This was quite a daunting task; I don't have a lot of colours or brushes and I seem to have a problem with building up colour. With brushes I patted on each colour several times which did build up intensity but nowhere near the vibrancy of the original photo I decided to copy (after three glasses of the fruitiest Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc).
On the inner third of the lid (No 7) gold followed by Benefit Gilded to try to intensify
Middle third of the lid (Rimmel) light green
Outer third of the lid (Rimmel) olive goldy green
Crease, wing and under eye (No 7) midnight blue
Outer brow bone - (Benefit) gold rose from Dallas pallete
Black lashes and black kohl (Elizabeth Arden) waterline
I was inspired by the girls over at this site http://www.makeupgeek.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=2967&st=0&sk=t&sd=a Make Up Geek. My initial thoughts from seeing everyone's efforts ranged from "wow" to "oh", but even the eyes I was less than impressed with look better than mine! Is it the products (not MAC), the brushes or my technique, I wonder?
I think it's fair to suggest I'm being kind to myself. I think application must be the key. I can see I haven't got even coverage over areas of my lid; the blending isn't great; the shading is not correctly placed and the colours! This was meant to be gold to golden green to midnight blue to sunset red sweeping over and across my lids and I achieved five day old bruise.
Here is the original. Compare and contrast.
Me damn fool.
But I'll just throw wine and artificial lighthing into the workman blames her tools mix.
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