Colour me happy!

Every now and then, I get questions as to what colours to use with your skin and eye colours. I'm not pro in anything about makeup, I just explore, but...The most important thing to know is what your personal complimentary colours are - that way you can't go entirely wrong. But never feel the need to rule out any other colours just because one green nuance didn't suit you well. There are plenty of colours in this world. But even so, I will suggest a couple of looks for different eyecolours. First, take a look at these colour wheels. It works like this. Find the colour of your eyes and then take a look at the direct opposite colours. That is your complimentary colour. The further away you go from that colour variation the further away you go from the colours that will make your eyes pop the absolute most. But that doesn't nescesarily mean that they won't look good on you.

Green Eyes

When you take a look at the colour wheel and find out that your colours are pink, reds and purples you might be a little nervous. Because... how do you use red eye makeup without looking like a circus clown or someone with allergies? But, you have to translate the colours in the wheel to a more useable version. Also you don't have to go all in with a red lid, but use it as a subtle detail paired with more neutral colours. 

I find purple colours the most suitable for green eyes as they are not sickly looking and come in a great variation of nuances. But also gold ans bronzed reds and copper will be very beautiful for the greens.

    

See how the purples enhance that gorgeous green eye? You can go all in with the purple or just add a flick of purple eyeliner to the waterlines of your eyes for a little pop of colour. As for the bronzed look, I know this is a bit much, but it is just to show hoe the green nuance of those eyes jump out. Go for a brush of bronze on the lid and tone down with a neutral brown in the crease.

Blue Eyes

For blue eyes my favorite eye shadow colours are the rusty red and orange metallic colours. They make those blues stand out as a red dress in a black crowd. Also warm and satin finished browns and yellows are extremely pretty. But otherwise purple is yet again a go-to colour even for the blues. 

          

This really makes those lovely baby blues stand out. 

The warm and subtle bronzes warm up the eyes, and add a yellow or golden colour to the inner corner and you will obtain a piercing gaze that will make a man stop (like in the Geisha film). So play around with tiny splashes of colour if you don't want to go all in and look like a model straight from the runway.

Brown Eyes

For those of you that have those lovely dark brown eyes, there are lots of colours to go to. Because of the darkness of the eye, almost any colour will act as an enhancer of your eyes. But as for the safe colours go for lovely matte blues and petrols/teal colours. Also green and gold will work very well for your pretty eyes.

  

See? Those brown doe eyes get really lively when rimmed with pretty jewel colours. Again use colour with eyeliners for a more toned down version. Eyeliners really do make a huge difference.

Well, and for those mixed up coloured eyes that are always forgotten

Take a view at both of the colours of your eyes. Both complimentary colour variations will be very good for you. 

 

   

The key advice for adding colour to your makeup regime is not to rule out all blues just because that blue 80's eyeshadow that was once an obligatory ingredient in your makeup kit still haunts your worst nightmares. Use deeper and more dusty versions then. Go to a huge makeup counter and just take a look at all those different nuances. I must recommend MAC, but also Art Deco, HOT, and Nougat have a large variety of colours if you don't find the Danish Matas adequate enough.

Hey, remember me??

I'm so sorry I've been such a lame-o and not posted at all this week!  Bad Sonja.  I really haven't worn too much makeup partially because it's been so stinkin hot here and I've been working outside (weeding my gardens and tedious stuff like that) quite a bit and partially because I haven't really been inspired.  I have done a few looks, none of them are anything amazing or have been anything that I really love.  But here are the looks:

I did a bronze look because I wanted to try out a lipgloss that I bought (Revlon Super Lustrous lipgloss in the color Pink Pop, it's so pretty) and I was wearing a really bright shirt.  So I think this is just the bronze color from the Kat Von D tattoo chronicles palette with Urban Decay's "Twice Baked" in the outer v.

I wanted to do something with yellow.  And then I decided I wanted to use pink too.  And this is what came out of that.  I'm not a huge fan but it was ok for something a little different.  I used primarily Ben Nye pigments for this.

I like teal/turquoise with black so this was me playing around with those colors together.  Haha this look (in real life) totally reminded me of something Olivia from Jerseylicious would have done(yes, it's a guilty pleasure haha).  The blue color is NYX Ultra Pearl Mania in "Turquoise."

And then lastly this look was me wanting to use a warmer color, so I picked Inglot's 450p eyeshadow (very similar to NYX's "Rust", just slightly more purple) and I was trying to choose what color to use in the crease and I chose MUFE 92 (I know, I know... again?) but I really like the way those colors work together.  This is my favorite look of the bunch.

That's my makeup excitement for the past week.  I'm sorry again that I've been so boring!  I attempted (especially in the last 2 looks) to use different techniques on my eyebrows to see how I like them to look.  Usually I just use a powder shadow from Inglot to do them but I used some of Meme's tips (she has an awesome tutorial HERE if you want to check it out) and did them a little differently.  I don't have a brow pencil so I used the coolest toned brown eyeliner I own for them haha.  I think I'll have to practice some more to get them right.

I hope to be posting more but my inspiration comes and goes so I can't promise anything haha.  Thank you all so much!  And I'd like to say hi to my new followers as well!  Thank you so much everyone!  Your support means soooo much to me!!!

Happiness Supreme

Dear everyone who reads this


It has been a while since I have felt such happiness. The kind of happy that literally takes your breath away, sends thrills of broken laughter and butterflies through the abdomen, lets your body elongate and strengthen, puts an unextiguishable smile upon your lips, lets you laugh out loud, tears filling in your eyes from extreme happiness. 


