Shimmery Plum

Hi everyone!

I haven't been a very good blogger lately - in fact I haven't given much thought about my blog at all in the past few days. Everything in my life has been extraordinarily hectic this month and I'm very sorry about that. =(

Although I haven't had a chance to post any new and actually pertinent content, I haven't completely forgotten about the existence of this blog.

As I was cleaning and reorganizing my computer documents yesterday, I came across an old photograph of an eye makeup I did for my previous blog, that I never really published.

I guess it's a good thing that I never put it out, it turned out to be something saved up for that rainy day. =)
So I decided to share it with you all this time around.

As usual, it's never complex, I can't do complex eye makeup - everything gets smudgy and end up looking muddy. Think 5 year old doing makeup.

If my memory serves me right, I created this when I was in that glittery phase - as in everything I slapped on my eye had glitter. Although that might sound rather disturbing to the me-now, looking at the eye makeup, I kind of like it and wonder why I haven't recreated something like this in the recent months...

Obviously my memory isn't good enough for me to know the exact products that I used, but I feel like this look is fairly self explanatory. However, due to the nature of this post, I still feel like I should give minimal guidelines...so here goes:

• White-champagne shimmer on inner corner, first 1/3 of lid and brow bone (although now that I look at it, I think it's a little overboard...maybe opt for a matte light shade on the brow bone instead)
• Brown base from 2/3 of eyelid
• With light hand, black in crease to deepen the brown
• Blend like madness for soft gradient effect.
• Add brown eyeshadow to 2/3 of bottom lash line 
• Go over that 2/3 with a shimmery plum color
• Line your upper lash line and 2/3 of bottom lash line
• Mascara and done! 

In all honesty, I might have missed out one or two steps, but that should be good for you to jump start this look =)

On a COMPLETELY off-subject, you should all check out Pinterest. It's like a visual Twitter. AWESOME. You can post pictures, repin (I guess the pinterest version of a retweet), comment, etc on everything. It's absolutely beyond addicting and time consuming.

You have to check it out.