Brights


I haven’t done anything this colorful in a while. This eyeshadow combo was one of my favorites at some point. Bright Sunshine eyeshadow and Stars N’ Rockets are two of the few eyeshadows that I’ve hit pan with; meaning I use them so often where you can actually see the bottom of the pan the eyeshadow is in. I was a MAC newbie when I first began depotting my eyeshadows and didn’t realize the importance of labeling them. For that reason, I can’t name every eyeshadow used for this. One more picture under the ‘Read More’ link.


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Stila The Precious Pearl Palette


I got this Stila palette in the mail yesterday and I love it. I use MAC religiously and I had never tried Stila eyeshadows but I’m impressed. Although the colors are not as pigmented as MAC’s, the texture of the eyeshadow is very smooth and blends amazingly. My camera is acting up so unfortunately I didn’t get any pictures of the look I did using the palette but I used the baby pink in the inner lid with the darker pink on the rest of the lid and the green color in the crease and on the lower lashline. I used the white to highlight the brow bone. I really love the eyeshadow’s texture and how smooth it goes on. They are long lasting as well, thou I was wearing Urban Decay’s Primer Potion. I love new makeups ;]










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3 looks, storage idea, pigment swatches


I’ve had Teal pigment on my make-up wishlist for a while but I can’t justify buying  full jar of pigments anymore. It’s senseless. It will take years to use 1 jar so I prefer to purchase pigment samples. I recently swapped for samples of Teal, Melon, Lily White [which I was unaware I already had samples of] and Forest Green. I used my beloved UDPP to prime and Rolickin paint pot as a base. Teal pigment all over lid with a random black eyeshadow in the outer crease, amber lights e/s in the inner crease mixed with Dazzlelight e/s.  Mood Ring eyeshadow from MAC’s Heatherette Collection [Trio 1] was used to line the lower lash line. Mood Ring e/s used over Rolickin paint pot alone is a really nice look for those days when you’re in a rush and don’t have much time to color your face. Trace Gold blush and Other Worldly blush was applied on my cheeks using the 181 brush and Florabundance lipglass is on my lips.  Below is a close up of the eyes and two other eyeshadow looks from earlier this week; plus swatches of the pigments I recently swaped for and a mini haul from The Makeup Pro Store.

 

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* No worries, I did not wear that shirt. I refuse to be machy-matchy and match my eyeshadow colors to my clothes. It’s just TACKY. I changed into a deep purple top. A friend of mines actually asked me why my eyeshadow was teal when my shirt was purple and I advised her that trend should be left in the 90’s!
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New Jet Black Hair


This was my Saturday make-up. I thought I’d have trouble with make-up colors since this is the first time my hair is this dark but the lovely ladies on LJ gave me some suggestions and I actually find it easier to wear bright colors [which I love]. Black hair makes brights pop. Unfortunately I didn’t get any close-ups of the eye make-up but I used Chocolate Brown pigment applied all over lid with the 252 brush and Embark e/s in the outter lid blended up into the crease. I used Jest eyeshadow in the inner lid and Vanilla e/s to highlight the brow bone. I lined the upper lashline with Nighthawk Dual Edge Eye Pencil from MAC’s Heatherette Collection and applied mascara to the top and bottom lashes. On the cheeks I used Tan Blush from Cinema Secrets and Shimpagne MSF to highlight [I hear Shroom eyeshadow is a good highlight as well]. The lips are a combination of Twig-Twig lipstick [also LE but I forget from which collection] and Full on Lust [also LE from and from the same collection as Twig-Twig lipstick but I can't remember which collection at the moment]. I picked up Urban Decay’s Primer Potion at the mall on Saturday and oh how I’ve missed it. Nothing I have tried so far makes my eyeshadow last as long and keep it from creasing as this stuff. I don’t like MAC paints, painpots or shadesticks as bases. The paints I find eat away at the eyeshadow after only a few hours. The paintpots do okay for a few hours as do the shadesticks but they all crease and the colors aren’t as vibrant at the end of the day. UDPP is my Holy Grail of eyeshadow bases.

On Sunday I wore the same make-up as above only I used random falsies from Sephora [I am starting to love fake eyelashes] and substituted Twig-Twig lipstick for Up The Amp lipstick. As far as false eyelashes are concerned they are reuseable. I know many people discard their lashes after just one use. As long as they are disinfected and cleaned properly you can use them more than once. After I remove mines I let them soak in alcohol [pour a small amount of alcohol into a plastic cup] for about 5 minutes. Rinse them with water and remove the eyelash glue. You can peel it off easily. Make sure all the glue is removed. The cleaning of the lashes tends to make them lose their shape but after you are done cleaning them, wrap each lash around your index finger so that the hairs point outwards, do this for about 20 - 30 seconds and they should regain their curl. When you buy falsies do not throw away the plastic things they come in, use them to store your lashes until the next time you want to use them =) If applied correctly they should not feel heavy or irritate the eyes. I find the applying them with tweezers instead of using your fingers is a lo easier and more precise. Lash applying tutorial coming soon ;]

This was my Friday night make-up. (All makeup references are MAC unless otherwise noted) I am in love with Russian Red lipstick. For the eyes I dusted Knight Divine e/s all over lid using the 252 brush and lined the upper lashline with a Wet N Wild liquid eyeliner in Black. I used Lash Blast mascara [which I hate btw]. Compared to my HG mascara CoverGirl WATERPROOF Lash Blast, the original Last Blast is horrible. I wore Salsa Rose blush [applied with a very light hand] on cheeks and Shimpagne MSF to highlight, as always. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Colour Ready Collection.


