Latest SYN Cosmetics shadows/swatches!

Hellurrrrr.

Though I haven't been blogging/doing anything exciting with makeup lately,

I'm still a lover of SYN Cosmetics' stuff.

I recently got 5 new shadows/glitters in the mail,

and I wanted to share them with you!

Here they are over a Too Faced shadow primer:

(no editing!!)

She's currently out of my all time favorite shadows, Synfused, so 'Slim' is a nice alternative!

(If you look at most looks I've done in the past year or so- there's a good chance I used 'Synfused' in most of them)

'Entice' is another one I've used before that I LOVED,

so replenishing it was necessary, obvi.

This is a metallic shadow and glitter,

both of which are new to me.

I foresee doing some amazing Fall looks with 'Zone'! 

:P

You can check out these and more on the SYN Cosmetics website here.

Easter polishes!

HAPPY EASTER!

Today is the day the Lord has made :)

I will rejoice and be glad in it!

Praise God for such a wonderful day today.

Also, I have some exciting and adorable Easter polishes for you!

Both from Pop Culture Cosmetics!

This is 'Bunny Trail' over Essie's 'To bUy or Not to Buy'

Secondly, 'Easter Dress' over Sinful Colors' !

Pop Culture Cosmetics- 'Happy Daisy'

My second PCC polish is this happy, festive top coat.

Here's 2 coats of 'Happy Daisy' over 

2 coats of Sinful Colors' 'Unicorn'.

'Happy Daisy' is a clear top coat filled with all sizes of yellow

and white hexes. There are a couple white daisy glitters in there,

but their super hard to get to, even with a toothpick :/

Despite that, this is such a happy, lighthearted mani that I don't even care

if the daisies come out or not-

the combo is still adorable!

What do you think?

Pop Culture Cosmetics 'Smart & Sassy'

I haven't had a Pop Culture Cosmetics polish in awhile,

but when I saw their new Spring/Easter polishes-

I had to have some.

Here's the first of several,

'Smart & Sassy' over Sinful Colors' 'Cotton Candy'

'Smart & Sassy' is a light pink jelly filled with large blue stars,

Large blue, neon yellow, and pink hexes, small & square iridescent glitter,

and yellow, blue, & pink micro-glitter.

I was quite pleased with this polish?

It's super adorable and great for Spring :)

Game of Thrones review & roundup

So in lieu of the new season of Game of Thrones starting TOMORROW,

I decided to put together all my past GoT related posts.

I have polishes & makeup looks to show ya,

in case you didn't see them or follow my blog then :)

First up, GoT manis.

The Eyrie :)

from Not Too Polished

Casterly Rock

Not Too Polished

Winterfell

Not Too Polished

Direwolf

Fanchromatic Nails

And now for a few of the GoT looks:

The Lannisters

The Tyrells

The Targaryens

Winterfell ( the Starks )

I'm super excited to continue my GoT makeup series this year!

Stay tuned TOMORROW for my latest installment :)

Whimsical Garden

I wanted to do a look that combined the jewel tones of Winter

but also represented the new florals of Spring.

I ALSO wanted to use my brand new SYN Cosmetics shadows.

Here's what I came up with:

Whimsical Garden

I used (all SYN Cosmetics' pigments):

Too Faced Shadow Insurance

'Orlow'- lid

Delerious & Jilt- crease

LuLu- lower lash line

Covergirl Bombshell mascara

Covergirl Line Exact eyeliner

What do you guys think??

The sparkle and glitter from 'Jilt' is even more beautiful in real life than 

you can see in the pictures.

The green 'Orlow' really surprised me, too.

So gorgeous!

:)

Valentine's Day nail art & mani

Ya'll know I'm NOT good at nail art.

I saw a design on Pinterest that I wanted to try and recreate...

-___-

It turned out pretty crappy.

But i'll post anyway!

This is SUPPOSED to be heart shaped balloons.

But... yeah.

Didn't quite work out.

I got my hand to stop shaking long enough to do a somewhat decent job

on the hearts, but the black strings are wayyyy too thick.

Also, I have a super girl and simply mani for you:

This topcoat is one of the first indie polishes I ever bought

a couple years ago.

This is 'Monsta Love' from GlitterDaze.

Very fun :)

Nice little throwback,

as it was originally posted here.

Starrily- 'The Magic of Frosty'

Okay, okay.

So i know this is technically a Christmas polish,

but being that so many places are getting snow today-

I figured it's still fitting...

you can still make snowmen, whether it's christmas or not :)

Anyway, here's 1 coat of 'The Magic of Frosty' over Zoya's 'Neely'.

