Inspired by Kidrobot

          Have you heard of Kidrobot? It's an artsy line full of fantastical cartoonish figurines. You may have seen the 'Labbit', 'Munny', or mystery breakfast keychains in art museum gift shops or other whimsical stores. My friend Ponyo took me to the Kidrobot store in NYC for the first time. It's so fanciful, you just want to snatch everything up! My favorite figurine was 'Rainbowsaurus', which was a combination between a rainbow and a dragon. (Sadly, at a few hundred dollars, it was a bit beyond my price point). I thought it would be fun to do a blog post on makeup inspired by the Kidrobot store. The image in the photo above was a part of the Kidrobot store's wall mural.

          The Kidrobot inspiration is simple with bright colorblocked colors. Just like in a cartoon, a clean white base is important before coloring in. Illamasqua Sex eyeshadow (what a name, right?) is a pure white and very pigmented color. It's the perfect base to work over the lids and under the brows. I don't recommend turning your skin a packed white, however even a sheer white makes a difference in creating a clean slate. When working with brights, I think it's best not to combine too many at once. Most likely I'd use only 1-2 at a time to keep things chic. Some bright cartoonish colors I have in my color are MAKE UP FOR EVER Aqua Cream #25  (bright blue), MAKE UP FOR EVER Aqua Cream #24 (traffic light yellow), and Urban Decay Woodstock eyeshadow. It's best to pack on your color of choice in a strategic shape and blend as little as possible. Blending too much muddies the colors, which defeats the purpose of the look. If a complete lid in a bright color is too intimidating, one can focus a very basic constructionist grey taupe (like the gorilla above) color like Maybelline's Top of the Taupe and add little accents. Lining under the eyes with the lime green MAKE UP FOR EVER Aqua Eyes #17L could do the trick. The look should be finished with the utmost clean black line, which can only be achieved with a liquid eyeliner (no smudgy pencil lines please). I've used MAKE UP FOR EVER Aqua Liner in black here.

         Overall, the key is to keep the colors as clean, elementary, and as well demarcated as possible. With too many colors and too much blending, you might end up looking up a rainbowsaurus.

        Thanks for reading! What are your favorite brights and how do you wear them?

Love, Dovey.