Here's this Egyptian Pharaoh inspired lip art. I took elements of the strong contrasting colours of gold and blue seen a lot of ancient Egyptian art and tried to create the striped look of the nemes headdress or head cloth worn by the pharaohs that symbolises their power. I also wanted to incorporate the strong black eyeliner featured in the makeup, so I added the black outline and upturned corners of the mouth. I love how these lips are bright in colour and excitingly shimmery, but still dark and mysterious. I really love ancient Egyptian imagery and I haven't dipped into that inspiration for a long time. The Bast makeup look that It’sBlackFriday uploaded a couple of weeks ago made me remember awesome look of the ancient Egyptian style and I was enticed to create this lip art. I used to do tons of asymmetric eye looks with the eye of Ra and other god’s symbols and I'll have to bring that back into my make up entourage, and maybe make an eye tutorial. Enjoy!
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For nail or makeup embellishments, check out the Born Pretty store and use the code MIHW10 for 10% off your whole order!
Products Used
M.A.C Prep+Prime Lip base NYX jumbo eye pencil in Electric blue Urban Decay 24/7 eye pencil in Honey Sugarpill loose pigment in Goldilux Sugarpill loose pigment in Starling Sugarpill loose pigment in Stella Gold foil leaf from Born Pretty Store Rectangular gold studs & Diamond studs Born Pretty Store Urban Decay 24/7 Liquid Eyeliner in Perversion Physician’s Formula 2 in 1 eye booster pen in Ultra Black Tools The Body Shop Eyeshadow brush M.A.C 266 angled brush Scraperfect Embellie Gellie Duo Eyelash Adhesive in clear
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The inspiration for this lip art started at one place then went in a totally different direction by the time I was finished. I was originally going for a snakeskin look with the fishnet stencil, but then I decided to stick some gold born pretty spikes and some square rhinestones and the look reminded me of an ancient civilisation’s jewel or some beautiful Indian sari design. Then I decided to name it after the The Eye of the Serpent jewel from Conan the Barbarian that they steal at the Tower of Serpents from the Temple of Set worshipers.
If you love matte shadows and shimmery pigments check out Sugarpill's site here.
For nail or makeup embellishments, check out the Born Pretty store and use the code MIHW10 for 10% off your whole order!
Products Used
MAC Lip pencil in Nightmoth to line and fill in perimeter of lips
Urban Decay 24/7 eye pencil in El Dorado to fill in centre of lips
OCC lip tar in Black Metal Dahlia over perimeter of lips
OCC lip tar in Triptych over centre of lips
Stretch Fishnet stockings over lips
Urban Decay Electric palette shadow in Jilted over very centre of lips
Sugarpill Chromalust loose pigment Countess dabbed over rest of centre of lips
Sugarpill Chromalust loose pigment in Goldilux dabbed over the outer perimeter
Embellishments
3mm Gold spikes randomly from Born Pretty Store
2mm Square deep pink rhinestones from eBay
Tools
Sedona Lace LB25 Lip brush
Sugarpill lip brush
Electric palette brush
Sigma E46 Shader inner corner brush Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links.
I went to see the new Mad Max movie and wanted to create my own brand of inspired Road Warrior makeup look. It’s not a direct replication of anything anyone would wear in the movie, but more a war paint that I would slather on my face before battle on the road in a post apocalyptic wasteland where I had access to some red black and orange dust.... and I guess a few sticks to use as makeup brushes or something. I also created a matching red and black distressed nail design which you can check out over yonder.
I have a tutorial to show you featuring these pin stripe gold and black nails with accents of these Born Pretty Roses. These nails work in any colour scheme and as simple or with as much 3-D embellishment as you like. Enjoy!
I wanted to recreate these nails I wore a while ago cause I liked the glitter placement and playing with micro beads. I used the same techniques in my lizard inspired Godzilla nails seen here. I thought I’d do a tutorial and also change up the colour scheme with some gorgeous purples from Nail Pattern Boldness, plus add these sweet as hell 3D roses from Born Pretty.
I wanted to play with my new lip tar from OCC, the metallic one called Black Metal Dahlia. I thought I'd create a quick grungy eye look to go with it using the Naked 3 palette and some maroon tones from Inglot, with a shimmery touch form the Sugarpill Sparkle baby palette. I've really been enjoying my Naked 3 pallet for any pink, purple or red eye looks cause it does a really good job of adding a touch of sickness around the eyes. Because sometimes I like to look a little “ill" with my make up. ;D I really felt like adding a few tiny gold spikes to my lips and wearing this out to pizza at my friends house so I decided to test out a new adhesive called pros-aide. This is the first time I'm trying pros-aide out and honestly it wasn't exactly successful. I think that there is a bit of a learning curve and I'm going to practice using it so I can give you guys some good tips. At the moment it's just me fooling around with it. Enjoy!
If you love the beautiful shimmery shadows I used for this makeup check out Sugarpill's site here.
For the spikes I used on my lips, check out the Born Pretty store and use the code MIHW10 for 10% off your whole order!
