Penguin Makeup Challenge // White and Colour

Heeeey Everyone!

This is a bit later than I was supposed to do it, but I finally got round to it last night. My sister Figgy offered herself as an eye model for this one. Czech it out:

I created this look using an LA Colors white eyeliner, 3 colours from my £2 (yes that's right. £2 from Portobello Market!!) Saffron 50 colour eyeshadow palette, and sugar stars from Morrisons usually used for cake making.....

Again apologies for lateness but I did it in the end!

In other news, Figgy and I are contemplating a new sort of makeup challenge. When we have decided what direction we want to go, we will make more of a concrete announcement. If you enjoy makeup challenges, are currently loving this one or have never tried one and wanna get involved, please contact moi! If you're up for a challenge that's a bit crazzzyyyy and off-the-wall then I think you would love it. Keep those beautiful eyes peeled, yo!

Wig Wam (and Figgy) xx

Penguin Makeup Challenge // Black and Colour

Heeey Everyone!!

Hectic times at the Olympic Village this week. Have managed to make friends with lots of athletes and that I know of, am currently mates with the Mexican football team and the Japanese women's football team. The others I have no idea about... I think it's rude to start asking them about their sport?!

Aaanyway. Today is the second leg of the Penguin Makeup Challenge, details of which can be found on this post. It is black and colour day!!! I got all colourful and started drawing on lots of streaks of different hues. I started thinking a bit outside the box and marry my 2 loves of eye makeup and nails by putting striping tape on my eyes. Did NOT work unfortunately. I reckon the tapes are duds as they weren't sticky at all boooo. I'm a bit annoyed that the photos didn't come out as good this time. I'm home alone so have no Figgy to take my photos grr. And here's what I came up with:

I used an eyeshadow palette from Beauty Base (super cheapos brand) and a Saffron eyeshadow palette with about 50 colours in it for £2 from the lovely Portobello Road Market.

This one's not as creative as the last one, as I honestly forgot that the challenge was on today. I am absolutely shattered from working 6 consecutive days waking up at 4am to get to the Olympic Village for a 6am shift. Phewf! Today is my day off though yeyyyy!

Happy penguin challenging! 

Wig Wam xx

Penguin Makeup Challenge // Day One, babies!!

Heeeeey Everyone!


Today is the 1st of August (well, it is here in London at least) which can only mean one thing....... DAY ONE OF THE PENGUIN MAKEUP CHALLENGE!!


I may have mentioned once or twice that I was excited about this one, so it gives me great pleasure to show you what I did with the instructions for today.


Day One // Black and White

In this photo you can see that the flower petals I attached with eyelash glue are white and a bit greeny pinky too. I hope this will be overlooked with regards to the challenge rules!!! It is all otherwise black and white innit! 


Eyebrows: Don't laugh but I made them super black and filled them in with a slanted brush and black eyeshadow for a striking, defined look. I used Natural Collection's black eyeshadow. Super cheap. Does the job.


Eyes and stripe: Max Factor Masterpiece liquid eyeliner // Max Factor False Lash Effect Fusion


Petals: pinched from a dried up flower on the kitchen table.


Origami crane: made by yours truly with a microscope. Jokinnnggg! But yes I did make it. 


Check out what the other ladies (I think we are all ladies? Or are there some men doing this challenge too?) have come up with for this challenge below!

Wig Wam xx

Announcing the impending Penguin Makeup Challenge!!!!

Heeeey Everyone!!!

Ever since Alexis from xoxoalexisleigh, Kaki from Glitterobsession and Mini from Makeup Withdrawal first suggested this brand new never seen before (I think?!) makeup challenge to end all challenges, I was SO excited!!!!! One of my favourite past times is playing around with all the makeup I own and creating wacky looks I would probably neeeever dare to wear outside the house. There is just something so freeing about going nuts with an eyeliner and giving a sheet about what others think.

So this challenge is an opportunity to get a bit bonkers with colours and shapes and something actually non nail related. I don't know about you, but constantly changing my nails to make them beautiful can be quite time consuming when you're waiting for eeevery single little layer to dry. Before you know it you've watched 3 episodes of Friends straight whilst doing your nails and they're STILL squidgy and wet. Who knows, maybe I am just slow?!! Aaanyways, with a makeup challenge you thankfully don't have to wait ages to progress to a different element of the makeup process, and it wipes off easy. Brilliant!!

Without further ado, here are the challenge rules as originally set out in Alexis' post.

• This is a makeup challenge only, not nails, just makeup! :)
• You do not have to put your entire face on the internet! Obviously many people aren't comfortable with putting a picture of their entire face on the internet for all to see and I'm telling you, you don't have to! As long as you follow the theme/day color rules (ie. black and white) you can photograph any single part of your face for this challenge! Black & Color makeup for lips, go for it! Black & White makeup for ears, weird but again, it qualifies! However if you're brave enough to put your entire face on the internet we'd love to see what you come up with as well!
• This is a three week challenge. As you can see there are three themes on the poster (black and white, black and colors, and white and color). Each seperate theme will be posted on Wednesday exactly one week apart.
• Kaki will be emailing out the inlinkz code the day before the challenge starts (July 31st she'll be sending it out). Inlinkz is so easy to use but if you haven't worked with it before Kaki will provide easy directions in the email with the code. Because we are emailing out the code, if you want to participate please email either one of us so we can put you on the list to email on the 31st.
• You don't have to be a professional, heck you don't even have to be 'good'! This challenge's sole purpose is to have fun! Don't be self conscious because I for example am not amazing at makeup; but, practicing does help you get better so if not for fun, do this to gain some makeup practice!

If you wanna get involved, get in touch with the 3 masters of ceremonies as linked in the first paragraph so that you can be sent the inlinkz code thing. All you have to do is write up a post about the challenge and also of course mention them in the post so that others can refer back to the info as they first set it out! 

The first day of the challenge is TOMORROW babies! So get cracking on some ideas! I am pretty busy with this Olympics job thing so I might even have to do a later post than that but fear not. I am toootally on board! Yeaaaa!!!

I look forward to seeing what everyone comes up with!!

Wig Wam xx