Meow Cosmetics Supernaturals Swatches

Swatching in Winter sucks.  The sun is never out for long. So there's the lack of light for one.  Then there's the whole "I'd rather just sit here and watch Archer on Netflix" every day I have off.

Luckily I found some swatches I did June 30 2012... and just never posted!
Meow Cosmetics Supernaturals are a permanent collection filled with beautiful iridescent highlighting shades.  They would be really good inner corner shadows to brighten a look up.
I should have posted sooner because these are really pretty! There's probably a shade in here you will love.

My love is Illusion.  I'll explain in a second.

Top row L-R: Apparition, Levitation, Hallucination, Illusion, Astral Projection
Bottom row L-R: Psychic, Aura, Telekenisis, Telepathy, Teleportation.

Top row L-R: Apparition, Levitation, Hallucination, Illusion, Astral Projection
Bottom row L-R: Psychic, Aura, Telekenisis, Telepathy, Teleportation.

Top row L-R: Apparition, Levitation, Hallucination, Illusion, Astral Projection
Bottom row L-R: Psychic, Aura, Telekenisis, Telepathy, Teleportation.

This is the most awesome of the collection, Illusion.  It's a pretty pale pink BUT...

... IT'S GREEN ON AN ANGLE!!!

Top row L-R: Apparition, Levitation, Hallucination, Illusion, Astral Projection
Bottom row L-R: Psychic, Aura, Telekenisis, Telepathy, Teleportation.

So there you have it.  And it only took me 7 months to post!:)

Meow Xmas Holiday Swatch links

NOT 100%.  I haven't bought anything from this year yet (I want that new Snowflake!!) so I'm still waiting to place my order.  I have Misfits and Ice Blossoms and the Auroras to swatch still but if you want to see the older stuff, click away!

12 Pains of Christmas
Santa Baby
Reindeer
Sugarplums
Christmas Trees
Holiday Wishes
Christmas Rant
Merry Mayhem
Ghosts of Christmas Past

I can't believe I haven't even done Glacial Grove yet.  That one is super sparkly and wintery.

I probably won't do Winter Spirits ever.  I don't really like the colour palette and I think I'm too warm toned for most of those.

This post needs something Christmassy.

Here's my Christmas tree

So awesome I forgot to post

I was so happy with this look I seem to have posted it everywhere EXCEPT the blog.  Go me.

I did this awhile back and almost trashed the pic on my desktop but realized I forgot to write what I used on my flickr pic so I went through my blog posts to check it out and WHOOPS not there. 

Better late than never.  I LOVED THIS SO HARD.  I usually post my EOTD's or swatches in a makeup Facebook group whenever I'm too lazy to do a post, so if you are in here, you'd already have seen it.  Go here.  If you'd like to explore more indie companies or see pretty faces, or keep an eye on indie sales, that's the place to be.  Especially if you want to go extra broke with all the Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale madness!  I ended up buying Sugarpill, more Shiro, some Coastal Scents hotpots, MUA Makeup Academy, Cocoa Pink, some Scaredy Cat (1st time trying!).  Seeing it all typed out like that I AM AFRAID FOR MY WALLET!  Innocent + Twisted Alchemy is releasing a Battle Royale themed collection that I need, so basically this whole paycheque is gone hahaha.

AAAAAANYWAYS Back to my look!

I did this super early on a Saturday Morning and still had 2 hrs before the mall even opened so lots and lots of time to play around.

I used:

TFSI Lemon Drop
Lid: Meow Cosmetics Eris
Crease: Detrivore Memento Mori
Above crease blended and lower liner: Sugarpill Buttercupcake
Inner corner: Shiro Moon Prism Power
Browbone was from a company no longer in business
Liner: Physician's formula
Lower liner: MAC Black Line Pearlglide instense with Buttercupcake smeared on top.

heh  smeeeaared

LOTS OF PICTURES CUZ I LUVZ IT

 FOOD TIME.  I want pizza.  pizzapizzapizza

"I don't know. It's snowing out. Do something cold looking."

I really should know by now not to ask the dude for what colours to pick out.  Most of the time he says random stuff like "red, yellow, brown, green..." and he'll just go on until he's listed them all.  This time he said something "cold looking." 

I didn't want to go out for dinner looking like a frost queen but when he mentioned snow I remembered I had a whole bunch of Meow's Snowflake shades from past winters!  I dug around and picked out a few and this is what I came up with.

TFSI Lemon Drop
Lid: Freezing Rain
Crease: Avalanche
Inner corner: Snowball
Browbone: Aromaleigh Miuccia (nude with a nice blue sheen to it)
Lower liner: MAC Petrol Blue smudged with Darling Girl's Totally Teal on top
Inner lower liner: UD Midnight Cowboy 24/7 liner with Shiro's Moon Prism Power patted on top.
Upper liner: UD Perversion liquid liner
Gold under the liner: Make Up For Ever Aqua Liner Diamond Gold 01

I took a bunch of pictures but I think this one turned out more clear than the others.  NEED MOAR DAYLIIIIIGHT!

Shiro Cosmetics Badger Mushroom Snake Swatches

SWATCH TIME! 

For those who don't get the reference... 

"Gack annoying, what's a snake got to do with it?"

Well you obviously didn't watch long enough.  GET BACK TO IT.

Now that the song has successfully gotten branded into your brain, here are the pretties!

L-R: Badger, Mushroom and Snake over TFSI

AWWWW YEAHHHH

EOTD ~ The Badger Ate the Snake on the Moon

I GOTS SOME SHIRO!  I've been wanting to try Shiro Cosmetics for a crazy long time and now I can say I have and am super happy with my purchase!  I will get stuff swatched up for you but for now here is an EOTD I did with Snake and Badger Mushroom Snake collection.

Lid: Snake
Crease: Badger
Browbone: shade from a company no longer is business
Lower lashline: Badger and Moon Prism Power over UD Midnight Cowboy eyeliner
Liner: Physicians Formula gel liner

SO HAPPEH!

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.