A Quick Creation || #2 - Jungle Fever!

Hello! I'm sorry it's been a while since I last posted, it's taken a while for everything to settle down since I came back from my holiday (which was fabulous by the way!). So this isn't really a 'quick' creation, but it's one I'm super proud of! A few weeks ago I ordered a couple of pairs of paper eyelashes from a Hong Kong based buyer on eBay for around £1.29 each with free postage, and I had a sudden flow of inspiration from looking at a pair earlier and got creative!

So I started off using the colours 'Acidberry' and 'Midori' from my Sugarpill Pro Palette as a base of the greens. The SP Pro Palette is one of THE favourite things that I own in my kit and has to be a star buy from when I went to LIMATS London. The colours are beyond amazing and super pigmented, meaning they'll last me a while, but when they run out I know I'll be re-purchasing!

For a lot of the detail work I used a mix of greens, blues and oranges from a 120 palette I bought a while ago from eBay for around £5.99 mixed with my ever faithful Illamasqua Sealing Gel.

I used a few other colours for detail and a jungle green metallic liner for finishing touches and the brows and waterline are Stargazer's UV Eye and Lip Pencil in Shade 26. 

The lips are of course my ultimate favourite lipstick brand Lime Crime in 'Serpentina'.

I've always wanted to do a precise eye look, after swooning over every single creation I see Kirsty Childs post on her Instagram and Facebook (Kiki Makeup). It's nowhere near as good as any she's done, but she is so inspiring to me and makes me want to better myself more and more! I'm going to try and do a few more 'precise' eye looks and try to get better and better so one day I might have people swooning over my work! But I'll have to work super hard for that to happen, but a girl can dream and I'm a super driven person and I know that one day I will get where I want to be!

I hope you enjoy this look! What do you guys think? Any feedback means a lot to me as it helps me improve! 

Thanks for reading!

RubyXO

A Few Photos | Whitby Goth Weekend

So I thought I'd get another quick little post in before I go away. I think I might end up having withdrawal symptoms from Blogger, i'm getting into this regular posting! 

So this photo set is from the last couple of years that I've been to Whitby for their Goth Weekend. All the makeup was designed and done by me. (minus the skeleton, but they all look the same anyway).

 Myself (right), my Aunty Vicky (left) and my boyfriend Marvin last November.

A shot of Marvin and myself sent to me by one of many photographers who attend every year.

My Aunty and myself again in November last year, this time as Witches.

Marvin as a skeleton last November.

My Aunty and myself in October 2011.

It is the most amazing weekend ever and I'd recommend anyone to go and just experience the atmosphere. The people are so friendly and cheery all weekend whether it be raining or the sun shining. I can't wait for this years 2nd one from the 1st-5th November. And I can't wait to reveal what we're all going as, but that won't be until after as it's a complete surprise!

So I guess I'll see what you've been up to once I come back from my holiday! I'll do a photo diary post once I'm home and settled.

Thanks for reading!
RubyXO

A Quick Creation | #1

So, I'm going to try and do one or two of these 'Quick Creation' posts every week, to try and get my work out there and show people what I can do. This weeks is one I rustled up yesterday while I had nothing to do. (there might end up being more than a couple per week as I get bored a lot) It was spur of the moment and I created the entire thing based around my new Lime Crime lipstick, 'Mint To Be'. 

To start with I just had on a base of Illamasqua Skin Base (shades 01 & 08 mixed 1:1) and then 'Mint To Be'. I added dimension to the lip using 'Serpentina', also Lime Crime, around the edge and blended in. 

Left: Serpentina - Right: Mint To Be

For the eyes I used various shades of blues and greens from a 120 palette bought from eBay for around £4.99, and 'Velocity' and Midori' from my Sugarpill Pro palette. And used a Stargazer Kohl pencil for the brows.

I used 2 pairs of lashes for this look. One pair, from a set of 10 from eBay for 99p (top lashes), and another pair from a halloween set I got about 2 years ago (bottom lashes).

So here you go! The finished look!

I'm so happy with how it turned out and I love the contrast of the colours against my hair. I enjoy doing these quick looks so much, and I hope you like looking at them! I'll try and post an older one at the end of the week before I go away so I don't feel like I'm neglecting my blog for the week.

Thanks for reading!

RubyXO

Hello July! | My Year So Far

Hello! I genuinely can't believe it's July already. I go away in 6 days, It's gone so quick! It feels like it's been forever since we booked it. The first 6 months of this year have been absolutely amazing for me. I've had a competition win, been with my boyfriend a year, won Student of the Year and passed my makeup course with a full board of distinctions. 

Clockwise from top left: On the coach to London/IMATS | Starting up my blog | At the theatre in London | My second tattoo | A year with Marvin | Student of the Year | My End Of Year Show | 1st Place at Matchfit | Whitby April 28th 2013 |

I'm so proud of all my achievements so far and I can't wait to crack on with my Level 4 Make-up Management Foundation Degree in September. I've met and grown close to some of the most amazing people ever, and I'll be so sad to not see them all for the next level! 

I'm excited to just have time off and a (fingers crossed) good, warm summer. I hope I can get together with some friends I haven't seen in a while and have a good old catch up as we all work at opposite times to each other and it's such a pain. 

I'll probably spend most of my time playing with all my makeup and creating some exciting new looks to make posts of and preparing for my trip to Whitby for their Goth Weekend in November. 

I'll be trying to post a lot more over the summer, so watch this space!

Thanks for reading!

Ruby XO