"November Days" Make-Up Tutorial (also: short hair & other exciting news)

Hey peeps,

today's post is very special to me for multiple reasons. First: I have had my hair cut shorter than it has been in... at least 5 years (wow Oo), and I'll be revealing that today.
Also (and more importantly), I'm proud to announce that I am now a volunteer for the What to Wear page!
I found out by complete chance that they were looking for volunteers and I immediately applied.They answered very quickly and were super nice the whole time, and apart from their massive abuse of hashtags (;P) they seem like a bunch of very cool people. They agreed to post my make-up tutorials to their wall and also let me do some posts on fashion news and other fashion journalism and I'm just so EXCITED, I'm about to BURST!
So yeah, that's happening in my life. It's pretty awesome.
If you guys could just head over there and give the page a thumbs up, that would totally make my day <3


Okay, now let's get into the post!
Today we will be creating this look

that I have named "November Days" because the colors remind me of grey and foggy November weather. Now this is a very soft and subtle look, because it's supposed to be wearable for any occasion. I've been wearing this almost every day now, weather to Uni or out to dinner with my parents - it always seemed appropriate. Let's get started.

1. First I did my usual foundation-concealer-powder routine for preparation, and then I started off by filling in my eyebrows. Now, I haven't been doing this for long, and I'm still in doubt over weather it's needed at all (I'm just not an eyebrow kind of person...), and usually I'll do it AFTER my eye make-up is finished, so that I can better balance out the look. But since I knew what look I was going for, I was able to do my eyebrows first and get that out of the way.
Now, don't go crazy with the eyebrows, because the eye look is very soft and you don't wanna overwhelm it. I just filled in some sparse patches to give them more shape and that's all.

2. Now pick up a warm brown color (mine is shimmery, but matte would work just as well) and spread it well into your crease. Try to pick a shade that's similar to what natural shadows on your face look like, because it's supposed to have a contouring effect. I have been loving this technique lately!

3. Your main color should be a well-pigmented shimmering pale grey. Mine has a bit of a lilac/baby blue undertone which I think looks sooo precious, so if you can find one like that, definitely use it!
Apply to the center of your lids and then blend it with the brown we used before.

4. Next bring your brown color from before down and line about half of your lower lashline with it.

5. Now this step is important, brightening the inner corners! I have developed a special technique for this, since it's so easy to end up with glitter all over the place, but still not enough color pigment where you actually need it (and that just looks messy). So, here's what I do: I apply a tiny bit of LIQUID white eyeshadow right into the corner of my eye, then blend that out towards my upper and lower lashlines. Then, quickly while it's still wet, I put a very sparkly white eyeshadow over top of that to set it in place. This way, the color will be pigmented enough and the sparkle will stay in place, because it's sticking to the liquid shadow. I do this with almost every make-up look and it works great for me - no more messy corners!

6. After that, just line your upper lashline with a dark grey,

7. your waterline with white or pink,

8. and then apply mascara as you see fit.

After that all you need is some blush (don't neglect that though, you'll need some warmth in your face with all those cold colors), and maybe some lipstick. Since it's getting really cold outside by now, I tend to choose just a tinted lip balm that I can reapply over the course of the day to keep my lips moisturized.
Anyways, that's the finished look and here's some more pics for you to see more angles of it.
Also - of course - my new hairstyle! (omg!)

 SO SHORT!

 crazy eyes!
Also, the tips of my hair are this purply color right now which was not supposed to happen, but I kinda like it...

 Got a bit of weird camera focus going on here, but the make-up shows nicely.

 ...I just thought this one turned out pretty ^^

Trinception! Taking a photo in two mirrors at once! =O
I was really just playing around by then ^^

Anywho, that's all for today.

Again, please support "What to Wear" by liking their page (you're also supporting my posts!).

If you try out this look, send me pics and/or tell me how it worked out for you! Also, how do you like my short hair? =O

Well, thanks for reading and I'll talk to you soon!

