[[ New pretties! ]]
[[ 'Spellbound' ]]
'Spellbound' was a happy accident...I started off with a deep, purple wine eyeshadow and intended to mix a smidge of Sugarpill 'Lumi' into it. However, a whole load of 'Lumi' fell in to the jar and I ended up with this gorgeous shade! Soft lilac with aqua and green duochrome - in some lights, it still looks deep wine. Amaazing!
[[ 'Cadence' ]]
I started with a soft yellow-green duochrome, then added a silvery peach and a pink-white duochrome. 'Cadence' is such a unique colour! In person, all of the duochromes are really evident, but it's soft enough to use as a highlight shade for the cheeks. Yellowy, cool toned peach with a soft pink duochrome and a hint of green.
[[ 'Jaggy Snake' ]]
I wanted to create a deep brown, so I started by mixing two complimentary colours (orange and blue) to give the initial brown shade as a starting point. Then I just kept flinging in more eyeshadows until I was happy with the colour! Dark red, dark green, turquoise, gold, duochrome yellow-green...
[[ 'Gypsy King' ]]
Finally, I fancied a shade which I could wear on lazy days. Those days when you just want to fling on some colour and go. I mixed a soft, golden brown with a duochrome white-orange, duochrome white-gold and a strong, bright gold to achieve 'Gypsy King' - it's such a soft and gorgeous colour.
It was so much fun and I really love the results! This is also a fab way of using up any empty jars you might have lying around. I think I might buy some empty jars myself, so that I can use up the eyeshadows I have in sample baggies...
+10 cool points to anyone who knows the music references in the names!
Oh wow, if 'Spellbound' was an actual eyeshadow I would be buying it like a shot. Skillfully done! :)
ReplyDeleteIsn't it so much fun to mix shadows together?! I've been combining shadows as I've been pressing things. I love some of the colors I've created! Spellbound is beautiful! And I have no clue what the reference is :(
ReplyDeleteI have a bunch of my own frankenshadows... Sadly I never use them!
ReplyDeleteDear Lily,
ReplyDeletePlease open your own makeup shop.
Love,
Wendy
I haven't done this to create fun colours for a while, I've most recently just crushed some of my rubbish old pressed brown and lilac and pink eyeshadows together, which makes a decent neutral, but it's not very exciting!
ReplyDeleteYou should sell Spellbound, is lush! I need it :)
ReplyDeleteDear Lily,
ReplyDeleteWhat Wendy said.
Love,
Robyn
These are gorgeous! x
ReplyDeleteSpellbound is beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI have so many unused, unloved loose shadows that I ought to do something as fabulous as this!
ReplyDeleteOkay I think jaggy snake is a biffy clyro reference, gypsy king is Patrick wolf and spellbound could be either lacuna coil or siousxie. I have no idea about cadence though!
ReplyDeleteHow did I do? :p
Absolutely love Spellbound!
ReplyDeleteGypsy king looks so great for summer, I want!
ReplyDeleteSpellbound is my favourite of the bunch :3
ReplyDeletevery creative :) good going!
ReplyDeleteSHEL X
I love spellbound! Gorgeous :)
ReplyDelete@ Ruth, haha, I ended up quite glad I accidentally spilt so much 'Lumi' in to it!
ReplyDelete@ The Peach, it is! I've been watching your mixing/ pressing experiments :) The music references are all song names.
@ Jade, haha, aw :/ Well at least you had fun making them, I guess!
@ Wendy and Robyn, I will open my own make-up shop if you both fund me and do all the packaging/ stock control for me. Much love, Lily
@ Julianne, well I guess one not so exciting colour is better than a bunch! Haha :)
@ Kelly, I think Fyrinnae do a similar shade called either Snowbunny or Herbivore...
@ Rona, thanks!
@ sepia_raven, thanks! excited to use it!
@ Mandy, definitely try it out! So much fun!
@ Glitterish Allsorts, whey! 3 outta 4 (Spellbound is Siouxsie, never got into LC!) 'Cadence' is a reference to Aanberlin :)
@ Sue, 'tis a stunner if I do say so myself haha
@ Toni, it's so pretty! Can't wait to wear it on lazy days :)
@ Silhouette Screams, I think Spellbound is everyone's fave haha :D
@ irishenchantment, thanks!
@ Phyrra, thanks!
Great idea! I don't have a lot of loose shadows but I do have a few I don't know what to do with- maybe I'll smash them together and see what happens!
ReplyDeleteSpellbound is absolutely gorgeous!
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