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Look for February 9, 2010
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010Look for February 3, 2010
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010Modified version of something that was on my list of eyeshadow combinations…
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Loathing Honey Lust…
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010The topic of MAC’s Honey Lust eyeshadow came up last night when I was formspringing my friend… realizing I haven’t used it in literally years (that I can remember), I decided I’d give it a try today. I really loathe that eyeshadow, I really do. It’s just about the only MAC eyeshadow I’ll flat out say I hate. And guess what? Still loathe it. I think I ended up with more fallout all over my face than I did with actual product on my lid… sucks, because it is a pretty color! It’s just a glitterbomb. I suppose I could try applying it wet, but is it worth that amount of effort?!
I paired it with Trax so I could have a look of what seems to be MAC’s two most hated eyeshadows according to people on the forums, heh. Now I do like Trax, so all hope wasn’t lost today!
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1 Minute Eyes
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010Today I was in a rush, and didn’t have time to go through my usual makeup routine of multi eyeshadows, foundation, etc. So here’s my “1 Minute Eyes” look I came up with!
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Didn’t photograph too well, but it’s a simple and pretty pink-ish look. Just a bit of color to spice up an otherwise boring look! I was thinking how easy it’d be to take something like Contrast, and darken up the outer V, and transform the look, too.
Love discovering stuff on my memory card!
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010When I went to grab today’s look off of my camera, I discovered some pics of old looks!
So Ima post them up instead of deleting… details on what exactly was used is a bit hazy, please excuse that 
Look for January 13, 2010
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Maybe MAC Ricepaper Eyeshadow for a highlight? Not totally sure…
Look for January 16, 2010
This is my revisit to the combination of MAC Hypnotizing Eyeshadow and MAC Mulch Eyeshadow. Unfortunately, I can’t remember what else I used 
I hate when this happens!
That’s my catch up post!!
Pictureless Post for Today!
Friday, January 22nd, 2010On another makeup free kick… UGH! I did wear some last week, but didn’t take pictures. I did another variety of my Hypnotizing with Mulch, a bit more smokier. Then just some neutral stuff.
I have no pictures for my look today (it just wasn’t that impressive), but I can give the rundown…
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Not the biggest fan of 100 Strokes… always comes out a muddy black color. Definitely one of those things that look a lot better in the pan!
I have my eye on Lucky Green eyeshadow that just got re-released. It was funny… people had theirs for sale for $40, and then MAC went and released the eyeshadow again. Sucks to be them! 
Since it’s out permanently now I have time to think about if I want it.
Whew, it’s a new year!
Monday, January 4th, 2010So I’ve been a bit behind on updating!! I have two looks to post… unfortunately I didn’t get pictures of my New Year’s Eve look… but it was just my typical smokey purple eye look, just a bit heavier than usual. Also did a few neutral looks without pictures…
Look for December 28, 2009
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Look for January 3, 2010
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Whew, all caught up with stuff I had on my camera!
Hypnotizing Look!
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009Something quick I came up with today…
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Lips
Painterly applied as a base. Hypnotizing applied over whole lid, and inner half of lower lahses. Mulch applied in crease and outer V, and outer half of lower lashes. Naked Lunch applied above crease, and Retrospeck applied as a highlight. Grey Utility applied along upper lashes, and Zero applied on lower waterline.
Look for December 17, 2009
Friday, December 18th, 2009Soft/neutral look for this day! Still has a bit of purple though
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Eyes
Painterly applied as a base. Trax applied all over lid with 239 brush. Haux applied to crease with 217 brush. Magnetic Fields used to darken outer V and crease with 217 brush. Photo Realism applied as a highlight with 272 brush. 1999 applied along upper lashes.
Time to go to the defense of Trax… what the heck is everyone’s problem with this shadow? It applies fine… sure, not as nice as a veluxe pearl finish one would, but it’s NOT that terrible. And it’s a pretty color? Yeah, I just don’t know. I have my faith in this shadow!
MAC Addict, meet Mary Kay…
Monday, December 14th, 2009I 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!
On a neutral kick…
Monday, November 30th, 2009I have been doing a lot of neutral looks lately.. probably a good and a bad thing. Good because out there in the “real world,” usually neutral makeup is what’s acceptable; bad because I feel like I’m neglecting all my pretty, bright colors when I have the chance to use them.
