Tonight I had to throw together a look fit for an elf. My friend is hosting a murder mystery night, Ho Ho Homicide as it is called, and my character is an elf. I had no idea we had to get into character for this and dress up, so I had to put together something last minute. I went with a green look, obviously. I primarily used my 120 palette that i got from eBay for this look. I don't whip out this palette very often, but it's great to have around for occasions like this where I want a specific color since this palette has just about every color in it imaginable. I highly recommend getting this palette simply to have every color handy. And it's fairly cheap. I don't think I paid more than $15 for this palette including the shipping.
The look was super easy to create. I started with using Urban Decay's 24/7 eyeliner in Mildew for a base to help make the green pop. I don't think this was all that necessary since the shadows were very pigmented. Then I placed a dark green shade all over my lids so that the color showed when I opened my eyes. I blended out the harsh line from the first shadow with a lighter shade of green. I added an even lighter shade of green to the inner corners and topped it with a sparkly white just for fun. I used a light silver color as my highlight. To round out the look, I used the same dark green and smudged some on my lower lash line about half way in. I traced the rest of the lower lash line to the inner corners with the silver highlight color. I finished the eyes off with false lashes. On my cheeks I used a MAC mineralized skin finish that is slightly darker than my skin tone to contour my cheeks a bit and blended it out. Then I added a cheek highlight to my cheek bones. I finished the look off with nude lips. I used my current favorite nude lip color, Tom Ford lipstick in Blush Nude.
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