Shakeup Your Makeup

ColourPop Cosmetics released their Ultra Satin Lip collection several weeks ago, and I picked up a couple of new shades, including this beautiful blue-toned red, called London Fog.  The texture on these is very light and not gloppy or sticky at all.  I really like semi-matte finish as well.  Not shiny like a gloss, and not completely dry/matte like the Ultra Matte Lippies.  

I love discovering new indie companies and sharing them with you!  I was running through Instagram the other day, and stumbled across Bitter Lace Beauty, an adorable Etsy Shop that has a variety of highlighters to choose from.  I picked up UnBirthday, which is a gorgeous swirl of turquoise, gold, pink, coral and violet.  When brushed on the skin, it is the most beautiful and bright way of turning the lights on your skin.  I couldn't be happier with the purchase, and I know I will be going back for more!  

I purchased two UnBirthday, one for me, and one for my sister.  Look at how different each one is!

Above, the UnBirthday I kept for myself.  I absolutely love all of the colors, and look at how illuminating it is!  The colors all swirl together beautifully, and make just a gorgeous color on the skin.  With precise application, you could grab any of the colors individually to use as an eye-shadow or highlight as well.  

Below, UnBirthday on me.  Everything I am wearing is broken down below:

Face:

Laura Geller Primer Potion

Laura Geller Balance 'n Brighten in Fair

Younique Beachfront Bronzer to contour

Nars Orgasm Blush

Bitter Lace Beauty UnBirthday - highlight

Eyes

Urban Decay Gwen Stefani Pallet: Zone, Serious, Blackout and 1987

Laura Geller Fortifying Lash Primer Mascara - top and bottom lashes

Kiss True Volume Lashes in Ritzy

Jeffree Star Velour Liquid Lipstick Weirdo as eyeliner

Lips

LipKit by Kylie in Mary Jo

I received my next installment of the Laura Geller Italian Garden set came, and it's a beauty!  I have a lot of Laura Geller, and I mean alot, but none of the shadows I own are blue.  This is an absolutely gorgeous set, and I will swatch them later this week.  

(without flash)

(with flash)

(Urban Decay Vice LTD)

I'm not going to lie, I went ahead and woke up at 2:00 in the morning to make sure I could get my hands on the relaunch of the Urban Decay Vice LTD pallet.  In the meantime, I had already purchased the Vice 3 Pallet, and had decided it was my Christmas present to myself, so held off on using it until just now.   

(Urban Decay Vice3)

For the look below wanted to use the new Revlon PhotoReady Eye Art I posted swatches of yesterday.  Here is what I used:

Face

Laura Geller Spackle Primer

Loreal True Match Foundation N1

Loreal True Match Powder N1

Nars Laguna Bronzer - contour

Mally Beauty AirBrush Blush in Afterglow

Eyes:

Urban Decay Primer Potion

Urban Decay Disco (Vice LTD Pallet) -inner corner/lower lashline

Urban Decay Dragon (Vice 3 Pallet) - middle of lid / lower lashline

Urban Decay Downfall (Vice 3 pallet) - upper crease

Urban Decay Defy (Vice 3 pallet) - blended into Downfall into crease and along lower lashline

Urban Decay Bobby Dazzle (Vice 3 pallet) - highlight

Physicians Formula Gel Eyeliner - black

Younique 3D Fiberlash Moodstruck Mascara

Lips

Revlon Colorblast Matte in Standout

Milani HD Advanced Lip Color in Candy Apple

Today on the blog, a silver-smokey holiday look.  This one is actually quite easy to do, and uses L'Oreal Infallible eyeshadow in Liquid Diamond and a black matte eyeshadow (I used Urban Decay in Black Out).  Add a pop of glitter to the center of the lid, some matte red lips, and you are ready to hit the holiday scene!

Here is what I am wearing:

Face

Laura Geller Spackle Primer - all over face

It Cosmetics Bye Bye Undereye concealer 

Bare Escentuals Mineral Foundation in Fair (original formula)

Bare Escentuals Mineral Veil

Mally Beauty Bronzer (light) - cheek bones

Mally Beauty Effortless Airbrush Blush in Afterglow/Pure Light

Eyes

NYX HD Eyeshadow Primer - all over lid

Urban Decay Naked2 Pallet - Tease - upper crease

Urban Decay Naked2 Pallet - Blackout - crease and outer corner of lid

L'Oreal Infallible in Liquid Diamond - inner corner, blended into UD Blackout in middle of lid

MAC Vanilla Pigment - highlight

Fyrinnae Pixie Epoxy - middle of lid

Mary Kate & Ashley Sequin Shimmer Dust - Sparkling Night - middle of lid

Lips

Revlon Matte Color Burst in Standout

Taking a step away from my "neutral" rut I've been in recently, I decided to play matchy-matchy with my shirt and wear a rich emerald green smokey eye.  To do this, I am using an old shadow I dug up - Hard Candy Meteorite Shadow in Space Cadet (a rich emerald frost with emerald glitter), as well as Aromaleigh Spectacularly Ignorant and Urban Decay Naked2 Pallet.  

