LOTD: My Blix Remix for NTMS

This week, in the Facebook group Never To Much Sparkle, the challenge was to do a Blix Remix.  In other words, take a look from the amazing talented Blix and try to recreate it. 

Blix has more talent in her little pinky toe than I have in ALL my parts but I gave it a try just the same!

(I sincerely hope that I can get a decent camera soon.  My camera washed these colors out soooo much.  This is way brighter in person.)

 Eyes
E.L.F. Eyeshadow Primer
Sugarpill Poison Plum (Crease/Lower Lashline)
Sugarpill Bulletproof (Crease)
Fyrinnae Pixie Epoxy (On lid/inner corner/Lower Lashline)
NYX Purple Glitter

My Pretty Zombie 996 (Inner Corner/Lower Lashline)
Physician's Formula Eye Booster eyeliner
Maybelline Define-a-Line eyeliner in Soft BlackMaybelline Lots of Lashes Mascara
Wet N' Wild Lust Palette (Lightest Highlight Color)

(Goofy Face Pic!)

Overall, I was pretty happy with how this turned out. 

Have a great week!

And The Party Doesn't Stop....

I really loved my birthday look.

I loved it so much that I thought about what I could do to make it even better. 

And the answer was obvious.......

MAKE IT BLUE!!!!

After all, blue is my favorite color for eyeshadow--ever.  I've never met a blue that I didn't like.  Okay, that's not entirely true.  I have a love/hate relationship with Sugarpill's Afterparty--it just doesn't work for me.  But aside from that, I have a blind obsession admiration for most blues.

I like this look better than my birthday look.  I feel fabulous and fierce!

I used:
Concrete Minerals Electric Eye Primer
Wet N' Wild Blue Had Me at Hello Palette (I mixed the two dark blues for the crease and put the bright teal on my lower lashline)

Urban Decay Oil Slick (to deepen the crease...I could have used the sparkly black from the Blue palette just as easily)

Sugarpill Tako (blending, highlight)

NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk(Inner corners, brow bone)

My Pretty Zombie Unicorn Pee(inner corners, highlight--applied over Fyrinnae Pixie Epoxy)

NYX Cosmetic Glitter in Blue (on lid)
(applied over Pixie Epoxy)

Physician's Formula Eye Booster Eyeliner, Black
Maybelline Define-a-line eyeliner, Black
Maybelline Great Lash Mascara, Black

Wow!  I blogged two days in a row...this could be the start of something productive.  Or not. :)

Party on my eyeballz! (Happy Birthday EOTD)

Today is my birthday!  I'm refusing to age any more so let's just say I'm turning 27.....again (I've been 27 for years now!)

I did absolutely nothing for my birthday.  It was just an ordinary day.  Later in the week, the family and I will have a celebration dinner of Tacos (my absolute favorite meal) and Pineapple Upside-down Cake (my favorite cake!).  But for today it was just running errands and lounging around.

So I got to thinking....if I couldn't have a party today....I could at least have a party ON MY EYEBALLS!!!!  (I was inspired by the recent look by Vintage or Tacky...which was amazing!)

I used:
Crease:  Sugarpill Poison Plum, 120 Palette (medium purple, raspberry)
Deep Crease:  Urban Decay Oil SlickHighlight:  Sugarpill Tako (to blend out) Urban Decay Grifter (browbone and inner corners)
Lid:  120 Palette (raspberry shade), NYX glitter in Pink and Hot PinkUrban Decay Flash (lower lashline)
Physician's Formula Eye Booster Felt tip eyelinerMaybelline Define a line eyeliner in black (waterline/tightline)
Maybelline Great Lash Mascara (the super black one)

and of course...my camera doesn't even come close to capturing the awesomeness of it!

Do you have a special meal that you like to eat on your birthday?  What's your favorite kind of cake?

A "Pretty" good week :)

Just doing a quick catch up on a few looks that I've done lately but haven't had a chance to post.  Usually, I do make up once or twice a week (usually when I'm going out for the day or for school on Friday night) but this past week, I've set a little time aside during my day to play around.  Even though I really had no where to go and nothing in particular to do, I've been having a lot of fun doing it anyway.

This first one was inspired by this tutorial.  I really like trying to copy my favorite looks from other people, using the products I own.  I like the challenge :)  Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right???

I used:
120 Palette the darkest bright pink

Sugarpill Poison Plum

Wet n' Wild Blue Had Me at Hello--the navy-ish blue on the right hand side

NYX JEP Milk

 The next one I didn't really "copy" anyone exactly.  But I was inspired by MUG's Flower Challenge.  I thought of pansies and came up with this.

