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Extweezeme, is that a light on your plucking instrument?

This is my friend, DF-678. She is a cyborg who has a titanium skeleton and many sci-fi-esque talents, one of which includes being able to shoot small beams of halogen light through her skull so that she may see and pluck stray eyebrow hairs with fierce accuracy.

Of course, I lie. It's Rina, and she is using La-Tweeze, which is a tweezer with an LED light and mirror on the side of the case. Rina tells me with much gesticulation how she loves her clever tweezy tool, because she now doesn't need to rely on natural light to tweeze, and never misses a hair. I personally get my brows waxed, so I don't care much for tweezing, but I definitely see the attraction.

Wow. Deja vu. This post reminds me a little of my post about glosses with lights. Only with more of a cyborg slant. And what could be more fun on a Monday morning than talk of our cyborgian friends? Talk of tweezers with lights, that's what.

Clearly my job here is done.

Fruity Friday: Sparkly, spangly eyelids are not stupid.

And I would know, because I have recently become obsessed with them.

I've been wearing them during the day, with no other liner and some mascara and rosy, apple-of-the-cheeks blush and some gloss, and I have been wearing them at night, as per the image below, with black liner underneath and on the bottom rim, too, and blush further up the cheekbone and serious gloss with a touch of shimmer so everyone at the RSL can see me as I dance to Mel & Kim on retro night. (I jest: I would never dance to Mel & Kim at an RSL retro night. I would only do something like that at en ex-serviceman's club.)

I prefer to not use a specific glitter liner, per se, but rather a wet and dry eye shadow used wet, and applied with a thin brush. That way I get full control and I can build up the intensity as I see fit.

My current obsession is a Lancome colour focus shade in dark olive metallic green of which the name entirely escapes me. We all know metallics are 'in' at the moment, but earthy tone metallics (copper, bronze, olive green, reddish-orangey-gold) are so in, they are almost inside out.

Try it tonight. After all, it is FRUITY FRIDAY!

*Applause*

The subtle rainbow eye. Also not an oxymoron.

Here is my favourite backstage shot (and as you may be noticing, one of my favourite models, Amelia) from the Steph Conley show.

Model Co did the makeup, and they are clever little cats because this muted (another new favourite thing of mine: the word muted) rainbow eye is very Paris s/s 07/08. A lot of the big make up houses did it, (Chanel, Shiseido, Dior campaigns followed through) and why it's good, and it keeps being mildly altered and done again, is because this under-and-above lining of almost metallic,  paradise tones are just a leeetle bit fun. And because the colour is not leaping all the way up the eyelid, and the shades used are relatively sheer (or mixed with a pearly silver shade to soften), and the application is more like a liner job than a disco dolly job, it's wearable and cool in a non-15-year-old-in-1976, way.

Try it at home. Garn. Crack out some purple and emerald and line those little eyes. And don't forget, when the eyes are all fruity, the lips must be... That's right, an ANTI-COLOUR!

Like this font kind of, only more like your natural lip colour, and less like words on a computer screen.

Zimmo, Bobbi and the lip that rocked Fruity's world.

How delicious is this lip, which was the look at Zimmerman yesterday. (Experts from the University of Columbia suggest it could be up to a 9.3 on the Deliciousness Scale.)

See, I've been infatuated with the orange lip for a long time, but tend to gravitate towards the really intense, almost fluoro go. But this lovely muted electric orange lip is so marvellous and even better, because as these girls kindly demonstrate, even the pale-skinned can sass it. (The more pink-based oranges tend to lend themselves to more-olive based skintones.)

Here's the lowdown for DIY fruits:
Important person: Linda Jefferyes, Makeup Artist Director, using Bobbi Brown. Important bits: Use Creamy Concealer under the eye area to hide any dark circles and use Foundation Stick sparingly on face – only use where needed. Ultra-light dusting of Sheer Finish Face Powder. Groom eyebrows upwards and brush through Clear Brow Gel. Use the Eye Definer Brush and Eye Shadow to fill in brows – they need to be defined. Curl eyelashes. Use fingertips to apply Calypso Coral Pot Rouge for Lips and Cheeks on apples of cheeks – blend well. Use the Lip Brush to apply Coral Blush Stick on lips – blot with a tissue. 


But I also love the hair. It's styled but soft, y'know? Done but undone, which is kind of Perfect Hair in my mind.

Here's the lowdown for DIY fruits:
Important person: Sophie Roberts for ghd. Important bits: Distribute Fat Hair Lotion throughout. Create a part in the centre and then shake hair dry (using blow dryer) keeping the roots flat. Using the ghd styler take up fine horizontal sections from the roots and iron flat to about 3 inches away from the scalp.  Then slightly rotate the ghd styler to 45 degrees and glide through until you reach the ends – as you get to the ends relax the rotation slightly back to about 20 degrees and glide faster to achieve a raw look to the ends.

Oily, happy skin is not an oxymoron.

Appearing without makeup on YouTube and your blog sure is a liberating little ride. Lucky then, that my skin is glowy and happy from the oils I'm dribbling about then, isn't it!

(If you believe that was an accident then you are a FOOL. If my skin looked rubbish as I talked about how wonderful these oils made it look, this video would've never have made it past the 'Save or Delete' stage. )