For the look, here is how I did it:

Face

Laura Geller Spackle

Laura Geller Balance 'n Brighten in Fair

Laura Geller Balance 'n Bronze - contour

Laura Geller Blush 'n Brighten in Golden Apricot - blush

Eyes:

Urban Decay Naked2 Pallet - Tease - upper crease

Urban Decay Naked2 Pallet - Blackout - crease, outer corner

Hard Candy Space Cadet - all over lid / on top of Fyrinnae Pixie Epoxy

Aromaleigh Spectacularly Ignorant - inner corner, lower lashline - on top of Pixie Epoxy

Urban Decay Naked2 Pallet - Foxy - highlight

Lips

NYX Lipstick Thalia

Hope you like!

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This morning's FOTD/EOTD features more Younique products...this time, their pigments.  I wanted to play around with some greens and blues, so I picked Dignified and Empowered out of my samples, as well as a matte rust brown called Beautiful.  Empowered is a very pale sea foam green with golden duochrome.  Dignified is a rich turquoise, with sparks of green, blue and gold.  I mixed these colors with NYX Sunset, a rich orange to burnt orange frost and the Blackout shade from the Urban Decay Naked 2 pallet.  

The Younique pigments are very rich and, I know...shocker...PIGMENTED!  They are very smooth, creamy, and a little goes a long way.  I used the Dignified as a liner on the bottom by applying it wet, and it went on extremely smoothly and did not fall into the lines along my undereye.  The mattes applied effortlessly, without any chalkiness or grabbing and pulling on the lid.  I have been extremely impressed with how well the shadows blend together, to create that seamless transition between colors.  

On top of how workable these pigments are, let me tell you a few more things about them:

-  They are 100% Natural

-  They are chemical free

-  Mineral based

-  They are free of talc oils, preservatives, perfumes, synthetic dyes and parabens

-  No creasing, smudging or smearing!

At $10 a pop, these are going to last you a very long time, and are very versatile.  I can't wait to create some more looks and share them with you!

A few more shots, as well as full face FOTD's below.  As always, feel free to click the image to make larger!

To create the look above/below, here is what I used:

Face:

Laura Geller Spackle

It Cosmetics Bye Bye Undereye Concealer

Laura Geller Balance 'n Brighten - Fair

Mally Beauty Bronzer - contouring

Nars Blush in Orgasm

Eyes

Urban Decay Primer Potion - all over lid

Urban Decay Naked Pallet 2 Blackout - outer V and halfway through crease

Younique Pigment "Beautiful" - just above and blended into Blackout, and all the way across crease

NYX Sunset - blended above & into Younique Beautiful along crease

Younique Dignified - blended into blackout on outer corner/V and halfway across lid - applied wet along lower lashline

Younique Empowered - inner corner of lid

Younique Innocent - blended into NYX and up to browbone

Mally Mascara - one coat along lower lashline

Younique Moodstruck 3D Fiber Lashes - upper lashes

Lips:

Revlon Color Stay Mineral Lipglaze in Timeless Nude

(Click the picture above for a larger view of all available colors)

If you would like to order any of the pigments, mascara, or other Younique brands, feel free to click the link which takes you to my online Younique Party I'm hosting!

Is it summer yet?  I don't know where you guys are, but here in the Midwest we keep getting teased with a day or two of nice warm sunshine, and then it reverts back to wet, dreary, and cold!  In an effort to bring back that warm sun, I was playing around with some warm golden hues the other day, and thought I would share.  I will detail the look a little bit later, but the eyeshadows I used are below.  From top left, clockwise they are:  Aromaleigh Elements Lustre in "Fraud", Sassy Minerals "Pandora's Box" and the bottom shade is Fyrinnae's "Druid Wererwolf".

