Random FOTD's

First off...Hello to the new subscribers!!! There have been a few in the last couple of weeks and I wanted to say welcome...enjoy the makup, crochet, and randomosity that my blog contains...and pardon my French.

Second...I know. I've been a bit lazy. I was doing SO WELL posting fairly regularly, but life is so in my way right now. My one dream is to not to have to work so I can create things all the time and fotz around on the internet. I promise I would be really good and use some of that spare time to go to the gym every day. Maybe twice! I really think Marilyn Monroe had it right when she decided that she was only attracted to rich men. = / If only I looked like her! (Dear Women's Libbers that are probably not reading this, Yes, I firmly believe in setting us as women back 50 years. Hate me. Love, Me.)

Anyhow, onto the FOTD's. These are just a couple I collected. I really do take pictures every day...often times they are sitting on my camera for ages so I have no idea when they are from.

Purple Haze:

This is one of those "forever ago" pictures...so I'm guessing what I used. It's more than likely correct.

Lids: Wet n Wild Brule

Crease: Sugarpill Poisoned Plum

             Sugarpill Bulletproof

This was a really simple look...super easy to do. I put the Brule all over the eye; that makes the purple super easy to blend. Then I used a small crease brush (probably the e.l.f. Studio one) to put in the purple, and the black just to darken up the crease. Here's the rest of the face, although I don't think I did anything special there.

This looks like some e.l.f. Peachy Keen blush and probably Carmex. I have been wearing a fair bit more lipstick lately, so I promise my lips will get more interesting.

This next look was inspired by a new Youtube subscription...SharonMakeupArtist. She did a video using neon and acid colors as a trend for spring, and as I was feeling particularly spring-ey yesterday (either that or I'm just so sick of this winter), I went out like this:

On the face I have NYX Pinky blush and on the lips it's a mix of Sephora's nasty tasting lipgloss in something Princess and Mary Kay's shimmery lip thingey in some flower name. I'm only being vague because I was sad I didn't have a nice bright pink...if only I had bought that Lady Gaga Viva Glam...(it's ok, I have the new VG on the way). You can ALMOST see my new rose plugs from the lovely Glamasaurus! Check out her shop...I will try to get better pictures of them in the future.

On the eyes:
TFSI
Acid Green from the 88 matte palette - This color is most decidedly a dupe for MAC's Bitter. If I ever order the larget Hot Pots from Coastal Scents...I'm definitely getting one of this color. It's awesome.
I have Zombify's Wasabi in the center of the lid...it's hard to see because my eye was all hooded but it's a great bright green and I wanted a touch of shimmer. On second reflection, I should have gone with Zombify's Pikachu...it would have looked much better.
Highlight is Wet n Wild's Brulee. As usual.

So there it is. I would love to hear comments and suggestions as always! Let me know what you want to see! If you have a picture or a video you'd like me to recreate...feel free to pass it along!

Doodles...

Doodles are what I do when I'm in the bathroom surrounded by my makeup with only minutes left before I slather myself with Noxema and take it all off. It's random...I pick something and play with it. It's usually over top of whatever makeup I had been wearing for the day. I have a few of these on my camera...I try to take pictures whenever I do it. They don't really warrent a full blog post...but I'll turn them into little quickies.

Here's one from tonight:

This was something I came up with because I wanted to try a trick that one of my favorite Youtuber's, Emily Noel, mentioned: using the e.l.f. bronzer as eyeshadow.

Here's what I used:

Primer: Urban Decay's Eden...I use it every day when I don't want to do my eyeshadow...I just slap some eyeliner on and call it a day. (You can see the remnants of my eyeliner wings in this picture.)
Brown: e.l.f.'s Blush and Bronzer duo...the bronzer. I placed that in the crease area and blended it in with the black. I also swiped it under the eye after I lined my waterline.
Base: Believe it or not...that's Hot Topic's gel liner...I had this on for a while, and it didn't crease at all.
Black: Sugarpill's Bulletproof. There is no other black.
Gold: The bottom color in the Wet n Wild trio, "I'm Getting Sunburned". I put that just in the corners and a little under the eye to brighten it up.
Mascara: Same old cocktail as always.
Eyeliner: As I said, I had the wings on...and then I just put some black liner in the waterline.
Brow Highlight: Face powder. It's great for taming things when you've gone a little too far. As I usually do *giggle*.


