The Eye of the Serpent Lip Art ft OCC, Sugarpill & Born Pretty

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.

Enjoy!

Video Tutorial

Sigma brushes & makeup I use click here!

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

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GRWM Mad Max Fury Road inspired Makeup ft Sugarpill, Inglot & Born Pretty

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.

Enjoy!

Video Tutorial

Sigma brushes & makeup I use click here!

If you love the smooth matte shadows I used for this makeup check out Sugarpill's site here.

For the spikes I used in the makeup, check out the Born Pretty store and use the code MIHW10 for 10% off your whole order!

Products Used

Primer

M.A.C Paintpot in Painterly 

Lid

Makeup Geek Gel eyeliner in Poison inner 1/2 of lid

Inglot gel eyeliner in #77 outer 1/2 of lid

Sugarpill pressed eyeshadow in Love+ inner 1/2 of lid 

Sugarpill pressed eyeshadow in Bulletproof outer 1/2 of lid

Crease

Inglot eyeshadow #111R medium peach shadow transition shade

Inglot eyeshadow #464 DS along crease and up into start of brow 

Urban Decay Electric palette Slowburn eyeshadow to blend out inner crease

Brow

Inglot eyeshadow #111R lightest peach shadow brow highlight

Lower lashline

Makeup Geek Gel eyeliner in Poison along lashline and on waterline

Inglot eyeshadow #464 DS blended low down along lashline 

Urban Decay Electric palette Slowburn eyeshadow on centre of lashline

Sugarpill pressed eyeshadow in Bulletproof on outer lashline & joined up to top wing 

Eyeliner

Inglot gel eyeliner in #77 on tightline

MUFE Aqua liner in 10 along lashline between outer wing

Sugarpill loose shadow in Penelope outer half long wing

Tear duct

Inglot eyeshadow #407 Pearl Shimmery Orange

Physicians formula eye booster pen in Ultra black for pointed tear duct

Inglot gel eyeliner in #77 over point

Lashes

Covergirl Clump Crusher Mascara

Cheeks

Inglot eyeshadow #464 DS for contour

M.A.C Surf, Baby! blush in My Paradise for blush

Bourjois Healthy Mix powder foundation in 54 for forehead contour

Lips

MUFE Aqua lip liner in 8C

Urban Decay 24/7 eye pencil in Perversion on corners and to line outer edge

Lime Crime Velvetine in Suedeberry on centre

Lime Crime Velvetine in Red Velvet over perimeter of lips 

Lime Crime Velvetine in Black Velvet on corners and outer lower edge 

Asymmetric Embellishments 

Right eye

6mm Silver Spikes from Born Pretty Store along wing of eyeshadow 

2&3mm Black rhinestones from eBay

3mm Silver Spikes from Born Pretty

Left eye

3mm Black rhinestones above right eyebrow

6mm Silver Spikes from Born Pretty Store

3mm Gold Spikes from Born Pretty inside wing

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How to Use ScraPerfect Embellie Gellie: A Quick Tutorial

I use this awesome tool in a lot of my 3D lip art and nail tutorials so I thought I would make a quick video showing how you prepare the Embellie Gellie for use. It's a great tool for 3D Nail Art, Lip Art, general Arts & crafts, and anything that needs rhinestones or embellishments stuck to it efficiently and easily!

Get ScraPerfect Embellie Gellie here
http://scraperfect.com/products-2/embellie-gellie/

This is not a paid advertisement, just a quick tip!

Enjoy!

Video Tutorial

GRWM OCC Black Metal Dahlia Lip with Soft Easy Grunge ft Urban Decay & Sugarpill

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!

Video Tutorial

For the Sigma brushes & makeup I use click here!

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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The Spike Lips ft Melt Cosmetics & Born Pretty Store Lip Art tutorial

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!

Video Tutorial

For the Sigma brushes & makeup I use click here!

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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Embellie Gellie Giveaway Announcement

Sorry for the lateness of my reply! Time got away from me and then I couldn't find time to make this little video! But anyway, as with my previous giveaway used a random number generator to get the winning comment. So here it is…

The random number generator game me this result.

And it matches up to this comment.

Ms. Blitz has changed her name to LADY BLITZ but the comment still matches her youtube account.

Enjoy your Embellie Gellie!

For the rest of you, if you want to get some of your own check out the Scraperfect website.

This was a sponsored giveaway thanks to Amy at Scraperfect, but only as far as the prize. My opinions and usage of Embellie Gellie should be pretty obvious if you've seen any of my videos with rhinestones and other sparkles!