To create the look below, I used Laura Geller's Baked Minerals Foundation in Fair on top of her Ethereal Rose Spackle.  The blush I am using is Laura Geller's split Blush 'n Brighten in Ethereal Rose and Subtle Orchid.  I absolutely love this shade - it is the brightest, happiest pink blush I think I own.  For my eyes, I used the following:

Fyrinnae Pixie Epoxy - all over lid

Sassy Minerals "Pandora's Box" - outer corner, crease

Aromaleigh Elemental Lustre "Fraud" - inner portion of lid

Fyrinnae "Druid Werewolf" - inner corner and blended into crease, as well as blended at crease up into highlight

MAC Vanilla Pigment - highlight

My lips are It Cosmetics "Je ne sais quoi".

A day late on posting my St. Patrick's Day EOTD, featuring Aromaleigh and Fyrinnae, but better late than never!  I have absolutely fallen in love with Spectacularly Ignorant from Aromaleigh.  This gorgeous evergreen with gold sparks really blends well with a lot of other colors I have in my collection, so I tend to reach for it a lot.  I blended it into Dark Fantasy from the Fyrinnae Archane Magic collection to create a deep smokey eye for St. Patty's.  

Hopefully everyone had a great day yesterday!  Anyone find that pot of gold we've all been looking for? :)  

Playing off of yesterday's post of bright pink, today features Maybelline's "Mythical Mermaid" Eyestudio Pallet in a bright neon green smokey eye.  The bright yellow/green in this pallet has some iridescent shimmer, but isn't a chrome, so works well with the matte black on the Wet 'n Wild "Blue had Me at Hello" pallet to create the smokey eye.  Where the black and yellow/green meet, I blended the olive shade from the Rimmel Green Sapphire pallet, as well as placed this along the lower lashline on top of black, blended into the yellow/green from the Maybelline set.  I used a matte ivory from an old Hard Candy pallet on the brow bone.  

I actually had some patience this morning, so I really like how this turned out.    I need to take my time more often!  Full details on the FOTD below.  

Face:

Laura Geller Spackle Primer

IT Cosmetics Bye Bye Undereye Concealer in Fair

Laura Geller Balance 'n Brighten - Light

Mally Bronzer in Light as a contour

MAC Mineralize Blush "Daft Pink"

Eyes:

Laura Geller Eye Spackle

Wet 'n Wild "Blue Had Me at Hello" - matte black - outer corner, crease

Rimmel "Green Sapphire" - olive green - blended on lid and ontop of black in the crease, lower lashline

Maybelline EyeStudio Mythical Mermaid - yellow/green - inner corner, lower lashline

Milani Infinite Liquid Eyeliner - Black

L'oreal Voluminous Butterfly Mascara - Black

Lips:

Mally Liquid Lipstick "Mally's Look"

Here's a quick look at all three pallets used, too.  Thanks for stopping by!

Yesterday, it was 67 degrees here....today, snow with a low of 9.  I am so incredibly ready for spring, so I decided to play around with some bright pinks to brighten the mood.  Fyrinnae Chaotic Evil is a neon pink frost that I received a sample of a couple of months ago, but haven't had time to try out until now.  What an absolutely fun and bright color!  I paired that with Sake & Sashimi in my crease, and really like how the colors blended together.  

Face:

Laura Geller Primer

IT Cosmetics Bye Bye Undereye concealer - light

Laura Geller Balance 'n Brighten - fair

Mally Beauty Bronzer in Fair - contour

Laura Geller Blush 'n Brighten Pink Grapefruit - blush

Eyes:

Fyrinnae Pixie Epoxy 

Fyrinnae Chaotic Evil - lid

Fyrinnae Sake & Sashimi - crease

Fyrinnae Velvet Vampire - blended into crease and along lower lashline

MAC Vanilla Pigment - highlight

Milani Liquid Eyeliner - Black

Mally's Volumizing Mascara - Black

Lips

Jane Lipstick - I can't remember the name!

All this snow has me thinking about warm beaches and tropical blue waters.  So....when I found a $2 off coupon for L'oreal and was able to pick up the Infallible shadow in "Dive Right In", I decided to build a EOTD around this color that could get me out of the winter doldrums.  (Click on any of the images below to enlarge).

I just received a new order of Aromaleigh eyeshadows, two of which went really well with Dive Right In, so I decided to coordinate around them.  Spectacularly Ignorant (from the Sherlock Holmes "Brilliant Deductions" collection) and Tribute Token (from the Hunger Games "Ever In Your Favor" collection) are two absolutely stunning, multifaceted, colors.  Can we talk about how absolutely gorgeous these are?  Not to mention, pigmented, long lasting, and just down right unique!  

