Archive for the ‘Smokey’ Category

My new wearable smokey eye…

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

I failed at photographing my eyes today. ?!

This is based off a look I did a year ago in October (I was looking through the archives). Just subtracted the blue color.

Face

  • MAC Mineralize SPF15 Foundation/Loose in Medium
  • MAC Studio Sculpt Concealer in NW20
  • MAC Mineralize Skinfinish in Redhead
  • Eyes

  • MAC Painterly Paint Pot
  • MAC Smoke & Diamonds Eyeshadow
  • MAC Patina Eyeshadow
  • MAC Lucky Tom Eyeshadow
  • MAC Vanilla Eyeshadow
  • MAC Nanogold Eyeshaodw
  • MAC Brow Set in Clear
  • Make Up For Ever Lash Fibers
  • MAC Plush Lash Mascara
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    Night out!

    Sunday, April 4th, 2010

    Woohoo, fun makeup for once!!!!

    Face

  • MAC Mineralize loose foundation in Medium
  • MAC Studio Touch Up Stick Concealer in NW20
  • MAC Mineralize Skinfinish in Perfect Topping
  • Eyes

  • MAC Painterly Paint Pot
  • MAC Milk Pigment
  • MAC Fix+
  • MAC Silverthorn Eyeshadow
  • MAC Knight Divine Eyeshadow
  • MAC Carbon Eyeshadow
  • MAC Phloof! Eyeshadow
  • Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencil in Zero
  • MAC Brow Set in Clear
  • Make Up For Ever Lash Fibers
  • Make Up For Ever Smoky Lash Mascara
  • Lips

  • MAC Personal Taste Lipglass
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    Cool heat in the club…

    Friday, February 12th, 2010

    This was posted today on specktra.net’s “Shop Your Stash Challenge” thread, and decided I’d try it out! I don’t think I’ve ever really used Cool Heat since I’ve bought it. Turned out well, a bit smoky and dark for a day look, but definitely something I’m not scared to try out again. A blue look I like?!

    Eyes

  • MAC Painterly Paint Pot
  • MAC Delft Paint Pot
  • MAC Cool Heat Eyeshadow
  • MAC Club Eyeshadow
  • MAC Vanilla Eyeshadow
  • MAC Solar White Eyeshadow
  • Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencil in Corrupt
  • MAC Brow Set in Clear
  • Make Up For Ever Lash Fibers
  • Make Up For Ever Smoky Lash Mascara
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    Deflt makes a beautiful base for Cool Heat!

    Something I didn’t think of until now, but I bet MAC Blue Brown pigment would also go well with this look. I’ve had that pigment since last fall and still haven’t gotten around to using it, so I might have to repeat this look with that pigment sometime soon.

    Halloween!

    Saturday, October 31st, 2009

    I wasn’t really anything for Halloween, I just wanted to do lots of makeup, haha.

    Face

    • MAC Mineralize loose foundation in Medium
    • MAC Select Sheer / Pressed in NW20
    • MAC Powder Blush in Prism

    Eyes

    • MAC Painterly paint pot
    • MAC Flammable paint
    • MAC Carbon e/s
    • MAC Gesso e/s
    • MAC Danger Zone Mineralize Eyeshadow
    • MAC Blacktrack Fluidline
    • MAC Reflects Copper glitter
    • 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
    • Ardell 120 Demi Lashes

    Lips

    • MAC Clear Lipglass
    • MAC Reflects Copper glitter

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    Dorky full face shot :P
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    I <3 Flammable paint.

    And this was my first time ever wearing fake eyelashes!!

    Purple smokey eye

    Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

    Ooo, I love it!  Once again, another look off my super awesome list of combinations to try… which I will try to get posted as a page after I’m done adding all the stuff into My Collection page. Moving to a wordpress format has been so nice, I’m loving it!  Definitely a lot more flexibility in layout and content.

    Some thoughts…

    1) 217 oh how I love you!  I can’t believe I ever said I didn’t see the point in you on specktra.net!

    2) It’s Parfait AMOUR not ARmour *smacks forehead*  I just recently stumbled upon that discovery… can I claim it’s because French words aren’t my thing!?  At least it’s not as bad as me calling Slip Pink “Pink Slip” for the past two years…

    3) I wonder what my classmates think when I walk into class with makeup like this… Considering only a small fraction even seem to have mascara on, I wonder if I’m a sight to see with dramatic smokey looks for school…

    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 Parfait Amour e/s
    • MAC Stars N’ Rockets e/s
    • MAC Beauty Marked e/s
    • MAC Crystal Avalanche e/s
    • MAC Pearlglide eye liner in Rave
    • MAC Brow Finisher in Blonde
    • Make Up For Ever Lash Fibers
    • Make Up For Ever Smokey Lash mascara

    Painterly applied as base with flat e/s brush.  Parfait Amour packed all over lid with 239 brush.  Stars N’ Rockets swept into crease with 239 brush.  Using a 217 brush, Beauty Marked was buffed into outer V and outer half of crease.  Using a 272 brush, Crystal Avalanche was used as a highlight and in inner corners.  Rave liner applied to waterline, and using a 219 brush, Parfait Amour applied under lower lashes.

    Lips

    • MAC She Loves Candy lipglass

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    1021closeup3*squeeeee* I love it.  I don’t know why, I guess I didn’t expect it to turn out like this.  Thank goodness for a 217 brush!

    However, I can’t decide if the look needs some eyeliner on my upper lashes… I avoid lining looks as sometimes it ruins everything, but sometimes it’s needed.  I just don’t know…

    October 9, 2009

    Friday, October 9th, 2009

    I feel like this is something kinda unusual for me… It is something off of my list of combinations to try (though I did my own highlight/blend and liners). I like it, though! I kind of did a messy job (especially with the liner), so it’s not perfect looking, but I definitely think this is something I would do again, and in different variations with different colors.

    Face

    • MAC Mineralize loose foundation in Medium
    • MAC Mineralize Skinfinish in Blonde

    Eyes

    • MAC Painterly paint pot as base
    • MAC Orb e/s all across lid
    • MAC Scene e/s in crease
    • MAC Typographic e/s to darken outer v and outer crease
    • MAC Vanilla e/s to blend out crease
    • MAC Solar White e/s to hightlight and in tear duct
    • MAC Powerpoint eyeliner in Grey Utility along upper lashes
    • MAC Pearlglide eyeliner in Black Russian on waterline
    • MAC Clear Brow Finish
    • Make Up For Ever Lash Fibers
    • Make Up For Ever Smokey Lash mascara

    Lips

    • MAC She Loves Candy lipglass

    Bleh, I’m so dark under my eyes :( But… I am too lazy to put on a bunch of concealer, especially when I am not doing anything special. Hence my powder foundation – I don’t like to be all gloppy with products.

    Let’s play a little catch up!

    Thursday, October 1st, 2009

    So 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.

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    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.

    A cloud in the sky… goes floating by…

    Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

    Me and my weather themed makeup…

    Face

    • MAC Mineralize loose foundation in Medium (109 brush)
    • MAC Blonde Mineralized Skin Finish

    Eyes

    • MAC Painterly paint pot
    • MAC Cumulus eyeshadow across lid
    • MAC Deep Truth eyeshadow in outer V, crease
    • MAC Carbon eyeshadow to smoke out outer V
    • MAC Cloud Bound eyeshadow to highlight
    • Make Up For Ever Smokey Lash mascara

    February 17, 2009

    Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

    I 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 :)