Wednesday, July 15, 2009

One look, two different lid types

I tried something different today: instead of just using an eye look as inspiration, I decided to do it on my monolid, and then use the same look for double (normal) lids! It was definitely fun, and not nearly as difficult as I thought it would be (as this one's vertically, not horizontally, blended.) Tutorial here.

The promo that inspired the look:I know that my camera white balances very warm/bronze in DIRECT-direct sunlight (as in, oh-g0d-my-eyes-are-burning sunlight), and I wanted that bronzed look to match the promo - so I took the finished photos in this lighting!

Here's my mum's eye to start with. I did mine first, and hers about two hours later, so it was dark by the time we finished hers! I had to bump the ISO to 400 in order to get a clear image, so please excuse the noise! I really loved how her eye looked very purple from one side, and very gold from the other!

For the record, she'd never wear something like this out of the house - nor would I force her to! I know she isn't the optimal age for this look, but she's the only double lid I have easy access to, so dammit, I will take advantage of that fact! :P


And, finally, here's my eye:


Hope you enjoyed the post! I had SO much fun doing a similar look on a monolid and a double lid - it was definitely fun making tiny alterations for the different lid types!

7 comments:

suzie wuzie said...

can i say i LOVE the colours?? never would've thought of purple and gold/bronze together.

Catherine said...

This is a gorgeous eye look & I love the way you made it work for your monolids. =)

Meream said...

Sometimes I think that us monolids got cheated from enjoying eye makeup fun.

Rae said...

Suzie: I know! They're totally gorgeous, right?

Rae said...

Catherine: thanks!

Rae said...

Meream: I know!! *sympathy hugs* Everyone else can practice on themselves, but I have to recruit people x.x

Arianne said...

Ahh pretty colours! Love.

Oh and I just noticed. You and "Mama Rae" totally have the same eyebrows. :)