Peacock! Eye look!

Hello my dears!

This post has been sitting un-written for well over a month! Can you believe it?! such a shame right?! I wore this look to work, and you will not believe the amount of funky looks I got that day. I mean, really now?! Do people not believe in colored eyeshadow?! It must be such a strange thing. *eye roll*

ANYWAYS, I shall keep trucking on, wearing my bright and colorful eye shadows! Now, I am a wee-bit fuzzy on a couple of products that I used... okay I'm fuzzy on one product. I had everything written down.. or typed actually on wordpad and my computer crashed before I could put it into the post. Failzor! :O

Someone told me that this reminded them of a Peacock! What does it remind you of?!

Any-piddle

Products Used: 
Primer ; Urban Decay Primer Potion
Eyeshadow(s) ; Sugarpill Acidberry & Velocity
Eyeliner ; Milani Eye Tech Extreme - Black
Mascara ; Ellis Faas

I really love wearing Acidberry and Velocity together. They really compliment each other!

What do you think?! Is this a combination you would ever try?!

The Mercurial Mermaid

Hello everyone!

The palette that is going to be the main focus of today's look was gifted too me by the lovely Beauty Budget Splurge. I've had it sitting around for a couple of weeks and just never got around to using it. Instant regret when I tried the first shadow! Just wow! They're extremely pigmented! Anyways, anyways back to the topic at hand! The lewk!
This post is going to be set up differently, kind of. Since there's not specific shadows to list, I'll just

The palette I used was the Profusion Endless Jewels eyeshadow kit.

I only ever see profusion products around Christmas time because they're affordable makeup kits. I typically skip them, not because they're cheap, but.. well I never know how the pigmentation will be in them to be honest. I have to say though, I am blown away by this palette and I've used only two shadows!! 

In my crease I used a maroon-ish brown. It's absolutely stunning!

For my lid I used a blue-ish green..this would be considered what? Teal? Educate me please. :P I've been debating about it all day. I shall call it teal and call it a day!

For my "liner" I used NARS Eye Paint in Interstellar **

I tight lined with Urban Decay 24/7 eye liner in Perversion

For Mascara I used Ellis Faas's Mascara. **

Urban Decay Primer Potion

I quite like LOVE how this turned out! As per the title of this post, this look, well the teal eyeshadow really reminds me of The Mercurial Magpie. I freaking love Kirby! Girl, next time I'll do funky wings! :P  

I wore this look to work and it's extremely wearable if you're wanting to give your eyes an extra pop of color and wear something other than neutral shadows.


The NARS Eye paint as well as the Ellis Faas mascara were provided for free from the brands and The Makeup Show. The Profusion palette was a gift. 

The Beauty Buffs - Royal Blue

Bought Myself/Gift/Nothing To Disclose

Hello everyone! Welcome back to another episode of The Beauty Buffs!! .. Okay, why I called it an episode I have no idea, I thought it was funny. *bah dum tss*

This weeks theme is Royal Blue and I figured that since the last TBB post I did nail polish, I thought I would do makeup this week! SO, I had gone out in search of a nice royal blue eye shadow and found the Maybelline Expert Wear quad in Electric Blue. I guess, it is new? I don't know, I've never seen them before and it was $2 off I think so I decided I would get it. I'm going too tell you now, don't waste your time, It's not that great. The pigmentation is lacking. WELL, low and behold AFTER I bought it, I remembered I had Sugarpill's Heartbreaker palette in it, which has Velocity. A gorgeous matte royal blue. BAM, have my eyeshadow. *dances*

I decided too use the blue in the Maybelline quad as well as Velocity, and I used a mixture of colors from the Crown Cosmetics Smokey Eye Palette. 

The three shadows with the arrows pointing too the are the ones I used. I didn't use them in any particular order, except tap my brush into each a couple of times.  I added that into the crease and blended out. BUT wait! There's more. I also used Sugarpill Velocity in the crease. I used it as the original outline of the crease then I blended a bit on the top of the crease to give it a little something extra,. 

On the lid I applied lightly the Royal Blue from the Maybelline Electric Blues palette. I should have added some of Velocity on top, but what is done is done.

On the lower lashline I mixed the royal blue and the black shadow and smudged it across.

You are probably asking yourself WHY so many pictures and WHY pictures of both eyes. WELL my dears, I did both eyes different. On my left eye I didn't wing the liner and I didn't bring the shadow up as high as I did on the other eye. You can't tell particularly but the liner on my right eye *below* is winged out and I brought the shadows higher up towards the brow bone. 

