How To Be Emo

Hi guys!

I thought I'd put together a tutorial on the emo look. I've split it into two videos, one for hair and one for make up, they're about 10 mins each and I had to edit the crap out of them to get them down to that time!

They're up on my channel but if you want to watch them here:

Here are some photos of the finished look.

Mac Quite Cute inspired look, Using no Mac!

Hello there, pretty young things.

Today I thought I would put together a look inspired by and indeed somewhat similar to the new M-A-C Quite Cute collection. I own one M-A-C product, a single eyeshadow in Parfait Amour (frost) so there's no way I could do it using the proper shades. I'm simply not financially liquid enough to go out and buy it to review for you, I wish I was and hopefully when I'm a more established blogger I can review the more expensive products, either because they send them to me, begging me to review their products (doubtful, but a girl can dream) or because I make enough money from the Google adverts on my site to be able to buy them myself.

Anyway, I've put this look together with various products; most, if not all, cheaper than M-A-C.
Starting with the foundation, I used L'Oreal Infallible 16hr foundation in Porcelain, my favourite foundation because of its coverage and being pale enough to match my skin, and applied it with an e.l.f. studio powder brush, which acts like a flat headed stippling brush and can be used with a liquid foundation because of the Taklon bristles.

Then I ran some e.l.f. eyebrow treat & tame in ash through my brows. I love this product, I just can't deal with using eyebrow pencils and powder to fill in my brows, it always looks ridiculous on me. This is great because it just darkens the hairs a little (my brows are thick and riddled with blonde hairs that are invisible in most lights) but doesn't colour the skin underneath.

I used this Scarlett and Crimson blush powder - no shade, I think they only had one - to give my cheeks a glow. I really like this blusher (thanks, Kayleigh!) because of the beautiful colour and finish it gives, but the packaging isn't too well thought out. It's nice to have a loose blush, but when you dip your brush in you may get a lot more product than you bargained for!

I swept an eyeshadow from a Front Cover Rainbow Eyes Winter 08/09 palette over my lid, the colour was Lime. I love and hate these Front Cover palettes, they give you so much product - I think I got it in a sale so it was £15 for 25 eyeshadows - and you get some really fun colours in decent sized pans, but the colour payoff wasn't always up to scratch and their version of Eyeko's magic liner was rubbish and didn't work at all. This may have been because of the eyeshadows, but wasn't this designed to be used with those specific products?! I have found that when I'm not using the brushes they came with the payoff is much better, and I don't think these magic turn-your-eyeshadow-into-a-liquid-liner things ever work as much as we'd like, but I'd recommend using the Eyeko one over the Front Cover one and preferably, use a mixing medium or just wet your eyeshadows and use them with a liner brush.

I used the light pink shade in this Scarlett and Crimson palette on the inner corners of my eyes. It's quite a salmony pink with a decent colour payoff. Not sure about the consistency, as it's a little too powdery. Scarlett & Crimson is basically a teenage make up brand directed towards goths and emos, and the make up is put together by Ruby and Millie (that brand you always get money off vouchers for from Boots).
I later used the bright magenta shade on the inner corner of the brow bone, but forgot to take a picture.

This is the green from the same palette, used in the outer corners of my lids to darken the lime green.
I used a small flat brush from QVS. They do fairly cheap brushes, but they rarely do what they say on the label and are generally suited to a different task. I have their blending brush and it doesn't look anything like any other blenders I've seen, it's flat and stiff. I will always choose e.l.f. over QVS for brushes now, the range and quality are infinitely better at much lower prices.

I used a mixture of Wisteria and Viola from the same Front Cover palette on a Benefit fluff shadow brush to colour in my brow bone.
Another thing I forgot to mention about the Front Cover palettes is that they are made from cardboard and they are huge. This makes them hard to store and when someone inevitably puts it at the bottom of a pile the cardboard bends and because half of these shadows are domed (not sure why some are and some aren't, means you get less of some colour and more of another) they all get smashed to bits.

After I put the magenta shade in the inner corners of my brow I used a blush brush from Fraulein 38 to blend the magenta into my temples. I don't think I'd go out with blush so bright or so obvious on my temples, but I was going for editorial fashion make up so I think it's alright for today!


 I put some more Lime above my cheekbone to balance the eye a little better, and softly lined my eyes with the purple from the Scarlett and Crimson palette and the e.l.f. studio eye crease brush.

After blending the colours with the e.l.f. essential blending brush, I coated my lashes with Too Faced Lash Injection mascara. I love this mascara so much for everyday wear, because it doesn't dry and tug as the day goes on.

(Thank you Kayleigh! For those who aren't Kay, she's the lovely girl who gave me most of these products to try out!)

 I realised that I needed to darken the blush on my cheeks to match my temples, so I used the magenta again, and added the Carrot shade from Front Cover to warm it up a bit. I gave it a good blend with my flat powder brush so it wasn't too harsh.

 I slapped on Deborah lipstick in 6 Star Kiss, a shimmery pale lavender colour with a lovely sweet smell. 

I topped it all off with Eyeko London Lips in Soho, which looks a lot like the M-A-C Candy Yum Yum lipstick in a gloss. To start with, I only placed the gloss in the centre of my lips, to mimic the M-A-C Quite Cute look shown in their campaign photo. Later I spread the gloss to cover the whole lip.

The original model and me!

And here's the result!

After spreading the gloss.

I hope you've enjoyed reading this post, and remember that you don't always need to get the new M-A-C collection, you can just choose to be inspired by it instead!

Don't forget that I'm giving away an Eyeko London Lips gloss in Soho on Friday! That's the same one I used in this look. Just subscribe to the blog and comment "enter me!" I'll be announcing the winners on Friday (no more entries accepted after 12 noon on the day) and starting a new competition on Saturday, so you've got a day and a half to get yourself entered.

