BE Rocker Star is one of my favorite sets. I had some trouble applying it this morning, working around everyone that was getting in and out of the bathroom, then I realized I forgot to start with the sparkly beige powder base I usually begin with. Hello! It looks more even than the photos show, and I accidentally deleted one photo, but these give you an idea.

Eyes:
BE Rocker Star -- great colors and a wonderful brush, the one end does narrow lining
Medium Shade in crease; Darker sparklier shade in outer corners; Dry Lined with darkest black on top.
Inner eyes: flash of bright color from NYX Purple Shadow
Lined bottom: MAC graphblack in waterline; earthline just below it
Lined top NYX Jet Black pen liner -- probably should have bought extreme black.
Mascara: NYX Glitter Wand in midnight Hard to get this to show up on my eye, but it is a gorgeous shade. I might use it as liner.
Brows: Clinique Blond pencil

Cheeks: NARS The Multiple in Riviera

Lips: NYX Chandelier This is really a gorgeous color and very nice formula. The pictures don't do it justice. A really great light-medium orchid pink with a lot of sparkle. Every bit as nice as Too Faced; maybe not quite as sparkly.

I love the way the Purple NYX shadow pops the smokey eye look (though they don't call it their Smokey Eye set.)

What do you think?

Karin

Originally posted 2009-03-07 10:23:27.

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Today I was doing some more organizing -- putting all my magenta-type lippies in one place and putting my Meow samples by colors. Then I marked them all by their descriptions. I have a disproportionate number of Meow purples and lavenders, though I like to wear those colors. I did have 2 grays and one taupe (which looked green in the ziplock.) That's how I saw and decided what colors to wear. I started with the lipstick, knowing I wanted to wear that again, plus the enhancer I beaded for my daughter's newest bright green pendant (I'm wearing it). Then I saw the Meow colors and knew I was hooked for today.

Eyes: all Meow except where noted, in the order of application
Crease: Taupe -- this looked green in the bag; looks taupe on, though it pulls some lavender in the pictures -- I didn't put any lavender into it except possibly at the lowest point of the crease
Inner corners: Misdemeanor VandalEyes -- citrus green with gold -- love this green!
Outer corners: Jessica R ScandalEyes grape

This is sort of the look I get when I do my mascara, as I tilt my head back and look in a hand held mirror to do the top lashes. Only this picture was taken when totally finished. You can see the gradience of the colors.

Mascara: top, Guerlain; lower:Tarte
Brows: Merle Norman powder
Lined lower: Mary Kay Tahitian Gold (love this color!)
Tight lined top and wetlined lower: Venomous gel liner (the purple that BookGirl liked so well)
Drylined top: Tongue Tied IdealEyes Deep Smoky Plum

No concealer

Sunscreen Neutragena, on face; La Prairie, on my neck
Primer: Avon Magix
Foundation: Chanel, discontinued
No highlighting
Rouge (under my sparkly powder mix) Maybelline Rose Petal Mousse
Blush (over) NARS Riviera stick

Lips: Beauticontrol Perfect Azalea topped with BE Buxom Dominique gloss (clear with white, light blue and silver micro shimmer) -- BookGirl likes this -- I used to wear it a lot.

What I think
When I compare this to yesterday's look, I like the teal greens (better?) but I do like this look and will wear it again. If I don't compare it, I think, good look! Plus I've had several compliments on the lippie, which I need to begin to wear more often again. It's one of their older colors when they color coordinated everything to your season, not that I could wear all the colors that were supposedly mine.

What do you think?

Karin

Originally posted 2009-05-14 13:02:31.

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I first read about The Multiple about a year ago. An Asian MUA wrote in her blog that this was her favorite go-to product. That she used it on eyes-cheeks-lips-bronzer-etc. It piqued my curiosity. No one sells Nars locally so I tend to be less familiar with the line. I put it on my list for when I was out of town. Then I never remembered until more recently.

When I first looked at it, her color was too strong for me, so I hesitated to buy. It took a second trip before I felt I knew which color I might like to try. For $37, I didn't want to make a mistake!