Products Used:

Sugarpill - Velocity

Maybelline - Electric Blue Palette (black and blue)

Crown Cosmetics - Smokey Eye Palette (colors shown above)

Urban Decay - Zephyr (innter corner)

Milani Extreme Eye Tech Eyeliner

Urban Decay Primer Potion

MiA BelleZZA Creme Liner in Brown - Waterline & Tightline

Ellis Faas Mascara

I really love how this came out! I've been itching too show everyone the look since I completed it a couple of nights ago! 

Here's the finished look with the whole face! ... I don't know why I said it that way but I did. A lot of people say don't wear blue on blue, brown on brown or green on green. I say, do what you want, it is your makeup and it's YOUR face. Makeup is an expression of art, don't let others dull your shine!

The purpose of this is too give you some more blue options. I understand the 3/4 makeup choice are high end, but you try too find GOOD affordable royal blue shadows. :P I got lucky I found the Maybelline one, and the palette itself isn't that great, 

Essie nail polish / Seche nail care, $16 / Maybelline eye makeup / NARS Cosmetics matte eye makeup, $30 / Eyeshadow, $26 / Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics matte makeup

Don't forget too check out the other ladies in the linkup and leave comments on their posts!

An InLinkz Link-up

Eye Of The Day 1/27/14

Since I've started working, I've made it a point to at least wear eye shadow too work. I mean, why not! It's a perfect excuse too do my makeup and not waste the day away sitting in the house or in front of the computer!

I created a simple looking using 4 shadows. I was KIND of in a rush, but not a big one so I just grabbed my trusty Z-Palette and used my Urban Decay shadows. Big surprised right?!

Milani Eyeshadow Primer 01 Nude
Urban Decay Hijack (outer corner)
Urban Decay Blackout (Crease & to deepen outer corner slightly)
Urban Decay Midnight Cowgirl (Lid)
Urban Decay Creep (Liner)
Ellis Faas Mascara

Now I know the colors don't look "true" too how they are in the palettes, but it's all how I blended them. I didn't want a straight up blue and gold. I like this a whole heck of a lot better then it normally would have looked if I didn't mix the black and blue. Still pretty right? I also didn't feel like dealing with liquid liner.

I typically don't bother with foundation when going to work either. I don't feel the need for it most of the time so I don't wear it. :)

And just because I really bloody love this picture I'm going to throw it in there! These are the nails that were the basis of THIS post!

The Ellis Faas mascara was provided for free from The Makeup Show. Everything else was purchased by me with my own money

The Makeup Show Recap

press samples/purchased myself

Hey everyone! I hope you are all doing well!

Today (08/27/2013) was the Blogger Preview for the Makeup Show. Of course the day should go perfect right? Yeah not. Honestly, it was probably one of the worst days I've had in a while. We left early, then had car problems, then I lost my wallet etc. Yeah not fun. That's all I'm really going to say about it because I would just go on and on and I don't want to be a worse Debbie Downer than I already have been.

So with the car problems I was running very late.The preview started at 5:30pm and I thought it was supposed to end at 8:30pm, it ended at 6:30pm. I only got to see maybe 10-15 minutes of the preview. Aka I missed everything. I didn't get many pictures...Okay I got ONE. That's it. Toooooooe-tal fail. But I guess the gem of the entire thing was listening to James Vincent chat about the products in the bag we were getting. Uhm yeah, that man has the voice of an Angel.
You're going to have to excuse all of my pictures, they're all blurry. For this one I was in the back row because I got there late and just sat in the back so I didn't disturb anyone. God forbid my camera actually cooperate right? A new one is in my near future. Enough complaining.

Honestly, all I know was talked about was the products in the bag that we got for attending. You're going to have to check out Phyrra's post HERE. I came in with like 5-10 minutes left. I was THAT late. So strike one for being a terrible blogger right?

This is the contents of the bloggers bag that we received. If you would like a separate post with individual pictures, please let me know.

So onto Saturday, which was the actual Makeup Show. I left NPR around 6:30am, but having to get gas, we didn't get on the actual road until around 700am. Why? After we got gas, the car wouldn't start. I'm like a plague when it comes to cars, I swear. Thankfully it started! Woo so roadtrip.

I got there exactly at 9am. I wound up sitting around in the lobby out front until around 9:30-10am. Why? I totally was waiting for another girl to show up! Call me chicken all you want. I wound up having to use the restroom and having to visit the ATM so I ran in and grabbed my Press pass. Woo for me.