Well I hoped you all enjoyed that little doodle! I'll have more...and don't judge me on my eyebrows!!

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Hellooooooo! or Random Looks

Hello kids! I've been collecting pictures for a bit and I thought I'd post some while I had a few minutes. Today is my niece's birthday (yes we call her Yankee Doodle) and I'm waiting for my sister to come and pick me up for the festivities.

This first look is something I wore out a few weeks ago before my surgery, hence the rocker hair. I wish I had gotten a better picture of the style because, while it wasn't my best attempt, I was proud of it nonetheless.

The gold is Goldilux, silver is Tiara and the black is Bulletproof...all Sugarpill. This is sort of a copy of Xsparkage's Fierce Friday look Black & Gold Glamor. If you have never checked her out, please do. She is one of the first gurus I watched on Youtube and she has taught me an amazing amount.

More gratuitous vanity:

This second look is what I am wearing today. While I was at my brother's house recovering, I did a fair bit of hauling. I also took advantage of the Cherry Culture 30% off sale and grabbed me a bunch of new NYX single eyeshadows.

Look at how happy I am. Notice the lovely mottle my skin has...aren't you envious?
Anyhow...this is Azur Sky and Blue Marine along with some Sugarpill Bulletproof and Tako. It is a bit dramatic for a 9 year old's birthday party...but what the hell. My family thinks I'm nuts...might as well perpetuate it.

So I promise to have some more posts dealing with the nifty stuff I got whilst I was away. The mall near my brother's house had a HUGE Sephora...and as I don't have one near me...I splurged. I also got my sister-in-law to get a bunch of stuff and we had a little lesson on how to apply it all. It was quite a bit of fun. But for now...

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Virus Insanity Eyeshadow - review and picture tutorial

Recently I was introduced to Virus Insanity Eyeshadow by my friend Mary. She is well aware of my penchant for bright nasty colors and figured that I needed more in my collection. She was correct.

Jennifer, the proprietor of Virus Insanity sells off of her Facebook, but she also has an Etsy shop. I purchased 12 shadows a few weeks ago, and in the bright department, they certainly deliver. They blend as well as any mineral based pigment and her shades are particularly unique (a word I seldom get to use).

I did this look using four of her shadows.

Yeah, yeah...I know...stray hairs. I swear you can't see them in real life...my camera just likes to make me super embarrassed. Whatever...it is what it is.

So here is my very first picture tutorial. Feel free to comment, tell me what you love, tell me what you hate...I shall try to learn and not be a turbo bitch about it.

First off, product pictures. Here are all the things I've used in creating this look...in the future, I think I shall take one photo with all of the goodies in it.

The Shadows:

Explode - a super bright canary yellow.

Ocean Mystery -  as if I needed more turquoise eyeshdaow right? This color is gorgeous...it has a bit of gold shimmer in.

Midnight Kiss - a deep blue with lighter blue shimmer.

Smoke Signals - a nice medium purple, also with a hint of gold shimmer to it.

Bulletproof by Sugarpill. My new favorite matte black.

Rimmel Stay Matte pressed powder. I use this as my highlight when I'm doing super crazy bright eye makeup. It's matte so I don't get a case of the frosties and it works wonders at cleaning up when your lines go a bit wonky (as you will soon see).

My Wolfe Metallix palette. I am using the gold color as a base.

And finally, the brushes. I've shown these only so you get a general idea of the shapes that I've used. These are all e.l.f. brushes (so...super cheap). From left to right they are:
1) a big fat fluffy wedge brush
2) a flat shadow brush (bad picture)
3) a small crease brush
4) a pencil brush

Alright, on with the show! (Goddamn, this post is going to be long as hell.)

First, start off with a naked eye. (Go ahead...sing the Luscious Jackson song...I am.) Make sure you look like someone just punched you in the face and all your freckles can be seen.

