EOTD: Do You Want To Date My Navi

I was supposed to be going to see Avatar today, so I decided to use some of my lovely new Fyrinnae to do an Avatar-inspired look, based on the blue feline-esque creatures, the Navi.

The Navi. Stop thinking about Zelda.

I didn't want a giant V on my forehead, a sound decision as it transpired, because when we got to the cinema the Avatar showing was sold out, and we saw Daybreakers instead. (So no Avatar spoilers!)
Daybreakers is a vamp-movie (if only I'd had a black lipstick in my bag, I could have adapted and had appropriately themed make-up again) which isn't really deserving of co-ordinating make-up. It was all right, bar the ridiculous amount of ludicrously overdone, comical gratuitous gore (there's a scene with about thirty vamp-soliders, everyone's eating everyone else and there's a decapitated head whizzing slowly across the screen) and the last fifteen minutes needs re-writing to... not suck. No pun intended.

But, here's the Avatar look anyway.

Do You Want To Date My Navi - Step-by-Step

Face

• Prime with Urban Decay Pore Perfecting primer.
• Apply concealer - Bobbi Brown's Corrector in Light Bisque - where necessary.
• Dot Estée Lauder Doublewear foundation in Shell over areas that need the most coverage using the MAC 191 brush.
• Buff foundation into skin in circular motions using the MAC 187, adding more where necessary, until it's all blended in.
• Wipe off the MAC 187 and buff Purely Cosmetics Diamond Perfect Finish all over face to finish. I use my special batch of green DPF for anti-redness, too.
• Apply Purely Cosmetics Blushing blush along cheekbones (NARS Orgasm dupe).

Eyes

• Prime with a MAC Paint Pot in Painterly, smoothed all over the lid and into the crease. I stopped there, this time, 'cause I'm tired of having to over-highlight to get rid of its darker colouring, considering how pale I am.
  
• Add a dab of Fyrinnae's Pixie Epoxy to the lid and smooth it alllllllll over the eye area.
• With a flat-shader brush*, dab/pat Fyrinnae's 1.22 Gigawatts over the first two thirds of the lid (from inner-corner), up to the crease.
• Using another flat-shader brush*, dab/pat Fyrinnae's Cheshire Cat Grin onto the last third of the eyelid, then brush it into and slightly above the crease, blending toward the inner-corner.
• With a pencil brush*, darken the crease with Fyrinnae's But I Like Frogs. This should not extend over the crease and cover all the Cheshire Cat Smile, but just be used in a C-shape (or, inverted on the other side) along the outer-V and to darken the deepest part of the crease.
• Using a small stiff-domed brush*, dip it sparingly in Fyrinnae's Wizard's Apprentice, tap-off and very lightly brush onto a small area in the centre of the lid, blending gently to highlight the area.
• Back with the pencil brush* again (clean one, please), highlight the inner-corner with Fyrinnae's Anemome, and then blend out the edge of Cheshire Cat Grin above the crease with it.
• Now re-highlight the inner-corner with Fyrinnae's Otherworld, blending it around the edge of Cheshire Cat Smile to ensure a smoky, blended edge, and highlight under the brow arch with it.
• You may want to work more But I Like Frogs back into the crease/outer-V, to darken it up again after blending. I often do this (blend, re-apply, blend, re-apply) with every step, until I like the result.
  
• On the lower lashline, prime with a little dab smoothed across of Fyrinnae's Pixie Epoxy and then, with a pencil brush*, dab/pat a thin line of 1.22 Gigawatts along the lashline (not waterline), followed by Cheshire Cat Smile. Highlight the inner-corner with Otherworld, and darken the outside edge with But I Like Frogs.
• Line the upper lashline and waterline, I used Urban Decay 24/7 Eye Pencil in Zero.
• Curl your lashes, prime them with Urban Decay Eyelash Primer, and add a few coats of Bourjois Liner Effect mascara.
• There are about a million easier ways to do the white dots, than the way I did them. Liquid, pencil or gel eyeliner, for example. I didn't have any white eyeliner, so I cut my thinnest Sonia Kashuk Bent Eyeliner brush (which has started to fray) into a very small, pointed circular brush, with small scissors.
• I dipped the brush in some Fyrinnae's Pixie Epoxy and applied the epoxy in little dabs where I wanted my white dots to be.
• Next, I dipped the brush in Aromaleigh's Whitewedding (any pigmented loose white eyeshadow will do) and then dabbed the dots over the tacky epoxy.
• If you made any a wonky shape, clean the brush, apply whatever colour the dot is against (usually Cheshire Cat Smile or Otherworld) and carefully work back over the white to tidy the edges.
  
• I cleaned the brush, then dabbed a little more epoxy over the top of each white dot, to sort've glue it all in place.
  

And done! I won't explain lips, because they were a bizarre mix of lip lustre, lipstick, concealer, another lipstick, and gloss. Pretty pointless to repeat. As ever, I'm utterly blown-away by how gorgeous Fyrinnae's eyeshadows are, and I couldn't have done this look without the pixie epoxy. It looked a lot prettier and more metallic and striking in person, and of course, my horrible hair ruins the pictures (okay, it's not that bad, because I discovered Garnier Fructis Manga Head, which is amazing).

So, I didn't get to see Avatar, yet, but at least the look wasn't wasted, since I get to share it with all of you.

Brush Descriptions & Examples*
Flat-Shader Brush - GOSH Flat Eyeshadow Brush, MAC 239 or similar.
Stiff-Domed Brush - MAC 217, Revlon Contour Shadow Brush, or similar.
Pencil Brush - GOSH Round Eyeshadow Brush, MAC 219 or similar.