Spectacularly Ignorant is a very deep teal to evergreen base with golden shimmer.  Tribute Token is a mustard green that has pink and copper shimmer.  Both are extremely multifaceted, and it is difficult to capture in the pictures below, although the swatch of Tribute Token is pretty close.  

For the look below, I used the following:

Face:

Laura Geller Spackle Primer (original)

It Cosmetics Bye Bye Undereye Concealer in Light

Laura Geller Baked Elements Foundation in Fair

Mally Bronzer in Light - contour

Laura Geller Baked Heart Blush 'n Brighten in Pink Valentine

Eyes:

Fyrinnae Pixie Epoxy

Aromaleigh Tribute Token - inner corner, lower lashline

L'oreal Infallible Dive Right In - middle of lid

Aromaleigh Spectacularly Ignorant - crease, outer corner, and wet as liner

MAC Phloof - highlight

L'oreal Voluminous Butterfly Mascara in Black

Lips:

Laura Geller Love Me Dew Lip Crayon in Lychee Glace

Laura Geller has some of my all-time favorite blushes, so when I saw her "Colors of Love" collection being presented on QVC a few weeks ago, I had to pick this one up.  

The set consists of a baked blush/highlighter and a lip crayon.  As I have recently fallen in love with lip crayons, thanks to the likes of Revlon, I was anxious to try one of Laura's as well.  

First up, the blush.  Look at how absolutely gorgeous this is.  The color is called "Pink Valentine", and is a coral base with golden shimmer.  The heart highlighter is a shimmery champagne shade, similar (if not identical) to Portofino.  This blush is like Nars Orgasm, only brighter. 

The lip crayon, Lychee Glace, is a bright coral, without shimmer.  This goes on very pigmented, with a nice shine.  The crayon itself is adjusted from the base, like other crayons are.  A nice, thick crayon, it is hefty enough of a product to apply easily, and doesn't feather into your lines.  It is sticky enough to last a majority of the day without a need to reapply, but doesn't dry out your lips like a lot of lasting lip colors are known to do.  

Swatches side-by-side of all three shades below.  When you swirl the blush together, there is just the added depth of the highlighter, although if you have a small enough blush-brush, you can reach for it alone to highlight your cheek bones.  These are some gorgeous shades, for sure!  Definitely a nice step up from your average box of chocolates on Valentines Day....go ahead, treat yourself!

Recently Laura Geller introduced a new baked foundation on QVC in her Today's Special Value, so I picked up the Fair shade.  The kit comes with the foundation, a blush, a large kabuki brush and a liquid lipstick.  I have been playing with this set, and yet to take some FOTD's, but I will try and post some in the upcoming week using the collection.  Below are some closeups.  

From the QVC Site:

What is it: Crave-worthy, neutral-hued makeup from Laura Geller, including Laura's exciting NEW foundation innovation--Baked Elements Foundation. This collection also includes Baked Brulee Blush and Luscious Lips Liquid Lipstick in fresh new colors, plus a kabuki brush for easy application.

Who is it for: All skin types. The universally flattering shades make this collection a must-have for every woman's beauty wardrobe.

Why is it different: NEW Baked Elements Foundation delivers luminous, buildable, full matte coverage while nourishing and hydrating skin with hyaluronic acid, vitamin E, and jojoba oil.

Immediately after use, 100% of women saw an improvement in the look of fine lines, hydration, radiance, and skin tone.

Formulated with Vitamin E and a special texturizing gel, Luscious Lips Liquid Lipstick is a highly pigmented, full-coverage formula that glides on as a liquid and dries to a weightless, semi-matte finish--never dry or sticky.

How do I use it: Using the large retractable angled kabuki brush, sweep Baked Elements Foundation all over the face, targeting areas of discoloration. For fuller coverage, apply with the sponge applicator found in the bottom of the compact.

The foundation has a slight pearl to it, although just to brighten the skin.  It certainly doesn't make you look like a disco ball, like some can.  There definitely is a difference in the coverage if you use a brush, or the sponge (below).  Full coverage on the sponge, which I find us really nice to use under the eyes - the pearl in the foundation really helps brighten the dark circles.  

The blush is absolutely gorgeous - a perfect flush with some shimmer to brighten the complexion and the color is truly that of pinched cheeks.  

Did you happen to pick this up?  What do you think so far?