A Nina Flowers inspired act

Ok so having tanned the first season of RuPaul's Drag Race in one sitting, I got a bit obsessed with runner up Drag Queen du jour Nina Flowers and her amazing androgynous makeup skills. So I woke up, decided I wanted to have a little fun - it's been far too long since I've given myself any time to do more of this- and try a woman-dressed-as-man-dressed-as-woman style of makeup just for fun!

I only used my normal make up with a little Snazaroo (clown) white for those cheek highlights so I didn't bother posting a pic of my kit. Ok, here's how I achieved my look:

1. Beginning with a clean face then adding a base coat layer of my normal foundation: Rimmel colour match in ivory:

2. Adding some sponged highlights to cheeks, eyebrows, t-zone and the bridge of my nose with a thinnish layer of Snazaroo Clown White and smudging it in with my fingers. I also added some shadows underneath my cheekbones and at my temples with another foundation a couple of shades darker than my usual one:

3. I decided the darker foundation just wasn't cutting it so I added my (only, pink) blusher with a thick short brush to the areas under my cheekbone, my jawline and my temples going into the hairline and down the sides of my nose to further exaggerate the contours:

4. Adding some pink eyeshadow with a fine, damp brush In a cats eye shape, exaggerated down my nose and towards my temples:

5. And the same again but a narrower version with black:

6. As I don't have any eyebrow wax I just had to make do with keeping the shape roughly my own. I tried doing a double eyebrow...

...but didn't like the way it looked from the front so I removed it with a wipe and went over the temple shading again to repair it.

7. Normal brows again, filled out with kohl, adding eyeliner to upper and lower lids and a couple of thick layers of mascara. I considered putting on some false eyelashes but the only pair I could find were a little too monstrously feathered and I thought they'd detract from the overall shape:

8. With the eyes finished, I moved onto the lips. Now, Drag Queens tend to have massive lips so I gave it a whirl far outside of my own tulip-shaped pout..

..hooo dear I took it a bit too far and look like a child whose eaten said lippy!

9. So I brought it back to just outside my lip line, added a little black to the corners of my mouth and a little white to the middle to create more of a contour and slathered the whole thing in a shitload of lip gloss:

10. Now to give myself a fierce updo to set the whole thing off and voila! The look is complete:

I'm pretty pleased with it overall, I think the only things that fell down were the blusher tone (I hardly use it so I'll have to get a better range) and my eyebrows. I figure with some wax and powder to set them I'll be able to create better shapes in future.

Time taken: approx 1 hour.