Tuesday, March 1, 2011

A bit royal: EOTD/NOTD

A while ago I did a swap with a lovely lady I've been chatting to on Twitter for a while - I'd link you to her blog but she's between, er, topics? Anyway, I wanted to get some fullsize Meow Cosmetics shadows without paying their (frankly exhorbitant) international shipping fees. In return I provided some Aussie bits and pieces. No Vegemite, I wanted her to still talk to me afterwards!

I painted my nails with China Glaze Passion, a new acquisition. Unfortunately the end result was very streaky. I layered some gold-and-pastel glitter over the top to try and disguise it a bit:
I don't really like it, but honestly I don't use/wear gold very often, so I decided to leave it on for a while and  made the most of my Midas-y theme by using Ra, and a bit of purple (Sassy Minerals Cocktail Party in the crease/upper lid, and Neverending on the lower lashline. Nyx Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk is on my waterline. Cocktail Party turned up quite mauve-y in the photos, it's more of a sheer, shimmery pinky-purple in real life).




This is without PE, folks. Just TFSI. Ra is liquid gold in shadow form. I know everyone raves about Goldilux from Sugarpill, but I probably won't ever buy it because to me, Ra is sheer perfection. It's not glittery or shimmery at all, just a smooth, gleaming metallic. It's ridiculously beautiful, and shows up on my medium olive skin, which is great. A lot of yellows and golds just sort of disappear on me. Not this baby.


I realised I didn't have any gold and purple earrings, so I dismantled a bracelet I hadn't ever worn, and made these really quickly before running off to uni:

I have six of the crackle beads left, so I could either make a bracelet with some gold chain between the beads, or I could use more wires to make a wide/long pendant. We shall see!

8 comments:

  1. Oh wow that gold looks awesome! And of course I can appreciate those earrings, cute! ^-^

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  2. Thanks Annamax! :)

    Long you reckon, Em? Hmm... I'll see if I can make it look any good.

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  3. I love Ra. I love all my shadows from Meow's Egyptian Treasures collection and plan to get full-sizes of as many as I can. If you ever need someone to CP for you, I'm in the U.S. You were my very first subscriber which makes me want to do stuff for you, lol.

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  4. Awww, thankyou! I definitely would like to do some more swaps/CPs, they are good fun :)

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  5. Love the EOTD! That color looks amazing :D

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  6. That gold on your eyecolour is amazing!

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