The one when I turned fancy

This post takes a slightly different route to one we usually follow here on Willyoubemybeast, in that we're going high class. I'm talking champers, black tie and a red carpet.

My housemate and fellow blogger Sam won a mega theatre prize which entitled her to not only £1000 worth of theatre tokens but also 2 tickets to the Olivier awards held in Covent garden, London. If you're unsure what the Oliver's are, I'll out a link to the site here, as well as some YouTube videos from Official London Theatre. Essentially it is a award show celebrating theatre, on and off of the west end.

I know you know where this is going...

My lovely housemate took me to he award ceremony! Now the idea of walking down a red carpet, littered with celebrities, in a fancy pants dress was enough for me! But this was a prize that kept on giving. Sam was then approached by MAC offering to do our makeup for the award ceremony. Now as you can imagine I jumped at the chance of having MAC paint my face. So on Sunday 13th April at 3pm, I went to makeup heaven.

We arrived at the Covent Garden branch, to be met with our lovely makeup artist, Sam! My Sam went first, whilst I fangirled and pawed over all the makeup available for our use. I'm sure Sam won't mind me mentioning her indifference towards makeup, and as a girl that never wears any, It was evident how daunting how this experience was for her, but she embraced it like a trooper. I know, what a brave soul.

Sam's before

So for Sam it was decided between our makeup artist and myself that a smokey eye would be perfect for the event. 

Starting with a Paint pot in shade Painterly for a neutral base she then pressed a naked Pigment over the top to add a dimension of shimmer. 

Next using a fluff shadow brush through the socket line, she swept One to watch from the Pro Longwear range, for the medium shade. Then blending Lie Low again from the Pro Longwear range, from the outer third, blended with the fluff shadow brush only using the tip to create a seamless blend

Using an angle brush with Lie Low shadow from before to create definition underneath the eye softened out with the 239 brush, repeat on the upper lid to create a tighter line for the 33 super soft false lashes to affix to.

And finally, before applying the lashes, use Mascara to create an even lash base for the lashes to sit. 

Completed smokey eye!

TOP TIP ALERT!!!

Bend the lash before application so it takes to the curvature of the eye. 

Finish with a final lick of Mascara to bind the natural and false lashes together. Sam's smokey eye, COMPLETE!

And then it was my turn!...

My before

As my fringe somewhat hides my eyes, it was quickly decided that the focal point of my look would be my lips.

After a quick base of the same Paint Pot and base shadow as Sam, I was given a GORGEOUS eyeliner wing using their Gel Liner Fluidline in Blacktrack , a quick lash curl, and my base layer of Mascara Studio Fix Boldblack Lash.

The next stage in the plan was to affix some lashes for myself as well, however the makeup artist commented on how long my lashes naturally were. So another application of mascara and my eye's were complete!

On to the lips! I am becoming more and more of a lipstick fan so when presented with a vibrant red like Viva Glam Rihanna I was thrilled.

A delicious red like this needed to take centre stage, so teamed with a slight contour using a Warm Soul Mineralize Blush , and a cheeky sweep of Petal Power Mineralize Blush over the apples I was Hot to Trot!

And After!

And again...

Well that's that my little Fromage Frais. I would like to take this moment to thank all that made the weekend possible for Sam and I to attend. For the theatre side of the night I shall again direct you over to Sam's post, I shall leave you with some snippets of the night, Good night. Xx

Red carpet selfie

At the Champagne reception!