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November 29th, 2009 — Anastasia, Andrea Lash Glue, Arbonne, Aromaleigh, Bare Escentuals, Blues, Chanel, Cover Girl, Creating a new lippie, FOTD, False lashes, Foundation, Lip Gloss, MAC, Primer, Reds, Smashbox, Wet 'n Wild Fantasy Makers Witches Charm
Wow! I really had fun with this one! Sometimes serendipity really comes through for you. Still working through all the samples I purchased. It’s fun to have enough that I just put the colors on the counter and pick 2 or 3 I haven’t used yet that I think will go together. Serenade pulls more blue/violet on me than teal (how it looks in the ziplock) , at least when used with Coppelia.
How to place the lid colors
First, I couldn’t decide which color to place on my inner and outer lids. So, I thought, why not do both? I figured it might be fun, and today wouldn’t matter. Surprisingly enough, it is not weird, it is beautiful. I didn’t really like the first eye, but when I did the second, it was just super. I have never done this before, but I might do it really often!
Eyes:
Base: Nude Frost + BE Queen Phyllis
Alternating inner and outer lids: AL serenade + AL coppelia en pointe
Drylined lower: AL serenade
Serenade: A color inspired by my favorite ballet. Beautiful smooth teal plush matte base with a lush violet iridescent highlight. (Sheen)
Coppelia: A lovely berried plum plush matte base with a dimensional smooth violet highlight. (Sheen)
Mascara: Sapphire Cover Girl
Lashes: Witches Charm Temptress Tentatrice Black with Red tinsel! I bought these one Halloween, might be two years ago from Walgreens or CVS. They have quite an array offered online still, and they aren’t terribly expensive. These came with top and bottom lashes. update: I used them as upper lashes the next day.
No blush, only Chanel stick rouge under my sparkly mix of powder, over one of my usual primers (Smashbox purple today) and foundations.
Lips: MAC Love Alert + Arbonne Delicious, both glosses, one on each lip, smooshed
What do you think?
Karin
www.savvythinker.com
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July 24th, 2009 — Anastasia, Arbonne, Aromaleigh, Beauté, Brows, Chanel, Dior, DuWop, Eye Shadow, Eye liner, FOTD, Foundation, Highlighting, L'Oreal, MAC, Mary Kay, Mascara, Mineral, Pencils, Primer, Techniques
Here’s where I began:
Eyes:
Base: Nude Frost
Lids on both eyes: AL Lagoon (matte) in new shape
Left Lid: AL Lilypad satin petals frost added
I love Lagoon, but I didn’t put a lighter color under today, so it was a bit uneven. And I didn’t want straight matte. Adding the lilypad gave it a lustre and conversely both softened and deepened the tone.
After I took the picture, I finished the second eye the same and blended out a bit. Sorry my eye isn’t completely closed here.
Here’s my finished look:
Lined: top MK Bahama Blue; lower: Sephora Flashy Green
Mascara: Arbonne (both kinds) — I’ve heard of a new technique. Using two kinds of mascara, one that lengthens and one that thickens. That makes more sense to me than two coats of mascara, which I never do (with the exception of using the clear Arbonne coat that comes with the 2 step mascara.) This is the first time I’ve tried it. The 2 step seems to thicken; the other to lengthen (which I did first.)
Brows: Anastasia Caramel wand
Concealer: Dior Skinflash
Nose: Mac Concealer, blended with triangle sponge — the sponge works so much better than my fingers which only leaves me with polka dots.
Primer and foundation: Arbonne
Rouge: Chanel stick
Powder: my sparkly mix
Highlight: Guerlain Butterfly perles
Bronzer: small touch of Arbonne
Blush: L’Oreal Pink Glow, which is really a highlight/radiance, but I liked it as cheek color today
Lips: Arbonne + Beaute + Mac liner — see my LOTD post for details. Lined outside with DuWop Reverse liner to keep it from drifting.
What do you think?
I am really happy with the way this turned out. I love the eyeshadow color.
Remember when you do shadow that no one sees the shadow in still life the way these photos show. Your eyes are always in motion. What might look uneven in the pictures does not look that way in RL.
To buy Arbonne from Bookgirl, if you don’t have a representative, just ask.
Karin
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July 19th, 2009 — Anastasia, Bare Escentuals, Beauté, Brows, Chanel, Clinique, Contouring, Eye Shadow, Eye liner, FOTD, Foundation, Lancome, Lip Gloss, Lipstick, Mary Kay, Mascara, Maybelline, Mineral, Rouge or blush, Sheer Cover, Techniques
Another 5 mins makeup, done quickly. It’s kind of fun to limit myself to one shadow color — and it’s easy to do with this new shape. When the MUA did it for me, she basically mixed colors together to get the depth of shade she wanted. I figure I can do that too if a single shade isn’t sufficient.
Eyes:
Base: Mary Kay shadow
Lids in new shape: Lancome Bluebirds Fly
Inner lids: Chanel off-white
Concealer: MK
Lined: Chanel Mercury/Sapphire pencil, sadly discontinued, love this darker blue
Lined lower waterline: MAC white pencil — I like this look sometimes — and I’ve also tightlined the top with white, which is interesting — to do it right on the top, I should use white on the inner and outer edges and dark in the middle, maybe I’ll try that tomorrow, because using white on the entire top shows the white starkly against the color of my eye, but it’s really cool against the white part of my eye
Mascara: Stiletto
Brows: Anastasia pen
Primer: Sheer Cover
Foundation: Lancome minerals followed by Lancome mineral powder
Technique: use small amount of minerals on brush, spritz brush with Clinique Moisture Surge Face Spray — apply. I saw this done by someone else, but never tried it myself before today. I didn’t realize how easy it would be to do or how well it would work.