 They were already doing classes and keynotes when I walked in which was cool. I stood there for a few minutes before I went wandering for the Cult Nails booth. Let me tell you. NEVER listen to their map, ever. It was completely backwards. I wandered around the back of the venue for TWENTY minutes, thinking I walked passed her before I realized the map was backwards. Go figure lol. I had taken plantains with me for Maria (the founder/owner) of Cult Nails. Yes, girl I grow plantains but do not eat them. Don't judge >D

Anyways. My first purchase of the day went to Cult Nails and her new All Access collection which is 90s grunge inspired. I only really wanted 3/5 from the few swatches I saw, then when I saw the polishes in person I was like.. yeah okay you're all coming home with me. I purchased the collection for a discounted rate $30 instead of the $48 they're pre-sale-ing for currently (as of Oct. 5th). I will have swatches of these up soon in the very near future.

The next place booth I visited was OFRA Cosmetics. I purchased two things from their $1 clearance bin because I was waiting to talk to the owner of the booth. However unfortunately, I did encounter a very rude person who was working there who accused me of stealing the palettes even though I was still looking through the bin for something else. So I settled on the two palettes. I didn't get a picture of the second palette because I gave it to my sister that night. Mistake on my part, but it was a lipstick/gloss palette that had I believe 10 or 12 different colors in it. The other palette that I purchased was their Mardi Gras Palette.

I don't have anything like those colors in my collection. The bottom row is supposed to be gloss/lipstick duos. Those will be interesting to play with. :) I think this palette retails for $79 if I am going correctly by their website, so this being $1 is a complete steal. I wish I wouldn't have been turned off because I totally would have gotten more. But what can ya do? I wound up avoiding that part of the venue for the rest of the day. Pft. It only takes one person sometimes.

With all of that behind me, I hit up the Z-Palette booth. I had talked to Zena and the other Gentleman who was there earlier in the morning. Honestly, I didn't even get his name. I could feel myself getting sick and totally just wanted to get my Z-Palette and get out of there because I didn't want to get anyone sick or contaminate anything. I got the Dome Palette, which I believe is their newest palette.

Yes, you get to see my work in progress and I didn't realize how dirty it was until I took this picture. I swear I had pictures of these brand new, but they got lost somewhere. Anyways, this is the Dome palette. It's the larger one of the palettes as well as it is higher because it is designed to hold baked shadows/blushes. The Gentleman there totally sold me on this because I was just going to get the Pro-Black palette but you know what, he is an excellent salesman. I don't even own baked shadows anymore. This was $20 at the show, it normally retails for $25. I totally would have bought another one or some extra pans/stickers for it, but genius me was in a hurry. However I'm still satisfied with my purchase completely! I will definitely have a review up of this later on. The shadows inside are from the Urban Decay BOS IV. I depotted it because I rarely use the palette because the drawer was the biggest pain to get out.  Anyways. Anyways. Back onto everything else.

This is right by the Makeup For Ever booth (on the right) in one of the main walk ways .You can see people are starting to pour in. This was right at the beginning of the morning, so it wasn't insane just yet. I met up with Su of Nail Veils and another blogger. I am so sorry but I can't remember your name at the moment. Party foul. I wound up walking around with them and chatting, which was amazing because I wasn't alone. However, I felt like a spazz.

I can't remember what booth this was by. I think it was MUFE, but I can't remember. it was so crazy and hectic. I do however remember that I was talking with Brittany (Clumps Of Mascara) and Cat (Beauty By Cat Blog) Can we just stop and say they have the cutest kids every! I think they were the cutest kids at the event. Kudos for them for being Baby Wearing Mamas!
Unfortunately, at this point I was exhausted and of course, failure as a blogger strike two, no pictures of either of them. I wish I had. They were both gorgeous, everyone was.

This was a makeup artist and Mehron doing work on a may I say handsome gentleman. I wish I had a picture of the finished product, but I was gone by then. The attention to detail was absolutely exquisite! Holy wow I totally wouldn't have the patience for that! Get it girl! You rock!

I did meet John of Cult Nails as well. (Maria's Husband) I've been following him via instagram and twitter, he's totally been my workout inspiration etc lately! So definitely check him out on instagram. He's such a sweetheart and it was awesome to finally be able to meet him and Maria! I wish I would have gotten pictures!

Minus all of the little kinks etc, I think The Makeup Show was a success for me. I would have bought more, but I was way dead by the time I left, then I had to drive him through the start of rush hour traffic on I-4, not fun lol. I do want to say thank you to Stephanie from Stephanie Devine Skincare (formerly Tavarua Skin) for making my crap weekend totally better though! Girl you rock! xx My new hero for sure. :)

I promise the next event I go too, I will be well rested and not at the beginning of the flu and sinus infection! I will also do better in taking pictures. I hope you all are doing amazing!

xx

Some products were provided via a blogger preview bag which all are shown in the picture at the top of the post. The products from OFRA, Cult Nails and Zpalette were purchased with my own money.