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 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