Love,

T <3

[EDIT]
OOPS! Forgot to do product list ^^
Here it is: 
1. I've been over this. You know it by now xD; 2. Maybelline "Fit me!" Concealer in 15; 3. H&M blush "Autumn flower"; 4. Maybelline "Fit me!" Powder in Translucent; 5. essence brow liner in 01-black; 6. labello tinted lip balm; 7. H&M eyeshadow palette; 8. claire's eyeshadow palette; 9. Yves Rocher couleurs white liquid shadow; 10. MAJORICA MAJORICA jeweling eyes; 11. Yves Rocher couleurs liner in "blanc", 12. Yves Rocher mascara in black.

League of Legends: Nami inspired Make-Up Tutorial

Yay :3
Okay, as you have noticed I play League of Legends quite frequently. Also, combining the Girly and the "Nerdy" (pf, bloody casuals) is a big hobby of mine.
So, today's tutorial was inspired by Nami, the Tidecaller. Nami's competition for "T's favorite Champion" is not very big. There IS always Sona, which I love, but Nami is just more.. exciting.
And not only is she my favorite Champ concerning gameplay, she also has one of the most beautiful designs in the entire League.
Since I'm not big on cosplaying (because I'm just not talented enough for that), I like to pay tribute to my favorite characters in a different way: breaking up their color palette into a look that's wearable for other occasions than just a convention ;)

Ok, so here's my Nami look:

and let's jump right into the tutorial!
1) I started out by just putting on foundation and priming my eyelids
2) Then I applied a creamy golden eye shadow in the inner corners of my eyelids, up to about the center.
3) Right on the center of my eyelid I put a very bright green shadow. Mine is kind of matte, but since Nami is a fish, you could totally go for a more shimmery look if you wanted to.

4) Next you load up your brush with a dark teal color. I mean be really generous with this. The best way to apply this is by dabbing your brush on the outer V of your eyelid, and then take a fluffy brush to blend it into the other colors and little towards the outside.
5) For a bit of contouring/highlighting, use a matte bronze/rusty brown shadow and sweep it into your crease. Blend this fairly well to create depth (lower arrow). Then use a light greenish-golden color to highlight you browbone (upper arrow). See how that makes the look more dynamic and less flat?
6) With the same light color, highlight the inner corner of your eyelid and you tear duct. That will give you bright, cute eyes.

You should now have something that looks like picture 7. Now's where the fun begins! =) (I switched to lighter arrows to better demonstrate the dark colors)
8) Line your lower lash line with a bright blue. Try to find a tone that is almost glowing, like this one I'm using from IQ (products listed at the end, as always).
9) Take a very dark blue shadow and dab it just on the outer edge of your eye, and blend it up into the brown and also a little bit into your lower line from step 8.

10) Use a dark grey shadow (take Nami's armor for reference) and line your upper lash line with it. No need to wing it out too much, since there's already the dark blue shadow there.
11) Since I'm super incompetent with liquid eyeliner, I kept it very simple here, just doing the slightest of flicks at the end. I also only started in the middle of my eyelid, to keep the inner corners bright. If you want to, I'm sure a nice bold catline would look great as well.
12) Last but not least. In the splash art, they changed Nami's eyes to orange, but the ingame model's are still a pinkish red color. Because I can't put in contact lenses to save my life, I used a red lipliner (I cleaned it) as an eyeliner instead to represent them. Now you have to be careful with this, or your eyes will end up looking irritated. Just put it on the outer half of your waterline and you should be fine. Just to be on the safe side, I added my trusty light pink liner to the inner half.

So far, so good. So after that I basically just finished my facial make up with concealer, translucent powder and some bronzer for my cheekbones (I ended up putting my usual pink blush over it, because just the bronzer wasn't "me" enough I guess). I almost forgot putting on mascara, but just almost. Then I decided to do a gradient lip, which I achieved with concealer and lip stain.

And that's the finished look! I realize it's probably not appropriate for running errands and judging by the look the lady at the post office gave me, she didn't think so either, but it's a nice glamorous but colorful look for a night out or even a formal event.
Here's some more pics:
(by the way, I'm still working on getting the hang of my camera, so be nice :P)

 

Messing around with my camera. I just liked how this one turned out with all the mess I made on the table =D

 

Obligatory Crazy Eyes.

DRAMA!!!

And that's that. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did making it =)

Thank you so much for reading!

