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Look I Love: Shu Qi on Harper’s Bazaar 2011 (Smokey Eyes and Nude Lips Makeup Tutorial)

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Maybe Mother Nature was listening to my cries of beauty blogger burnout, but she gave us a snow day in Toronto today! That means I have a tutorial for you! :)

I don’t know who Shu Qi is. Okay… was just told that she’s a Taiwanese actress who started out as a Playboy model. There’s your trivia for the day. The other thing I know is that wow, she’s stunning.


Photographed by Chen Man

I’ll give you a second to pick yourself up off the floor. ;)

I am crazy — absolutely bananas – over this smokey eye. I thought it would be a great look to recreate with the Urban Decay Smoked Palette and Laura Mercier Artist’s Palette.

Glitter Geek Dramatic Smokey Eyes and Nude Lips 1

Get the Look

  1. Start with a matte ivory base (Urban Decay Kinky) all over the eye lid up to the brow bone.
  2. Place a matte medium brown (Laura Mercier Cafe au Lait) all over the lid.
  3. Start sketching out the smokey eye shape with a deep bronze (Urban Decay Barlust). Place on the inner crease and outer crease and pull out towards the temples.
  4. Blend that out like your life depends on it.
  5. Deepen the inner crease with a matte dark brown (Urban Decay Backdoor). Also place the same colour along the inner and outer thirds of the lower lash line.
  6. Brighten the lid and middle of the lower lash line with a shimmery light taupe (L’Oreal Tender Caramel).
  7. With a pencil brush, darken the outer and inner crease with a matte black (Urban Decay Blackout). Also take this on the outer corner of the lower lash line.
  8. Blend that out like your life depends on it. Seeing a pattern here?
  9. Highlight under the brows with a shimmery champagne (Laura Mercier Sunlit).
  10. Line the waterlines and smudge a black pencil (Urban Decay Perversion) on the top lash line. Add mascara and the eyes are done!
  11. Fake fuller lips by outlining with a nude brown lip pencil (MAC Oak).
  12. Fill in the lips with a sheer nude lipstick (Giorgio Armani Rouge d’Armani Sheer 100 – part of Spring 2013 collection).

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My “Crazy Fairy” YSL Arty Stone Collection for Spring 2013 Look

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I need to stop the onslaught of reviews and post a look for my own sanity. I wanted to challenge myself and use all the shades from the Y Facettes Pure Chromatics Eye Collector Palette Nº 14 in one eye look. Before I continue with the rest of the reviews for YSL Arty Stone Collection for Spring 2013, I wanted to show you a look using the products. I like it, and hope you do too! Mr. Geeks sure didn’t.

Mr. Geeks: “Blue eyeshadow. Pft.”
Me: “It’s green.”
Mr. Geeks: “Teal. Pft.” *cringes*

Boys: can’t live with them!

YSL Arty Stone Collection Look 3

Get the Look

For the eyes, wet a brush and pick up Malachite (green) and pat onto the inner 2/3 of the lid and crease, and lower lash line. Next, flip the brush and pick up the Azurite (blue) and apply along the outer lid and crease, and outer 1/3 of the lower lash line. With a crease brush, apply a small amount of matte chocolate brown to the crease to create a soft contour. Next, apply Amethyst (violet) dry with a fluffy blending brush along the crease. Highlight under the brows and inner corners with Fluorite (pink).

Line the top lash line and waterline with a black pencil (YSL Waterproof Eye Pencil in 1 Black Ink), and the bottom waterline with an emerald green pencil (Marcelle Waterproof Eyeliner in Metal Green). Curl your lashes and apply loads of mascara (Annabelle Le Big Show).

For the cheeks, using your fingers, apply Crème de Blush in Nº 9 Rose Quartz on top of the cheekbones and extend up towards the temples and brow bones. Then, apply Crème de Blush in Nº 8 Baby Doll on the contours of the cheeks to sculpt those cheekbones, baby doll!

For the lips, apply two layers of Rouge Pur Couture Vernis à Lèvres in Nº 27 Pêche Cerra-Colla.

YSL Arty Stone Collection Look 4

YSL Arty Stone Collection Look 5
Rouge Pur Couture Vernis à Lèvres in Nº 27 Pêche Cerra-Colla

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Secret Santa Lipstick Bandit Style: The Look Swap

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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 finalGlitter 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.

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