Contest Entry - Oooh Tiger!

Grrr!

I am hoping that the lovely Panda/Rebecca's (http://pandadoesmakeup.blogspot.com/) animal instincts contest is still open... I had real fun doing this anyway! As you may know, Rebeccas contest is all about creating a makeup look inspired by an animal of your choice.... My inspiration here was tigers! I have always loved the grace and power of these big cats and the colours of their coat provided easy inspiration for me to create a dramatic makeup look...

So here we go... this is the look I came up with...

As you can see, you might not want to wear this one to do the weekly shop, but I love getting any oportunity to play and create a dramatic look!

To start off, I prepped the skin with moisturiser and applied Illamasqua's rich foundation (this is great for these dramatic looks - it's such good coverage it gives a perfect blank canvas... I decided not to powder as I like a bit of a dewy look.

Obviously I took inspiration from the colours of the tiger's coat in order to create the look on the eye lids.

First of all, I buffed a cream shadow in the shade "Amourous"(a pale mauve grey shade) over the lid and up to the brow. to act as a base for my shadows. I then used my biggest blending brush to apply Illamasqua powder eye shadow in "Puzzle" (a very pale yellow-orange shade), up to the brow bone, followed by "Gritique" (a slightly darker orange shade) over the lid and into the crease. I then added the shade "Gypsy" (a bitter burnt orange shade) into the crease. I extended the darkest shade right out towards the temple in order to create a very strong cat eye shape. I also used some Illamasqua liquid metal in "Enrapture" (the bronze shade...) in the outer corner, and layered a LOT of MACs "Chrome" in the inner corner of the lid.

I then went a little crayzee with the eye liner (I just used a black pencil) to give a dramatic cat like eye with a bit of a twist. Unfortunately, my camera has done its usual trick of washing the colours out a lot, but I did also use white liner and powder (Intrigue by Illamasqua) to emphasise the cat eye and echo the pale colours around the eye of the tiger... I then funked up the eyebrows a little, using my urban decay eyebrow kit, and I finished the eyes off by adding some mahoosive false lashes (cheap and cheerful ones from the "Girls with Attitiude" range from Superdrug...) to emphasise the cat eye look even more. This was the first time I've ever used falsies BTW! Kudos for not gluing my eyes shut!

I then continued with the "feline vibe" by using a light brown contour shade (I used "Rumour" by Illamasqua) to create a very strong cheek contour, blended this upwards and then used my brightest orange based blushers (I used "Excite" and "Lover")to sculpt the ckeecks even further. I extended the blush upwards slightly towards the temples to link the eyes and cheeks slightly, and give the look further drama...

On the lips, I used "Hue" by MAC and topped it with "Redhead" lipgloss from the BBR collection!

I must say, I wish I had a better camera etc - the pics look slightly washed out, and it was very vibrant in real life... oh well!

Hope you all like it!

This is a fab competition, and thanks so much to Rebecca for hosting it and coming up with such a great idea! I don't envy you the task of judging though - I know how hard it is so good luck to Rebecca with that and good luck to all the other competitors!

MizzWorthy xxx