Autism Awareness look

Hey everyone,

in case you didn't know already, it's Autism Awareness month!

This issue is close to my heart as my major is special education,

and I'll work with kids that have autism daily.

Not to mention that I have a couple members of my family that have autism, also.

(Notice I didn't refer to them as autistic people/kids- we want person-first language here!)

SO, it's well past time that I did a look for Autism Awareness.

The color of the month to wear is blue, so I used different shades of blue for today's look.

I wanted to make this look bold and bright to reflect the bold movement towards autism awareness and the greater understanding of the spectrum over the years. I also wanted it go be hard and almost fighter-ish :)

I used:

All but 'Delusion' & 'Manic' are Urban Decay- the others are SYN Cosmetics.

What do you guys think about this look?

I'm certainly planning on doing at least one more look before the month is up-

is there something in particular you'd like to see?

Let me know! :)

Blue trio from Sephora palette

It's Monday :/ Just 3 more days until my Spring semesters starts.

Then I'm afraid I won't be able to blog as regularly,

but we'll see!

Okay, as promised, I have the first look for you today using my new Sephora Smokey Studio ll palette.
The palette is technically designed to be used in pre-set trios,
so even though I doubt I'll usually use them that way,
I decided to attempt a few looks with their suggested trios.

Here's the first look, using a trio from part 1.

Here's the trio:

As you can see,

it's comprised of a lovely, shimmery white, a bright & bold blue (which initially drew me to pick this trio),

and a dark blue with glitter.

The look is nothing super special or creative,

but it gave me an idea of what the shadows were like,

since I had never used any Sephora shadows before.

All in all, my first experience with these shadows was great!

I did use a primer, but the pigmentation was still great & they were pretty easy to blend.

Stay tuned later this week for look #2!

:D