So here is a soft neutral look I did for November 29, 2009. It didn’t photograph as well as I wanted it to unfortunately, but the point gets across.
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Painterly applied as a base. Solar White applied to inner corners with 219 brush, and as a highlight with 275 brush. All That Glitters applied over the rest of the lid with a 239 brush. Satin Taupe applied in crease and outer V with 217 brush. Corrupt applied along upper lash line and lower waterline.
It’s a very gentle that still brings some pop to the eyes, especially the Solar White in the inner corners.
And I’ll try to do a bright look soon, haha!
November 28, 2009
Saturday, November 28th, 2009I completely forgot that I had Star Violet! So I finally got around to using it today. It definitely is a unique color, had to classify into a color group really. I’ll have to get it depotted and into my palette soon…
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Painterly applied as a base. Beautiful Iris applied to inner corner of lid with 239 and 219 brushes. Star Violet applied over rest of the lid with 239 brush. Satin Taupe applied to crease with 219 brush. Vanilla used as a highlight with 272 brush. Zero applied to lower waterline.
Not dead, I swear!
Monday, November 23rd, 2009I’m finally moved and getting settled in, but with sketchy online access. But hopefully I can get back to updating! I took pictures of how I packed all of my makeup so I will make a post on my packing tips (all my stuff made the 1800 mile trip in a Uhaul safely!!), and then hopefully resume my looks of the day…
I can’t find my “normal” makeup camera, so I can’t post pictures of today’s look, but here’s a quick pictureless rundown:
Face
- MAC Mineralize loose foundation in Medium
- MAC Studio Touch Up Stick concealer in NW20
- MAC Blonde Mineralize Skinfinish
Eyes
- MAC Painterly paint pot
- MAC Vex eyeshadow
- MAC Trax eyeshadow
- MAC Magnetic Fields eyeshadow
- MAC Shroom eyeshadow
- Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencil in Zero
- MAC Brow Finisher in Blonde
- Make Up For Ever Lash Fibers
- Make Up For Ever Smokey Lash Mascara
Painterly used as a base. Vex applied all over lid with 239 brush. Trax applied with a 217 brush in crease and outer corner. Magnetic Fields used to darken outer corner and outer half of crease, with a 217 brush. Shroom used as a highlight, 272 brush. Zero applied to lower waterline.
It was my first time using the “dreaded” Trax shadow… and I didn’t mind it! Takes effort to blend it, but it’s not the nightmare that people on the forums make it out to be. I have worse shadows… and it’s a pretty color to boot!
Anyways, this was just my quick “back from the dead” post. Hopefully I will have my desktop up and running soon and will be able to get some pictures up and resume fairly normal operations!
Neutral with a pop?
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009I guess this can be described as that! Just decided to do my makeup all up to make myself feel better today
Face
- MAC Mineralize loose foundation in Medium
- MAC Studio Touch Up Stick concealer in NW20
- MAC Redhead Mineralize Skinfinish
Eyes
- MAC Painterly paint pot
- MAC Off The Page e/s
- MAC Satin Taupe e/s
- MAC Embark e/s
- MAC Vanilla e/s
- MAC Ricepaper e/s
- Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencil in Zero
- MAC Brow Finisher in Clear
- Make Up For Ever Lash Fibers
- Make Up For Ever Smokey Lash Mascara
Painterly applied as base. Off The Page applied to inner corner with a pencil brush. Satin Taupe swept over whole lid with 239 brush. Embark applied in the crease and outer V with a 239 and 222 brush. Vanilla used to blend out the crease, 272 brush. Ricepaper used to highlight, 272 brush. Zero applied on lower lash line. Off The Page and Satin Taupe applied under lower lashes.
A little interesting, eh? It was on my shadow combination list. Off The Page is gorgeous, I’m glad I picked it up when it was out.
Quick neutral look…
Saturday, November 7th, 2009Another from my list…
Eyes
- MAC Painterly paint pot
- MAC Woodwinked e/s
- MAC Copperplate e/s
- MAC Lucky Tom e/s
- MAC Vanilla e/s
- MAC Fluidline in Blacktrack
- MAC Brow Finisher in Clear
- Make Up For Ever Smokey Lash Mascara
It was my first use of Copperplate and I was pleased with the color.
