While I was editing this I realised it’s been like a year since I did a make up tutorial video *_* I knew I’d been put it them off being self conscious but I didn’t know it had been that long!!
This tutorial is for the eye make up I was wearing in the wig styling tutorial and review of the Fashion Addict stuff:
It’s a nice look for every day and can be really dressed up of down depending on your outfit.
Anyway here’s the video, I hope it makes sense and you all like it. ^_^
Thanks for watching, let me know if you have any questions!
*Edit* The lovely You’ve Got Nail just pointed out that you can totally see James holding up the light in the mirror behind me the whole time hahaha! Editing fail, apparently I was too focused on getting clear shots of the eyes that I completely missed everything else >_<‘ Ok note to self: next time pay more attention to where he’s standing or buy a better lighting set up XD
Also for future videos, would you prefer super awesome quality with slower load times or lower quality and quicker load times? This is the lower quality version but you can click through to Youtube to watch the HD one atm.
This is a very simple tutorial made for a post on my blog. It is a very easy gold and bronze eye make up style using mostly 1 palette. I do my make up like this quite often as it only takes around 5 minutes when you get the hang of it.
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A blog and Youtube channel about a girl and her quest to make everything sparkle. New craft, hair and beauty tutorials every week!
Violet LeBeaux spends most of her time trying to think of ways to make life prettier, posting said ways on her blog and drinking very strong tea. She writes about big hair cute things, girly fashion, beauty finds, sometimes Hime Gyaru fashion (姫ギャル) and crafty tutorials.
She lives with her adorable boyfriend Jimmy, fluffy puppy Miss Lottie and Bergamot Bunny in Melbourne, Australia.
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Music: Garageband unless otherwise credited
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You can’t say no to the girl with the lashes.
Today on Violet Vision… basic gold and copper eye make up.
This is the finished look.
What you need for the eye make up:
False lashes/glue, mascara, gel eyeliner, cream shadow, gold eye shadow, bronze eyeshadow, dark brown eyeshadow.
Clip back your hair.
Use the foundation routine you’re comfortable with. This is my 1 minute basic one.
Illamasqua and Innoxa foundation.
Mix them together and dot around the face.
Blend and pat with a sponge.
Pat a little extra around the eyes in place of concealer.
Finish with a little pressed powder.
Bourjois mascara.
Apply a light coating of mascara.
Clean up any little mistakes.
The Face Shop lashes.
Lash me Type 1 Glue
Apply glue evenly to the lash bone.
Bend to shape and press on to the lash line.
Repeat on the other side.
Bobbi Brown gel liner in Espresso.
Fill in the lash line using an angled brush.
Apply in a thick line along the lashes ending in a flicked wing.
Join the wing with a small line on the lower lash.
Maybelline Eyestudio.
Apply crean from the crease to eyebrow following the socket.
Add cream to the lower inner corner of the eye.
Load your brush with the gold.
Apply on the lid from the inner corner 2/3rds the way along.
Apply a small amount on the lower corner of the eye sticking close to the lash line.
Load your brush with copper and apply in a “c” following your eyelid crease and wing of the eyeliner.
Following the eyeliner, apply to the edge of the lower lash line.
Load up with the brown.
Start at the wing and go over the eyeliner with a thick line.
Use the cream to blend all the edges together.
Apply a coat of lipstick.
Add some lipgloss.
All done, super pretty!
I hope this was a useful video, please check out the blog post linked in the description for more information and tutorials.
Thanks so much for watching.
Bye!
Here is another super quick craft which can be done during an episode of something on tv 😀 These haven’t quite made it to Aus yet but when traveling I’ve seen how popular they are in Asia. Basically it’s a shape (usually a bow or something equally cute) with velcro on the back to hold your fringe out of the way while you do your make up/remove it. I think the idea is that it doesn’t kink/shape the hair like holding with a pin would.
I chose to make mine in the shape of Hello Kitty’s bow because… well I couldn’t think of any other shapes and I’m running out of other felt colours haha!
