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I wish I could think of a patriotic scheme to do for tomorrow, but I’m worried it’d come out muddy…
Posts Tagged ‘Crystal Avalanche’
Some COLOR!!
Saturday, July 3rd, 2010Fun look for today
Monday, January 25th, 2010This was on my list of ones to try… crazier than what I usually would do, but today is laundry day, and what’s neater than crazy eyes for laundry day, right?!
Eyes
Painterly applied as a base all over lid. Chrome Yellow applied on inner third of lid. One Off applied in middle of lid. Electric Eel applied to outer third and crease. Crystal Avalanche applied in crease, and under inner half of lower lashes. Cranberry used as a liner for upper and lower lashes. Zero applied to lower waterline.
I think I love purples…
Friday, December 11th, 2009Face
Eyes
Lips
Swatch of the Day: MAC White Eyeshadows
Friday, October 30th, 2009The swatch of the day is…
My 3 white MAC eyeshadows! These are the ones I consider “true” whites that don’t have any overtly gold/pink/whatever tones to them. Those I include in my highlights palette, and not my white palette.
MAC Crystal Avalanche Eyeshadow
Description: White with reflects (Veluxe Pearl)
MAC Chill Eyeshadow
Description: Luminous satin, cool white (Discontinued)
MAC Gesso Eyeshadow
Description: Vivid white (Matte)
Swatching procedure: My skin tone is roughly a MAC NW20. Swatches are done over MAC Painterly paint pot to provide a base, therefore results may appear different on bare skin.
Photos are taken in my bathroom which has “Natural Light” bulbs to mimic natural daylight. No flash is used.
Such a bleh day :(
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009The weather is such a bummer today 
It’s felt so dark all day, and rain rain rain rain! Yesterday was sunny, so to wake up to this today is crappy.
So in honor of the gray weather I present a gray look!
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 Fade e/s
- MAC Scene e/s
- MAC Nehru e/s
- MAC Crystal Avalanche e/s
- MAC Powerpoint Eye Pencil in Grey Utility
- MAC Brow Finisher in Clear
- Make Up For Ever Lash Fibers
- Make Up For Every Smokey Lash Mascara
Painterly applied as base with flat e/s brush. Fade applied all over lid with 239 brush. Scene applied to crease and outer corner with 217 brush. Nehru used to darken outer corner with a 217 brush. Crystal Avalanche applied as a highlight with 275 brush. Grey Utility lining top lashes and lower waterline.
Lips
- MAC She Loves Candy Lipglass
And a rare full face shot!
On Sunday night I ordered a few things from the Container Store to organize my collection with. Much to my disappointment I haven’t seen a change on my order status, and oddly enough, haven’t received a confirmation email of me ever even placing the order. If I don’t see a change tomorrow on the status, I think I’ll give them a ring and see what’s up. I’m overly eager to get these things! I ordered a clear acrylic DVD rack (thank you MAC for making the palettes DVD sized!) for, duh, my palettes. Along with that, I ordered an acrylic rack/tray that I am going to use to store all my pencils and mascaras “Sephora style” with beads at the bottom. The Dixie cup I am currently using just isn’t cutting it! Container Store has lots of awesome storage solutions, and they’re reasonably priced! So hopefully my order ships soon. The whole not getting the order confirmation email, even 2 days later, is worrying me. Woe is me.
Purple smokey eye
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009Ooo, 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
*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…
August 31, 2009
Monday, August 31st, 2009LOL, what’s a makeup blog?!
I’ll be honest, I’ve been lazy… sometimes I just don’t feel like taking pictures, and then posting what I did. Or if I did take pictures, I never ended up posting them…
Today inspired me, though, as it was something a bit unusual compared to my usual mascara only, or “normal” fall backs.
Face
- MAC Mineralize loose foundation in Medium (109 brush)
Eyes
- MAC Painterly paint pot as base
- MAC Chrome Yellow e/s inner half, and lower lashes
- MAC Electric Eel e/s in middle to blend the two colors, and lower lashes
- MAC Atlantic Blue e/s in outer half
- MAC Felt Blue e/s in crease
- MAC Fade e/s to blend
- MAC Crystal Avalanche e/s to blend
- MAC Shroom e/s as highlight
- MAC Auto-De-Blue Technakohl Eyeliner along upper lashes
- MAC Brow Finisher in Blonde
- Make Up For Ever Lash Fibers
- Make Up For Ever Smokey Lash mascara
argh, I need to get back into updating this…
June 9, 2009
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009So I have a meteorology test today, so I thought it’d be a fitting time to try out the Gulf Stream eyeshadow I picked up last week at the CCO!
