Peachy Matte EOTD

I don't even have anything to ramble about today.  Le sigh.

Here's a peachy look I did using Detrivore's Graveyard collection.  I used, over TFSI:

Autopsy on lid, Premature Burial in crease, Necropolis in outer vee, Embalm to highlight browbone.

Cut Crease Recreation/Half-face Makeup Look

Some days I get lost in Google-land and find some looks I'd like to try out.  I don't even have a specific search in mind. One minute I'll be googling the nutritional benefits of cucumbers, or drooling over in-floor bath tubs and my mind wanders back to makeup usually.  Probably something like "yellow eyeshadow" or "cheek illuminator". But I have no freakin clue how I stumbled onto the look I tried to recreate for this post.  I found it on preen.me, I think it's like a makeupbee-type website.

I didn't bother doing both eyes because but it's kinda neat seeing the before/after.  Or after/before in this case!  I should have powdered the right side too, I use Tarte Maracuja oil so I just look greasy right there hahahah

 

 I used all Sugarpill (Tako, Bulletproof, Buttercupcake), the NYX Milk jumbo eye pencil and the teal shade was from one of my UD palettes but I can't remember which one.

And the original by Codigo

 

And my eyeball again

 

Another EOTD using Detrivore's Graveyard Collection

Here's a purple and green look I played around with.  My camera washed the pics out a bit, the full face shot shows the green much more accurately.
I used all colours from Detrivore's Graveyard collection.

I used over TFSI Lemon Drop:
Formalin on lid
Catacombs on crease
Casket to blend into browbone shade Embalm
Ossuary to try to blend out the inner corner part next to my nose, I don't know what that part is called.
Funeral to darken outer corner of crease
Grave Digger on lower lashline
NYX Milk on waterline and inner lower lashline.
Annabelle black eyeliner

 Excuse the Biebs hair, it's in a ponytail so it looks kind of silly head on. I never realized my nose was so crooked.  I hope it was just the camera! Or my damn teeth are shifty, it all doesn't line up.  hahaha  that's going to bother me.  PLEASE BE THE CAMERA!
 ANYWAYS...
I didn't really have a plan for this look, just kept adding colours until I really liked it. The Graveyard collection is great to work with and one of my favourite overall collections.  You can do something fun and colourful, something neutral for office settings, or some kick ass smokey look if you wanted to.  Distorria has added 2 new colours to the line, Cadaverine and Memento Mori.  Well not super new, but new this year I believe.  I didn't even bother sampling them, just straight up bought em :)


Back to draino-ing my tub.  So far the tub is winning and I am losing.

Meow Cosmetics Blush swatches

What do ya do when you have a 25% off code and realize you only have a few blushes?  BUY MOAR BLUSH!  Meow's birthday came up again this year and I decided to treat myself because JUST 'CAUSE!  When I was packing my makeup up I noticed I had thousands of eyeshadows but the amount of blush I had, I can count on less than my 10 phlanges.  Now one might say, "dude you only need like 2, IF that." to which I say, "why have 2, when you can have 20!?

This is why I don't own a house.  Or a car.  Or a laser ray gun.

I also noticed I have zero bronzers, unless you count that thing I bought from Claires which is more of a gold highlighter.  Try bronzing with that and you'll look like C-3P0.

Here's all the awesome I decided on:

No flashy.

I also picked up the foundation in the Pampered Puss formula after already luvin' Flawless Feline.  There are 2 jars because my skintone is a mix of 2 parts Naughty Abyssinian to 1 part Frisky.  Or it may be the other way around.  I forget.  Either way, I need both of em!

There are 7 Stripped colours up there.  Swatches here already.

A few Lost Rainforest shades I only had in sample form.  Swatches here. 

Theeeeeeeen we have a bunch of their original blushes, that whole second column.  I think Sassy was the only one I tried before hand.  FLYIN' BLIND HERE!

Column 2 is mostly their Cat on a Hot Tin Roof bronzers.  On my skin tone these are better as blush.  I grabbed them all in the Light and Medium shades + Sizzle.  If I remember, I'll have to order samples of the Dark ones to see how they look on me. Or not because I now have 80hundred blush/bronzers and I'll probably live.

Let's seeee, also grabbed a Medium Abyssinian Skinny Dipper for contouring.  Light was too pale on me even for highlighting purposes.  The rest are random blushes from various collections, like  Firefly, a Taboo blush in Fetish, 2 Lost Rainforest Blushes (swatched with the eyeshadows) ET CETERA.

