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February 1st, 2010 — Beauté, Brows, Chanel, Eye Shadow, Eye liner, FOTD, Foundation, Lip Gloss, MAC, Mary Kay, Mascara, Maybelline, Mineral, Pencils, Rouge or blush, Tarte, Too Faced
This was yesterday’s FOTD.
Mary Kay Eyes, except where noted:
Crease: Blue Metal
Inner corners: Chocolate Kiss
Outer corners: Steel — then more blue over it, as it didn’t show up well
Lower dry line: Blue Metal
Tight Lined top: Borghese Charcoal
Lined lower waterline: MAC graphblack, then earthline below it
Brows: La Prairie pencil
Mascara: Stiletto + Tarte on the lower lashes
Concealer:
Primer:
Foundation: Chanel, discontinued
Rouge under powder:
Powder: my sparkly mix
Blush: YSL Touche Blush 19
Lips: Too Faced + Beauté to rim
Caspian Pencil topped with Shell Gloss + Allure to rim
I liked these shades of blue.
Karin
Originally posted 2009-05-02 08:06:38.
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August 3rd, 2009 — Arbonne, Brows, Chanel, Clarins, Clinique, Eye Shadow, Eye liner, FOTD, Foundation, Fyrinnae, Guerlain, Highlighting, Lip Balm, Lip Lustre, Lipstick, MAC, Mascara, Pencils, Plumping, Primer, Signature Club A, Tarte, Techniques, Yves St Laurent
I wore these shadow colors yesterday, because I was wearing a wonderful lime green skirt with amethyst accents. I liked it so well, I wanted to wear the colors again, and since I didn’t take pictures yesterday, I thought I’d show you the idea today. It’s wonderful the number of looks and combinations you can get from several colors of shadows.
Eyes: Arbonne shadows
Base: Nude Frost
Lids: Lime in new shape
Inner corners: light pink (ballet)
Lined top and lower: Clarins Midnight Flash pencil
Drylined top and lower: Arbonne medium amethyst color
Mascara top: Arbonne, 2 in 1; Tarte lower
Brows: La Prairie pencil
Concealer: YSL eclat
Nose: MAC concealer
Primer: Guerlain meteorites
Foundation: Clinique Even Better in Fair — this is a tad dark on me, but when finished it looks fine — I like the formula a lot.
Rouge: Chanel stick under my sparkly mix powder
Blush over powder: Arbonne Promise
Highlight: Arbonne very light pink
Bronzer: Guerlain meteorites powder #3 (this is not a bronzer but it works as a bronzer on me)
Lips:
First, Fyrinnae Visual Kei alone, then this picture was taken after some of it was gone — over the top I put SCA Hyaluronic — it was pretty together!
What do you think?
Do you like to wear lime greens?
To buy Arbonne from Bookgirl, just ask.
Karin
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June 13th, 2009 — Arbonne, Aromaleigh, Brows, Concealer, Creating a new lippie, Dior, Eye Shadow, FOTD, Foundation, Highlighting, L'Oreal, Lancome, Lip Gloss, Lipstick, Mascara, Maybelline, Mineral, Primer, Rouge or blush, Stila, Tarte, Techniques
Still having fun using some of my Dior quint sets. It’s been a long time since I’ve used them.
This one has peach, gray, medium blue, light blue, and pink/orchid/magenta in the center. There are lots of ways to use it — perhaps using the top two colors — peach and gray. Or the bottom two: light and medium blue, using some gray in the crease. Or gray and magenta.
Today, I used the whole quint to get a feel for the colors again. It’s surprising how purple the blues pull. The peach is very pretty.
Lid: peach
Crease: gray, then medium blue
Outer Corners: a bit of medium blue, then light blue
Drylined top and lower: magenta
Mascara: Stiletto, top; Tarte, lower
Brows: whatever was left from yesterday
Concealer: Arbonne
I’m still not sure if I’m crazy about mineral foundation or not. It’s supposed to be easier so I’m earmarking it for weekends. It’s also possible I don’t know how to apply it sheer enough (I like a sheer coverage.) It isn’t necessarily faster for me, nor do I particularly like the look better. I do like the color.