Step 1: Cover that shit up. There's no use in everyone thinking you didn't have dinner ready on time. Apply some shadow primer. This is Urban Decay Primer Potion. (And not something naughty as you might have previously thought.) To be on the safe side, I just use it all over my eye up to the brow bone...and I give a little wipe underneath the eye too.

Step 2:  I took the gold water activated color from my Wolfe palette, mixed it with a little bit of eye drop solution and patted it on my lid. I kept it fairly low down because this is a cut crease of sorts, and I didn't want the shadow on top going green. Don't mind the smudge under my eye, I have fat fingers.

Step 3: Take a small crease brush (3) and a pretty turquoise, I'm using Ocean Mystery, and do a little Nike Swoosh over your eye lid. I went right into the inner corner and made a bit of a wing on the outer corner.

Step 4: Take a darker blue and the little pencil brush (4) and darken up the lighter blue. I ran it all along the crease and under the eye, paying the most attention to the inner and outer corners.

Step 5: Take the purple and darken up the corners a bit more. Run the purple underneath the outer half of the eye. Take the black and further darken the corners following the wing in the outer bit. (Pay attention, because here's where it starts to look a bit janky.) I used the same brush for all of this. I didn't bother to clean it off cos, frankly, it didn't matter.

Step 6: Since apparently, I don't have this chronology thing down, I skipped a few steps so this is a few in one. Take a yellow shadow (Explode) and the flat shader brush (2) and pat it all along the lid, being careful not to mix it with the blue colors. Then take the big fluffy shadow brush (1) and face powder and clean up your lines. See how much less janky it looks now? I also blend it along the top of the light blue shadow as well as under the brow bone for a nice fade. You can thank Petrilude for showing me that tip.
Next up is lining. I am attempting to show how to create that little winged out eyeliner (it's actually very easy). I use a pen type liquid liner with a stiff felt tip (that's what she said). To get the wing, I line the pen up with my lower lash line and draw a line inwards.

Step 7: Then I connect the point of that line right into the normal liner. I also used a bit of Urban Decay's 24/7 liner in Zero under the eye. Since that is very soft and smudgy, I kept it to the outer half. Just add mascara and you are done! I used Rimmel Sexy Curves as always.

I used this same technique and the Sleek iDivine Palette in Acid on this look:

 

So there it is. I hope it was helpful! Please let me know what was and what wasn't. I'd like to streamline these as much as possible as I know I am overly verbose.

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Sugarpill Looks #3 and #4

OK...so this is the last of my Sugarpill looks, for now. This blog will resume is regularly scheduled randomness directly following this post.

I'm posting these two together because I was sitting on babies from 10am to nearly 2am! It's alright though, I love spending time with my pseudo nieces and nephews.

First off, Sunday's look. I took my Sugarpill to meet the rest of the family. I wanted to use Midori, but couldn't think of what to pair it with so I broke out a little bit of the 88 shimmer palette and a Heavenly Naturals pigment.

 

Notice my lazy-ass attempt at blush (Pinky by NYX) and lipgloss. (That's the same pink that I've been wearing BTW...sadly I used the last of it yesterday. *sigh*)

 

The light green is from the 88 Shimmer palette and the dark green in the outer corners is Sea Dragon from Heavenly Naturals.

Here is today's look. Lots of pink and purple. In my first post using the Sugarpill shadows, I paired the Poisoned Plum  with the Afterparty. You can see how different it looks depending on what it's next to. It's such a fabulous purple, it really is.

 

I should note that both of these looks used Tako (the white shadow) as a highlight.

I think this makes my eyes look very blue. You can kinda see how the olive color shrinks towards the pupil. 

Janky lookin' eyebrows...

Well kids, this concludes my Sugarpill worship for now. I still haven't used the red...which was the color I was most excited about. Most matte reds I've gotten have a sort of brick-ish cast to them. As you can see in my swatch pictures, this one doesn't suffer the same fate. It almost pulls like a berry color on my skin. If I get up early enough tomorrow I might have another look for you guys. I also want to try out the yellow and blue together like the girl on the package. Ok...so I'm going to have two more...eventually.

