Sunday Boredom

I'm kinda bummed I didn't get many good shots of what I did with this :( The blue tried to come off on the yellow so it went a bit wonky. Oh well. I only did the one eye anyways lol

I did the purple brows after seeing Phyrra rock the purple brow.

I used the Meow limited edition shades over Pixie Epoxy

Lid: Sexting (okay I lied, 1 was regular stock!)
Crease and lower liner: Party Crashers
Upper crease: Get Lucky
Browbone and white line on side: Bubble Bath
Joe fresh felt liner
Brows: Hangover





I meant for the crease to be stronger but every time I went over it, it did the opposite effect and blended!
Eeep!

Oh wells, I was just playing around anyways :)

One Hand Washes The Other!

I feel like I stumbled on a pot of gold here.

I was on twitter and and saw a tweet of a Halloween solid perfume scent being listed on Etsy.

I'm a perfume fiend, and a halloween fiend so 2 in 1 is like MAGIC!

So I clicked the link for One Hand Washes the Other and saw there were more Halloween scents! Ohhhh my.

Now, I've seen this shop before but I must have just seen the lotions and soaps. I was never really interested in those as I have enough to clean and moisturize a small country and I have 2 aunts that have soap businesses (well one still does anyways) so I never felt the urge to buy more.
But perfume? Yeah, I want those. And at $4 how could I not get them? $4! I've bought solids for 3x that and they kinda sucked and didn't last as long as a $12 solid SHOULD. So I thought, hey why not. And I'm very glad I did.

I ended up getting Los Angelitos "..You'll smell: Honey, white flowers, milk, freshly-turned earth, and hay."

and Calaveras "Named for the sugar skulls which adorn the Day of the Dead altars, this fragrance is sweet and spicy. Cinnamon, sugar, orange, and sweetbreads dressed up with a smattering of dried roses on a sandalwood altar."

WOAH! Yeah, that's what I said when I opened it up, I wasn't even expecting samples so that was an extra WOOHOO!! Inside the package I also received samples of Coven, Vera Wang Princess (type) and Desolation Angel.

First, ya gotta love the extra personal touches that come with Etsy orders, this package was more than I expected in so many ways. Just lookie the cute key stamp on the back!



And inside the envelope of wicked:



There was a stamped wax seal on the itty bitty yellow envelope as well, but I wanted to show you the stamp on the front!

Los Angelitos smelled very much like honey, very pretty, awesomely lovely honey. I am very happy I picked this one!

Calaveras. OOOHHHH YEAAAHHHHHH! This is THE perfect scent to me. I love sugar and spice and everything ni... okay just stuff that smells like spicy candy awesome and this baby HAS IT! Even my favourite edt Curve Crush has chai and sweetness notes in it. GLORIOUS. More scents need to be sweet and spicy. And the orange in this is enough so you can smell it but you don't walk around smelling like a big citrus fruit.

Desolation Angel "Desolation Angel is a tropical, heady blend where cracked coconuts and fresh limes dance amongst swirls of dark musky woods, hint of vanilla, and a sprinkle of powder" This one is very summery and I would totally wear it in the winter to screw with people's heads. It's a really nice tropical scent and I'm bringing this baby to Vegas (yeah I know that's a desert but STILL!) The lime and coconut with the bit of powder make it sweet enough to fall in lurve it.

Vera Wang Princess (type), this is what Princess SHOULD have smelled like. The actual VW Princess makes me sneeze, it smells like when you walk into the perfume dept of the department store and get overwhelmed with the generic mix of everything together with a dose of old ladeh powder, the powder that has sat on a shelf for the last 30 years and the floral notes that were once in there have long rotted and tainted the mix.
No, OHWTO's Princess is so much better! I'm not sure what the notes are in this, but it's very pretty and I'm willing to put my hatred aside for the original Princess to get OHWTO's version instead! It's that good.

Coven "an absolutely bewitching brew of jack-o-lanterns, dragon's blood, patchouli and amber, spiked with citrus and grounded out by a drop of dark and smoky vetivert; it's even an oh-so-festive shade of olive green." This one is a weird one to describe for me. It reminds me of thanksgiving at my grandmas with her potpourri and playing in her back yards or in the park a few houses down. (Our thanksgivings are before Halloween, the 2nd Monday in October) It's very spicy and autumn-y.

Whew! So I browsed her scent listings on the blog because I saw an Etsy listing for 3 scents for $8.99 and since I can never pick just 3 I ended up picking 10 and convo'd for a mega order. I also wanted 4 of the other Halloween scents and a possible oil bottle of one of the scents and she made one for me! So I'll be smelling good for freakin ever.

For my order placed this morning I ended up snagging:
Blue Raspberry
Carnivale
Citrus Cilantro
Desolation Angel
Fevrier
Mountain Dew
Mayan Gold
Nag Champa
Bubblegum
Vera Wang Princess

(4) Halloween LE Solid Scents:
Choco Pumpkin
Pumpkin Bread
Pumpkin Eater
Coven

(1) 1/3 oz bottle of Calaveras perfume oil

I have a little bottle of Nag Champa from my aunt already but I can't really take it anywhere, leaks on everything! So I was happy to see it in solid form, and so inexpensive!