Nars The Multiple
The Multiple is the original all-in-one, cream-to-powder, multi-purpose makeup stick. With fingertip application, The Multiple highlights, sculpts, and warms eyes, cheeks, lips, and body in an array of shades from sheer accents to mauve and bronze. Sephora

The Back Story

In 1996 Harper's Bazaar did a story featuring six of the top makeup artists of the time. The direction for each was to pick their favorite model, pick their favorite look and the magazine would credit every product used.

Carolyn Murphy was the choice of François Nars. François was inspired to showcase beautiful, translucent looking skin - a departure from the heavily matted skin in fashion at the time. François choose to use a single lipstick on eyes, cheeks and lips to add a touch of color and a healthy glow. Nothing else was added.
NARS was credited with exactly the one product. The caption read: “NARS Brown Out - Tangier Lipstick on eyes, face and lips”

Soon customers started buying lipstick for eyes, face and lips to re-create the beautiful skin they'd seen in Harper's Bazaar, but we all know that lipstick is not the best for face and eyes. This led François to create a universal texture - The Multiple was born. A revolutionary stick for the entire face in a cream-to-powder formula that was oil-free. You can see the picture online at Nars.

I've used this for my cheeks before, but had not tried it for lips until today.

The texture
I felt it started out creamier in the container. The top feels drier, more powdery now, I think -- I'll have to check it out at a counter -- but it still works fine. If it continues to dry, it might not work as well.

If you use this, what is your texture like?

It felt a little dry on my lips until I used gloss in the center.

My take:
Cheeks
I like it for rouge (under my powder) and also as blush (over the powder.)
Eyes I haven't tried it on my eyes yet. Maybe tomorrow. Picture will follow, if I do.
Bronzer I'm sure it would work well. I think my color, Riviera, is more suited as blush.
My finished lip I thought it was soft and pretty.

Using Beauté technique
See more about the technique here. See other pictures of the lippie here.
Lips: Nars Riviera, on entire lip
MAC Kitty Power glitter eyeliner, used to rim. This is a gorgeous shade, very pretty on the lips. I've used it less so far on my eyes.
NYX Chandelier in center. This is a pretty orchid pink shade.

Have you tried The Multiple?
What is your favorite color? Do you tend to use it for only one thing or do you use it in multiple ways?

Karin
5 for concept -- I like the idea of getting multiple uses. I'll probably take it if I travel.
$$$ a little pricey
5 for Riviera; I like it a lot. If you choose a color that is right for you, you'd likely feel the same.

Originally posted 2009-04-06 14:12:30.

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I had fun with this today, and I'm happy with how it turned out. I wanted to see how easy it would be to use Fyrinnae with other brands -- and I still have a couple of colors to try out. For my initial order, I ordered the exotic colors I knew I could wear that are different from other lines. But consequently, I don't have any subtle lid shades yet (they are coming in my second order.)

Base: Nude Frost
Lids up through crease: AL Imperial Opulent Lustre, gorgeous light purple
Outer corners, blended up and out and lower line: F Archmage Arcane Magic
Mascara top: Diorshow Not sure I'm crazy about it.
Mascara lower: Stiletto
Tightlined upper NYX Extreme Black pen -- I wanted to know if I could tightline with it. I should have done it before mascara and maybe before the shadows. I felt I took some of the shadow off, but you couldn't tell that I had.

Here's what Fyrinnae says about this color:

Deep green with a lighter shimmer that changes from pale green to silver to pink, depending on the light. It's much more green and less dark grey than it looks here.

It looks green in the jar, but as I applied it, it looked deep purple. You can see from the pictures, it is quite green, though. Arcane Magic colors have two looks to them, whether applied wet or dry, and look different in different lights. Pardon the slight drift on my nose. I took care of it when I saw it in the picture.

