Dusted off my poor neglected 88 palette

I haven't really worn much color in months. It's usually just neutrals or no eyeshadow, winged liner, and half falsies on the outer part of my eyes. It's purely out of laziness. Yesterday I decided to live dangerously and bring out the colored shadows like a true badass.

Quick shot of my outfit too. My darling brother told me that I looked like a gothic prostitute. The day my beer gut prevents me from being able to see my toes and my back end resembles two drooping pancakes I'll put away the floozy wear...but hopefully that's in the very very distant future. Not that I think I have some super amazing V.S model body, but I'm satisfied enough with it.


The boots have cute little buckles on the sides that you can't see in the picture. The one thing I don't like is the heel. Only 2 1/2 inches? Ugh.

Sorry that my gloved hand is in every single one of these lol. I was keeping my hair off my very sticky gloss. Even without wind my hair always manages to somehow make it's way over to my mouth. Smh. I switched earrings while still taking pictures too.

I'm assuming it's the spf in my tinted moisturizer that's making my face look 18 shades lighter than my body. Also the e/s looked more vibrant in person.

I had to brighten the one above. It was gray-ish looking.



Enough of me and my glove...
Besides these eyeshadows, I also have on L'oreal de-crease, NYC Browser in Brunette, and Red Cherry #138 lashes. And some random black pencil liner on my waterline. Most of the time I just line my lashline with black eyeshadow.

On my face I have on CG tinted moisturizer, and on my lips I'm wearing Mac Lovelorn l/s and Urban Decay Pocket Rocket gloss in James I think.

Coming Out of Hiding

It's been a while. Perhaps one or two of you out there remember me. I don't have much to post at the moment, but I do plan on going back to regular blogging.

Today I went for a natural-ish look(although the super long falsies don't really fall into natural territory).

My lips are not as pale post-mortem beige as they look in the photo. I applied a peach gloss over the nude lipstick to add color, but the flash washed it out completely. I used the Covergirl Country Woods quad for my eyes. It's been my go to neutral palette lately. I lined my waterline with Wet N Wild Idol Eyes in Pixie, lined my upper lashline with Physician's Formula Felt Tip Eye Marker. The falsies are Red Cherry #113. I used Urban Decay Surreal Skin mineral powder on my face and TheBalm Hot Mama blush.


Very casual outfit today. It's starting to cool down, so I had to wear some hoochie shorts one last time.


Last but not least- these sunglasses are so ridiculously obnoxious and tacky. I had to have them. It's like a party on my face.


I made a hair tutorial the other day too. I don't plan on using this camera for much longer. The audio is far too awful, and this is even with the buzz/hiss edited out.

Just a Quickie

I went darker.

I Strip for Leprechauns

Actually that is a lie; I'm just tired of naming my posts Gray FOTD, This FOTD, That FOTD, etc.
Viva Glam II was my first Mac lipstick. I rarely touch it so I used it today. My hair is an unbrushed shitpile today, but I don't care enough to mess with it right now.
At least I hid the ponytail elastic. That's a little better than nothing, and a step up from wearing a scrunchie.

I LOVE NYC's Browser brow kit. My brows stay tidy looking all day.


I'm wearing
Hard Candy Tinted Moisturizer
TheBalm Hot Mama blush

NYC Browser kit
L'oreal de-crease
Mac Satin Taupe e/s
Maybelline black gel liner
Falsies from Ebay I think and Rimmel mascara on bottom lashes

Mac Viva Glam II lipstick applied over lipbalm

Completely irrelevant and not makeup related, but I really need to buy Whitest Kids U Know on dvd. My brother, bf, and I have watched it since whenever it first came out, and I really need one of these songs as a ringtone even though they're a few years old.
We gon' make love until you wake up...
I'm totally gay for America...

Flat Iron Winner + New Balm

I feel like a fistful of shit today. I think it's just a fever, but the lack of sleep makes it seem worse. On a positive note, it's not herpes or the bubonic plague.

I made a list of the entries for the Missiko giveaway, and used the random sequence thing on random.org to assign a number to each. Then I used the random number generator. The winner is...

Veronika!

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This isn't much of a fotd since I'm not exactly looking my best today, but I bought two N.Y.C Lip Sliders Tinted Balms recently. I wanted to show how pigmented this one is. I'm wearing Sugar Coated here. For a tinted balm the color payoff is great. I despise the sliding packaging though; it can be a real pain in the ass if you accidentally slide it all the way off and have to put it back on. I also have Sugar Kiss, but it's extremely sheer and barely shows up on me.
This pic is a little off in color, but you can still see that the balm provides noticeable color. It's actually baby pink, not nude beige like it seems here(and my hair looks dark brown instead of red here. Just bad lighting I guess).
I didn't notice the Cookie Monster sticker next to me until I uploaded this to the computer.


