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It’s time for more mineral make-up fun with the eyeshadows created by the amazing colour blenders in my Chilliwack craft group! These are from the last class – I’ll be posting more in the next few days! All of these start off with the basic eye shadow base. Most of these are very shiny in...
I’m going to be featuring some of the mineral make-up recipes from craft group over the next few days. We’ll start with Emily’s Wonderland…2 scoops magnesium violet5 scoops red mica1 scoop base (alternate base)3 scoops lemon pop mica4 scoops tangerine pop mica So now you’ve found out how much fun making your own eye shadow...
I’m having one of those mornings where everything that can go wrong will go wrong, so instead of the post I intended for this morning – which was NOT saved after a ton of work (and yes, I did hit “save now” quite a few times) – I bring you this tutorial on making an...
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’ll know I love eye shadow! Keeping in mind the concepts from yesterday, let’s take a closer look at eye shadow and the various ingredients we can add to get exactly what we want! Whiteness or opacity: To make a colour lighter, to cover up imperfections. Translucency:...
Colour changing, chameleon, or interference micas! What are these? They are micas that shift colours in the light, kind of a variation of the iridescent micas we played with in part 13. I’m going to look at two of these – ones I’ve actually used – but you can get dozens of these types of...