So I can't wait to get my order!!!

I would absolutely recommend this shop to everyone if you love solid perfumes that smell fantastic for more than reasonable prices.

I'm now even tempted to pick up some of the other items I previously said I didn't need.....

Crazy how needs change when you smell pretty things...

FIAHHHHH

My attempt at type-yelling "fire". Didn't really work did it?
:D

My moodiness is in like super hyper manic mode right now. The doom and gloom is gone and it's payday and I'm buying RED HAIR DYE!!! YEAAHHHHH. It won't be as bright as a couple of years ago, (and that was it faded a bit and OOOO LOOKIE I WEARIN MY FYRINNAE! LOVE), but I need to safely lighten my hair somehow though, so the red does actually show up.

Okay, back on TOPIC! This is a look I did sometime last week, I think it was last Mondessday...

I yoinked out my SheSpace colours and grabbed fire looking ones. Sorta. I'm not super happy with this look, I just can't do firey looks.

I used:



Inner 3rd: Claim the Stage Baby!
Middle: Fire and Brimstone
Outter bit and crease: Beauty Babe
Browbone: The Bubbles Made Me Do It
Liner: Meow's Coffin






Coffin looks flippin sweet in the last one, that's why it's not my normal angle :)

Meow Cosmetics Feliner Swatches

Hullo there.

I'm a cranky ass so this post has no face! Or eyes! Just some sparkly cuz I'm all grrrr rawrrrr.

I got my Meow 30% sale items today and I ordered a crapload of Feliner samples because I haven't really seen anybody use them. But there are so many on the site and I have 3 of them and they are wicked awesome, so this is my lil ode to the Feliners I guess :)

Here's the HAND! (As usual, blow up for extra awesome)



1st row: Cat Claws, Cat-chy, Lap Cat, Neurotic, Cat O-Nine Tails, Magi-Cat, Tail of Woe, Krazy Kat
2nd row: Lightning, Catwalk, PSY-CAT-IC, Forni-CAT, Catsup, Hellcat, Catostrophic



Neurotic is very much like the mineral makeup answer to MAC's Pearlglide Intense liner in Black Line.

Here's my comparison shot:



Lap Cat is very pretty, it has teeny tiny pink sparks in it that make it that much more fantastic.
I LOVE Catsup! (Ketchup in Canadaland) my camera kinda failed to catch the sparkle to it, but it's awesome, I promise :D
Cat-Claws and Cat-chy are sparkly as well, but my second shot decided to not show that. What a jerk.

Also Tail of Woe and Krazy Kat, seriously, ya HAVE to see these 2 with your own eyes. They are INTENSE and beautiful! But cameras are jerks.

If you wanna pick up any of these with Meow's 25% off Birthday sale coupon: PartyOn they can be picked up here. (Click the tabs for ordering)

Aromaleigh Ciao Italia! Collection

Hi there!

Kristen of Aromaleigh kindly sent me so pretties of her newest collection to go over for you. The collection is Ciao Italia!

I think this collection is very beautiful. Many shades have that awesome rainbow iridescence. If I didn't just drop a big ol bunch o dough on a necessity I would have found a way to get at least 8 of these. They are very vivid and many of these would make wonderful crease shades and liners.

You may have seen the swatches already but maybe there is something you didn't notice that you liked this time around :)

I swatched them on UDPP.

Swatches on hand match up to bag swatch layout:












The black sparkles in Pistachio (sorry for the yellow light, sunset is in effect!)

1st row:
Liquiriza: dark blueish grey
Pistachio: matte green with black sparkles
Mirtillo: dark greyed purple
Bacio: rosey gold ****
Malaga: dark mauvey pink
Tiramisu: dark brown with brown shimmer ***
2nd row:
Rosamarino: Dark silver iridescent shimmer
Menta: light green, uber magical, rainbowy iridescent shimmer *****
Fior Di Latte: creamy shimmery light pink, pinkish iridescence
Lampone: peachy coral, golden rainbow iridescence, green sparks I think **
Melone: dark blueish green, green iridescence
Nocciola: matte dark curry yellow, very unique shade

Amarena: (on far right) pale pink frost. Frosty version of Terpsichore minus the gold shimmer, more white. Still pretty!

3rd row:
Ciocolatto: Olive greeny brown. HAWT! ***
Pera: slight shimmery greenish grey
Albicocca: Matte reddish orange, slight shimmer
Fragola: Cooler toned more pink version of Lampone minus the sparks I saw***
Melograni: Very pretty red with wicked green shimmer. Like Calendula but less IN YO FACE! ***
Biscotti: pinkish taupey rainbow irridescent magic in jar. Red sparks? My definite favourite of the bunch.*******
4th row:
Zabaglione: yellowy orange with orange shimmer and hot pink sparks
Mela: Really pretty dark aqua green. Slightly matte
Fico: pretty shimmery mauvey taupe, rainbowy iridescence.
Fruitti Di Bosco: Intense dark and regal purple, red sparks
Mora: Dark purpley mauve, slight iridescence
Puffo: SMURF! Sweet sparkly light blue with rainbow iridescence

My favourites have the stars. The more stars, the more I lurves them :)


They can be bought if you click on the links here

Any ones you'll be checking out?

