Hello everyone. I hope you are all well. I have unfortunately been unwell the past couple of days, hence the delay in new blog posts, which I do wholeheartedly apologise for.
Today's make up is a smoked olive green eye against duo toned peach-pink contour.
I always begin with an eye primer. This prolongs the wear of my eye make up, prevents smudging, creasing and any other eye make up disasters that'd destroy my soul. This one is from Make Up Revolution and you can check out my review of it here http://vegan-cupcake.blogspot.com/2014/07/make-up-revolution-stay-dont-stray-eye.html
A cream base will act as an adhesive for your eyeshadow. This makes the colour even more vibrant. I blended one of my alll time favourite cream bases, NYX Jumbo Pencil in Milk, over my lids.
Today's lid colour is MAC's Sumptuous Olive. This is such a beautiful shade and swiftly became one of my favourites from the moment I laid eyes on it. An olive green with an iridescent gold shimmer running through it. Perfect to create a smokey green eye.
To contour the eyes I shaded the outer crease and lower lash line with a dark olive shade from the ELF Cool Edition Little Black Beauty Book. Check out my review of this palette with swatches http://vegan-cupcake.blogspot.com/2014/07/elf-little-black-beautybook-review-cool.html
I gave my lashes volume, length and definition with my Essence I ❤ Extreme Volume Mascara.
My base make up was Revlon's Mineral Mousse foundation. Sadly I have now run out of this foundation and I believe Revlon no longer sell this! So I'll be on the hunt for a replacement. Keep an eye out on future entries to see what I choose next! But all the same this is a great foundation. It offers sun protection with a matte finish. I'm sad to see it go!
To set my base make up I applied MAC's loose powder with a large face brush for a natural, matte finish.
Next I contoured my face by adding a flush of colour to the cheek bones with the GORGEOUS Elf Studio Cream Blush in Heartbreaker before applying the Blush side of the Blush and Bronzer duo in ST Lucia over the top. Applying a powder blush over a cream blush intensifies the colour and makes for longer lasting blush. Just apply a small amount of cream blush to avoid overdoing it. Unless you're like me and you love strong blush ;) In this instance I used these two colours in combination with each other to create a duo toned pink-peach blush that complemented my lip colour.
You can see swatches of the ELF Studio Cream blushes here: http://vegan-cupcake.blogspot.com/2014/04/elf-studio-cream-blushes-review.html
To complete the look I used my new lipstick from Lime Crime in Great Pink Planet.
The completed look!
What's your #FOTD today? Let me know! ❤
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