Guidelines (we don't much like RULES around here, but guidelines are cool!): Create a face inspired by the theme. Post a picture or three, list the various Aromaleigh products you used. That's it. Lively discussion and kudos will ensue. We'll all love you for posting the pics, you'll feel really good about the creative muscles you are stretching and building, maybe you'll discover a new color or two that you love. And have fun!

THEME: In the Garden

Imagine Your own fantasy garden - is it tropical, a proper rose garden, a jumble of ancient vines and flowers left wild? A hot house conservatory? Are your colors lush and rich, or delicate as a bridal bouquet? Or maybe you are inspired by a single flower. Go where your fantasy takes you, then create a face inspired by it. Could be a “usual” application using fresh-as-a-bouquet colors, or a complete fantasy face that you wouldn’t dare wear out to the grocery.

Inspirational pics:

Here are a couple more pictures for you:

GOOD GRIEF, Bridget! Those are awesome pictures. It worked ~ I'm totally inspired...

I'll be back...

Loida

p.s. are we supposed to post pix on this thread or create another thread?

Holy cow, B, girl, where DO you find these pics? The pink and green is spectacular!

The first four are from a NYT online article on Spring Beauty. They are awesome, aren't they? The others are largely from a fokti site created by a Kuwaiti girl - she posts some beautiful images from UAE magazines and makeup artists websites and such. I love the artistry on them - vivid colors, opacity, precision, it's all there. I'm glad you all like these.

Now remember this is YOUR game, too - if you come across cool pics, on this theme, on any other theme, or on a theme that doesn't yet exist but you'd like to start, please POST them! The more the merrier!

(Now, about those NYT pics - MAN do I envy those with preternaturally smooth eyelids. Mine have been "crepey" or saggy or whatever you'd call it since I was a child, I swear. Or at least since high school and I actually started looking at my eye lids.)

Oh I am soo loving the looks. Thanks for the inspiration Bridget. Now I'm going to have to breeze through my samples & see what I can see.

Damnation! These are all sooooo purdy!!!!!!

Great pics! I can't wait to see what gets posted-maybe I'll even give it a go.

Bridget,

Me and my webcam give you a HUGE no makeup THUMBS UP to this idea!!!!!



As I told you earlier, I've got a yard full of bamboo beckoning...

Can't wait to see these and all of the other themes, this is awesome!!!

K

Kristen, you are GORGEOUS without a speck of makeup on!!

I'm so glad you guys are likeing this idea - already we've got a Peacock Theme and a Pirate Theme going on. Remember, there isn't any time limit, and no order, so just jump and play when the spirit moves you!

Kristen, maybe we'll see something inspired by the bamboo you are wrestling with...Think of the possibilities!

-b.

B,
I already have an idea for this, but there is a few things I need that I ordered, yet to get to my doorstep! I can't wait!

Kristen, Love your webcam pic!!! Bridget is right you look fabulous without a stitch of make-up!

Melissa

I'm so excited by the theme ideas. My toes are tingling to see what everyone comes up with.

I love my webcam. My son and I goof off with that thing so much, we have hundreds of pictures! Macintosh has it set up in a "photobooth" style with all kinds of special effects and such. I wish it did higher resolution though- I tried getting really close to it to get a photo of my eye, but no go... it was so blurry, boo hoo...

Those pictures are absolutely fabulous!!

Now why do I see a trip to the florist in my future?

For those of you who are thinking, that's too intense for me, the wonderful thing about a floral theme is - think of all the many different kinds of flowers! Pick something more delicate - a soft pink rose, for instance, and take inspiration from that.

Alright, so it's not my best work, but still looks kinda cool. I found this picture for inspiration.

I used hibiscus (ph) all over from brow to top lash line. Then used obsession (rocks!) thickly lined wet on the top lashes and a thinner line on the lower lashes. Both lines were smudged when dry. I then used white wedding (rocks!) wet on the inner upper and lower lids.

Beautiful, Melissa - you look so amazing with those saturated pinks and reds!

-b.

OK, I couldn't just start this game and NOT post, could I?

Here you go - In the Garden.

In my garden I have two rose bushes that produce these intense hot coral-orange blooms. My wedding bouquet had a rose called TerraCotta that was actually a very similar shade - not clay colored at all, more of that hot coral. That was inspiration here:











I used:

Eyes - Marigold, shadowoflove, velvetgoldmine, vampira, Vintage to widely dry line under lower lashes, and a blend of Moss, Oberon and Googoomuck wet for the upper liner.

Cheeks were shadowoflove applied with the fiberoptic brush and Medium Bronzer under cheekbones.

Lips are Honey with clear gloss on top.

Pics were taken indoors in the shop, no flash that I saw, and the colors are more muted than they are in real life. But I LOVE the hot coral/orange/red lined with a relatively bright earthy green!

-b.

Wow, Melissa and Bridget, you two looks so beautiful in the colors your choose! I just love that Honey lipstick on you Bri~

Loida

Okay, I'm in the game now too...

My inspiration was none other than the model with the scarf in Bridget's original post here. I just thought her makeup was so 'in the garden-esque' that I had to try and recreate it. I used a scarf as a prop but didn't wrap it around my head like she did cause I don't think it looks good on me.

I used:

Face - mixture of 2Y and 3YL, porcelaine, finished with a little bit of metamorphosis

Cheeks - sinisterrouge with dune e/s applied as contour underneath cheekbones and topped upper cheeks with angel luminescence

Lips - wildflower rouge w/balm topped with hush lipgloss in center of lips

Eyes - primer, peacoat pure hue applied on lid and into crease area and slightly above that, spaceoddity applied on top of the peacoat and also wetlined top/bottom lids, obsession applied above crease area, then nico applied under brow, black mascara









This was fun!

Loida

Oh, Loida, this is so gorgeous and exotic! Hmmm, get me out of this office and into the makeup playroom!