I used:
Concrete Minerals UnitySugarpill Poison PlumSugarpill Buttercupcake

Sugarpill Tako

 This one, below, is my favorite of the past week.  Most likely because I really love blues.  April is Autism Awareness Month and, just like last year (holy guacamole...my little blog is a year old!!!! Where did the time go???) I did a blue look to celebrate.  For those of you who may not know, my 8 year old son, Ian-Thayer (we call him Bear), is on the Autism Spectrum.  My close up shots came out pretty crappy but I do have a couple full face pics that I thought were pretty decent!

This one was pretty simple and I used Fyrinnae FuturisticGlamrock and Sugarpill Afterparty, Lips are Urban Decay lip gloss in Naked:

That's it for this time.  Hope everyone has a really great weekend!

Bad Day Booster

Today I had one of the worst days that I've had in quite some time.  It was a wretched day at work followed by an appointment at my son's school that left me feeling drained and utterly miserable.

But when I saw the latest MUG tutorial, I thought to myself...."I bet those colors would cheer me up!"

 

I rarely wear pink....I don't think it looks very good on me, but I felt drawn to try this one.  Even if it was just to take my mind off of things and brighten my mood.  So even though I have nowhere tonight except work (and I sleep there!), I have a face full of bright spring-like make up.

I used:
Concrete Minerals Electric Eye Primer

120 Palette (the same two pinks used in the tutorial)
Sugarpill Buttercupcake
Sugarpill Poison Plum/Bulletproof (Instead of gray and brown used in the tutorial)
Sugarpill Tako (highlight/blending)

NYX JEP Milk (waterline/innercorners)

Sassy Minerals Merlin's Ball (inner corners)
Milani Liquif-eye line in black

I still don't think that Pinks are my thing...but I had a lot of fun putting together my own version of this.  And maybe...just maybe, it brightened my mood a little :)

'Lux of the Irish :)

I didn't actually wear either of these looks for St. Patrick's Day.  I forgot to take pictures that day (which I'm pretty disappointed about because I thought it came out really good!) But I used Sugarpill's Goldilux in both.  It totally lives up to all the hype it gets.  It is THE gold of ALL golds!  It's like real gold in eyeshadow form!  It's just plain awesome in a jar!

I recently got a new phone with a *supposedly* better camera.  While the pictures DO come out more clearly...I'm having an awful time learning to focus the darn thing!  But these were the best of all the pics I took :)

For the first look...I used a dark green shadow from Fyrinnae (Once upon a time, Mathias spilled orange soda on my vanity and the handwritten label smeared right off!  So I have no clue what this shadow is called!) on the lid and blended it out with Tako from Sugarpill.  I layered some Pixie Epoxy along my lashline and then used Goldilux as liner. In real life, this look had sooo much more sparkle!!

 Later in the week, I used Gasoline Rainbow from Sassy Minerals and Goldilux in the inner corners.  This is another instance in which my camera was just incapable of picking up just how pretty and sparkly this look really was.  This was also the first time I've ever put a color other than black in my waterline.  Using white there (I used my NYX JEP in milk with Tako lightly patted over it) wasn't as scary as I had anticipated! :)

I have a few reviews I want to share with you guys but it's getting late and I have to get ready for work...so I guess that will have to wait until at least tomorrow.  Have a great night everyone!

Solidly Sweet

Just thought I'd share two recent LOTDs.

 

First, I wanted to retry my Valentine's Day Look.  I knew I could do it better.  I think it still needs practice but it did come out better this time.

I used:

Sugarpill's Taco

Sugarpill's Poison Plum

Wet n' Wild Liquid EyelinerMilani Liquif-eye Eyeliner

 Next, I was inspired by Petrilude's Green Winged Neon Machine Tutorial .  I really liked how this came out and it's something that I will probably wear again.

I used:

NYX JEP in Horseradish

Concrete Minerals' JuvenileSugarpill's Afterparty

E.L.F. Liquid EyelinerMilani Liquif-eye eyeliner 

That's it for this time.  Hope everyone has a great weekend!

All Kinds of Christmas Related Stuffs! (and makeup too)

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!!

I hope everyone had a great Christmas that was filled with happiness and joy and maybe even a few presents that they've been longing for!  My living room is still filled with toys galore.  Wall-to-wall, no matter how much we try to organize and separate them into sensible piles for each child.  There's even been talk that this is the best. Christmas. ever.  but then again, they say that every year ;)

Almost the whole house has fallen sick with some sort of cold.  Addy, Alex and myself are pretty much flat out sick.  Bear and Mathias are starting to show signs as well.  Jeff and Nathan are the only ones untouched....so far.  On top of that, we are expecting a massive snow storm that is supposed to drop anywhere from 6-12 inches on us.  It will be our first "real" snowfall of the year and I'm not looking forward to it at all.  I hate snow.  Bear, on the other hand, was really sad that we didn't have a white Christmas so he's getting his wish (just a few days late) and he couldn't be happier about it.

