This is a very simple eye with Creamy Eyes 104 (dark brown cream) applied close to the lash line and then blended up onto the lid, with a little taken under the lower lashes too. Milky Eyes 103 (navy/blue shimmer) applied on lid and into crease. It give a sludgy, smoky eye, and when the light hits the lid in the right way you can see the subtle blue shimmer. This has become one of my favourite Ellis Faas eye combinations.
I am still very much enjoying the Ellis Faas products I bought, although the dispensing mechanism can be a bit of a pain, particularly if you haven't used them for a while. I love the texture of the creamy eyes and the milky eyes, and I particularly like them layered together in this way.
Ellis Faas products can be bought at Liberty, London, Dolly Leo Apothecary, Edinburgh, and online at www.misebeauty.com.
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pbi - Dolly Leo in Edinburgh sell them too
ReplyDeleteHi GreatShe - thanks v much , will add to post as a stockist. I had a look on the Dolly Leo website - they also sell Suqqu! Looks like a great beauty shop.
ReplyDeleteYour makeup is hardly worth photographing - it's just a quick swipe of one colour on your lid. What's the point?
ReplyDeleteAh Anonymous - a bad day in Yorkshire then?
ReplyDeleteI usually delete your less polite comments, but I'll say it once, and then delete any future comments you make (always anonymously, although, with your IP address you are probably less anonymous than you think.) The point is to show what the colour looks like on the eye, rather than as a swatch on the skin. It's hopefully helpful to people who can't make it to a counter. This isn't a make-up artistry blog, and I'm not a make-up artist. There are plenty of excellent blogs by make-up artists with wonderful techniques, and I'd suggest you go and read them instead of repeatedly leaving snarky comments here.
I love your swatches for their accuracy and no-fuss approach. Bad-Day-In-Yorkshire needs to get a life.
ReplyDeleteI like your EOTD and FOTD posts. They are a pretty accurate reflection of how I wear my make-up, as I too am not a make-up artist and don't do 5 different colours and blending and contouring, etc., on a daily basis! It's nice to just get a simple look that shows off the product well.
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The fact that you take the time to put it on your eye - and photograph each stage is what is IMPRESSIVE. I think anon is a MAN. A bored MAN.
ReplyDeleteHear hear.
ReplyDeleteI'm still in love with Ellis Faas stuff but haven't yet bought any eye colours from their range! :( I love it when you do looks with their products.
ReplyDeleteMethinks your snarky comment leaver is the type of person who thinks make up isn't worth applying unless you do it like a crazed drag queen! :)
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I love the fact that you do a simple eye to show how the color looks. If you added in a ton of other colors we wouldn't get the real look of the product. Swatches on the arm are sometimes useless when you have to blend the product on the eye. Anon should spend their time on MU artistry blogs and skip yours...and mine for that matter.
ReplyDeleteExcellent review as usual. I am really starting to get interested in Ellis Faas products b/c of posts like this!
Gawd, do we all have to do our makeup in the same way now? Sheesh.
ReplyDeleteI love the simple looks you create, always elegant, always stylish, always you, Grace. Kind of makes me feel like a WAG let loose with a set of crayons at times, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate the simple refinement of the looks you create.
Thanks for your EOTD eye swatches! They're really useful in showing how the colour turns up on your eye, and your photos are clear, well-lit, and colour-accurate.
ReplyDeleteAnon should just visit youtube channels where the girls wear drag queen makeup and skip these blogs if that's her cup of tea. But me, i like seeing neutral and understated makeup.
Thank you, all of you, who have left such positive comments.
ReplyDeleteI really respect the talent of people who can do complex and artistic make-up, and I very much enjoy reading those blogs and watching those videos myself, but I'm not trying to impress anyone with my make-up skillz, here it's just a way of showing the products in context.
It just irked me that one person is forcing themselves to come back here and leave stupid, rude and childish comments repeatedly. Read the blogs you enjoy.
Oh my goodness... How sad for 'anon'. Not interested in the photo but with such an empty and sad life they stick around to look and leave rude comments anyway. To London MU Girl you're FOTDs are always useful and colour accurate which is why I always check them our. Keep 'em coming because we all love them!
ReplyDeleteTo anon - if you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all x
Besides the obvious point that everyone is rightly making, that no one here is a professional mu artist and this is more about swatches of products applied and reviews, there is I believe an additional level.
ReplyDeleteGranted, we're here because we love our make up but ALSO because, in time, we develop a more personal relationship with the blog owner, we chat, we get to know them and the other commentators, their blog becomes part of a daily exchange with the world. "Social media" anyone?????
So, Bad-day-in-Yorkshire, if this isn't your cup of tea, fair enough...there are innumerable blogs out there that I'm sure are more appropriate for you. Why waste your time here?
And, Grace, you don't need words of encouragement. Suffice to say, the 103 is going to be my next purchase from Ellis Faas. I fell in love with it at the counter, but in the end opted for the green Milky Eyes...seeing it swatched now, I'm thinking it's worth the trip back.
