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:

Dare to Wear

Today I went to MAC to look at the brand new "Dare to Wear" collection. I must say that C-shock can eat its heart out. I love the fact that most of the eyeshadows which are featured in this collection are bright matte colors. There have just been too many times when I'm creating a look with greens or blues and only wished that I could have more matte colors to blend into the crease. While the Color-Pop collection satisfied my desire for matte blue shadows, there was still a gap in my collection with green.

The lip glosses which came out with this collection are also kickin'. They are hands down better than Dazzleglass as the payoff is so much better and can be sheered down if needed. Unfortunately I've had way too much glitter overload. Thanks MAC for releasing so many glittery lip products at once. The best colors from this collection are: Ban This! (deep violet), Bold and Brash (raspberry red), and Gimmie That (fuchsia).

All in all, I only got Sassy Grass (emerald green) from this collection. :)

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: