Lately I've been in this state where I really want to do fun make up looks but I just don't have the inspiration to it. It kinda feels like I've done everything, used every shadow, every technique, everything.

Now of course this isn't the truth but I just can't think of inspiring things to do. I think we've all been there.

 

My solutions so far:

Google something. Like anything (jibberish like nhigoewhurg works fine), then look at the picture-results and try to find a picture I like and can get inspiration from.

YouTube something. Now here I'm at a halt because I really feel I've done everything I like there.

Ask friends to come up with colour suggestions. Usually I ask for one or two colours and whatever they say I have to use it!

 

My newest (and probably most challenging) addition

 

This is not a new website or anything but I decided to make a list over my eyeshadows in the 100 pc palettes from ELF, giving each shadow different names (like 1.1, 1.2, 2.3 and so on) and writing them in the list, then I created the randomized list. This won't give you a certain number of shadows to use, just swap around the placement of the shadows you put in so I used their number generator and chose a range from 1-10 and it gave me number 5.

So I decided to use shadows 1-5 from the list I created.

 

Obviosly this can give you totally horrendous colour combinations, but that's the fun and challenging part. How to create a look with all the colours given and not end up looking like a clown.

I had such luck that it gave me two purple, a blue, a white and a brown shadow. Nothing to hard to mix.

 

Of course you can make up your own "rules" about how to use the random-generator. This is just how I did it and I thought it was a fun and different way of deciding what to use.

You could do a "highlighter list", "eyelid list", "crease list" and so on if you want to make sure to get it all (otherwise you might end up with a random number of dark shadows but nothing colourful or highlighting)

 

Also, if you want to this more than once I suggest you save your shadow-list somewhere on the computer so you don't have to make a new list every time you want to do a new look. That's probably the most time consuming part.

 

Here's the look I created (sorry for the low quality editing, I just wanted to do this really quick before I wen't to work)