Humid Moonlight Jealousy

This is really nothing more than just updating to be active. I realized at the end of the night that I had already missed the opportunity to take good pictures (i.e, when the sun was out and when my hair was still nicely done). This look features: UD Grass, Humid, Jealousy Wakes, and Moonlight Path.

Sparkle Peridot

This combo is a coat of Chanel Peridot and OPI Simply Smashing. I don't own simply smashing, but I am definitely hunting for it now! If anyone knows where I can get this, or of a great dupe, let me know.

Duochrome Golds

Tonight I went ahead and used some oldies but goodies.
The eyes looked so much better irl, but I only got pictures after the good lighting was gone hence the flash.
I found that Moonlight Night (from Tartan Tale) + Old Gold make an amazing combo. I need to play around with these two colors.
The nails are also one of those things that looks better in real life. I used duochromes that have the same back color (green). One is pink and green (from Sally Hansen), another is silver-purple and green (OPI Katy Perry), and the other is gold and green (Chanel Peridot). There is black laced throughout the marble.

St. Patrick's Day Getup

Well yesterday was St. Patrick's Day of course. This is the look I wore and I was able to incorporate the Tartan Tale bow. I just used a hair clip to secure it in my hair and voila!









I also discovered the deliciousness of "Mudslide". I got it by ordering a White Russian with Baily's instead of cream and by the second order the bartender told me it was just called a Mudslide.

St. Paddy's Day Nails

I thought that I would go ahead and give my rendition of the gradient nail tutorial. I usually clean up my nails the morning after doing them.




Theory:
The tutorial that I first used had a transparency/opacity gradient and a slight light gradient (glitter). This tutorial has 3 dimensions: shade/hue, analogous hues, and transparency/opacity.
These three things need to be taken into consideration if you're going to alter the colors because you need to have the right type of formula. For instance, you might not want to lay down your transparent color first and then put your fully opaque colors on top because it might be harder to get a fade. If your doing the analogous hue shift and shade/hue shift, you also might want to consider which is the cooler of the colors is cooler and which one is warmer. Some warm colors have very murky shades (think yellow+black) whereas almost all cool colors have vibrant shades.

Ok, so onto the tutorial:
Step One: Get a base coat on.


Step Two: Add a full on black base. The best black polish for this IMHO is Sinful Color's black polish.


Step Three: Mix a bit of transparent teal and a cheap clear polish or if you have transparent micro glitter polish use that. Take the darkest green and bring it up 3/4 of the nail. Use the transparent teal polish to cover the rest of the exposed black and go slightly over the dark green.





Step Four: Take a green that is closer to the hue and a little more yellow and bring it 1/2 way up the nail. At this point you can slightly go over the line with the dark green to help the colors blend.






Step Five: Once this has dried a bit, I take the yellow green and put a bit of it down like a tip. I let it get a little tacky before blending it out with a glitter polish that has both peridot colored glitter and emerald colored glitter.






Step Six (Optional): Add a black french tip. I will do this one today:D

Step Seven: Top Coat

Evergreen Eyes on Her Blushing Cheek

I wanted to make a post that shows the color of Her Blushing Cheek and of Moonlight Water.


As we all know, glitter show up best IRL, and it tends to show up as purple and pink flecks on the camera which doesn't look good when paired with green. The hightlight color is a mix of Vanilla pigment and Quick Frost from Rushmetal. It's a greenish white with what appears to be little transparent teal flecks in it (possibly reflects gold, but I'm not sure). Next time I will try a more exciting shape as I've gotten in the habit of doing a very basic eye.



Natural Light:




Soft Flash:

A Tartan Tale Teals

Today I went to swap out The Family Crest for Moonlight Night.

Here are some comparison swatches to show that the pigments available in this collection tend to be teal and not straight up green. The Beauties Play It Cool eyeshadow kit has a kelly green in it that reminded me a lot of Urban Decay's Grass. Remember that if you don't have Teal pigment yet, you can get it in one of the lash kits that comes out with this collection. All swatches are over Urban Decay Primer Potion.

Left to Right:
Teal pigment
Moonlight Night wet (LE A Tartan Tale)
Moonlight Night dry (LE A Tartan Tale)
Humid
Sassy Grass (LE Dare to Wear)
UD Grass cream shadow

Teal Obsession

Finally, a chance to wear my beloved blue-greens.

Summer Greens

It has been a very busy summer and it's about to get busier. This time I'm going to be out of the country for a bit so I won't be updating at all. I just wanted to try out Sassy Grass with some old favorites like Eyepopping and Big T (among others).







Gratuitous cat photo:

Tropical Smoke

Last night I went to a friend's birthday party/house warming. It was a nice affair complete with a wide array of people to talk to about a wide range of subjects and her nice home made food :D I decided to use some of the things from TKB that she gave me.





I didn't get more shots because my battery was low and I couldn't find the charger.