Primer: AL
Foundation: Lancome minerals (love their brush!!)
Powder: Lancome minerals
Highlight: L’Oreal Pinkglow
Blush: Lancome Pink Pool (has some sparkle)
Lips: whatever was left on the lip brush from the last time I used it (remember I dedicated one brush to the rims and one brush to the lips), then rimmed and up the center with Stila silkshimmer (kind of a peachy sparkle) (love the gloss, btw!)
Have a great weekend!
To buy Arbonne from Bookgirl, if you don’t have a representative, go here.
Karin
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June 8th, 2009 — Arbonne, Aromaleigh, Brows, Chanel, Clarins, Comparing, Eye Shadow, Eye liner, FOTD, Foundation, La Prairie, Lancome, Lipstick, NYX, Pencils, Primer, Rouge or blush, Signature Club A, Tarte
I was happy with how this turned out.
Eyes:
Base: Beauticontrol pink, then my sparkly mix
Crease: AL Grape matte
Tight Lined top and wetlined lower: Clarins Midnight Flash pencil — love this, too bad it’s discontinued!
Drylined top and lower: AL Mireille bette noire collection
Mascara top: comparing Arbonne (my left) and Lancome Fatale (my right); lower, Tarte
Brows: La Prairie pencil
Primer: SCA Wrinkle Filiment
Fdn: Chanel, discontinued
Rouge under powder: Lancome stick
Powder: my sparkly mix, followed by SCA hyaluronic
Blush: BE Hint of Truth
Lips: NYX BL33 rimmed with NYX Nude Jumbo Lip Pencil
I also updated my review page for NYX lips as I’m still working my way through the 30 colors.
Now I’m off onto my day! Do you like it?
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Karin
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June 1st, 2009 — Arbonne, Eye Shadow, Eye liner, FOTD, Lancome, Lipstick, Mascara, Tarte, Trish McEvoy, Urban Decay
I wanted to try my Trish Face Essentials compacts again. This is # 10. It is an all inclusive compact with blush (soft pink), highlight (ivory), crease (brown) and liner (deep navy) shadow colors. This one leans into pinks and has deep navy for the liner/crease shade. My other one leans into apricots and has dark charcoal/black for the liner color. I used a bit of Trish sparkly shadow to keep it from being so matte.
I accented it again with Urban Decay’s Asphyxsia. A bright fuchsia orchid.
Lancome Fatale mascara on top; Tarte on lower.
Lippie is Arbonne Whisper.
I hope you enjoy!
To buy Arbonne from Bookgirl, if you don’t have a representative, go here.
Karin
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May 20th, 2009 — Arbonne, Brows, Clarins, Concealer, Creating a new lippie, Eye Shadow, Eye liner, FOTD, Guerlain, Highlighting, Lip Gloss, Lipstick, MAC, Mascara, Tarte, Techniques
Eyes: Clarins Colorful Horizons palette
This was not one of my better buys a year or so ago. Every time I try to wear it, I think I have the blahs. What I should have done is return it, but I didn’t. At least some of the colors should work for me. There are 6 colors in it. Two tiny: charcoal and copper; two medium: bronze and bronze-green; two large: peachy and soft bright green.
Lids: soft green
Crease: peachy
Under brows: copper — way too dark — however, I saw a picture of Jennifer Hudson in Entertainment magazine wearing a gorgeous copper on her lids, so I might try that tomorrow.
Dry lined top: Charcoal
Drylined lower: Bronze
Total look too blah — so:
Crease: added charcoal
Tight lined top: Black MAC pencil;
Wetlined lower: MAC graphblack, then earthline under it
Mascara: top, Guerlain; lower: Tarte
Concealer: Dior Skinflash
Brows: Merle Norman powder
By the time I finished my eyes, I wasn’t unhappy with them. But tomorrow I’ll try more of the copper.
All face the same as yesterday, but used MAC Moonriver as my blush and highlighter.
But I hit the jackpot on the lippie.
Lips: MAC
lower lip Sweetie; upper lip Lovechild gloss; smooshed; rimmed with Pinkarat gloss. More at my LOTD post.
Arbonne facial update
Day 3 I can see a visible difference. So did a friend who saw me during the day.
