Posting an oldish look with Meow Cosmetics

Here's a look I did a few weeks ago with Meow Cosmetics. I ran out of things to google so 3rd post of the day!

My boyfriend (really hate that word, sounds like jr high.) likes neutrals, so he usually pretty much doesn't like any of my makeup looks lol. But this one he actually liked.

I used:
Friday 13 Skeptic - main lid colour
Friday 13 Supernatural - crease colour (I think, I should have written it down somewhere)
Zombies Skelecat - hilight
Dance of Death Coffin - eyeliner

Coffin is the best mineral eyeliner I've found so far. It's so smooth and you just need a little. It's going to take me a long time to go through the pot but I bought a second one anyway for backup :D

Skeptic was a bit tricky to work with, if you accidently buff it, the pretty pinky shimmer goes away so you have to pat some more on.

I noticed the colours online aren't totally matchy with what you actually get which is why it's important to read the descriptions as well and try samples first so you're not too upset if it's not what you are expecting.
Accident looks lightish online but it's actually quite dark with red shimmer in it. They've even added the extra "Wetlines-RED!" to the description.
Same with Obelisk in the Egyptian Treasures line. It looks like an odd brownish colour, but it actually is a green colour like the description says. Computer screens are rarely 100% for colour matching which is why I love looking for swatches so much. Even when you get a sample bag of something, it may look "meh" in the bag but don't give up on it yet. Actually try it out on the back of your hand. The extra shimmers and whatever else may have been added don't show up in the baggy very well but will show up on your hand (Like I said with Obelisk, it looked quite uninteresting in the bag until I swatched it, then promptly got a full size!)

ummmm that is all for today. bye bye now.

Storing my junk

K it's not really junk, I just usually refer to everything I own as my junk, and I luvz my junkz.

Right now my vanity is in the kitchen, where a dining table should be. In my other apartment we had a spare room but this apartment, we weren't so lucky. Space is not very good. This works though. I don't do my makeup in the bathroom. It has really bad yellow lighting, and I get worried the humidity will wreck the formulations. I like to sit in the living room next to the kitchen, pop the blinds open and voila! Natural lighting!

I have 2 train cases. The silver one has mostly just eyeshadows and blushes. No liquids (took it on a plane and REFUSED to stick it underneath, that baby went with me) The lace one has my foundations, brushes, some lip glosses, primers, and moisturizers. Everything else on the vanity is just random eyeshadows from everywhere, mascaras, lipsticks, eyeliners, all makeupy goodness. I have to re-organize it all so it's easier to see things. The binder has my baggy samples. The 2 thiner boxes under the crystal skull boxes are my Urban Decay Book of Shadows.

Underneath it all is my wicked awesome nail polish collection. The lid doesn't fit very good anymore and it weighs a ton. I would attempt sticking nail polish swatches on this blog but it's not very easy taking a pic of it on my fingers. It has either too much shine, or doesn't show all the detail I see in real life.

I really want the drawers Fresco Phyrra has.

Swatchy swatchy

I attempted to swatch my Aromaleigh L'Orchidee's and my Les Papillions.

Looking over the Les Papillions I realized I liked some more than I thought I did! Zephyr's Breeze, Butterfly Kisses, Dormant Dream and Soul Takes flight are getting added to my wish list.

Click on pics more larger detail.

Top Picture is Les Papillions:
1st row:
Zephyr's Breeze, Thalias Return, Winged Psyche, Soul Takes flight
2nd row:
Glowing Luna, Golden Chrysalis, Flying Flower
3rd row:
Ephemeral Violet, Crimson Mimicry, Flutter-By
4th row:
Spread Your Wings, Dormant Dream, Earthly Delights, Air & Light
5th row:
Butterfly Kisses, Flutura's Cloud, Morphing Moon.

2nd Pic, L'Orchidee:
1st row: Pixie Cup, Seed Pearl, Wild Coco, Orinoco
2nd row: Showy, Unicorn, Bumblebee
3rd row: Heart, Tangleroot, Cricket
4th row: Moth, Dragon (seeee it's totally grey, I don't see green, then again my eyes suck)

Aromaleigh L'Orchidee

I got my Aromaleigh L'Orchidees in the mail! I grabbed full sizes of the ones that sounded like I would like the most since I didn't have time to try before I buy (sample baggies. Orders to Canada seem to take ages from anybody, good ol Canada Post)

I love them all! Almost. Not a fan of Orinoco. I grabbed:

*descriptions are Aromaleigh's descriptions http://www.aromaleigh.com/apliedeyl.html

My thoughts in BOLD

Seed Pearl: A most delicate neutral satin taupe with soft pastel sparkles. (reminds me of MAC Your Ladyship)

Wild Coco: A muted khaki brown with coppery golden sparkles. Tame, but wild at heart! (If MAC Your Ladyship has an evil golden twin this would be it. Would make great lid colour or crease or hilight depending on your braveness)

Unicorn: Palest yellow luster that phases to a cool blue highlight. (This one is very unique, looks buttery yellow and then BAM pale blue prettiness. Magical hilighter, would make a perfect Fairy look with Showy as the main colour, Unicorn the hilight)

Moth: Pale and delicate iridescent tones appear softly grey, always changing. (sort of looked a bit like a silvery slight purpley super shimmer on my hand. Really neat colour to check out)

Bumblebee: Soft yellow lustre with pale pink iridescent sparkle highlight. (A lighter version of their HITC Italian Ice *I will probably compare all yellows to Italian Ice, it's the only other bright yellow had other than Sunshine but sadly both discontinued now! I hope she keeps Italian Ice for the new LE to permanent line, then my comments will be relevant :D. Back to the review! Lighter version that Italian Ice and instead of having the pink sparkles, it has a pink shimmer to it.)

Pixie Cup: Soft fawn with a generous helping of pixie pink iridescent shimmer. Divine! (A pinker version of Seed Pearl, sparkly goodness!)

Showy: Lovely cool pink frost with blue iridescent sparkles (If there was such a thing as magical fairy dust it would look exactly like this eyeshadow. A very girly pink with loads of pretty blue pink purple golden sparks. Like I said with Unicorn, AWESOME FAIRY LOOKS! )

Cricket: Vivid yellow green with bright sparks of iridescent green. (Super duper bright green!)

Orinoco: Soft peach lustre that reveals a satiny borealis iridescence. (meh) (k I will ellaborate, a frosty peachy pink that's too dark for a hilight on me and too light for a lid colour)

Dragon: Fascinating green, muted in tone but with a smoked base and pearl luster. (It says green but on me it's shimmery grey silver, a very awesome grey! I love it. I tried to recreate the the Twilight Vamp dark silver look in the November US Cosmopolitan mag but I blended too much. This one is also good on it's own because when the light hits straight on the corners automatically darken, like most metallics)

Heart: Rich deep pink with iridescent golden shimmer sparkle. (ditto, still not totally sure how to wear this one, I used it as an outer corner colour with Bumblebee. I like the pink/yellow combinations)

I also have Tangle root that I won when Miss K did the butterfly hunts in the summer.

Tangleroot: Earthy lush green with cool dimensional shimmer sparkles. (dark forest green, would make wicked holiday smokey eyes)

All in all I wish I had gotten samples of the ones I didn't buy jars of. 11/12 yays I'm pretty sure I would have loved some of the others. That pesky Orinoco will work somehow. Just not sure how right now. RHYME TIME!