of the lid is a little loose. I have dupes for most of these in my 120 palette too, but hopefully I can find a use for them! I wonder if you can marble nails with pigments...?




This is the LA Colours palette in Wildflower. I'd seen and heard great things about these on blogs and on YouTube but figured it was an American brand and that you couldn't get them in the UK. However, I saw these babies in my trusty local beauty supply for two pounds. Pretty looking, huh?





The liner here is Barry M Dazzle Dust in WinterBerry but the other colors are all the LA palette. The texture of the gold is a little odd, not very smooth at all and doesn't apply that well, but that pink is just beautiful and unlike anything else I own. I was pretty pleased with the pigmentation of this palette as I couldn't test it before I bought it - and bear in mind I only did this look over UDPP, and not over a creamy base. I'm probably going to nip back and get the monochrome palette at some point.

Also bought some Rimmel kohl pencils including this beautiful shade 'Loveable Lilac, which is slightly metallic and so pretty.



I also bought a Benefit 10 'dupe' from Primark, which I will do a review on soon. Its nothing like the Benefit colour wise, but the pigmentation and texture is pretty darn good - and its £2.50 for 10g at Primark while Benefit charge £22.50 for the same :| Comparison swatches soon?




So thats all for now. I'm on a make-up ban for probably a long time now. Well... we'll see :D

Robyn xxx