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So recently I have been somewhat obsessed with all things Oz! Seeing Wicked in London, the new Oz film from Disney and the release of Urban Decays palettes for Glinda and Theodora.
So recently I have been somewhat obsessed with all things Oz! Seeing Wicked in London, the new Oz film from Disney and the release of Urban Decays palettes for Glinda and Theodora.
Let's start with Wicked. Wicked is a West End and Broadway show about the witches of Oz before the arrival of Dorothy (towards the end of the show its where the film The Wizard of Oz starts and goes through) It looks at the developed friendship between the witches during their time at school, to meeting the wizard, falling for a guy and finding out who they are.
I love a good musical and Wicked is not exception! The most heard song from the show would probably be Defying Gravity but another one of my favourites is Popular which can be found here:
And if you don't know what Defying Gravity sounds like, here give it a listen!
Oz The Great and Powerful is a new film by Disney starring James Franco, Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz and Mila Kunis.
Image from here
It follows Oscar Diggs 'Oz' has he performs in his travelling show as a trickster and a con and to escape from a very annoyed scary man he jumps into a hot air balloon. When there is a Tornado, that just a smart idea isn't it! Anyway in his little hot air balloon Oz is whisked away to the magical land of....Oz! He first meets a beautiful young witch called Theodora the Good, played by Mila Kunis and she asks if he is the Wizard that her father (the king) and prophacised would come and restore peace and happiness to the land of Oz! AS Oz is a circus Magician and trickster and learns of the riches he will get he says yes he is. So he lies because he wants lots of gold.
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Theodora accompanies Oz down that famous yellow brick road to the Emerald City and they meet Finley, a little flying monkey on the way! Finley is adorable and quite funny, after Oz saves him from a lion he makes a life oath to serve him and that's when Oz reveals who he really is and makes him promise not to reveal it!
Image from here
The sets and backdrops in this film are amazing, so colourful and beautiful you can kind of get lost in it all! Obviously there is a bad guy (well bad girl!) that must be defeated and he learns of this during his travel and whilst in the Emerald City. He also meets Theodora's sister Evanora who is played by Rachel Weisz (let's just point out that I love her) and her dress (well dresses, they change colour!) is just to die for! She is more sceptical of Oz as it appears Theodora is head over heels for him!
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Oz decides to go and face this Wicked Witch and on his journey to the dark forest he encounters a little china girl who's village has been ransacked by the wicked witch's flying (rather freaky and scary) baboons. He glues her back together and she joins him and Finley to the dark forest where they encounter Glinda The Good Witch of the South played by Michelle Williams (I adored her performance as Marilyn Monroe in My Week With Marilyn). Now he (OZ) has only heard one story about the king's passing and the Wicked Witch and Glinda offers him a different one. At this point if I was Oz I would be a little confused! However Glinda takes him to a little village with her castle and he again claims to be the wizard (after travelling by bubble which looked like a lot of fun, and again flying over Oz was just amazing) however Glinda knows the truth and he still says he will try to help them.
Image from here
Even though himself, Glinda and Finley know he is just a trickster, he utilises his con knowledge to help defeat the Wicked Witch.
Image from here
Insert a big "battle" esqe chunk of film which I wont spoil for you and then I would probably say (as it is a Disney film!) and they all lived happily ever after but....I'm gonna let you find out for yourselves!
Here is the trailer for Oz the Great and Powerful
Needless to say it is a Disney film so I loved it regardless! The sets were beautiful and I really felt like I could get lost in this magical land of Oz, the costumes and make up for all the witch's in the film were gorgeous, which leads on the next part......
Image from here
It follows Oscar Diggs 'Oz' has he performs in his travelling show as a trickster and a con and to escape from a very annoyed scary man he jumps into a hot air balloon. When there is a Tornado, that just a smart idea isn't it! Anyway in his little hot air balloon Oz is whisked away to the magical land of....Oz! He first meets a beautiful young witch called Theodora the Good, played by Mila Kunis and she asks if he is the Wizard that her father (the king) and prophacised would come and restore peace and happiness to the land of Oz! AS Oz is a circus Magician and trickster and learns of the riches he will get he says yes he is. So he lies because he wants lots of gold.
Images from here and here
Theodora accompanies Oz down that famous yellow brick road to the Emerald City and they meet Finley, a little flying monkey on the way! Finley is adorable and quite funny, after Oz saves him from a lion he makes a life oath to serve him and that's when Oz reveals who he really is and makes him promise not to reveal it!
Image from here
The sets and backdrops in this film are amazing, so colourful and beautiful you can kind of get lost in it all! Obviously there is a bad guy (well bad girl!) that must be defeated and he learns of this during his travel and whilst in the Emerald City. He also meets Theodora's sister Evanora who is played by Rachel Weisz (let's just point out that I love her) and her dress (well dresses, they change colour!) is just to die for! She is more sceptical of Oz as it appears Theodora is head over heels for him!
Image from here
Oz decides to go and face this Wicked Witch and on his journey to the dark forest he encounters a little china girl who's village has been ransacked by the wicked witch's flying (rather freaky and scary) baboons. He glues her back together and she joins him and Finley to the dark forest where they encounter Glinda The Good Witch of the South played by Michelle Williams (I adored her performance as Marilyn Monroe in My Week With Marilyn). Now he (OZ) has only heard one story about the king's passing and the Wicked Witch and Glinda offers him a different one. At this point if I was Oz I would be a little confused! However Glinda takes him to a little village with her castle and he again claims to be the wizard (after travelling by bubble which looked like a lot of fun, and again flying over Oz was just amazing) however Glinda knows the truth and he still says he will try to help them.
Image from here
Even though himself, Glinda and Finley know he is just a trickster, he utilises his con knowledge to help defeat the Wicked Witch.
Image from here
Insert a big "battle" esqe chunk of film which I wont spoil for you and then I would probably say (as it is a Disney film!) and they all lived happily ever after but....I'm gonna let you find out for yourselves!
Here is the trailer for Oz the Great and Powerful
Needless to say it is a Disney film so I loved it regardless! The sets were beautiful and I really felt like I could get lost in this magical land of Oz, the costumes and make up for all the witch's in the film were gorgeous, which leads on the next part......
To tie into the release of the film Urban Decay brought out two palettes one for Theodora and one for Glinda. I recently bought the Glinda palate as these colours appealed to me more! The colours in this palette are speckled in glitter and reflects and are very very girly! The shadows in the palette are full size with a duo shade. As with all Urban Decay shadows I have used they are bendable and highly pigmented, although they do fall out more than others I have tried. I love this palette and using the get the look card it comes with recreated the Glinda look (with a little help from Pixiwoo! check out her tutorial here! you can also find the Theodora palate tutorial here and Evanora here)
(Swatch Top to Bottom: South, Oz duo, Illusion, Magic, Aura duo, Tornado)
I love Urban Decay products I find that their eyeshadows to be quite pigmented and soft blendable and easy to work with. They do move a little on the eye but I have always used their Primer potion to stop this and I like it, it works for me. There can be some fall out with these products but a little clean up doesn't hurt! All in all I love this palate! Normaly I stick to neutral shades so would have gone for the Theodora palate but I am so glad that I chose Glinda's!
And here ends my very long post on all things Oz that I have been loving!
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Megs
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This has made me so excited to see wicked next year for the first time. xx
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Thanks for the comment! It is such a good show I hope you enjoy it!!
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