Eye Look: Ombre Eyeliner

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Today's look is about workplace-friendly but creative eyeliner :-)

Usually, my eye looks are bright and quite bold, but lately I've been in a work environment where my colleagues don't  wear makeup and I end up feeling over-done. At the same time, I love makeup and the creativity I put into my looks, so I'm not about to quit. Most of the time, I ignore my feelings of being over-done and just go with whatever I feel like doing. This is a look I came up with on a day I was running a bit late and I thought it might be a good way for those of you who are a bit scared of full-on eyeshadow or really bright eyeliner looks to dip a toe in the bright water :P

Bright blue and black ombre eyeliner look

Bright Graphic Eyeliner Smoky Eye Look

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Have you seen the neon green graphic eyeliner smoky eye look Pat McGrath created in the Atelier Versace Spring Couture 2013 show recently? It was all kinds of amazing and bold. In honour of that look, I've come up with one of my own (not quite as neon...). I hope you like it!

Bright Graphic Eyeliner Smoky Eye Look

New Year's Eve 2012/13 Eye Look

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Happy New Year! To kick off the new year, I thought I'd share my eye look from last night/ this morning. I usually go all out on New Year's Eve but this year I decided to skip the falsies and make my eye look more interesting with smaller details you'd miss if you weren't looking closely. It's mixed metals, graphic eyeliner and lots of shimmer and glitter.

New Year's Eve New Year's Eve mixed metals graphic eyeliner eye look, one eye close up.

Recent Activity....In case you missed it!

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This is a bit of a summary post, in case you missed out on some earlier posts. I realised I've been posting a lot (a good thing) but that may mean that some of you might miss out on posts as they get pushed back to other pages. So here it is, a full page of links to my more recent work.

Are you looking for Holiday Season Gift Ideas? Check these out:

Holiday Gift Sets for those wanting an all-encompassing gift
Stocking fillers (eyes edition) for those wanting to gift a mascara, primer, eyeliner or eyeshadow palette.
Stocking fillers (face edition) for those wanting to gift concealer, primer, highlighters or bronzers.
Stocking fillers (lips and nails edition) for those looking to give the perfect lipstick, lipgloss or nail polish.


I've been fairly busy with reviews and swatches, too. Check these out, if you haven't already:

Rimmel London BB Cream in Light
Rimmel London Kate Moss Lasting Finish Lipstick in No. 10 (that awesome red she wears in the ads)
Lime Crime Rhyme and Reason Uniliners
                    I also did some looks using these unliners- I used theBalm Balm Jovi palette with Reason and
                    with Rhyme, and a look using the Urban Decay Vice Palette's Junkie eyeshaodw and Reason.Lime Crime Alchemy Collection (eyeshadow, 2 lipsticks and a mook)
Lime Crime Carousel Gloss in Candy Apple
Lime Crime Opaque Lipstick in Glamour 101
OPI Skyfall Collection Nail Polishes
                   Skyfall
                   The World Is Not Enough
Illamasqua Fundamental Palette
Maybelline New York Fit Me Foundation in Ivory 115

I've also done a couple of looks- again, if you haven't seen them, click below:

Halloween Cleopatra Look
A smoky eye using the Urban Decay Smoked Palette
A purple eye look using theBalm Meet Matt(e) Palette and the Urban Decay Smoked Palette
A Vesper Lynd-inspired multi-coloured smoky eye (yes, I had a bit of a Bond-crazy moment)

That's about it!

I hope you're enjoying my posts. I'd love to hear from you in the comments. Is there anything you'd like to see me review? Or a particular look for which you'd like a How-To?

xo
Anna

Holiday Season Gift Ideas: Stocking Fillers (Eyes Edition)

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Are you looking for a smaller gift or a few individual items to put together as a personalised gift set? This post is for you.

Today's gift category: Individual items/Stocking fillers

Edition: Eye products

Holiday Season Gift Ideas: Gift Sets

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Have you noticed all the awesome holiday gift sets and limited edition releases for this holiday season? This is the first post on some holiday gift ideas for the upcoming gift-giving season.

Today's gift category: An all-encompassing gift or gift set

Look: theBalm's Balm Jovi and Lime Crime's Unliner in Rhyme

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Quite obviously, I've been playing with my Rhyme and Reason eyeliner set by Lime Crime and with theBalm's Balm Jovi palette, too. Unlike in my last look, in which I paired silver eyeliner with a matte shadow, in this look I decided to throw restraint out the door and go all out with shimmer and glitter.

Eye look using theBalm's Balm Jovi palette and Lime Crime's Uniliner in Rhyme (eye open)

Look: theBalm Balm Jovi and Lime Crime Reason

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Here's a look I did using theBalm's Balm Jovi palette and Lime Crime's Reason Uniliner. I thought the contrast of a dark matte shade and the light silver was pretty.

Eye look  using theBalm's Balm Jovi palette and Lime Crime's Uniliner in Reason (eye closed)

Review and Swatches: Lime Crime Unliner Duo in Rhyme and Reason

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As promised, here is my review of the Lime Crime Unliners in Rhyme and Reason. These were sold in a special promotion a while back as a limited edition set- Rhyme and Reason for $20.

Lime Crime Unliners in Reason (L) and Rhyme (R).

Halloween Special

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Do you celebrate Halloween? I usually don't. It's not a traditional holiday here, it's something that's been imported from the US in recent years. I'm way too lazy to get a good costume, so for the most part, I don't bother. There is ONE exception. I have always loved the insanely dramatic eye makeup Elizabeth Taylor had as Cleopatra. Despite not celebrating this myself, I am majorly procrastinating right now and I decided to replicate the look (as best I could). Now that I'm done, I feel like this is wasted effort and kind of wish there was a Halloween party I could go to tonight :-(

My Cleopatra eye look, close up.

Look: Balm Jovi + graphic eyeliner

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As soon as I got my new Balm Jovi palette, I couldn't wait to try it out. I've also been wanting to give graphic eyeliner a go- it's been trending on catwalks for a couple of seasons now, but I hadn't gotten around to doing a look of my own.
Here it is!

A graphic eyeliner look done using theBalm's Balm Jovi Palette.

Review: Bobbi Brown and Too Faced

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This is a two-in-one review of both Bobbi Brown's Long-Wear Gel Eyeliner (in Black Ink) and the Too Faced Fun in the Dark palette. Here's the freshly-applied pic: