Pictorial: Club Naked II

I'm baaack with my pictorials! Haha! This is actually the look I've been wearing on Thursdays when I work the late shift at work. I've actually received quite a few compliments on it as well (there's a SHOCK!). So, instead of doing a step by step from just two photos, I quickly redid the look for a pictorial :D

First before anything, I primed my eyes with Milani Eyeshadow Primer and allowed that to set for 30 seconds.

Next, I used PIXI Shell Sheen in the inner corner, on the upper lid and below as well. Then taking Brun Beam I filled in the rest of the lid, also taking it along the lower lash line.

After that, I used MAC's Club (if you don't have this, I'm not sure, but check out Wet n Wild's Comfort Zone palette, there could be an alternative to use there) all over where I had placed Brun Beam. I took Club slightly into Shell Sheen just so that the inner corner color would have a good transition. I also brought Club up above the crease slightly for the next step...

Taking Naked 2 from Urban Decay's Naked Basics palette, I placed that above the crease as a transition color. I went in with a couple of swipes until I was satisfied with it.

Inner corner time! I used Venus again from the Urban Decay Naked Basics palette. Placing it anywhere that I had placed Shell Sheen, and blending it into Club.

Next, taking an angle brush I used e.l.f.'s Cream Eyeliner in Black to line my upper lash line. Then used Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Pencil in Rockstar on my lower water line.

Not pictured is the mascara I used, which is Maybelline's new The Falsies Big Eyes Duo Mascara (review to come!) I also forgot to curl my lashes (d'oh!). Two coats to the upper lashes and one coat to the lower lashes. Then you're done!

Products Used

• Milani Eyeshadow Primer
• PIXI Lid Last Shadow Pen in Shell Sheen
• PIXI Lid Last Shadow Pen in Brun Beam
• MAC Eyeshadow in Club
• Naked 2 from Urban Decay Naked Basics
• Venus from Urban Decay Naked Basics
• e.l.f. Cream Eyeliner in Black
• Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Pencil in Rockstar
• Maybelline The Falsies Volum'Express Big Eyes Mascara
  

Tutorial: Iron Man Mark 25 Inspired Eye Make-up

It's that time again! Yup, I have another Iron Man inspired pictorial. I had this one planned ever since I saw the movie, it was just the matter of trying to figure out what Mark it was. I'm still not entirely certain, but I went with the Mark 25.

Courtesy of Google

If you look at the official Iron Man 3 game, the Mark 25 is mainly a dark charcoal/blue hued suit that has a vivid green arc reactor installed, not your typical arc reactor as it appears as a thin-ish slit in the chest plate. The eyes and accents on the helmet though also glow the same vivid green. Not to mention there's also yellow/gold to the armor as well. I originally thought the suit I saw in the movie (briefly), that it was a different suit, couldn't find any images of what I thought I saw, so the yellow/gold comes at the very end of the tutorial.

Started off with two bases. I wanted to make sure that green popped and the charcoal was dark enough. I put Pixi's Shell Sheen along the lash line of my lid, along the inner corner and half way along my lower lash line on the bottom. Then taking Pixi's Brun Beam Everywhere else up to the crease and the other half of the lower lash line. I tried to blend in, but both had already dried. Erk!

Next up, the green! After going through all my greens and not really finding that "neon green" color, I ended up finding this one from Wet n Wild from the I Dream of Greenie trio shadow set. It's the Eye Lid color. Super duper soft shadow that breaks all over the place when I close the lid. Anyway! I placed it all over the area where I placed shell Sheen, leaving the very inner corner bare. Also took it along Shell Sheen on the lower lash line. I went over this a few times to get it really vivid.

The charcoal next! I used e.l.f. Baked Eyeshadow in Dusk, placing it where Brun Beam is. Also taking it along Brum Beam on the lower lash line, meeting it with the Green from above. I then went over the green again.

For the inner corner, I didn't use the blue shift from Aura as I normally would, being the arc reactor is green, I stuck to the I Dream of Greenie trio, and used the light green labeled Brow Bone. Blending it a little bit into Dusk.

Taking South from Urban Decay's Glinda palette, I blended that into the crease and above. To blend out South, I used Illusion (not pictured) from the same palette.

Two black liners like from the last pictorial. I tight lined my upper lash line using Studio Gear Invicible Gel Liner in Invincible Onyx, then to line my lower water line, I used Rimmel London's Blackmail.

After that for Mascara I used e.l.f. Volume Plumping Mascara on the upper and lower lashes. 

A minor tweek that I did was add in a yellow to the inner corner, for this I used the Brow Bone from Wet n Wild's Bright Idea trio. End Result?

