With the entire country in a sort of soft-lockdown, with self isolation and social distancing orders in effect, it’s the perfect time to delve back into just playing with makeup. And with nowhere to go, the rules kind of just go out the window. I’ll admit that I’m not really that girl who is too shy to wear more out-there styles or colour combinations (hello, navy lips!) but today’s look was a liiiittle more different and I haven’t decided yet whether it’s actually outside my comfort zone.
The photo turned out well though so there’s that.
Ignore the fact that I was on struggle street with my brows a little bit. But here’s my face of the day, although I kiiiinda washed it off in favour of a nap after a couple of hours.
For the base I started with The Ordinary’s High Adherence Silicon Primer, and honestly it’s not my favourite. I’ll do a full review sometime later but I’m having mixed success at best using this primer. Today, for example, it stuck to parts of my foundation and clumped and moved together, leaving a bit of patchiness on my cheekbones.
Next I used MAC’s Studio Fix Fluid foundation (shade NW10), with Jeffree Star’s Magic Star concealer blended under my eyes (shade C5). That’s it for the face so this was a pretty half assed face of the day... mostly I wanted to play with eyeshadow and everything else was secondary, but the eyeshadow wouldn’t have looked good on an otherwise bare face, so here we are!
Brows are Anastasia Beverly Hills Dipbrow Pomade in shade Taupe, and let me just take a second here to tell you that yes I am attempting to learn to use Dipbrow for its intended purpose of drawing individual hairs and oh my god so far? Not so good. So I do what I can and trust me this is P R O G R E S S from even two years ago. So I guess, go me!
Anyway back to the point! For eyes I primed with MAC’s Paint Pot in shade Painterly, which is the perfect shade for my skin tone and has been my go-to for a solid decade. For colour I dipped into the Anastasia Beverly Hills Alyssa Edwards palette because I knew I wanted to do a pop of colour. And this palette didn’t disappoint! With a fluffy brush I swept the fuchsia shade Unicorn Tribe all over the lid, up to and above the crease. I kept the edges soft and well blended, and set down a few layers to build up pigment all over. Then with a pencil brush I buffed yellow shade Brick Road on the lower lid, keeping fairly close to the lash line but blending out.
Add some winged liner (Morphe’s Felt Tip liquid liner) and a coat of mascara (Misslyn’s Lolita Lashes) and the eyes were pretty much done! Easy peasy lemon squeezy ;D
The final touch was lips and I wanted something that complimented the eyes but didn’t draw away from them too much. For that reason I didn’t want to go for something dark, but I wanted more colour so stayed away from nude as well. So I figured, hell I might as well give this yellow lipstick a shot! I applied Velour Liquid Lipstick shade in Queen Bee by Jeffree Star Cosmetics, straight from the tube and without any liner or brushes to complicate things. It’s been unused for some time so the formulation is a bit thicker than normal, but it still went on comfortably and nice and opaque.
Then as a final touch I took some Queen Bee on a small flat brush and added just a touch to the lower waterline to brighten it up and blend into the yellow eyeshadow.
And that’s it for today’s look! I like it a lot more than I thought I would, and I really like the contrast of the colours next to each other without so many shades to complicate things. I’m not convinced whether I’ll wear stark yellow lips out of the house just yet but hey, it’s not like I’ll be going anywhere anytime soon anyway!
So what do you think? Are you a fan of colour blocking in makeup? Would you rock a yellow lip??
Until next time!
~V
