Showing posts with label 2011. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2011. Show all posts

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Raspberry Lemon Chocolates

That title makes me hungry. *wipes up drool*

I got my ginormous package from Persephone Minerals in the mail a couple of days ago and I had ordered 2 winter collections: Sultry Sweet and Santa's Rockin' Reindeer. Those 2 are on clearance and I tried to link them for you but once again Blogger is being a dick so just google persephone etsy and click on the holiday 2011 link on the left.

errr.. or cut and copy this> http://www.etsy.com/listing/86953807/clearance-holiday-2011-le-sultry-sweet

Sultry Sweet is filled with pretty pinks a few browns/tans and really pretty light shades. The whole set is just fun to look at, like her Chibi Moon one (and if you don't have that one yet, you are totally DISOWNED DUDE :D )

I haven't swatched them, not sure I will since they are limited edition and probably gone soon.

Manda already swatched the pretties here> http://toxid-lotus.net/2011/11/27/swatches-persephone-minerals-sultry-sweet-shades-part-01/

and here> http://toxid-lotus.net/2011/11/27/swatches-persephone-minerals-sultry-sweet-shades-part-02/

The dude and I went to get dessert at some nice restaurant (just dessert cuz we're poor) and supper was pepperoni sticks from Walmart.

Class-ay

So this is the look I did to go eat some pumpkin bread pudding with salted caramel ice cream!!!

UDPP
Inner lid: Buttermint
Outter lid: Ribbon Candy
Crase: Buche de Noel
Upper crease: Cranberry Sauce
Browbone: Burberry Trench with Divinity on top
Lower liner: Annabelle Bronzed (I think that's what it's called, maybe just "Bronze")
Rimmel almost freakin dry glam eyes mascara with lashes bought from KKCentreHK.
Liner Physician's Formula gel liner







Wow, gotta love my lighting continuity...


MINI RANT TIME!

Lookie the pretty colours!



This is what you get when you add a photoshop filter



So pretty! But so not what they actually look like (well they actually look pretty but aren't as contrasty as this photo makes them out to be)

Lately it bugs the hell out of me seeing so many blogs/makeupbee photos now photoshopping every freakin picture, even swatch pics, to make something prettier.

Why bother listing what you used, when you've filtered the shit out of everything and the colour no longer looks like the original?

It's not like you go out side, go up to somebody "oh wait sir, let me throw on my magical photoshop glasses so you can see what I want you to see"

That's lying dude.

I could see tweaking it because your lighting was off but slapping a filter on it because it makes it more "vibrant" when it's totally NOT as vibrant as it actually is, just lies.

There are some blogs I do enjoy for the pretty with the photoshopping, but doing swatches with it too, nooooooo. Makes googling stuff harder when all you find and inaccurate shades. Like different montitors aren't wonky enough.

I don't care if it's used to get rid of acne/wrinkles/etc but when you start messing with the shadows themselves, it's misleading.

Over shopping shades probably hurt the company as well, especially indie when people get their order and are like "oh this is nothing like I saw online" and then blame the company, not the person with the PS skills.

Or maybe not, just a guess. I'm just bitchy today. The bread pudding wasn't that great. I want more pepperoni.

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Meow Cosmetics Halloween 2011 Four Horsemen Swatches

Are you getting sick of me yet?

MORE SWATCHES!

To be fair, this one was easy, 4 shades!

This is Meow's Four Horsemen collection. To me they look more Christmassy and I'm not sure I want any of these in jar form. Maybe Death. Maaaaaybe. Violence looks very close to Malevolence from Pandora's Box. To me it looks like Violence is more maroon and Malevolence is more red. In the pictures you can't really tell. I don't think you'd need both though.

TOP 2: Famine, Death
BOTTOM 2: Violence, Pestilence




TOP 2: Famine, Death
BOTTOM 2: Violence, Pestilence

Blurry shimmer!


TOP 2: Famine, Death
BOTTOM 2: Violence, Pestilence

WINDOW LIGHT!


And the maroon comparison.

L-Malevolence R-Violence


L-Malevolence R-Violence

L-Malevolence R-Violence


Swatchfest Meow Halloween 2011 COMPLETE! WOOHOO!!!

Meow Cosmetics Fall 2011 Pandora's Box Swatches

My tube of primer is getting good use this weekend!

I've swatched Meow's Pandora's Box collection. They came out right before the Halloween releases. From the online swatches they looked too dark for me but I did still manage to find a bunch I wanted after swatching them.

What got me super excited about this collection is I had just finished reading the Lords of the Underworld books before this collection got released and the story is about these immortal warriors who were pissed off that Pandora (a WOMAN OH NOES AND SUCH!)was chosen to guard the box, so they opened it and as punishment for letting the demons out, they were forced to house one of the demons as they got caught. You try living with the demon of Lies and everything you spoke was a lie or else you would feel extreme pain! Actually I liked his demon the best.

So yeah, seeing a Pandora's Box collection, NICE! Not the same demons as the books, just a wicked awesome coinkydink.
hah. I said coinkydink

PICTURE TIME


1ST ROW: Indecency, Debauchery, Anathema, Sorrow, Mortal Sin, Mayhem, Villainy

2ND ROW: Chaos, Plague, Scourge, Infamy, Depravity, Malevolence, Poison




1ST ROW: Indecency, Debauchery, Anathema, Sorrow, Mortal Sin, Mayhem, Villainy

2ND ROW: Chaos, Plague, Scourge, Infamy, Depravity, Malevolence, Poison



1ST ROW: Indecency, Debauchery, Anathema, Sorrow, Mortal Sin, Mayhem, Villainy

2ND ROW: Chaos, Plague, Scourge, Infamy, Depravity, Malevolence, Poison

WINDOW LIGHT!



