The Winners!!!

A big thank you to you all for your patience - we've kept you waiting long enough! After a lot of discussion this evening, we finally decided the winners...

In Third Place.... Rocaille's fabulous venetian masks inspired entry. We loved the use of makeup as a combination of art and disguise in this look - a very pretty alter ego! Well done Rocaille!

Rocaille wins her choice of any lipstick OR lipgloss OR eye shadow from the Illamasqua website, as well as a medium pencil in the shade "ascend" (a nude shade)

In Second Place... MissChievous' Rocker inspired entry. We were impressed by the way this look was very dramatic, yet still wearable, and loved the use of pencil techniques. Congratulations MissChievous! Our rockstar alter ego!

MissChievous wins her choice of any combination of two eye shadows/lipglosses/lipsticks (may be a combination eg an eye shadow and a lipstick or an eyeshadow and a lipgloss or a lipstick and lipgloss etc...) as well as nail varnish in the shade "Propaganda" (a deeply pigmented dark blue)

And in First Place.... Liberty Von Hodes fantastic peacock feather and indian henna inspired look. We were blown away by this entry and both myself and Krystle fell in love at first sight with the drama achieved by Liberty - well done Liberty! Our Dramatic alter ego!

Liberty wins a custom made quad palette of her choice of any four eye shadows (either cream or powder - quad cannot be made up of both types, if that makes sense...), nail varnish in the shade "Demure" (a glossy pink "jelly" shade), and medium pencil in "Spell" (a red shade).

Congratulations to all our winners - we hope you enjoy your prizes!

Once you have made your choices, email me with your choices and postal addresses and I will get your prizes to you as fast as I can! (jennifer.worthington1979@gmail.com).

Competition News - The Final 6!

OK, so after lots and lots of debate and worry about how the heck we were going to judge the contest, myself and Krystle decided that the best way to select our finalists would be to judge the entries on three categories - those being;

1. Originality
2. Technique of application
3. Research and explaination of the inspiration behind the look

Before showing these though, I would just like to say that it is testament to the high quality of all of the entries how hard this has been, and myself and Krystle would like to thank you all for your entries - we hope that people who didn't make the finalists will still enter future contests and carry on enjoying the challenges we can come up with!

So without further ado... our six finalists in no particular order...

The LipPrint - Stephanie's sister has recently completed travelling around the far east. Her look is based on pictures of geisha's that her sister took on her travels. We love the effect of glowing pale skin she has created and the unusual use of false lashes and colour to create a modern twist on a very traditional look.

Next up is MissChievous' Rocker inspired look; The pencil techniques used to achieve this look are technically very high, and created an amazing overall effect. She completed the look with a fauxhawk hairdo, which we loved

Our next finalist look was from Rocaille, who made two stunning entries to the contest. We loved her "venetian mask" inspired look as an all round makeup look, and we also adore the 1940's starlet style lip she has done. Again she has put tonnes of effort in styling her hair in accordance with the look.

Next up we have a look from Magi, who used the Illamasqua brand itself as her inspiration, and created a very dramatic eye using the logo as a basis... a very unexpected look, but technically of a very high standard and definately different and original!

An absolutely stunning entry next from LibertyVonHodes which we recieved via youtube. This look was inspired by peacock feathers and indian henna designs. We loved the use of the feathers as eyelashes, the overall drama of the look. Very imaginative and so pretty.

And last but by no means we had a gypsy-vampire look from DressJunkie We were highly impressed by the research and explaination behind this look, and also the beautiful custom mixed lipstick shade she came up with. We both wish that this shade was available commercially!

We hope you will all agree that our finalists deserve their places and will join us in saying well done. The winners will be announced on Friday!

Well done everyone!