Monday Rainbow Challenge- Gold!!
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Happy Monday Ladies!
Well I hope you all had a nice
weekend, mine was a big one, it marked my 1st year living in Dublin.
I was asked on Saturday if I had any regrets on my move to Dublin and I said
no, not one, and it’s true. Although I miss home a lot at times (your own bed
and your best friends) I am so happy I took the chance and made the move, if I hadn't, there’s no way I'd be sitting here writing to you guys as the blog
would never have happened!
So where are we with our
challenge? Well if you have been following on the Monday’s you'll know myself
and Elaine from RubyLaineMakeup have taken on lots of colours and now we are back
with a gold look.
Gold is something I think blue
eyed people like me go for a lot, I know when I started to take an interest in
makeup, gold was a go to colour for me, I had heard gold, cream and brown
looked good on blue eyes so it’s all I ever went for with my looks.
For my look I used a number of
products you can see pictured here.
I wanted to make it a fancy gold look suitable for a night out but I'm afraid it didn't work out exactly as I had planned. I had a pigment I thought would brighten the look up a lot with and then I also had quite a glittery shadow from one of my Urban Decay palettes, I attempted to use my flat brush with some duraline on it and it didn't help at all, the shadow went quite clumpy so it turned into a big of a fix job if I'm totally honest.
I wanted to make it a fancy gold look suitable for a night out but I'm afraid it didn't work out exactly as I had planned. I had a pigment I thought would brighten the look up a lot with and then I also had quite a glittery shadow from one of my Urban Decay palettes, I attempted to use my flat brush with some duraline on it and it didn't help at all, the shadow went quite clumpy so it turned into a big of a fix job if I'm totally honest.
It can be quite difficult to play
with shimmer shadows, I found my dark shadows on the outer corner quite hard to
blend but that’s just a practice thing with me I think, I'll get there with
time :)
So the brushes I used were as
always my faithful Blank canvas E24 flat brush my E25 & E26 fluffy brushes
and I also used my pencil brush from my Nima brush collection and a 6SS from
Inglot.
I used about 3 different brown
tones, a black and my gold glitter shadow from Urban Decay. I also added some
Sleek pigment which didn't go too well so piled back on the shadow. I had
prepped my eyes with a MAC paint pot in Soft Ochre.
Here is a couple of shots of my
gold look…
This pic is no flash taken inward on the S4
Using flash on my Samsung S4 phone
These two are filtered using Beauty Mode on my Samsung S4 phone
Elaine’s look is quite similar to
mine but she has a beautiful darker crease and her lashes look amazing.
I also love the little pout she has going on here. Be sure to click over to Elaine’s blog post to read how she achieved this look. I would have liked a darker crease like Elaine and I really like how strong the gold colour looks on her eyes. As always her accessory is perfect for this look, it’s always the little touches she adds that just make her looks perfect.
I also love the little pout she has going on here. Be sure to click over to Elaine’s blog post to read how she achieved this look. I would have liked a darker crease like Elaine and I really like how strong the gold colour looks on her eyes. As always her accessory is perfect for this look, it’s always the little touches she adds that just make her looks perfect.
If you have any suggestions on
what we should use for our colour challenge getting closer to Christmas then
please do let us know and we will give it a go for you :)
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Have a great evening...
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