Meow Holiday 12 Pains of Xmas Swatches

errr 11 pains apparently, I only found 11 of the eyeshadows in my stash. The missing shade is Lights Out. I'm guessing that's because it's a navy blue.

Me and navy blue aren't friends.

Meow Cosmetics 12 Pains of Xmas was released in 2009 I believe, and every December since. I LOVE re-releases!!! It gives me an excuse to swatch this older stuff for you :)

All swatched over UDPP

Top row: Dirty Snow, Tree Fire,Batteries Not Included, Hangover, Cat in Tree
Bottom Row: Yellow Snow, Party Crashers, Debt, In-Laws, Black Friday
Far Right: Burnt Turkey




Top row: Dirty Snow, Tree Fire,Batteries Not Included, Hangover, Cat in Tree
Bottom Row: Yellow Snow, Party Crashers, Debt, In-Laws, Black Friday
Far Right: Burnt Turkey




Windowlight!

Top row: Dirty Snow, Tree Fire,Batteries Not Included, Hangover, Cat in Tree
Bottom Row: Yellow Snow, Party Crashers, Debt, In-Laws, Black Friday
Far Right: Burnt Turkey



2009 Was when I first ordered from Meow, not knowing they made the collections available again so I had ordered jars of stuff I thought I'd like not ordering samples before hand. Now I know to order samples (they always seem to know exactly when I want to order because a sale will be going on at that moment!) and then there's usually enough time for me to get them, swatch them and decide on jars. Before December ends, there's usually one last sale and that's my chance to go nuts :)

The colours I have are Dirty Snow, Yellow Snow, Tree Fire, Party Crashers, Hangover, In-Laws and Burnt Turkey.

If I had gotten samples beforehand I may have skipped Dirty Snow and In-laws. Maybe. In-laws has tiny blue sparkles that I love so forget what I just said. IN-LAWS STAYS. Otherwise I am happy with my other choices! Tree Fire is pretty cute for an orange!

Meow Holiday Xmas Rant Swatches

So it only took me a year but I swatched all the Xmas Rant shadows for you!! Wheee!! Go me :)

All swatched over UDPP


Top Row: Eggnogg, Calories, Greed, Bah Humbug, Pine Needles, Some Assembly Required, Bustle
Bottom Row: Traffic, Noise, Hustle, Grab Bag, Commercialism, Office Party, Drunken Relatives

Top Row: Eggnogg, Calories, Greed, Bah Humbug, Pine Needles, Some Assembly Required, Bustle
Bottom Row: Traffic, Noise, Hustle, Grab Bag, Commercialism, Office Party, Drunken Relatives


Windowlight!
Top Row: Eggnogg, Calories, Greed, Bah Humbug, Pine Needles, Some Assembly Required, Bustle
Bottom Row: Traffic, Noise, Hustle, Grab Bag, Commercialism, Office Party, Drunken Relatives


The ones I broke down and bought are: Eggnog, Greed, Traffic, Noise, Hustle, Commercialism, Office Party, and Drunken Relatives.

Yellow Snow

I made it through Black Friday without spending a dime. I was so proud of me!

Then got pissed off at something and had to buy stuff and what better time to buy stuff when it's like 25% off?!? So I broke down and made 3 little orders.

2 Labyrinth lippies from Hi Fi, 4 perfumes from OHWTO
aaaahhhh much better. Thank you shopping. You make me happy.

The look I'm posting today I did last Saturday. I didn't mean for it to turn out so yellow, but it looked pretty cool. I wanna throw Buttercupcake on everything. Even my sandwiches.

Especially my sandwiches.

I used:

UDPP
Lid/Crease: Meow Tetrodotoxin minus smack dab in the middle
Lid Centre: Meow Debauchery
Crease/Lower liner: Sugarpill Buttercupcake
Lower liner: MAC Black Line
Browbone: Burberry Trench
Liner: Physicians Formula gel liner






Frig I really hate my eyebrows. When I think I got every annoying hair, I look at the pictures and swear vehemently. I'm theeeeeeese close to just ripping them all out. But there are 5 days a week I can barely be assed to slap on foundation, mascara and blush, let alone damn eyebrows.

>:[

*~:.NOTE TO COMPANIES CONTACTING ME.:~*

I've posted this to the side, but I figure it deserves a post because I'm tired of all the spam I've been getting recently. Some people don't mind free shit when all they have to do is post about it, but I do because that's not what this blog is about. I'm not a walking billboard (most of the time :D ) I've only accepted from 2 companies (both makeup related) and I'm sure they're quite annoyed I haven't blogged about them enough because I only blog when I feel like it and only use the products when I feel like it. If I don't feel like talking about something, meh. Not gonna force myself. When you have to force yourself to do something you don't feel like doing, there's no more fun in it, and then I'd rather read a book. (119 now!)

THE MESSAGE:

Hi! If you are a company emailing me to offer me anything other than makeup for blog exposure I will not respond. My only interests are makeup (mostly indie) and reading. I don't want your bras (trust me, you don't have my size) I don't want your diet advice, etc. This is my personal space, I do EOTD's and swatches, and the random rant. That's it. I post what I feel like. I'm not turning it into something different. If you haven't seen a post on my blog offering what you're offering, chances are, I don't want it.
Thanks for understanding.


