Ulta
November 20th, 2009

Ulta is having a wonderful deal going on. All their personal brand (Ulta) is pretty much for a steal. And they even have some nice deals on Benefit, TooFaced, Stila, Urban Decay, Smashbox, etc.

What I got was,

  • Train Case makeup kit, Ulta brand- $25.00
  • Urban Decay 24/7 travel trial size eyeliners- $36.00 (set of nine, or eight, I don’t remember)
  • OPI- Do You Lilac It (light, pastel purple)- $8.50 (buy two, get one free
  • OPI- Dreaming In Red (frosty blood red)- $8.50
  • Nicole by OPI- Respect the World (light blue green, turquoise)- $8.50
  • Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear -Lime Lights (frosty light green) $2.59 (buy two get one free)
  • Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear- Blue It (intense navy blue with a little bit of sheen)- $2.59
  • Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear- White On (matte white)- $2.59
  • Ulta Shower Smoothies- Candy Cane- $14.99 (buy two, get two free)
  • Ulta Shower Smoothies- Buttercream Cupcake- $14.99
  • Ulta ShowerSmoothies Body Swirls- Banana Bliss- $9.99
  • Ulta ShowerSmoothies Body Swirl- Appletini- $9.99
  • Ulta hand cream- Chocolate scented- $.99 (was 4.00)
  • Ulta glitter eyeliner- black- $.99 (was 7.00)
  • Ulta Fabulous Lash 4 piece set- (Don’t remember the price. 7.99, maybe?)

Okay, so where to start?    :

Makeup:

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On the left- fabulous lash by Ulta, in the middle, train case by Ulta, and on the right is Urban Decay- 24/7 set of nine mini eyeliners.

Let’s start with the left. I only tried one mascara, and that’s the first, thicker one on the left; I wasn’t impressed. It was clumpy and very hard to remove. It did focus attention on my eyelashes, but nothing to any outrageous extent.
The eyelash curler worked, but not well. It’s plastic, with a plastic cushion. The curl didn’t last very long, and wasn’t too noticeable.
I didn’t try the other two mascaras, because one was for strictly volume (the pink tube) and the other was glitter mascara.

Onto the train case. It said that this normally, or should retail for around eighty dollars. I won’t lie, you get a bunch of stuff, as you can see. A lot of eyeshadow(maybe one or two matte shades, the rest are frosty), four blushes (3 shimmer, one matte), four lipsticks, 14 lip sheer-glosses, two pearl eyeshadow (dupe of NYX pearl shades), two tubed lip glosses, very beautiful looking, one bronzer, one translucent powder, two concealers (one dark, one light). And a ton of sponge applicators and cheap lip brushes (all useless).
On the packaging, you can take the trays out, if wanted, and fill them with something else (I don’t know why you’d waste your time…). The trays are flimsy plastic, with very little to the potted makeup (eyeshadow, blush, etc) but good if you want to test the brand out. It folds out nice, it’s convenient, a bit messy.
Eyeshadow- You get roughly around forty eyeshadows, with this. thirty-two of which are potted in the tray and eight in a removable quad that has the names of the shadow printed on back. A lot of the shadows do look very gorgeous, but they are so very frosted. I only found two that were matte. The color payoff is okay. Not as great as in their Color Library sets, but oh well. You can still use them and get wonderful payoff, you just have to use a bit more to get a real effect.  Tons of nude and neutral shades, purples, pinks. I’m not sure if they sell all of them individually, or any of them, but some of them are very gorgeous, and would buy by themselves. The quads didn’t impress me much, very neutral, both are. The good thing is that the dark colors don’t come off chalky, or “dry”. They’re pigmented well.
Concealer and blush, etc- I did use the concealer, and it wasn’t anything worth while. It wasn’t bad, but it definitely “cakes” and doesn’t give splendid coverage.
The blush, sheer, which is safe, because I always tend to put too much on.  The blushes are frosted, all except for one, which is the one I used. I’m too cautious to use frosted blush. I get enough fallout from frosted eyeshadow.
The translucent powder I used as a highlight for my eyeshadow, and worked well. It blends well, and adds a tad bit of glow.
Lipstick & Lipgloss- If you work it well enough, you can create some nice lips with everything provided, but alone, they all fall short of anything decent. The lipstick colors are matte, and dull, the potted lipgloss, are your typical cheap potted lipgloss (useless, and messy), the two tubed lipglosses  are quite nice, and add nice sheen to your lips. They’re not sticky either.

