FOTD: August 18, 2010

MAC Hyper Real Foundation
Estee Lauder Maximum Cover
MUFE Concealer palette No 1
ConverGirl Professional loose powder

Stila bronzer in 01
Smashbox blush/soft lights duo in Super/Model (used the blush part)

MAC Jardin Aires pigment
LORAC Private Affair palette (first two shades - no names on palette)
MAC e/s in Soft Brown
MAC e/s in Dark Devotion

L'Oreal HIP cream eyeliner in Black
MAC eye kohl in Smoulder
Maybelline Colossal and The Falsies (yes, both! haha!)

Concealer to blank out lips
Rimmel lip pencil in Eastend Snob (over drawn lips)
MAC l/s in Angel
NARS l/g in Turkish Delight


The color wouldn't come out right in the pictures.  Jardin Aires is much more peachy than it shows up on here.  Oh well!  :)  Enjoy!

FOTD: August 14, 2010

I didn't have enough time to take a million pictures of my makeup yesterday, but this will do! 

Now, let see if I can remember what I used!

Cover Girl Tru Blend liquid foundation in 410
MUFE - 5 Camo Concealer Palette in No. 1
L'Oreal Hydra Perfecte loose powder in Light 917

MAC cream blush in Posey

LORAC - Private Affair palette

• Lid - the shimmery gray color
• Highlight - first color on the left, shimmery beige

I blended the line between the two with:
MAC e/s in Soft Brown

MAC e/s in Soft Brown to fill my eyebrows too.

MUFE Aqua Eyes Liner in Mat Black on water line
L'Oreal HIP cream liner in Black
Maybelline - The Falsies mascara

YSL - Rouge Volupte l/s in Lingerie Pink
NARS l/g in Turkish Delight



**Just something to note - I have heard that the MUFE concealer palette has a tendency to look cakey and to settle horribly after it is applied.  Under my eye here, I have two light layers of the concealer on (the 2nd lightest one and the orangie one).  I applied them with a concealer brush and then blended them out with my finger.  I also set it with a little extra powder. You can see for yourself in the picture if you think it looks cakey.  But it also didn't settle awkwardly later in the day.


Some pictures of where I went! 

Haul: YSL, OCC, Make Up For Ever, LORAC

These are just a few items I've purchased over the last few weeks.  :)

 

Yves Saint Laurent - Rouge Volupte l/s in No. 7 Lingerie Pink.

Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Lip Tars in Memento (left) and Hush (right).

Make Up For Ever - Aqua Eyes Eye Liner in Mat Black 0L.

 Make Up For Ever - 5 Camouflage Cream Palette - No. 1

 LORAC - Private Affair Palette

Comes with a double ended brush, an eye primer and 6 eye shadows.

Shadows (Left to Right): Creamy Beige with Pearl, Champagne Rose with Shimmer, Soft Taupe with Pearl, Platinum Gray with Pearl, Deep Wine with Shimmer, and Black with Sparkle.

Collection: Lip Products

This is my collection of lipstick/lip glosses.  Whether you think it's big or small, doesn't really matter!  Because it doesn't matter to me either!  :)  Anyway, just thought I'd show yall what I've got because I love to see what other people have!  :D

Also, I have acquired a few more lippies since I did this.  Including the coveted YSL Rouge Volupte in #6!  :)

These are my lipsticks, all lined up pretty!

These are the top 5 I chose out of all of them.  From left to right: MAC Angel, MAC Saint Germain, NYX Iced Honey, MAC Color Crafted, MAC Viva Glam V.

My lip glosses all lined up.

Favorites!  Left to right: Smashbox Aura, NYX Smokey Look, Cover Girl Shimmershell, Cover Girl Peaches and Gleam, NARS Turkish Delight.


Definitely a bit of a color trend for me?  lol  Love the pink lippies!

Hope you enjoyed!

Haul: Temptu Airbrush System

I am now the proud owner of my own personal airbrushing system.  :) 

My birthday was last week and I received from my parents the Temptu Airbrush Makeup System & Face Kit.  How exciting! 

You can buy the airbrush machine separately, or in a combo with foundation, or in a combo with foundation, blush and a highlighter.  However, buying the combo with the foundation, blush and highlighter is a little tricky.  It's a great deal, but they come in sets.  A foundation color with a coordinating blush and highlighter. You dont get to choose separately.  Anyway!  Moving on!

These are the different air pods I got.  The first one on the left is a highlighter in Champagne, the middle in a blush in Pale Pink, and the last is the foundation in Porcelain.  **Note that you get TWO foundation air pods when you buy foundation from Temptu, and this case is no different.**

My dad actually picked out the color set. I don't think I would have gotten Porcelain for myself, maybe a shade darker, but since the application method is different from standard "out of the bottle" methods, you can't even tell that it's a little light.

The gauge to control how much or how little makeup comes out when you pull the trigger. In other words, how much air comes out.

The cap of the air pod pulls apart and the pod locks into the top of the air brush pen.

Just like that!

Overall, the machine is VERY easy to use.  The air compressor is relatively quiet. The coverage is very buildable and it really DOES make a difference of how your makeup looks! It does, however, take time to build your coverage.  And for someone like me with tons of acne scarring from years ago, it does take a while.  But it is possible to cover everything. 

I used this to get ready to go out to dinner with my boyfriend the other day, but we didn't take any nice pictures that show what the makeup looks like.  So next time I use it, I will!