TTFN,

Hell Thirteen xoxo

My E.L.F. Cosmetics Haul/Review part 2

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I'd like to start by saying thank you to my new subscribers, it's all very exciting here in my little world to start a blog and have so many people reading it so quickly. I really hope that this continues to grow at this pace, because writing, games and make up are all things that I love to do. I'm almost up to 10 subscribers (last count was 8) and my Sigma brush give-away! Leave a comment and let me know if you'd rather wait until I get my brush in the post and do a review before I give one away, or if you think I should just get on with it and start the give-away once I reach 10 subscribers.


As promised, I made use of the EyesLipsFace.co.uk 20% discount on Monday and bought a load of new products to try out. Here's my 2nd E.L.F. haul review.

Elf Studio Tinted Moisturiser SPF 20 in Porcelain, £3.50


I did promise to get the tinted moisturiser from the studio line after reviewing the one from the basic line, so here it is. As @Ida Pie said in the comments for my last elf review, the porcelain is even more yellow than the basic ivory colour, but it is very light, doesn't smell as weird and with the studio line you get so much more product! The packaging is much nicer, too.


It didn't seem to use as much product to cover my face and the consistency was a lot nicer too - a little more liquidy, less sticky feeling, and you can feel it's a lot better for your skin than the basic line. Still has parabens in it though, and before I applied it the texture looked really lumpy - didn't effect the application or finish though.
Once it was on, I didn't notice the yellowness of it - as you'll see from the following pictures!

Elf Studio Angled Foundation brush, £3.50


This is a really lovely brush, made from Taklon bristles and cruelty free. It's so soft, and a decent size compared to the basic line foundation brush. It's also angled to help you get into the nooks and crannies around your eyes and nose. I really like this brush <3
The use of Taklon synthetic bristles means that not only are the brushes anti-bacterial, they can also be used with any product, be it wet or dry.

Elf Studio Powder Brush, £3.50


This is another wonderful brush, again, made from Taklon bristles. I've never owned brushes so soft as these. Great for buffing blusher and bronzer into the cheeks, and the flat top makes for precise application, even if it does make a right mess of pressed powder containers! I decided to use this brush to apply my new bronzer.

Elf healthy glow bronzing powder in Luminance, £1.50


Ah-ha! Now this is much more the right shade of bronzer for my pasty face!
In fact, in this picture, it looks a little lighter than my pasty face... However, I love this bronzer, and I think it will be my new favourite. It's just so subtle, which is how I like my contours to be!

Elf studio Blush in Gotta Glow, £3.50

This... isn't quite what I expected, and I'm not sure it's a blush so much as a highlighter, in this particular shade. From the website's photo, I expected a very pale pink. What I got was a very pale, shimmery gold. I'm in love with it, it's just the oddest thing to have a blusher that's basically yellow!

Elf Studio Complexion Perfection, £3.50

This is an awesome product. Get it. Basically it's four different pressed powders put together - a green, a yellow, a pink and a purple - that mix together to look like a skin tone powder. The green balances out redness in the skin, be it from spots or rosacea, the purple helps with bruising such as under-eye dark circles, and the pink and yellow even out the skin tone. The powder is formulated to remove excess oil and give a matte finish, great for my oily skin.






Elf Studio Kabuki face brush, £5.00

This was the most expensive item I bought from Elf, and at a fiver that says a lot for the prices at Elf! Of all the new lovely studio brushes I bought this week, this kabuki brush is by far the softest. It is so beautiful! The two-tone bristles make it look a bit like a badger brush, but this brush is made from synthetic Taklon, so again, it's cruelty free, and it's anti-bacterial. This brush is #WINNING. In the non-sarcastic sense. And it's the only brush that comes in a box.

Elf eyebrow stencils, £1.50

This set gives you several different brow shapes to choose from. Good luck getting them symmetrical!

Elf Studio Eyebrow Treat and Tame in Ash, £3.50

One one end, you get a hair-growing conditioning gel; on the other, you get a fibrous brow mascara. It made my eyebrows look fuller and kept them in place all day, and when I tried using a powder underneath it gave me really strong looking eyebrows, Elizabeth Taylor style.

Elf feather-proof moisturising lip liner in Spice, £1.50

This liner didn't go on as smoothly as I'd liked, but it is a pretty colour and they do send a free pencil sharpener with each one, so I'm happy. Elf UK are out of stock of most of their liner shades at the moment, which is the main reason I picked Spice.

Elf basic lipstick in Fantasy and Voodoo, £1.50 each

I think I made a mistake getting fantasy. Brown lipsticks just don't seem to suit me. Perhaps I need to try again, using a very light hand for a sheer colour. Voodoo is quite a dark shade, but when applied sparingly I think it looks quite beautiful. The texture is nothing to write home about, and the appearance of the product is a little too "my first make up" for my tastes.

Elf Studio Eye crease brush, £3.50


This is basically a small blending brush, for your socket bone. It's good, but not particularly special, just another addition to my brush collection.


Elf basic eyeliner brush, £1.50

I was a teeny bit miffed because this brush showed up with one extra long hair sticking out of it, but after grabbing my tweezers and removing it, the brush was fine. It did what I needed it for, and I prefer a flat liner brush to an angled or thin brush because there is a lot more control over your lines. It worked really well with my cream eyeliner, much better than the brush supplied with it!


Thanks for reading! I hope that helped some of you who are thinking of trying E.l.f. cosmetics. I'll leave you with a few pictures of me messing about with my camera. Don't forget to subscribe for my Sigma brush give-away!
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