Primer Revlon Vital Radiance Cool
Foundation: Mary Kay Tinted Moisturizer Ivoire 1
Color under powder: Nars Riviera stick
Powder my sparkly mix, topped with BE mineral veil like bronzer
Blush: Meow Masterpiece Water Lilies love this color!
Lips: MAC Sweet Thing, Love Child, Flashmode using Beauté technique -- see my LOTD post.

What do you think?

Karin

Originally posted 2009-04-05 11:26:44.

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It's always fun to get makeovers!

Bookgirl went to Sephora, and her eyes were done with Dior shadows (a burgundy) and Two Faced grey liner.

I, OTOH, had a double makeover. Eyes done at Sephora, by a different MUA than Bookgirl's. I admired eyes she had done for a girl going to prom, so I wanted to see what she would do with mine.

Nars teal duo with NARs pencil liner applied with a brush. My first thought was that the color should go a little higher in the middle, but I got compliments everywhere I went, and it grew on me. The 'wings' weren't too much, though I feared they might be.

Then I went to a department store to get a Guerlain face makeover, because I was sure I would like the skin care, and I was in need of some serious moisturizer as I hadn't applied any earlier. This is the newest Guerlain makeup with 24 K gold. I loved the blush/highlighter. It looked very similar to Arbonne's which I love, and it was interesting that the MUA chose the same colors for me. She also chose a LE moisturizer that is only available this year to give your skin a perk -- both anti-wrinkle and firming. My skin looked amazing! I didn't buy anything, but I'm seriously considering it.

What do you think?

Karin
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Nars The Multiple
The Multiple is the original all-in-one, cream-to-powder, multi-purpose makeup stick. With fingertip application, The Multiple highlights, sculpts, and warms eyes, cheeks, lips, and body in an array of shades from sheer accents to mauve and bronze. Sephora

I've used this for my cheeks before, but had not tried it for lips until today. See my FOTD.

Using Beauté technique
See more about the technique here.
Lips: Nars Riviera, on entire lip
MAC Kitty Power glitter eyeliner, used to rim. This is a gorgeous shade, very pretty on the lips. I've used it less so far on my eyes.
NYX Chandelier in center. This is a pretty orchid pink shade. Here's a picture from an earlier FOTD that shows how it looks alone.

My finished lip I thought it was soft and pretty.

What I like about the Beauté technique It's easy.
Subtle
It gives a softer and fresher take on lippies than a lip pencil does.
Camouflages
It camouflages the little outer edge lip lines better than a pencil does.
Volumizes
It actually works to make the lips more voluminous.
Youthens
Isn't this a great word! I saw this somewhere online yesterday and thought I'd start using it.

Have you used this technique yet?
Please try it, if you haven't! Then, let me know.

Karin

Originally posted 2009-04-06 13:44:03.

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The Audrey Eye look is one of two sets that Arbonne has put together. It's important to see these looks in RL compared to the catalog or as individual colors. As nice as they are individually, they are really superb when used together.

The first time I saw the Audrey Eye look in RL in the travel palette box, I thought the colors were amazing and couldn't wait to try them on. I resolved they would be in my next order.

You can see them on a model here.

Then when I saw the look on Shari, I realized that it was gorgeous, neutral, and rich looking. And would go with everything.

She had filled her palette box with the additional recommended blushes: Promise (I have that one, it is softly pink, and I use it almost daily) and Savvy (softly apricot which was a good color for me also, and one I didn't have yet) and shadows (these are fairly new colors): Illume (shimmery white) and Mystery (very dark black.) I could tell immediately by looking at it that the colors were right together.

I have trouble choosing across the color range to put together a look like this myself, so it is better that it is done for me. Arbonne has 12 shades of brown, ranging from light to dark, and encompassing warms, cools and neutrals, so you can imagine that it might not be easy for me, especially with brown eyes.

Here’s what Arbonne says about their shadows:

… pressed eye shadow in a range of 34 moisturizing shades that won’t flake or smudge

and this is really important when dealing with a dark color like Mystery.