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For someone like me who can't make it to an Ellis Faas counter, these sorts of posts are invaluable. I have been known to order products based on these posts, so a clearly photographed eyelid with the product applied gives me a much more accurate idea of what I'm potentially ordering.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I think Grace London applies makeup thoughtfully and practically to enhance her already beautiful features. Surely this is the point of any makeup, and the sort of advice that most of us are looking for?
Love this colour. I also like the way you do eye makeup. I have 10 minutes to do my makeup in the morning. I cannot be bothered to use 3 different shadows and a liner. I like seeing that I can do something lovely using 1 or 2 colours.
ReplyDeleteI didn't even own any eyeshadow until I started reading your posts Grace as although I always excused it by saying I was a 'lipstick girl' the truth was that having been a teenager in the eighties I couldn't do a three or four colour eye then, and still can't. Back then though that was seemingly how you HAD to do it, and still do in a lot of places. I enjoy watching videos by Wayne Goss, Lisa Eldridge and the Pixiwoo girls but at 39 and counting I've discovered a fabulous modern way to enjoy eye makeup. The Grace London way!
ReplyDeleteMiserable in Yorkshire, do something more positive with your time.
Obviously there are a lot of us out there that enjoy your simple makeup looks and showing us new versatile products. Really, I don't have an hour in the morning to do something special, I need something quick and beautiful. And it's great that you show so many swatches on your blog, they are definitely helpful. So just keep doing it the way you like it :) xx Klara
ReplyDeleteThanks for showing us how the product looks applied the way that 99.9% of the population applies their eye makeup (including me).
ReplyDeleteHugely useful to see colour accurate swatches too 'cos I don't have a EF counter near me either *sniff*
I have to say i love your eyebrows! Do you do them yourself?
ReplyDeleteI prefer a simple look like the ones you create. Possibly because it's the way I do my own e/s. Well said to that snarky (look at me speaking the Queen's English!) anon pereson.
ReplyDeleteI've bought my fair share of items based on your eye swatches. I just got RMS Magnetic and have this EF Milky Eyes on its way to me.
ReplyDeleteHi E - I don't do much to my eyebrows other than pluck the odd stray hair. I'd like them to be thicker, but they just don't grow that way, so I have to fill them in with Shu Hard Brow pencil.
ReplyDeletePay no mind to that stupid head anon!
ReplyDeleteI love your EOTDS and I think you are fabulous!
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Big hugs for Grace London
Smelly rotten eggs thrown at anon.
I love the looks you create- they are always so stunningly- classic and I wish I could get a couple of colors to look that amazing on myself *I'm jealous*- lol.
ReplyDeleteAnd to this jerk anon- if you have nothing nice to say- keep your trap shut!
*said with an extremely calm voice*
hugs to you Grace
I love to come to your blog, and get an idea of how a product works, so I appreciate your makeup swatches very much. Besides, I don't find arm swatches very useful (but enjoy looking at the colors anyway)
ReplyDeleteHowever I think there is place, in a blogger's comment section,to both positive and negative remarks. It seems that bloggers get very upset when the don't get a standing ovation, at least from what I gathered. I myself have found my comment deleted on your blog (I think) because I raised some doubts concerning an all-active-ingredients product, sorry I don't rember which. And I wasn't being rude, just curious.
I am curious now to see if my non-standing-ovation comment will be rejected...or not.
Anon above wasn't particularly rude either. Just a bit pointless, if I may say.
Hello Camilla
ReplyDeleteThe same IP address has left multiple comments that were ruder than this one which I chose not to publish, and this one was the final straw. I have no problem whatsoever with constructive comments, positive or negative. I do have a problem with rudeness posted anonymously. There's a difference between "I'd like to see you use more colour," and "You suck at make-up, you just shouldn't bother."
I don't delete comments that say that someone personally doesn't like a product, or that they don't think a particular product is worth the price tag. I have never rejected any comments questioning the efficacy of a product. Blogger does sometimes have issues with eating comments, and I can only think that's what happened to your comment if you posted it here, because I welcome (polite) debate.
Thank you for your comment :)
Grace
Ok love it have a few of these and now I wish I got your colors. I have tried to use the brush on the pen but end up looking a mess! What are you doing to get this look and what brushes??? thanks in advance for the help! I really want to make mine work.
ReplyDeleteHello ShelaQ - I don't apply directly from the pen brush or sponge - I find I get far too much at once trying to do that, I looked like Siousie Sioux when I tried it with a dark brown! I dispense the product on to the back of my hand, then use a small flat synthetic brush to pick up and apply the colour. I use the Becca cream eyeshadow brush, but a MAC 242 or 249 would work as well. I layer the Milky Eyes over a base of the Creamy Eyes, most often.
ReplyDeleteI hope this helps.
Thank you so much, I'm going back in wish me luck! PS I love Siousie Sioux (Just don't want that look for me) lol
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