Meow Cosmetics Friday the 13th

Well ladies, the next possible pop up of Meow's Friday the 13 collection could be appearing this Friday, the 13th!

It was by complete fluke that I even noticed this, I was going through their site map when I realized I only had 12 of the 13 shadows and I googled when the next F13 was. Just so happens....THIS WEEK!

Sweet! The colour I'm missing is Trepidation "metallic cinnamon hued copper with golden caramel highlights and pink glow". Why on Earth did I skip past this one?!? Sounds awesome!

My top 4:

Spell: "chromatic cerulean blue with green iridecent fire and aqua glow" used in my "Mermaid, not Mimi look"

Accident: "metallic copper lame with a dark undertone and gleaming metallic iridescent fire-Wetlines:RED!" Super hot crease colour. Looks like fire stone in the jar but rubs off black with red shimmer, used here (excuse that horrible crop job)

Skeptic: "this one will make a believer out of you! bright periwinkle with copper and pink iridescent color changing fire
*not for use on lips" used here

Broken Mirror: "shiny silver with green iridescence and multicolor fire" I can't find where I've used this but it's really pretty. I love the green iridescence.

Supernatural: "golden celadon green with orange/pink iridescence and fire" aka, NOMS. I've used this as a crease a couple of times.

Blow pics up for better sparkle-age



Supernatural!

Accident!


What are ya getting!?!?

Urban Decay's All Nighter Setting Spray

Re-posting because I forgot to include pics of the bottle I was not too fond of looking at and because it's called Setting spray and not Finishing spray. Way to fail, me.


.:~*~:._.:~*~Step 1, voteth for moi s'il vous plait! :) and everyday for the next 3ish days!~*~:._.:~*~:.

On to business!

My face still thinks it's 14 so it is a mega oil slick most days with the humidity and heat, even with powder applied in the mornings. Next month I'm going to be doing the makeup for my cousin's wedding in Las Vegas and I know it's a desert so my first thought is OH NOES! How am I going to keep up all not shiny (in smokey eyes, no less) in a friggin desert if I can't keep me not shiny in CANADA!?

Browsing Sephora I saw Urban Decay has an "All Nighter" setting spray.
I assume because it has "All-Nighter" in the name my makeup should look as wonderful as it did when I first put it on. Otherwise they should just call it Urban Decay Makeup Mist or something else boring but to the point.

The first thing I notice is the price. $29 US/ $38ish with tax CDN. It should turn random objects into gold for that price. But I still wanted to give it a go. I saw some people complain that MAC's Fix + is just expensive water with vitamins added into it and that UD's spray actually has things in it to stop moisture from popping out (yep, that is MY SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS!) so UD won in my favour to be bought first.

The second thing I notice is the bottle. DO NOT WANT. To me, I think it's ugly graphics and all. It reminds me of one of those late night movies made in the early 90's with saxaphones a blarin'. Ick. But still, if it's the magic it claims to be, I can look past teh uglies.





It claims to keep your makeup "just-applied" looking for 16 hours.

uhhh, sure. I don't see this happening.

I used my MSCHIC Face Canvas primer before my foundation. Here is my skin before the spray.



Here is my skin after the spray (looks a tad bit shiny but it was completely dry and it did even everything out nicely to my eyes) after thinking about this, I do not like the "tad bit shiny" part either. Sure to some it means you look glowy, however, glowy to me just means sweat. Unless I'm only glowy on my cheeks, that's all the glow I want. K, I'll stop saying slow now.





And after a trip to the mall, here is just 4 hours later:





4 HOURS!
What the hell!


I even bought the De-Slick in a Tube with the hopes of calming my skin with the double teaming action happening, but nope. It made it a tad less shiny after a few hours but my Fyrinnae Silica Gel does the same thing, and that one doesn't make it feel like I'm wiping paste on my face and I don't have to work my ass off for hours in order to afford it! So yeahhhh not too fond of the De-Slick in a Tube as well. If something is going to cost so much, it should hold up longer than 4 hours and not be the the same size as a mini hand lotion.

Maybe if you had normal skin these could work wonders. For me, it just pissed me off. I will not be buying either product again. They cost way too much to only work half assed.
Oily skinned ladies, maybe see if you can some how sample before diving in and getting the whole thing.

This is good for if you over powdered your face and want it looking more natural, but don't expect it to make it stay looking wonderful, you'll still need your blotting papers. I still think distilled water will do the same trick and $40 less...

It currently only has a 3.5 rating on MakeupAlley

I'm keeping both in the hopes of them keeping my cousin shine-free for her wedding.

You can buy it here if you want to test for yourselves.