Secret Santa Lipstick Bandit Style: The Look Swap

Merry Christmas Eve, lovely readers! I got something fun for you today.

Fellow Lipstick Bandits Larie and Xiao came up with the best idea for our Christmas/Holiday collaboration: we are doing each others’ signature looks à la Secret Santa. We are each assigned to do a look inspired by another blogger, but our assignments have been kept a secret. Until now.

(Excited wiggling)

Anyways, I can’t keep the secret anymore so here it goes. I’ve been matched to our gorgeous Jessica of Getting Cheeky! YAY!

Jessica Getting Cheeky
source: GettingCheeky.com

Jessica’s signature look consists of:

flawless, glowing porcelain skin;
bright eyes with slightly winged black liner;
a soft rosy lip.

Jessica has so many stunning features, including her incredible full brows and plump supermodel lips. She wears a light nude pencil on the waterline for a fresh, bright eyed look. And because I’m crazy, I am also drawing on Jessica’s charming beauty marks + freckles, erasing mine, and changing my hair colour on Photoshop. Because it’s fun. (I know, the colour is atrocious on me. It was supposed to be lighter/blonder, too, but I had to find a good middle ground.)

Lipstick Bandits Look Swap 4 final Glitter Geek as Getting Cheeky!

Products Used

Face
Laura Mercier Radiance Primer
Giorgio Armani 5.5 Maestro Foundation (lighter than my true shade, but worn deliberately to lighten my complexion for the look)
YSL 1.5 Touche Eclat
Tarte Exposed Amazonian Clay Blush
Chanel Notorious Ombre Contraste Sculpting Veil

Eyes
MAC Spiked Eye Brows
Yaby Blank Eyeshadow (brow bone, lid and inner corners)
Yaby Bark Eyeshadow (crease)
Yaby Abyss Eyeshadow (used wet as eyeliner)
MAC NC15/NW20 Chromagraphic Pencil (waterline)
Givenchy Noir Couture 4 in 1 Mascara in 1 Black Satin
Ardell short flare lashes

Lips
MAC Oak Lipliner (overlined lips slightly for a fuller look)
MAC Patisserie Lipstick (all over base)
Yaby Hidden Danger Lipstick (on top for shine and more colour)

Lipstick Bandits Look Swap 1
I overlined my lips to emulate Getting Cheeky’s infamous full lips…

Lipstick Bandits Look Swap 2
I had to fill in my eye brows to be fuller…

Lipstick Bandits Look Swap 3 final
The complete look: Glitter Geek as Getting Cheeky!

Joyeux Noël Jessica! I hope you liked it! It was so much fun. Merry Christmas, everyone. Check out the rest of our look swaps below.

Call It Beauty
Eye Heart It
Getting Cheeky
Makeup Morsels
Messy Wands (Wandz is my Secret Santa! YAY!)
Musing on Beauty
My Funny Valentine
Rocaille Writes
theNotice: a beauty blog‎

Also, we have a new Lipstick Bandit! Please give Lily a warm welcome and say hello over at her blog:

ChloeAsh‎

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http://twitter.com/JFunnyValentine Jenny W

You’ve done it so well! I love how you’ve created the ‘Jessica’ brow and lip Love
- http://www.glittergeek.ca/ Arianne
  
  Thanks Jenny! I was so proud of the brow and lip. They turned out exactly the way I wanted. Merry Christmas Jenny (and Diz… who I now wanna call #InstaDiz)!
http://twitter.com/mostlysunnyblog Sunny @Mostly Sunny

Aww I love your rendition of Jessica’s signature look! Merry Christmas Arianne
- http://www.glittergeek.ca/ Arianne
  
  Thank you Sunny! xo Merry Christmas to you, your family and kitties, too!
Mariella D

Jessica’s look suits you really well! Beautiful!
- http://www.glittergeek.ca/ Arianne
  
  Thank you Mariella.
Lily

So preeeeety! This hair colour suits you well. Maybe you could dye it instead
- http://www.glittergeek.ca/ Arianne
  
  LOL thanks Lily I don’t know about the hair. I think it just looks overly Photoshopped to me. It needs highlights and lowlights haha.
JessicaGettingCheeky

Oh my god, Arianne, I seriously squealed! You look incredible with lighter brown hair and the beauty marks? It’s so exact! I might go so far as to say that you do Getting Cheeky better than I do Getting Cheeky!

Merry Christmas lovely!
♥ Jessica
- http://www.glittergeek.ca/ Arianne
  
  Thanks Jessica! <3 I knew I had to do the beauty marks because what's a Getting Cheeky lip swatch without that beauty mark? I had to.
  
