Keeping it simple

During my neutral rut, this is one of the looks I tried. I've seen something very similar worn by one of the girls on The Real L Word (not one of the main chicks, but a friend of one of them), and decided to try it myself. It was a really low key day, and frankly I was lazy, so I didn't bother with falsies.

Face:
MAC Moisturelush Cream
Smashbox Phot Finish Light primer
MUFE Camouflage Cream Palette No. 1
MUFE HD #155
MUFE HD Microfinish Powder
MAC Sculpt & Shape Powder in Bone Beige/Emphasize
MAC powder blush in Peachykeen
MAC Cheeky Bronze MSF

Eyes:
Beautique eye pencil in brown (eyebrows)
Urban Decay Primer Potion
Covergirl Volume Exact Mascara
These colors from the 78 palette
MAC Carbon e/s
MAC Nylon e/s
Beautique eye pencil in black

Lips:
MAC Gaga lipstick
MAC Sock Hop lipglass

Random questions tag

"Would you rather..." (tag)

Making sure I still have "it"

I've been in quite the rut lately, and only doing looks with neutral colors. Or maybe that means I'm getting older? That's what Jacqueline, Trinity, and I speculated over Twitter recently. Maybe the lack of bright colored makeup is a result of us growing up LOL. Boy, does that sound dreadful! Anyway, I threw this on last night on a whim, and decided to film a tag video afterward. My 3 year old daughter kept asking why I was putting makeup on at night time, and were we going anywhere LOL. Nope, I just felt like seeing if I could still even wear the bright colors, and well, I personally think I've still got it ;)

Face:
MAC Moisturelush Cream
Smashbox Phot Finish Light primer
MUFE Camouflage Cream Palette No. 1
MUFE HD #155
MUFE HD Microfinish Powder
MAC Sculpt & Shape Powder in Bone Beige/Emphasize
MAC powder blush in Peachykeen
MAC Cheeky Bronze MSF

Eyes:
Beautique eye pencil in brown (eyebrows)
Urban Decay Primer Potion
MAC Bitter e/s
MAC Wondergrass e/s
MAC Kelly e/s
MUFE #92
MAC Clarity e/s
MAC Electric Eel e/s
MAC Atlantic Blue e/s
MAC Nylon e/s
MAC Carbon e/s (to line upper lash line)
Covergirl Volume Exact Mascara
Hot Topic purple pencil eyeliner
Andrea ModLash #33

Lips:
MAC lip liner in Nightmoth
MAC lipstick in Violetta
MAC Lustreglass in Little Vi

Quick hair update

So while in Virginia, my uber bleached hair started doing funky things. First it really started absorbing my Shimmer Lights, and then it started getting weird orange/peach streaks in the under layers mostly. No bueno. I gave it a little bit of time when I got back, to see if going back to my normal water and routine would fix things, but it wasn't getting better and was possibly getting worse. So I decided to go back to being brunette. Here's the blonde I had gotten to (before the streaks showed up).





I was loving it, but not the issues I was now having. When I first started the process of going brown, it was a bit of work. We filled it first


Then we dyed it


But it was really uneven, so we did it again


We ended up using 5 or 6 boxes of dye, and I don't think I got pictures of the process, but I think we dyed it 3 times, I just don't remember for sure now. We did it July 2nd, I believe. Here was the final outcome from that whole session.


I liked it, but the ends just weren't taking no matter what we did. Just from all the bleaching, though we did cut some off, as you can see. The other day, however, I decided to dye it myself at home. I figured, why not? Luckily it was a success! I don't have a picture of it right now, but it basically looks like it did late last year.


It's not black, it's just very very dark brown. I'll add highlights eventually.

Cliche Cosmetics Giveaway at Glam Morena

Glam Morena is hosting a Cliche Cosmetics Giveaway, that's open internationally. The prize, going to 5 lucky winners, is Dark Primetime, a brown eyeshadow primer (good for looks using dark colors). The giveaway deadline is July 6th @ 11:59pm CST and entering is easy; leave a comment on the giveaway post stating the eyeshadow primer you use now (if any) and why you'd like to try Dark Primetime. There are a couple of additional entries you can gain, so check out the post to find out about that.

Good luck to everyone that enters.

Hello from Virginia!

Sorry I've been MIA lately - I've been in Virginia visiting my best friend. I'll be going home in a few days, and will be resuming posts, including the rest of my series on eyebrows.

Until then, I have a favor to ask. Could you please vote for me over here? I'm entry #1