The Lipstick Loving Nurse 30 Day Make-up Challenge: Week 1

11 Jan 2017

Hi guys! It's my first post of 2017! Woo! Happy New Year!

Starting on the 1st of this month I began a make-up challenge that Marian from The Lipstick Loving Nurse started! It's a 30 Day Make-up Challenge with different themes for each day! I thought I would share with you the first week of looks. I'm having loads of fun with this and hope to continue until the end of the month. I may miss a day here or there but overall I'm excited to be playing and practising with make-up more and with my fibromyalgia and anxiety, it's great to get up and actually feel like I've accomplished something! So thank you for starting the challenge Marian! <3 Make sure to head over to this post if you want to do it yourself!

Day 1: Rock Chick



I will admit the first day I actually had this make-up done before I decided I was going to do the challenge! But I thought this earthy, witchy look still fitted in with the Rock Chick theme! I'm more of a 70's rock chick!

Foundation: Clinique Beyond Perfecting Foundation
Concealer: NYX HD concealer
Contour: Kat Von D Shade and Light Contour Palette
Blush: NYX Blush in Mauve
Eyebrows: Sugarpill's Bulletproof eye-shadow
Eyes: Limecrime Venus II Palette, top shade is Mustard and bottom shade is Mud.
Black rimmel eyeliner in the waterline.
Maybelline Falsies Mascara
Lips: LA Splash Dia De Los Muertos Lip Couture in El Catrin
I also added a confetti moon on my forehead with some eyelash glue!


Day 2: 1980's



I wasn't super happy with my look for the 80's. I think it came out a bit messy and you can see in the 2nd photo the purple is a little patchy! I didn't apply enough around the crease. But it also might have to do with the fact I have no primer. If anyone can recommend a good eye primer that isn't too dry and that I could get in boots, let me know! I added some pearls and hooped earrings to be a little more 80sness! I also matched the colours to my amazing Halloween dress Steve got me for Christmas!

Foundation: Kat Von D Lock It Tattoo Foundation
Concealer: NYX HD concealer
Contour: Kat Von D Shade and Light Contour Palette
Blush: NYX Blush in Mauve
Eyebrows: Sugarpill's Bulletproof eye-shadow
Eyes: Sugarpill Burning Heart Palette and their single eye-shadow Acidberry
Lips: Make-up Revolution Lipstick in Depraved


Day 3: Brow Power



Too make my eyebrows stand out the most I went for flawless skin, minimal eyes and a nude lip. I also made my eyebrows a bit wild as they show up a lot more I think! 

Foundation: Clinique Beyond Perfecting Foundation
Concealer: NYX HD concealer
Contour: Kat Von D Shade and Light Contour Palette
Blush: NYX Blush in Mauve
Eyebrows: Sugarpill's Bulletproof eye-shadow with a clear Rimmel eyebrow gel.
Eyes: Limecrime Venus II Palette, Fly all over the lid, isn't it just so pretty?!
NYX Milk Jumbo Pencil in the waterline.
Maybelline Falsies Mascara
Lips: Two Faced Cosmetics Melted Matte Liquefied Lipstick in Cool Girl (I love it so much!)


Day 4: Ice Ice Baby



I had so much fun with this look! But it was so difficult to get a good photo of it and how it really looked! Oh well. I went for an ice fairy kind of look! I didn't bother whiting out my eyebrows they're just too black and wild so I filled them in normally but put some white on the front tips and added glitter too! I've got to do blue contour again sometime! :D 

Foundation: Kat Von D Lock It Tattoo Foundation
Concealer: NYX HD concealer
Contour: Limecrime Venus II Palette in the shade Filter
Glitter: Wet N Wild Face and Body Glitter
Eyebrows: Sugarpill's Bulletproof eye-shadow
Eyes: Kat Von D Shade and Light Eye Palette shade Bone all over the lid, Limecrime Venus II Palette shade Filter.
Limecrime Lunar Sea eyeliner which I put on my eyelashes as well as used as eyeliner.
NYX Milk Jumbo Pencil on the waterline.
Lips: Make-up Revolution Lipstick in Immortal 
Confetti moon on my forehead and cheeks with some eyelash glue!


Day 5: Retro-Futuristic



I really had no idea what to do for this theme so I ended up giving it a googling and searching pinterest. While searching pinterest I found this and thought it was perfect! I tried to recreate it and this is what I ended up with. Obviously not perfect and I would definitely use tape next time to get finer lines but I do like how it turned out. I thought the angular feel to the eye-liner was futuristic and then the gold underneath has a retro feel. Then flawless skin, sharp contour and nude lips just aren't going to go out of style so I felt they were both retro and futuristic!

Foundation: Clinique Beyond Perfecting Foundation
Concealer: NYX HD concealer
Contour: Kat Von D Shade and Light Contour Palette
Blush: Kat Von D Shade and Light Contour Palette
Eyebrows: Maybelline Gel Eyeliner
Eyes: I started with a gel eyeliner but it didn't work out to well so I ended up using Kat Von D's Trooper eyeliner pen and it work amazingly! You can get such finer lines than with gel. I then put Sugarpill's Bulletproof on top to set it.
The gold below the eyes is from the Essence All About Sunrise palette.
Rimmel Black eyeliner in the waterline.
Maybelline Falsies Mascara
Lips: Two Faced Cosmetics Melted Matte Liquefied Lipstick in Cool Girl.


Day 6: Pretty In Pink



 I used to really dislike pink but I've slowly come to really liking it now. I got excited about this theme because I knew exactly what palette to reach for: the amazing Limecrime Venus Palette! It's basically just reds and pinks and its so beautiful! So that's what I used on my eyes. I then used Limecrimes Pink Velvet Velvetine which I love so much and get so much use out of! It's simple but I really like it and might even redo it sometime as it was so easy to do but effective and goes really nice with anything grey you're wearing!

Foundation: Clinique Beyond Perfecting Foundation
Concealer: NYX HD concealer
Contour: Kat Von D Shade and Light Contour Palette
Blush: Kat Von D Shade and Light Contour Palette
Eyebrows: Maybelline Gel Eyeliner
Eyes: Limecrime Venus Palette, I used Shell all over the eyelid,  Rebirth in the crease and Aura in the inner corner and as an all over highlight!
I have no brown liner for my waterline so I used a brown brow pencil instead.
Maybelline Falsies Mascara
Lips: Limecrime Pink Velvet Velvetine


Day 7: 10 Minute Look



Today I really wasn't in the mind to do my makeup so I was glad it was a quick challenge today. This look took me 12 mins to do! Most of that time was spend finding the things though and doing my eyebrows haha! :D I didn't apply much and I didn't spend to much time doing this look at all but I actually really love it and would do it again for days when I'm maybe not feeling the best to just spruce myself up!

Foundation: Clinique Beyond Perfecting Foundation
Concealer: NYX HD concealer
Contour: Kat Von D Shade and Light Contour Palette
Blush: NYX Blush in Mauve
Eyebrows: Maybelline Gel Eyeliner
Eyes: Kat Von D Shade and Light Eye Palette (I applied and blended with my fingers!)
Maybelline Falsies Mascara
Lips: Burts Bees Tinted Lip Balm thing!


Don't forget if you want to do the challenge yourself head over to Marian's blog here for all the days challenges! She's posted each day she's completed herself and they're seriously so amazing you should check them all out!

Let me know what you think of all the looks and I'll see you guys in my next post! :)

Thanks for reading!