Plenilune Looks: Woodbird Swan Neck

The woman turned her head inward; the light caught her eye and made it spark yellow. In the shadow cast by the black velvet, the spark was very uncanny indeed.

"Commatissa Woodbird of Thrasymene."

"Thrasymene." Margaret smiled lightly, triumphantly. "I have heard of you."

-Plenilune by Jennifer Freitag

Sarah has golden eyes and because of this, when I went to play with her makeup, I immediately wanted to do a look based off of one of Jenny's warring characters, Woodbird Swan Neck. Woodbird is one of those people who claims your favorite man for herself, makes herself rather scarce, and leaves you feeling that you like her, but you're not really sure why you like her. I guess she's just wonderful and you can't help but like her even after not really knowing all that much about who she is or from whence she came.

//The Eyes//

I worked mostly in a palette of whites and gold. I highlit the inner corners of her eyes with white and worked from white into silver, from silver into cream, from cream into gold, and ended with a bit of brown in the creases. After this, I dragged my applicator covered in gold under bottom eyelid, then outlined the whole eye with black eye-shadow and a bit of black eyeliner leftover from last month's Birchbox. I wanted the look to be less precise than mine, more smudged and hectic and striking, so I showcased the gold of Sarah's eyes with dark rims and purple-brown eyebrows. Right underneath the brow bone, I put gold sparkles for drama.

//The Face & Lips//

Sarah's complexion is already quite olive and tanned at this time of year and Woodbird isn't a delicately-colored woman, I don't imagine. I brushed some cranberry-colored eye-shadow over Sarah's cheekbones and put one pass of blush over this to bring the pink back in. For her lips, I colored Sarah's lips with a dark pink liner and dabbed on a bit of my Revlon "Fire and Ice" lipstick. Over this, I dabbed some random, pale yellow lipgloss and in the very center of her lips, dabbed  a few more of the gold sparkles

Jenny, I hope you properly appreciate the fact that she has a token scratch on her cheek.

My sister is a beautiful person, isn't she?

"Up went the swan's head. Fiercely flashed the owlish eye. But the lips, which struck Margaret then as being very red, smiled genuinely."

-Plenilune by Jennifer Freitag