Red

You all know how everyone warns about red and blue eyeshadows, right? Red makes your eyes look ill and sore, and blue makes you look tacky. Well, if you use them wrong they do make those effects. So I decided to try them. I tried red first - it became more pinkish red that I was thinking about but hey, at least I have a reason to try a more neutral red eyeshadow soon.

I actually liked the result more that I thought I would like. It is even more dramatic in real life, in this it does not look so wild. This inspires me to try some very, very colorful eyeshadows soon. Maybe playing more with a liner, perhaps?
I used my Coastal scents palette and some Grimas eyeshadows, Rimmel's eyeliner and Isadora's kohl. I still need to try to do my eyebrows better. I am thinking about plucking the ends off again and rising them a bit.

Red does not make your eyes look bloodshot and sore if you use a vibrant red bravely. If it is a dull red it will really look bad - so with reds it is actually better to put it on very brightly. Too bad it clashes almost always with my hair - luckily I ordered a black wig.

I realised that the color was almost identical with my hat/hairband thing I bought when I learned I got a job in my ex working place, Bijou Brigitte. The hat is actually from there :D And either my hair needs a cut or I need to grow it, dunno yet which I will do.

And here you go, some bad posing pics from my cellphone. I wonder how I manage to take better selfies with a cellphone than with my camera. Damnit.

Pale skin and make up

Hello there. I am not dead, I am alive and kicking – I have been a bit busy lately and haven't had really time to update or put some make up on.

But today I am talking about a thing that I feel like talking about – about a very, very pale skin and makeup.

My skin has always been tricky one. It is dry as a damn desert and when I stress it breaks out. So I can't just grab the first foundation I find in a shop, though I could not do it even if it was not so dry. I am very confused that we don't really have very light foundations in Finland, even though it's a northern country and people here can be very pale, including me. And as a pale person I really like to have foundation as my skin shows all pimples and everything you would not want to show.

I have heard even some make up artists just say that I should use a bit darker foundation to look healthy. I disagree strongly. Natural paleness does not make you look ill – wrong colors paired with it makes and being ill. I avoid going to a professional make up artist I have faced too many not-so-pretty ending results as they just put the lightest foundation they find on my skin, even though it is always way too dark for me. I had to once go trough the whole city with a spotted, discolored with foundation face. And believe me, people stared. A wrong colored make up base is a horrible thing – too light or too dark. You would not put shop's lightest foundation on a tanned person who just got back from south? No.

Maybelline has this Fit me foundation that people said fit to a very pale person's skin, so I went to try it on. I kinda wanted to cry as it was again way too dark for me. It seems like I can't win. I used to put some Stargazer white foundation into a normal foundation to make it lighter, but it did not really work as well as I hoped for. But the foundation really was nicely pale, I have to say that. My paleness is just on a scale of ”holy shit is she even alive?”.

I was again very disappointed, as I was starting to like to put more make up on. Then I started to look around, if I could find something from the internet.

I found Lily Lolo mineral foundation first, and ordered it. It was perfect – it blended in prettily. But if you wanted to do a more dramatic make up it would not fit it so well – it was not that covering, and especially with bad skindays it was not enough.

Then I found Illamasqua. Again, a perfect shade, but a bit too expensive (around 40 euros) and it made my dry skin go even more dry, even when I mixed it with some lotion. So again, hit and miss. Damn my dry and irritating skin.

Then I went to look around Grimas, as I heard someone saying that their ”gothic” light color was pale enough for goths to use instead of a pure white. I went to Punanaamio, asking for a small sample that I could put on my jawbone. And tadah, perfect! And the price was wonderful too, only 12 euros! The consistency is so thick that I still put some lotion in it, but it has worked wonders.

For pale people I can recommend Illamasqua, Lily Lolo, Maybelline's fit me and Grimas's foundations.

Enter some herpderp pics. See my hand's redness : D Snow White pics by RR and selfie by me.

I know that many dark skinned has the same problem as I have – finding a good foundation is a pain in the ass. But Illamasqua has some amazing dark foundations. They are expensive though. I hope that someday there would be a wider collection of colours in foundations – because there is a wide scale of beautiful skin colors, from light to dark. If I someday somehow make my own make up brand, I would want it to have as many foundation colors as possible.

See ya soon again!