FOTD – Have-It-All Evening Glamour

Posted on May 11, 2012 by tinnipoo

Getting the right balance between eyes, cheeks and lips is tricky. The old rule of thumb in makeup, is that where you focus on one, you play down the others.

But greedy me want it all! I love having smokey eyes, flushed cheeks AND vibrant lips. So what to do? Luckily, the BÉBÉ POSHÉ Sweet Doll Super Palette I purchased in Taiwan showed me the way.

I’ve worn this look to a wedding reception, and a night out on the town with the girls, and really like it! It’s not too OTT, as the full-on smokey eyes and beige lips can be too harsh for evening events, and bright lips and nude eyes are a bit, too understated for my liking

Face:

Of course, luminous skin is a must, and also needs to be budge-proof to withstand the hours of party time . For blush, I’ve really been loving BÉBÉ POSHÉ Sweet Doll Super Palette’s tip, in that you use a peach shimmer blush all over the cheek area, and a girlie pink on the apples.

Za BB Cream
Face of Australia Stick Foundation Ivory
YSL Touche Éclat Radiant Touch
Face of Australia Translucent Loose Powder
BÉBÉ POSHÉ Sweet Doll Super Palette – colours A, B and highlighting stick (see details here)

Eyes:

Again I rely on the BÉBÉ POSHÉ Sweet Doll Super Palette for the just right smokey eyes. I find the key to smokey eyes that don’t look intimidating, is to use pink on the inner corners, and terracotta along the socket line (I blend a bit of colour A of BÉBÉ POSHÉ Sweet Doll Super Palette into it).

Leave the brows until after the eyes are done, and go slowly when building up the colours on the eyes – put a bit on, look at your eyes in the mirror, then put more on as required.

I also use 2 pairs of eyelashes, as I find that to give the most natural yet dramatic look.

GEO Circle Lenses Magic Black
Urban Decay Primer Potion
BÉBÉ POSHÉ Sweet Doll Super Palette
Solone Waterproof Gel Eyeliner Pencil Black
Benefit Brow-a-go-go
Face of Australia Imoact Curl Mascara Black
Fake Lashes Princess Lee No. 7 and Chanti No. 135

Lips:

I applied a bright lip colour, but with a lip brush so that it looks sheer.

Face of Australia Lip Quench Lipstick Forbidden Fruit

The best thing I like about this look, is that it goes well from evening to night. It doesn’t look too heavy in the early hours of the evening, but then the eyes take on a more smouldering effect into the night. The result is sexy, yet elegant.

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FOTD – Chinese New Year

Posted on January 24, 2012 by tinnipoo

Following my failure at Chinese New Year Mani, I thought I better try to redeem myself a little with a Chinese New Year FOTD. This is the makeup I did for the reunion dinner on Chinese New Year eve – as it was a relatively casual affair (just me, my parents, Mr Ronan and his parents), I kept the look subdued with touches of gold, red and black.

Face:

Since it was a very hot day in Melbourne, I was a bit more heavy-handed with the powder so my makeup holds up.

Face of Australia Stick Foundation Ivory
Lunasol Limited Edition Cream Cheeks EX03 Light Coral
Face of Australia Translucent Loose Powder

Brows:

Face of Australia Eye Definer Brown
Laura Mercier eyeshadows – Coffee Ground, Cafe Au Lait, and Fresco

Eyes:

Combination of gold, red and black – typical colours of Chinese New Year.

GEO Circle Lenses Magic Black
Kanebo T’estimo eyeshadow No. 3 – I used the sparkly beige gold for the entire lids and under the lower lashlines, and including inner corners of the eyes
88 Palette Eyeshadow - I used a matte red to accent the outer upper and lower lashlines. Also used a black eyeshadow over the eyeliner to set it so it doesn’t run down my face as soon as I step outside into the heat
Solone Waterproof Gel Eyeliner Pencil Black - I lined the inner upper lashlines most of the way, then took it up and extend towards the outer 1/3. Did the same with the lower lashlines so the outer 1/3 is more visible.

Lips:

Another reason I kept the eyes simple is so that I can wear a bright red lippy – which is a must for Chinese New Year!

Face of Australia Lip Quench Lipstick Forbidden Fruit – applied with a lip brush

We went to Hutong Dumpling Bar and ate heaps!! To be honest I reckon their dumplings are just okay, but I really love their Sichuan chilli dishes. My favourite is their 夫妻肺片, which I won’t translate for the non-Chinese readers cos it would most likely sound extremely unappetising. But I LOVE IT – one plate of this on a bowl of rice and I’m in heaven

Near the end of our dinner, a Dragon Dance crew came into the restaurant! It was so much fun and we made a small contribution of red packet, as it was going to charity. Once we left the restaurant we stood outside and waited for the firecrackers to be lit, and more Dragon dance. Mr Ronan’s mum absolutely loved it and recorded the whole thing on her Iphone – so cute of her!!!

