Shakeup Your Makeup

I have absolutely fallen in love with my two Urban Decal pallets from Christmas.  Dragon might be the best green I've worked with in a long time (used it here), but I am also loving the matte shadows in both of these sets.  I don't typically go for mattes, but I am learning how to use them to blend into creases and create some different combinations with them, although it has been a struggle because most brands matte shadows are so chalky and difficult to work with.  Not so much with UD!

I have been eyeing Heroine in the Vice3 pallet, but typically don't wear blues.  I decided to mix it with Disco and a whole lot of glitter to have some fun!

Here is the look, below:

Face:

L'Oreal True Match Liquid Foundation - N1

L'Oreal True Match Powder N1

Mally Bronzer - contour

Mally Beauty AirBrush Blush "Afterglow"

Artist Couture Diamond Glow Powder "Conceited" - highlight - BTW, if you haven't check out Artist Couture, you absolutely have to.  These will have their own post in the near future!

Eyes:

Urban Decay Primer Potion

Urban Decay Downfall - upper crease

Urban Decay Heroine - cut crease, blended into Downfall

Urban Decay Disco - lid

Urban Decay Bobby Dazzle - highlight

Mary Kate & Ashley Sequin Glitter in All Over Gold

Physician's Formula Gel Eyeliner

Younique Moodstruck 3D Fiber Lashes Mascara

Lips:

ColourPop Cosmetics Lippie Stick in Brink

(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

After falling in love with the L'Oreal Infallible eyeshadows, I was very excited to see some new additions to the Infallable line with the Eye Crayons.  There are several colors available - if you haven't seen them head over to Nouveau Cheap and check them out - but I picked up two of the basic colors: Forever Taupe and Midnight Charcoal.

I don't have any EOTD's or FOTD's to show you yet, as I have been testing this out various different ways, but so far so good!  I have not experienced any budging or smearing, particularly when worn on my lower lashline, which is an added plus!

Below are some swatches, just so you can see the colors.  Have you tried these yet?  

Hands down one of the best drug store products I've come across in recent history are the new L'Oreal Infallible eyeshadows.  I have picked up several of them over the past year, and one of my favorite colors is Golden Emerald, which I am wearing in this FOTD.  I paired it with my Milani Infinite eyeliner in "Eternal" to really brighten the look.  Using Eternal actually made the L'Oreal appear more brown, so it obviously played the golden tones up more than it does standing alone or with black liner.  I really liked the combination.

Scroll down for more pictures.  Unfortunately, as I did this several weeks ago, I can't remember what else I used!

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!

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

The new products keep coming!  Another new collection from L'oreal - Extraordinaire by Colour Riche is a new lip color collection boasting richer color, smoother lips and shinier finish!  I have seen the advertisements in the January catalogs, but the color selection in person is fantastic.  I had a couple in my hand and decided to wait (not sure why!).   

I can't find much about the new Maybelline nail color collection, called Straight From the Shows (the Color Show line), but it was a collection of mostly rich cremes, and maybe one or two shimmers.  There were three colors that really stood out to me - two glitters (Emerald City and Diamond in the Rough) and a shimmer called Frozen Over.  Closeups of these are below.  

(Emerald City - Left and Diamond in the Rough - Right)

Frozen Over reminds me of a Sinful Color's shade called Cinderella, although Cinderella had more blue/color to the base.  Both are pictured side by side for comparison!

So have you seen either of these collections out yet?  Did you pick anything up?  Love to hear what your thoughts were!

The newest addition to the gel manicure phenomenon is L'Oreal's Extrodinaire Gel-Lacque 1-2-3 System, featuring a non-LED method to create gel nails.  The display has 14 colors to choose from - all creams - along with the base and top coat that go along with the system.  

Closeups off the bottles and color names below.  The individual colors were $7.99 each, and the base/top coat set was $12.99, so basically $21 to get started.  I am not sure if there were any coupons with it, but L'oreal coupons aren't difficult to come by if you check the weekly circular!  

Have you seen these?  Take a look at the pics below!!

I have seen a lot of chatter about the new L'oreal Voluminous Butterfly mascara on Instagram and around the blogs, so when I saw it at Walmart ($7.97) I picked up a tube of the Blackest Black to try out.  The tube itself is the standard Voluminous tube, but silver.  

The brush has a unique design.  Where the "top" portion of the brush is pretty standard for the Voluminous line, the bottom extends out to these long combs, reminiscent to me of the old Rimmel Extreme Volume, which had a comb brush.  This, the Voluminous, actually curves to fit the shape of the lashes, with the shorter combs being on the inside and the longer combs are on the outside.  

A couple different views of the comb below - all pics can be enlarged for better viewing.

(side view)

(top view)

Below is a closeup of the mascara on.  The product itself is definitely buildable.  I didn't experience any clumping, so you can definitely get a lot of length and can continue to build until you get to the volume you desire.  I really like how the brush gets up against the lashline, but I don't experience the smudging or smearing along the lashline I get with a standard brush that you are pushing up there to get close and pull across the lashes.  Because of the comb portion, I also feel like all of the lower lashes get a good coat of mascara, so it is enhancing the small lashes there.  I will say, the standard Voluminous and the Voluminous Million lashes seem to give me better volume.  

Bottom line - I like it.  I'd buy it again, although it isn't my all time favorite mascara.  Still, the brush and the price make this very price friendly and easy to use!