Weekly Makeup Tag: Butterflies

This week in the lovely Aqeela's makeup tag, the theme was Butterflies.
It was a theme that sounded easy, but actually was harder to create a design than I would've expected.
I suppose where I didn't want to just draw a butterfly on my face, I had to come up with something a little less literal.

And this was what I ended up with:

Yes, okay so it's slightly literal. I did upper and lower wings with some adhesive gem things. I think if I had a tad more time I would've delved deeper into a design and come up with something more unique. But I'll be honest, I'm actually a bit pleased with how this turned out.

So here's how I created this look:

 Start with the darker colour on the outer part of your lid. I chose a mixture "Picadilly" and "Northern" from my Sleek 2012 Glory pallette. Extend your colour out in a bit of a point, and bring it further inwards on the top and bottom of the lid.

 Add your second, lighter, colour to the inner corner of the eye and blend it into the darker colour. I chose a pink colour from MUA's Immaculate pallette. If the darker colour fades a little during the blending (it happens, it sucks), then you can always go over it. Don't panic!! =]

 Outline the colour in a sharp black eyeliner pencil. I do this because I hate using liquid eyeliner and am not confident enough to go in straight away without it. I can sketch but not paint. It would seem this transfers to my makeup skills also. Bring both the inner and outer corners to points.

 Draw in the bottoms of the wing under the eye with the pencil eyeliner.

 Colour in the bottom wing and then go over the pencil lines with a stronger liner. I used one of Rimmel's liguid liners. I have to admit, it was a fairly old liner, so was drying up and starting to crack which was annoying. When doing this, remember to line above the lashes.

 Add decoration. I used Sleek's Dip It liner in gold to create the dots, then stuck on some craft gems (you can use eyelash glue to stick things down without the fear of them being unable to come off.)

 Add some false lashes/mascara. For the lashes I bought a regular pair and stuck some gems to them. Word of advice, don't buy the cheapest of cheap lashes from poundland. Sure cheap lashes can be good, but theirs totally aren't. Go take a lookie on ebay for some good deals (if you're willing to wait a little while for delivery!)

 Make the lips glossy and if possible use colours that correspond with the eyes. As much as I thought the idea of these lips was good, having the dark blue (Sleek blue pout paint mixed with one of Manic Panic's blacks) on the insides of the mouth made it look a little like I had a disease...

...So I put it on the outside corners. Followed by MUA's Lip Boom in "Doin' Good" and then MaxFactor flipstick in "Gipsy red"(but the gold end). This looked a lot nicer and really plumped out my lips.

And there you have it! Butterfly makeup.

If you want to see all the other looks the girls created, head over here. (They're seriously good!)

I hope you all liked this look, and I look foward to posting more makeup looks. If there's anything you want to see/would like me to try, then holla (love that word!) and I shall see what I can do!

Love B xxxxx