DIY - birthday card!

It's been a while ago that I wanted to make a personal birthday card for a friend. This was the result. I was quite happy with it, and it's so easy to make!

What you need:
- magazines
- thick paper in a color you like
- twine
- glitter, sequins, or other stuff to pimp up your card

I cut out a balloon shape of the thick paper, then I searched for a nice page in the magazine that I wanted to use. I used a page about lipgloss. I cut out the same balloon shape out of the page. I glued the two balloons together (so you'll also need glue and scissors of course), with a bit of bakers twine in between. Then I pimped the card and made it really special by glueing neon glitter alongside the lines of the products on the photo and I glued some sequins on the card. On the back of the card I wrote a birthday greeting!

Quiero! op Lowlands 2012

Last weekend (17, 18 + 19 August) I was on a big three-day festival in the Netherlands; Lowlands. I wasn't there as a normal visitor, but I was there with a market stall on the so-called Etsy Bazaar to sell Quiero! jewelry (my brand) & to put some nice neon & glitter festival make-up on the party people! I shared the stall with Nicole Sies from Studio BIG. She makes beautiful felt phonecovers, and especially for Lowlands she also made some little bags and some bracelets and necklaces.

Me & my colleague Nicole @ our stall at the Etsy Bazaar @ Lowlands! 

For more photo's of the Quiero!-stand & the Etsy Bazaar, click here.

Photo's of a few festival make-ups I did. For more photo's click here.

Nicole & I had met only a few times before Lowlands, so I found it quite exciting, but all went well. We got along very well, and also we helped out each other's customers. I am very thankful that I could do this together with Nicole!

It was very hot during Lowlands festival, especially on Saturday & Sunday (30+ degrees Celcius). Everyone was looking for some shadow. Underneath our Etsy 'tent' there was shadow and also the wind could blow through it (íf it blew), so according to a lot of visitors we were lucky to be underneath the tent (and they joined us).

Me @ Saturday

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My outfit on Saturday:

Skirt - brand unknown, swapped at a clothing swap

Shirt - Hema

Sandals - Birkenstock

Jewelry - Quiero!

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Green & Pink Make-Up Idea!

New things (like haircuts, haircolors, clothing, jewelry, make-up) always inspire me to experiment. Also the hair. In my previous post you could read about my Dip & Dye. So I tried a new make-up matching my hair and the top I was wearing (which had a green print). It's a simple make-up, but still a it'll catch people's eyes!

On the bottom eyelid I drew a line with metallic green eye pencil (Kiko Glamourous Eye Pencil no. 412). This line I fixed with eyeshadow (MAC Steamy Frost), to make it stay on all day.

Kohl always needs to be fixed with an eyeshadow. Actually all make-up products that are a bit greasy, need to be fixed with a powder, to make them stay on all day. That's also one of the reasons that you need to put powder on top of your foundation.

This eye pencil is not so greasy, so it doesn't really need fixing, however I like to do it because this eyeshadow makes the green more intense. I also drew a line on the inside of my bottom eyelid, which I didn't fix with eyeshadow for obvious reasons. On the top eyelid I drew pink line from the outer corner until about halfway the lid, this I did lip pencil (Kiko Lip Pencil no. 204) ;) Of course this isn't meant to use on the eyes, but it worked anyway. On top of this line and on the outer corner of my eyes I put some pink/purple-ish glitter. Some mascare, and done!

Fantasy make-up!

Next monday I have to do a fantasy make-up for my make-up artist course! I am really excited, and haven't yet decided what to do...

I made this moodboard.

From this moodboard I see the themes: burlesque, intense, black & white, exciting, glitter & glamour, sexy, leopard, hunting. Do you see any other themes I missed?

I also thought of a theme with feathers, nature, green, brown & black.

From the mood-board I made these first three face-charts, from the last idea I made the last face-chart.

Which one do you like?