Revlon Whimsical

Revlon's Whimsical is the less expensive dupe of Deborah Lippmann's Glitter in The Air

I saw the Deborah Lippmann one in Murale but there were no price tags so I passed on it. Then internetland started showing off this super cute shade by Revlon and I had to have it!

It's a bit of a disappointing colour because of it's sheerness but it would layer pretty over pastels. Whimsical has pink and blue disc glitter with holo glitter and irridescent smaller sparkles in a sheer milky blue base.

I swatched it over Sally Hansen's Inta-Dri Whirlwind White and as you can see from my picture, the white is still pretty prevalent even with 3 coats layered on top.

It reminds me of candy. I LIKES IT! The hardest part of this nail polish is telling yourself you kind of have no control over the glitter and let them lay as they will, sparse or not. The first coat gave my pinkie 3, but more coats = more glitter, so keep packing that stuff on :)

And excuse my poor mangled looking cuticles and ragged ass nails. I work in a warehouse and it's not friendly on my hands even with the amount of hand cream I use :(

Meow Holiday Xmas Trees

I took these swatches before I went on holidays but forgot to upload them :s


Bad me.

Better late than never!

These lovely greens are from Meow Cosmetics Xmas Trees collection. I tried linking the collection itself but Blogger is being a huge turd right now and links aren't working right.

FIX THIS BLOGGER!

U MAKE ME ANGERED!

Hopefully pictures still work!

All swatched over UDPP

Top row L-R: Artificial, Spruce, Cypress, Fraser Fir
Bottom row L-R: Ceder, Balsam, Pine, Noble



Top row L-R: Artificial, Spruce, Cypress, Fraser Fir
Bottom row L-R: Ceder, Balsam, Pine, Noble




Fraser Fir by itself because it rocks my socks.



Top row L-R: Artificial, Spruce, Cypress, Fraser Fir
Bottom row L-R: Ceder, Balsam, Pine, Noble

I haz a sad

For those who knew of Grey from Le Gothique and was part of the Indie Style Awesome Box dealio, you may wanna READ THIhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifS...


Stupid blogger is stupid, if that link doesn't work blame blogger and then cut and copy this >>

http://toxid-lotus.net/2012/01/20/what-happened-to-grey-indie-style-awesome-box/

Meow Cosmetics Friday the 13 Swatches

This post could have been done ages ago but being the lazy ass I am, I just haven't. And peeking at my blog hit search words a few of you are looking for swatches so VOILA! I did em!

I didn't even know Friday the 13th was happening until I saw a Meow update on facebook mentioning the Friday collection appearing again! The code: brokenmirror will get you 13% off this weekend.

Now I'm sure most people would get excited seeing this but not me.

Because I already GOTS DEMZ! :D

The Friday the 13th collection makes a comeback every Halloween and Friday the 13th hence the name! It's the reason I was able to eventually get them all over time and I love them. There are some really pretty duochromes in it including my favourite non-hooker blue, Spell!

Some of the shades act even better on top of Pixie Epoxy so I've swatched a few there also.


Behold teh awesome and click to make them a bit bigger to see more shimmer.



Top Row L-R: paraskevidekatriaphobia (I shit you not), misfortune, supernatural, broken mirror, 13, skeptic, accident
Bottom Row L-R: cursed, spell, trepidation, bad luck, unlucky, paranormal, fate




Top Row L-R: paraskevidekatriaphobia, misfortune, supernatural, broken mirror, 13, skeptic, accident
Bottom Row L-R: cursed, spell, trepidation, bad luck, unlucky, paranormal, fate


WINDOWLIGHT!



Top Row L-R: paraskevidekatriaphobia, misfortune, supernatural, broken mirror, 13, skeptic, accident
Bottom Row L-R: cursed, spell, trepidation, bad luck, unlucky, paranormal, fate

And some over Pixie Epoxy




Top Row L-R: spell, accident, misfortune, 13
Bottom Row L-R: skeptic, supernartual, broken mirror, cursed




Top Row L-R: spell, accident, misfortune, 13
Bottom Row L-R: skeptic, supernartual, broken mirror, cursed

MOOAAARRR WINDOWLIGHT!