I might not be updating very much in the next few weeks, but I will try to when I can!
I’m so blue…
Monday, November 2nd, 2009I feel like I’ve been having some “off days” the past two days. My looks have been very bleh and non impressive, but alas I shall post pictures anyway…
For November 1, 2009…
Eyes
- MAC Painterly paint pot
- MAC Steamy e/s
- MAC Club e/s
- MAC Grain e/s
- Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencil in Zero
- MAC Brow Finished in Clear
- Make Up For Ever Lash Fibers
- Make Up For Ever Smokey Lash Mascara
November 2, 2009…
Face
- MAC Mineralize loose foundation in Medium
- MAC Studio Touch Up Stick concealer in NW20
- MAC Blonde Mineralize Skinfinish
Eyes
- MAC Delft paint pot
- MAC Moonflower e/s
- MAC Plumage e/s
- MAC Carbon e/s
- MAC Shroom e/s
- MAC Pearlglide liner in Grey Utility
- MAC Brow Finisher in Clear
- Make Up For Ever Lash Fibers
- Make Up For Ever Smokey Lash Mascara
I called the post office today, and it turns out my package of empty pans were sitting in the back room. Apparently, they weren’t going to deliver them?! LOL. I have no idea, but I guess they’re going to throw them in the mail for tomorrow. So eventually I should be able to press my pigments!
Look of the day for October 29th
Thursday, October 29th, 2009I think this is a pretty “neutral” look that could be toned down if needed. It’s amazing how versatile these shades can be, and I wonder how I lived without them!
Face
- MAC Mineralize loose foundation in Medium
- MAC Studio Touch Up Stick concealer in NW20
- MAC Redhead Mineralize Skinfinish
Foundation applied with 209, MSF with 187. Concealer applied under eyes and smoothed out with 194 brush.
Eyes
- MAC Painterly paint pot
- MAC Woodwinked e/s
- MAC Expensive Pink e/s
- MAC Twinks e/s
- MAC Vanilla e/s
- MAC Rite of Spring e/s
- Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencil in Zero
- MAC Brow Finisher in Clear
- Make Up For Ever Lash Fibers
- Make Up For Ever Smokey Lash Mascara
Painterly applied as base. Woodwinked applied on inner half of lid with 239 brush. Expensive Pink applied on outer half of lid with 239 brush. Twinks applied in outer V and crease with 217 brush. Vanilla used to blend out crease, 272 brush, and Rite of Spring used as a highlight. Woodwinked applied under lower lash line with 219 brush. Zero used on lower waterline.
I don’t know why I keep on using MAC Black Russian on my waterline when Urban Decay Zero goes above and beyond what any other liner can?! Zero actually lasts longer than 2 minutes on my waterline, and keeps it’s vibrancy. So I really need to stop reaching for Black Russian and other shades of black for my waterline, and use Zero. *Pounds it into memory*
About damn time!
Monday, October 26th, 2009That is, for the first use of my Blackground paint pot! I’ve had it for a month or two, and haven’t used it yet. Maybe because it kind of scares me? I am not sure… Today I am being lazy, and figured I’d try out Club e/s over Blackground, which is a highly recommended thing to do in order to get Club’s green scheen to show up. And that it did!
No face or lips today since I’m just bumming around…
Eyes
- MAC Blackground paint pot
- MAC Painterly paint pot
- MAC Club e/s
- MAC Ricepaper e/s
- MAC Fluidline in Blacktrack
- Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencil in Corrupt
- MAC Brow Finisher in Clear
- Make Up For Ever Lash Fibers
- Make Up For Ever Smokey Lash Mascara
Blackground paint pot applied on lid as base with 242 brush. Painterly applied on crease and under brow as a base with a flat e/s brush. Club applied over lid with 239 brush. Ricepaper applied in crease and as highlight with 275 brush. Upper lashes lined with Blacktrack using a 210 brush. Lower lashes lined with Club using a pencil brush. Waterline lined with Corrupt.
I usually don’t do super dark makeup, so it is kind of weird to see, but neat. I’m glad the camera picked up on Club’s duochrome at least.
Also my first time using my new 210 brush for liner, and I love it! Nice and precise, allowing me to get a very thin and neat line.
