Everything That Glitters Isn't Always Gold..

I got home from gym today and was actually in the mood to play around with some makeup before I had a shower. I washed my face, applied foundation to half my face and grabbed the closest bright eyeshadow which was a Mac pigment pot in the shade Bright Fuchsia. 

It's a very dramatic and daring colour, perfect for summer. 

After rummaging around in my makeup drawer I found a matching Glitter Eye Creme by BYS in the colour Cherry Bloom. It reminded me of a tutorial I watched on YouTube called "How To Get Fairy Eyes" (or something along those lines).

Here is my inspiration photo..

And here is my two minute replica:

You can tell it's a rushed job but I found it fun to experiment with such a bold colour and glitter is never "safe" so the combination of the two was so daring. I may just wear this look clubbing on the weekend.

What I Used

In my crease: Mac pigment Bright Fuchsia

On my lid: BYS Glitter Creme in Cherry Bloom

My liner: Maybelline Line Stiletto Liquid Liner in Blackest Black

On my waterline: NYX Jumbo Pencil in Milk

On my lashes: Australis TLC Mascara in Blackest Black

She's Ready For Red..

My mum has only ever been two hair colours in her life, blonde and black. 

Blonde is beautiful, as we are naturally fair. She has olive skin and striking reptile green eyes so of course blonde is going to be dreamy on her but lately she has started to lose the glow that blonde hair usually gives her.

We knew that she needed to change it up a bit and that if she couldn't be blonde, she definitely couldn't go back to black.. Mainly because when she has black hair, it looks like she was acting in one of those scenes where the person is standing under a construction site and an oil drum spills over them.. Either that or I could just hand her a straw broom and listen to her cackle as she flies away on it. 

By now you should have gotten the point that black hair on my mum is obviously not a good thing.

What else is there though? The whole two tone thing is not an option and brown looks dull on most people, so that's out.. And then **lightbulb** 

RED

Red is a terrifying word when your a blonde. It's a horribly scary word indeed. 

You spend your life trying to eliminate any red and orange so to even suggest it, should be considered madness.. Unless you've been watching Body Of Proof, Unforgettable, Prime Suspect, True Blood, Pretty Woman, Thomas Crown Affair, Assassins, Grumpy Old Men or The Wedding Date (like we have).. 

What do those movies and tv shows have in common, you ask? 

All the main actresses are REDHEADS and they look AMAZING!

Poppy Montgomery, Debra Messing, Julianne Moore, Julia Roberts, Ann Margaret..  

Just to name a few.. All drop dead gorgeous redheads.. 

So today we went out in search of the perfect red for my mum to try. 

Of course with such a dramatic change you can't just slap it on your hair and hope for the best, so I did test strands on some of my microbead extensions and out of all four colours, none of them were the right shade. It's hard because we don't want a colour too orange and we don't want something too dark or too bright.. Finding that perfect auburn red is going to be harder than we thought. 

We wanted to make sure the colours really weren't the right match so we did two colour strips in mums hair. They were NOT a success.. 

The top photo was our most likely contender as her base colour - that we nicknamed Dead Duck because it was such a flat and boring colour.

The second photo was the one we were scared would be too 'cartoonish'.. And we were right. 

It's a bonus that the second colour is actually the perfect colour for my girlfriend Monicah. She spends a small fortune getting me to dye her hair with fudge every three weeks so this should help her purse quite a bit!

As for my mums hair? I'll update you when we find her perfect shade :)

Fashion Inspiration:

I am in LOVE with the diamante skull shoulder pads and the oriental print corset in this photo worn by Adriana Lima for a Victorias Secret runway show.

EOTD Inspired By MissDMakeUp.

As the title says, my makeup today was inspired by T H I S video of MissDMakeUp.

 Instead of black liner I used brown.

 Instead of a frosted shimmery white I used a light pearl white.

I used a warm tone brown rather than a cool toned one and I didn't add the liner on my waterline.

I guess after reading all that, it's not similar at all haha. But 'inspired' doesn't mean you have to exactly copy it.. I consider this more of a 'daytime for blondes' look.

Inspired By:

Jennifer Lopez has always inspired me with her hair, makeup, body and most importantly - her clothes. I could do a whole year of posts just solely based around outfits that JLo has worn that I want to recreate.

Extending My Hair..

I'm considering getting extensions this length.

What do you think, waste of money?

Bang Bang, He Shot Me Down.

I thought I'd try something different with my hair today. I was inspired by Sarah Michelle Gellar in the movie Southland Tales. She looked AMAZING.

This photo sums it up:

Mirror Mirror On The Wall..

After what feels like a lifetime of being obsessed with "The Fairest Of Them All" necklace by Disney Couture, my mum surprised me with a necklace from Diva saying exactly the same thing.

It's very nice and I love it.. But I'm still going to start saving my pennies for the real deal.

Inspired By..

After seeing an entry on Beck's Makeup Corner, I was inspired to do this Christian Dior runway look.

I was in a hurry and it's my first attempt but I'll definitely be refining this look when I have some time.