Sending you all even more fortune & prosperity <3 <3 <3

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FOTD – Mermaid Inspired

Posted on January 8, 2012 by tinnipoo

Ah I love the beauty blogger community… just when I thought I’m stuck for FOTD ideas, out comes the fabulous launch of Makeup Utopia. Makeup Utopia will be running fortnightly FOTD challenges – and here is the first theme: Mermaid Inspired.

My interpretation of the theme is how I envisage a mermaid would look like: an ethereal and mythical sea creature with subtle colours of the sea. As a child, I used to love playing mermaid (by wrapping a blanket around my legs, of course ), and this is a perfect opportunity to re-live that fantasy.

Key Products:

Clockwise from top left: Lunasol Vacation Ocean Eyeshadow Palette, 1028 Visual Therapy Naturally Fair Foundation, Face of Australia Mineral Therapy Illuminator Angel Mist, Tom Ford Lip Colour True Coral, Kanebo T'estimo Eyeshadow Compact No. 3, Lunasol Cream Cheeks EX03 Light Coral, Face of Australia Mini Mousse Snow White

Face:

The skin is dewy, luminous with shell-like lustre. The cheeks are flushed coral, like a mild sunburn – which the mermaid got as she spends hours with her head above the ocean, peering at the beautiful prince.

Face of Australia Mineral Therapy Illuminator Angel Mist – applied all over the face/eyes/lips as base
1028 Visual Therapy Naturally Fair Foundation
Lunasol Limited Edition Cream Cheeks EX03 Light Coral - patted across the apples of the cheeks, and a little across the nose

Eyes:

As my interpretation is how a mermaid would actually look like, the eyes are kept really light with no use of pencils. The idea is that they are tinted by the sea grasses, golden sand and white sea foams, as the mermaid swims past them everyday.

GEO Bambi Princess Mimi circle lenses Apple Green
Lunasol Vacation Ocean Eyeshadows Palette – peach colour on the very inner lid, sheer aqua green all over the lid and under eye, and a little of the dark blue along the outer upper lashline
Face of Australia Mineral Therapy Illuminator Angel Glow - applied lightly under the inner and outer ends of the brows
Kanebo T’estimo eyeshadow No. 3 - gold applied over the brows and blended into the aqua green
Face of Australia Mini Mousse Snow White - dotted along the temple and upper cheek, and the inner corners of the eyes
Face of Australia Impact-Curl Mascara Black – just 1 coat over the top and bottom lashes.

Lips:

The lips are tinted coral and naturally moist, not glossy or shimmery.

Lunasol Limited Edition Cream Cheeks EX03 Light Coral - applied all over the lips
Tom Ford Private Blend Lip Colour True Coral - patted onto the middle of the lips for a subtle gradient
Face of Australia Massage Therapy Lip Shine Noosa - applied very thinly over the lips

I found the best ‘tool’ for this look, is to pat the colours on with the fingers. That way the colours look sheer, and not too precise. Hope you like this look, and look forward to see other entries in Makeup Utopia’s FOTD Challenge 1!

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GEO Bambi Princess Mimi Colour Circle Lenses

Posted on December 27, 2011 by tinnipoo

Hope everyone had a great Christmas and got lots of nice pressies! Mr Ronan and I celebrated Christmas eve with my family, and actual Christmas Day with his – so we’ve been eating and drinking for 2 days in a row

As Mr Ronan has quite a big family, for the last few years the adults take part in Kris Kringle – which I totally love cos it saves shopping time, and everyone gets to pick exactly what he/she wants.

This year I asked for some Circle Lenses. In case you don’t know, Circle Lenses are colour contact lenses that are bigger than the normal iris. Why bigger? It’s to give you cute doe-eyes. And when teamed with false eyelashes, you get the killer combo: doll-like eyes that are sparkly and innocent

I got 3 colours from the GEO Bambi series – Green Apple, Sesame Grey and Chocolate.

Manufacturer: Geo Medical
Life Span: 1 Year Disposable
BC: 8.6 mm
Diameter: 15.00 mm
Water content: 38%
Power range: 0.00 to -8.00

Green Apple:

I was hesitant in getting this colour as I was worried it would look too “out there” and alien-like. But I love them!! The green shows up quite natural and really pretty on dark eyes.

