My daily FOTD on a normal work weekday — today showcasing the super popular this spring Maybelline color sensational vivid in Vivid Rose (quite a mouthful!)

So yes, they are completely worth the hype. I’ve known about these for months and have always been planning to buy them. Since I have plenty of lippies to cycle through I wasn’t in a huge hurry. I also already knew that I would like them.

Note that this lip swatch is done LIGHTLY. So jackpot on pigmentation! They wear pretty well, not long wearing as in drying/ hard to remove. As others have said, they have a translucency but the pigmentation makes it not noticeable. One of the issues I had with them are that they have a gross plasticky scent — NOT a fan. Thank goodness it fades quickly but it still grosses me out.

Anyway! This is usually what I wear to work everyday. I do my brows, put on a little blush, sometimes contour and a nice bright lip color. Sometimes I’ll dust powder but rarely will I put I foundation ( too heavy for everyday wear).

Hope you enjoyed!

FOTD - 3/20/13 

Standard monolid neutral look using eyeshadows from Urban Decay’s Naked Palette

Before the Naked palette, I wasn’t really a fan of neutral colors and thought they were boring. But it converted me and I now love warm browns as much as I do a royal purples :)

Products used:
UD Buck in crease and blended up
UD Sidecar on lid and brought into inner corners
UD Darkhorse in outer v
UD Creep along the outer upper lash line
UD Smog on the lower lash line

I think Sidecar would be a much better color if it didn’t have glitter in it. To me eyeshadows with glitter mean fallout and that’s totally what happened.

I didn’t use a brighter inner corner highlight or put Nyx’s Milk underneath because I wanted more of a no-makeup makeup look. Now, I just want to say that I can’t quite achieve that perfect no-makeup makeup look if I choose to use eyeshadow (still working on it!) because of my monolids.

Anyway hope you enjoyed :)

Hauled some Butter Londons from Ulta’s 21 Days of beauty!

I think these are one of the best deals of the bunch :)

From left to right:
All hail the queen
The black knight
Blagger
Wallis
Saucy jack
Trout pout

Can’t wait to swatch them!! :D

FOTD - 2/22/13

First off sorry the picture quality sucks. I was in a major hurry and snap a bunch right before I sped out the door. I tried to fix them up with photo app… Best I could do :/

Anyway this look was SUPER dark. I tend to not do these that often because they can be quite hard to pull off for me. It can easily look like you’ve been punched in the face of you aren’t careful.

One the reasons I wanted to do this kind of look was because I thought it would be the perfect time to try out my Lorac 3D Lustre!! It’s actually tricky to work with. Don’t get me wrong, the effect can be AMAZING but two things: the product is super concentrated so a tiny droplet is more than enough & the liquid it comes suspended in is by no means a base —— once that dries, the shimmer is free to move around. If you wipe it, it’ll come off. Horrible staying power.

Anyway! Here’s what I used:

Make up for ever aqua cream #1 as a base
Urban Decay Creep on lid + took it up and blended into outer corner
UD Buck on lid and blended back and forth to blend out creep
UD Naked slight above where I put Buck and blend up into brow bone
Lorac 3D Lustre drops over NYX jumbo pencil in Milk in inner corners

Whoop! Hope you enjoyed :)

Covergirl blastflipstick swatches

Top to bottom:
840 stunner
Pinky-coral red with shimmer/ gold shimmer

855 minx
Metallic warm brown/
Bronze-y gold metallic-frost

820 vixen
Bright mauve-y pink/ pink frost

The left column shows the two layered on top of each other. I was surprised — from the ads I thought that I was gonna hate them but they look good!

doedeerelies:

Inglot is launching a new lip palette featuring lots of vibrant colors on March 9th. If you live near an Inglot boutique, you can try and purchase them out the 8th before they officially launch. I’m very excited to see swatches of this as this launch is Inglot’s first foray into really bright, mixable lip colors and see how they compare to the likes of OCC liptairs, Sleek Pout Paints, MAC Lipmixes etc.

!!!!!!! I totally freaked out when I saw this. I LOVE Inglot — way before they even had an online store and even before they opened their first store in NY (those were the days, amirite).

Anyway, I’m definitely tempted to grab one, even though I’m trying to stray from bright fun colors …. Because I’m becoming boring … Just kidding!

FOTD - 3/16/13

Did this look for a Saturday night out, day before St. Patty’s Day

I liked it well enough. Nothing special I guess. Green is kinda hard to see in the dark lol. Only thing I added was some Armani lip maestro in 500 :)

Shadows used:
Urban Decay Buck in the crease and blended up
Starsmakeuphaven Fresh on lid; I’ve mentioned this before but it’s my all-time HG perfect green eyeshadow :D
Mac Centre Stage in outer V
Starsmakeuphaven Mint Julep in inner corners
Loreal HIP duo (a dark forest green) on the outer lower lash line

Hope you enjoyed!

NOTD - dotted manicure

Used OPI Tickle my Francey for the base coat

Used a China Glaze glitter for my accent nail but I really just should have left it blank

I enjoy the subtlety of the nails but I prefer bright and loud patterns.

I love OPI Tickle my Francey! It’s a BEAUTIFUL nude-ish color but has enough mauve in it to give the color some kick.

Hope you enjoyed!

Dripping paint manicure I did the other day

I quite liked how it turned out :). Was inspired by Chalkboard Nails but used Cutepolish’s YouTube tutorial to actually complete it.

Colors used left to right:
China Glaze Kiwi-cool ada
China Glaze Towel Boy Toy
China Glaze Pool Party
CND electric orange
CND bicycle yellow

China Glazes are from summer 2010 Poolside collection :)

Hope you enjoyed!