What do you think?
To buy Arbonne from Bookgirl, if you don’t have a representative, go here.
Karin
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May 18th, 2009 — Aromaleigh, Beauté, Brows, Chanel, Comparing, Concealer, Eye Shadow, Eye liner, FOTD, Foundation, Guerlain, Laura Mercier, Lip Gloss, Mascara, Mineral, Tarte
Finally! I’m current — this is my FOTD today. I wanted to wear the same eye colors as yesterday.
Comparing two lower lash mascaras one is Tarte; the other is Guerlain’s Le2.
AL concealer.
Back to trying to use up the discontinued Chanel foundation. Primed with Laura Mercier. My usual sparkly mix of powder, then SCA Hyaluronic as a bronzer.
Blush: AL Dolly
I’m trying uploading directly vs. using Photobucket. The images are smaller. But it is a lot faster for me except for waiting for it to upload into wordpress.
Lips: AL Gala + AL Pinafore (on each lip, then smooshed) + rimmed and topped in center with Beauté Paramour Love this color!
Day 2 into Arbonne:
And we finally have some rain around here — all the ponds are low. I’m going to enjoy the rain!
To buy Arbonne from Bookgirl, if you don’t have a representative, go here.
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May 12th, 2009 — Aromaleigh, Beauté, Brows, Chanel, Concealer, Estee Lauder, Eye Shadow, Eye liner, FOTD, Foundation, Guerlain, La Prairie, Lipstick, Mascara, Merle Norman, Mineral, Primer, Revlon, Rouge or blush, Tarte, Techniques
Today I was busy sorting and organizing. I only did my makeup about 5 mins ago. The theme makeup this week at AL is to use Snapdragon (beautiful blue pink)(I’m not sure I’ve ever used this before) with Aqua Nightmare (one of my favorite colors.)
If you can’t have fun with makeup, when can you?! I got the idea to reverse my eyes, sort of like combining all my posts from last week. It looked strange at first, but I figured my liner would tie it all together. I am really happy with it now.
Eyes: all Aromaleigh unless noted, in order of application
Base: Nude Frost
Crease: Lagoon matte
Outer corner of one eye and inner corner of the other (and reverse drylined on bottom): Snapdragon, then vice versa for Aqua Nightmare
Tight lined top and wet lined lower: Peacock gel liner — using back end of brush only.
Inner corners: Snapdragon
Drylined top only: Moonagedaydream
Brows: Merle Norman powder
Mascara, top: Guerlain; lower: Tarte
Concealer: Mary Kay
Sunscreen: La Prairie
Primer: Avon Magix
Foundation: Chanel, discontinued
Rouge under powder: Revlon , cream
Powder: My sparkly mix, then SCA Hyaluronic with stiff Guerlain brush
Blush over powder: EL Pinkshimmer, then NARS Riviera as it didn’t have enough color
Lips: AL Karma on one lip; Gala on the other; smooshed; rimmed with Beauté Allure
What do you think?
Karin
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May 11th, 2009 — Aromaleigh, Avon, Brows, Chanel, Concealer, Dior, Estee Lauder, Eye Shadow, Eye liner, FOTD, Foundation, Guerlain, La Prairie, Lancome, Lip Gloss, Lipstick, Meow, Merle Norman, Mineral, NYX, Primer, Rouge or blush, Signature Club A, Tarte, Techniques
Sometimes for me, thinking about what colors I want to go toward takes more time than the execution. I knew I wanted to coordinate with the new pendants my artist daughter made for me for Mother’s Day, so I knew I was aiming toward purples and gray.
But I started out thinking Aromaleigh — then I thought, wait a minute, I’ve got Meow that I haven’t worn for a while. So I started with Meow. I bought a lot of samples from Meow, but I don’t think I bought a gray. It’s hard to tell sometimes in the ziplock what color it will pull on the eye, so I need to mark the darker shades so I know, but I haven’t done that yet.
I don’t know the differences in the formula of Meow shadows (which is more frosty/glittery) so if someone knows, pls comment. I am going to put them in larger ziplocks by colors, as I have done with the AL, rather than keeping them by formula. I think I can just mix and match.
