Prometheus

I always like to dress up when I go the movies with some sort of theme related to the film we're seeing. Since Prometheus is in the Alien franchise and the Alien character is usually associated with blackish green, blue or gray, I used those kind of colours to create this look. I used a sample I got from Evil Shades eyeshadow in Glooming and found it to be excellent. I love the way the blue glitter shines against the matte black and it worked really well with Fyrianne Pixy Epoxy. Delicious! The Deviant Lipstick from Evil Shades also kicked ass in the colour and shine department, check out the lip swatch and review.

I love the art work of H. R. Giger, who conceived the concept art for the Alien from his nightmares, and he has done some awesome, spooky and unnerving works. Check out his site here.

Enjoy!

Products used

Eyelid primer

Urban Decay Eyeshadow primer potion in Sin

Lid

Base

M.A.C Paint pot in Blackground

Fyrinnae Pixy Epoxy over lid

Inner lid Sugarpill Chromalust loose shadow in Starling

Outer lid Evil Shades eyeshadow in Glooming winged out

M.A.C Mineralize eye shadow in Frozen blue to blend out lower wing edge

Brow highlight

NYX Jumbo eye pencil in Milk

Ingot #496 DS

Crease

Sugarpill pressed eyeshadow in Midori

M.A.C matte eye shadow in Carbon with a pencil brush to deepen crease

Lower lid

NYX Jumbo eye pencil in Electric blue

Sugarpill Chromalust loose shadow in Starling inner lashline

Revlon Luxurious color Satin eye shadow in Peacock Lustre 025 outer lashline

M.A.C Mineralize eye shadow in Frozen blue to blend out

Revlon Luxurious color matte kohl in Black truffle on waterline and tightline

M.A.C matte eye shadow in Carbon to set waterline

Tear duct

NYX Jumbo eye pencil in Milk

M.A.C Mineralize eye shadow in Frozen blue

Lashes

Rimmel Scandaleyes Volume flash mascara in Extreme Black

Lips

Evil shades Deviant Lipstick in Obscurity

Face

Benefit Boi-ing industrial strength concealer in 01

Revlon PhotoReady perfecting primer in 001

Revlon PhotoReady airbrush mousse makeup in 020 shell

Revlon PhotoReady Translucent finisher

Cheeks

Inglot AMC Pressed powder #59 for cheek highlight

Evil Shades blush in Twizted on cheek bones

Benefit Hervana on apples

Benefit Hoola for contour

Brushes

All Sigma brushes from Mr Bunny kit unless stated

Eyes

Sigma E55 Eye shading for lid

Sigma E70 Medium angled shading for blending crease

Crown BK40 Deluxe Badger oval shadow

Sigma E30 Pencil Non-bunny for tear duct highlight

Sigma E20 Short shader Non-bunny for lower lid

Sigma E65 Small angled for waterline and liner

M.A.C 224 setting powder for concealer under eyes

Sigma L05 Lip for lips!

Face

Sigma E60 Large shader for concealer

M.A.C 116 for cheeks

Napoleon Perdis 20b Reflective contour brush for blush

Sigma F30 Large powder

Here is a lip swatch for Evil Shades Deviant Lipstick in Obscurity and mini Review.

I loved the colour and sheen this lipstick had and found the intensity to be buildable. I only had a sample, so I solely used a lip brush to apply the product and think that application and intensity could be improved if applied directly from the stick with the full product. The lipstick is a wax based product, so warms to the lip's touch and I think that makes the difference with the full size compared to the sample. The taste was inoffensive, if not pleasant and it wore comfortably. It didn't dry my lips too much but did feel like I was wearing product, that is to say that it isn't a weightless unnoticeable lipstick, however isn't thick and cumbersome. It didn't survive me eating popcorn in the movie theatre, which no one should expect.

I liked it and would consider buying the full size for the colour alone.


Buy it at Evil Shades here.

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Men in Black III: Alien look

I was going to paint Ray-ban sunglasses and a little Will Smith moustache on my face to go and watch Men in Black III, however I went in a different direction. I thought I'd do a kind of "Gray" type alien look with elongated eyes using black and green. I don't usually use much green, if at all, so I thought I would spread my wings a little and try something different.

From http://www.crystalinks.com/zeta.html

The look came out more menacing/evil than I intended at some angles and ended up looking a bit superhero like. But overall I think it has a weird alienish feel to it, so I was happy with my first go at something like that (and my first go at a lot of green on me).

See below for a list of products used and read on for a description on how to create the look.

Enjoy!

Note: Excuse the somewhat crummy photos, I was being rushed and running late for the movie. And there won't always be so many words and such a long post. I just thought I'd do a description for this one as it is simple looking yet complicated.

Products used

Eyes

-BareMinerals eye shadow primer

-Chi Chi eyeliner in 278 Virgin for outline

-NYX jumbo pencil in 604 Milk and 601 Black Bean

-M.A.C eye shadow in Carbon

-M.A.C paint pot in Blackground

-Revlon Diamond lust in Night sky

-Sugarpill pressed eye shadow in Midori from the sweetheart palette

-Maybelline New York Eyestudio, 202 Mythical Mermaid. Light shimmery green, teal for medium green, and dark green.

