I wanted to do something with color for work (like I’ve said over and over… all neutrals every day gets me a bit down) so I decided to re-try an old look. I think it came out a lot better, but then again, all my looks from a year ago looked downright scary! I hadn’t started using products in my crease, and I’m not sure I even attempted to blend. Oh what a difference a year can make!!! 
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Link to look done last year: http://www.sushiblumen.com/2009/01/10/pretty-in-pink/
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Broke out the Starflash finish shadows today 
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Modified version of something that was on my list of eyeshadow combinations…
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Gotta shop that stash and do more stuff with blues!!
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Definitely like this look… not too blue! I think I’ll have to try mixing my blues with other shades to find stuff that’s wearable to me. All blue looks just rub me wrong.
On a side note, I’ve been at this blog for over a year now! Yay! And WOW, I’ve come a LONG way in application technique/blending/etc! It’s so nice to be able to look back and see improvement Which is exactly why I started this blog, because I wanted to document my looks and see improvement, and perhaps help a few others along the way
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After much thought last night, I picked out what to use my Mary Kay gift certificate on!
I’ve been wanting a matte-ish pink blush for awhile now, and have been going back and forth on some MAC suggestions, but then I ran across Cantaloupe from MAC and I HAVE TO HAVE IT. But it’s not pink! That’s when I realized I could pick up one of the Mary Kay mineral ones, and have my cake and eat it too!
I decided on Mary Kay Pink Petals mineral cheek color, and Beach Bronze lipgloss.
Oh, so about yesterday’s look! IT LASTED ALL DAY! No creasing! Maybe I was just using too much of the Eyesicles product when I tried before. I was quite surprised. Not that I’m going to be giving up my paint pots anytime soon… just an observation and correction on something I said in yesterday’s post!
So those are my new goodies! Now I have a pink blush that isn’t frosty like my Blonde MSF, and a new lip gloss!
I went to a holiday bazaar a few weeks ago, and entered a drawing at the Mary Kay booth… hell, who doesn’t like to win things, right? Well, for the first time in my life, I won something!! I won a $25 gift certificate. This morning I met up with the consultant, who demonstrated Mary Kay’s new sets of eyeshadows that are meant to compliment a person’s particular eye color.
Now, I’m not the biggest fan of makeup being applied to myself… I’ve only had mine done at MAC about 3 times, and only one of those times were my eyes. So of course I was nervous, being the makeup freak that I am.
The look was very neutral, but simple enough for day… because let’s face it… purple smokey eyes, regardless of how much I swear by them, are not appropriate for most “professional” environments.
I snapped a few pics when I got home. I can’t remember all the product names, so there will be a few missing details…
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Ooo, the dreaded full face! Usually I use concealer and some sort of brow product… so excuse the dark eye circles and messy brows!
I have a feeling the Eyesicles is going to start creasing on me… I actually own this product and it always creased as a base or by itself.
I’m liking the lip glosses, they make my lips feel soft. The foundation also gave good coverage, though seems a bit pale… I think this is only because my MAC foundation is now too dark for me since I haven’t gotten any sun in the past few months, so I’m not use to the correct foundation shade being used, oops.
Mary Kay is actually how I got into makeup… I use to only use black eyeliner and mascara until an old friend became a MK consultant. Then I got into eyeshadows and it snowballed from there. I actually have one of the “old school” MK palettes filled with shadows. I stopped using it soon after I got into MAC products. I keep meaning to pull it out and do some looks just for fun one of these days.
So now I gotta figure out what to spend my $25 on… There’s a travel roll up bag that is pretty nifty, but would I ever use it? Same goes for any makeup, as I’m already on MAC overload… I’m going to see if my mom sees anything she likes. It’s hard!
On other news… yesterday I did a blue look, and when I was going to get my camera, clumsy me knocked 3 of my 15-pan palettes off of the counter, and they hit the tile floor. My “highlights” one made it out fine, only some of the pans fell out because the magnets aren’t strong. In my “blue” palette Parrot shattered 
I ended up re-pressing it, and it turned out well for being my first time (I never did get a chance to do my pigments, and now I can’t find the empty pans I bought). My “silvers/black” palette got beat all to hell… half of Smoke & Diamonds just disintegrated into dust so I couldn’t scoop any of it back up for re-pressing. Half of Beauty Marked chipped off, so I did a quick “rubbing alcohol and finger” re-press, which I also had to do to Nehru. Not pretty looking at all… I use to hate looking at people’s palette pictures and all the shadows looking like battle ravaged warriors, but now I understand how it happens… gave me a heart attack though, and made a mess on the floor. Now I remember why I put the palettes in the sink!
Long story short, I never got pictures of the blue look, so I’ll have to repeat it. *sigh*
Well, that was my adventure for today… I’ll be searching for what to spend my $25 on!