Urban Decay 24/7 mini eyeliners- I already knew I was getting ripped on the size of the pencil; for thirty-six dollars, I don’t expect the full pencil, when one pencil sells for eighteen dollars, but the packaging makes the pencils look larger then they are. Each pencil is about two and a half inches long. The colors, are boring. But it does come with the critically acclaimed “Zero”. There’s a gold, purple, and green, the rest are dark green, brown, black, and glitter black and brown.  Color payoff is nice, creamy texture, easy to work with. Good to try out a bunch of different shades for a moderately decent price.

I did not try the glitter eyeliner from Ulta, so… I couldn’t tell you how that is, but they’re on sale (glitter black and teal) for 5 for 5 dollars. Normally, seven dollars. Not a bad tester price.

Okay, is that it for the makeup? I think so… We’ll move onto the Ulta Shower Smoothies:

For the three in one shower smoothies (bubble bath, shower gel, and shampoo) I got Candy Cane and Buttercream Cupcake. These have gotten bad reviews, mainly, I’m guessing from spoiled people that use the Philosophy kinds (Red Velvet, etc)  but I think the smells these exude are absolutely amazing.  The buttercream cupcake smells like sugar and butter. Okay, no cake or home-baked goods smell is visible, but it smells so good either way. On the packaging, the pump is basically useless. Too little product is dispensed, and it just awkward trying to accomplish.  The candy cane is extremely peppermint-y.
The one thing I noticed, is that the smells linger after used. The bathroom smelled for a good five minutes after I got done using it. I did the taboo, and used the buttercream cupcake as shampoo. I didn’t see anything really wrong. Your hair isn’t going to turn out voluminous, or perfect, but it gets the job done, and it seemed to me, that it worked a little bit as a detangler.  The only down side, is that if you let your hair air-dry, it will take forever.
Shower Smoothies body swirls- The smells I bought were Banana Bliss and Appletini. The banana smell is amazing, and again lingers for a while. You can still smell it on your hands after ten minutes. It’s not mosturizing, kind of watery, but at the same time, repels water, it seems. It’s a separated mix of gel and cream. I wasn’t fond of the apple. Boring, and smelled little of apple, just… nothing really fragrant. These I got free, and I’m really happy about it.

Ulta Chocolate scented hand cream- One of the best things I’ve bought for a dollar. I’m not sure I’d pay four dollars for it, though. But if I ever find their hand creams on sale, I’ll definitely grab some. I’m not a fan of chocolate scents, because they all seem fake, but this one has the scent of melted chocolate.
:::I like to mix the banana bliss and chocolate and use that as hand cream:::

Nails:

Blue It- Sally Hansen- Extremely blue. hardly streaks, one coat does the trick. Dark navy blue, very very pigmented.

White On- Sally Hansen- A great color for decorating your nails, very solid, non-streaky.

Respect The World- Nicole by OPI- Great turquoise color, a little on the green side. Does streak, will need two coats. But has a wonderful shimmer to it, and almost looks dual-shaded.

Do You Lilac It- OPI- I don’t know if this streaks or not, but if not shaken well, it does seem very watery. Gorgeous color. Unique.

Dreaming In Red- OPI- I haven’t tried this one, yet, but does seem to be a very dense glittery blood red. It looks suspicious of streakery, but I couldn’t tell you, honestly.

Lime Lights- Sally Hansen- I don’t know about this one… it looked nice in the store, but I got it home, and after sitting for a while, this one has taken on some weird glitter streaks down the inside of the bottle.

:::I don’t know if anyone else has trouble with keeping nail polish on without chipping, but the one key I’ve learned is to let each coat dry a good fifteen minutes (including top coat). This will keep your nails from chipping a while longer, then normal:::

Nail pictures:

Respect the World, and White On

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Blue It and Do You Lilac it:

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Don’t mind my horrible fingers. They hate me, at the moment. :-)

Makeup Pictures:

2009_1117MU0004All the eyeshadow used is from the Ulta train case, except for the orange in the middle, (Agent Orange from Aromaleigh).
Eyeliner is the Urban decay 24/7 purple,  gold/yellow one (I’m not going to look up the names… too lazy), and Oil Slick .
Mascara is Ulta brand.

