EOTD: Red Smokey Eyes... Yes! RED! :P

Red lipsticks are all the rage now and with everyone looking for their perfect Red, it is now become a norm to see a lot of Red lipstick reviews and a lot of Red LOTD posts... Yes I am guilty of quite a few too ;) But last night I thought of trying out Red on my eyes... Something drastic you say? Not really, if you know how to tame Red on your eyes, you are then another bit closer to achieve the know-all of makeup ;) Now who wouldn't want to do that ye? *Yup the "ye" part was an Irish imitation... Am watching a lot of Sons of Anarchy these days ;)*

Here is the look... Your views are really WELCOME! And I would love you guys to be brutally honest with me :D

With Flash

I paired it with Pink Blush and Nude Lips :)

And this is what I used to create this look... Coastal Scents 88 original palette...

Oh btw if you guys actually like the look, then let me know I'll pakka se do a tutorial on it! :)

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Entry 3 For VanityNo apologies' Eye Makeup Contest

They say you can take an Indian out of India but cannot take India out of an India... I feel the same way about smokey eyes... Weird analogy I know but I guess it takes the point across ;) With a plethora of colorful eye makeup that I have been doing for the L'Oreal collaborates with beauty bloggers contests I had been itching to do my most beloved smokey eyes and well this a result of that :) Of course I have used my Coastal Scents 88 Original Palette here as well... And I can tell you that fasten your seat belts for some more :)

Before I forget, the contest link is here :)
I am calling this look: A Study In Fuschia

Products Used:
1. Coastal Scents 88 Original Palette
2. Maybelline Gel Liner
3. MAC Zoom Lash Mascara
4. Illamasqua Blush in Morale
5. Nivea Fruity Shine Lip Balm

And ladies and gentlemen here I present to you the look of the evening? :)
Lemme know if you guys need a tutorial as well :)

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Entry1 For Bhumika's Electric Eye Makeup Contest...

Oh with so many eye makeup contests going on, I feel like I am on a "colorful" eye makeup marathon and well last night I suddenly started getting the feeling that I am running out of eye shadows :( And then inspiration struck me and I whipped out my Coastal Scents 88 Original Palette and the variety of colors it offers :) Woohoo I was in "color heaven" :D

I have created the following look using the Coastal Scents palette and I am submitting it for Bhumika i.e. NewLove's Electric Eye Makeup contest. Details here...

Hope you guys like it :)

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LOTD & TUTORIAL: Fun and Flirty Eyes with Coastal Scents Original :)

Though my guy runs a software firm, he doesn't really believe in IT's 5 days a week working policy. So every Saturday sees me sleeping in late while the guy rushes to office early morning. And so our Saturday lunch rituals are generally in his office and this gives me an opportunity to doll up and then meet him for lunch :) hehehe...

So today I took this blue flared skirt of mine with some white embroidery and a Red top :) And since the look was all girlie, fun and summery I took out my Coastal Scents Original palette for its plethora of colors and created this EOTD :) Hope you guys like it!

Top and Skirt from Westside

  

EOTD with 3 shades of eye shadows

Hope you guys liked the look :)

Products Used

1. Coastal Scents Originall 88 Eye Shadow Palette

2. Lakme Absolute Moonlit Highlighter

3. Inglot Lip Pan in Shade 41

4. Colorbar Blush in Plum Brown

5. Maybelline Gel Liner

6. Colorbar Water Proof Liquid Liner

7. Maxfactor Lash Effect Mascara

8. MAC Pint Pot in Painterly

Tutorial

1. Prime your eye lids. Tith Coastal Scents its important cause some of its shadows aren't as pigmented as the others. I have used MAC Paint Pot in Painterly.

Prime your Lids

2. Next taking the brightest yellow shadow in the palette with a flat fluffy eye shadow brush apply it from the inner corners of the eye to half the lid.

 

3. Next taking the brightest blue in the palette with the same brush apply it from the outer corners to half the lid.

 

 

4. Finally taking the Orangish Red from the palette using my Faces blending brush (no 106) I applied it on the crease and blended in.

