Tarja Turunen Inspired Look

Today's my day to post a look. The title is pretty self-explainatory but for those who don't know who Tarja Turunen, she's a Finnish singer. Tarja was initially noticed as the lead singer of the symphonic power metal band Nightwish, which she left in 2005; then she pursued a sucessful solo career. This specific look is inspired by Nightwish's video clip for their song "Bless The Child". When I can't decide what to do with my makeup, it's very common for me to do this.

What I love the most about this look is it's simplicity. It is actually pretty quick. It takes three eyeshadows, all purple, but in different tones to achieve it. Placing the medium purple on my crease first, it helps to set ground for the following shadows which are lavender on the lid and a slightly darker purple than the first one to further deepen the crease and make the contrast between lid and crease, bolder.
The liner is just a medium line on the upper lash line and on the water line. I used black gel liner for both and smudge the lower lash line with a bit of the darkest purple eyeshadow.
Then, I used Essence's I Love Extreme volume mascara, my personal favorite.

For the lips I used KIKO's Smart Lip Liner in the shade 710 Rouge Noir with a matte brown lipstick on top. Unfortunately, none of the photos captured the actual darkness of the lips. In the second set of pictures, in which, I removed all forms of light filters, even the eye look is washed out.

Lip liner (left) & Lipstick (right)

For the rest of my face I did what I usually do.
Of course, in the video,  Tarja's eyes look darker and her lipstick is almost black but I guess it's because the lighting in both situations is really different.

I hope you liked this post. Hopefully, I'll post more looks in the future!

LOTS OF LOVE,
Tânia