Top Row L-R: spell, accident, misfortune, 13
Bottom Row L-R: skeptic, supernartual, broken mirror, cursed

My favourites: Spell, Accident, Bad Luck, Unlucky, Broken Mirror, Misfortune


I hope this post helps :)

Uncomfortable... Zone

Soooooo it seems the new camera takes good product shots but when it comes to aiming this sucker at my eye, not so fun!

I only took 2 shots because I had to run but both those shots kinda blow so this is what I ended up with





So basically I just kept packing on more and more shades together until I liked it :D





Kingslayyyyaaaaa

In other news, I got some more Meow samples (Ice Blossoms and Misfits) but I feel all holiday swatched out. I would like to do them eventually, but then I have to do the Snowflakes and the Glacial Grove and then I'd be all caught up but HOLY CRAP that's a lot of shades. Xmas Trees are done I just have to crop and post but I'm lazy. Lazy and reading. The Fever series. I wants me a Barrons. Nomz...



I also want to do a mega post with all the Egyptian Treasures sometime. I think I have the whole collection with samples and jars combined.

See that!? I went off topic and then so stealthily hopped right back on the topic train. I only hit 30 pedestrians on my way back but SO WORTH IT.

STEALTH BABY!

CHOO CHOOOOOO.


Here's a pretty star ornament I made.




So much talent I know. I sewed that felt like nobody's business.

Yeahhh I'm basically just rambling now because I don't want to go to bed but I have to. Work blows. Someone win me the lottery. So I don't have to work. And I can sit on my but all day buying sparklies, talk about them, read a bunch and oogle James Deen.
Not to be confused with THAT James Dean, although he was pretty oogle-able.
Now how many of you just hit up Google for more? :D

Good Riddance 2011

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

FIRST check out Wendi of awesomeness and follow her wicked ass Makeup Zombie blog because she is dying to hold a massive giveaway and she just needs a few more followers to hit her 1000 target. Do eeeeeet.

Okie dokie smokies, I've been on holidays the last 2 weeks. This means 2 weeks worth of blogger dashboard to sift through.
Those weeks went WAY too damn fast. Good news for the blog though, NEW CAMERA.

No more elphail.

I'd take a pic of the new one but the other cameras are still in the suitcase.

Yup.

I hopped on the computer before unpacking.

I'm THAT person.

The camera is a Canon EOS Rebel T2i and it's going to take me awhile to figure it out but it seems to take wicked awesome pics... (click to make bigger)


Meow Abductee 2011


Hi-Fi Slime & Snails (YOU CAN SEE THE BLUE GLITTER!)


Annabelle quad I have to swatch still





NICE!

The only thing makeup related that happened recently is I made an epic OCC Lip Tar haul. If you've been reading this blog for awhile you know I hate the word "epic" but it's really the only way to describe my moment of insanity of hauling 23 freakin lip tars. They had a sale so they dropped to $10.40/ea from $13 and the cart kept screwing up so I made like 8 carts all weekend (because of the error) and the very last cart I made a half hour before midnight on New Years Eve let me add a bunch before it screwed up to full price again and then I narrowed it down from there. At 23 I didn't do a good job at the narrowing down part but I am SO excited to see what I can create colourwise with these guys!

NEW YEARS RESOLUTION: Buy less makeup

Those lip tars were bought BEFORE midnight so I'm still on target :D

Uber, Butch, Pageant, Feathered, Tarred, RX, Petty Beige, Traffic, Trick, Interlace, Katricia, Hoochie, Narcissus, Anime, NSFW, Stalker, Harlot, Beta, Banjee, Cha Cha, Femme, Hush and Tone.

And that brings me to...
NEW YEARS RESOLUTION numero dos: Wear lip stuff.

Speaking of which, anyone who does loads of lip swatching, what do you use to wipe the old stuff off to stop your lips from chapping? I can usually only go 3 shades in a row and I might as well have rubbed my face down a brick wall because the end result is fugly. And hurty.

I'm gonna hit up my craft store for empty containers and mix some magic and hopefully 2012 is the year of lip swatches because I have a feeling these things are going to keep me busy. I plan on trying to dupe shades, like the MAC Quite Cute lippies, and since I have the actual lipsticks I can see how far off I really am. SCOREEEEE DUDES! I also wanna try to dupe a certain purple-toned grey lipstick...