I teamed these lenses with green eyeshadows and raspberry lips on Christmas Day, and thought it looked rather fabulous

Sesame Grey:

These were not from KK – I actually purchased these a while ago. I have to say I don’t really like these – you can see that it has specks of light grey and gold which make them reflect blue/green especially in flash photography.

So rather than looking sparkly eyed, it makes you look startled. This is a common problem with grey circle lenses though – I’m still to find a pair that does not do the same thing.

Chocolate:

I love these – the combination of dark, reddish and gold browns make the eyes an adorable caramel colour. And it looks really natural.

I find the GEO Bambi series to be really comfortable and fits well on the eyeballs. They make getting “dolled-up” so much easier, as you can just chuck on these, some fake eyelashes and a little eyeliner and you’re done! If you’ve never tried them before I highly recommend you do – they are so much fun to play with!

And still on the subject of Christmas pressies… I got another great one to show off and that is the foldable light box from Mr Ronan! It’s great cos now I can take product shots on the balcony, and after I’m done I can just fold it and put it away. LOVE IT!!!

GEO Bambi series retail for $32.95 a pair and can be purchased on www.circlelens.com.au (they have heaps of other circle lenses too)

P.S. Sorry for the crappy tear duct highlight that look like sparkly eye goop. I’m still recovering from the Christmas festivities so couldn’t be bothered fixing it

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FOTD – Gothic Ingenue

Posted on October 30, 2011 by tinnipoo

Today’s FOTD was based on the ingenue. The ingenue is a character type that is a naive and wholesome young woman, with endearingly innocent eyes waiting to be rescued from the danger she often faces.

But a Google image search on ingenue was rather uninspiring; most images are of golden haired, green eyed girls with peaches and cream complexion. Nothing wrong with that of course, but I was looking for something a bit darker.

That is until I came across 2 images: one of actress Mary Pickford who played a number of ingenue roles, and a doll created by twingling painted by Jme called Ingenue. I liked the picture of Mary as she had a real harrowing look in her eyes, and the doll for its drama and colours.

Being Halloween, and the fact that I am darked hair with a warm complexion, I’ve changed the colours to red/orange/golds, and amped up the quirkiness.

The end result was a mix bag of ingenue, Lady Gaga, Gothic Lolita and Geisha. Oh well, I hope you enjoy it anyway as I had fun doing this regardless

Face

The face needs to be pale, flawless with a slight sheen so it looks porcelain like.

Hada Labo Arbutin Whitening Lotion
Cyber Colours Zero Pore Primer
Face of Australia Mineral Therapy Illuminator Angel Mist
1028 Visual Therapy Naturally Fair Foundation
Face of Australia Stick Foundation Ivory
Face of Australia Translucent Loose Powder
Catwalk Blusher Gossip (pale candy pink)

Eyes

GEO Bambi Chocolate circle lenses
Face of Australia Eye Primer Matte
88 Palette Eyeshadows

This type of FOTD is more suited to video format to clearly show the steps and techniques. Seeing I’m nowhere near the stage of doing video tutorials, I’d keep the directions brief and show you the colours I used:

Regardless of the colour combinations you use, the key is to create an exaggerated doe eye look, so leave a bit of the lower outer rim eye makeup free (ie. as if the whites of the eyes extend further down).

Colour A (satin fuchsia) all over the lid extending over the natural brows and outer 1/3 of lower rim.
Colour B (shimmer terracotta) in the middle of lids and middle of lower rims.
Colour C (shimmer yellow gold) in the corners of upper and lower rims.
Colour D (shimmer plum brown) to contour the edge of lids and nose.
Colour E (matte red) for the outer edges of the lids and lower rims.
Colours F (matte black), G (matte dark brown) blended together to further contoured the outer V of the eyes.
Colour H (glitter antique gold) under the brows to give a distressed look

Face of Australia Liquid Eyeliner Black
Chanti Eyelashes No. 135 - I used 1 full pair, then cut another one in half and put the half one on the outer corners.
Ardell lashes 112 – for the lower lashes

Brows

Brows are thin, dark with a downward curve.

Solone Waterproof Gel Eyeliner Pencil Black
88 Palette Eyeshadow Black

Lips

To exaggerate the pout of the lips, only the middle is stained with a red that is the darkest on the very centre of lips. This is then blended with a nude gloss to create gradient lips.

Alas as this is the very first time I’ve tried to do gradient lips, I failed rather miserably. Please refer to the picture of the Ingenue doll to see what it’s suppose to look like

Face of Australia Stick Foundation Ivory - all over the lip
Face of Australia Lip Quench Lipstick Forbidden Fruit
Face of Australia Massage Therapy Lip Shine Daylesford

Think my mistake here was using the dark red before the nude gloss – I realised that as soon as I’d put the first smudge of red in the centre of the lips, but it was too late to go back…

I still have a lot to learn in the art of blending, but am still kinda happy with what I’ve produced! If the opportunity and time permits, I’ll be sure to try my hand at it again.