Products Used

• PIXI Lid Last Shadow Pen in Shell Sheen
• PIXI Lid Last Shadow Pen in Brun Beam
• I Dream of Greenie from Wet n Wild
• Baked Eyeshadow in Dusk from e.l.f.
• South from Urban Decay Glinda Palette
• Bright Idea from Wet n Wild 
• Illusion from Urban Decay Glinda Palette
• Studio Gear Invincible Gel/Cream Eye Liner in Invincible Onyx
• Rimmel London Scandaleyes Shadow Stick in Blackmail
• e.l.f. Volume Plumping Mascara

Tutorial: Iron Man Suitcase Armor Inspired Eye Make-up

I'm baaack! I'm still trying to figure out what to do with the other armors, but for now I'm doing a tutorial using the Mark V or the Suitcase Armor as inspiration.

If you've seen Iron Man 2 then you'll be familiar with the Suitcase Armor that Tony dons while under attack by Ivan Vanko. It's primary color is the metallic red (candy apple red as mentioned in the first movie) and silver/chrome. I did throw in a third color, mainly representing when the armor is heavily damaged by Vanko.

So lets get on with the tutorial!

Started off by using PIXI Peach Pavé as the base for the shadows.

Taking a pencil brush and using NYX Rust as one half of the "Candy Apple Red", I went along the crease, basically doing a blended cut cease if that makes sense. Not pictured is that I took it slightly along the lash line. I also took Rust along one half of the lower lash line.

Next the other half of the "Candy Apple Red", I used MAC Crown & Sceptre. Rust has a pinky tone to it so I wanted to cover that up by using a more muted metallic red. Which I think Crown & Sceptre does the trick. I just went over where I put Rust.

For the Silver/Chrome part, again, I used two different shadows. Starting off with MAC Melt My Heart as the base silver. I just filled in and blended the edges of both reds together with Melt My Heart. Taking this down along the lower lash line as well, filling in the other half.

The second silver I used which gives off more of a, chrome-esque, appearance is the silver side of OZ from Urban Decay. I just went over Melt My Heart, but with Oz I patted it on more so then blending. After putting that in place, I went over Crown & Sceptre again making sure that it stood out against the silver.

The Suitcase Armor gets heavily damaged by Vanko, and I wanted to somehow put a color in to represent the damage. Probably not the greatest representation of it, but I used South from Urban Decay above the crease. Again, I went over Crown & Sceptre.

For some reason my camera likes to blow this one out. But for the brow bone and to blend out the harsh line I created with South, I used Illusion from Urban Decay and a Missha fluffy brush. I think it's the blending brush.

Two part eyeliner. I used Studio Gear Invicible Onyx Gel/Cream Liner for tight lining. Then used Blackmail from Rimmel London on my lower water line. Optional, add wing liner! I'm still trying to get the hang of that, which is why I haven't done it.

After that (not pictured) I used the new mascara from Revlon, Lash Potion. Two coats to the upper lashes and a coat to the lower lashes. I probably should have curled my lashes, but I didn't want to run downstairs and try to dig out my curler ;x

Products Used

• PIXI Lid Last Shadow Pen in Peach Pavé
• Rust from NYX
• Crown & Sceptre from MAC (LE)
• Melt My Heart from MAC (LE)
• OZ from Urban Decay Glinda Palette
• South from Urban Decay Glinda Palette
• Illusion from Urban Decay Glinda Palette
• Studio Gear Invincible Gel/Cream Eye Liner in Invincible Onyx
• Rimmel London Scandaleyes Shadow Stick in Blackmail
• Revlon Lash Potion Mascara
  

Tutorial: Iron Man Mark 42/47 Inspired Eye Make-up

 

Red and gold time! Took me a little bit to figure out which Mark this was because I hadn't seen it anywhere despite it being the main armor in Iron Man 3. So far I've seen it as Mark 42 (XLII) and Mark 47 (XLVII). Can be that Mark 47 is simply the latest model of Mark 42. Ok, who's confused now? Raise your hand! I'm just going to call it Mark 42/47 to avoid confusion. 

The primary color for this armor is the gold, with the metallic "hot rod" red becoming an accent color. That's what I tried to do with this inspired look. Hopefully, it came out well. I was rather please with it at least!

Mark XLII/XLVII

1. To start, I primed my eye first using Milani Eyeshadow Primer. Then placed scotch tape, under my lower lashes at the corner of my outer eye so that I could get a nice crisp line. I did take some of the tackiness away by sticking the tape to the back of my hand twice.

2. Urban Decay Twice Baked. I wanted the red that I was going to use to be dark enough, so I start off with a base shadow. Using Twice Baked, I creased the "wing" then blended it into the crease, outer V and then smudged it along the lash line going all the way to the inner corner.

3. NYX Rust. In years past for Iron Man, I've always used Rust as the "hot rod" red, although it really isn't as metallic-y as I would like, it works fine though. I packed this on over Twice Baked, making sure all the brown was covered up.

