Autumn the Strange: Nocturnal Blues

Ahoy again, Minions!

Today brings another makeup look! Yay!

I recently reorganized my makeup collection and I realized two things:

First: I almost have too much lipstick (emphasis on almost)

Second: It has been much, much too long since I messed around with my True Blood palette from Tarte!

The fact that I was getting caught up on True Blood last week probably doesn't hurt either, but still. I was looking for something creative and different to do today when I finally decided on a blue look. Doesn't sound like much, but I rarely use blue in my day to day makeup routine, so I figured 'what the hell?'.

Here's what I came up with.....

I had a bit of fun with this one today, AND I got a compliment on my eye makeup from a girl at Starbucks (yay!). Anyway, onward to the tutorial!

1) Okay so after my ELF eyelid primer, I applied Nyx's Jumbo Eyeshadow Pencil in 'Milk' and blended it all over my lid with my finger (I like to use my ring finger as it's your weakest finger, so it tugs on that delicate eye skin less)

2) Taking a big, fluffy brush, I applied the shade 'Nocturnal' from the True Blood palette on the outer corner of my lid (usually referred to as the "outer v"). I pressed the shadow on to reduce fallout.

3) I wiped the excess 'Nocturnal' off my brush then used a bright blue shade from a little Tokidoki 24 Karat palette, and applied that on the middle of my lid and on top of the 'Nocturnal'. Sorry, I don't know the name of this shade, but any bright blue will do.

4) Blend the crease a bit with a clean, fluffy brush

5) Going back to my True Blood palette, I added 'The True Death' on the inner portion of the lid and blended it a bit on to the bright blue.

6) Blend some more!

7) Next, I used the shade 'The Light' (also True Blood) to highlight my brow

8) For this look, I used my Sephora Long Lasting Eyeliner in black to create my usual winged liner

9) Clean up any fallout or other mistakes with a makeup wipe

10) After I applied my foundation, I filled in my brows with BrowZings by Benefit in 'Dark'

Again, my apologies for the barely visible lower lid, but here's what I did anyway...

11) I applied 'Nocturnal' on my lower lid with an angle brush and took it about half way in

12) With the same angle brush, pick up your bright blue shade again and take that from the inner corner and a little over 'Nocturnal'

13) Blend the two with your fluffy brush

14) I went in again with 'The True Death' and put that in my inner corner with a very small, domed brush. Make sure you overlap your bright blue and blend a little so it looks cohesive.

15) I used Sephora's Lash Stretcher Maximum Extension mascara on my upper and lower lashes.

16) Now, you can stop here if you want to, but since I'm a drag queen at heart, I wanted some extra sparkle. I took that small dome brush again and added a little of 'The True Death' underneath the wing of my liner.

17) Last is lips and again, I wanted to go subtle because the eyes are dark and smoky. So I used Revlon Super Lustrous Lip Gloss in 'Sugar Violet'

That's it! Pretty simple, huh?

This gloss looks a little scary in the tube( it's extremely bright!) but it goes on quite sheer. It has enough sparkle to make me happy and I like this sort of cool pink it comes out, I felt it complimented the look.

So that's it, I hope you enjoyed this look!