What comes after Magazine Monday? Testing Tuesday! The techniques I'm testing here come from a Magazine Monday post from several weeks ago, on Maquia's October 2013 issue, so perhaps tenuous or tangential would have been better 't' adjectives :P In any case, I'll try to be unusually terse after the last blockbuster blahblah, since in any case both looks today are quite simple and communicable by shape alone!
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I also moved the 'C's'' / 'lozenges' outwards, as a placement exactly like the original model's meant that the inner curve of the lozenge overlapped and emphasised my emerging under eye tear trough (THANKS, ageing) and blending also tended to mess with my under eye concealer.
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Yesss... tenuous :P Because recreating this look in the original copper-red tones was so woefully unflattering that I ended up swinging violently in the opposite direction with a cool green eye from my Shu Uemura Karl Lagerfeld Smoky Velvet (EU/Asia) palette: green [2a] over lid in a triangular placement and smuged into lower lashline, mint [2b] patted over the inner 1/3 of the upper lashline, silver [2c] to 'shade' from the inner corner up the inner curve of socket bone, gold [2d] patted at the very inner corner of the lower lashline. MOAR greenery with RMK W mascara 05 Green.
Because while still strictly a triangular gradation in the spirit of the original, this is a much more high-contrast look, with the lightest shades at the highest points of the inner triangle, this placement still manages to widen my close-set eyes.
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And deciding the opposite of a soft and glossy warm orange lip would be a matte cool pink, Addiction Amazing cheekstick [3] on both lips and cheeks.
Which I later topped with Addiction Miss You More [4] gloss as my dry, lined lips can't really pull off this matte a formula any more :/
With the modifications I mentioned above (lighter shades to mitigate a fundamentally unideal placement for my eyeshape), I've been liking and wearing this triangular shape a lot, in various tones this season -- you'll see a few more renditions when I post some THREE quad reviews.
Minor tweaks = wearable ways to rediscover products you already own! Got to love it :D
Anyone else playing with new tricks, from whatever source? Or do share ideas for further tweaks and variations on these looks, and others you might like to see from that particularly meaty issue of Maquia.
Look 1: C
Inspiration
Last panel:
Products
Addiction Fresh cheek polish [1] applied in a rough lozenge shape (Maquia calls it the C-cheek but it looks more indeterminately sausagey to me :P) high up on the cheekbone extending past the outer corner of the eye. Which consists of the peach from THREE duo 04 Love Satisfaction [5] on the outer portions of lid and lower lashlines, with the yellow from 05 Love Evolution [4] on the lid and, and the yellow mixed with the brown from that duo [2] in the centre of the lower lashline. The grey from 03 Love Revolution [3] used as very fine upper lash liner, extended slightly, straight out. Lip is RMS lip2cheek Modest [6], patted over balm.
As mentioned in the comments section of the original post, I find this a very 'user-friendly', pretty, youthful look, once you get over any worries about poking your eyeballs with your blush brush rather than your liner brush, for a change... and in these honeyed summer-to-autumn shades, I find it a nice way to mark the transitional season when taking a break from the usual (still loved by me!) berry clichés.
Some things I've learned while playing with this shape: for me, similar colours of eyeshadow and blush work best if shooting for pretty -- it heightens the impression of soft blended harmony if the blush almost joining the eyeshadow shade into each other tonally as well as placement...ally. Um. Also, for me, it's best if those shades are warm, as this area is pretty well colonised by my freckles anyway. [The above does not preclude my future posting of any un-pretty and not-best versions of this C-cheek with a cool blush shade and contrasting eyeshadow, btw :P]I also moved the 'C's'' / 'lozenges' outwards, as a placement exactly like the original model's meant that the inner curve of the lozenge overlapped and emphasised my emerging under eye tear trough (THANKS, ageing) and blending also tended to mess with my under eye concealer.
Look 2. ∆
Inspiration (bottom right panel)
Products
Because while still strictly a triangular gradation in the spirit of the original, this is a much more high-contrast look, with the lightest shades at the highest points of the inner triangle, this placement still manages to widen my close-set eyes.
And deciding the opposite of a soft and glossy warm orange lip would be a matte cool pink, Addiction Amazing cheekstick [3] on both lips and cheeks.
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...you can only see the gold glitter highlighter on my right (further away) eye. WHY? |
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| I hope this closed-eye shot makes the 'triangle' shape a bit more evident |
With the modifications I mentioned above (lighter shades to mitigate a fundamentally unideal placement for my eyeshape), I've been liking and wearing this triangular shape a lot, in various tones this season -- you'll see a few more renditions when I post some THREE quad reviews.
Minor tweaks = wearable ways to rediscover products you already own! Got to love it :D
Anyone else playing with new tricks, from whatever source? Or do share ideas for further tweaks and variations on these looks, and others you might like to see from that particularly meaty issue of Maquia.