Harry Potter Series_Ravenclaw

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It's time for my final instalment in the Harry Potter eye look series- Ravenclaw! The House colours are blue and bronze. It took me ages to get around to doing this look, mainly because of my intense discomfort with blue eyeshadow, but also because I just had no inspiration!

Ravenclaw's symbol is the eagle and that conjures up feelings of sharp, strong lines for me. I guess it's the beak. This look similarly contains sharply defined areas.

Image from: http://images.wikia.com/harrypotter/images/d/da/R_final.jpg

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.

Harry Potter Series_Gryffindor

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I don't know what happened, but somehow, my Gryffindor post was deleted.
 :-(

I've had to redo it all from scratch! 

This look is for my Harry Potter Series and it's for my favourite House, Gryffindor. The colours are gold and crimson. The look I've created is a very bold, theatrical look. I hope you like it.

Image from: http://images.wikia.com/harrypotter/images/7/70/G_final.jpg

Review and Swatches: theBalm Balm Jovi Palette

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I'm feeling pretty happy about this- I got my hands on theBalm's new palette, Balm Jovi, before it's even come out in Australia!

This palette has 12 eyeshadows, 2 lip colours, one highlighter and one blush. The eyeshadows are named after rock legends and music tempos and sorted into columns as per genre. The Heavy Metal shadows are Metal-ica, Iron Maid-in, Lead Zeppelin, and Alice Copper. The Classical shadows are Adagio, Allegro, Moderato, and Presto. The Alternative shadows are Blink 1982, The Stroke, rem and, Third Eye Blinded. It's very, very cute!

Update: Now with more pictures!

Tips and Tricks: Translucent Powder

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I recently bought translucent setting powder online, only to find it's a shade too light for me. How is translucent powder too light? It leaves a white cast on my face when applied at levels sufficient to mop up my face's OPEC-rivalling oil production. This is something that's NEVER happened to me- usually I find the lightest shade is too dark! I did figure out a couple of good uses for it, though, and I thought I'd share.

1. Applied with a small powder brush under the bottom lash line, it stops eyeliner/eyeshadow from travelling down;
2. Blended down from the lower lash line, it acts as an under-eye concealer/highlighter in that Hollywood way (not too heavy a hand, please!);
3. It's a great natural, matte highlighter for the area between the corner of the eye and the nose;
• I did a matte eye look recently and wanted to brighten up the area without using an obvious highlighter or adding shimmer and it worked perfectly.
4. Again, using a very small brush, a very light layer of this can be applied around the lips to stop any lipstick feathering out. 

Any other ideas?

xo 

Anna

Series: Eyeshadow Primer Reviews_Lime Crime

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I'm back, this time with a series of eyeshadow primer reviews. To kick things off, I'll be reviewing Lime Crime's Candy Eyed Eyeshadow Helper. I first heard about this stuff a while ago, and Wayne Goss raves about it as the best ever, so it has quite a lot to live up to.