Illamasqua 'Throb'

Never one to shy away from a bit of controversy & innuendo, Illamsqua's 'Throb' collection (available online from next week), is packed with seduction and titillating product names. Some, such as 'Load', the creamy white nail polish are quite obvious (and ummmm, a little disgusting?!) but others such as 'Succubus', (a gorgeous red lipgloss) less so - Succubus is the female version of the better known male 'Incubus' - a demon which uses it's gorgeousness to seduce it's victim in sleep.

Lipgloss in Succubus

The product I have my eye on, is the namesake of the collection; this delicious cherry red polish in Throb. I do love me a bit of red & think this will be the perfect little birthday treat to myself!

Xmas/New Year Makeup Matte Eyes & MAC Rebel Lip

Hi lovelies,

Was getting a bit bored of having glitter all over my face & decided to do a matte look. Was also challenged on twitter to come up with a look using MAC Rebel Lipstick & here's what I did!

You can see the video here, but here's a quick break down of what I did...

Skin - MUFE HD Foundation, mixed with a smidge of MAC Face & Body in white, to lighten it slightly. Concealed under the eyes with MAC NW20 Select Cover Up.

Eyes - covered from lashes to brow with Brulee. Created an outer V & kept the crease super dark and defined (don't blend too much) using MAC Carbon. Defined the lashes with a very thin line of Clinique black gel liner. Loads of black mascara on top lashes only.

Brows - defined using Shu Uemura brow pencil, then darkened with MAC Carbon.

Cheeks - Illmasqua Nymph Blush & Chanel Bronze Universel to contour.

Lips - MAC Rebel Lipstick!

hope you like it!

A xx

Illamasqua Pixiwoo Tribute Kinda Thing...

If you follow Pixiwoo's Sam on Youtube or Twitter, you will know that she was recently asked by the Courtney Love to recreate a look from one of Illamasqua's campaigns. I absolutely adored the look Sam created and thought I'd give it a go. Pixiwoo gets a few of negative comments for some of the looks they do tutorials on not being 'wearable', which I think is nonsense. Make-up is meant to be fun, creative, whimsical, theatrical; why does every look have to be a day wear? What's the point in having a black lipstick if not to do something like this??!! Rant over....

My humble creation is below. If you want to watch the lovely Sam in action, click on the youtube link below or you can see Pixiwoo's Fashion Face TV blog by clicking on the link on my blogroll.

It'd be great to hear what you think!

http://www.youtube.com/user/pixiwoo#p/a/u/1/SpOjghog8m8

Nails Nails Nails...

So, this is my 3rd attempt at this post! I put one up this morning and then deleted the post by accident, then I deleted my entire blog which is why you are now looking at this one with posts missing! Grrrrrr good thing I don't have any exams in the next day or so... ahem.

Right, when I posted the 'brights' look yesterday it had an explanation behind it, which was that when I was reading Feb's issue of Vogue, it had an article stating that 'Make Up is Back'. I was unaware that it had ever gone anywhere, maybe I've been out of touch and have been unfashionably parading around in eyeliners and lipglosses. However, I figured I would celebrate the return of face painting by doing something fun; the result was the pics you can see below. Do you like the pink feathers in my hair? They kept making me sneeze.

Whilst I was preparing for yesterday's bright look (which was done using a Sleek palette - you need to check these out!), I came across a few mentions of Illamasqua's new Pastels Polish range that will be launched at the end of Feb. Not willing to wait to try it out and unlikely Illamasqua are going to be sending me them anytime soon, I thought I'd give the yellow a go. I decided I wasn't going to spend more than £5 on something I was positive I would hate and I picked up Collection 2000's Hot Looks polish in 'Sherbet Lemons' for £1.94 in Asda (the price reflects the fact that it took 2 very generous coats to get an even finish - but it did dry very quickly!).

I have been pleasantly surprised! For someone who normally wears Rouge Noir, it feels a bit 'Runway Sports Wear', but actually it has cheered me up no end in this miserable scottish weather! So, my recommendation is a 'thumbs up'!!