Look of the day – October 24th
Saturday, October 24th, 2009In the pictures you can’t really tell I had blue on my eyes, but I swear it’s there! Deep Truth I guess just felt like photographing weird today
Face
- MAC Mineralize loose foundation in Medium
- MAC Studio Touch Up Stick concealer in NW20
- MAC Mineralize Skinfinish in Redhead
Foundation applied with 209, MSF with 268. Concealer applied under eyes and smoothed out with 194 brush.
Eyes
- MAC Painterly paint pot
- MAC All That Glitters e/s
- MAC Satin Taupe e/s
- MAC Deep Truth e/s
- MAC Shroom e/s
- MAC Powerpoint eye pencil in Grey Utility
- Make Up For Ever Lash Fibers
- Make Up For Ever Smokey Lash mascara
Painterly applied as base with flat eyeshadow brush. All That Glitters applied all over lid with 239 brush. Satin Taupe applied to crease with 222 brush. Deep Truth used to darken outer V and crease with 217 brush. Shroom applied as a highlight, 272 brush. Grey Utility applied to upper lash line and waterline.
Neutral Eye
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009I have an advising appointment today, so I decided to try something fairly neutral…
And WTF, I hate applying eyeliner. How I end up failing at it so hardcore I have no idea. I did it way too thick today, but I didn’t think I was?! ARGH
Face
- MAC Mineralize loose foundation in Medium
- MAC Studio Touch Up Stick concealer in NW20
- MAC Mineralize Skinfinish in Blonde
Foundation applied with 209, MSF with 268. Concealer applied under eyes and smoothed out with 194 brush.
Eyes
- MAC Painterly paint pot
- MAC Expensive Pink e/s
- MAC Cork e/s
- MAC Espresso e/s
- MAC Shroom e/s
- Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencil in Bourbon
- MAC Pearlglide Eye Pencil in Black Russian
- MAC Brow Finisher in Blonde
- Make Up For Ever Lash Fibers
- Make Up For Ever Smokey Lash Mascara
Painterly used as base with flat e/s brush. Expensive Pink applied over whole lid with 239 brush. Cork blended into crease with 239 brush. Espresso applied to outer V and crease with 217 brush, blended. Shroom used as a highlight, 272 brush. Bourbon applied to upper lash line, and Black Russian to lower lash line.
Lips
- MAC C-Thru Lipglass
There it is!
October 6, 2009
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009There’s a “your favorite eyeshadow combos” thread on specktra.net, and I went through it and wrote down some possibilities to try… here’s my first go!
Face
- MAC Mineralize loose foundation in Medium (109 brush)
- MAC Mineralize Skinfinish in Redhead (168 brush)
Eyes
- MAC Painterly paint pot as base
- MAC All That Glitters e/s inner half
- MAC Satin Taupe e/s outer half, crease
- MAC Twinks e/s to darken outer V, crease
- MAC Naked Lunch e/s to blend crease
- MAC Shroom e/s to highlight
- Urban Decay 24/7 Eyeliner in Bourbon along upper lashes
- MAC Clear Brow Finish
- Make Up For Ever Lash Fibers
- Make Up For Ever Smokey Lash mascara
Lips
- MAC C-Thru Lipglass
Nice neutral look! Which is weird as of late
Let’s play a little catch up!
Thursday, October 1st, 2009So my problem is laziness. I take pictures, then they sit on the camera. I have pictures on my digital camera from nearly a year ago! So… this morning I don’t have much going on, so I am vowing to go through all the makeup pictures, delete the crap ones, and post up good ones, regardless of how old.
What this means is that I probably won’t remember which products I used. But I still want to post them up since I took the effort to take the pics, ya know? What’s even worse is that my camera’s date kept resetting, so I don’t even have an accurate date for these Most will be from March – June 2009.
I run several blogs on a huge variety of subjects, and I tend to neglect them all, so honestly I REALLY need to make a vow to at least stay on top of a few.
First up…
This is from September 22, 2009.
Two words: SPICED CHOCOLATE!
