Curls! Sponge Rollers

Adventuring around Googleland for curls I've seen all sorts of nifty ways people can curl hair.  I'd like to try out a whole bunch of these but for now I'll have to use what I do have.  So for this weekend it was my handy dandy Goody Sponge Rollers!

When I first used these it didn't turn out so well.  Since they are sponge, it was pretty easy to be tempted to pull on the roller when rolling it in my hair.  If you pull too tight you will get small angry curls.  AAANNGGRRRRYYYY.

Angry to me anyways.

This time I was a bit more careful and tried to wind them up with just enough pulling to keep the ends in place.

These were also put into clean, dry hair.  I wasn't planning on curling my hair but I was watching Raising Hope and noticed all the females had curly hair and I wanted some too!

Here's my hair freshly dyed (Garnier Intense Light Red 660)

 All sponged up.  I wasn't sure what size goes where so I used the biggest size on top until I ran out and mediums in the middle and so on...and slept in them.

And all pulled out 16ish hrs later. I didn't pull them out until I wanted to leave the apartment so they were in there for a freakin long time.  I carefully unwinded them and took a comb and combed down the spirals in the direction of the curl.  Then tried to separate each curl into 2 and winded them to keep the curls defined.  When it was all done I hair sprayed the heck out of it.

Next time I will have to try to put some product in my hair beforehand like a handmade sea salt spray.  My hair does not hold curl well and after a few hours that bouncy curl you can kind of see in the front of my head, worked its way down my face in no time :(

Here was try number 1 a bit ago.  I ended up throwing a clip in to hold most of the back and left the front bit all crazy.  I hated it.

I've decided small curls are not my friend.

As of right now, I prefer the curlformer/magic leverag curls more (better uniformity) but process wise the sponge rollers were way better.  Sleeping in them wasn't noisy and they didn't really hurt my head.  Curlformers/Magic Leverag for me are something you'd have to do first thing in the morning, to be ready for night.  They are not sleep friendly.

Enchanted Polish Beatles Collection Teaser

TASTE THE FRIGGIN RAINBOW

Bought from Harlow & Co .  It's best to "like" Enchanted Polish on Facebook to see when the next stock will be up to buy.  It sells out crazy fast because LOOK:

Awwwww yeah.

Meow Cosmetics Dance of Death Swatches

Okie dokie smokies, these eyeshadows were bought 2 years ago I believe and should still look the same, but there may be slight differences.  I only say this because I bought a backup of Spellbinding last year and the multi coloured sparkle was leaning more towards red/pink.  The swatch of Spellbinding in this post is the more multi coloured one. 

If sparkle makes you drool you will want to check out Meow's Dance of Death Halloween collection.  Almost all of these have sparkles and the ones that don't still have a really pretty shimmer.  Dance of Death is also home to one of my most favourite eyeliners ever, Coffin! Coffin looks AMAZING in blue eyeshadow looks.    It also has two multipurpose "Haunted Veils" Poltergeist and Spectre.  The veils come in the regular 5 gram jars (just incase you had ordered Radiation from the Alien Abduction collection and expected another 10 gram jar like moi :D ) which now makes sense to me because they named them veils and not glow powders like Morpho, Present, Xmas List, Misery, or Immortal.  (FYI: most of those not available at the moment, except for the last 2)  I loves those glow powders.

MOVING ON

All these were swatched over TFSI

As with all my posts, click the pictures to make them bigger! BIGGAH IS BETTAH :)

1st row: Spellbinding, Horror, Eerie, Necromancer, Witch, Warlock
2nd row: Demon, Vampire, Dirt Nap, Cadaver, Tombstone, Dead of Night 
Far right: Asylum

1st row: Spellbinding, Horror, Eerie, Necromancer, Witch, Warlock
2nd row: Demon, Vampire, Dirt Nap, Cadaver, Tombstone, Dead of Night 
Far right: Asylum 

1st row: Spellbinding, Horror, Eerie, Necromancer, Witch, Warlock
2nd row: Demon, Vampire, Dirt Nap, Cadaver, Tombstone, Dead of Night 
Far right: Asylum 

1st row: Spellbinding, Horror, Eerie, Necromancer, Witch, Warlock
2nd row: Demon, Vampire, Dirt Nap, Cadaver, Tombstone, Dead of Night 
Far right: Asylum 

