STYLISHLY YOURS - EYE LOOK

Hello! A quick post tonight... By the way, I updated my blogsale! The link is above this post on my blog ^_^

I was playing around with my pigments I got from Stylishly Yours (click for the post) and this is the look I came up with :)

No full face shots because my face is super oily. I like this combo, but I wish I would've put a white base underneath so that the pink was more vibrant.

I used the hot pink pigment all over the lid, the orange pigment in the crease, and the red pigment on the outer corner with just a matte off-white highlight. I think bright colors look great with a sharply winged liner so of course I went with it but no lashes since I was just messing around and I'm not going anywhere :P

Alright ladies, have a great night! I'll see you all in the next post.

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BENEFIT FEMME METALE REVIEW & SWATCHES

Two posts in one week?!?! Yes, I feel motivated! It's partially due to the fact that I can't sleep right now because my back is killing me since it's that time of the month. I swear it just crept up on me this month, so unexpected!

If you're a long reader of my blog, you'll know I love to buy sets that are a good value! I recently purchased the Benefit Femme Metale set from Sephora a couple of weeks ago for $28. Benefit really likes to price things at $28 whether it's one blush, a liquid highlighter, or even a gift set but it says it's original price was $38. Either way that's a good value too with what you're getting in the set! You can find it here at sephora. Online it says it's not in stock anymore but when I went to purchase it in store they had more than enough so I'd probably check there if you're interested in purchasing.

Here's what to look for when purchasing in-store. It's a small box so it might be easy to overlook.

When you take off the clear plastic... I guess box cover???... all the items are held inside with some spongey material. At first try it was a challenge to remove but luckily I had to the help of my co-worker! (Yes I opened this at work lol.. and I tried out the products there too.)

This set contains:

• 3 x 0.16oz Creaseless Cream Eyeshadows
• 3 x 0.04oz Eyeliners

You're getting 3 full sized cream eyeshadows (which normally retails for $19 each) and 3 mini pencils to try out! I'd say that's a great deal. Plus the liners really won't budge for anything! Well, maybe if you're attacking it with makeup remover but that's a given.

However, these cream eyeshadows differs from their original ones when it comes to packaging. The name of the shade is actually on the top of the lid versus being on the bottom on a clear label. Either way it doesn't matter to me because I keep them stored sideways so I don't see either side when I'm choosing a shade to use.

• Platinum is a metallic white
• Plum-ing for Gold is a metallic plum
• Taupe-aztic is a metallic golden-beige (On my skin and in the pot it appears to be a simple gold shade instead of 'taupe' like the name says.)
  
• Gem-n-Eye is a golden olive with shimmer
• Steel Her Date is a steel blue
• Blinged is a silver

Also if you've been a long reader of this blog, you know I'll hardly (more like never) post swatches of products! Reason being is because it always looks too washed out or I'll write up a review at night so there's no natural light to take a non-flash photo in... or usually I'm too lazy. Today I am writing this up in the morning and last night I discovered a setting on my camera that really doesn't wash out the colors so I give you... SWATCHES!

Platinum, Plum-ing for Gold, Taupe-aztic, Gem-n-Eye, Steel Her Date, and Blinged with flash.

Platinum, Plum-ing for Gold, Taupe-aztic, Gem-n-Eye, Steel Her Date, and Blinged without flash.

This is such a great kit and if you're a fan of colored bases and liners, you'll love this set just as much as I do! I'll try to post more hauls/reviews with swatches now that I've figured out a setting that works well :)

Thanks all for stopping by!

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MAC CHAM PALE & STYLISHLY YOURS

Happy [late] New Years everyone! I hope everyone had a great and safe new years :)

I had a ton of fun hanging out with friends and family and getting my drank on. What did you gals do?

Here's my face, in case you forgot. I'm sure no one forgot, haha!

I was looking back onto this FOTD and the sun kinda washed out my makeup! I know I looked somewhat dramatic during the day when I went shopping. I'm wearing the Dashing Lassies Palette (Holiday 2010), Stereo Rose MSF (In The Groove 2010), and Feelin' Good TLC (Warm and Cozy 2010). It was really pretty and lightly smoky, I promise!

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You know, I totally skipped my Tartan Tale haul because I thought I lost my camera?? I tried to record it on my laptop but the audio was being a shithead and totally didn't even go through so I didn't post it.