I have two looks to share.  The first one I did for the fun of it on the 23rd.  I was inspired by a house near my job.  It's decorated in tons of sparkly light blue and dark blue lights, with some white lights for an accent.  It looked soooo pretty!

I used:
UDPP (original)
NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil (Milk)
120 Palette (light teal, the speckled dark blue, and the darkest purple, and white to highlight)

Color Workshop liquid eyeliner (Silver on the upper lid)

Maybelline Define-a-line eyeliner (water line, smudged a bit under lower lashline)
Maybelline Falsies mascara

Two looks before the weekend (and my sad tale of woe that has a happy ending)

This has been the most stressful ten days that I've had in quite some time!  Our car broke down last week.  We've only had it for four months.  The extended warranty refused to cover the repairs and the dealership's 90-day warranty expired last month.  And even if we had the money to cover the $2800 in repairs--the transmission might still need to be replaced!!!  We live in a semi-rural area and we're dependent on our vehicle to get us just about everywhere.  That's why we made the decision to purchase a car from a dealer and get an extended warranty--we wanted peace of mind that stuff like this wasn't going to happen. 

My mom has been nice enough to take us to the laundromat and grocery store.  She let me spend the night at her house and brought me to school last weekend. 

I just honestly haven't felt like doing much in the way of my make up though.  I did one look last Friday and one today.

On a positive note....Alex has been calling the dealership almost everyday and fighting with them.  Finally, we got good news.  The extended warranty company was convinced to cover the $2800 of repairs AND replace the transmission!!!  We just have to cover the deductible.  Woo Hoo!!!!

On to the looks....

Last Friday I was inspired by Robyn at  Stay Beautiful.  She did a series of Retro/Pin-Up posts.  I've never been able to get the pin-up look quite right but this is the best attempt I've done.  I didn't hate it :)
I used my 120 palette, Maybelline Lineur Intense eyeliner, and Maybelline Define-a-line eyeliner.

For my lips, I used Fyrinnae's Acidic Cherry and Urban Decay's Guys Love Betsy Lip Gloss


I look goofy and sleepy here but it was the best full face shot I took :)
(I had my headphones in listening to an audiobook)



Today, since I was in such a good mood, I wanted to do something very cheerful.  I was inspired by Jazziebabycakes To Infinity and Beyond tutorial.  I didn't do nearly as good a job, but I like it. :)

I used NYX JEP in Horseradish and Milk(inner corners and in my sad double wing attempt), Concrete Minerals' Juvenile, Concrete Minerals' Swamped, Sassy Minerals' Reflecting Pool(over Fyrinnae Pixie Epoxy)



Lips are Fyrinnae Deceptive Innocence--just because I couldn't decide what I wanted to do with my lips.

Just wanted to say that school is going well.  I did really well on the three tests that I took last Saturday.  I got a 100 and 105 on my two Medical Terminology tests and a 94 on my Biology exam. 

Have a great weekend everybody!!!

Back in the swing of things :)

This is my first attempt at makeup with any real effort since my eye infection.  It was inspired by the shirt I wanted to wear today:

It's just a cheap t-shirt from Wal-Mart but it's black, purple and hot pink.  Plus it has a bunch of sparkly glitter on it which makes it one of my favorites :)

I also purchased my first NYX jumbo pencils last weekend and I've been itching to try them out.  I think I got a really great deal on them.  I won 3 of them in an ebay auction for $4!!!!  Since they normally run about four dollars apiece, it's like I got two for free--and I loves me some free stuff!  The three I picked out were milk (of course), black bean, and horseradish.

Because I think I look terrible in pink (which is a shame because I adore hot pink looks) I made this look a simple purple and black.

I used the black bean jumbo pencil as a base, and black and dark purple from my 120 palette.  Although I decided not to post a full face shot, I was wearing Urban Decay XXX shine cooling lip gloss in Naked.  I'm really not a fan of lip gloss but out of all the glosses I've tried these are my favorite.  I know the tingling probably puts some people off but I really like it and they don't make my lips feel uncomfortable like most glosses do.  I love the color.  It's like my bare lips--just better! 

**Today's Tidbits**

My Mood:  Cheerful!  Didn't do much today, just ran to the hardware store for a special screwdriver.  But it was a beautiful day and I was blissfully lazy.  I got to spend quality time with  my loved ones and play with my makeup.  How could that not be a great day???

My Song:  I'm going to pick a whole album today.  I just picked up the new Eminem album, Recovery and I loved it.  I'm a big fan and it didn't disappoint. 

My Look:  I paired up the makeup and tee with my denim mini-skirt and a pair of flip flops.  My hair was thrown up in a messy bun.  A lazy look for a lazy day :)

My Dinner:  We had a 'Big Booty Salad' again.  It's such a favorite that my daughter asks for it every week when I'm making our menu/grocery list.  Diet Dr. Pepper to drink.