1st row: Spellbinding, Horror, Eerie, Necromancer, Witch, Warlock
2nd row: Demon, Vampire, Dirt Nap, Cadaver, Tombstone, Dead of Night 
Far right: Asylum 

1st row: Spellbinding, Horror, Eerie, Necromancer, Witch, Warlock
2nd row: Demon, Vampire, Dirt Nap, Cadaver, Tombstone, Dead of Night 
Far right: Asylum 

 L-R: Poltergeist, Spectre

  L-R: Poltergeist, Spectre (kind of shifts towards light)

  L-R: Poltergeist, Spectre (kind of shifts)

 1st row: Spellbinding, Horror, Eerie, Necromancer, Witch, Warlock
2nd row: Demon, Vampire, Dirt Nap, Cadaver, Tombstone, Dead of Night
Far right: Asylum, Coffin (liner), Grave Robber (also a liner)

LINER CLOSEUP!

L-R: Coffin (dry then wet), Grave Robber (dry then wet)

 L-R: Coffin (dry then wet), Grave Robber (dry then wet)

 And some randoms over Pixie Epoxy to bring out the sparkle.  Spellbinding just makes the camera freak the hell out, so I wasn't able to get a shot of it's total awesomeness. 

1st row L-R: Spellbinding, Witch, Cadaver
2nd row L-R: Necromancer, Warlock, Asylum

Sorry it looks uber messy! I was flinging eyeshadow everywhere! 

Hope these were helpful!

Meow Cosmetics Halloween Zombies Swatches

More swatches for you!  Meow Cosmetics Halloween Zombies collection has been around for a few years now and come out every October.  I kind of wish I had swatched these sooner because there are some seriously pretty ones in here I haven't bought full size of yet!  Like Coven!  Ooooo lala :)

All of these were swatched over UDPP.

Group 1
L-R Top: Full Moon, Jackolantern, Spider Web, Goblin, Omen 
L-R bottom: Skelecat, Witch's brew, Blood Lust, Macabre, Sinister

L-R Top: Full Moon, Jackolantern, Spider Web, Goblin, Omen 
L-R bottom: Skelecat, Witch's brew, Blood Lust, Macabre, Sinister

L-R Top: Full Moon, Jackolantern, Spider Web, Goblin, Omen 
L-R bottom: Skelecat, Witch's brew, Blood Lust, Macabre, Sinister
 

Group 2
L-R Top: Ghoul, Coven, Tarantula, Voodoo
L-R Bottom: Banshee, Fear, Evil Eye, Black Cat 
Far Right: Zombie

L-R Top: Ghoul, Coven, Tarantula, Voodoo
L-R Bottom: Banshee, Fear, Evil Eye, Black Cat 
Far Right: Zombie

L-R Top: Ghoul, Coven, Tarantula, Voodoo
L-R Bottom: Banshee, Fear, Evil Eye, Black Cat 
Far Right: Zombie

And Banshee on its own because as I was swatching all the purdy colours made me go oOoo

NOTD ~ Velvet Bow Dipped in Gold

2 days in a row doing my nails!

I've started wearing gloves at work in the hopes that it will help the skin around my nails stop being so haggard looking.  The other problem is that the gloves dry out my hands, even with a lot of hand cream.  On the plus side I'm not snagging my cuticles on boxes!  My last little manicure lasted 2 days with the gloves instead of 5 minutes, so I'm going to stick with them for awhile.  Maybe I'll notice a difference in another week or 2.  Untill then I plan on lots of painting!

Here's what I did today.

China Glaze Velvet bow
OPI Goldeneye (James Bond 007 Skyfall collection!) on the ends
I couldn't find my french tip guides so I used my roll of green painters tape instead.

It left slight film on top but it disappeared once I put a coat of Revlon Qucik Dry Top Coat.

It looks cool from far away.  Goldeneye is such a bright shimmery gold and not super gritty.

I was going for something Autumn-like but ended up with Christmas.  Whoops!

OPI Bond... James Bond Magnetized nail polish swatch

BEFORE YOU LAUGH TIL YOUR EYES WATER:  I've never played with magnet nail polish, so I don't really know the trick to it.