Here goes nothing!
Eyes
- MAC Painterly paint pot as base (Sephora flat e/s brush)
- MAC Steamy e/s on inner half of lid (239 brush)
- MAC Electra e/s over the Steam (239 brush)
- MAC Gulf Stream e/s over outer half (239 brush)
- MAC Crystal Avalanche e/s as highlight (272 brush)
- MAC Eye Kohl in Minted along upper lashes and waterline
- Make Up For Ever Smokey Lash mascara
It’s very flahsy and green, hmmm
May 21, 2009
Thursday, May 21st, 2009Face
- MAC Mineralize loose foundation in Medium (109 brush)
- MAC Studio Touch Up stick concealer in NW20 (194 brush)
- MAC MSF in Redhead (168 brush)
Eyes
- MAC Painterly paint pot as base (Sephora flat e/s brush)
- MAC Typographic e/s all over lid (239 brush)
- MAC Idol Eyes e/s over the Typographic (239 brush)
- MAC Crystal Avalanche e/s in crease (217 brush)
- MAC Brow Finisher in Blonde
- Make Up For Ever Smokey Lash mascara
February 21, 2009
Saturday, February 21st, 2009Yay for finally using MUFE #75, I’ve had it since early November! And yes, I am anticipating pretty stained eyelids, I will have to report back on that on a later date
Face
- MAC Mineralize loose foundation in medium (109 brush)
- MAC Studio Touch Up stick concealer in NW20 (194 brush)
- MAC Mineralize Skin Finish in Redhead (168 brush)
Eyes
- MAC Painterly paint pot as base (Sephora flat e/s brush)
- MAC Gesso e/s in inner half of lid (ELF e/s brush)
- MAC Budding Beauty in middle of lid, and under lower lashes (239, 219 brushes)
- Make Up For Ever #75 e/s in outer half, blended (239 brush)
- MAC Crystal Avalanche e/s as highlight (217 brush)
- Urban Decay 24/7 Eye Liner in Yeyo in inner corner
- Urban Decay 24/7 Eye Liner in Zero lining upper lids, and lower waterline
- MAC Brow Finisher in Blonde
- Make Up For Ever Smokey Lash mascara
Lips
- MAC Nice Kitty lipglass
Bright, obnoxious, but pretty fun!
Do you smell grapes?
Monday, February 2nd, 2009ACK!!!! I got to class today, and we were talking about makeup and then I realized it… I FORGOT MASCARA!!! This really bothered me, although I think no one else noticed. But it was so strange So… in the following pictures you will notice the lack of my normally long, clumpy lashes, LOL. Besides that, I LOVE today’s look, I am so happy with the Make Up For Ever #92. Such bold, vibrant color that I haven’t found the equal to with MAC (same with the hot pink MUFE makes)
So, even with the mascara mishap, I love today’s look, and I got many compliments, which is always nice, because wearing such bold makeup can be scary.
Face
- MAC Mineralize loose foundation in medium (109 brush)
- MAC Redhead MSF (168 brush)
- MAC Studio Touch Up stick concealer under eyes (194 brush)
Eyes
- MAC Painterly paint pot as base (Sephora flat e/s brush)
- MAC Electra e/s all over lid (139 brush)
- Make Up For Ever #92 (”Purple 92″) in outer V, into crease, and as liner (139 brush and Mary Kay slanted e/s brush)
- MAC Crystal Avalanche e/s in crease to blend the purple (217 brush)
- MAC Shroom e/s as highlight under brow (217 brush)
- MAC Brow Set in clear
Lips
- MAC Lip Conditioner
So weird not adding mascara onto that list, just seems wrong. When I came home from class I did put some on, whew.
#92 just became one of my all time favorites, I just adore it! And it was a hassle to buy, as it’s been sold out constantly for months, so I am happy I jumped to buy it when it was available online back in December.
On another note….