5. Applied the highlighter on my brow bone, maybelline gel liner on my waterline and Colorbar liquid liner and mascara and voila! finished the look.

6. For the complete look I applied some blush and a neutral lippy :)

So how did you guys like the look? And did you find the tute helpful?

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LOTD & Tutorial: Eye Make-up to Match a Grey Dress

A few days back I did a post about matching or rather complementing our makeup with our outfit. Well in continuation to that post today I plan on doing an EOTD to match a grey dress. Of course if it would have been a look for a night out, I would have gone for a heavy smoky look but as I was interested in doing a look for a daytime event, I settled for a shimmery green look with a slight smoky effect to it. It looks something like this:

Soft Green-Grey Smoky Eye

The products I have used for this look are as follows:
1. NYX Eye shadow base
2. MAC Peacocky Collection Eye shadow in EGO
3. Coastal Scents 88 Original Eye shadow palette
4. Maybelline Gel Eyeliner
5. Maxfactor False Lash Effect Mascara
6. Maybelline Colorsensational Lipstick in "Coral Crush"

The way to do it:
1. I first primed my eyes with the NYX eye shadow base.
2. Then I dabbed MAC eye shadow in EGO in a dab dab motion with a flat eye shadow brush

MAC Peacocky Collection: Eye shadow called EGO

3. Next, I took the matte taupe eye shadow from my coastal scents palette and using a Faces blending brush applied it to my crease area and blended well.

Coastal Scents Original 88 Palette

Using the matte Taupe eye shadow in the crease area

4. Finally, I lined my eyes with Maybelline Gel Eyeliner and applied mascara and lipstick...

The final look was this:

Hope you guys liked the makeup here :)

For the complete look including the dress and the footwear, visit isimplylovedressup.blogspot.com 

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LOTD & Tutorial: Soft Peach and Pink Smokey Look

Yoohoo.. It's been so long since I did a tutorial and well to think about it, there was a time when I so enjoyed putting up my random LOTDs and titorials. But now being wrapped up with product reviews (well yes I have been a hoarder!) I totally forgot about doing some of my favorite tutes :) Just yesterday someone told me how she hated when beauty bloggers flaunted their superbly done makeups and EOTDs and LOTDs but not give an insight on how to chieve them. Ahem! Well needless to say I was left wondering if she was talking about me! No! I am not claiming that I do just "perfect" make-up but then you guys do get the drift! LOL!

So now I came up with this ridiculously easy LOTD and I am so hoping that you guys try it out and share your results with me. I will be deeply honored :) Honestly!

Here's a sneak peek at what we are gonna be achieving by the end of this tutorial. It's a soft peach and crimson smokey look:

The Look :)

I wanted to do a look with my Coastal Scents 88 Original Palette and well rest as they say is history :) The products that I have used for this look is:

The Products...

Face:

Garnier Body Cocoon Moisturizer

Eyes:

MAC Paint Pot in Painterly (as base) (review here)

Peach (Shade 1) from Coastal Scents 88 Original Palette

Crimson (Shade 2) from Coastal Scents 88 Original Palette

Black (Shade 3) from Coastal Scents 88 Original Palette

Maybelline Lasting Drama Eye Studio Gel Liner in Black (review here)

Maybelline Colossal Volume Mascara

Cheeks:

Colorbar Blush in Plum Brown

Lips:

Colorbar Velvet Matte Lipstick in HOT HOT HOT (review here)

Now that we are done with listing of the products, here goes the tutorial:

1. First off, prep your eye lids with an eye-shadow base. I used MAC Paint Pot in Painterly

Used MAC Painterly Paint Pot as base...

2. This step is optional. You can buff your lids with loose powder. I haven't done so.

3. Next, I applied shade 1 (peach) all over my lids with a flat eye-shadow brush.

Shade 1: Peach

4. Then applied some shade 2 (crimson) on my crease area and blended with a good fluffy blending brush.

Shade 2: Crimson

5. You could line your eyes now and finish off but I needed it to be a bit more dramatic and so took some shade 3 (black) and blended it in my outer V of my eyes.

