Monochromatic look on a white base

Products Used

- Illamasqua Skin Base

- Illamasqua Pressed Powder

- Kryolan Glam Glow palette

- MAC Cool Neutral Palette

- Kryolan Eyeshadow Palette

- Kryolan Supra Colour Palette

- Black Natural Collections Mascara

- White Maybelline Eyeliner 

The Process...

Firstly I used the Illamasqua skin base to give the skin the white look - I chose this because I wanted it to look pale but not extreme- I then buffed the product to get rid of any streaks. As I wanted the eyes, brows and lips to be the main focus of the face, I decided to keep the contouring light just to give some shape to the face. I used the Kryolan Glam Glow contour palette to do this. Then using the purples from the MAC Cool Neutral Palette and the Kryolan eye-shadow palette. I created a 'cat-eye' shape which graduated and blended from lighter purple to the dark. Initially in my face chart I did bring the eyeshadow down to the lower lash line and add eye-liner, however in practise I didn't do these steps as I didn't think the eyes needed it. Instead I just applied mascara and bit of white eyeliner onto the waterline. 

I wanted the brows to be very heavy set, so I used a brow gel with a clean mascara wand to brush the hairs upwards. Then using a flat brush I drew on hairs to make them a lot bushier - as I wanted to incorporate some purple into the brows I mixed it with the dark brown from the MAC palette. 

Finally I used the Kryolan Supra colour palette to mix together the two purple shades with the back to make a colour similar to the eyes. 

My Face Chart for the look

My final thoughts on the look...

I was really happy with how the brows looked. 

All in all I was very happy with how the final look turned out- especially getting the straight lines on the eyes and the full brows. I did have to tidy up the eyes slightly on the crease so that the line was more defined rather than blended. I was really happy with the brows as I didn't think I would be able to replicate the look from my face chart to the same effect. 

I did however have a problem with the contouring as it wasn't as rounded around the cheekbones, so I did have to go over and keep blending the line to get the subtle effect I wanted. I did also have a slight problem with getting the lips symmetrical on the first go, as I didn't keep looking back in the mirror- so I had to go back in and perfect them. I think after the tweaks I was able to get a somewhat symmetrical look to the lips.