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Blush, concealer, lipstick & lipgloss, all Ulta, Foundation is Wei East and NYX.


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Basic Face
November 10th, 2009

This is for Highlighting, Contour, concealer, etc.  It’s going to kill me to post my before and after shot, but eh.

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So, There are a few things, you’re going to need:

-Concealer (same tone as foundation/skin… if it’s a choice between darker, or lighter, always go with darker.)

-Contour (a foundation that is around 2 shades darker than your skin tone/foundation)

-Highlight (a foundation that is around 2 shades lighter than regular foundation/skin tone)

-Foundation (a “canvas” that closely matches your original skin tone)

Now, whether you want to use liquid or powder is up to you. I know a lot more people break out with liquid more than powder, but it’s sometimes the other way around. Test your skin before you buy a lot into one kind.  I use powder, only because it lessens the tight feeling in my skin, and the cake-looking effect isn’t as severe.

Whatever the case maybe, you don’t want to mix and match; either go with liquid or powder but not both. The exception is concealer. That’s always going to be liquid; for greater coverage.

Highlighting and Contouring is going to be different for everybody.  Everyone has a different bone structure in their face, so the light hits them differently.

If you’re wanting to make features less prominent, you use contour; this makes it look more shadowed, and less noticeable. Generally you contour the:

  • Hollows of your cheeks, and under cheek bones
  • temples
  • outline of your face (meaning, with contour, you sweep all along the edge of your face, near the hairline, etc)
  • sides of your nose (optional)
  • forehead (optional)
  • Neckline (optional)

And you highlight:

  • highest part of your cheek bone,
  • above eyebrows
  • top of the nose
  • cupid’s bow part of the lip
  • anywhere light generally hits your face
  • Chin

To see which areas those are, stand directly under a light (artificial or sunlight) and look in a mirror to see which of your features stand out.

A very poor guide, but a guide none the less:BF3

And in between the highlight and contour areas on your cheeks, that’s ideally where you’re going to put blush.

Concealer- There’s a few things I’ve learned about concealer. If you’re using all liquid, put the concealer on last. If you’re using powder, I found that it’s ideal if you put a light powder foundation around the  areas that you’re going to conceal, and put concealer over that, then do the rest of your foundation, etc. . That helps the concealer blend easier and look less cakey.

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Have fun and remember: It’s trial and error. :-)

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Before Dark
October 13th, 2009

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  • CS pallet – (bright pink-center lid & light gray and medium black/brown-crease)
  • Strawberry pigment- Beauty from the Earth
  • Blending brush, crease brush, eyeshadow brush
  • Urban Decay Primer Potion

Okay, aside from the following tutorial, I just have to say that UDPP really lets me down. I’ve found so many primers out there that are cheaper and that work better than UDPP. I know, it’s all the rage, and it’s the Shiz-niz or whatever, but for me, it’s a complete waste of money. Sure, it doesn’t crease, but for me, it didn’t show the full potential of my eyeshadow. Maybe I’m not utilizing it right, but I am really disappointed in Urban Decay’s primer.

Anyway.

Tutorial:

First (after priming your eyelids), you’re going to want to use a regular eyeshadow brush (one that is flat) and put Strawberry pigment (or a bright, frosty pink) on the center of your eyelid; brush out until a little space is left in the inner corner and out corner.
Afterwards, take the same brush and wipe off remaining pigment and find a soft, pigmented, matte pink and sweep into inner corner and into the Strawberry pigment. Blend.

Then for the crease, take a crease brush and take a light matte gray and lightly rub into crease, and at the edge of where the strawberry pigment ends. Gently blend out, and up. Next, Take a darker gray, or black/brown and pat into crease using crease brush, make a relatively thick line, of wherever you want your crease strongly defined.
Use a fluffy blending brush and blend out the line, and sweep up, and a little bit further into your crease. You can do this several times, or just once, depending how dramatic you want the look.

For this look, I actually used a powder foundation as a highlighter. I think the colors stand out enough without any help from a frosted highlight. If you don’t have powder foundation use a matte eyeshadow that either matches your skin tone or goes a couple of shades lighter.

Apply eyeliner, mascara and you’re good to go.
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Transitional Autumn
September 16th, 2009

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Well, apparently, those nice little energy-saving bulbs turn your whole face orange when wearing orange, and make life a bitch. God Bless New Inventions. Anyway, sorry it’s been such a long time since I last posted, and whether all the new people that registered to the site are bots or not, I thank you. But don’t post spam… I will be watching. Sometimes. This isn’t a mind blowing look, but it can be altered to appease just about anyone.

