First look of Spring

Now that Spring is officially here,

I figured it was time to do a Spring-y look :)

I decided to use the four shadows I bought a couple months ago from Rite Aid:

This little bugger is from a totally unknown brand,

but hey, it was ONE DOLLAR.

So whatevs.

If you saw the swatches in the post,

it looked like it would produce some decent looks.

Here's my go with it:

I was highly pleased with the pigmentation and quality of these shadows,

especially since they were so dirt cheap and from an iffy brand.

I really love the bright, Spring colored combo they create together :)

What do you all think?

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!

:)

Mystic Nights 2.0

So last year, about this time, I created a look called Mystic Nights.

I really love the dark, forest-y, mysterious shades together,

so I figured I'd recreate it :)

Here's version 2.0 WITH a funky lip!

I tried to do an ombre lip with my two favorite lime crime lipsticks,

but it didn't work out too well :/

Other than that,

I freaking love this look.

I used solely UD's Vice2 palette on my lids.

Here are the specifics:

Too Faced's Shadow Insurance

'Prank' & 'Madness'- crease

'Damaged'- lid

'Prank' & 'Lovesick- outer corner of lid

'Betrayal'- waterline

Covergirl Bombshell mascara

Covergirl Line Exact eyeliner

Lime Crime 'Airborn Unicron' & 'Oh No She Didn't'- lips

Enchanted Forest

I have another truly lovely polish from Pop Culture Cosmetics for ya'll today.

Being that we got some snow last night,

I figured now was a good time to post it!

Here's 2 coats of 'Enchanted Forest' over 

2 coats of Zoya's 'Gaia' on 3 fingers & Zoya's 'Miley' on my ring finger.

'Enchanted Forest' is a  pearl white polish filled with iridescent shimmer

and small and medium iridescent circle & hex glitter.

It's really delicate and beautiful :)

Especially over 'Gaia'; I like it much better over that than 'Miley'.

What do you guys think about this polish?

Did you get any snow?

Look w/ 'Autumn Dream' *limited edition* Maybelline quad

Hey guys :)

So I picked up this limited edition quad from Maybelline

at Walgreens the other week & have finally got around to trying it.

These colors aren't exactly the first colors that come to mind when I think about Autumn,

but that's okay, I reckon.

You can see they're gorgeous looking shadows 

that appear to be packed with shimmer.

Here's the look I created:

ooooh, look at that purple!

I loved how pigmented these shadows were;

It was something I was not quite expecting.

They were almost on par with Urban Decay shadows...

yeah, I was that impressed :P

I've tried other Maybelline quads and haven't felt that way, though-

this is the first (and maybe only) time.

The colors are gorg, though, forrealz.

OVerall the look is simple and straightforward;

I just wanted to try the combo out first.

What do you guys think?

Tinkerbell Inspired

Today is my daughter's 2nd birthday!

She's in love with fairies,

so naturally we are having a fairy themed birthday party for her.

In honor of that, I decided to play around with a fun little Tinkerbell inspired look.

This looked much cooler in person than on here.

You could see the full effect of the dusted green on my cheeks 

& around my eyes.

It just looked better, humph.

Here's a super crappy pic of the mediocre design I did on my cheeks:

This design was fairy-like to me?

Eh, they're not symmetrical at all on both cheeks

(which drives me crazy),

but it was just for fun.

I used:

Too Faced's Shadow Insurance

BFTE's 'Envy'- dusting around eyes/face

Victorian Disco 'Yoda's Yoga Mat' - browbone

UD's 'Damaged ', Sugarpill's 'Midori ', & BFTE's 'Green Apple '- crease

 VD's 'The Fett'- outer crease

Lime Crime's 'Seahorse Discourse '- lid

UD's 'Stash'- inner corners

Covergirl Line Exact eyeliner

Covergirl Clump Crusher mascara

Face: UD 24/7 Eyeliner in 'Graffiti'

& Lime Crime's Uniliner in 'Lunar Sea'

I also at one point attempted to use my UD Heavy Metal gold glitter eyeliner 

in the inner corners of my lids too, if you see some weird, dark area in the first picture.

That didn't translate well, either.

Sweet.

All in all,

I actually really liked this.

It was fun and whimsical.

What do you think?

How would you have done a Tinkerbell look?

Unicorn Days- look w/ Newest SYN Cosmetics Shadows

So I've been meaning to use some more of my most recent shadows from SYN Cosmetics,

and I finally got some time to play around with the rest of them.

I came up with a whimsy look that reminded me of a unicorn for some reason?

It's a little hard to see, but that's a mint green shadow on the lid :)

I used:

NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk

SYN Cosmetics' 'Faded '- lid

UD's 'Ransom' & SC's 'Pandora- crease

UD's 'Ransom'- waterline 

SYN Cosmetics' 'Contempt'- highlight over crease/brow bone

For whatever reason, the combo of the mint green and purple reminded me of something whimsy and mysterious.

What do you guys think?

I wish it translated in these pictures like it did in reality.

That mint green shadow is killer!

And of course, there's A TON of sparkle with SYN Cosmetics.

Thus one of the reasons why I love the company! :)

PCC- 'Pixie Dusk'

Tired of the fairy polishes yet?

Don't worry, there's still 2 more :)

Here's 1 coat of 'Fairy Dusk' over 2 coats of Sinful Colors' 'Candy Coated'.

'Fairy Dusk' is a "pale lavender crelly with a gold sparkle and filled with gold and lavender glitter. There's hints of holo in here, too :)

POLISH INFORMATION

Brand:  Pop Culture Cosmetics

Type: Glitter Crelly

Formula: Eh. It got clumpy realllly fast, after barely being used :/

Opacity (1-5): 3

Application: Eh.

Price: $8.50 on their Etsy

Get This: their Etsy site

This polish looked fantastic over 'Candy Coated'.

I like how 'Fairy Dusk' looks once on, especially the subtle gold shimmer.

However, I did NOT love the consistency of it :(

Not sure why it was so clumpy; none of the other PCC polishes i've tried have been that way.

Either way, it's a cute polish with a super cute name!