Festive Beauty 2022: Day 12

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I'm blogging limited edition, Holiday releases every day until Christmas. Yesterday I shared the MAC lipstick set from 2019's Starring You collection and today I have a brand I don't usually buy from. Read to the bottom of the post for a special online treat and head over to The Shoe Girl Diaries to see some Christmas Irregular Choice shoes.

Monster High Monday: Physical Deaducation Ghoulia

Hello and here's this weeks 'Monster High Monday' featuring gorgeous Ghoulia, all ready for 'Physical Deaducation' from the classroom line. The makeup was relatively simple this week as there was just one eye colour and no highlighter and I knew exactly how to get the lip colour by combining a couple of lipsticks.

Underneath her super cool glasses, she's wearing a dark smokey eye which is actually an olive shade. She has the usual winged look and liner. I get to have blue eyes again this week, which are nowhere near as disturbing as Clawdeen and her yellow eyes last time (not keen to revisit that anytime soon).

Her lips are super bright and I immediately knew I would need the power of the 'Nicki Minaj' lippie for this job! They are actually red, so I thought I could combine two colours for the perfect shade.

As usual there was no blush on this doll, so I used it sparingly on my own face as I look dead without it! I'm still trialling this foundation that I can't name (all will become clear next week) and used Illamasqua Rich Foundation in 115 to brighten under the eyes with ELF Studio HD loose powder in Translucent and MAC Beauty Powder Blush in True Romantic on the cheeks.

On the eyes was Too Faced Shadow Insurance as a base with the darkest colour from the Pout 'Miss Scotland' duo, which is a relatively sheer but buildable olive green. Liner as usual is YSL Waterproof pencil and L'oreal Carbon Black SuperLiner with the un-named mascara that I'm testing.

The camera flash has made the eyeshadow appear much less green and much more sheer than it was in person.

Finally the lips, which are sometimes suffering from colour-bleeding in these images, simply because they are too bright for the computer screen to handle (!) are MAC Viva Glam Nicki as a 'base' (over Pout Lip Line Definer), with Chanel Rouge Allure in 08 Brilliant (the same one I used for Frankie a couple of weeks ago) which is a bright red but deepened the colour. The finished result was absolutely spot-on as it had the red tone, but the brightness of 'you're not quite sure if it's neon orange or pink'. I can't say I'd usually combine smokey colour on my eyes with such a hot lip, but I quite liked this weeks MHM.  You can see what I wore along with my face sans bright blue eyes on The Shoe Girl Diaries and I'll be back next week for more monster mayhem.

Monster High Monday: Home Ick Frankie

It's 'Monster High Monday' again! Barely feels like a week between posts and yet it's been a fortnight since I last posted. This week it's the ultra cute Frankie Stein from the classroom themed collection, she was Home Ick!

I gave her Ghoulia's spare glasses, so she's even cuter! Beneath that she has one green eye and one blue, bolts in her neck (no prizes for guessing who she's the daughter of) and green skin. This doll, has a white shimmer shadow base, with a pale, dusky blue over the lids and along the lower lashline. Her lips are bright red.

After taking an eternity to decide which doll I would choose for MHM today, I rather liked my final decision. I thought it would be easy to find an eyeshadow dupe (it wasn't and took me trawling through drawers of palettes and so on), but the application and rest of the face was easy enough. As always, I've managed to switch my eye colour (twice the work to do this week) to match my dolly! I was going to add the cheek scar then decided that was maybe getting too carried away!

So on my face is a secret foundation I'm testing which I can't divulge yet (ooh very exciting) along with Clarins Ever Matte Mineral Powder Compact in Transparent Opal and the tiniest bit of No7 Natural Blush Cheek Colour in 10 Soft Damson on my cheeks.

The lips were spot-on again, although the flash changed the colour and finish slightly (it looks lighter, sheer and metallic here, it wasn't). I used a red lip pencil with Chanel (lipstick) Rouge Allure in 08 Brilliant.

My eye base was Too Faced Shadow Insurance with Hard Candy 'Eye Candy' in Peppermint Patty applied all the way up to the brow. I then used a blue taken from a Bobbypin palette just up to the crease. The colour looked perfect in the pan, but was indeed overspray and applied much darker, so I blended that out as best I could and added a combination of Hard Candy Eye Candy in Gum Drop and Victoria Beckham Cosmetics eyeshadow in 303 Airy, taking it along the lower lashline too. Eye liner is YSL waterproof pencil and L'Oreal Carbon Black SuperLiner with a mystery mascara (again I'm trialling this, so can't disclose what it is yet).

And there we have it for another week! Probably best to mention before I forget that my roots have just been bleached and I'm not actually trying out a new Jeremy Kyle style makeover! You can see my whole outfit and look as always, on The Shoe Girl Diaries (actually been organised and managed both posts in one day today) and I'll see what I can come up with for next week!