Two days later...

And I am still in love with my makeup from Friday. 

Products used:

–Makeup Forever HD foundation &  powder
–Nars Lovejoy blush
–Urban Decay Gilded bronzer
– Urban Decay Nevermind, Jagged, Penny Lane, and Anonymous eyeshadows
–MAC Saigon Summer with Revlon Lip Butter in Creamsicle

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. 

Blue da ba dee ba ba

Products used:
• Urban Decay Echo Beach from lid to brow
• Urban Decay Cobalt in crease and on lower lash line
• Urban Decay Anonymous on brow bone, blended with Cobalt
• Makeup Forever Aqua Black Cream Liner
• 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

In which I am a smurfette

Products used:

• Urban Decay Primer Potion Original
• Urban Decay Foxy (cream/beige, lid)
• Sephora+Pantone Universe 17-6219 (green, lid)
• Urban Decay Cobalt (blue, crease)
• Urban Decay Venus (brow bone)
• Urban Decay Blitz (gold, lower lash line)
• Too Faced Perfect Eyes Waterproof liner in Perfect Black (smudged on upper lash line, water line)
• Smashbox Full Exposure mascara

I need to figure out how to get my living space set up so I can do video tutorials now that I figured out how to use iMovie, I KNOW.  I also used a sample of Urban Decay's Naked BB Cream and was not impressed, so I need to do an entry on BB cream and why Dr. Jart+ Black Label is my favorite, I KNOW.  FOTD posts get us through the hard times, YES?

Somewhat topical: I made a First World Problems meme that pretty much represents my entire life and I will share that with you now.

Don't pretend you don't understand.

 Stay beautiful, party people.

of mental struggles and how they lead to the perfect cut crease.

I have been anxiety's bitch for the last few months.  The idea of really DOING my makeup cripples me, along with thoughts like putting on my underwear or deciding what to have for dinner.

However, I managed this today:

Using mostly the Urban Decay Vice Palette, the outside of which I will not photograph because the second you take it out of the package it is fingerprint city (UD, WHY?).  I started with Echo Beach from lash to brow:

Then used Stila Smudge Pot in Cobalt to cut my crease (there are so many tutorials on cutting the crease, I will not be doing one):

Blended out with UD Chaos:

Then softened a little with Anonymous as a highlight on the browbone:

And a light dusting of Armor from lash to crease:

Finished with Makeup Forever liquid liner and BeneFit Bad Gal Lash:

And again:

In which our heroine goes to MAC and goes green

The last time I came in direct contact with a MAC counter was in a Neiman Marcus in southern Florida that smelled like CA$H MONEY without Lil Wayne and tear drop tattoos.

HOWEVER. I decided this morning that I needed (no, not wanted; needed-like-I-need-oxygen-NEEDED) a white matte eyeshadow.  Actually, I decided this a few days ago, but Sugar Pill was out of stock on their website and I had some meltdown about the possibility of having to go to a cosmetics counter and most if was of the WHAT IF THEY JUDGE MY MAKEUP!? variety .  So the meltdown part was already out of my system, WHY NOT.

They did not judge my makeup.  They put my eyeshadow in this:

That's an 8x11 sheet of paper next to it (and a nail file...yeah, I got nothin') and my little eyeshadow on top.

Clearly, MAC hasn't concerned itself with environmental conservation, so to make up for the damage I've done to the environment in the 10 seconds it took for me to make the purchase, I did this:

Keeping it as concise as possible because READING IS HARD:
1. Conceal and prime your lids
2. NYX Milk Pencil from lash to brow.
3. Build MAC Gesso shadow (which I will pretend means "matte white" somewhere in the world) over lid until it is opaque.  This is applied with a damp brush.
4. Cut crease with Urban Decay Bender (forest green) applied wet.  Blend upward.
5. Urban Decay Midnight Cowgirl (pale champagne with glitter) applied dry on brow bone.  Blend downward into green.
6. Using a damp brush, apply Urban Decay Skimp (another white, but with more shimmer) along arch of brow for a highlight.
7. Urban Decay El Dorado (yellow-gold) applied dry over the white of MAC Gesso on lid and blended lightly into crease.  I lined under the lower lash using a wet brush.
8. Using Smashbox Jet Set Waterproof Eye Liner in Midnight Black and an angled eyeliner brush, I lined along the top lash for a bold line, then a softer line underneath, and joined them together at the outer corner.  I brushed El Dorado over liner lightly to soften the look.
9. Benefit They're Real! mascara in black on bottom and top lashes.
10.  Because I am a bad ass, I filled my brows.  I use Urban Decay Brow Box in Honey Pot.

And voila:

I have been an Urban Decay shadow loyalist for years (though I do find the purple packaging garish, that is neither here nor there and has nothing to do with the product) and resisted MAC for a long time because the idea of the MAC counter almost terrified me.  Irrational, unjustified anxiety? Sure, just like EVERY OTHER ANXIETY IN MY LIFE.  Using their shadow for the first time, though, I know I have developed another product to covet.  It is highly pigmented and you can build the color up without too much frustration which are two of the biggest things I look for in eyeshadow.

Despite the green, we all know this did nothing to make up for MAC's disregard of the environmental conservation movement, and no matter how hard I try, I don't think Urban Decay's production of vegan shadows really absolves me of all responsibility.

I would be willing to live in a tree and see if I could repair the hole in the ozone myself if I had enough MAC shadow in Gesso.  I'd love to tell you that has anything to do with socio-environmental responsibility and BEING THE CHANGE but really, I just want free makeup.  Urban Decay, Too Faced, MAC, I HOPE YOU ARE LISTENING: