Top 5 Favorite Neutral Drugstore Eye Shadows

Purchased Myself

Hello everyone! This is a post that I have been kind of putting off for a while, for no particular reason. I figured, heck it's about time that I do this post! 

I wanted to chat about a few of my favorite drugstore eye shadows. I wanted to do my favorite drugstore shadows first because I have quite a few more favorites then I do of high end. 

I do think that you're going to see a trend because I am really fond of neutral shadows. I used to be really into colored shadows but I fell into a funk and it's hard to get out of! No worries though! I will have a colorful drugstore shadow list!

1. Nyx Prismatic Eye Shadow in Liquid Gold $5.99
2. Wet n Wild Panther $0.99
3. Wet n Wild Brulee $0.99
4. L'Oreal Infallible 24/hr Eye Shadow Continuous Cocoa $7.99
5. Maybelline Color Tattoo Bad to the Bronze $6.99

Have you used any of these shadows before? I'm curious as to what your opinions of them are if you've used them!

Thanksgiving Day Makeup

Hello hello!

I hope that you all had a fantastic Thanksgiving if you are in the US! Mine was ....well lets just say it went from uneventful and stressful to a party! I was up way too early and did my makeup at 10am, when I knew I had nothing to do until 4pm. I am so grateful that my face lasted long enough without looking like a dang mess!

Eyes
Too Faced Shadow Insurance (primer)
Wet n Wild Brulee (all over lid)
Sugarpill 2am (crease/outer corner)
Wet n Wild Panther (to deepen crease)
Urban Decay Baked (lid)
Urban Decay Verve (inner corner)
MAC FluidLine Blacktrack
L'Oreal Voluminous Superstar Mascara
Sephora Long Lasting Kohl Liner Infinite Beige
Urban Decay Hustle (lower lashline)

Face
NYC Smooth Skin Perfecting Primer
NYX Conceal.Correct.Contour (green&salmon)
Cara Cosmetics Nagoya (contour)
Rimmel Stay Matte Powder 011 Creamy Natural
MAC Mineralized Skin Finish Medium
Senna Cosmetics Brow Fix X Golden Brown X
Tarte Energy LipSurgence Skintuitive Lip Gloss

I'm slowly trying to get back into the groove of things really. I do have a list of posts to get out, especially I have a few set up for January so yay! I'm pretty excited for 2016!

I thought that this was a nice look for Thanksgiving it wasn't too out there and it combined my love of neutrals with my love of color. You can't go wrong there! Also, I must mention, the lip gloss that I wore in the post, I ACTUALLY wore out. So yeah, we are slowly getting somewhere with me wearing lip colors! *high five* Heck, I might even wear a red out for my birthday ! :O

-Autumn

Caribbean Fireball Eye Look

This is a really simple eye look to create and it is something fun and colorful to wear.

• Too Faced Shadow Insurance
• Wet n Wild Brulee (all over lid)
• Wet n Wild Panther (Crease & outer corner)
• NYX Emotion (used over panther)
• NYX Fireball (center 1/3 of lid)
• NYX Liquid Gold (inner 1/3 of lid) [blended in w/ Fireball you can't really see it]
• Jordana Cat Eye Liner Caribbean
• Sephora Long Lasting Eye Kohl Infinite Beige
• L'Oreal Voluminous Superstar Mascara Very Black
• Dark brown shadow for lower lashes

• Dermalogica Redness Relief Primer
• Mac Face & Body Foundation NW1
• Rimmel Stay Matte Pressed Powder 011 Creamy Natural
• Mac Mineralized Skin Finish Medium
• NYX Conceal.Correct.Contour Green & Salmon
• Becca Shimmering Skin Perfecter Spotlight Opal
• NYX Eyebrow Gel Blonde

Per usual I had nothing on my lips because....why? That is my thing, I am perfectly happy with a lip balm!

Autumn

Smoked Out Purple Eyes with Stila

Purchased Myself / Gift♥ / Press Sample*

I did this eye look the other night because my Bestie Melissa had just sent me a package and I waited as long as I could to just dive in an play around with what she sent! In reality...I waited like 3 hours before I just couldn't wait any longer! That's crazy right?! 

Anyways. Without further adieu....I actually did a FULL face of makeup..crazy right?! I'm going to mark the difference between the gift and press sample products. Most of it, I will warn you now was gifted to me. So thank you Mel for this post!