So anyone in need of a light pink tinted balm that actually shows up, this one is only two dollars and change.

My sister makes this face a lot in photos. She thinks its funny, just like sticking her butt up to the glass door and dancing.

FOTD: Dark Gray

My hair still oozes out red in the shower...it's just a matter of time til it fades to some ruddy copper brown.

I've been on a dark eye makeup kick lately. It seems like any lip color that's somewhat bright makes me look like Ronald McDonald's Filipino cousin. As sexy as that sounds it's not quite the look I'm going for. I rarely wear bright lip colors anyway so it's not a big deal, just an observation.



I hate when falsies are too shiny like they are here. They didn't seem that bad when I put them on.

Makeup I used:
Wet N Wild Powder
TheBalm Hot Mama

NYC Browser in Brunette
Wet N Wild Greed Palette-light gray, black, and off white
black pencil liner
falsies from ebay

Smashbox gloss in Aura
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I recently bought these for under 30 dollars. Hooray for more shoes.

New Hair Color For Now

I wanted to go with a red shade since they fade really fast(a good thing in my case since I often get bored with new hair colors quickly). Reds have never shown up red enough on me...they're usually brown with just a touch of red. This time, it's noticeable even in indoor light. In sunlight it's RED. I know it'll fade to a coppery brown within a couple weeks, so for now I'll enjoy my cracked out cartoon hair. I think it would look better if I bought some colored contacts. My dark eyes look a bit too drab compared to it.

This one is in pretty bright sunlight which explains why my face is completely washed out.

In crappy dim lighting it looks normal...

Outfit and Wonky FOTD

I wanted to do pink and purple smokey eyes because I loved Katie's makeup in her most recent post(She's more than awesome btw so if you haven't checked out her blog I highly recommend it). Unfortunately, I have a less than steady hand today. I turned my head to grab my phone while applying my liner...that caused me to draw a straight line from my lashline to right above my crease. I wiped off all my eye makeup to start over, and while I'm still wearing purple with a bit of pink I decided to skip the smokey look bc my application skills suck today. I should have went with falsies instead of mascara because the mascara wand met my eyelid a few times...ugh.

On the plus side, it's a nice warm day so I took advantage of that despite the fact that my legs need a little work. The elliptical and squats are old friends that I've sort of neglected throughout the winter. But...until cellulite comes into my life(hopefully it won't) I won't give up short skirts. Btw, I do NOT think I'm fat or have any body hatred issues despite my complaining. I get emails every now and then about my weight, so I had to mention that. I just complain a lot.

My brother and mom both have the wonderful habit of cutting off heads when picture taking.


In the first one, I told her to pose so she put her hands on her hips and stuck out her butt. In the last one I'm kinda mid-laugh which explains the awkward face.


F21 skirt
Rue 21 shirt
Marc by Marc Jacobs bag(I would have carried a black bag if I wasn't too lazy to take my stuff out and put it in another bag)
Steve Madden Shoes
Headband was a whopping $3.99 at Ross.

Makeup

For those who've commented that I have "perfect" skin(thank you btw)...you can see here that my skin is definitely not flawless. Clear I guess, but you can see my not-so-invisible pores beside the bridge of my nose here. I'm not bothered by it enough to deal with regular foundation, but it's a bit disappointing to look at myself in a magnifying mirror. You can see the little bastards beside my nose directly in line with the top of my earring.


I'm wearing
Physicians Formula Organic Wear Bronzer+the matte finishing veil on my forehead
Hard Candy blush in Living Doll

Wet N Wild Lust palette(light pink on inner lid, matte purple on the rest of lid+crease, darkest matte purple on outer v and crease, white to highlight)
Coastal Scents 88 palette(bright pink)
Wet N Wild Idol Eyes Pencil in Techno on my lower lashline
Maybelline Gel Liner
Rimmel mascara

Maybelline Shine Sensational gloss in Cherry Bloom

Maybelline Gloss Swatches + FOTD

I'm going to add a link to the giveaway at the beginning of my posts for now in case anyone wants to enter and hasn't seen it. CLICK HERE

Plain neutral makeup today



My bf made it into the picture, and I didn't know until I uploaded it to the computer. It's like Where's Waldo, except he's not cool enough to wear Waldo's sexy red and white striped shirt.

Maybelline Color Sensational glosses


I'm wearing
Wet N Wild Natural Wear Powder
Hard Candy blush in Living Doll

Beautique brow pencil
L'oreal HIP duo in Precious
Wet N Wild Idol Eyes pencil in Pixie
CG Brown Smolder on the outer part of my lid
Dark brown liner
E.L.F Dramatic lashes + Rimmel mascara on bottom lashes

Maybelline Color Sensational gloss in Sweet & Sassy

When my hair lacks volume I compensate with large hair thingies. My makeup is blah here, but I like my enormous flower.