Illamasqua Once Collection / Autumn Collection / Vintage Metallix cream eye shadow
Fall 2014.

The beauty of old and new endures with Once. Decadent & lavish, dabble with rich textures and autumnal, delicate colors, which are conveyed in this exquisite & harmonious fall collection.

“Once is the beauty of the burnished, eroded and erudite. A palette inspired by the gentle and exquisite point when a flower starts to fade and becomes impossibly beautiful in its complex decline. Combined with the subtle opulence of faded gilt layers that reveal themselves the more you blend and search. She is an incandescent moment, a poem alive and a light within a pallet of decaying decadence.” — Alex Box, Creative Director for Illamasqua

This collection looks like it has taken inspiration from historical royalty, maybe even some from the elizabethan era. This is why i was drawn to this collection, i loved the colours that they used, coppers and warm toned colours.

In my final designs i wanted to use coppers, golds and warm tones and keep it looking soft the way that they have in the collection. The elizabethans were very harsh with their makeup and it was all very pigmented, whereas in contemporary times a lot of makeup focuses of the blending which is what i have tried to incorporate into my designs.