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.

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

 

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

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

If I wear a summer eye, will summer come faster?

Products used:
• Too Faced Plumeria on lid
• Too Faced Cocoa Beach in crease
• Makeup Forever Aqua Black waterproof cream liner
• Sephora Full Action Extreme Effect mascara (black)

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.

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.

There is a champion inside all of us.

This is what my daily affirmation iPhone app told me this morning.  And yes, I have a daily affirmation iPhone app.  Don't hate, it gives you wrinkles.

Today, I decided to be a makeup champion.

I think I won.  Cutting the crease is so basic but really takes a meh eye look to GIIIIIRL WORK ITTTT in about ten seconds flat.  I prefer to be GIIIIIRL WORK IT to meh, so I go with it.

My eyes make me look like I am on drugs, and while I learned the price of heroin on the street today, I myself did not partake.

That photo is far blurry than I would like to be, but I did all of this using a Coastal Scents palette I inherited from a good friend (Erica, holla if you hear me, I love you boo).  The base was M.A.C Gesso over the NYX Milk primer pencil, but the effort I need to make Gesso work early in the morning is too much work, especially for a Friday, the day on which I go to work strictly on an appearance-only basis.  Anyway,  LOOK AT ALL THE COLORS:

Enter poorly taken picture of the palette.  For the price and the product being lower-middle-road, the shadows are nicely pigmented.  

I used a combination of the bottom magenta and purple to cut my crease with by wetting the brush, then brought it up some more blending in one of the more fuschia hues in, finishing off with more NYX Milk pencil with one of the very light cream colors pictured in the photo of the entire palette above.  I wish the white stood out more, but at 7 am, it is what it is (this is where I sound like my father, which I am sure he appreciates, especially in reference to makeup; I figure he has the television tastes of a 14 year old girl, why not add makeup into the mix?)

Next, I deferred to what I do best and did a cat eye with black eyeliner: I used liquid, keeping it away from the inner corners as much as possible because then it smudges in and I look a hot mess 2 hours into work.  My favorite liquid is made by Almay, and while I look down my nose at drug store makeup, I am not too proud to admit that.  I lined the lower lid with the magenta hue, then covered in the cream tone I used on my browbone and went over it with Urban Decay's El Dorado 24/7 Glide On eye pencil to dim the boldness of the look.  Mascara of your choice, I think I grabbed Kat Von D's Puro Amor which is not really a favorite, but it works and came inside a palette, and you're done.  (Well, done on the eyes, anyway.)

I call this my come-hither bedroom eyes look.  Or IMMA CUT YOU SON.  Could go either way, really.


MAKEUP CHAMPION Y/Y?

P.S. it has been so long since I have been in a mental headspace to keep up with this that it is time for ask for what you guys want to read/know about.  I can do FOTD forever but that gets boring.  I vaguely remember bronzer, pencil eyeliner and...? Drop me a suggestion in the comments, I would love to have the extra material to work with.

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 we learn that you need your spinal cord for good makeup

Spring has sprung, which this year, means 2 things: my seasonal allergies have also sprung and I have thrown my back out.  Both of this explain my recent absence; when my seasonal allergies act up, I end up with patches of eczema on either eyelid.  I find this especially ironic or just unfair, seeing as my main purpose in life is makeup.  So I spent a few anxiety ridden days makeup-less at work, only to then injure my back at work (nothing incredibly serious, but I have been in pain for almost 2 weeks, so there is that).

Things I learned: it is far worse to have clear eyelids (once you get your antihistamines all squared away) and a broken back, as you look in the mirror all HOW CAN IT FEEL SO WRONG BUT BE SO RIGHT.  Doing your own makeup without looking like Quasimodo, at least temporarily, is a difficult feat on a good day.  Days of incredible back pain are not good days at all, so it was easier to just not get out of bed.

Anyway, I digress.  I had all these big plans for my brush mini-series, but that has gone onto the back burner while I try to get some focus back.

So today, I did my nails:

China Glaze VIII, which is a nice muted purple black (it looks darker in person, at least to me, but I am the first to admit I have bad eyesight) and Essie Shine of the Times which is an irridescent flakey topcoat that I really love.  It seems to take on a different personality depending on the color you put it over.  It is distracting me as I write this blog post, but I am ADHD certified, so if this is a problem you may not want to wear it to work.  Though, let's face it, if it isn't your nail polish distracting you, it'll just be your cleavage, so why not?

(And no, I don't believe in nail clean-up.  The only people who notice are those who troll the internet...oh wait.)

Then, there is this.

Which I did using this:

The Too Faced Natural Eye palette. These shits are how I learned how to blend, in part. There are little cards tucked into the top that if you can manage to get out (minor design flaw) give you 3 different looks.  I don't need those anymore, but they helped me with some kind of direction, initially. I used the bottom row; Honey Pot (the color in the middle) over the entire lid, the darker Cocoa Puff in my crease, then Nude Beach on my brow bone.  I am more than a little obsessed with neutrals right now, and they are kind of hard to mess up (in my opinion, but you know what they say about opinions and assholes).

I have also developed a new-found love for tinted moisturizer, but I'll save that for another day when I have the energy to wax poetic on the pros and cons of tinted moisturizer and liquid foundation and tell all my secrets about what I will buy at a drug store.

Like I said.  Another day.