Popular

It's been a while since I've worn some of my colour changers.

EYES:

PTFE Pearl,
Eye Bright under brow,
Neptune lash to crease,
Popular lash into crease on outer 1/2,
Legit in V and outer corner,
KVD Lucifer wet lined on top,
Falsies Flare mascara.

CHEEKS: Optimist blush
LIPS: Jelly Roll

Good Morning Gorgeous: Thursday

Although I'm not a huge fan of neutrals I really like Thursday. It looks less reddish brown on than it does in swatches and I think it looks pretty.

When I was looking for swatches of Thursday I came accross this look with Thursday and Sunday and I think it is really pretty: http://makeupmashup.squarespace.com/journal/2011/4/15/eyes-with-bare-escentuals-good-morning-gorgeous.html

EYES:
Too Faced Shadow Insurance,
50/50 mix well rested/clear radince all over,
City Lights under brow,
Luster lash to crease,
Thursday in crease and outer corner,
Creme de Menthe dry lower lash line and wet lined on top,
Stilettos mascara.


CHEEKS: Optimist
LIPS: Jelly Roll

Bare Escentuals: Golden and Gorgeous and Tarte lipstains

Golden and Gorgeous has been out for a few weeks. It is availible at Ulta. I wasn't sure I wanted this kit but after seeing a few pictures I decided to get it and I'm glad I did. Honey is a creamy warm golden nude. By itself it really looks nude, it looks more golden next to high shine copper. High shine copper is copper with lots of gold in it. I think that all the gold in it will make it a great lid colour. I didn't open the Bronze liner because I already have a couple of brown liners open so I just used Charbronze in the look instead of Bronze. I think this kit is a steal for $28 especially if you plan to use the Bronze liner and brush. This will be a good easy look for summer.

I also got a set of three Tarte Lipsurgence lip stains from Ulta. The set has one lip crayon in each of the three textures the lip stains come in (matte, sparkly, glossy). I have Charmed (glossy) and I love it. I wear it all the time. So I thought it would be good to try the other textures and to get a few more colours. I really like all the colours in this set. The matte shade, Envy, looks darker than most of the colours that I wear but I will be interested to see how it looks on. The sparkly shade, Pouty, looks right up my ally it is a bright pink with some sparkle. The third shade looks really dark. Moody (glossy) looks like it would be way too dark for me. But once I swatched it I changed my mind. I put it on yesterday and it looked really nice. The glossy texture can go on very sheer or you can make it darker by applying more. It kind of reminds me of Clinique's Black Honey (which I love). I will write more about these once I get a chance to wear them all. This set is a steal at $32. The lipstains are usually $24 (which is WAY to expensive for me, you can get them on sale for $16.80 but that is still a little pricy) so $32 for a set of 3 is really good.

EYES:
Too Faced Shadow Insurance,
50/50 mix well rested/clear radince all over,
Honey lash to brow,
Honey Foiled lash to crease,
High Shine Copper in crease and outer 1/3ish and along lower lash line,
Big and Bright in Charbronze lined top and bottom,
Stelittos mascara.


CHEEKS: Optimist blush
LIPS: Smashbox Candid gloss

Kat Von D Greens

I know this is so predictable but any excuse to wear green is a good one. I love green and I love doing all green looks like this one. I used black liner to add a little contrast.

I got the new Kat Von D palette Truth and I forgot about it once I got home and had new BE to use. So this was a good opportunity to use the greens in the Truth Palette.

EYES:

Too Faced Shadow Insurance,
50/50 mix well rested/clear radince all over,
KVD Sugar Skull under brow,
KVD Snake eyes foiled lash to crease and dry into and above crease,
KVD Long Distance over snake eye lash to crease on inner 2/3,
KVD Dark green from Gypsy palette in outer corner and crease and along lower lash line,
KVD Lucifer in outer corner and wet lined on top and outer corner bottom,
Falsies mascara.


CHEEKS: Optimist blush
LIPS: Tarte Paradise gloss

Esperanza Spalding's Grammy Dress

I was happy to see Esperanza Spalding win a Grammy for best new artist. I like her music and she is clearly very talented. I also thought her dress, designed by Selma Karaca, was interesting. I think the dress is pretty, it has a nice shape and it looked great on Spalding. I found the colour palette strangely alluring and so I decided to do an eye shadow look based on her outfit. From pictures I’ve seen most of the dress is varying shades of chartreuse with some darker woodsy greens and sea greens mixed in. I really like the combination of chartreuse and the sea green it is a colour combination that I don’t think I ever would have thought of.

