Pumpkin Patch

It's that time of year!

The time when pumpkin patches and farms open all over the country for your family's enjoyment.

I'm taking my daughter to one soon,

and in honor of that,

I decided to do a fun, wearable, Fall look  :)

I used:

Too Faced's Shadow Insurance

BFTE 'Tangerine'- inner corners

Sleek 'Strike '- lid

BFTE 'Wacky' & UD's 'Nevermind'- crease

Sugarpill's 'Flamepoint'- highlight over crease

UD's 'Homegrown'- waterline

Covergirl Line Exact eyeliner

L'Oreal Voluminous Million Lashes

I was really happy with how fun and totally wearable this look turned out to be! :)

It's super easy to recreate and gives you just a touch of festive for the Fall season.

What do you guys think??

So long, Summer

Even though it's still scorching here,

the leaves are changing and by golly, i'm going to will Fall to be here.

That being said, I created my last summer-themed/inspired look of the season.

If you checked out my favorite from Summer post,

you saw that one of them was the Ultra Matte palette from Sleek.

I really haven't gotten a chance to play with it as much as I would have liked to,

so I used it to create my last beachy look :)

I used:

Too Faced's Shadow Insurance

Sleek's 'Chill' & 'Cricket'- lid

Sleek's 'Bolt' & Sugarpill's 'Afterparty-' crease

Sleek's 'Dragon Fly'- waterline

Covergirl Clump Crusher Lash Blast mascara

Covergirl Line Exact mascara

So this is a simple & straight forward look, it's just uber bright & happy :)

These colors definitely remind me of the beach, summer, and are just simply some of my favorite to wear. I don't often to all matte looks, but these shadows are too perfect not to use!

What do you guys think?

Summer '13 Favorites!

So I have been realllllly bad about collecting my monthly favorites this summer and posting about them, so I decided to finally do it now-

and list my favorites from the entire summer :)

1. Sleek Ultra Matte Palette

This was the first Sleek product I ever tried,

and I LOVE IT. These mattes are super vivid and blend awesomely.

Many of them closely resemble some of my favorite shadows from Sugarpill,

so if you love the Sugarpill shadows but can't afford the price tag- 

I highly recommend you buy this baby :)

Really, if you want some bright fun shadows (particularly for summer),

this palette is a must have!

2. Maybelline Vivid Lipsticks

*not my picture

So these bad boys i've already talked about a lot,

but that doesn't change the fact that they were a favorite of mine all summer long,

and they'll be yours, too.

Coming in tons of shades, these brights are smooth and gorgeous-

with a great price tag!

Neon polishes from Lush Lacquer

Lush Lacquer is one of my favorite indie makers in general,

but they really outdid themselves with their neons from this summer.

They're all gorgeous and super fun.

Check out their Etsy for more!

BFTE Cosmetics- The Rainbow Set

This awesome set I ordered at the beginning of summer,

and I could NOT get enough of these bright and beautiful shadows!

Every one has incredible shimmer & sparkle,

and they blend perfectly together.

Can't say enough good things about them or this company :)

Bath & Body Works- 'Coconut Breeze'

* not my picture

If you've been following my blog for at least a year now,

you may remember that this was part of my Favorites last summer.

The same remains today :)

This is pretty much the only fragrance I used this summer,

and it's delicious and smells SO GOOD.

Definitely recommend this one, if it's still out there.

Bright 80's Look

So a couple weeks ago,

my work had a tacky 80's party.

I had a crazy/colorful getup,

but of course I had to have makeup that matched.

I played around with a color combo similar to that of the leggings I was wearing,

and came up with something I actually liked.

Here it is!

I used:

UD's Primer Potion

neon yellow from Sleek Acid palette, UD's 'Peace', & 'Graffiti'- lid

UD's 'Black Market'- crease

UD's 'Fishnet'- waterline

So obviously the matte neon yellow didn't blend well into the rest of the shadows,

but other than that, I liked it.

Esp. the color combo.

It's bright & fun :)

'Peace' & 'Graffiti' are some of my ALL TIME favorite UD shadows ever :P

What do you think?

