sparkling for the city that never sleeps - FOTD

Products:

• Lit Cosmetics Siberian glitter over Sugarpill Lumi shadow
• Urban Decay Armor
• Urban Decay Provocateur (both from the Vice Palette)
• Make Up Forever Aqua Black cream liner
• Dior Extase mascara in 090

I uploaded it to Instagram when I got on the train to the city and a few minutes later saw that Phyrra had liked it and I felt like I WON THE WHOLE DAY.  //fangirl moment

P.S. I am trying to get back into updating on a more daily basis, I have been having a makeup identity crisis with a new-found love for lipstick but I am starting to find my footing again.

Let me show you my St. Patrick's Day sparkle.

Products used: 

• UDPP

• NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk

• Sugarpill pressed shadow in Midori (on lid)

• Lit Cosmetics Mary Jane (on lid over Midori)

• Sugarpill Tako & Bulletproof from crease to brow to create the blended out black look

• UD 24/7 liner in Perversion

• Sugarpill Goldilux along bottom lash line

• Benefit They're Real! mascara

I love how this one came out. 

FOTD: St. Patrick's Day kickoff

Products used:

• UDPP in Original

• NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk

• Sugarpill Chroma Lust loose shadow in Tiara (lid)

• Sugarpill Chroma Lust loose shadow in Junebug (crease) 

• UD 24/7 gel eyeliner in Zero

• Buxom Lash in Black

Stay beautiful, party people. 
 
 

FOTD March 14

Products used:

• UD Primer Potion

• Sugarpill Lumi (lid)

• Sugarpill Paperdoll (crease)

• UD 24/7 gel eye liner in Zero

• Kat Von D Sin-Full Lash Mascara in Puro Amor

 

and on the 7th day, He said "Let there be Sugarpill"

So I ordered a buttload of Sugarpill eye shadow this week because well.  Why the hell not?  I have a problem and it may involve bright colors.  It came today!

Oooooh.  I got Chroma Lust loose shadows in: Lumi, Tiara, Magpie, Junebug, Royal Sugar, Decora, Magentrix, Birthday Girl, Paperdoll, Tipsy, Darling, and Starling and got pressed shadows in Velocity, Bullet Proof, Poison Plum and Acidberry.

I  have swatches!  All swatches were done on bare skin with no base.

Bulletproof is in the very back, Poison Plum is in the very front, mid-right is Velocity, and mid-left is Acidberry.

Aside from the fact you can totally see my watch was pushed way too far up on my arm for way too long, from left to right: Acidberry, Poison Plum, Velocity, and Bulletproof.  The first of each pair is wet and the second dry.  They are all matte and look amazing wet.  I am ambivalent on how they look dry on most of them, except I did not like Acidberry dry at all.

Royal Sugar (blue) and Lumi (white)

I did Royal Sugar (left to right) wet, dry, and wet with Lumi on top of it.  On the bottom, left to right, is Lumi wet and dry.  You can barely see the dry swatch, so don't go blind trying to see it.  It isn't the light either, it is very hard to see dry.  I really like the layering effect of Lumi, how it adds almost a frost to the Royal Sugar.

Right to left: Tiara, Magpie, & Junebug.

Right to left: Tiara, Magpie, and Junebug, the bottom row being done wet and the top dry.  The wet and dry of Magpie are similar but there is still more intense color in all three with it applied wet.  And even with the shadow (ugh, I tried so hard to get rid of that), the colors in this picture are pretty true-to-life.

SO. MUCH. PINK.  Left to right: Magentrix, Decora, and Birthday Girl.

Left to right, with the bottom layer applied wet and the top dry: Birthday Girl, Decora, and Magentrix.  To be brutally honest, when applied dry, all three looked pretty similar to the point I would have trouble picking them out of a line up.  When done wet, Birthday Girl is a pretty pale pink that is still bright enough for my love of ALL THINGS BRIGHT.  Decora is a coral pink and Magentrix a fuschia in the pot, but they looked rather similar wet except there was way more shimmer and glitz with Decora.

Left to right: Starling & Darling

Hey look, you can see a scar from a cigarette burn on my hand.  That's hot.  From left to right, bottom row applied wet and top dry: Starling, then Darling.  Starling is a teal color in the pot, but when applied it seemed more a very blue teal.  Darling is turoquoise in the pot, and wet is a teal like I expected to see with Starling, but when done dry, it is a very green turquoise, to the point I was like, uh, did I have green on my brush? (I did not.)

Left to right: Tipsy & Paperdoll

This looks similar to the picture of the pots I took when I got Absinthe and Weekender but IT'S NOT.  In the pot, Paperdoll is much lighter than Weekender and Tipsy is a lot less yellow than Absinthe.

There is that cigarette burn again.  Pesky little shit.  Paperdoll is a nice lavender that is very faded from what I would expect seeing it in the pot when applied dry, but gives a nice pop of light purple when applied wet.  Tipsy is a grassy green applied both wet and dry, just more bold when done wet.  When compared to Absinthe, Absinthe is more yellow and more of a lime color to me, where this seems more like a true green and did remind me of freshly-mowed grass.