On Saturday (January 31, 2009) I did a quick simple look, and took some brief pictures. No face products, just quicky on the eyes so I could go shopping (remember, I am trying hard to use my makeup!)
Eyes
- MAC Greenstroke paint pot all over lid, up past crease (Sephora flat e/s brush)
- Urban Decay 24/7 Eyeliner Pencil in 1999 to thickly line upper lashes
- Make Up For Ever Smokey Lash mascara
Not meant to be spectacular, just trying to play with some new products! Greenstoke is a nice paint pot by itself, I don’t even know if I’ll use it as a base very much, probably just a primary color. 1999 is also a pretty liner, but I am finding the softness of the 24/7 pencils to be a bit annoying sometimes.
I think either tomorrow or Wednesday I am going to use Electra and MUFE #75, which is a neon pink to see how that turns out (I just saw that #75 is no longer listed on sephora.com, oh noes!), to try a look similar to today’s.
January 12, 2009
Monday, January 12th, 2009Here’s today look! I did this completely random honestly!
Products (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 (242 brush dupe from Sephora)
- Mancatcher e/s all over lid, up to brow bone (139 brush)
- Steamy e/s in outer V, and as liner both top and bottom (139 brush, and Mary Kay slanted e/s brush for lining)
- Crystal Avalanche e/s as a highlight (272 brush)
- Benefit Eye Bright in inner corners and waterline
- Brow Set in clear
- Make Up For Ever Smokey Lash mascara top and bottom
Lips
- C-Thru lipglass
I took pictures before I did concealer on this massive mountain of a pimple on my forehead and before the Eye Bright, and then after I did it. So I used the later pictures, except for the last one I’m going to post, that was done before those two items.
and for the one without concealer or Eye Bright
Obviously, the concealer helped! Unfortunately, it is a discontinued product, but I see mine lasting forever since I haven’t even sharpened it yet, and I’ve had it for 1.5 years. It’s just nice that it’s in pencil form, so I can “draw” it on, then blend it in with the 194 brush. The Eye Bright also perked up my eyes a bit, so I am going to try to use that product more often.
My hair left a lot to be desired today, sorry about that, haha.
Welcome!!
Saturday, January 10th, 2009Welcome to my MAC makeup blog! I’ll be updating this with my daily looks, new purchases, etc!
I have two looks from a few days ago that I am going to post, and then I’ll post a new entry for today’s look!
Jan. 08, 2009 Look “Going to the pet food store!”
Products (all are MAC unless noted):
Eyes
- Painterly paint pot as base (242 brush dupe from Sephora)
- Moonflower e/s all over lid (139 brush)
- Deep Truth e/s in outer V/crease, and a bit to line upper and lower lids (139 brush)
- Ricepaper e/s in crease up to brow (272 brush)
- Crystal Avalanche e/s lightly in crease, and a bit under brow (272 brush)
- Make Up For Ever Smokey Lash mascara
Lips
- Elaborate lipglass
No foundation/concealer/powder/etc.
This look turned out better than I hoped, and my makeup artist at my local freestanding MAC store even complimented me! This made me so happy, as I am always scared to wear “serious” makeup to MAC, in fear the MUAs will make fun of me. Definitely a confidence booster! I did notice my right eye wasn’t as blended as the left, probably due to the crappy lighting in my bathroom (I switched to “natural” lightbulbs last night and LOVE it).
Jan. 09, 2009 Look “BBR Playtime”
Products (all MAC unless noted):
Face
- Mineralized loose foundation in medium (109 brush)
- Redhead Mineralized Skinfinish (168 brush)
Eyes
- Painterly paint pot as base (242 brush dupe from Sephora)
- Henna e/s all over lid, up a little past crease (139 brush)
- 100 Strokes e/s in outer V, and along upper lash line (139 brush, and small slanted Sephora brush for lining)
- Ricepaper e/s to blend and up to brow (272 brush)
- Brow Set in clear
- Make Up For Ever Smokey Lash mascara
Lips
- Carmex
Time to play with my new products I got from the “Brunette, Blonde, and Redhead” collection, along with my new powder foundation that I got at MAC 01/08/09. I figured out Ricepaper mixed with 100 Strokes made some sort of gunmetal silver color. I honestly must admit I wasn’t too happy with 100 Strokes, but it just might be the other colors I was using it with. I’m sure I’ll make it work.
