GET THE LOOK: A CAPITOL FACE

You can’t have Capitol clothes without the Capitol face. Theatrical and bold; fancy false lashes and quirky colours are essential. Pick a colour scheme to match your outfit and you’re away!

The Queen of Capitol fashion, Effie Trinket.

A few weeks ago I heard about a site called Shiro Cosmetics. They specialise in nerdy themed make up with equally amazing names, such as The Legends Collection and The Super Effective Collection. It’s also pretty reasonably priced, vegan, handmade and animal cruelty-free. Most eye shadows are available in sample, mini or full size, ranging from $1- $5. However, there are special shadows such as The Hobbit Collection that cost up to $6. Intertube lip-glosses are also available in sample, mini or full size and cost between $1.80-$6.50.

They also have the ‘Derps’ range, which are colours that aren’t the exact shade of the colour trying to be produced. These are available at discounted prices and the colours are still amazing, despite being wrong.

Wait. There’s more. You can order custom lip-glosses. If you see an eye shadow or blush that you fancy and it’s ‘lip safe’, you can have it turned into a lip-gloss! SNAZZY.

After you’ve looked at the ones below, take a look around the whole site. It’s a bit like Etsy, in that you’ll be looking around for ages and get side-tracked by all the cool stuff and ruin your social life a bit but it’s brilliant fun.

They do have a Tributes Collection and it is super awesome. However, I thought the eye shadows from The Super Effective collection were more suitable for getting a Capitol look, as they are brighter and more bold than the Tributes Collection. Although this beauty has Effie Trinket written all over it:

"Happy Hunger Games!"

All of the following products are from Shiro Cosmetics unless otherwise stated.

Blusher: Get those cheeks rosy with this Potion mineral blush… 

Potion Mineral Blush

Eye shadow: From the Super Effective Collection use Elite Four, merged with Smell Ya Later and lined with a bit of Team Rocket.  

Elite Four

Smell Ya Later

Team Rocket

Eyelashes: Rose Lashes from the ‘British Collection’ at PAPERSELF are beautiful and wonderfully dramatic. Perfect for the Capitol look (£12.50).

The British Collection: Rose Lashes

Lip-gloss: I’ve picked two different colours of intertube lip-gloss from Shiro Cosmetics’ for the Capitol inspired look. Although they are both great colours, I think the first one will compliment the purple eye shadows more. The second one is just bloody amazing.

Gloss 1: Insanity Wolf. A white gloss that’ll compliment purple eye shadow and add to the quirkiness of Capitol dress. 

Intertubes: Insanity Wolf

Gloss 2: This lip-gloss is awesome. Not just for the fact that it’s the perfect shade of Capitol pink, but also because it has the best name for anything ever created. ‘Smashing.’ Why so brilliant? It has a picture of Nigel Thornberry’s face on it. It completely changes how you say ‘smashing’ in your head.

Intertubes: Smashing

If you want to see how to blend all these lovely eye shadows properly, head over to Queen of Blending’s youtube channel. She doesn’t use Shiro products, but you’ll get some tips for how to apply them, along with eyeliners and false lashes.

With a Capitol face like Effie Trinket’s, the fashion odds will be ever in your favour.

“LORD NELSON’S TROUSERS, IT’S A YETI!”