6. Next I lined my eyes with Maybelline's Lasting Drama Eye Studio Gel Liner in Black and applied some Maybelline Colossal Volume Mascara.

7. On my lips I applied Colorbar Velvet Matte lipstick in Hot Hot Hot and then kissed a tissue ;)

8. Finally applied some Colorbar Blush in Plum Brown and VOILA I was ready to go :)

You guys do try this out and I would love to receive your looks if you care to share them with me :)

xoxo

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Just a random LOTD :)

Hello all my gorgeous readers :) I am back with an LOTD (yes the background process of trying out MAC fluidline is on and no I haven't forgotten bout my reviewing it :P)...
Well as the title suggests it to be just a random LOTD but well if truth be told this wasn't any random LOTD but a well thought out look that I wanted to do for a special occasion :) Well you see 12th was our 1 month wedding anniversary and we went out for sizzlers :D Yum yum yum :)

So cutting short to the chase, this is how I looked...

My make-up breakup (LOL) is as follows:
1. MAC Paint Pot in Indian Wood
2. Eye shadow from Coastal Scents 88 original palette
3. MAC Amplified Creme Lipstick in Craving
4. A random lip palette from Oriflame used as a blush :)

Ok and what was I wearing? Well you see in all the excitement I forgot to take any pics of my outfit but I shall still describe it to you guys :)
Black skirt from Mango
Peach crochetted lace top from Forever New
Black open stilettos from Inc.5

Let me know how you liked my make-up :)
And yes the Gel Liners War will culminate next :P

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Weekend LOTD and my new purchase from Forever New :)

Hello ladies :) Hope you are having a great weekend... I shopped all day and went to work all night! Yup this huge release saw all of us in office at ungodly hours :)
So anyways... Got some really awesome stuff today from Faces and Rocky S :D Yes there's a haul post coming up soon ;)

Now coming back to the look I did today...

The classic Smokey Eye :)

Has anybody noticed the "Asian" Influence in me lately? :P

To achieve this look, I used the following products...
FACE
1. MAC Prep + Prime
2. Maxfactor Second Skin foundation in Bronze

CHEEKS
1. Maybelline Powder Blush in Apricot Flush

EYES
1. Coastal Scents 88 Eye shadow Palette - Silver
2. Coastal Scents 88 Eye shadow Palette - Black
3. L'Oreal Highlighter
4. Maybelline Gel Eye Liner
5. Maybelline Colossal Volume Mascara

LIPS
1. Colorbar Velvet Matte Lipstick in Addictive Magenta
2. Oriflame Lipstick in Vintage Nude

Hope you like my look :)

And this is my purchase from Forever New... It's an envelope clutch with a twist :P

My Envelope CLutch with a TWIST! <3

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EOTD: Aqua

I will not be lying when I say that I am obsessed with my new Coastal scents 88 eye shadow palette and that even though it does have its flaws like a few shades having less pigmentation or some shadows that aren't easily blendable, but I still love it... Just the way it is :)

Well in my previous post I did an EOTD that turned out be pretty sober, so today I wanted to do something that totally rocked and was extremely colorful and bright! And my roommate Manu suggested this :)

So here goes...

Ocean Inspired

Aquatic...

Products I used

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EOTD: Yellow and Pink

Hello ladies... I finally did a look using my brand new Coastal Scents 88 Eye Shadow Palette... Yay Yay Yay! :D
Also do note that I could finally use yellow on my eyes. Honestly? I have been itching to do a yellow EOTD since a long time now but whenever I would I would go to purchase a yellow eye shadow, I would get side tracked and end up buying something in either Pink or Purple :P LOL... So finally when I got my Coastal Scents palette I knew that the first look I wanted to do using it would be something with yellow!

EOTD

A Side View

The Products that I used

 Hope you guys like it...

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