Happy Halloween!

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FOTD – Springtime lunch with the girls

Posted on October 16, 2011 by tinnipoo

Spring is finally here! Ok, I know we’re half way into Spring already, but finally we have a weekend that is actually not gloomy. So I’m off to lunch with 4 of my high school gal pals and our partners today

I always like to go a little OTT with my makeup when I lunch with the girls, since they appreciate makeup and don’t say things like “hmmm…. crazy eyes” (which happened when I wore rainbow colour eye makeup to work once, in my defence I did so on casual Friday).

This weekend’s weather conjured up yummy, citrus-y colours. Being a casual Sunday lunch this look is soft, and really quick to do.

Key products:

Clockwise from top left: Lunasol Vacation Ocean Eyeshadow Palette, Face of Australia Lip Quench Lipstick Malibu Barbie, Face of Australia Lasting Looks Foundation Ivory, Missha Eyeshadow OR204, Lunasol Cream Cheeks EX03 Light Coral, Face of Australia Opulent Eyes Sapphire Desire. Middle: Chanti Eyelashes No. 135

Face

Hada Labo Arbutin Whitening Lotion
Face of Australia Lasting Looks Foundation Ivory
Face of Australia Stick Foundation Ivory & Beige – used as concealer under my eyes and to cover old pimple mark on chin
Face of Australia Translucent Loose Powder
Lunasol Limited Edition Cream Cheeks EX03 Light Coral

Eyes

GEO Bambi Chocolate circle lenses
Face of Australia Eye Primer Matte
Face of Australia Opulent Eyes Sapphire Desire – colour A in products picture all over the inner 1/2 of eyelids.
Missha Eyeshadow OR204 (colour B) - applied to outer 1/2 of eyelids, blending inwards.
Lunasol Vacation Ocean Eyeshadows Palette – colour C applied along lower lashline
Face of Australia Impact-Full Mascara (new formula)
Chanti Eyelashes No. 135

Lips & Nails

Face of Australia Lip Quench Lipstick Malibu Barbie
Face of Australia Colour Pro Nail Enamel Cool Cotton

And I’m off to lunch! Have a great Sunday y’all!

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FOTD – Doll Eyes

Posted on August 28, 2011 by tinnipoo

I know my last FOTD post was on monolids (see here), but seeing Lancôme’s latest campaign on their new Hypnôse Doll Eyes mascara has me inspired in another direction. And hey, isn’t part of the allure in makeup the ability to transform oneself?

Before you ask the question – I do have true monolids. But the process of ageing has made my eyelids more saggy, so now I find strip eyelashes to have the ability to prop my eyelids up and create the creases of open double lids.

Face

Nutox Oxyfusion Advanced Serum Concentrate
Biore UV Aqua Rich Watery Mousse Water Base SPF 50+
1028 Visual Therapy Naturally Fair Foundation
Face of Australia Stick Foundation Ivory - used as concealer under my eyes
Face of Australia Translucent Loose Powder
Face of Australia Mineral Therapy Blush Berry Pink
Face of Australia Blush Nutmeg - used as contours

Brows

Face of Australia Eye Definer Brown
Laura Mercier eyeshadows – Coffee Ground, Cafe Au Lait, and Fresco

Eyes

GEO Bambi Chocolate circle lenses
Solone Magic Waterproof eye pencil black – unbelievable pencil. Glides on easy, dries to gloss finish and same great staying power as a gel eyeliner. Line the top lashline with a slight extended wing, and thin line in both the top & bottom inner eye rims.
Face of Australia Opulent Eyes – an old limited edition eyeshadow palette. I used a terracotta colour over the entire socket and a dark suede brown colour over the eyeliner to soften the line.
Face of Australia Liquid Eyeliner Black - used to enhance the wings extended 0.5cm over the outer corners of the top lash line.
Undisclosed mascara – can’t wait to launch this as this has now become my go-to mascara.
Princess Lee fake eyelashes No. 7 Bold – slightly denser than no. 7 which is the best selling variant in the Princess Lee range. But the length is still natural.

Lips

Clinique Chubby Stick Woppin’ Watermelon - I whisper sweet nothings to this chubby stick whenever I see it, then kiss it all over after I’ve used it. The word LOVE is not dirty enough to express the adoration I feel for it

I’ve never been one to cam-whore, but couldn’t help myself – the great weather Melbourne finally got this weekend gave fantastic lighting!

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