Magents.

How do they work?

Anyways, I was at the hair place waiting for the dudeman to get his hair cut and I saw they had the new OPI 007 Skyfall nail polish collection.

I most wanted Man With the Golden Gun (GOLD FLAKES!) but dudeman convinced me Goldeneye was prettier AND cheaper and then I saw the magnetized shades.  I ended up grabbing Goldeneye, Is That Silva? and this one, Bond... James Bond.  The magnetized ones were about $18 each and came with a magnet.  How many times can I say magnet in a post.

Holy crap is it ever hard to find a swatch of it.  And the magnet didn't seem to want to make nice even diamonds like the picture.  So this sad lil post will have to do until I figure out how to magnet right...

 (That one is my other hand using the magnet that came with the Is That Silva? polish)

If you wear just the polish itself, it's kind of boring.  The magnet pulls the silver from the gold and darkens it to a super pretty gold.  I may have to hunt down different magnets just to pull the silver away better.


10.

EOTD ~ There's a Skelecat in my Jack-o-lantern

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving but it will be just another Sunday with the following Monday off because my family lives on the other side of the country.  And I can't cook a turkey.  And I really, really want some turkey.

So instead I'm skipping Thanksgiving and moving on to the next holiday, Halloween!

I'm wearing my glow in the dark haunted house shirt I bought from Shirt.Woot. when it was available.  The little ghosties glow!  I wish I had ghosts to clean my house.

Halloween makeup time! I pulled out my Meow Halloween Zombies collection to make this look today.

I used:
UDPP Greed
Fyrinnae PE just on lid

Inner lid: Skelecat
Lid main: Jack-o-lantern
Crease/lower lashline: Banshee
Blended above crease/lower lashline: Witch's Brew
Browbone/Inner lashline: Full Moon
Liner: UD 24/7 Liquid liner Perversion

All my shots have wonky lighting incase you were wondering about the colour difference.  I'm far too lazy to fiddle around with photoshop to get them to look more real life :D

 MY SHIRT!!!

Both eyes.  Kinda.  uuuuurve Skelecat!

OFF TO WALMART!  For chips and salsa.  Because it's kinda like turkey yes?

No.

:sadface

Also there was a super big fire here.  A racing fuel plant caught on fire.  Thankfully nobody was hurt.  I just feel like sharing my pictures!  ALRIGHT!?  Okay :)

It burned for hours.  The fire department had to work to keep in contained and let it burn out on its own.

This video here is my friend's ex just walking along like there isn't a towering inferno behind him until it goes all RAWWWWRRRRI'MABIGASSFIREBALLRAAAWWWRRRRR and he runs away.

Meow Halloween Collection Swatch Links

FYI Meow's Halloween shop is open again!

I haven't finished swatching all of them and still need Harvest Moon (although I don't think that one is a Halloween collection, just autumn) and the brand new Asylum collection but here are some links from the swatchfest last year

Here is X
Four Horsemen
Friday the 13
Zombie Apocalypse
Halloween Zombies (just added)
Dance of Death (update: added Oct 20)

Huh.  I thought I did more than that.

I'm probably thinking of Pandora's Box and End of Days.  They're kinda doom and gloom too.

There is a new Abductee in the Alien Abduction collection for 2012

No picture for it yet but if it was as pretty as last years, SWEET!

S.E.T.I. is quickly becoming my favourite crease shade.

LOOKATIT!

Oh hey beautiful.  Come here often?  So um... ya wanna go for a coffee some time?  Oh you're busy?  Being an eyeshadow?  Who can't communicate?

THAT'S RIDICULOUS.

EOTD ~ 1 pic wonder

I had to rush out super fast and only snapped one picture.  I didn't even check to see if it was clear or not but lo and behold, IT WAS!

The picture gods were on my side this morning.  Unfortunately the eyebrow gods took the day off.  The downside to using pale matte shades on the browbone, every little hair shows up.  There is no sparkly shimmer interference so the hairs are JUST.THERE.DAMMIT.

But other than that I really liked this look!

I used Detrivore's Graveyard collection over TFSI Lemon Drop

Lid: Autopsy
Crease: Tomb
Browbone: Embalm

Yup yup.  Detrivore's 10 for $20 is up until October 3rd FYI