Eyes:
Base: Nude Frost
Lids: Meow Lazy Purrl IdealEyes (this pulled bluer than I expected)
Crease: Meow Prowl ModernEyes
Dry lined top and lower: Jessica R ScandalEyes
Crease: AL Avalon Rocks! Sonic Eyes (soft, medium gray) to pop the crease more
Lids: Debbie L ScandalEyes — to bring it more into the purples again
Tight lined top and wet lined lower: Venomous gel liner — using back end of brush only — BookGirl exclaimed that she just loved this color on me, that it really popped my eyes. It may look black in the photo (as it looked in the bathroom mirror) but in RL it is a sort of Periwinkle color.
Inner corners: Tanzanite gel liner — this looks like a lighter version of Black Cherry.
Brows: Merle Norman powder
Mascara, top: Guerlain; lower: Tarte.
Concealer: Dior Skinflash
Sunscreen: La Prairie
Primer: Avon Magix
Foundation: Chanel, discontinued
Rouge under and over powder: EL Pink Shimmer, cream
Powder: My sparkly mix, then SCA Hyaluronic with stiff Guerlain brush
Lips: NYX Lips Iced Lavender
As soon as I had it on one lip, I could tell Iced Lavender would be too dark for the rest of my face, if I had put it on alone, but I wanted to keep to the same color family. So…
+ Lancome Prodige (one on each lip, then smooshed)
rimmed with NYX Purple Rain Lipgloss with mega shine — in RL this is more subtle than the photo would make it.
What do you think? I was happy with it.
I always like it when I get a spontaneous expression that something looks great, as BookGirl did today.
Karin
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May 10th, 2009 — Avon, Brows, Eye Shadow, Eye liner, FOTD, Foundation, Guerlain, Highlighting, L'Oreal, La Prairie, Lipstick, Mary Kay, Mascara, Merle Norman, Mineral, NARS, NYX, Prescriptives, Rouge or blush, Tarte, Techniques
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
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May 6th, 2009 — Aromaleigh, Brows, Brushes, Chanel, Concealer, Cosmetics, Dior, Eye Shadow, Eye liner, FOTD, Foundation, Fyrinnae, Lip Lustre, Mascara, Mineral, Primer, Revlon, Tarte
Change of pace today! Back to reds, but new ones I’ve never used before. We’ll see if I get any drift/slide today. Sometimes red bothers my lids, esp when it slides.
Sometimes I wonder whether it would be easier to have no choices. It takes me longer to think about what I’d like to do than actually doing it. But last night I thought: Gothic Lolita shadows! Fyrinnae lips! so that made it easier today.
Eyes: All AL, except where noted
Base: Nude Frost, no sparkly mix after
Crease: Strawberry Despair, GL — wow! this is really pretty — I think I originally bought it because it looked so great on Tanya in a theme week at AL, but I’m not sure I ever wore it before — AL describes it
Strawberry Despair: Muted strawberry red pearl with copper sparks. Despair was never so yummy!
Outer Corners and lower drylined: Burnt Roses , GL — one of my all time fave colors, just a super color
Burnt Roses : Rich chocolatey cherry frost with tiny deep green sparks. Just plain luscious.
Inner Corners:Persephone, Luster — first time I wore this too, very gorgeous color!
Persephone: Lush bordeaux with a cocoa lowlight and rose highlight.
Brows: Chanel pencil
Mascara: Guerlain, top; Tarte, lower
Concealer: Dior skinflash and around inner corners of eyes
I couldn’t figure out what to use for liner or if I should stop where I was, then I remembered I had Black Cherry gel liner. It helps to have the right brush. Since I tried it last, I bought a small slanted eyeliner brush at Ulta. There’s no identifier on it to tell you which one. I intentionally tried to smudge it out the way a pencil looks vs. having a hard edged line. Smudging just looks better on me at this stage of life. Anyway, it was perfect, and I loved it, and I might try to use my gel liners more now that I actually like the look of one of them. I did it very lightly along the waterline and tight lined both the top and lower, smudging it.