Photos are iphone quality unfortunately because this was a midnight craft idea!
First cut out the main shape of the bow in black felt. I didn’t have any large pieces yet so I did it in sections and stitched them together. It’s a fairly easy shape but if anyone wants it let me know and I’ll put up a pattern.
Separate the two sides of your velcro. The side you want to use it the scratchy one not the soft one. The soft one won’t grab on to your hair.
Cut enough so you can cover as much of the bow as possible, I needed two strips.
Stitch it in place and cut off the extra.
Now it’s time to add in the main colour of the bow. Cut out the red pieces of felt like below. They need to be a couple of mm smaller than the black so it appears as if there’s a border.
Stitch it together and you’re finished 😀
Useful, cute and distracting from how sleep deprived you look first thing in the morning ;D Now that’s the trifecta!
This year as part of my Christmas presents for everyone I made them custom lip glosses ^_^ They are fun to make and you can personalise the colour to the person you’re making it for too.
What you need:
Vaseline/petroleum jelly
Containers
Mixing container ( the metal thing from a tea light candle)
Tea light candle and lighter
Things to colour the glosses with eg. other lip glosses, lipsticks, eyeshadow, plain pigments, shimmer dust etc.
Flavour or scent if you want. I used a tiny bit of perfume oil but it’s optional.
So in your mixing bowl put in a big glob of vaseline and cut off a little slice of lipstick or whatever colour you’re using. I added a bunch of shimmer dust too. Keep in mind that if you are using old lip products and you are planning on giving them to other people you need to make sure it’s hygienic and there are no germs. If you’re making them for other people rather than using old products that you’ve used previously for colour you should really invest in some reasonably priced lipsticks or colours.
Using the pliers or something, hold it over the candle to melt it all together and stir.
I’ve been really loving experimenting with make up and mixing my own colours and things lately so I thought it was about time to make something to keep them all in! You all know how much I love customised stuff so this post is all about how I made my very own make up travel palette!
Celeste forwarded me this video tutorial she found on making one and while I thought his method was clever I didn’t have most of those items so I decided to start from scratch and just do it my own way ^_^
I think there are a lot things that could be improved with how this one turned out but this is basically a base idea and I am planning to to use the techniques I learned in making this one to make an even better version which I will of course post too!
This is my finished product:
All of the eyeshadow colours were mixed and pressed myself as was the lip colour, I’ll show you how I did those after I show you how to make the box!So what I used:
Old cardboard box
Felt
Scissors
Old eyeshadows and the metal pans they come in
Glue gun
Sticky Tape
Mixing stick
Hand sanitizer gel
Old lip sticks
Velvet Ribbon
Tea light candles
Paper towels
Pliers
So let’s get started already!
To make the box to keep it all in I use a cut up cardboard box. You need to decide how big you want your finished product to be and decide how many pans of make up you want in there. I decided 6 and measured it out.
Ignore the bits of glue and felt on the cardboard because it used to be a ring box ^_^ Anyway this is what the pieces of my box look like, you can see how it will fit together eventually with the hinged lid…
So tape it all together
You want to leave the hinge tape a little loose so it can swing easily:
Now it’s time to cover the whole thing in fabric using your glue gun to stick it. I used felt because that’s all I had left in my stash. Next time I think I will use something else on the outside but again use felt on the inside.There is no need to cover the bottom of the inside part on the right as that’s where the make up will go ^_^
Notice that on the inside of the lid I cut slashes going from one side to the other, I also only glued it around the outside. The reason for this is that you can use the strips to hold important things such as make up brushes, applicators, false lashes or glue 😀 Very useful!!
Next I glued a ribbon in place on the spine so it could be tied around and hold the hold thing closed with a bow.
Now let’s make the palette to go inside the thing!
I had this old palette that cost me like $4 a long time ago. I didn’t really like any of the colours anymore so it seemed like good craft fodder ^_^
I broke it open and removed all the little trays using pliers. Be careful because they can be sharp!
