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

Swallows and Twilight: A Plenilune-Inspired Face

There's a Law of Travel that states that no matter how much fun you are having away, there will be fun things happening at home without you. While I was in Romania (home in one piece and more about that next time), Katie, Jenny, and Mirriam  all put together dramatic makeup looks inspired by Jenny's Plenilune. Me being me, I wished fervently that I was present with my little pots of paints to join in the fun. Well. Jenny said it wasn't too late and because this is my jet-lag day and I had some odd time, I painted up myself, Sarah, and Leah in various facial stages of Plenilune Magic. (Sorry that we are entirely sans jewelry, hairstyles, and fantastic clothing. This is a makeup look.) Hope you enjoy this fun departure from the usual fashion posts!

Plenilune is an equally warring, agrarian, and rich world. Everyone, even the lords and ladies, are closely connected to the ground upon with they live. My look was not inspired by any particular character (Jenny, I've got Sarah as Woodbird for you, so THERE), but rather by the swallows that swoop and glide  at twilight over the fields of Plenilune. I can imagine any of the ladies of the realm wearing something similar to an evening meal and thinking of those swallows and the twilight together. It's a high summer look. I enjoyed doing it. :)

//The Eyes//

I went with a palette of greens and violets to compliment my eye color and give the general impression of twilit-meadows. Work with me, here. I lined my eyes with black eye-shadow to make sure they were defined, then went to work with a black liquid eyeliner for the double-wings on the ends of my eyes. On my bottom lash, I underlined the under-liner with purple to continue the theme. My eyebrows, I darkened with eye-shadow to provide a bold stroke for the top of this dramatic look.

//The Lips and Face//

Because I traveled for 30 hours, slept for 10, and decided to play makeup artist, I used some concealer under my eyes and on a couple spots on my face. Then I used a little bit of Mama's blush, but not much. My lips are outlined with a dark pink liner and filled in with Rimmel Stayglossy in "Timeless Allure". Raspberry lips flatter my complexion best of all, I've found.

Ain't no De la Mares  gon' mess with diss chick.

//Home is behind the road ahead

and there are many paths to tread

through shadows to the edge of night,

until the stars are all alight.

Mist and shadow, cloud and shade,

all shall fade, all shall fade.//