Engel

This is a requested look that is inspired by the Rammstein song "Engel" but also highly influenced by the work of this girl, that I have mentioned earlier. Her skills make me feel like an ignorant child. Anyways, I wanted to do a dark, somewhat feathery look (without it looking like that hideous Black Swan makeup...).

Scary is the new awesome!

Scary black eyes goes well with this look, huh? ;)

And so does black lipstick! I had so much fun creating this look and now I'm looking forward to do more creative looks like this one. :)

Step 1. Begin with filling in your eyebrows. They will work as a guide for where to apply the eyeshadows later on. Prime your eyes with your favorite primer.

Step 2. We want the blackest of black eyelid so we apply a black gel liner as a base and buff out the edges with a blending brush. Don't take it too far up, only about half-way up your mobile lid and then blend it upwards into the crease.

Step 3. Set the gel liner with a matte black eyeshadow. Blend it upwards but again, not to high up!

Step 4. To get a more even gradient from black to skin tone we take a matte grey eyeshadow and blend out the the edges of the black.

Step 5. I'm using a matte white as a highlight dragging it down into the black/grey shape to even out the smokey eye even further.

Step 6. Now, picking up some black eyeshadow on an angled brush, start drawing "lines" from the lid and upwards and outwards you can take them up over the eyebrow or end them below, that's totally up to you.

Step 7. Using liquid or gel eyeliner draw some more lines, so that we will have lines in different shades of black.

Step 8. Apply your base and darken your eyebrows.

Step 9. Border your upper lashline with a crisp white eyeliner ending in the classic wing.

Step 10. Line your waterline with a white eyeliner pencil. Apply mascara and false eyelashes and you're done!

Face

*Skin Base foundation 02 (Ilamasqua)

Eyebrows

*Browshadow Dark brown (Anastasia Beverly Hills)

*Corrupt (Makeup Geek)

Eyes

*Shadow Insurance (original) (Too Faced)

*Gel liner Immortal (Makeup Geek)

*#391 (Inglot)

*#339 (Inglot)

*Tako (Sugarpill)

*Jumbo Pencil Milk (Nyx)

*Aqua Color White (Kryolan)

*Glossy Waterproof eyeliner (Isadora)

*Drama mascara (Make Up Store)

*False lashes #107 (Red Cherry)

Lips

*Lipstick Goth (Viva la Diva)

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I really hope you liked this look!

I was thinking about writing about some skin care products some day soon, would that be of any interest to you readers? :)

Anastasia Brow Powder and Eye Brow Tutorial

In Sweden Anastasia is a pretty small, unknown brand, but as I understand it it is HUGE in the USA. I've heard it been labeled the #1 eyebrow brand in the world and having tried out their products I am not surprised.

When choosing one of the Anastasia brow powder shadows, keep in mind that the colors look way lighter in the packaging and when you try them out on the back of your hand (as most people do when shopping for makeup) than they will do on your brows. Instead, try them out on a piece of paper tissue to bring out their full intensity!

These products consists of a light/dark duet of shadows and for many people the first question that pops up is: "Do I really need two eyebrow shadows?"
And the answer is YES! You do! One lighter to fill in the whole brow and a darker to define.

I have nothing negative to say about this product so this is definitely a 5/5!

Now, let's take a look at how to use this product.

Step 1. Mark out the start, highest point and end point of your brows. The face chart shows you exactly how to do this! The red lines are imaginary lines from your nose wing to the places where you should put the marks.

Step 2. Begin filling in the "tail" of the brow with the lighter of the shadows. To do so use a stiff, angled eyebrow brush.

Step 3. Fill in the rest of the brow, also with the lighter one of the two shades.

Step 4. Now it is time to add some definition. Again, fill in the tail of your brow, this time using the darker one of the shadows. Work with short strokes and "blend" it in with the lighter shade.

Step 5. Place some concealer or cream highlighter underneath the brow. Blend out.

Step 6. Set the highlight with an eyeshadow close to your skin tone or lighter. Concentrate the highlighter right underneath the curve of the brow, at the browbone's highest peak.

There you go! Now you have good looking brows! (Hopefully...) :)

I really hope that this tutorial/review has been helpful to you and that you enjoyed reading it! Take care and hope to see you soon!