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.
lauantai 30. elokuuta 2014
Pale skin and make up
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!
See ya soon again!
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