 EYES:
Too Faced Shadow Insurance
♥Stila In The Moment Eye Shadow Palette ; 
        Crease/Outer Corner: Captivate / Whim / Glance / Spontaneous (all mixed together)
        Lid:  Spontaneous / Impulse (mixed)
♥Sephora Long Wear Kohl Eye Liner : Infinite Beige (waterline)
♥Stila : Captivate (lower lashline)
Rimmel London Gel Eye Liner : Black
*CoverGirl The Super Sizer Mascara♥Flower Lash Knockout Volumizing Mascara♥PUR Big Lash Mascara (giveaway prize from PinkieCharm)

 FACE:
*Nurturing Force Twinkle Not Wrinkle Eye Cream & Base
CoverGirl Clean Oil Control 525 Buff Beige
Rimmel London Stay Matte Powder Creamy Natural
Cara Cosmetics Nagoya (contour)
♥Becca Beach Tint Watermelon (blush)
♥Becca Shummering Skin Perfector Spotlight Opal
♥NYX Eyebrow Gel Blonde
♥NYX Conceal.Correct.Contour : Green & Pink (salmon) 

LIPS:
*Kevyn Aucoin The Sensual Lip Balm

♥Becca Beach Tint : Watermelon
♥Smashbox Be Legendary Long Wear Lip Lacquer After Dark (blotted down to a stain)

So! I think that is everything that I put on my face! I did this the other night so it was still pretty fresh when I took the pictures. I felt bloody amazing to be honest. I haven't felt as good as I did in such a long time. I need to figure out how to properly do my eye brows, so please excuse the fact that it looks like I have two bushes on my face. 

 If you would like an update as to what has been going on in life and why I have been away for so long, I will gladly type a post out, but I will not be doing it unless asked because I don't want to bore you all with it.

Products talked about were either purchased with my own money, press samples, giveaway prizes or given as a gift. None of the mentioned companies are paying me to mention or use their products. All opinions are my own. 

Easter Face Of The Day!

Purchased Myself/Press Sample

Hello everyone!

I am so sorry that I've practically disappeared! D: I went from working 8 hours a week to between 26-36 hours a week! It's been pretty hectic and I never intended to let my blog pretty much lay dormant for almost two weeks! I do have some guest posts coming! I'm just waiting on the emails and I do have a couple of posts scheduled myself! I can't even describe how good it feels to be typing a post again! Anyways, anways back too the post at hand!

I hope everyone has an amazing Easter! If you don't celebrate Easter, then I hope you have just as an amazing day as well!

I have to work tonight and decided to do a full face of makeup! :O I typically only wear eyeshadow and maybe liner. bahha. I had this whole grand look planned out and everything, it's all I thought about this morning... then I realized the gorgeous pink Sugarpill eye shadow I THOUGHT I had, wasn't real. I do have a pink shadow but I thought I had Dollipop.. I don't know why I thought I had it, but I did. Alas. I made due though! I still love how my eyes turned out so woohoo!

EYES: 

• Urban Decay Primer Potion ♥ Original
• Urban Decay 24/7 Eyeliner ♥ Woodstock (entire lid)
• Sugarpill Cosmetics ♥ (Crease/Outer/corner)
• Sugarpill Cosmetics ♥ Birthday Girl (entire lid, overtop Woodstock)
• Sugarpill Cosmetics ♥ Lumi (Inner Corner)
• Urban Decay 24/7 Eyeliner ♥ Demolition (waterline/tightliner)
• Ellis Faas Mascara**
• NYX Gel Liner & Smudger ♥ Jet Black 
• Senna Cosmetics Brow Fix X ♥ Golden Brown X

FACE:

• Urban Decay Primer Potion (all over face)
• Stila Stay All Day prime & anti-shine balm*
• TEMPTU Pro S/B Concealer Wheel (Shade 2, 3, & 4)*
• TEMPTU airPOD Foundation ♥ 004 Sand*
• Rimmel London Stay Matte ♥ 011 Creamy Natural

And just because here is the picture that I posted on Instagram from my phone! I LOVE how my eye looks in this! *swoons*

This was pre-doing my hair and no glasses. I really love the pink and purple together!

As per usual there is nothing on my lips, it's going to be lip balm for me, like normal, especially at work it's one less thing to worry about! I'm also sure that you noticed my liner wasn't totally straight etc and both eyes are different. Yes girls and boys, if you have tried winged liner you know it's a complete B to do! I've been using liquid liner to do them as of late but have been trying this gel liner out. All I can say is ay dios mio! I still love how it turned out though!

Are you doing anything special on your eyes or nails?! 

All products marked with a (*) were given for Press purposes. 

New Years Eve Makeup!

Purchased Myself | PR Sample

Here's the rest of the post! I was going to put this and the nails together, but I decided to split them up. 

I'm still trying to get used too my camera, plus I had the light WAY too close to my face. Lol. Amateur mistake. 

I don't know about anyone else, but wearing silver on my eyes for New Years Eve is a staple and traditional thing for me to do. I wear silver and black EVERY year, this year I decided to change it up though.