Mascara: Arbonne, 2 in 1
Brows: La Prairie pencil
Tightlined both top and lower, then smudged with MAC smudge brush: MAC graphblack, then along lower also earthline

Primer: Smashbox with dermaxl (it looks sort of apricot)
Foundation: Prescriptives Photochrome Cool Rose
Rouge under powder: Chanel stick
Powder: Guerlain meteorites
Blush: NARs Riviera

Lips: Arbonne Illusion (beautiful golden light bronze which I felt I could use to lighten and highlight) + Razzberry I was aiming for a blue-red, since they show this look with red. I think it leaned more to the pink side, but still very pretty color.

You can see my poor nose here, and what happens when I put product on it. I think it was the MAC concealer, but this didn't bother me the first couple of times I used it, so when it disappears, I will try it again carefully!

What do you think?

Next up, the second look: Arbonne Smoky Eyes.

If you'd like to order any of these Arbonne products and do not have a consultant, Book Girl would be happy to help you.
Karin

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Going for an easy Mother's Day look -- I hope your Mother's Day is lovely! Do you have plans?

Eyes:
Lids: NARS Riviera I wanted to see how this did on my eyes because it is marketed for eyes, lips, cheeks, an all over product. I've not used it for my lips yet.
Crease: Prescriptives 04 gray cream,
Outer corners: Mary Kay Silver Shiver, waterproof cream
Over lids: Trish McEvoy sparkly opalish pressed glitter shadow

Gel Liner
I wanted to see if the same technique I've been using with Black Cherry gel liner would work with the other colors I have. Again, I used the back end of the shadow brush for most of it.
Top tight lined: Peacock gel liner
Lower water lined: Tidal Wave gel liner

Brows: Merle Norman powder
Mascara: upper, Guerlain; lower, Tarte

Sunscreen: La Prairie
Primer: Avon Magix
Foundation, Glow, Blush: L'Oreal minerals -- this time for foundation I used the L'oreal brush dipped into the top of the bottom container -- the bad thing about that is if you need more product, you have the screw the brush back on in order to tip it upside down to get more product into the top.
Powder: no extra today
More blush: NARS Riviera on cheek bones

Lips: NYX Lips Champagne

Karin

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Aromaleigh is so much easier to apply than Fyrinnae. I do love Grape. It's such a pretty color -- it surprises me because it is matte.

Eyes:
Base: Nude Frost, then Meow Nicole S
Crease: AL Grape matte, then dry lined both
Lids: AL Dandelion satin petals frost
Lined both: Clarins Midnight Flash, discontinued -- wish I had more!
Lined both: Girl Actik Lavender glitter -- love this! -- I used this a couple of years before I found AL.
Mascara: Tarte on lower; Black on upper

Lips: NYX Lips Glory
A fun, updated 60's sort of color. Quite yummy, actually.

All the rest of the makeup is the same as yesterday. I like it, do you?

Meantime, I sure wish I could still get the Chanel foundation that is discontinued. It is a perfect shade for my coloring. Their new colors are way off. Have you tried them? Do they work for your skin tone?

Karin

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Sorry that I'm late getting this posted! Yesterday was a busy day!

Eyes: Fyrinnae Fujiro in crease; Optimism on lid Gorgeous colors!
I wanted to try Fyrinnae again before I forgot how to apply it (pat, not swipe.) (Make sure brush has no black left in it, which I remembered to check.) (I have brushes dedicated to light or dark colors, so I don't have to worry about getting a dark shade mixed in with a light one.) You can see they are not exact matches. It drives me nuts trying to get them even. I finally gave up. I figured, no one looks at my eyes that closely, as I am blinking vs. letting someone really look at them. LOL!

Lined top and lower: Jordana waterproof Luna Lavender
Mascara: EL MagnaScopic Blue on top; Tarte on lower lashes (black)
Brows: La Prairie pencil
Concealer: Dior Skinflash

Foundation: Chanel, discontinued
Rouge, under powder: NARS Riviera stick
Powder: my sparkly mix, topped with BE Mineral Veil as bronzer
Blush: MAC Dollymix
Lips: MAC Funtabulous, rimmed with Milani Crystal gloss

What do you think?

Karin

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