I heard so much raving about this quad, so when I caught notice it was at my nearest CCO, I ran over and grabbed it. I’ve been in such a mood for a “fall feeling” with bronzes and reds, so this really excited me. And it didn’t fail to impress! (Which is always important, as things tend to get hyped up on MAC forums and turn out to be a bust)
I also dyed my hair recently “Deep Burgundy” by Feria. These pictures were taken soon after it was dyed. 1.5 weeks later and it’s faded a bit, but still really red. Maybe I finally found a good red hair dye?! Well, that, and I switched to using a sulfate-free shampoo (Bed Head Superstar) which really helps on prolonging hair color.
Uber red:
September 5, 2009
I went for a strawberries & bananas look this day and ended up messing it up by using a black eyeliner. I don’t like dark eyeliner (as you can tell, I usually don’t line my looks, which drives some people crazy but I like no liner a lot of the time). Therefore, I will only post the open eyes version.
Make Up For Ever #75
MAC Chrome Yellow
MAC Black Russian pearlglide liner (ARGHHHH)
MAC Full of Fuchsia Technakohl liner (trying to unruin the look)
Sometime in August 2009
How great are Taylor Swift dresses?! Haha, I just had to say that!
This was done with some of the Hello Kitty shadows… I’m guessing Too Dolly and Lucky Tom are two of the candidates
Sometime in April or May 2009
Awww, this is sooo pretty, I wish I remembered what I used I almost want to think I used Plumed Violet Cream Colour Base, but I am not sure.
April 3, 2009
I remembered the date on this one because this was the night of the Fast & Furious opening, LOL! I was going for the import model look, I guess. I used Too Faced Ooh & Aah duo eyeshadow.
That’s about all! There were other ones, but I either didn’t like how I did the makeup, or it was a repeat of something I had posted earlier.
Whew!
I am going to try to focus on getting swatches and collection photos up. I know natural light is best for that, but unfortunately the weather is quite crappy so I’ll have to see how far I get with that, especially today.
June 2, 2009
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009Bleh, I’m a bit behind on posting stuff… but here’s what I did today, and I’ll try to get some of the old ones up as well.
Face
- MAC Mineralize loose foundation in Medium (109 brush)
- MAC Prism powder blush (168 brush)
Eyes
- MAC Painterly paint pot as base (Sephora flat e/s brush)
- MAC Cosmic e/s all over lid (239 brush)
- MAC Glamour Check! e/s in outer V (239 brush)
- MAC Dreammaker e/s in crease (217 brush)
- Urban Decay 24/7 eyeliner pencil in Bourbon along upper lashes
- MAC Brow Finisher in Blonde
- Make Up For Ever Smokey Lash mascara
Lips
- MAC Elaborate lipglass
February 17, 2009
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009I took a small break from Hello Kitty collection stuff today… well, kinda. I attempted a brown smokey eye with the Lucky Tom e/s, but… it wasn’t doing want I wanted. (Do I have a HK collection curse?) I used very little, so I won’t be listing it on the products list FYI.
Face – nothing! Another natural face day (a.k.a. I was rushed)
Eyes
- MAC Painterly p/p as base (Sephora flat e/s brush)
- MAC Cosmic e/s all across lids (239 brush)
- MAC Mulch e/s in outer half of lid, blended, and under lower lashes (239 & 219 brushes)
- MAC Ricepaper e/s in crease & highlight (217 brush)
- Urban Decay 24/7 Eyeliner in Bourbon
- MAC Brow Finisher in Blonde
- Make Up For Ever Smokey Lash mascara
Neutral and simple
Simple neutrals
Saturday, January 17th, 2009Today I was going to cat show, so I wanted simple, “appropriate” makeup, so I broke out the neutrals!
Products used (all MAC unless noted):
Face
- Mineralized loose foundation in medium (109 brush)
- Redhead Mineralized Skinfinish (168 brush)
- Studio Touch Up Stick concealer in NW20 (194 brush)
- Fix+ (2 squirts once all makeup was done)
Eyes
- Painterly paint pot as base
- Cork e/s all across lid, up to crease (139 brush)
- Mulch e/s in outer V (139 brush)
- Orb e/s blended into crease (217 brush)
- Shroom e/s highlight under brow (272 brush)
- Urban Decay 24/7 Eye Pencil in Bourbon on upper lashes
- Brow Set in clear
- Make Up For Ever Smokey Lash mascara
Lips
- C-Thru lipglass
I am really liking the Urban Decay 24/7 liners! So smooth, none of that tugging across the lid. Definitely happy I decided to order some!