I put all of the powders into containers in case I ever wanted to mix them later and washed the metal trays so I ended up with this:
Next I cut a piece of cardboard that was the correct size to fit in my box thingy and glued the trays into place ^_^
Now while we’re here at the palette part you should cut out a piece of felt a couple of centimeters bigger than the cardboard. Unfortunately I didn’t get photos of this part but you need to cut holes that are big enough to fit the metals trays snuggly. Basically what you’re doing is making a nice little cover to make it all look pretty and so the trays don’t look so far out of place sticking up so much. So in my case I cut 6 holes… if that makes sense! Don’t glue it on yet though, we’ll fill the trays first.
Now time to mix up the powders 😀
As a mixing bowl I used the metal bits from empty tea light candles. They are perfect because you don’t have to clean them when you change colours, just throw them out! Also if you make too much you can actually just press the extra powder into them and keep for next time 😀 Just make sure that you clean them well and get rid of any old wax!!
To press your powder you will need the kind of gel hand sanitizer with alcohol so it will evaporate to make it all sticky again.
Put your powder into the candle and add one squirt of sanitizer. Mix it very very well until it forms a paste:
Tip the paste into the metal tray and squish it down with the stick:
Using a piece of paper towel press all of the liquid out with your finger. Be careful to make it nice and flat and smoosh as much liquid out as you can. You can use this same technique to fix cracked/broken eyeshadows, pressed powder, blush and the like, very handy to know!
Taadaa let it dry and that’s it! Repeat with any other colours you want to put in there ^_^
Now I wanted to include a lip colour too so I took some lip sticks I didn’t 100% like the colours of and mixed my own ^_^
First thing I did was add some shimmer dust to my mixing bowl.
Then I cut off pieces of each of the lippies and added them…
Using the pliers I held my pliers over a lit candle to melt the colours together. I mixed it together properly and poured into the tray. To get a nice clean finish on the top I use a lighter to *VERY CAREFULLY* melt the top so it was perfect!
I ended up going with 4 eye shadows, 1 shimmer and 1 lip colour so this is what my finished colours looked like:
After that the last and yet somehow hardest step is to fit the felt piece over the top of the palette so you can glue it in place and wrap around to the back.
You should have a nice pretty little tray to go in your box like this:
The best part of this is that because it fits so snugly there is no need to glue it in place so in theory you could have one master box and put in a different palette depending on the make up you wanted to wear that day! At least that’s what I’m planning to do ^_^
Closed it looks like this:
So all in all I think this was a really good experiment! while it didn’t turn out perfectly, I can see what I want to improve for next time and I can’t wait to give it another go 😀
What do you guys think? Have you ever done something like this before?
This dolly eye make up tutorial took foreeeeever to upload!
Vimeo is down so the reason the quality is not great is Youtube’s stupid compression rubbish. The sound levels seem to have also been warped so beware, the theme song is super loud but for the rest you might need to turn it all the way up in Youtube and on your computer to hear what I’m saying *_*
I’m working on fixing things as fast as possible but until Vimeo is back online there’s not much I can do!
Aaaaanyway aside from all of the technical junk this video was made as a request on how to do the more involved make up style that I sometimes do. This style is possibly more of the traditional hime gyaru style than my every day make up. I prefer this look with a bolder outfit and definitely with dark circle lenses because my natural eye colour is too light for it to work.
The disclaimer is that I am not an expert in make up techniques, this is just the way I do it when I wear my make up in this style.
Products used:
Moisturser- Skin MD
Lenses- Candy Violet from e-circlelens.net
Foundation- Innoxa
Mascara- Bourjois
Lashes- some cheap brand
Lash glue- Lash Me Type 1
Black Shadow- Bourjois
White Shadow- Bourjois
Shimmer dust- The Face Shop
Lip Stain- Bourjois
Lip Gloss- Bourjois
If you want to know the product line or numbers used for the dolly eye make up tutorial just let me know 🙂
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