Love

T

Products used:

a) Lancôme 24h teint idole ultra in 005

b) Primer

c) Maybelline  New York "color tattoo 24hr" in "05 Eternal Gold"

d)  Majolica Majorca "Jeweling Eyes" GR780

e) Maybelline New York eyeshadow. The lid came off so I can't tell the color anymore... =/

f) IQ cosmetics "Shadow Quartet N°99"

g) and i) claire's eyeshadow palettes with no names or numbers...

j) bh cosmetics "bh liquid eyeliner" in black

k) I can't for the life of me remember where I got this lipliner, and it doesn't say either.

l) YVES ROCHER couleurs "3 in 1 eye pencil" in "08 blanc"

m) Maybelline New York "FIT me! concealer" in 15.

n)  Maybelline New York "Pure Powder" in "015 Translucent"

o)  YVES ROCHER "lash plumping mascara"in black.

p) Some broken old bronzer of mine...

q) GOSH "natural blush" in "43 flower power"

r) Maybelline New York "COLOR sensationallipmarker" in "350 blushing"

woo, that was a lot.

Wedding Wednesday 3/5: Nail design tutorial

It's that time of the week again! (Oops, I almost missed it!!)
Man, time's running fast.
So this week it's time for my nail design. Since I'm absolutely incapable of doing anything with my left hand, and also because I can't outshine the bride, I decided to keep it fairly simple. I do have 4 different colors that look nice in different combinations, so, again, you need to tell me your opinion to help me decide which one I'm going to wear.

All I did was add a little gradient design, which is achieved quite easily:

 Start out with a base color (I used white and pale yellow).  Then you take out a little glittery polish (gold and purple for me) and drop it on a smooth, disposable surface. 

 Then you take a cosmetic sponge to dip into the polish and carefully dab it onto your nail, to about halfway down. Make sure the layer is very thin.

Note: I didn't have a cosmetic sponge at hand so I had to use paper tissues, which DOES NOT work as well.

Then you dab on another thin layer on top of the first one, but only the tip of your nail this time. Now, It depends on the nail polish you're using if you have to make more of fewer layers. For me, with the golden one, two layers made a gradient quite nicely, but with the purple I should have maybe done 3 or 4 instead to make it more smooth.

 

And that's how you do the only nail design I know =D

So here's what it looks like finished. I did a gradient with both purple and golden with both base colors, and on my left hand I just used all 4 colors plain and simple to show you what that looks like.

 Numeration for easier understanding xD

Ok, I actually don't love any of the 3-6 plain ones, maybe 6, but I still prefer the gradient ones.

Namely, I plan on doing either 1b or 2b on most of my nails, and for my thumb and ringfinger use 1a or 2a respectively. BUT I don't love 2b very much, because you can't properly see the gold.OR I could just use either of those four for all my nails.

As you can see, I'm just not sure yet, so please help me by letting me know about your opinion!

Special thanks to Miri who helped me with taking the photos when both my hands were occupied ;)

Thanks for reading, guys!

Lovelovelove

Trin

Last but not least: Products I used for this post! From left to right: Essie in "3 Marshmallow", ANNY in "455 goldfinger", ANNY in "373.10 lucky surfer girl" , ciaté in "PP141 helter-skelter"

Wedding Wednesday 2/5: My subtle pastel make-up + Tutorial

Welcome back to Wedding Wednesday!
I sent out emails concerning the planning of the BIG DAY to all guests just a second ago - it's drawing closer!

Today's post is about this make-up look that I chose to wear to the wedding and how I achieved it:
(all products used will be listed at the end of the post)

What I like about this is that it matches my color theme white, yellow, gold and purple; it's shimmery but still subtle enough not to upstage the bride and most importantly: it's almost 100% waterproof for those inevitable tears of happiness =D

Okay, so here's how it went down.
(First of all: Okay, I know my camera is crap, I hope to get a new one for my birthday *3*. Also don't comment on the condition of my skin, ESPECIALLY my dark circles. I KNOW. Trust me. I know.)
Step 1: At first I prepped my eyes with primer (a), then I started out with a base of a golden cream-based eyeshadow (b) on my entire lid.
Step 2: With another waterproof shadow in stick form (c) in pale lilac, I drew a little triangle shape on my outer V, then blended it out to achieve the look in picture 2. I also brought it down towards my lower lash line, which doesn't really show in the photo, but I forgot to take pictures with my eyes open - oopsies.