Announcement Video

Flaming Gradient Spiked Nails ft Born Pretty & ScraPerfect

I wanted to check out how a few of my shimmery polishes would look as a gradient so I created this gold to red no sponge gradient nail with an accent nail of red square rhinestones and little gold spikes from Born Pretty Store with the help of Embellie Gellie from ScraPerfect of course!

Enjoy!

Video Tutorial 

Get Embellie Gellie and more ScarPerfect essentials here.

Get the spikes I used here from the Born Pretty store and use the code MIHW10 for 10% off your whole order!

Products Used

Gradient Nails

OPI Goldeneye

Glitter Gal Fiery Furness Brilliant

Zoya Kimmy

Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat

Accent Nails

Zoya Kimmy

Glitter Gal Fiery Furness Brilliant

OPI Goldeneye

Optional

Gold Acrylic Paint & OPI Goldeneye stripes up the nail

Embellishments

Scraperfect Embellie Gellie

Square red rhinestones from eBay along cuticle

3mm Cone spikes in Gold from Born Pretty Store

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Vampire Lip Art for Halloween ft Born Pretty & MAC

For halloween I whipped up this simple lip art that takes a bite out of you! You don't have to blend as many colours or use the same shades I did and you can make your own version of a fanged lip.

Enjoy!

Video Tutorial

Get the spikes I used here 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
M.A.C Lip Liner in Nightmoth
NYX Slim Lip liner in Black Berry
M.A.C Lip Liner in Beet
MUFE Aqua Lip liner pencil in 8C
M.A.C Pro Longwear Lip glass in Anthurium 
Born Pretty 6mm Silver spikes
Duo Lash adhesive

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Darth Maul Lip Art: Sith vs Jedi Collaboration with Nijigasumi16

I'm here to bring you the Sith vs Jedi collaboration. I was invited to clash light Sabres with Nijigasumi16 on YouTube who is of the serene and harmonious Jedi order and I represent the passionate, powerful and wrathful Sith.

I took inspiration from the intense rage of Darth Maul and his red skin and tribal-esque tattoos of his face, plus gold spikes to display his horns.

After watching the 2 tutorials you shall see which side of the force prevails! Bwahahaha!

Enjoy!

Video Tutorial


Get the spikes I used here from the Born Pretty store and use the code MIHW10 for 10% off any order!

Products Used

M.A.C Prep+Prime Lip base
Makeup Geek gel liner in Poison as a base on the lips
Inglot matte gel eyeliner in #77 for the tattoo details

OCC Lip Tar in Traffic on the centre of the top lip

3mm conical Gold spikes form Born Pretty Store around top lip

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Golden Shark Teeth Lip Art ft OCC, Eye Kandy, Sugarpill, Born Pretty & ScraPerfect

I received these gold spikes from Born Pretty and had an idea to build on the gold and black lip I wore to the Desolation of Smaug Hobbit movie last year.

So I came up with this lip art and pretty much kept adding embellishments to my lips with ScraPerfect Embellie Gellie until I was satisfied with the look. And the name comes from my Dad saying the layers of gold spikes looked like Shark's teeth and I liked the idea of that menacing spikiness being associated with this beautiful but deadly lip art.

Enjoy!

Video Tutorial

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Get Embellie Gellie and more ScarPerfect essentials here.

Get the little gold spikes I used here from the Born Pretty Store* and use the code MIHW10 for 10% off your whole order!

And if you are in need of awesome pigmented matte shadows or beautiful sparkly pigments check out Sugarpill here*, along with many other gorgeous shadows & lashes!

And watch out for the tutorial on these flaming spiked nails coming soon....

Click here for the original starting point for this lip art in the makeup look I wore to the Hobbit Movie last year. I thought it was a good darker look for New Year's but was based on Smaug's glittery golden pile of treasure.

Products Used

Palmer’s Cocoa butter formula with vitamin E

M.A.C Prep+Prime Lip

M.A.C Extra dimension skin finish in Whisper of Gilt for Cupid’s Bow highlight

NYX Slim Lip pencil in Black Berry on perimeter of lips

Urban Decay 24/7 pencil in El Dorado over centre of lips

Portland Black Lipstick Company Black Lipstick on perimeter of lips

OCC Metallic Lip tar in Triptych all over centre of lips

Sugarpill Chromalust loose eyeshadow in Goldilux

Eye Kandy sprinkles in Bananarama (Fine) on centre of lips

Embellishments

3mm Cone Spikes in Gold from Born Pretty Store

3mm black rhinestones from eBay

Adhesive

Duo Lash Glue

Brushes & Tools

M.A.C 244 Angled brush

Sigma E70 Medium Angled Shading brush

Japonesque Lip brush 

Japonesque small fluffy eye shadow brush

Manicare Tweezers

ScraPerfect Embellie Gellie from ScraPerfect.com

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