Here is a picture of the dress:

I got it here: http://buzzworthy.mtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/esperanza.jpg

This is "Fall In" one of my favorites:

EYES:
Too Faced Shadow Insurance,
50/50 mix well rested/clear radince all over,
Petunia under brow,
Exotic Victoria foiled lash to crease,
MAC Spiritualize in crease and outer corner,
KVD Hard Luck with a tiny touch of Tijuana in outer corner and V and along lower lash line,
KVD Tijuana wet lined on top,
Rimmel Mascara.


CHEEKS: Optimist with a little Avant-Garden on the apples.
LIPS: Fruit Smoothie gloss with a little Tarte Charmed to darken it.

If you wanted to do this look with all BE I would use Perrfect in place of KVD Hard Luck, Foliage in place of KVD Tijuana, and maybe Treasured terri mixed with a bright blue (like crusin' teddi or azure) in place of MAC spiritualize (I don't really have anything in my BE collection that is very similar to spiritualize). I also thought about using Vienna Buxom under the gloss, if I had more time I would have.

Trophy Wife

Trophy wife is a one of my favorite yellows. Since this weeks challenge was to use your favorite yellows, creams, and golds I decided to use two of my faves from this family. Rock crystal is also one of my favorites.

EYES:

Primetime for eyes,
50/50 mix well rested/clear radaince all over,
Rock Crystal under brow,
High Shine Patina in crease and outer 1/3ish,
Trophy Wife lash to crease on inner 2/3ish,
KVD Lucifer wet lined on top,
Rimmel Mascara.


CHEEKS: Optimist blush
LIPS: Berlin Buxom lipstick with a little NARS the multiple in Orgasim in the center of lips.

Two Peaches

The games this week on Majyk involve peach themes. The first look is made up of colours that came to mind when thinking about the morning (Sunshine, Iced Coffee, Morning blush). The second look is just a peach look.

Lisa was kind enough to send me some Iced Coffee and so I thought I would swatch it with similar colours that came out around the same time. I really love BE Long Island Iced Tea but don't really care for BE Blushing Bronze. Iced coffee is more like LIIT than blushing Bronze and I really like it. Iced Coffee is more sheer and does not have a smoky base. LIIT and IC have a similar golden bronze sparkle but LIIT also has a deeper base and so it is darker. Blushing Bronze has a dark base (and is therefore the darkest of the 3) but it also has a very pronounced rose tone.

EYES: Primetime for eyes,
50/50 mix well rested/clear radaince all over,
Sunshine foiled lash to brow,
Iced Coffee in crease and outer 1/3ish,
A tiny bit of Smoky Quartz in outer corner,
Smoky Quartz dry lined top and bottom,
Flawless Volumizing mascara.


CHEEKS: Morning Blush with Mary Loumanizer as highlight.
LIPS: Marrakesh buxom lipstick with Lacy buxom gloss over it

EYES:

Primetime for eyes,

50/50 mix well rested/clear radaince all over,
Ta Dah lash into crease,
Pink Posey in crease,
Flicker in V,
Elegant Diamond under brow,
Lucky Penny wet lined on top,
Tarte mascara.


CHEEKS: Optimist blush
LIPS: London Buxom with Leslie Buxom gloss over it.

Root Vegetable Latkes

I get inspired by all kinds of strange things. Since it has been snowy this week I have been cooking more and so I guess it's not surprising that I would do a few food inspired looks. Today's look is inspired by last nights dinner. I made root vegetable latkes. I made them with shredded beets and carrots (and potatoes and onion). The red of the beet looked so pretty next to the bright orange carrots I decided to see if I could find some eye shadow that might capture the spirit of the vegetables. I have to go to work today so I couldn't get too crazy but I think this gets in the ball park. (It is kind of funny that most of the colours I used today have food names:)

EYES:

Primetime for eyes,
50/50 mix well rested/clear radaince all over,
Vanilla Sugar under brow,
Spiced Biscotti lash to crease,
Passion in crease,
Congac Diamond very lightly in the outer corner,
Patio Party wet lined on top,
Flawless Definition mascara with Flawless volumizing over it.


CHEEKS: Optimist blush
LIPS: Jelly Roll gloss