Still plumming the depths (gedditgeddit?) of this holiday palette (originally reviewed/swatched here, further looks here, here and here) with the additions of some purple tones -- as suggested by various people including the lovely LipstickBoulevards.
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Lip: a mix of Suqqu Bright-Up Hanabeni and Addiction Day Trip lipsticks (see here and here for how they look individually). Cheek: RBR Gracilis. Base: just Burberry concealer 01, this time because lazy rather than for any particular aesthetic reason...
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How could I resist a) a new lower lashline tweak and b) any use of my beloved Star Guitar quad?
The forest green from Touryokuzora to line, with the bronzetaupe (closer to brow) and copperpeach (closer to lid) for the inner lid shading. Greyed green from Hisuidama swept out from the middle of the lashline for the mid-green mid-wing. (I used some of the Touryokuzora white to block it off more strongly from both the inner lid shading and the liner.) Plum from Star Guitar pushed into inner inner half of lower lashline.
Mascara: Elizabeth Proofit Strong Volume&Curl again -_____-
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Lip: YSL Glossy Stain 27 Pêche Cerra-Cola. Cheek: More RBR Gracilis (can you tell I'm trying to hit pan by year's end? :P) Base: I actually wore foundation today! KGD Maifanshi 001 with Burberry Sheer 01 concealer under eyes.
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1a Tarina Tarantino Amethyst Android, 1b Clinique Intense Amethyst Quickliner
2a from Shu Uemura x Karl Lagerfeld Smoky Velvet (EU/Asia), 2b from Suqqu 08 Mizuaoi
3a THREE 09 Star Guitar, 3b from Suqqu EX-12 Hisuidama
Look 1
Bronzetaupe from Touryokuzora shaded up from lashline with copperpeach to blend out edges. Lower lashline reverses the gradation with Clinique Intense Amethyst along lashes and Tarina Tarantino Amethyst Android to smoke it down and out. Mascara: KMHM Volume&Curl S.
Lip: Shiseido Nocturne Lacquer Rouge, blotted down to a rosy stain. Base: Burberry Sheer concealer 01 under eyes, otherwise bare skin -- this and the soft lip help balance the slightly forced eye I think :)
Look 2
Touryokuzora's copperpeach on lid with a little of the bronzetaupe to shade the inner socket. Mint from ShuxKarl Smoky Velvet swept up from the inner corner. Purple from Suqqu Mizuaoi to line. Lower lashline light taupe achieved by adding some of the matte white to another mix of the peach + green from Touryokuzora.
Mascara: to celebrate finally finishing that lacklustre KMHM, I cracked open a tube of Elizabeth Proofit Strong Volume&Curl mascara, only to find it's even more lacking in lustre! D:
Lip: a mix of Suqqu Bright-Up Hanabeni and Addiction Day Trip lipsticks (see here and here for how they look individually). Cheek: RBR Gracilis. Base: just Burberry concealer 01, this time because lazy rather than for any particular aesthetic reason...
Look 3
This one's a recreation of a tute in the Chinese edition of Voce Jan 2014 (from which more scans to come on Monday):
The forest green from Touryokuzora to line, with the bronzetaupe (closer to brow) and copperpeach (closer to lid) for the inner lid shading. Greyed green from Hisuidama swept out from the middle of the lashline for the mid-green mid-wing. (I used some of the Touryokuzora white to block it off more strongly from both the inner lid shading and the liner.) Plum from Star Guitar pushed into inner inner half of lower lashline.
Mascara: Elizabeth Proofit Strong Volume&Curl again -_____-
Lip: YSL Glossy Stain 27 Pêche Cerra-Cola. Cheek: More RBR Gracilis (can you tell I'm trying to hit pan by year's end? :P) Base: I actually wore foundation today! KGD Maifanshi 001 with Burberry Sheer 01 concealer under eyes.
As you can tell, I am still head over heels in love with Touryokuzora, and really enjoying trying ways to make the scary-to-me warm shades wearable. Also, still very into concentrating eyeshadow higher up at the inner corner, in a triangle placement highlighted in last October's Maquia (scanned here, tried here). Also? I NEED my RBR Sea of Clouds refill to get here, like, yesterday. Y a dry dull skin, winter? :(
PS sorry if my pics looks like they were taken underwater -- that'd be the blanket of perma-smog, then.