Coming up, I have my Nfu-oh polish order to gush about. I also have a brand new package of Glittersniffer Cosmetics coming in the mail...plus some other random nifties to share. But for now...

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Sugarpill Look #2 - Completely ripped off of VitangeorTacky - but with all adoration and love.

Ok...so I can't take credit for this look. I saw this on Cora's Twitter and I knew that when I got my Sugarpill in I was going to try it. I hope that if she sees this, she knows that I only copy out of complete love for everything she does. We may have been makeup twins separated at birth.

Here's where you can find the video for her Starburst tutorial.
Here is her Blog.

Now...on with the pictures. Oh man...I didn't realize what a sorry state my eyebrows were in. I really need to get a better mirror or something...my little compact one just isn't cutting it. I also realize how dark my under-eye circles are...nothing like Sicilian blood.

 

These are all done just over Two Faced Shadow Insurance. I haven't wanted to break out the bases (Wolfe, Mehron or Kryolan) yet because, as you can plainly see, they are NOT needed. I dunno what I was thinking with that bit of pink under the eye...I just liked it.

Here is a more full on view.

 

And a lovely bit of hair stuck to my eye...

The rest of the face was pretty much the same as yesterday with the exception of a TINY bit of NYX's Pinky blush on the apples of my cheeks and a different shade of the Jane Mineral Lip Balm...some pink color.

I look pissed. I assure I am not; it was early. I have such oddly placed freckles.

Ok...now I'm off to play some Dante's Inferno before I have to bring it back to the store.

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Sugarpill Look #1

I said there would be pictures wouldn't I?

 

I don't have anything to say about this stuff other than...WOW.

 

It was great to work with...blended so smoothly together. Tako...the white color...was just amazing as a highlight. 

I'm only sorry I didn't get the black. I am going to order it along with some pigments when my taxes roll in. Most people spend their tax money on televisions and expensive electronics...not me. Makeup and nail polish. (I have a $100 Head2Toe order all set up and ready to go.)

 

Last picture. Everything I used for the eyes was from Sugarpill...the black was from Kryolan. I just noticed I have the weirdest down-turned nose. It's OK...I got off light compared to the rest of my family. 

In case you are interested in what else I used: 

Foundation - Revlon Color Stay

Cheeks - NYC Sun 2 Sun bronzer

Lips - Jane Mineral Lip Balm in Deep Amber

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Sugarpill.

Yes, I am that excited.

I've been waiting for this for a VERY long time. Amy of Shrinkle fame has finally launched her very own cosmetic company. I have purchased some of my Kryolan cosmetics from her eBay shop and she's just so nice. I really don't have words for how freakin' rad the makeup is, so I will just bombard you with pictures.

I purchased two of the three palettes, which contain all of the pressed shadows except for the black.

 

The palette on the left is called Burning Heart and the shadow names are: 

Orange - Flamepoint

Yellow - Buttercupcake (nom!)

Red - Love+

Purple - Poison Plum

Here are the swatches...no primer, just a Q-tip.

The palette on the left is called Sweetheart and the color names are:

Pink - Dollipop
Blue - Afterparty (drool)
Green - Midori
White - Tako

Le Swatch:

 

Yeah, I just dipped my fingers right in to this one, I couldn't wait. That blue...first of all matches my Rave...but is just...to die for. 

Another note...these shadows are HUGE. I was just watching Petrilude's review and he says they are the same size as Makeup Forever shadows. I wouldn't know because I'm too poor for those, but here is a little photo so you can see. It's "this big".

I simply love the packaging. That alone would have made me buy it...I'm such a sucker for a pretty box. I know I'm just a tiny blog right now but I wanted to share with you guys how awesome this stuff is. I will definitely be ordering more, some of the loose pigments are just too awesome to pass up. There will be copious amounts of looks with these. I don't think I will be able to use anything else for a bit. And there will be pictures, oh will there be pictures. As I said before, words just don't do this stuff justice.

So go check it out. There's a link at the top of the blog, but in case you missed it you can click >here<.

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