Products used:

-Coastal Scents 88 palette (Dark Green, brown, burnt orange)
-Chlorophyll by Fyrinnae (bright orange, center lid color)
-Apricot Moose by NYX (inner corner color, mute peach/pink)
-Covergirl mascara (can’t remind which one, on sale for $3.00)
-NYX eyeliner- Dark brown
-Too Faced Shadow Insurance

First, you’re going to want to apply an orange, I made the mistake of using a very bright, frosted orange. You might want to try a nice bright matte orange, or burnt matte orange; your choice. Apply that to the center of your lid and smudge a bit into the inner corner of your eyes.

Second take your Apricot Moose color and blend into inner corner, but not too far into the center of your lid; just enough to blend. This will center concentration mostly on your irises, and less on the entire eye.

For the crease, take a dark green which I used the darkest shade in the CS palette and using a small crease brush blend up into crease, not down into the orange but more of a “up” motion. Lightly, blend all the way into inner corner but do not apply much pressure. Blend into a bit of the orange in the outer corner (which I always fail to do) in order to make the colors appear smoother.

Take a darker burnt orange (almost red color) and using a large blending brush, apply in outer corner and blend mostly a little below where your eyebrow ends (hopefully). Do not make it opaque, just enough where it would catch in light. Afterwards, take a medium brown (muted) and apply over the darker burnt orange. Blend heavily. Take a darker brown, and using the same big blending brush, apply right in outer corner.

Eyeshadow is done. Next, apply mascara, dark brown eyeliner (not too thick) and liquid liner (optional).

Have fun. Happy Halloweenies if I don’t get around to posting anything before then.

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And a special art piece for “all the little girls I might take home” Sorry, inappropriate, I know. But I don’t even like girls, if that makes you feel any better.

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PS: for the rest of the face, I would use a very dark red, brown lipstick or a sheer one that just makes your lips shinier and darker. And for the cheeks, use a light pink. Just to spice things up a bit, be a little unpredictable.

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Bubble Gum Princess
August 22nd, 2009

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Not sure why, but this was inspired by Mariah’s Obsessed. And shut up, I couldn’t care less about who won “the beef”. As far I’m concerned, M. won because Eminem clearly got his caged rattled. Anyway.

Products Used:

  • Coastal Scents 88 palette
  • Icelandic by Ulta
  • Avon liquid liner
  • Espresso eyeliner by L’oreal
  • fluff brush
  • blending brush
  • flat eyeshadow brush

First, you’re going to want to take the first and third colors in your coastal scents palette (which is one, a light off-white color and a pale white-yellow color) and mix the two with a fluff brush and apply halfway across the lid.

Take Icelandic by Ulta (or a frosted white) and put right in the inner corner of your eye; over the previous two colors, and gently blend.

Take a big blending brush and take a light and dark pink (if using palette, chose which two you like best- both matter colors, by the way) and  press onto where the pastel whites end, and blend until you hit the outer V.  If uneven on eyelids, blend with either more light, or dark pink.

Here comes the fun part, you want a stiff flat eyeshadow brush, I use the one from the Ecotools brush roll collection. and take a light, matte purple and define your crease. After you’ve got the crease shape you want, with the brush, move the shadow up just a little bit. Do not go past your brow bone. That sounds contradictory, but it’s really not… trust me. There’s more to come.

Take a midnight dark matte purple and using the stiff eyeshadow brush, and define your crush once again, but after that, take the blending brush and blend out to make the crease exaggerated, you can either blend out a little, or a lot, depending on how noticeable you want to make it.

After that, ( I know, there’s more? God, it’s makeup not a biology experiment) take the same light purple you used before and blend that into the darker shade, so the two flow better in the crease.

And after you screw up your liquid liner (like I did) and apply mascara and eyeliner, you’re done. Fancy that.

pic-chas:

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FireCracker Patriot
July 4th, 2009

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Now, if you know me, you know I’m the least patriotic person on the planet… but on July 4th, everyone’s patriotic, right? At least Americans are. Anyway, here’s a dramatic red white and blue.