Sunscreen: Neutragena, not the La Prairie to see if my makeup is less sheer
Primer: Revlon Vital Radiance, cool, discontinued
Foundation: Chanel, discontinued, trying to use this one up
Rouge: Chanel, stick, discontinued
Powder, my sparkly mix, then Signature Club A Hyaluronic
Blush: Lancome Petticoat Pink, along my cheekbones
Lips: Fyrinnae Visual Kei Lip Luster — my labels are getting all funky — are your? — such a pretty color!
Isn’t this pretty!
What do you think?
Karin
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May 5th, 2009 — Aromaleigh, Brows, Chanel, Concealer, Dior, Eye Shadow, Eye liner, FOTD, Foundation, Girlactik, Guerlain, Highlighting, Lip Gloss, Mascara, Mineral, Pencils, Primer, Rouge or blush, Signature Club A, Tarte, Too Faced
I liked this look! What do you think?
Eyes: AL, unless noted
Base: forget now, possibly Trish McAvoy, then my sparkly nude mix — this also makes the Grape a little less matte. I might try a black base for a change, but truthfully, I think this is about as dark as I can carry anyway. My skin sort of reads a true color for all colors; it’s like a white sheet of paper, though not white, of course.
Crease: Ozone Rocks!
Lids and drylined lower: Grape, matte — I love this color and wondered how it would look with turquoise
Tight lined top and lower: Fernand Aubry Moredore – hard to get this to draw on my eyes (it’s really old) but it drew on my hand just fine! It’s a pretty color, plus it’s French. Used to be sold at JCP.
Mascara: Guerlain, top; Tarte, lower (if you check out my lasting post, you can see how well the mascara lasts thru the day)
Brows: Chanel pencil
Concealer: Dior skinflash
Drylined top and lower: Girlactik multi-jewels
Much better with my hair colored! Redken 10 NW + 20% peroxide. Left it on about 5 mins longer today, which is why it is pulling a little more ash.
Primer: Smashbox W/Dermaxl — didn’t want to change the color of the foundation
Foundation: Chanel, discontinued
Rouge: Lancome China Berry stick, also discontinued
Powder: my sparkly mix, the Signature Club A Hyaluronic
Blush: Lancome Petticoat Pink cream high on cheeks
Lips: Too Faced Diamond Gloss, Fire
The picture makes my foundation look really sheer again, so I might have to switch my sunscreen away from the one that is moisturizing.
I think I’ll do AL Gothic Lolita eyes tomorrow. And Fyrinnae lips.
Karin
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May 3rd, 2009 — Aromaleigh, Beauté, Brows, Chanel, Concealer, Eye Shadow, Eye liner, FOTD, Foundation, Girlactik, Highlighting, Lancome, Lip Gloss, Lipstick, Mascara, Meow, Mineral, Pencils, Primer, Rouge or blush, Sephora, Sheer Cover, Tarte
I still felt like turquoise today.
And I’m still trying out mineral foundations on the weekend. This went on more evenly. I also like the color. It’s nearly a perfect match. It was also easier to apply, whether because of the brand or because I’m beginning to know better how to apply them.
Eyes: All Aromaleigh, unless noted
Crease: Jade, pure eyes frost
Outer corners: Grass, pure hue
Inner Corners: Azure, pure eyes frost
Drylined lower: Lagoon, Carolina Summer Matte
Tight lined upper and lower: Sephora Flashy Blue
Dry lined upper and lower: Girlactik Multi-Jewels — love this!
Brows: Chanel pencil
Mascara: Lancome Hypnose + Tarte on lower
Primer: Sheer Cover
Foundation: AL C1
Highlight: AL Whisper, up the center
Concealer: AL pink cream
Blush: Meow Masterpiece The Scream
Lips: Lancome Groupie rimmed with Beauté Urge
Do you wear AL foundation? AL shadows?
They are really lovely. It’s also very nice that you can buy sample sizes until you know what colors you would like full sizes of.
What do you think of this look on me?
I hope you’ve had a lovely weekend!
Karin
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April 29th, 2009 — Aromaleigh, Bare Escentuals, Chanel, Concealer, Dior, Eye Shadow, Eye liner, FOTD, Foundation, Girlactik, La Prairie, Lipstick, MAC, Mascara, Meow, Mineral, NARS, NYX, Pencils, Primer, Tarte, Techniques
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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