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.

June Happenings

Long time no update. The end of last month, and all of this month have been crazy busy for me. I had rainbow nails for quite some time and people seemed to enjoy the Skittles effect, so here goes nothing.





After that I had a blast at my brother's graduation, but unfortunately no pictures makeupwise from that. I do happen to have pictures of last night.





Seeing as I was in the process of moving, I'm surprised that this came out kind of nice. I have pics of the outfit (all be it kind of blurry) which I was quite proud of. I fell in love with the scarf when I first saw it in an African gift shop in the area and I feel that it was really the pivot of this outfit.

Temperature Rising

Today the UPS man came by with a box for me :D It had my Orange Lip Mix and Temperature Rising (orange lip pencil). Needless to say I was excited and wanted to try it out right away.

I know that orange is quite bold for a lot of people, but to tell you the truth, I was first captivated by lip colors in a Vogue that I bought in fall of 2006 that had a neon orange lip with what I later identified to be a golden yellow sheen in the middle of it.

One thing I really do have to say about orange is that if you're not careful you might look like you lost control of yourself in a bag of Cheetos. Like this:

Temperature Rising alone


Temperature Rising with red gloss


Temperature Rising with luster finish coral lipstick and orange coral gloss


Temperature Rising with coral pink lipstick and coral gloss


Temperature Rising with fuchsia pink lipstick and fuchsia pink gloss


Temperature Rising and Orange Lip Mix


Temperature Rising and Orange Lip Mix with pink and gold contouring (next time I will skip the pink and opt for red).

To the Beach Blues

So I'm only adding these swatches because Wangie asked me to (I was only planning on sharing them in a locked space before). This is a teal look I made using some of the new products from Mac's To the Beach collection, namely Float on By and Flurry of Fun (Uh-Maize-Ing color). I also used a solid blue (Royal Wink) and Black with this look. This reminds me a lot of my expectations from Blast 'O' Blue (C-shock).







Here I was earlier in the day w/o Royal Wink.



I really had a lot of fun with this, but I don't plan on me posting things like this too often.

Fresh Cut Flowers

Just a purple look from yesterday. For some reason, photographing purples never works well for me. This was really bright, but came washed out in all of the photos that I took. There was MUFE 92 in this look which is really really bright.







And just because I liked the stripes:

Red and Black

Well last night was a very good night. I went to a bar that I know didn't make mojitos, but I stopped by the nearby Safeway just to pick up some mint (just in case). Luckily the bartender was open to making us mojitos. She didn't know how, but she made a really nice crack at it for a beginner. :)

The look of the night featured red and black with lots of glittery sparkly things.
These are red leggings with black lace leggings on top.

Quick Update

Like I said last time, it's just that time of year when everything is crazy with wrapping everything up.
Never the less, I had a chance to go to MAC and get Opulash. It's AMAZING. I have tiny little stumps of lashes and this really colors them and lengthens them. I also like how quickly this dries unlike other MAC mascaras. I hear that people compare it to DiorShow, but since I don't use products by Dior I don't know.

I also picked up Cherry Electric SuperGlass. *LOVE*
Here is a swatch of a custom color (Magenta lip liner, Impassioned Lipstick, Frozen White Pigment).

With Glimmer Glass:


The one drawback to this is the staying power of the glitter. Staying power is a good thing, but something about this seemed to be a little stronger than other glittery products (Dazzleglass) that I've used.

I also love the thought of shiny glassy looking black lips so I worked on making a lip gloss. Then I started using that with my black lipstick and picked up the white Luster Glass. I'm planning on wearing this out tomorrow night.
Matte:

Shiny:


In other news: Cat attacks griffin.