This was pre-mascara. I started taking pictures and realized I didn't have it on. Fail #2

EYES;;

Milani eye shadow primer 

Revlon ColorStay ShadowLinks Plum (Crease)

Urban Decay; Busted (crease)

                                Naked/Foxy (blending colors)

Sugarpill Tiara (lid)

Milani Eye Tech Extreme Blackest Black

Graftobian Magic Set Mixing & Lining Liquid

Rimmel MAX VolumeFlash Extreme Black

FACE;;

TEMPTU AirPod Foundation Sand

TEMPTU Pro S/B Concealer Wheel 4th Darkest 

Rimmel Stay Matte 011 Natural

NYX Blush Sand

Urban Decay Shakedown (contour)

I didn't do a lip color. I typically don't, I didn't really feel the need for one since we're not doing anything.

There's a reason I decided to show this picture even though it's mostly blurry. I love that is macro'd on my lashes. Uhm yes, love that!

I don't normally do cat eyes, but I'm really impressed with this one. I know they're a bit lopsided and what not, but I think it came out looking really nice!

What makeup are you wearing for New Years Eve!?!? I would LOVE to know and see it!

Disclaimer: The TEMPTU and Graftobian products were provided for PR. The rest was purchased with my own money.

June 2013 Ipsy Bag! On The Wild Side

Hey everyone!

I got my Ipsy bag in the mail a few days ago and I definitely was NOT inspired to walk on the wild side and rush to get this put up. Honestly for myself personally, this bag was a flop...well the contents at least, the bag itself is cute. I'm glad that Corrinne from Galactic Lacquer reminded me to check my Glam Room or I would have gotten overly excited and impatient about this bag!

Okay, I'm being way too much of a negative Nancy! Let's just get right into it.

Chella Ivory Lace Highlighter Crayon

I've heard of Chella before because we have gotten their eyebrow gel in a previous bag. I've slightly used it, but like I've said before. I've got thick eyebrows so I am NOT that into doing them. I'll probably try this in my inner corner, but not promises.

Starlooks Lip Pencil in Bare

I don't own any lip liners, but I definitely know that this one wont get any use. I've swatched it and pffft. It's kind of like a taupey-brown/grey? I don't know but I definitely don't have any lip colors to match it and it definitely would NOT look good on me...at all. 

NYX Blush in PB10 Sand

Okay, so this may be the ONE gem out of this bag. Granted I wont use it as a blush because 1) I don't wear blush and it's too "shimmery" for me. Mixed with my oily skin I would look like a train wreck of a disco ball BUT since it's a really pretty gold color, I'm going to try it as an eye shadow.

J.Cat Eyelashes + Eye lash glue

So, I don't wear eye lashes and I probably would have a reaction to the glue anyways. False eye lashes give me migraines, so I tend to avoid them at all costs. These are okay, but you can kind of tell that they are cheap, they look similar to elf lashes quality wise.. but like I said, I've not tried them so I can't vouch for how they are.

J.Cat Sparkling Cream Palette

Okay, I'm going to go on a mini rant here. This is the one product in the bag that extremely pissed me off, like you have no idea. They should put a WARNING ON the palette saying it is not eye safe. Let me say that again DON'T USE THIS ON YOUR EYE LIDS. If you do, I will hunt you down.. Kay? Seriously, it's just craft glitter in some "gel" binder. Ipsy does say on their website to not use this around your eyes and JCat says that it is safe to use around your eyes if you use caution. BUT the only reason I know that is because My sister told me about Ipsy having the warning. They should have put it on the dinky card that they put in the bag. How many people do you really think check their glam room AS SOON as they get their bag. I don't. I check my Glam Room ONCE and that's just to see what I am getting in my bag. That is what most people do. I think someone needs to make a public statement, to not use this around your eyes! I don't want anyone going blind because it's not stated anywhere.. Anyways end rant.

So like I said, 2/5 products I MIGHT get some use out of....pffft. I would have been hunky dory if I had gotten the eye liner. (I'm secretly hoping my sister doesn't want it..shh)

Anyways, what did you get? I heard there was some great variations between bags. 

FOTD 15 Nudie pahtootie

Hello Buttercups!

I hope you all are doing well!

Today's look was a relatively quick one! All I was doing today was bathing the dogs, cleaning the bathroom, and doing a few other bits and bobs outside.

As you can tell this was a pretty neutral eye look, I didn't want anything too crazy or bright.

FOTD #9

Hello Beautiful!


Today was just one of those days honestly. It basically consisted of a LOT of sleep, trying to get all of the Benadryl out of my system. My face also is a little rashy looking, which is just meh. I'm not enthused, but I'm not worried, I guess I need to do another oatmeal face mask! If you want to see what it consists of (3 things for real) and what not and how to make it let me know! It really helped last night!

Anypoodles, I was just playing with some stuff today, I did kind of my "every day" eye but I used different products. =^_^=  I also am going to add to pictures, they go with the FOTD but they also have a story behind them. Lol.

If you want to see what I used click to find out!