Products used:

  • Helter Skelter e/s – Aromleigh
  • Blueberry e/s- Beauty From the Earth
  • Iceland e/s – Ulta

Prime your lids, then start with the white (iceland) and put it on the center of your lid. Try to get it as even as you can on both lids. Next comes the red, which is the most difficult part. As you may be able to tell, I did mess the red up. And the shade I used does stain, which makes it incredibly difficult to remove. Anyway, take a tapered crease brush and put some of the pigment just on the tip of the brush and dab into the inner part of your eye lids.  If you do mess up, take a Q-tip with cold cream/hot water and put some on the red parts you messed up on and take a tiny bit of paper towel or washcloth (dry) and wipe off.
Next is the blue, use another crease brush and place in outer V, crease and blend with a blending brush until the blue mixes with the red, Blend up, not down into the white.

Optional: Take a blue/green color and put some on an angled brow/eyeliner brush and place three quarters on your lower lashline.

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Happy fourth… Late. (-:

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Icelandic Galaxy (Haul)
July 1st, 2009

Sooo, I bought a whole bunch of stuff since the last time I posted.

Whole Face:

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Alrightie, so, the products on face:

  • Palladio Liquid Foundation ($6.00)
  • ” Rice Powder (reduce shine) (6.00)
  • Lorac baked matte blush- Exposed ($24.00)
  • And some cream foundation used as contour (doesn’t work out too well) (discount 5.00)
  • Smashbox concealer (14.00)

Lips:

  • Avon luxury lip liner (no name) ($2.00)
  • Maybelline superstay lip color- SuperStar ($10.00)

Eyes:

  • Too Faced Shadow Insurance (17.00)
  • Ulta Color Library (discount 6.00)
  • Avon Liquid Liner (-)
  • Maybelline Pulsating mascara (14.99)
  • NYX eye liner in black (-)

Reviews:

the good:

  • Ulta Color Library- Awesome! eyeshadows! There’s nothing bad I can say about this, except when you mix certain colors, they seem to change dramatically. When you mix Iceland (White) with the lightest purple shade, you get the pink color that’s on my center lids. And the dark green with Galaxy (Black) you get that nice color blue in the crease of my eyes. I don’t find that a nuisance though, it’s rather interesting for me. The color payoff is beyond amazing. I really don’t see why they discounted their whole selection other than some of the colors aren’t completely glued into the pan. Cute packaging, as well.
  • Palladio Rice powder- I got this is Warm Beige, and it matches my skin tone pretty well, it reduces shine and it doesn’t leave your face looking cakey. The puff it comes with is useless, though. I wish companies would quit putting them in their foundations.
  • SuperStay Maybelline lip color and gloss- The gloss will go on a bit sheer, hence the “gloss” but the lip color is the color it is in tube. Minimal splitting and ruboff. For ten dollars, eh. I’ll probably end up buying it again when it’s on sale.
  • Red Earth lipstick- This is an amazing brand of lipstick, I can see why it retails for twenty-five dollars. I got it for five. I purchased “cherry plum” shade and it has wonderful color payoff and feels great when applied.
  • Glimmersticks Avon lip liner- it’s a shame, I really like the colors to these, but they do break too easily. They drag, but keep color for a long time.

The Bad:

  • Lorac baked matte blush- You know, I splurged and bought this, because I thought that for twenty-four dollars it would be something absolutely amazing. It’s not really, and it’s not matte. There are clearly sparkles on it, and it’s just… Blah.
  • Smashbox concealer, I’m not sure if I got the “O” concealer or the “hi-def”, but whichever it was, it was dreadful. It didn’t conceal much and was watery. It will still leave redness around any spots that your foundation didn’t catch.

The Indifferent:

  • Maybelline Pulsating mascara- there’s nothing really special about this, it pulsates. Woo, for sensitive eyes like mine, all it does it make me want to cry. It does clump, contrary to the advertising and doesn’t curl much, even after you pre-curl your lashes. I’ve grown to dislike all Maybelline eye cosmetics.
  • Palladio liquid foundation- Streaky unless you blend with your hand, but nice coverage.

On a side note, I bought some nail polish – it’s all the rage. My conclusion: Nina Pro- good, Sally Hansen- good, China Glaze- Horrible. I love the nail art pens Sally Hansen has, they’re radical.

eye pictures:

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Toods for now.

