Butterfly Dress Wedding Look

The Butterfly Dress

Firstly, I want to apologize for the crumby photos in this post. The lighting sucked and I was in a hurry but I think you get the idea- plus I was really pleased on how it turned out. Enjoy.

 

Products I used

• Fyrinnae Silica Gel Primer
• Estee Lauder Double Wear Foundation in Shell
• Physician's Formula Healthy Wear pressed powder foundation SPF 50 in Translucent Light
• Make Up For Ever Full Cover concealer in shade 02
• Mac Kissable Lip Color in Flaunting It (worn for a bit so the intensity has died down in the photos)
• TheBalm TimeBalm concealer in Lighter than Light
• Blinc Tubing Mascara in Black
• Fyrinnae Jade Ghost (inner corner and onto lid)
• Fyrinnae Sakura (all over lid)
• Fyrinnae Faerie Glamour (outer corner/crease)
• NYC cream blush stick in Big Apple Blush

I also did a manicure and pedicure for this outfit. I used Eyeko Pastel Polish on my toes with OPI Breathe Life over top (this photo does NOT do it justice! So pretty and opalescent!). On my hands I had Color Club Fashion Addict polish a really dazzling holographic lilac shade. (Again photo does not do justice!)

Does any of your clothing inspire your make-up looks?

FOTD: Robot in the Jungle

Yes, I assure you you've read the title correctly. I was invited to a joint birthday party this friday night and that was the theme, and since it was a sort of last minute invitation, I went all out with make-up! I decided by the end of the night I was a type of purple artificial intelligence moss. I used an overload of metallic shimmer finish products, so it's kind of frightening, but tell me what you think!

Kind of scary, aptly named "whore-bot" silly shot

Soft-focus effect so you can see where I added the most silver/white shimmer cream

Grainy day-light pic (before I changed shirts, put on a silver necklace and pulled back my hair :D)

Pore-mania close up (very warm light)

Right eye open

Left eye closed

All Evil Villain looking

Side shot for highlights

Close-up! *shoos hands at pores*

So First off, the reason I don't look so great in these pics is because I ran out of primer, so I've got pores galore at the end of the night especially (which is when the last pictures were taken). I'm getting waiting on some Cargo primer in the mail (which I'll review about later this month), but, ignoring that here's the products I used:

• Estee Lauder Double Wear Light Foundation Intensity 1.0
• The Body Shop Fall Leaves Blush in Berry
• Mac Go For It lipstick
• MUA (Make Up Academy) eyeshadow in shade 9 (all over the lid) (*psst* Urban Decay has an exact dupe of this colour eyeshadow!)
• Mac Vex eyeshadow
• GOSH Waterproof Cream Shadow Stick in Ivory
• Mac Fluidline in Rich Ground
• Clinique Lash Power Mascara in Black Onyx
• Too Faced Shadow Insurance
• Mac Plum Dressing Eyeshadow (Crease)
• Mac Petalscent eyeshadow (one of two highlights)
• Mac Prep and Prime Loose powder
• Laura Mercier Secret Concealer Number 2

If I were to do this look again I think I'd cut out the blush and just use straight silver/ivory all over the cheek instead, I think it would have been more striking and machine-like. 

Thanks for reading! Leave me a comment telling me what you think!

Face of the Night

Last night I attended the Medieval Times dinner show in Toronto, which is always fun to attend. However, the real point of this post is the makeup I did with this dress which appears black in the picture but is actually dark green with gold details based off a 14th century design. 

This is a full face shot at the end of the night so my lipstick had worn off (a dark wine red) but you can get the general idea.

What Products I used:

Face->

Lorac Aquaprime Foundation Primer

Estee Lauder Double Wear Light Foundation Intensity 1.0

Mac Prep and Prime translucent powder

Mac Angel Blush

Too Faced By Candlelight Face Powder

Laura Mercier Secret Concealer 1

Clinique Clarifying Solutions Concealer

Lips->

Revlon Twice Bitten Lip Stain in Twilight with Balm (Deep ruby red)

Eyes->

Mac Greenstroke Paint Pot

Mac Fluidline in Rich Ground

Mac eyeshadow in Vex

Mac Chromographic Pencil in NC15/NW20

Clinique Lash Power Mascara

Brushes->

Ecotools mini Kabuki

Ecotools mini crease blender brush

Quo angled liner brush

Ecotools Mini Blush brush

Quo angled blush brush

Face

After applying my acne treatment and a moisturizer, I used a foundation paddle brush and spread Lorac's Aquaprime all over my face in a thin even layer (excluding lips and eye area). After waiting for it to dry I then took the same brush and evened my skin out with my Estee Lauder Double Wear Light foundation. I like to apply foundation before concealer because I feel that you use less product over all as you only need to cover the marks that the foundation doesn't. I then took my ring finger and patted Laura Mercier's Secret Concealer into my under eye circles and blended it out into the surrounding skin. I then took my Clinique Clarifying concealer and covered any other spots showing through. 

Next using my Ecotools mini Kabuki brush I took Mac's Prep and Prime translucent powder and set everything on my face with it. I also swept it lightly over my eyelids as well. Using a blush brush I then lightly dusted on Mac's Angel blush along my cheek bones and apples of my cheeks (this is just a light baby pink coloured blush that is matte and easy to make look like a natural flush). Then using a flatter blush brush I took Too Faced's By Candlelight face powder and went over the blush on my cheek bones to very very subtly add a highlight. 

Eyes

I started this look by applying a wash of Revlon's Matte Vintage Lace eyeshadow all over the lid and up to the brow bone to even out the discolouration on my lids. I then took Mac's Rich Ground Fluidline and lined the entirety of my upper lash line and the outer quarter of my bottom lashes to bring out my eyes. I then took the liner and put it along the outer three quarters of my waterline. I finished lining with Mac's NC15/NW20 chromographic pencil on the remainder of my waterline and underneath the liner on my lower lashes blended in to match the skin to create a very subtle brightening effect.

After lining, I took Mac's Greenstroke paint pot and using my finger lightly blended it all over my lid from the edge of the liner into the crease.  Then using Mac's Vex eyeshadow and a soft fluffy blending brush I lightly applied Vex starting from the tear duct up and around Greenstroke to the brow and over the crease.  I then finished off the look by brushing on a coat of Clinique's Lash Power Mascara (a tubing Mascara that comes off in tubes and actually keeps my mascara from smudging and flaking).

I then finished off the outfit by wearing dangling celtic earrings (not pictured sorry they were heavy so I took them off) and a necklace by the jewelry designer the Knotty Magpie (who's work is available in the Royal Ontario Museum).

Here's the whole look (minus the lips again I'm sorry!)

Hope you liked it! Tell me what you think or if you'd wear the makeup in the comments!