'The Magic of Frosty' is a clear base filled with white & red microglitter,

small green, red, and blue hexes, medium white hexes, large red hexes, 

and large white snowflakes.

POLISH INFORMATION

Brand: Starrily

Type: Glitter Top Coat

Formula: Good!

Opacity (1-5): 1

Application: Good, but you definitely have to dig for the bigger glitters.

Price: $8-$9 for a mini

Get This: no longer sold :/

What do you guys think of this fun winter top coat?

I love it :)

Zoya Pixiedust 'Godiva'

Hooray!

I've finally bought myself a Pixiedust!

I've loved these polishes ever since they came out awhileeee ago,

but i've just now gotten around to buying one.

I purchased a few polishes lately that seemed like they'd be good to wear to a wedding

(seeing as how I'm in one and am having my own this year),

so that's what I was thinking when I bought this one.

Here's 2 coats of 'Godiva' !

'Godiva' is a champagne/sand colored glitter,

but is offically described as a "soft nude" with "sugared sparkle" ;P

IT'S JUST BASICALLY GORG, MKAY?

POLISH INFORMATION

Brand: Zoya

Type: Pixiedust/glitter

Formula: Great!

Opacity (1-5): 2

Application: Awesome!

Price: $9 

Get This: Zoya.com 

What do you all think about this baby?

Nail mail/makeup additions

Several new things today :)

First, my most recent purchases from Zoya came in last week!

Can you guess which these are? ;P

Stay tuned for swatches of these bad boys in the coming weeks.

As for the makeup, I scooped up Covergirl's latest mascara:

CG is usually a solid brand when it comes to mascaras,

so I'm excited to try this one.

Lastly, this little rando thing,

I've never even heard of this brand?

But it was $1 and Spring-y looking,

so, why not?

Swatches seemed decent enough!

Have any of you had experience with these?

What are your thoughts?

:)

Pentatonix Daft Punk look!

So for those of you who don't know who Pentatonix is,

it's this little group of 5 (duh) people who can sing basically

anything acapella, and their harmonizing is just insane.

Not to mention their vocal ranges and other various talents that come into play in their music.

My favorite song of theirs is this bad-A little Daft Punk medley.

Here it is:

I based my look today off the girl.

This look was PURELY for fun,

not to show off any skill (or lack thereof!)

or even good application.

I just thought her look was so out there & fun

that I wanted to recreate it myself :)
(I could NOT find a bright blue wig for the life of me)

Here's my version!

ahahaha
So silly.
The look really would have been like a gajillion times better with a blue wig.
But. Whatever.
It was still so fun to play around & create this :P




I used:
Too Faced's Shadow Insurance
UD's 'Asphyxia'- lid
Sleek's 'Bolt' & 'Chill' and Lime Crime's 'Atlanteal'- blue around eyes
unnnamed shimmery white from Maybelline- corner of eyes
SYN Cosmetucs' 'Absolute'- under eyes
Covergirl Line Exact eyeliner
unnamed holo glitter shadow from Maybelline- glitter stripe on face






What do you guys think?
It was too fun.
Even more important, the video is amazeballs.
So make sure you check out allll their stuff on youtube & iTunes!
:)

Skyrim Makeup Series- Dawnstar

Yay!

I finally have another installment in my Skyrim series.

It's been entirely too long since I did one.

Today's look is based off of an appropriately cold & wintery village-

Dawnstar !

Dawnstar is a rather small mining and garrison village,

capital of The Pale in Skyrim.

It, along with Winterhold,

is one of the coldest cities in Skyrim. 

Using mainly the snow and frigid ocean,

here's my look inspired by Dawnstar.

(disclaimer: I also used a pic of wintery makeup on Pinterest as inspiration,

so this is in no way ALL my own!)

I used:

UD Primer Potion

UD's 'Haight', 'Money', 'Crystal' & unnamed Sephora royal blue- crease

SYN Cosmetics' 'Absolute' & shimmery white from Maybelline quad- lid

L'Oreal Butterfly mascara

Lime Crime Uniliner in 'Lunar Sea' lash tips

In retrospect, the white tips of my lashes (featured in the Pinterest look)-

was a bad idea.

It looks gloopy and crappy,

not wintery.

So, meh.

Otherwise, though,

I really like the look.

It looks cold & beautifully desolate, much like Dawnstar.

(Even though it's a "major city",

not many people live there)

What do you think?