Step 3: I added a warm purple eyeshadow (from d), which unfortunately isn't waterproof, to the bottom center of my lid, to blend the gold and lilac together. Remember: The look is supposed to be subtle; I know you can hardly see it in the photo, but that's how it's supposed to be.
Step 4: Then I just lined my upper lash line with a dark purple color (also from d), to give my eyelashes a fuller look. I also lined the outer half of the lower line, which, again, you can't see, because I'm a big dumdum.

Anyways, that's it, basically. I just added pale pink pencil liner (e) to my waterline, which makes my eyes look bigger. White pencil works too, the pink is just a personal preference - I think it looks less harsh. Also I put on waterproof mascara (f), covered up my circles with foundation (g) (I basically use foundation as concealer these days) and slapped on some blush (h), powder (i) and my favorite lipstick (j) and BOOM, done.

Here are more pictures of the finished look from different angles:

Sorry for the crazy eyes in the last one xD

And that's what I'll be wearing for the wedding, yay! x3 I hope you like it.
Do send me pics or let me know if you tried something similar and/or used one of the products. And if you don't, whatever. Then don't.
Thanks a lot for reading anyways <3

Lovelovelove
Trin


Just like I promised; here's a list with the products:

a) some no-name primer that works great for me.
b) Maybelline  New York "color tattoo 24hr" in "05 Eternal Gold"
c) LOOK by bipa "splish splash eyeshadow stick in "Nr2 breeze"
d) Majolica Majorca "Jeweling Eyes" in I-don't-know-what-color-because-my-japanese-is-really-bad
e) YVES ROCHER couleurs "3 in 1 eye pencil" in "08 blanc" (which is a weird name for a PINK product, but what do I know right?)
f) YVES ROCHER "lash plumping mascara" you already know I love it =O
g) I know, you know.
h) GOSH "natural blush" in "43 flower power" OMG I DID NOT READ THAT NAME BEFORE NOW, I'M SO EXCITED, I CAN'T STOP SCREAMING.
i) Maybelline New York "Pure Powder" in "015 Translucent"
j) Maybelline New York "Color Sensational Popstick" in "020 Tropical Pink"

T does a tiny bit of crafting (and almost dies in the process Oo)

So.

Because I'm a moron, I'm off my meds this week (until I get to Andrea, actually) and I am a WRECK. Jesus.
BUT I still felt motivated for some crafting today, after I browsed craftgawker for like 5 hours yesterday.
I found this cute DIY and I loved it.

I happened to have red and white acrylic paint at home. I did NOT have any wooden plates or anything but I tried using cardboard and that worked just fine =)

I made the small one as a pendant, I'm not sure what I'll use the big one for... but I had paint mixed up for like 15 more of those things, making just one seemed a bit of a waste. The reason why it only turned out to be two is - like I hinted before - that I felt like my brain was trying to escape my head. Seriously, I was spacing out like some mental person - I guess the fumes from the paint and nail polish (which I used to paint the little hanger thing on the pendant) plus listening to 2,5 albums from Flyleaf didn't exactly help. By the end I just wanted to go back to sleep.
But I had to go shopping with the bf, so I picked myself up some coffee instead. GREAT idea. So for the next half hour I was super HYPER, switched the music to the OST of "Fantastic Mr. Fox" (which I haven't seen since the first time with you guys and my sister, which was super epic *thrusts fist into the air*) and kept bouncing around the house.
I'm back to a headache at the moment, but it's a lot better than this morning, when I was "being crafty".

I know it's tiny, and I didn't even think of it myself, but the process was such a pain I just wanted to share with someone that I DID something today, despite feeling like a sack of mentally disabled potatoes.

the messy mess I made. Can you tell what my favorite color is?

another angle. They look kinda crappy in the photographs because you can see all the ripples in the cardboard. It's not that intense irl.

Well that's that. Thanks for reading, I hope your head is feeling better than mine.

Kisses
Tini