Circle Lens Review - Fynale Y17 Blue

Today I am review the Fynale Y17 Blue circle lenses, sponsored by Apple of Your Eyes. These are one of the most striking, uniquely designed lenses I have tried so far, and I really like them!

The Fynale Y17 are highly-pigmented lenses that has 4 colors printed on the lenses. Each color in the series is beautiful, but the blue lense especially caught my eyes. They are a blend of sky blue, hazel and purple surrounded by a thin black ring, and look stunning in all lights. 

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Being 14.0mm in diameter, these lenses are not very enlarging. The iris hole in the middle is also a bit small and my vision becomes a bit blurry under low light.

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I also compared the Y17 with two pairs of strong-colored lenses I have. The first pair is Neo Cosmos Glamour Blue. They are both very opaque and bright in color, but the Y17 are more violet while the Glamour are more sky blue.

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The next pair is Barbie Big Size Violet, which are much more enlarging than the Y17 but with darker color.

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Here are all the lenses in this review. Clockwise from the top: Y17 right side up, Glamour Blue, Y17 upside down, Big Size violet. See how intricate and beautiful the Y17's design is?

FINAL VERDICT:
Design: 10/10 - They are simply stunning, like works of art
Enlargement: 7/10 - I think they don't really enlarge much
Comfort: 8/10 - A bit thick, and the iris hole is small
TOTAL: 8.5/10 - Lovely dramatic lenses, I just wish they are a bit more enlarging. 

Thank you Apple of Your Eyes for the lenses!

Halloween costume #2 for 2011 - Japanese red-crowned crane

Here's a short post to show you my other Halloween costume this year: a Japanese red-crowned crane! I made the costume completely from scratch, which took me about 3 weeks' evenings. Each of the feathers are individually sewn from fabric and reinforced with craft foam!

Here is the makeup I wore with the costume:

Halloween makeup tutorial - Succubus/demon/devil cut-crease look

As mentioned in my last post, here is a tutorial on my succubus/demon/devil makeup for Halloween 2011. From start to finish the whole look took almost 2 hours, but I will just focus on the eye makeup here.

I start by using Post-it notes to mask off clean lines on the outer edges of my eyelids. For a more detailed explanation on how to use this method, please refer to my Celestial Sparkle makeup tutorial. :)

I put red eyeshadow "wings"  along the socket edge of my eyes and blend it up and out.

Then I used a flat brush to trace fake creases below the red . I also joined the winged outer edge of the fake crease to my eye's outer corners.

I cleaned up the area below the black with a Q-tip, , then applied bright silver eyeshadow to the inner half of my eyelids, blending with dark silver in the outer half. The Post-it notes are removed, and I cleaned the edges with a Q-tip for definition.

I then lined my eyes first with black pencil eyeliner, winging the outer corners up. I also lined the edges created with the Post-it notes with white eyeliner pencil.

Black gel liner was traced over the pencil liner, and thinner details in the inner eye corners are added. I also added white eyeliner right in the inner corners of my eyes, as well as red and silver eyeshadow below the lower lashline. Silver eyeshadow is applied to my browbones above the red for highlight.

Heavily arched black eyebrows are added slightly higher than my normal eyebrows.  I also added silver glitter to the white line on the outer edges as well as in the inner corners of my eyes. They don't photograph that well though.

Finally, I put on a pair of false lashes that is longer at the outer corners on my upper lashline, and a pair of lower false lashes along my lower lashline. A fake beauty mark is added with pencil eyeliner as a finishing touch.

Here s the finished look. My lips are outlined and filled halfway in with black, then covered with red opaque lipgloss. Fake Bettie Page bangs were created using a cut-open hair donut pinned to my hairline, and the rest of my hair is curled. 

Here is a full-length shot of my costume. I made the horns and tail!