-Revlon luxurious colour eyeliner in 011 Black velvet

-Inglot 101R Lightest brown

Eyebrows

-Revlon ColorStay eyebrow liner waterproof in Blonde

-Inglot 101R Darkest brown

Face

-Revlon PhotoReady perfecting primer in 001

-Revlon PhotoReady airbrush mousse foundation in 020 shell

-Revlon PhotoReady translucent finisher powder in 001 translucent

-Revlon PhotoReady concealer in 002 light

Cheeks

-Inglot 101R Darkest brown and medium brown mixed for contour

-M.A.C pro powder blush in Cantaloupe

-Inglot AMC white highlighting pressed powder 59 under Inglot 430 Pearl eye shadow as cheek highlight

Lips

-Revlon Just Bitten lip stain in Midnight

-Revlon Colorburst lip butter in Sugar Plum 085

-Revlon Super lustrous lipgloss in Pearl Plum 090

Brushes

Face

All Sigma face brushes from Mr. Bunny kit except F82.

-Sigma Foundation F60 for face primer

-Sigma F82 Round Kabuki for foundation

-Sigma F30 Large Powder for translucent powder

-M.A.C 116 for cheek highlighter

-Sigma Large angled contour for contour and blush

-Sigma F70 Concealer for concealer

Eyes

All Sigma brushes from Mr Bunny kit.

-Sigma E30 Pencil brush for M.A.C carbon in crease

-The Body Shop eye shadow brush for dark green

-M.A.C 242 for paint pot

-Beauty Essentials contoured natural eye shadow brush for Revlon Night sky

-M.A.C 266 for teal/medium green

-Sigma E55 Eye shading brush for bright green Midori

-OM SHE small eye shadow brush for light brown

-Sigma E05 Eyeliner for light green tear duct highlight

-Sigma E65 Small angle for eyebrow powder

Description:

First outline your shape with a thin white eyeliner pencil, segmenting the upper and middle parts of the design.

I took the dark green section up to where my eyebrow starts and used that as the transition from dark green to bright green. Take the shape out as far as you are comfortable with, making the top of the shape start at your tear duct and go out diagonally with a curved line, making an oval shape at the outer end.

To add a base to the top part of the shape, use NYX jumbo pencil in milk and fill in the segment. Just use your fingertip to make the surface smooth. I didn't blend out too much to keep the colour as bright as possible.

Then cover half the area between your crease and the light section with NYX jumbo pencil in black bean and blend upwards with your finger fading it out. Use the same pencil for your lower lash line base, making the line thicker at the outer edge and stopping well before the tear duct, (about a third of the way from the end of your eye.) Pat gently to smooth it out, but don't smudge much.

Blend a small amount of matte black eye shadow in the crease and slightly upwards using a pencil brush.

Use a dark green eye shadow and cover the area from the crease up towards the white area/your eyebrow, patting the colour on carefully with a stiff eye shadow brush to avoid fallout.

Place the same dark green colour over the black bean along the lower lid, tapering the shape and avoiding the inner third of the lower lash line.

Now use a cream or preferably a gel eyeliner to create a base for your lid. I used M.A.C paint pot in blackground with a M.A.C 249 synthetic brush and covered the entire lid, creating a sharp line at the crease.

Pat a black eye shadow with some sparkle over the entire eyelid using a fluffy eye shadow brush. (I wanted the black with glitter to represent the stars.)

Use a teal/medium green to transition between the dark green and the bright green areas and outline around the edges of the dark green half of the design. I used a M.A.C 266 small angled brush to do the outline and also blended the colour towards the dark green. Take the medium green down to the tear duct but only beside the black area and also on the far outer edge of the dark green shape.

For the bright green area, use a fluffy eye shadow brush and place the colour over the white base. I used Midori from Sugarpill and did my best to "colour within the lines".

Then blend the area between the bright and dark green further using more of the medium green transition colour, while keeping the outer edges of the design sharp.

Using the same brush as for the bright green section, smudge out the lower lash line and blend out the dark colours all along the lower edge of the shape. Bring in the bright green colour and taper in the shape towards the tear duct while avoiding it.

Using a very small brush like Sigma's E05 I took some NYX jumbo pencil in milk and brushed it on my tear duct, then used a light green to set the colour. Use the same light green and blend it along the lower lash line into the bright green and also above the eye into the inner crease blending it into medium green colour.

For the empty space below the eyebrow I used a skin tone light brown eye shadow with a smallish eye shadow brush to not mess up the design.

For the waterline I used a black eyeliner pencil and also added a little bit along my lower lashes.

For my eyebrows I used my regular brow pencil and shadow over the top, however only coloured in the area that was showing outside the green design. I considered doing a darker eyebrow but thought that would take the focus off the shape of the design. (Later it was suggested to me to have powdered out my eyebrows to dramatise the shape and add more freakiness. I definitely think that would work fantastically well to amp up the weirdness of this design.)

I used a silver and white tinged highlighters on my cheekbones and even on the apples of my cheeks. I also added some highlighter to the length of my nose, my forehead and my chin to give a strange otherworldly glow, although I didn't think that showed up to well in the pictures.

I used some brown shadow for contour in the hollows of my cheeks (as my matte bronzer hasn't arrived yet) and elongated the shading up to my temples to create a slim and oval face. That's as close to an alien's as I could get, keeping to the pointy chin and round top of the head "Gray" alien look.

I used only a small amount of blush and kept it below my cheekbones and more into the hollows of my cheeks to help with the contouring but not had too much colour to my cheeks.

For lips I added dark plum purple lips with Revlon lipstain, lip butter and lipgloss.