I don't have to beat the crowd to see MAC collection releases anymore! (Thank goodness.) My MAC lady lets me see everything before it releases and then I presale it so I have first dibs on it!

from Cham Pale

• Rose Ole Special Reserve Highlight Powder
• Calm Mode TLC SPF 15 + Lavender (exact dupe for Feelin' Good TLC, just a different scent due to the lavender)
• I Get No Kick Kohl Eye Pencil
• Chilled On Ice Paint Pot
• Let Me Pop Paint Pot
• Vintage Selection Paint Pot
• Dangerous Cuvee Paint Pot

from Stylishly Yours

• Follow Your Fancy Pigment
• Madly Personal Pigment
• New Fixation Pigment
  

The paint pots is the highlight of this collection for me! I really love bases like this :) These paint pots are very different from the usual MAC paint pots. Some reason they seem more like the Asian Cream Shadows because they're more glittery and sheer although the color is definitely buildable!

I couldn't turn down the pigments I didn't own because I am a pigment collector! I haven't really touched them or the ones from Venomous Villains but I just love using pigments. The highlight powder is really nice too. The shimmers aren't too chunky and not overly shimmery. I use it to highlight my cheekbones when I wear pink or peach blush!

I also really like the eye liner too! It's a nice precision highlighter with no brushes necessary to use ^_^. Just need your fingers to blend it in. The TLC is pretty much my backup for the Feelin' Good one because it's the same color but I'm not too fond of the scent so hopefully when I whip it out I'll adjust to it.

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I have a couple more things to show you that I hauled. Here's a hint, it's a cream shadow! ^_^

My New Years [beauty] resolution:
Blog more often, or quit blogging all together!
Yes, I know it's pretty sad but I'll figure it out by the end of the year.

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MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Hello beauties!

I'm sure you can all tell by the title this isn't a beauty-related post. It's Christmas over in Texas and it's wet & rainy. Just wanted to swing by this blog thing and wish you all a Merry Christmas and have a safe New Year! I'll make a post before then though :)

I leave you with my hat... with built in gloves! hehe, it's super cute :)

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WET&WILD HOLIDAY PALETTES

Hello girls! My, oh my has it been a minute! I've got great news :)... well great for me but I don't know about you. My mom just got out of surgery today and this is the last week of the fall semester so after this week I'm going to be so relieved and not stressed anymore! *PHEW* Also, I am not taking any wintermesters this year so I'll have some time for real updates (hopefully).

I will start you off with a picture of me & my boyfriend. We were at one of my girlfriend's birthday dinner on the freezing cold rooftop! That was a CRAZY night. My friends (2) got high, my other friend (1) had a hit and run.. on her fault, my other other friend (1) got mistaken identity for causing a fight, then my other other other friends (5) got their car searched. LOL, it was a fun but crazy night and my boyfriend got super drunk and threw up everywhere and I got harassed by some dude. GROSS... Anyway, here we are before all the alcohol! ^_^

I'm wearing Kat Von D Painted Lipstick in.... (forgot the name but it's a slightly deep red). Lasting power is very good and I only had to touch up after dinner from the pesto I had and then one time at the club! It was a little drying but that might be because I didn't apply any gloss over it and I tried not to lick my lips so that it'll last longer, lol.

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I recently picked up the Wet&Wild holiday palettes. I had to go to 2 different Walgreens to find these and I got the last ones! :D I already own the four other palettes they have so I knew these were super pigmented before I even bought them. These are well-worth the $4.99 I spent and apparently my Walgreens didn't keep the 50% sale because it was "limited edition". GRR, what the fuck!! Whatever though it was still really cheap :)

Sugar Plum Fairy Palette & Violet Eyeliner

Snow Sprite Palette & Silver Eyeliner

Night Elf Palette & Black Eyeliner

Golden Goddess Palette & Gold Eyeliner

Sorry there's no swatches! It was really hard to even photograph it with my shitty camera so I had to pass on posting up swatches at all. I'll be doing looks with these and probably get them posted in a month or so :) haha! I'll also go through my eyeshadow collection and see if they're dupes for any higher end shadows so maybe you can scoop 'em up before they're gone.

Hope you enjoyed this post! No one probably reads this anymore but if you do I hope this helps :)

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