And now a picture because every post needs a picture! My broken Sleek palette of which they STILL haven't responded to me. Even when they GAVE me an email address of their associate. THANKS FOR NOTHING SLEEK.






LIES....

Meow Crop Circle & Abductee 2011

Itty bitty swatch post.

BUT FIRST! If you haven't done so yet, check out the Hunger Games trailer!!!!

HOLY.CRAP. I can't wait until March dammit!

Back to makeup...

This year Meow added "Crop Circle" and a new "Abductee" shade to their Alien Abduction Halloween line.

I'm a total dork and when I saw the email saying sale I grabbed everything I wanted in jar form (yay for already swatching!) and skipped the part in the email mentioning the 2 new/kind of hidden shades. Luckily I was able to add them to my order and I'm so glad I did!

Crop Circle reminds me very much of Urban Decay's Baked shade which is my favourite UD shade EVARRR. I swatched them side by side and Crop Circle is a bit darker and just as pretty. <3 it!

Abductee 2011 is a really pretty taupe shade and it photographs like effing MAGIC! To my eyeballs in this dark livingroom light I didn't see the shimmer this intense, but the flash on my camera popped it out. I didn't even have to blur the picture to make it visible, but I included a blurry pic anyways. Just cuz :)
I think this shade photographs better than any other shade I own. How can you see this and NOT WANT IT? You don't want it? CRAZY PERSON.
Oh that's just me :)

Abductee 2011 is very different than last year's Abductee. Abductee 2010 was a dark purple shimmer with silver sparks.

PICTURE TIME!


Crop Circle, Abductee 2011


UD Baked, Crop Circle


Abductee 2011, Abductee 2010


Abductee 2011. So can I snort it?


The jar!

Since Halloween is over, you'll be SOL getting these dudes for awhile. Last years' Abductee didn't make a comeback, so this years may not show up next year. So I guess this post sort of turned into a Pink Sith "Taupes you can't have" kind of post :D

Persephone All Hallow's Eve

I know I know, It's the middle of freakin November and I'm just swatching a Halloween collection now.

That's how I roll.

The collection is Persephone Minerals All Hallow's Eve and it contains 6 shades:

Pumpkin Head, Dead Ringer, Graveside Manner
Spirit Realm, Devil Doll, Cemetery Dirt







I believe Spirit Realm is now permanent.

Dead Ringer has pink sparkles that didn't show up on camera and Graveside Manner has green sparkles also refusing to show up on camera. If I could chose favourites, Dead Ringer, Graveside Manner, Pumpkin Head and Spirit Realm win kitteh approval.

Schweddy Ballz

Here's a look I played around with awhile ago but didn't like. I said the look was balls and my friend said "schweddy balls" hence my title of this post :D

It was supposed to be a cut crease but I accidently blended some of the colour and couldn't fix it. Then I fuckered up the liner so naturally that means ADD MORE LINER! so I did.
And dots.
Dots fix everything.



Sorry for the scary looking eyebrows. I haven't sat down and tried to get rid of all the strays in ages so they're kinda going wonky at the moment.

I used all Meow Cosmetics:

TFSI
Lid: Asylum
Crease: Tarantula
Above crease/lower liner: Blood Lust
Browbone: Full Moon
I think the black liner was just my Physician's Formula gel shimmer glam somethingorother liner.

Abducted by Fireflies

I tried to organize my crap today but that didn't go so well. 1 Makeup company got sorted and that's about it.

THE BEAST



My collection has grown quite a bit from last summer and it's starting to just get ridiculous. I have 2 orders on their way to me and I think that's it until xmas time but then I'm going to try super hard not to buy anymore makeup other than the essentials. I found shit I don't remember buying! NICE!
BTW my sorting turned into "throw shit into drawer with like-items" I would love to try to blog-sale some of my stuff but Canadian shipping to anywhere is stupid expensive.

When I sorted my Meow stuff I found Abduction and it looked close to the yellowy green I've been hunting for! But it's not quite there yet...




I WILL GET YOU YELLOWY GREEN COOLNESS, I WILL!!

What prompted me to try to do a glitter crease is THIS SWEET LOOK by EyeGraffiti. I don't know how she did it cuz mine kinda flopped but go there and subcribe! Her looks are awesome and should have maaaaaany more followers.

MMMMAAAAANNNNEEEEEHHHHHHH


I used today:

UDPP
Lid: Meow Abduction
Browbone: Burberry Trench 01
Crease: Kiss My Sass Fireflies
Inner corner: Meow Radiation
Lower lashline: MAC Blackline with Abduction on top
Liner: Physician's formula gel liner
Blush: My Pretty Zombie MDMA with MAC Lightscapade all over










HAH! Flash made my face uber pale in the first pic. I need to find a finishing powder that likes flash. That would be nifty.

Craptastic books currently reading right here. Holy lordy they are not very good. The cyborgs are basically rapists cuz she's all like "hellz now" and he's all like "BUT YOU WILL LIKE IT AND BE PROPERTY YOU PUNY WOMAN" and then she's all like "YOU WERE RIGHT I LOVE YOU NOW" the end. That so doesn't count as a spolier because that would mean I ruined a story, but it pretty much ruins itself...