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Jaded Gold
June 17th, 2009

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Products used:

  • Coastal Scents 88 palette (bright yellow, dark green, dark brown)
  • NYX Deep Brown e/s
  • blending brush, crease brush, fluff brush, and angled eyeliner brush
  • eyeliner, mascara, primer, etc.
  • Beauty from the Earth Lemon e/s

After priming your eyelids,  apply a bright, pigmented matte yellow and apply to two thirds of your eye. After you’ve done both eyes, take and blend together a dark green and brown before placing in your crease. Do not blend with the same brush, use a different one. Blend until both eyes are evenly distributed with each color (yellow and green/brown mix).

Next with your angled eyeliner brush, take Deep Brown from NYX, or your dupe and drag some onto your brush and into your crease. Blend with previous blending brush.

To add some glimmer (optional), dip a crease brush into Lemon pigment, swirl and tap excess back into jar, and place (not ‘rub’), press down slightly where the matte yellow is.  Now, you have two options, for a more dramatic look, apply Lemon wet, or to keep it toned a bit down, use your blending brush and just swirl the color lightly over two thirds of your eyelid, just enough so it’s not too jarring from one color to the next.

After all that, apply mascara, eyeliner, etc and you’re done.

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ElectroSurge
June 13th, 2009

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So, for this you’re going to need to do a lot of layering. FUN!

Products used:

  • Blueberry pigment from Beauty from the earth
  • 88 color palette/black, light brown & mint green/blue color
  • blue color base along with primer. I used an Avon “lifting eye radiance serum” expensive thing, but any light blue color base would work.
  • Emerald Coast Max Factor eyeshadow duo (any glittery light/sheer blue will suffice)
  • mixing medium of some sort
  • two crease brushes or which ever you prefer to work with.

Prime your eyelids and after that, you’re going to want to do a color base. Bases are usually cream shadows or a type of tinted primer. Place your blue base on two thirds of your eyelid, and blend it until it’s sheer but still tacky.

First layer- Take your Emerald Coast blue, or whatever you have, and apply over the base; rub lightly to blend. Take a light brown either from the 88 palette or of your choice, and blend it into your crease; everywhere you want the shading/crease color to go. Blend into the blue. (it’s okay if you blend too far into your eyelid, we’re just going to intensify that blue later)

Second layer- Lightly tap your brush into the mint color, and tap it over the blue, and correct any blending problems you had the first time, just by rubbing the brush over the brown and stopping where you want the crease to start. Take a black color, now you want this black to be sheer, so I suggest getting a cheap makeup kit for this. A black that won’t show up so well (not gray). Place that right into your outer V and gently drag into your crease; blend least as possible.

Third layer- this is where it gets fun. Take a very pigmented black and rub into your crease. Blending out all the browns and blacks with it. Rub it slightly onto your lid color, maybe an index finger space or so, in. Next you’re going to want to take the Blueberry pigment and foil it (make it ‘wet’. I usually spray the brush then dip it into the pigment and swirl a bit on the lid of the eyeshadow container. ) apply that on top of all the blues, tapping it on, and after you’ve done both eyes, you can take the same brush and rub the Blueberry into your crease color.

That’s it. Apply eyeliner,mascara, highlight, yadda.

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Gradients
June 4th, 2009

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Gradient is just going from one color to another with smooth transitions. It usually is done by using different shades of one color, or colors that are “close together” blue/ green, yellow/orange, etc.

Here, I did orange, but all you need is at least three hues of one color. This was done with the 88 color palette, but Aromaleigh and Beauty From the Earth all sort their colors by shade, so you can see which shades you want to go with if you don’t already have a palette of some sort.

First, is a pale color, not sheer, pale (pastel). Place that onto two thirds of your lid. I should also say, you might want to make this matte, no shimmer.

Next, is a bright glittery (optional) shade,  for this I used Tangerine from Beauty from the Earth, and thats going to go the halfway mark on your lid to the outer V. Blend your heart out. You can always reapply the pastel color.

Finally, your crease color. To make it blend better with the other color in your V, you can always take the middle shade and tap some into your crease. This is also going to be mostly matte.  To make the whole eye *pop*, you can drag the crease color to the inner corner of your eye.

Reapply the pastel, if need be.  Take the product left from your brush from the crease, and drag some underneath your eye, right by your lash line.

Gradients, especially if you’re doing a single color, is the easiest, and most fun thing to experiment with. Have fun. (-:

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So, for my burfday, I might be going to a rock show, if I do anything I’m proud of I’ll post. Okies.

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