Skyrim Makeup Series- Winterhold

So it's been a bit too long since i've done another installment in this series.

I started out using some races as inspiration.

Though i'm not leaving that completely, I did want to go in another direction for a bit.

So, I decided to try some looks based on some of the Holds.

First up is my personal favorite, Winterhold.

It's a somewhat bleak yet beautiful wintery Hold in the northeastern tip of Skyrim

It houses few inhabitants now (aside from the College of Winterhold) after a disastrous event some years ago.

Based on the color scheme of the Hold and it's wintery atmosphere,

I created a bit bolder/down right crazier/weirder look than normal...

So perhaps this was too literal and just dumb,

but I (truly shockingly) kind of liked it when I was done.

I felt like an idiot when I was drawing on the snow and 'snow-winds',

but hey, live a little.

I wanted to branch out a bit here.

What do you guys think? Honestly? :P

Lawl at the eyebrows by the way; that turned out nothing like I'd planned.

I used:

Too Faced Shadow Insurance

Sugarpill's 'Tako'- browbone

UD's 'Crystal', an unnamed shimmery white from Maybelline 'Sapphire Siren' quad,

UD's 'Strip' & 'Money', and Lime Crime's 'Mirror Mirror'- lid

UD's 'Gunmetal' & 'Oil Slick' 

and an unnamed shimmery grey form Sleek Acid palette- crease

Covergirl Line Exact & Lime Crime's 'Lunar Sea'- eyeliner

Maybelline mascara

UD's 'Gunmetal' & LC's 'Mirror Mirror'- eyebrows

Welp.

There you have it.

I'm stoked to do some more Holds.

If you have any suggestions or requests for this series- let me know!!

Cocktail Makeup Series- Gin & Sprite w/ Lime

Hey everyone,

I have another look for you today.

( i know i've had several makeup posts lately;

not to worr- i've got some new polishes in the mail that i'll feature soon).

Today's look was a request by a good friend when I asked for suggestions for my cocktail makeup series.

She wanted me to try a Gin & Sprite w/ lime.

Shockinly, i'm sure you can imagine what makes up this drink :)

Using the  colors as inspiration,

here's my look!

I used:

Too Faced's Shadow Insurance

Sugarpill's 'Tako'- brow bone

unnamed silver & light green from Sephora palette, Lime Crime's 'Seahorse Discourse', 

& Urban Decay's 'Homegrown- lid

unnamed dark green, Sleek's 'Cricket' & 'Dragon Fly', & Sugarpill's 'Midori'- crease

Urban Decay's 'Uzi' all over for an 'iced' effect

Covergirl Line Exact eyeliner

L'Oreal Volumious Million Lashes mascara

I was worried this would be reminiscent of my 'Margarita' look,

but the fact that I used NO yellow and a few other shades helped a bit, 

i hope :/

'Uzi' is a chunky silver glitter that I had hoped would look like ice,

but it didn't translate in the pictures quite as well as it did in person.

WHAT DO YOU THINK about it all?!

'Tropical Punch' remix!

Now that summer's in full swing,

i'm obviously going hard with the summery posts.

Today's look is a recreation of an amazing, bright look from Phyrra

that I saw on her Instagram awhile ago.

Since seeing it, the colors just kept sticking out to me,

and it's given me a great chance to try out my other new Sleek palette.

Here's my version of Phyrra's 'Tropical Punch'!

I used (all shadows from Sleek):

Too Faced's Shadow Insurance

'Bammi'- inner corners

'Strike' & 'Pout'- lid

'Pucker' & 'Sugarlite'- crease

'Cricket', 'Chill', & 'Bolt'- waterline

Covergirl Line Exact eyeliner

L'Oreal Voluminous Million Lashes mascara

I LOVE the bright colors Phyrra used in this look,

and I recreated it as closely as I could using different products.

This was my first time using this particular Sleek palette,

and I was nothing less than impressed!

They blended wonderfully & were super pigmented.

Couldn't be much happier with this look!