  Merry Christmas to you and your family!
  - JessicaGettingCheeky
    
    I’m so happy that the beauty marks are synonymous with Getting Cheeky! I’ve only just grown to love them over the past few years, hearing that makes me happy
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Kristi Crabtree

You nailed Jessica’s look! It looks just as fab on you as it does on her! This may be my favorite Lipstick Bandit post to date!
- http://www.glittergeek.ca/ Arianne
  
  Thanks so much Kristi! I think it’s my favourite, too. Besides our original masks of course. This one is a close second.
http://PerilouslyPale.com/ Perilously Pale

This looks so different than what I’m used to seeing on you. I really love it! Nice homage to Getting Cheeky!
- http://www.glittergeek.ca/ Arianne
  
  Thanks Christa! I think we all learned from how everyone does their makeup from this collaboration. I’m gonna start wearing the light nude liner more often now.
Ruby Scarlett

So beautiful! I know Patisserie is a favourite of hers, you did so well and you look ravishing
- http://www.glittergeek.ca/ Arianne
  
  Thank you so much Ruby Scarlett. I do feel ravishing as I channel Jessica for a day.
http://twitter.com/xiaoo xiao • Messy Wands

UGH I was so excited when I saw you got Jessica! That hair color is fabulous on you. And the photoshopped beauty mark? Hahaha.

Merry Christmas, my darling! I hope you liked my “present” to you (actual one may be squished by the time it gets there ><)
- http://www.glittergeek.ca/ Arianne
  
  The beauty marks were actually drawn on. But I dodged them in Photoshop.
  
  Merry Christmas, Xiao!
http://thesmalllittlethingsinlife.blogspot.com/ Annick

I love this on you! It looks great! Especially the nude liner – it looks fabulous on you!! Patisserie is so Jessica – love it!
- http://www.glittergeek.ca/ Arianne
  
  Thanks Annick. Patisserie is also one of my faves and a staple for weddings this year.
callitbeauty

BRAVA! This look is so CLASSY and CLASSIC — which is what Jessica is. You even posed with your right brow higher!!!

And girl, you need to totally dye your hair that colour. Caramel looks DIVINE on you!
- http://www.glittergeek.ca/ Arianne
  
  Ahhh thanks Dani! Finally someone noticed the brow pose. LOL
http://thenotice.net Rae // theNotice

Eeeee! You did such a great job with this, Arianne — I love your interpretation of Jessica’s look. The makeup, photos, Photoshop… absolute perfection.

Seriously, this is fantastic. And YES to the brow pose!
- http://www.glittergeek.ca/ Arianne
  
  Thank you, Queen of Photoshop. I just went to town with this. I don’t know why. I was on Photoshop until 2:00 AM. Just can’t get the hair right, y’know.
http://eyeheartit.blogspot.com Larie

Everyone is so pretty! Everyone’s looks came out so well!!!!!!!!! Need more exclamation points!!! And I love the hair color, actually. AND THE BROW POSE.
- http://www.glittergeek.ca/ Arianne
  
  Thanks Larie! I had a lot of fun with the brow pose.
http://pinkposiesandcupcakes.blogspot.co.uk/ Fleur

The hair colour looks gorgeous! As do you I’m really enjoying this swap! xo
- http://www.glittergeek.ca/ Arianne
  
  Thank you Fleur!
http://makeupmorsels.wordpress.com Makeup Morsels

Omg, this is perfect! Lovee all the Photoshopping, it’s so spot on. And of course, you look absolutely gorgeous as always Happy Holidays Geekz!
- http://www.glittergeek.ca/ Arianne
  
  Thank you MM! Happy Holidays.
Paris B

Beautiful, Arianne! I love how you did the lips. So simple yet so perfect Merry Christmas!
- http://www.glittergeek.ca/ Arianne
  
  Thanks Paris! I looooved the lips, too. Any excuse for fuller lips!
http://prettyinthedesert.com/ Aseya

I love that hair color on you! You guys all looked fantastic!!
- http://www.glittergeek.ca/ Arianne
  
  Thank you Aseya!
Lenita

wow this was such a good idea! and love you interpretation of jessica’s look, especially the exquisite winged eyeliner. wow.
do you think you’ll be doing this look again for yourself?
- http://www.glittergeek.ca/ Arianne
  
  Hi Lenita! Absolutely. It’s such a beautiful fresh look, and it’s actually a slight modification to my everyday makeup.
http://makeupkismet.blogspot.com/ Ashley

Wooah twinsies much?!That last photo is flawless! It just screams “Jessica”.
- http://www.glittergeek.ca/ Arianne
  
  Hahaha thank you Ashley. I just looked back at this and I had to do a double take at the last photo too.
http://mybeautysample.com/ Becca @ The Beauty Sample

Wow you seriously did an AMAZING job with this look, Arianne–it’s a flawless interpretation!!
- http://www.glittergeek.ca/ Arianne
  
  Thanks Becca, you’re so sweet!
Toya

Yay these are so fun!! I love the look you created Arianne! And you’re a girl after my own heart going full-on for the look, love it
- http://www.glittergeek.ca/ Arianne
  
  Thank you Toya. I must’ve gone mad Photoshopping until 2 AM. So fun though.
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