Ladylike with Dark Purple Plum Lips

note: these are old pictures... like waaaayyy old.

Now, I don't remember what year was it, but there is this one time, beauty/fashion industry was starting really appreciating very dark purple lips.Following that 'trend' now a lot of women of general population are pulling off dark purple lips casually. Prior to this, dark purple lipstick is usually associated with 'halloween' 'goth' 'punk' 'sci-fi' etc etc... lol and even I generally would not go for purple on lips.... 

However it really interesting how  they take this with a 'modern' twist. despite the usual goth- punk 'image' portrayed with this lips, they(the industry) came up with something so 'ladylike'... despite the darkness of the colour on lips, the whole look is actually soft. This is interesting. I'm all into very dark lips and 'purple' could be a great experiment.

So I got this palette from MAC, the 6 Select Plums Pro Lip Palette for some time and this was the only palette that have all the shades that I don't own in a tube. Since I saw Cyber (bottom left), I just couldn't stop myself thinking about attempting this look. From the palette, you can clearly see how much more purple and dark it is... and you practically need to be a 'zombie' to wear this 'naturally'.

Let me be honest, it is hard to pull off Cyber looking ladylike especially if you compare to Hang Up (the shade next to it), it is more dramatic, 'punk-y' *?*  and it is so dark and so purple but trust me it is achievable.

So I hope this post help you guys not to shy away from trying this lip colour. 

Complexion:

As dark purple lipstick could be very dark and dramatic, having a much more 'tanned' and 'dark' skin will ease the 'goth' effect of wearing this colour. So I don't have much problem with my skin tone, but those with fair with cool undertone skin, you could try to bronze up a bit, and that actually make this less 'harsh' on your skin tone. It is also great if you have blonde or ginger hair or in my case I opt for warm beige headscarf. 

I think cheek colour would be too much personally but people might feel it put the whole look together, so if you want go with a more soft 'mauvy' 'plum blusher or even something rosy as we can add to that 'ladylike' effect.

Eyes:
I just maintained my usual eyebrow with eyebrow gel and bit of dark brown shadow.

I primed my eyelid top and bottom with MAC Paint Pot in Painterly and start with matte light cream eyeshadow. Then I contour with matte midtone brown MAC Cork to enhance the contour which would be the socket, lower lashline.
The the important ladyline effect would be a simple black winged eyeliner only on the top lashline.
Highlight the inner corner with light shimmer shadow and you could put white or cream or light shimmer in the waterline.
I finish off with black mascara.

Lips:

As I mentioned above, I used MAC Cyber and I lined with lipliner I think MAC Dervish. 

I would wear darker purpler lipliner if I have but I don't and I want to finish using MAC Dervish.

In conclusion I would advice a lipliner to give of a cleaner finish and I think Cyber really work best as opaque and with clean edges. Finish!

Ok gila! Can't believe I'm in second semester of 4th year! And  4th year is crazy annoying, after every block there is assessment. Good news, I pass semester 1 exam and that include paeds and psych which is good. Hopefully I can finish this year without any resit. I also realized many of my friends is finishing this year as well, ahh man... sedih but I'm still happy for them all. 

*still fighting for this blog*