This gives me more of the finish that I like, and in a sense, it is almost like making a liquid mineral foundation on your brush, only it is (maybe) faster than applying in separate steps (liquid, then powder.) Anyway, this is probably the first time I’ve felt that a mineral foundation worked for my skin type.
Nose: MAC concealer on my nose, buffed in/on and using a triangle sponge
Lips:
Guerlain coffret, the deepest crayon color + Gloss top coat, rimmed with Beaute Paramour
Pretty color! The crayon has a sort of copper look to it, not really red or pink as it looked.
I don’t know why my face is in the shadows in the picture. I must have turned away from the light source.
What do you think?
Have you used this technique to apply mineral foundation?
I’m going to try this technique again this week and try using mineral foundation more often. It’s nice to have another method that works.
Karin
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July 16th, 2009 — Anastasia, Arbonne, Brows, Chanel, Creating a new lippie, Eye Shadow, Eye liner, FOTD, Foundation, Fyrinnae, Highlighting, Laura Mercier, Lipstick, MAC, Mascara, Mineral, NYX, Pencils, Signature Club A
New shape of eyes again! This was a super easy, simple summer look! Only one color of shadow. I just love the way this turned out. Could it be that one color will be enough with most brands with this shape??
Remember Fyrinnae has gorgeous, gorgeous colors, but they are applied differently — they are patted, not whisked over the eye like most shadows. I wondered if I would have forgotten how to do this, but it went on very easily. I just adored the color, and with my top especially! I almost think this could be one of my natural looks, even though it is definitely purple. There is some gray to it, and if I used all black or gray pencils, I believe it would look less purple. Anyway, it’s a great color with my eye color.
By the time I’ve posted this, the shadow color has creased some. I’m not sure why, so I’ll have to use Nude Frost as my base next time.
Primer: MAC Luna
Shadow + drylined bottom: Fyrinnae Artic Fox
Highlight inner corners: Lancome Hollogramme Micro Pailettes, sparkly now discontinued
Tightlined top: MAC graphblack
Wet lined lower: Venomous gel liner
Mascara: Arbonne, 2 step
Brows: Anastasia Brow Tint Pen (light) + Brow Wand (Caramel)
Concealer: YSL Touch Eclat
Primer: Laura Mercier
Foundation: Chanel, discontinued
Rouge under my sparkly mix of powder: Chanel stick
Lips:
NYX Jumbo Lip Pencil Pink Nude + SCA Hyaluronic Lip Plumping Pen — this pen has almost exactly the same look and color as the NYX pencil, it’s not clear — anyway, I loved the look this morning. Now I have a dark shade on just because I wanted to try it, so if I get a chance, I’ll do a Take 2 photo later.
I hope you’re having a good day!
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July 15th, 2009 — Anastasia, Arbonne, Avon, Brows, Chanel, Concealer, FOTD, Foundation, Guerlain, Highlighting, Lancome, Lip Gloss, Lipstick, MAC, Mascara, Pencils, Primer, Revlon, Rouge or blush, Techniques
I’ve been out of town and remiss about posting fotds — and even remiss in wearing makeup. When the day begins at 4:30 and I’m on a different time zone, all bets are off. I did get some makeovers, though, you notice!
Yesterday was my first day more or less back on schedule.
I had in mind I was going to try the new eye shape — and before you know it, my brush went and did just what it always does! I couldn’t believe it. But I did it today and have pictures to post later.
Base: MAC Luna — I like this because it has some shimmer
Eye colors came from a Lancome GWP, really pretty colors: off white, light shimmery pink (not sparkly), medium brown, charcoal-black with sparkles. Daylight (matte)Volcano (shimmer) Makeover (metallic)The New Black (metallic)
Dry Lined with the charcoal shade, followed by Guerlain Kohl powder in turquoise (you can see this really well in both full sized photos)
Mascara: Arbonne, 2 step
Brows: Anastasia Caramel (like mascara wand) + thin lined wet brow liner — I like both these products a lot.
Primer: Avon Magix
Foundation: Chanel on one side;Arbonne on the other
Rouge under powder: Revlon, discontinued
Powder: my sparkly mix + Chanel Rosee pressed powder as highlight all over, has slight sparkly
Blush: Chanel Rose Petal
Concealer: Dior skinflash under eye; MAC on nose, buffed out
Lips: This was a case of just layering up.
I broke my cardinal rule of no more lip pencils and also ended up with a Guerlain color that is more pink than I’d prefer, so I did a bit of doctoring to see how badly I’d messed up.
Guerlain 65 on top; Arbonne Whisper on bottom; smooshed; lined with Guerlain Rose Indien; topped with Revlon Play up Pink.
The Guerlain formula is lovely (and I bought a second color later that is more to my liking.)
To buy Arbonne from Bookgirl, if you don’t have a representative, go here.
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