Giveaway: FORA Nails

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The lovely Dilek from FORA Nails is having an awesome giveaway on her blog which I think everyone should check out.

The prize includes nail polish and nail art bead which would look really awesome!

Here are the terms for the giveaway:

1.You need to be a follower.
2.Blog about this giveaway. (Extra)
3.Tweet about this giveaway. (Extra)
Leave a comment to this post 4.Just Including your name, e-mail and the links to the terms from the above address list.Leave to your blog.The deadline is December 20th, 2010, 11:59 pm.

Click the link here to go to her blog post and good luck!

Nail Art Foil Collection: White, Black and Patterns

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This is the final post for my nail foils collection. There has been a lot to go through so I am kind of thankful that I've gotten to the end. All of these foils were purchased by me from Dollar Nail Art. In this post I will be showing you product photos, close up images and brief descriptions of each of the nail foils based on what I think they look like.

If you do not know what nail art foil is or how to use it please follow this link here to my Introduction to Nail Foils post for more information.

Tutorial: Neutral for the Day Look

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This is the first real neutral look that I have recorded for my blog/Youtube channel. I am not an expert on wearing neutral colours because I honestly don't wear them all that often, I prefer to express myself through using colour in my makeup.

Tutorial: Sacramento Flash Look

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So this is a really sexy look that I wore to a party recently. I wanted something with a red brown so I could make my green eyes pop. I also wanted to use my Club eye shadow again considering I don't use it all that often. I created a really pretty, sexy brown smokey which I was getting a lot of compliments on at this party so I thought I'd post it here for you guys.

Tutorial: Sunset at the Beach Look

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This look is a really good example of the way that complimentary colours can look good together. I used a copper and gold look on the eyelid and then a purple-blue on the lower lash line. This works well because orange (copper) and blue are complimentary, and yellow (gold) and purple are complimentary also.

This is a pretty awesome look to try when you want to do something a little more dramatic and fun on a weekend out. You could also maybe pass this off as an Egyptian look if you made the eyeliner a little more dramatic.

Tutorial: Pop That Neutral Look

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The classic neutral, everyday look is one that every makeup wearer has pulled off at one point or another, be it on a daily basis or just on occasion. This tutorial is a good way to create a slightly more dramatic look to this by simply adding a contrasting colour to your lower lash line.

Any makeup wearer should know their basic colour theory, all you have to do is look at a colour wheel (I have included a colour wheel below as a reference), and the best way to make your eyes really stand out is to use a contrasting colour. For me having green eyes, the contrasting colour is red. Now red isn't exactly a colour that can be easily found in an eye shadow. The reason for that is because the pigment used to create the red colour can create an allergic reaction with some people when it comes in contact with the eye area. For me that isn't a problem, but that being said DO NOT attempt to wear red makeup products on your lower lash line because your eyes will water like crazy!

Nail Tutorial: Purple French with White Roses

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This is a simple Konad design that I thought I would film recently. I have since taken off my gel nails and I'm allowing my nails to grow naturally so I won't be posting any more nail tutorials after this except the ones that I have pre-recorded.

To recreate this look, you will need:
- base coat - I used Nfu Oh Base Coat
- China Glaze "Temptation Carnation" nail polish
- China Glaze "Midnight Ride" nail polish
- Konad Special Polish in "White"
- Konad Top Coat
- Konad image plate "M19"
- Fauxnad GCOCL "F01"

Tutorial: Glowing Bronze Look

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So, I thought it was about time that I did a more neutral and wearable look for my viewers who like that sort of thing.

This is a golden-bronze look with a lot of highlight in the inner corner to help brighten up the eyes. It helps to make others eye focus on your pretty peepers and flatters them really well. 

This look would look fantastic on anyone but I think would be most effective with people who have green or blue eyes as the colours used really help them stand out.

One of the eye shadows used in this, 100 Strokes eye shadow, was limited edition. If you cannot find it, it can be easily replaced by something like Beauty Marked eye shadow. Although these two colours are not exactly alike, 100 Strokes eye shadow being a brown with a burgundy undertone and Beauty Marked eye shadow being almost black with dark pink and purple glitter, the end results when used with the other colours are fairly similar. I will have photos below of both eye shadows so you can see the colours I used.

Tutorial: Neutral with a Colour POP!

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This is a recreation of a FOTD look for July 28th, 2009 that I had uploaded a while ago (to see the look, click here). It is just a goldy-brown on the lid with a pop of electric blue on the lower lash line. This is the kind of look you could wear when you have to look a little more conservative, but want to have a little something more to your look.

If you are in the US or UK and can't get your hands on Bourjoise "Blue Clinquant" eyeliner, Urban Decay has a 24/7 eyeliner in "Electric" which is a very similar colour.

Makeup Tutorial: A More Dramatic Neutral Look

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This is the first tutorial for the new channel. It is a look that I often do when I want to wear a neutral look with a bit of glamour. This look uses one of the more unusual brown MAC eye shadows, Patina. It is one of my favorites because I love the gold sheen that it gives off when worn on the lid, in the pan is it not much to me.

It also uses some discontinued eye shadows which is not such a good thing. Lucky Tom eye shadow, a medium brown similar to Espresso eye shadow but with Gold glitter, is from the "Lucky Tom" quad that came out with the Hello Kitty Collection (February 2009). This is an optional eye shadow as it won't really change the look too much, its just added to add a bit of gold glitter to the look.

Another one is Smoking, a really pretty dark almost black brown eye shadow with gold glitter which came out in the "Smoking" quad which came out with the Smoke Signals Collection (August 2007). If you don't have this eye shadow you could also use a super dark brown like Smut.



EYES:
- Urban Decay Primer Potion
- Patina eye shadow
- Espresso eye shadow
- Lucky Tom eye shadow (from "Lucky Tom" quad from the Hello Kitty - Feb 2009)
- Smoking eye shadow (from "Smoking" quad from the Smoke Signals - Aug 2007)
- Vanilla eye shadow
- Rose Blanc eye shadow
- Loreal liquid liner in "Carbon Black"
- Ebony eyeliner

CHEEKS:
- Inglot #34 (peach with gold shimmer) blush

LIPS:
- Inglot #23 (light coral) lipstick
- Mimi lipglass


You could dress this look up even more by applying a gold glitter liner to the lash line, I often do this if I am going out at night wearing this look.

I welcome you guys to send me your recreations of this look.