Haul: Bobbi Brown & MAC

I went to the Cosmetics Company Outlet near my sister's house!  I only picked up a few things.  I LOVED this palette.  It's a Bobbi Brown palette, my first ever, and only $31.95 at the outlet!  It's amazing and the fluffy end of the brush is so nice!  Not a huge fan of the concealer end part.

I bought the first two lipsticks in this picture a while back, but haven't posted about them.  The first is "Beachbound" and the second is "Sweetie."  They're both beautiful!

I bought the last two lipsticks at the CCO.  They are "Color Crafted" and "Madly Creative."  I LOOOOVE "Color Crafted!"  I bought it because my fave MAC lipstick, "Angel" is almost gone!

And just for reference (and because I love to see other people's makeup collections!), here are my other MAC lipsticks!

And here's an eyeshadow I bought a while back that I haven't posted yet!

MAC - Twinks

FOTD: Day Looks/Evening Look/Going Out Look

I was playing with some makeup last night (while I watched the Project Runway finale! haha).

I did 3 looks, all building off the same base makeup.  This basically shows how to go from a day look, to a more fancy evening look, to a club/night out look.  :)  Fun!

Day Look

Face:
MAC Hyper Real SPF 15 foundation
Estee Lauder Maximum Cover Camouflage Makeup
CoverGirl Professional Loose Powder

Cheeks:
MAC Blushcreme in Posey

Brows:
Smashbox Brow Powder in Blonde

Eyes:
UDPP
MAC e/s in Naked Lunch
MAC e/s in Sable
Loreal HIP cream liner in Black
NYX eye liner in White
NYX e/s in White
Maybelline Colossal Volum' Mascara

Lips:
Laura Geller Lip Spackle
MAC l/s in Viva Glam V

Evening Look

Building off of the last face...

Eyes:

MAC e/s in Print

Smashbox eye liner in Dream (black) on the bottom waterline (replacing the white)

Lips:

(took off Viva Glam V)

Estee Lauder Pure Color l/s in Fig

NYX lip liner in Auburn

NYX lip gloss in Whipped

CoverGirl Wetslicks lip gloss in Shimmershell

Fun Night

Eyes:

MAC e/s in Pandemonium

MAC e/s in Brule

MAC e/s in Carbon

MAC eye liner in Smoulder

Ardell lashes in Demi Wispies

Lips:

(removed Fig and reapplied the lip spackle)

MAC l/s in Saint Germain

MAC e/s in Swish 

Sephora lip gloss in Precious Pink

Hope those were at least entertaining for you if nothing else.  :)

Haul: MAC (eyes, cheeks, lips)

Here are some pictures of my recent purchase from MAC!  I absolutely love everything!


I wanted to get some more neutral eye shadows to wear for the summer.  I feel like eye makeup can make you look too "done up" in the summer when you just wanna look easy-breezy.  :)

Left to Right: Wedge, Brule, Naked Lunch

Wedge: I wanted this color because I don't really have a brown color like it.  I saw a Kim Kardashian day time look tutorial and they used a very soft brown and it looked so nice!  It's a matte color.

Brule: I basically just got this because Kandee Johnson loves it.  :)  I've also hit pan on my current highlight (Dazzlelight) color, so I thought it was a good opportunity to get something else. It's a satin color, so it will give a nice highlight without looking TOO shimmery.  Dazzlelight is a veluxe pearl and I find that it's a little too shimmery some days.  

Naked Lunch: I've also heard a million things about how great this color is!  Naked lunch is a frost color, but because it's got a pink tone to it, I don't think it will be too crazy as a highlight. We'll see though! 

Posey

Posey: This is a blushcream.  It's super bright - hot pink!  When I first got it out of the box, it was pretty intimidating!  Haha!  But I put a little bit on my cheeks and it was perfect!  I was looking for something that would look like a glow... if that makes sense.  Anyway!  It's another Kandee Johnson favorite, so I was into it!  :)

Left to Right: Hug Me and Hue

Hug Me is darker of the two.  They both have pink undertones.  This picture is taken with flash, so they look a little lighter than they are, especially Hug Me.  Hug Me is described on the website as a "flesh pink" and it is a lustre.  Not sure who's flesh they're talking about though!  It's definitely a little darker than I normally wear, but it's a gorgeous color!  

Hue is a glaze and is described as a soft pale pink on the website.  The picture they show has it looking a little purplie (at least on my computer) but it definitely is not!  It's a very neutral looking pink.  I was wanting it for two reasons.  Angel, my favorite MAC lippie, is almost all gone! :( So I was looking for another pale pink lip color.  And two, Angel can be a little TOO bright pink depending on what you're doing.  So Hue seems like a good everyday kind of color for me!

Left to Right:  Hug Me and Hue

^^ This picture is a more accurate shot of the lipsticks. ^^

NOTD: China Glaze (Wild Mink, Grape Pop, Thataway, Peachy Keen)

These are just random nail polishes that I've recently acquired.  I painted them all really fast just to get the pictures, so don't mind the mess! :)

 China Glaze - Wild Mink

My favorite of this group.  It's a lot more summery than it looks in the bottle.  But I'm biased, I tend to stay with the more pink/red toned colors.  

ANYWAY!  Moving on!

 China Glaze - Grape Pop

China Glaze - Peachy Keen

China Glaze - Thataway

I didn't realize my picture had turned out so blurry.  :(

So here's another!

China Glaze - Thataway

(It's a bright orange with a golden-yellow shimmer)