I figured since I just made a ridiculously heavy post, I'd do a quick rather light-hearted one as well.
As everyone knows, makeup has become a creative outlet for me. I don't do anything crazy, but I do enjoy blending the colors, seeing what works and what doesn't, and expressing myself through the way I paint my face. So, with the various giftcards I have and through the generosity of the people in my life, I've recently acquired three products I'm really excited about.
1. Blackberry, by MAC
As everyone knows, makeup has become a creative outlet for me. I don't do anything crazy, but I do enjoy blending the colors, seeing what works and what doesn't, and expressing myself through the way I paint my face. So, with the various giftcards I have and through the generosity of the people in my life, I've recently acquired three products I'm really excited about.
1. Blackberry, by MAC
2. Diva, by MAC
3. Naked 2 Palette, by Urban Decay
I've been looking for a nice purple eye shadow for sometime. My problem is, I don't like really bright colors on my eyes, they make me look really tired. And am generally partial to neutrals. When I found Blackberry, I was really excited and the color is gorgeous. I did a test run lid wash with it yesterday and it is just so subtle! It can be paired any which way I'd like it to be the range of eye shadows that I own, as I said, it works as a wash, and also to line my eyes with,
Diva was more of an impulse purchase. I've been looking for a new lip color for a while, and feel in love with how absolutely vampy it is. Not quite red, not quite plum, and the color is ridiculously deep. It's really beautiful. I don't know if it would be appropriate with most of the outfits I wear (I tend to wear a lot of black, and feel like dark hair, dark clothing, vampy lips would take me right back to being 13/14 again, lol), but I can definitely make it work for a night out. Maybe if I blot the color and put a lighter gloss over it, I could pull it out for day time. We shall see!
And of course, the Naked 2! This palette is geared more towards cooler skin types, where as the Naked palette is genuinely neutral and can be worn by both cool/warm skin tones without a problem. However, I'm neutrally skin-toned and don't have too much of an issue with cooler based colors, aside from my own personal taste (this also means, I can dye my hair blonde/brown/black/red, can wear silver and gold jewelry, I can wear any red lipstick -no matter its base color-, and basically wear any sort of color I want in my outfit, without it clashing with my skin tone).
I'm especially excited for Foxy, Chopper, Snakebite, and YDK, but I can't wait to wear them all!
Right now Urban Decay is running a free gift with purchase--
Sin eye shadow primers (their primer is the absolute best)
And All Nighter setting spray
You can get two of one, or one of each.
I'm currently listening to:
This season of the Voice,
Marina and the Diamonds,
Kimbra,
The Civil Wars,
And the Hunger Games soundtrack.
Diva was more of an impulse purchase. I've been looking for a new lip color for a while, and feel in love with how absolutely vampy it is. Not quite red, not quite plum, and the color is ridiculously deep. It's really beautiful. I don't know if it would be appropriate with most of the outfits I wear (I tend to wear a lot of black, and feel like dark hair, dark clothing, vampy lips would take me right back to being 13/14 again, lol), but I can definitely make it work for a night out. Maybe if I blot the color and put a lighter gloss over it, I could pull it out for day time. We shall see!
And of course, the Naked 2! This palette is geared more towards cooler skin types, where as the Naked palette is genuinely neutral and can be worn by both cool/warm skin tones without a problem. However, I'm neutrally skin-toned and don't have too much of an issue with cooler based colors, aside from my own personal taste (this also means, I can dye my hair blonde/brown/black/red, can wear silver and gold jewelry, I can wear any red lipstick -no matter its base color-, and basically wear any sort of color I want in my outfit, without it clashing with my skin tone).
I'm especially excited for Foxy, Chopper, Snakebite, and YDK, but I can't wait to wear them all!
Right now Urban Decay is running a free gift with purchase--
Sin eye shadow primers (their primer is the absolute best)
And All Nighter setting spray
You can get two of one, or one of each.
I'm currently listening to:
This season of the Voice,
Marina and the Diamonds,
Kimbra,
The Civil Wars,
And the Hunger Games soundtrack.