4. I then removed the tape, getting the nice crisp line that I wanted. Going to Rust again, I smudged that along the lower lash line.

5. For the next steps, I used two different golds. First using Urban Decay Half Baked. I started filling and blending in the bare area going from the outer corner inward.

6. I then went over Half Baked with the gold half of Urban Decay OZ; taking both Half Baked and OZ down along the inner portion of the lower lash line, connecting them both to Rust and blending.

7. Because both Gold colors kind of washed out Rust, I went over again, with Rust to get the red to stand out again. I combined Rust with NYX Pearl Mania in Penny which is similar to Rust, but more glittery. I also took Gold OZ up above the crease, blending it from the tip of the wing around to the inner corner. I then used Illusion from Urban Decay to blend OZ upward.

8. For the inner highlight, I took (again for the Iron Man series!) the white blue shift of Aura from Urban Decay. Not pictured here is that I also took Aura and ran it along the underside of the wing to highlight it.

9. Liner time! I first used Rimmel London Scandaleyes in Blackmail, smudged it into my upper waterline and along my lower waterline. After that I took a very flat, straight eyeliner brush, loaded it with Studio Gear Invincible Onyx eyeliner and gingerly ran it along my lash line.

10. Last, but not least. Mascara!!! I used Studio Gear Impactfull Pro T.L.S. mascara (review coming). Two coats to the upper lashes, then coated the lower lashes. Then, you're done!

Products Used

• Milani Eyeshadow Primer
• Urban Decay Twice Baked
• Urban Decay Half Baked
• NYX Rust
• NYX Ultra Pearl Mania Penny
• Urban Decay OZ
• Urban Decay Aura
• Urban Decay Illusion
• Studio Gear Eyeliner in Invincible Onyx
• Rimmel London Scandaleyes in Blackmail
• Studio Gear Impactfull Pro T.L.S. Mascara

Tutorial: Iron Man Mark 40 Inspired Eye Make-up

 

So, when I was planning on doing the second Iron Man tutorial, I was originally working with the Mark 2 design. That, however, is practically a chrome look... not exactly inspiring, at least for me. So, when the image of the Mark 40 was released on Facebook, the "Shotgun" armor, I went with that one. Really this could go with any of the silver/chrome/metal looking armors though.

 

This is actually the first time I'm doing anything like this, so I'm going out of my comfort zone, but I'm trying.

 

Mark 40 Hyper Velocity Suit "Shotgun"

 

1. I used Maybelline Color Tattoo in Tough as Taupe as my base. I knew I wanted to "wing" the color of the eye, I used the old scotch tape trick so I could get a straight edge. Extending Tough as Taupe out using an angle brush.

2. Next up, outlining. Using a straight edge liner brush, I gently outlined the crease of the eye using MAC's Carbon. First shot I used an angle liner brush and didn't like the results. I didn't line the entire crease, I skipped over the center, so basically I only lined or cut the edges of the crease.

 

3. Being this is based on Mark 40 which seems to have a slightly blue metal look to it. I used e.l.f. Baked Eyeshadow in Dusk and a flat eyeshadow brush to blend Dusk starting from the crease down, not bringing it down all the way, but fading it down. I tried not to disrupt Carbon as I want the black to stand out. I also didn't bring Dusk out onto the little "wing" that I creased, I simply shaded the outer v of the eye avoiding the other area (does that make sense?).

 

4. Taking Melt My Heart from MAC, I blended it in all over the lid, blending it into Dusk, then going back over with Dusk to make sure that deeper steel blue shade can be seen.

 

5. Of course I can't be happy with just one silver. I really wanted the silver to pop so I took the silver side of Urban Decay's OZ and went over Melt My Heart. Also here, I remembered about my lower lash line. I took the flat liner brush and went half way, as close to my lash line as I could, with MAC Carbon. Then took Melt My Heart along the rest of the lower lash line, also taking it under Carbon, then I repeated the process with the silver side of OZ.

 

6. Taking Rimmel London's Scandaleyes Shadow Stick in Blackmail, I smudged that into my upper lash line then along my lower water line. Feel free to add liner. I still haven't gotten the hang of it, which is why I normally smudge liner onto my upper water line.

 

7. For mascara I used e.l.f. Volume Plumping Mascara, upper and lower lashes. And then, done!

Next one is definitely going to be one of the red and gold armors.

And of course, I forgot to take a photo of the products used. Luckily, most appear in the still photo tutorials ;x

Products Used

• Maybelline Color Tattoo in Tough as Taupe
• OZ from the Urban Decay Glinda Palette
• E.L.F. Baked Eyeshadow in Dusk
• Carbon from MAC
• Melt My Heart from MAC
• Rimmel London Scandaleyes Shadow Stick in Blackmail
• E.L.F. Volume Plumping Mascara