My dream has come true. I am to become a midwife, the thing that I've desperately wished for since the age of 17. Now I have matured, aged, developed and I have convinced them to put their faith in me and let me pursue my desires at the school of midwifery.


And I am the luckiest woman on the planet and I have every reason to be happy. I have such an amazing man by my side, who would go around the world for my sake and for my dream, I have a wonderful loving family, such friends as I think only few in the world can brag of having. I'm luckier in that way than even Harry Potter!!!! And though I've been through a lot of dark places in my respectively short life, I could not ask for more.


I can't even think of a makeup look that could ever translate this happiness or a dress to go with it. It would probably also look like something in the line of fluffy pink and rainbow colours with cupcakes and chocolate as decoration. Might not be pretty at all. 


But happiness takes many unexpected forms. We cannot always tell how things will turn out for the best. For we may not know what the best is yet. But in my beating, warmly embracing heart I know that this is the best thing that could happen to me in the place that I'm in right here and now, in this life.

Autumn Smoke Play

Today, to keep away nerves andconcers about the future, I decided to play around with a smoky Autumn look in golden and brown colours. 

I started with priming my eyelids with Too Faced Shadow Insurance, so the makeup would stay throughout the evening (which I'm spending at home, by the way). Then I added Ghosh eyeshadow pencil in a shimmery light brown nuance to the entire lid and slightly into the brow area. On top of that I packed on a matte light brown eyeshadow from Body Shop - again all the way to the browbone. Then I added a beautiful mustard coloured silky shadow from Mac's Surfer Collection to light up the lid. I did not go into the crease with this colour as it wa<s only meant to add dimension to the lids. Finally I defined the outer v with a dark brown shimmery colour from Body Shop, packed a bit of Gosh effect powder in the colour mink on top of the MAC Sun Blonde colour, added mascara and defined my eyebrows with Gosh eyebrow pencil. I bronzed my cheeks for contouring and flush on top of the economically applied foundation and powder. I rounded up with a gorgeous bronzed lip gloss from clinique.

    

             

 Well, if nothing else, this helps me preparing for the burnt colours of the Autumn season which I always look forward to and love. I dress best in the Autumn... And now have the make up look to go with it.

Does Anyone Speak Mandarin?

As promised here's the other fishy look I did last week. It's a little bit different to the other one haha...

I'm sorry I don't know where this pic is from, please let me know :D

Some time ago the very lovely and incredibly talented Sonja aka StarrySkies over at TheBeautifulLifeOfTheGirlNextDoor ask me to do a look based on a Mandarin fish, and here it is...

I was so excited and planned the look immediately, but I've been waiting for a willing model haha. Oddly not everyone is queuing to be turned into a bright green sea creature...now if I'd have said smokey eye that would have been a different story haha. I spent ages on this because I really wanted to do Sonja proud. I did have to change some of the colours up a bit as I didn't have any yellow liquid liner, but hope you still like it...

I absolutely loved doing this, it was so much fun...I'm beginning to think I should be a Theatre MUA, I definitely love me some drama haha.

Aww, the Misters Sister was a fab model and sat there for hours while I painted her face haha, it's ok though, she loves it!!

Anyway, hope y'all like the look.

Speak Soon xx

My Name's Natalie And I'm A Polish-Aholic!!

First off I just want to say a MASSIVE MASSIVE THANK YOU to you all!! I checked in this morning to find I have over 100 followers - WOOHOO!! I'm so happy I could do a little dance haha...


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Honestly when I started this blog I wondered if I'd ever get any followers, so to have 100 is amazing to me. I really do appreciate every single one of you, and I love all the amazing comments you leave, it really spurs me on :D I will be holding a little Givaway to celebrate which I will hopefully get up before I go on holiday on Saturday. I'm off to Oludeniz...I cant wait!!

Picture from guardian.co.uk

I really will try and sort something out before I go, but if not I'll have a look at what goodies I can find while I'm away and hold it when I come back. Either way there will be something to say THANK YOU!!

Anyway, back to the reason I was originally posting today. I wanted to show you my mani and also tell you about a little Facebook group called Polish-Aholics Anonymous. If polish is your porn you really need to check out PAA on Facebook. The girls on there are so lovely, and really helpful. If you want to see a swatch of something, look at endless albums of inspirational nail art or get great honest advice on nail products then this is the place for you. Hope you check it out :D Anyway, PAA hold a Monday Mani challenge, not surprisingly on a Monday haha, and last weeks theme was glitter. Needless to say I posted many manis, but I didn't manage to get this one done in time, so I thought I'd post it on here.

Its one of the duo's from Illamasquas Boo/Hiss range. This one is Boosh & Hiss and it's a beautiful black creme base colour with a pink and gold glitter polish to overlay. I love it!! What do you think?

Anyways, I'm off!! Gotta start deciding what to take on holiday, and, knowing me that could take some time haha.

Speak Soon xx

BLACK AND GOLD AZTEC

Back To The Future

The gorgeous Kate was up at the weekend, so we decided to play with makeup. We went partying on Saturday night (well about as much partying as two old birds can do) then decided to do some looks after breakfast on Sunday.
I had in mind that I wanted to do a kind of 50's look, but with a modern twist. At first I thought Audrey Hepburn, but as the look went on I lent more towards Brigitte Bardot, it suited the mood. That just got up, slightly dishevelled but incredibly sexy kinda look...

Fresh skin, flushed cheeks, flirty eyes, bed head hair. I think you get what I was going for...

I really love how it turned out! I think Kate looked Beautiful...but then again she always does!! Haha

Anyway hope you like the look too,

Speak Soon xx