Products Used
Primers
Two faced shadow insurance
M.A.C Painterly Paintpot
Lid
Sugarpill Sparkle baby palette shadow in Kitten Parade
Inglot eyeshadow in #450 pearl Dark Cranberry on outer corner and along lashline
Crease/inner brow & outer corner
Urban Decay Naked 3 palette shadow in Limit
Urban Decay Naked 3 palette shadow in Nooner
Brow
Urban Decay Naked 3 palette shadow in Strange
Tear duct
M.A.C Pigment in Vanilla
Lower lashline
Urban Decay Naked 3 palette shadow in Limit
Urban Decay Naked 3 palette shadow in Nooner
Inglot eyeshadow in #450 pearl Dark Cranberry
Rimmel ScandalEyes pencil in Nude
Lashes
Covergirl Clumpcrusher
Brows
Benefit Gimme Brow
Lips
M.A.C Prep+Prime lip base
M.A.C Pigment in Vanilla cupid's bow highlight
M.A.C lip pencil in Nightmoth to outline lips and fill in corners
Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Lip Tar in Black Metal Dahlia
3mm Gold Spikes from Born Pretty Store
Adhesive
Pros-aide from Bauer
Face
Benefit Pore-fessional primer
M.A.C Fix+
Bourjois Healthy mix foundation in 51 Vanilla
M.A.C Pro Longwear Concealer in NC15 Revlon PhotoReady Translucent powder 001
Hourglass Ambient Lighting powder in Ethereal Light
Cheeks
M.A.C Pigment in Vanilla as highlight
Benefit blush in Rockateur
Brushes
MrB= Mr Bunny kit PE= Performance Eyes kit
Eyes & Lips
Sigma MrB E70 Medium Angled brush
M.A.C 244 brush
Sigma MrB E65 Small Angled brush
OCC Lip brush
Sigma PE E36 Blending brush
Face Sedona Lace 928 synthetic Flat top brush for foundation Real Techniques Setting brush for powder under eyes Sigma MrB F40 Large Angled Contour brush for setting powder
Hakuhodo S113 Highlight brush for cheek highlight Real Techniques Blush brush for blush
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Ok, so it's quite obvious if you've ever seen my fingers that I really like bright ridiculously obnoxious glow in the dark colours. So I whipped them out again to create this in your face french tip manicure with daisies using dotting tools and some crystals in the centre.
Enjoy! Video Tutorial I got most of this stuff from Born Pretty Store. I love their polishes and embellishments and suggest you check them out here! And to save on pretty things for your fingers, I have a code for 10% off at Born Pretty, so just click here and type in "MIHW10" at checkout on any order!
Here's what the nails looked like before the french tip.
Products Used
Base coat
OPI Nail Envy Strengthening Base coat
Essie Grow Stronger
First Layer Nail
Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme wear White On
Candy Color Fluorescent Neon Luminous Nail Art Polish Glow in Dark #09
French Tip Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme wear White On
Candy Color Fluorescent Neon Luminous Nail Art Polish Glow in Dark #02
Accent Nails
Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme wear White On Candy Color Fluorescent Neon Luminous Nail Art Polish Glow in Dark #02
Candy Color Fluorescent Neon Luminous Nail Art Polish Glow in Dark #04 (For Leaves)
Candy Color Fluorescent Neon Luminous Nail Art Polish Glow in Dark #09 (For Daisies)
I love using the lips as a canvas and it’s a great way to express your funky side with Crazy Lip Art! I'm here to share these the Spike lips. They're based on the Jeffrey Campbell The Spike Lita boots and I used my new Melt cosmetics Bane lipstick with the Born Pretty 3m & 6mm silver spikes. Enjoy!
If you love the colourful shadows I used for this lip check out Sugarpill's site here.
Get fun embellishments for nails and lips from the Born Pretty store and use the code MIHW10 for 10% off your whole order!
Products Used
M.A.C Prep+Prime Lip Base Urban Decay 24/7 eye pencil in Perversion Melt Cosmetics Lipstick in Bane Born Pretty 3mm & 6mm spikes in Silver Duo eye lash glue in clear Sugarpill Eyeshadow in Bulletproof to set glue
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I bought some gold leaf from born pretty store and I was thinking of a way to play around with it and I came up with a lip art that kind of reminds me of a cheetah print pattern. I added a purple and blue base of lipstick to the gold leaf to add a cool contrast to the warm gold and also created a gold glitter outline around the lips for added interest.
If you love the shimmery gold pigment I used for this look check out Sugarpill's site here. Get the gold leaf I used for this lip art from the Born Pretty store and use the code MIHW10 for 10% off your whole order!
And here's the lip without the gold outline which I think looks cool too, but I couldn't resist going all the way and add the glittery outline.
Products Used
M.A.C Chromagraphic Lip Pencil in Rich purple to line lips
Coloured Raine lipstick in Dramatica on center of lips
Coloured Raine lipstick in Arabian Night over rest of lips
Born Pretty Gold Leaf over lips
Eye Kandy sprinkles in Icing (Sugar) over center of lips
Sugarpill Chromalust Loose Eyeshadow in Golidlux as an outline around lips
NYX Glitter Mania in Hot Gold over outline
Brushes & Tools
Tweezers
Sigma E25 Blending brush
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