2011 Favies....Tons-o-pics

Another year down, another year to look forward to.  I swear the older (and hopefully wiser) I get the faster the years go by. I just wanted to share somethings that I have been loving for most of the year.

Stila self adjusting blush-coral

This is a great blush, I don't know how self adjusting it is, because it's the same color in the pan as on my cheeks.  It could very well be because I am as pale as they come and it it "thinks" I need as much color as possible. But it sure is a great color.

MAC eye shadow in Embark

This is a new love for me, I recently purchased this eye shadow and I am in love.  I have been trying to buy more neutral colors and more matte colors. This is a two in one.  It blends very well, but you have to build up the intensity.  But it's just a to die for matte brown, a reddish brown.

MAC eye shadow in Nylon

This is also new to me, purchased with Embark and used together.  Nylon is very much like vanilla pigment but with less gold.  I love using this color over the lid and embark in the crease.  It's not stark like Gesso, and it warms up any look and brightens the eye right up.  I am way late jumping on the band wagon, but better late than never.  Especially in this instance, it is too good to pass up.

Macademia Oil

The next item is a must have for anyone who has hair...I'm not one to spend a lot of time or money on my hair.  I know, I know, I should especially since I flat iron it almost every day.  I was at Ulta and wanted to put a little more lovin' into my hair. The wonderful associate told me to use this in conjunction with an anti-snap serum.  Bada Bing, Bada Boom....Hair as if it was spun silk :D So silky smooth I could die.  Plus she was saying that it is a heat protectant as well. Heck to the Yes!

Juicy Couture-Viva La Juicy

A lot of girls are a one scent type of girl. I however am a bajillion scent girl, I have several bottles of perfume to match any mood possible, floral notes, citrus notes, woodsy notes. Check, Check, and Check. I don't have one signature scent. But I find that I am reaching for this scent a lot more.  Aside from the adorable packaging this perfume is a nice mature smell for me.  Not sure what's in it, but I loves it.

Seche Vite-top coat

I am a freak when it comes to my nails. If there is a chip I have to take it all off and reapply a new manicure. That could be because I am completely neurotic and pick at my nails until almost all of the polish is off.  With this top coat I find that it does prolong the manicure a day or too, but the main reason I buy this over and over again is because it dries so dang fast.  I love doing stamping and new and different ways to paint my nails and nothing drives me more bat-shit crazy is when I smudge them. This cuts down the likelyhood of that 10x fold. Me likey.

That's all from here...for now!  Hope everyone has a fun and safe New Year's. Be safe!

Epic Beauty Fail

So I'm not one to necessarily say anything bad about a cosmetic item, because just because it didn't work for me doesn't mean it won't work for anyone else.  The craze with the Sally Hansen stick on things is going strong, and I am a fan of them as well. That's why I had such high hopes for these. Maybe I didn't read the small print, or maybe these just aren't up to par.

These are the Butter London Nail Decals....Nail Stickers. I was super excited because the design of the top one is to die for. I purchased them regardless that they were a little pricey ($10).  I was anxious to use them, prior to buying them I did compare them to my nail beds and they seemed that they would work. Not perfectly but enough to where I would be satisfied. WRONG-O

When I first applied the pinky it turned out ok. The size wasn't perfect, and there were limited variations of size. You only get 6 different sizes which doesn't allow for a lot of allowance for different nail beds. Plus, I was silly and was thinking they were like the nail decals-read like real nail polish-but they are only stickers that last 48 hours. That's it two days :(

Aside from all that which could be seen as a fail on my part, the application sucked. The stickers didn't appear as tacky as I would like but I could make do, the thing that I think is unforgivable is when you need to file down the excess to have it fit your nail. It would give you a rough edge that when you file down you get this ugly white tip, looking like nail wear. That I just can't forgive.

Moral of the story-These suck, I was left disappointed, a lesson learned for $10

Nori + Club = Love

First off, Pardon the brows. Next, this look I think is just friggin gorgeous. Very simply and I think it will look stunning on anyone. Look break down

For a transition color I used my MSF that I use for contouring. It's just a smidge darker than my regular skin tone. Buck from UD and Cork from MAC would also serve just nicely. For the lid color I used OCC loose pigment in Nori. I have to say, I love the quality of products from this company, the pigment was so pigmented...wow, that's redundant. but you catch my drift when you expect something and it falls so short of what you wanted. This did not disappoint. ANYWHO! For the crease and to help blend out the Nori I used MAC's club. It's a nice medium tone matte gray.  It can add many dimensions to a look. For the inner corner I used MAC's Honeylust. I usually detest lustres, they're so chunky and glittery. But for this, it works. Not to mention I am in LOVE with using gold for an inner corner highlight. Use your favorite eyeliner and mascara. Bada Bing, Bada Boom. I hope you like, let me know if you did, didn't or otherwise neutral about it. until next time :D

Brains....

Ok. Ok. Ok. So I know it's way past Halloween and it's even closer to the Christmas. But I just couldn't pass this look by and not a bloggity on it. I used this look for a Zombie Pub Crawl that Minneapolis/St. Paul had and this was my trial run. I used the tutorial that Petrilude does. If you ask me he's a bloody genius.  The contact I used I got from You know it. It was super cheap and super fast shipping.

For the special effect stuff I placed and order to Mehron. I used the liquid latex in beige, the bruise wheel, coagulated blood.I also used MAC Chromacake in Red (pro product) It was my first attempt at anything of this nature and I absolutely love it!

For the shading and grossness I mainly used a few MAC shadows. For the most part I used Shadowy Lady which is a matte deep purple. I also used Typographic which is a deep gray that is also matte.

To make it look like sores in the open red area I used Deep Purple pigment(pro product) and dabbed some in with the coagulated blood. The day of the crawl I used rice to look like maggots. :D