Emerald Eyes and a New Blending Technique

Here we are again, throwing it back today to one of the most loved looks I've created in my makeup catalogue. Yes, I do try and document all of my creative looks in my phone library so I can attempt to create them all again. I am sad. 

Second look- 2018

First look- 2017

As you will see, on the left there is a blue look I created back in January 2017 (a fun first year I wish I could back to now I'm knee-deep in second year work). This was my first time playing with blue, as I will admit I follow the consensus that blue makeup is scary.

It's a colour I happy skip in most of my makeup looks as it is HARD to pull off. But I thought why not give it a go, as I (at the time) got a blue pigment from NYX in the shade Peacock, which I thought was so beautiful I couldn't resist. 

Despite loving the look I created, I will admit I haven't used it since... I think because I have blue eyes I instantly think that the colour won't suit me and  go for my classic warm tone smoky eye yet again. Boring. 

But In decided my boring days were over and it was ready to take the plunge and dig out the pigment once again.   

















My picture to the right is the look I created last night, taking a slightly different spin on the blue eyeshadow I previously created. I wanted to use the same emerald cut crease but incorporate a purple smoked-out transition shade with it. 

I used my the Modern Renaissance palette by Anastasia Beverly Hills to create this purple blow out with the black NYX eyeshadow I spoke about in my last post. I felt the black with the shades Venetian Red and Red Ochre would mimic the purple look I wanted, bringing more colour to the look.

Apart from the clear difference in camera quality (R.I.P iPhone 5s) and my improvement in taking photos (apologies for the strange side angles 2017 me was serving, *shaking head*) I've recently started using a new technique to get my eyeshadow to blend out seamlessly.  Thank you Nikkie Tutorials' videos.

This new technique sounded bizarre to me at the start; applying your eyeshadow to a sticky base, without setting your primer with powder and blending it out. How would that even work? However with some perseverance, and serious doubts, it is now going to be the only way I do my eyeshadow. 

I was blown away with this technique and how perfectly it blends out the eyeshadow while maintaining the colour pay off. To repeat: blown away.

So there we go! A quick intel on my new favourite technique to get a seamless eyeshadow blend and a vote in the way of create more weird and wonderful eye looks including blue for the future. It's not as scary as you think!