Out of the pressed shadows, I would wear them wet or dry, except for Acidberry, which I would only wear wet because the color was not one that would look good on me at all when applied dry.  For the loose shadows, I would probably stick to wet application for all of them, or if applied dry, it would be for blending purposes over a wet application.  I am not disappointed in any of the shadows though, but let's be real.  Sugarpill never disappoints me.

I also have EYE GLITTERS!!! on the way from Lit Cosmetics and I am so excited to the point a coworker told me that I need makeup rehab.  I can't shut up about EYE GLITTERS!!! Can't wait can't wait can't wait.

Stay beautiful, party people.

 

Today, I choose fire.

Products used:
• Sugarpill loose shadow in Goldilux (lid, and lightly on brow bone)
• Sugarpill loose shadow in Asylum (crease)
• Sephora cream eyeliner
• Dior Extase mascara in 090

Yesterday's FOTD

Products used:
• Urban Decay Primer Potion in Original
• NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk
• Sugarpill Dollipop on inner corner of lid
• Sugarpill Afterparty from outer corner of lid to center, blended into Dollipop
• Urban Decay After Market in crease
• Urban Decay Broken on brow bone
• Urban Decay Blitz on lower lash line
• Makeup Forever Aqua Black cream liner along top lash line
• Urban Decay 24/7 liner in Zero on waterline
• Benefit They're Real! Mascara

and at some point, He created fire.

Products used:

Eyes:

• Urban Decay Primer Potion in Original
• NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk
• Sugarpill Tako
• Sugarpill Buttercupcake
• Sugarpill Flamepoint
• Makeup Forever Aqua Black cream eyeliner
• Smashbox Full Exposure mascara in Jet Black

Face:

• Dr. Jart+ Black Label BB Cream
• NARS blush in Deep Throat
• Too Faced Chocolate Soleil Matte Bronzing Powder
• Sephora Mattifying foundation (powder)
• NARS Light Reflecting Loose Setting Powder

Lips:

• Urban Decay Super Saturated High Gloss Lip Color in Glinda (a dupe for Naked)
• Buxom Big and Health Lip Polish in Sandy

The highlight of my day was Sugarpill Cosmetics retweeting my FOTD on twitter.  My day was pretty much downhill from there (at 630 pm, I went to go home from running errands after work to find out both of my headlights were out, some nice man at the auto parts store helped me and one still wouldn't work because a wire on one of the connectors needed to be fixed, then I go to start the car and the battery was dead; of note: it was 28 degrees.)  So makeup...definitely the highlight.

BUT.  I looked cute while doing it.

I think we can agree.

Stay beautiful, party people.

Addicted to Pretty? Addicted to NEON.

So today, this came in the mail:

Sugarpill Cosmetics, Sweetheart palette from the Addicted to Pretty collection

I first purchased from Sugarpill Cosmetics about six months ago when I was on the prowl for the perfect matte white shadow.  I had a lot of matte white shadows in cheapie palettes I had picked up along the way, but most of them had just led to a lot of frustration at the color not being buildable, the white not showing up, et cetera.  I blogged about MAC Gesso last year as my first entry EVAR, and while it is a matte white that I could make work, it still involved a lot of effort and energy and uh.  I am lazy a lot of days.  A friend suggested I try Sugarpill's Tako, because it got good reviews on YouTube and the makeup blog circuit.  So that I did. Tako is the essential matte white shadow, as far as I am concerned, so when Sugarpill had their birthday sale last week and all shadows were on sale, I was more than okay with the Sweetheart palette having that color, even though I have a single already.

I don't own any of the other colors in a single, so I was excited to see how pigmented they were.  (I am not kidding anyone, any makeup purchase turns me into the proverbial child on Christmas morning).  I swatched all four colors on the back of my hand.  I am very fair-skinned, so often a color will look SUPER BRIGHT in the pan, then I have to spend enough time building the color to match how I feel it it supposed to look that I can practically feel myself aging.  Which means wrinkles, which I don't want. That is one thing I really like about Sugarpill - what you see in the pan is pretty much what you get.  I did not put any primer on my hand before swatching (though I would never use it without primer on my eyes) and the colors are still bold and bright. 

As for the colors: Sugarpill's website calls Afterparty a "bright turquoise" but to me, turquoise is more of a bright teal, with more green than this color has.  This shadow reminds me of the Cerulean crayon in the box of 64 Crayola set (I am dating myself here).  Which was, COINCIDENTALLY, my favorite crayon color back in 1990.  It is more a bright neon blue than a turquoise, at least for me.  It is not a matte, it has what Sugarpill describes as a "semi-pearly sheen".

The site calls Dollipop "vibrant, matte, hot pink!"  And..yes.  That is exactly what it is.  It is the perfect hot pink matte eyeshadow.

They stick with "vibrant green with a slight pearly sheen" to describe Midori, which is vague.  It is a kelly green, and the slight pearly sheen part is spot on, because it is very slight, but enough that it isn't exactly a matte, but definitely has far less of a sheen than Afterparty.

I can't wait to use this palette, though I am a little late for Carnaval, I may use it for my first real tutorial, which is probably coming this weekend.  (Probably.  I have commitment issues.)

Stay beautiful, party people.