I was trying to turn my arm upwards to get better lighting on the bottom row but ended up chopping off the 2 shades on the far left :s

1ST ROW: Debauchery, Anathema, Sorrow, Mortal Sin, Mayhem, Villainy

2ND ROW: Plague, Scourge, Infamy, Depravity, Malevolence, Poison



The ones I want are Debauchery (it's gold yo! Can't say no to golds), Mayhem, Chaos (even though I'm not a huge orange fan, this one is pretty) Plague (love the name, plague's scare the crap out of me), and Scourge.

Meow Cosmetics Halloween 2011 X Swatches

MORE!

Going through my last post I realized blogger changed something so when you click on pictures you can't click them again to make them even bigger which sucks ass because I've been saving my pictures as huge, using my picture space to do so, all for nuthin' :(

dammit

CURSE YOU WITH A WAMPUS RAT!

I have some more swatches for you, this time from Meow's X Collection

I was so proud of me for getting my swatches so nice and straight with eachother but then realized I was slowly crawling up my arm, so my nice straight swatches start to curve downwards. Whooops

Out of this collection I think I have my heart set on 6 of the 13

All these were swatched over UDPP

1ST ROW: Yeti, Mothman, Nessie, Snipe, Hidebehind, Chupacabra

2ND ROW: Boogie Man, Jersey Devil, Wampus Rat, Sasquatch, Wendigo, Kraken

FAR RIGHT: Grim Reaper




1ST ROW: Yeti, Mothman, Nessie, Snipe, Hidebehind, Chupacabra

2ND ROW: Boogie Man, Jersey Devil, Wampus Rat, Sasquatch, Wendigo, Kraken

FAR RIGHT: Grim Reaper


1ST ROW: Yeti, Mothman, Nessie, Snipe, Hidebehind, Chupacabra

2ND ROW: Boogie Man, Jersey Devil, Wampus Rat, Sasquatch, Wendigo, Kraken

FAR RIGHT: Grim Reaper


1ST ROW: Yeti, Mothman, Nessie, Snipe, Hidebehind, Chupacabra

2ND ROW: Boogie Man, Jersey Devil, Wampus Rat, Sasquatch, Wendigo, Kraken

FAR RIGHT: Grim Reaper

WINDOW LIGHT


The 6 I really want are Yeti, Boogie Man, Mothman, Wampus Rat, Sasquatch, and Grim Reaper.

So that makes my total 16 jars so far putting me in the poorhouse, and I haven't swatched Pandora's Box or the Four Horsemen yet lol. This should be good.

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Meow Halloween 2011 Zombie Apocalyspe Swatches

SWATCH TYM!

Are you ready for a bunch of pictures that look the same but aren't!?

I KNOW I AM!

:)

I ordered samples from the newest Meow Cosmetics Halloween collection "Zombie Apocalypse" and 'tis time to swatch them. It's really my only way to decide what I want full jars of. In the bags samples mostly always look like crap, you don't get to see the sparkle much swatchified HOLY SNIZITS I might as well just have my work send my money to them without hitting my bank account first. I thought I'd only want 5 or 6 of these but after swatches I think there are only 3 I could do without. CRAP CRAP CRAP.

I swatched these over UDPP

1ST ROW: Undead, Brains Over Beauty, Living Dead, Reincarnation, Post Apocalyptic, Head shot

2ND ROW: Datura, Sepulcher, Quarantine, Rising, Tetrodotoxin, Infection

FAR RIGHT: Post Mortem




1ST ROW: Undead, Brains Over Beauty, Living Dead, Reincarnation, Post Apocalyptic, Head shot

2ND ROW: Datura, Sepulcher, Quarantine, Rising, Tetrodotoxin, Infection

FAR RIGHT: Post Mortem


1ST ROW: Undead, Brains Over Beauty, Living Dead, Reincarnation, Post Apocalyptic, Head shot

2ND ROW: Datura, Sepulcher, Quarantine, Rising, Tetrodotoxin, Infection

FAR RIGHT: Post Mortem


1ST ROW: Undead, Brains Over Beauty, Living Dead, Reincarnation, Post Apocalyptic, Head shot

2ND ROW: Datura, Sepulcher, Quarantine, Rising, Tetrodotoxin, Infection

FAR RIGHT: Post Mortem


1ST ROW: Undead, Brains Over Beauty, Living Dead, Reincarnation, Post Apocalyptic, Head shot

2ND ROW: Datura, Sepulcher, Quarantine, Rising, Tetrodotoxin, Infection

FAR RIGHT: Post Mortem

BLURRY SPARKLE SHOT!


1ST ROW: Undead, Brains Over Beauty, Living Dead, Reincarnation, Post Apocalyptic, Head shot

2ND ROW: Datura, Sepulcher, Quarantine, Rising, Tetrodotoxin, Infection

FAR RIGHT: Post Mortem

BLURRY WINDOW LIGHT!



From looking at the bags I thought I was going to pass on Head Shot and Post Mortem but nooooope. Too pretty to pass up, Post Mortem was more crazy sparkly than I thought it was going to be. Rising actually has a crazy pink sheen going on with it but my pictures don't show it much. The 3 I'll skip are Reincarnation, Post Apocalyptic and Quarantine. I didn't find those 2 greens to be unique enough and I have a load of dark greens already. I'm skipping the pink just cuz I'm not a huge pink shadow fan. Well this shade of pink anyway. I don't know, medium pink? Whatever, kitteh does not want.


Zombie Unicorns however... Kitteh wants muchly.