(minus the atrocious eyebrows, which have since been plucked)

:D

What do you think?

Sleek acid raver's look & nails!

Happy Monday!

So one thing i LOVE about summer is all the neons.

I bought Sleek's Acid Palette not that long ago,

and have been itching to use it.

Also, i love going to shows (be they raves, dnb, edm, what have you- i'm actually seeing FLux Pavilion, Skism, & Ana Sia this weekend :DDD)

and often times neon is everywhere there.

Keeping both these things in mind,

here's the look I created using Sleek's Acid Palette.

I used:

Too Faced's Shadow Insurance

 unnamed neon yellow, orange, pink, & green from Sleek Acid Palette

Covergirl Line Exact liquid eyeliner

L'Oreal Voluminous Million Lashes

You can see I had some issues with fallout that I just couldn't get cleaned up properly,

but i'll get it next time.

I was VERY impressed with these shadows.

When I initially swatched them,

I wasn't sure how pigmented they would actually be...

but they blew me away.

Super pigmented & were easy to work with, even for mattes.

Also, (despite the primer) their staying power was amazing.

Next up,

some neon nails with crappy stamping!

Yes, those are aviators.

I attempted to stamp them in a slanty pattern but that went bust.

Though the stamping sucks,

I liked being fun in painting each nail a different neon.

ORLY 'Melt Your Popsicle'- pointer

CG's 'Yellow Polka Dot Bikini'- middle

CG's 'Pink Voltage'- ring

CG's 'In the Limelight'- pinky

Winstonia plate W109  w/ black Konad stamping polish

What are your thoughts on this look & the crappy stamping mani?! 

:)

Sleek Acid palette & some stormy stamping

Hey everyone.

I'm pretty much done with moving for right now,

so I can get back to blogging regularly :)

I have a super bright & awesome palette & swatches for you today,

as well as some mediocre stamping.

First up, in honor of the rainy  stormy weather in TN lately-

This is Revlon's 'Dreamer' stamped with one of my new Winstonia plates :)

No, the clouds were not originally intended to be upside down,

but I figured i'd make it look intentional :P

Next up, the Acid palette!

AHHHHH love me some neons!

Perfect for summer & festival season.

Swatches:

As you can see, 

some are satin shimmers & some are mattes.

The neon mattes did not seem to be as pigmented as I had expected,

but we'll see what a primer can do with them.

Still can't wait to try these babies out.

Sleek Ultra Matte Palette swatches!

Wooooo!

Finally this bad boy came in the mail.

I've had my eye on this for awhile because of ALL the super bright shades,

and it finally came the other day.

I've never used any Sleek products before.

Have you??

Here's the palette:

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SO. PRETTY.

Swatches! (top row):

Bottom Row:

Now, these ain't no Sugarpill,

but I was still pleased to see that it looks like pigmentation is pretty good.

The real test will be creating a look with them though.

Expect to see some bright & fun looks come summer time! :)

Not Too Polished- 'The Eyrie' & beauty mail!

Hello!

I have my final Game of Thrones polish from Not Too Polished to show you today.

Here's 2 coats of 'The Eyrie' over 1 coat of Essie's 'Bikini So Teeny'.

'The Eyrie' is a bluish-lavender jelly based filled with white micro glitter, large silver holo hexes, and giant white hexes. It does it's name justice. For those who don't know, the Eyrie (homestead of the House of Arryn) is in the North of Westeros. The castle sits super high on a cliff, and as you wind your way up to it, you eventually come through snow and then finally, high above the mountain tops around you. This polish looks exactly what the Eyrie seems to me to be!

POLISH INFORMATION

Brand: Not Too Polished

Type: Jelly glitter

Formula: Good!

Opacity (1-5): 3-4

Application: Good!

Price: $7.50 for full size bottle

Get This: her Etsy site

I really liked this polish.

It's a unique color & went on great.

May definitely have to buy the other 2 GoT polishes she makes!

Side note,

more beauty mail finally came in today:

WOOOO! Can't wait to try those bright mattes.

You all definitely have some bright summer looks headed your way in the next month or so!

:)