I received this mailer yesterday. I had already seen the collection in person when I went to my Pro store on Saturday because my store tends to release collections a week early (yay!). The collection feautres 2 eyeshadows, Bitter, a shimmery yellow green, and White Frost, a vivd shimmery white. Both of the eyeshadows are part of MAC’s permanent collection. You can purchase them at any time. Both of the limited edition lipsticks are nice. Show Orchid which is a hot pink color and Impassioned which is more of a fuschia. Both are nice summer colors. I liked Impassioned more than Show Orchid, only because I already own a couple of lipsticks in the hot pink color family. The Prep & Prime Line Filler is amazing. Everyone with fine lines should gives this a try. It is a small collection and none of the other items in the collection really stood out. Translucent powder, eyeliner and eyebrow pencil in traditional colors. I might pick up Impassioned this weekend. I’ll post pictures if I do ;]

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From Kraseybeauty - MAC Summer 2009


Announcing MAC’s 2009 summer lineup.

Rose Romance

Nordstrom Exclusive Quad- A Rose is a Rose
Solar White (frost)- Golden White
Contrast (Velvet)- Dark Purple/Blue
Seeds of Love (frost)- Frosted Peach
Petal Worship (frost)- Light, blue-based Pink

We already know about Double Dazzle (dazzleglasses, perm) and Style Warriors…

Other collections we didn’t know about:

Colour Craft:
This collection is all about mineralized products. Mineralized Blushes, Mineralized Eyeshadows, and 6 Mineralize Skinfinishes. One of the skinfinishes will be a repromote of Porcelain Pink
The facecharts for these were fun and very very colorful. Lots of pastels

Euristocrats 2- A collection of lipsticks. This time available in North America too!! This launches sometime in July

And the Nordstrom Anniversary Collection, this year will be…

Graphic Garden
Featuring 6 eyeshadow palettes, Lip Bags, and a new thing called Look Boxes will include items like mascara, liner, eyeshadow etc in one neat little box :)

Well, thats all I know for now. For the most part when scanning names I didn’t see many repromotes, just lots of new things!

Blush Placement & Blue Eye Look


I was reading thru one of my make-up books (I hadn’t read them in a while) and I came across some useful tips for blush placement. Most of us apply blush on the apples of our cheeks or directly under our cheekbones to make them more prominent. Makeup The Art of Beauty by Linda Mason suggests placing the blush vertically in a narrow line down the center of  each cheek to make a large face look slimmer. Placing the blush horizontally diminishes the appearance of a long narrow face. The book shows before and after pictures and the change is noticeable. Other books that are informative is The Makeup Book by Joy Terri and The Complete Make-up Artist  Working in Film, Fashion Television and Theatre (Second Edition) by Penny Delamar. They can all be found at Barnes and Noble. The Complete Make-up Artist is my favorite; it covers different areas of make-up (theatre, television, special fx, bald capping, etc.) instead of just beauty make-up. The Makeup Book by Joy Terri is more of a guide for personal use while the other two books are directed at those who want to get into the industry.

This is a blue look I did today. I didn’t wear it out the house, I was just experimenting.

 

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PURPLE NURPLE.


I was pressed for time this morning so this didn’t turn out great but surprisingly I got some compliments on it. I used MAC eyeshadow duo in Team Violet,  Stars N’ Rockets, Violet pigment, random liquid liner in black and random eyeliner in blue. I used Cinema Secrets blush in Terra Cotta (?) and Fullfilled Plushglass. I was running late and forgot to put on mascara so I used a brow gel (brown) instead. I was surprised, it holds a curl really well. You can tell by the way I look I was running late, lol ;x

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TWO EOTD + MINI MAC HAUL


This is the eye look I wore to the MAC Pro store in NYC yesterday. My eyes get really watery in the cold so by the time I got to the Pro store the eyeshadow was all over th place. I went to the Pro store to check out the new  Sugarsweet collection but I was not impressed. I already own Stars N Rockets plus it’s a permanent eyeshadow. Club is permanent too and the other 2 limited edition ones aren’t must have colors. They are easily dupable. Dear Cupcake reminds me of Sunset B and Sugarshot is easily dupable by any other shimmery white eyeshadow. If you missed out on Aquavert from the Lure cllection [2006] then I would get it, it’s a nice pale green. None are must have colors in my opinion. The tricolour lipglasses are too sheer for me. I did like the creamy texture of the shadesticks but I wasn’t too crazy about any of the colors. The lipsticks weren’t anything special either. I was excited about Lollipop Lovin being re-promoted from last year’s Heatherete collection, but when I tried it on it was too sheer.  The MSFs were nice highlight colors but not to be used as blushes. Overall the collection is nice for MAC newbies to catch up on pre released limited edition colors. I skipped the Sugarsweet stuff and ended up getting  some permanent items instead. I’m starting my 5th eyeshadow palette! My 7th palette total; two of my palettes are blush palettes. I ended up getting a new 15 pan palette, Mulch e/s, Embark e/s and Antiqued e/s and Pink Noveau lipstick which I love. Here are some haul pictures.

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Up The Amp lipstick


 I had a political fundraiser tonite and this was the makeup I went with. I went super neutral on the eyes and decided on a bold lip. Up The Amp is a bright purpleish color but paired with Scarlet Kiss lipglass from MAC’s Heathertte collection it is very wearable. For the eyes I applied a light brown color from lid to crease (I don’t know the name because up until recently I’ve depoted my eyeshadows without labeling them) and Brown Down in the crease. I lined the upper lashline with Dipdown fluidline using a fine tip craft store brush and used Amber Lights eyeshadow to line the bottom lashline. Here is the end result. *tada*

 

 

 

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