Primer and Fixing Spray Review - Urban Decay and e.l.f.

Hey guys :-)

Having spoken about the Urban Bride box from Urban Decay in my last post, I thought: "These products need to be put to the test."

So I went to Voodoo last night with an awesome, yet difficult to maintain, crease-cut eye look; I must say it was inspired by a two year old look by Tina Marie, and having not ever attempted crease cutting before I'm not ashamed to say she does it a lot better than me, my skin kept wrinkling up under my liner and messing up my lines, and I can't draw a straight line to save my life!

I used highly pigmented colours on my eyes (Sugarpill, for the most part) with a mix of pen and gel liner, over the top of Urban Decay Eden Primer Potion.

For my face, I used e.l.f. Mineral Infused Face Primer, with my usual Infallible foundation from L'Oreal. I contoured and blushed lightly, applied the Urban Decay HD powder and spritzed with the UD All Nighter setting spray.

Then I went out, drank, smoked, hugged people, smooched with my fiance, and danced like a maniac. The club was really hot, and the only air conditioning was on the dancefloor. I was sweating so hard after one dance session (White Zombie: More Human Than Human, Nine Inch Nails: The Hand That Feeds, 36 Crazyfists: Slit Wrist Theory, Buckcherry: Crazy B!tch; I mean really, how can you not go mental when you've got  tracks like that back to back?) that the sweat was literally running down my face.

Terrible conditions for your make up, and all I had brought for touch ups was lipgloss.

So I traipsed in around 4:30/5am and walked straight in to my bedroom to take some photos so I could get on with washing my face (I couldn't wait to take my lashes off.)

Here's what I looked like:

The line was wonky to start with!

My skin was still looking good!

No colour runs, no liner runs.

I'm exhausted!

No foundation streaks.

No under eye creasing.

Looked just as good as when I had just done it.

Can I take it off now? I want to go to sleep!

So, my verdict? Amazing stuff, these primers and fixing sprays. Now I have to try some others to see if they match up to the standard that has been set by e.l.f.  and Urban Decay! 

Have you tried any other brands of primers/fixers? What did you think of them?

Thanks for reading,

TTFN!

Hell Thirteen 

xoxo

Hotter Than Glammed featuring Very Large Photos!

Hey everyone!

I thought I'd show you what happens when I'm actually going out, rather than playing dress-up in front of the camera.

Kayleigh 13 and I were off to Hotter Than Glammed at Nambucca to see our darling friend Flash and the new line up of King Lizard, and she kindly let me do her make up. I loved my own Sugarpill look, but I think her eyes looked stunning! Here are some of the pics from the night, some of them are really big but they show a lot of detail in the makeup:

Brushing away the fallen glitter (Collection 2000 Glam Glitter, Celebrity and VIP, and Too Faced Kitty Glitter in Cat Fight)

Lining my lower lashline with Midori by SugarPill. On the lids a gradient of Afterparty, Poison Plum, Dollipop and Tako, topped with Collection 2000 Dazzle Me! in Stonewash and Magical

My finished look, before getting changed and styling my hair. OCC Lip Tar in Anime on the lips. Sleek Acid green, yellow and orange colours on the lower lashline and inner corners, and my usual mascara duo.

With closed eyes. Not a great shot because I was scrunching my eyelids a bit.

The finishing toughes for my tropical butterfly Penelope Garcia look.

Kayleigh, with just the eyes done.

My beautiful Purple Glitter creation.

Kay before anything other than eye make up
... and a duck face

Kayleigh's finished look.

"What on earth is 'Epic Nyan Cat?!?'"

And Finally, a shot of Flash being epic. Awesome gig.

Hope you enjoyed seeing some high-quality photos that put my webcam to shame!

I'll try and get more volunteers for make up looks.

TTFN!

Hell Thirteen

xoxo

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.