Since I'm not good at swatching blush, here is my attempt!  In the future if I do looks I'm kind of proud of, I'll be sure to wear one of these to show them off in actual blush form and not "I just wiped this on my hand" form :)

5/6 are from their original line, #6 is a Firefly

1. Delisions
2. Coral Reefer
3. Infatuation
4. Harlot
5. Cherry Bomb
6. Spark

1. Delisions
2. Coral Reefer
3. Infatuation
4. Harlot
5. Cherry Bomb
6. Spark

1. Delisions
2. Coral Reefer
3. Infatuation
4. Harlot
5. Cherry Bomb
6. Spark

Spark close up.  LOOKIE THE GOLD GLITTAH!

Oye, somewhere a funky font size change happened.  Whoops.  This is me fixing it.  Annnd I lied.  Deal with it.

I LOVE HARLOT!  Insert jumping action!  That's the perfect peachy coral I've been searching for.  

Anywhosies, just thought I'd post these for your google viewing pleasure :)

Brow Beaters

I was trying to swatch some bronzers and blush for you guys but I'm so freakin bad at it and going though my samples I found the brow beaters from Meow, so I'll swatch those instead!
These are eyebrow powders that you can use to fill in your eyebrows.

1: Soft Brown
2: Medium Brown
3: Dark Brown
4: Sandy Brown
5: Auburn

Meow Cosmetics Stripped Swatches

Time for new shinies!
 This is Meow's brand new Stripped collection, made up of a bunch of super pretty neutrals.  I must be getting sick of bright bold shades, because I loooooved these ones. Especially the browns, I'll get back to those in a bit.
Right now until Aug 31 there is a coupon to get anything from their site for 25% off using the code: wildride

GET THESE NAOOOWWW.

Click to make bigger for more detail.

Top: Topless, Bare, Unclad, Peeled, Leafless, Ready for Action, Raw
Bottom: Disrobed, Stark, Buck Naked, Exposed, Jaybird, Nudist, Explicit.

Top: Topless, Bare, Unclad, Peeled, Leafless, Ready for Action, Raw
Bottom: Disrobed, Stark, Buck Naked, Exposed, Jaybird, Nudist, Explicit.

Top: Topless, Bare, Unclad, Peeled, Leafless, Ready for Action, Raw
Bottom: Disrobed, Stark, Buck Naked, Exposed, Jaybird, Nudist, Explicit.

 And kind of closeups:

Topless, Bare

Disrobed, Stark

 

Bare, Unclad

Stark, Buck Naked

Peeled, Leafless

Exposed, Jaybird

Ready for Action, Raw

Nudist, Explicit

Ready for Action, Raw

Nudist, Explicit

 Left: Ready for Action, Right: Nudist

 Nudist

 Raw

 Raw is really cool, I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me but the flash on my camera told me otherwise.  There is a hint of green in there, you can barely tell.  I think it's more to give the colour dimension than to actually be noticeable. I really liked it.
My 3 favourites would have to be the browns: Ready for Action, Nudist and Raw, but I also love Disrobed, Stark, Buck Naked and Leafless.  The only colour that did not play well was Explicit (grey on the far right bottom in group shot).  I used a primer but it still tried to go on patchy.  I'll have to try it in a look to see how it wears, but on my arm, not so good.

THE FEELS

Hello again,
I have a brand spankin' new collection to show off for you.  They were sent to me about a month ago but there was a death in my family so I spent most of the last month way across the country hanging out with my parents.  Luckily I was already laid off.  That sounds really bad but when you need to hop on a plane and leave everything behind for a few weeks, it was nice to be able to leave and not have to let work down. Because they already let me down... BUUUUUURN.  SELF BURN hahaha.  Oh well.  That's life.  Getting laid off is probably the best thing to have happen because now I can go do something shiny and new and move back home, which I missed the most.  I hated not being able to go see my mom and dad.  I even missed my brothers.  Little bro's gal is having a baby and I was so afraid I was going to miss everything with him or her being born this November. Now I get to see it all!  But now I have bursts of happy thinking about going back, with bursts of not so good thinking about what led up to it (losing that job security) and all I missed out on (dad's 60th, grandparent's 50th coming to Canada anniversary, friend's babies, cousin's weddings, seeing my brother all healthy back in May if I had just gone that day instead of being tired the day before flying back here), plus thinking about who's next, another brother? My parents? My turn?  How morbid eh?  I'll be in the middle of reading a book and start to freak out.  I haven't left this apartment since I got back Tuesday night.  Wake up in the morning just to go back to sleep again until noon.  Just don't feel like doing anything.  It was easier when I was back home, but now that I'm back here for 5 more weeks with nobody around and the dudeman at work, I can't shut my brain up. Not really appropriate makeup blog talk but whatever.  I'm back in Manitoba away from everyone again so I have to get it all out somewhere :(
The new collection I'll show off in a separate post so I don't scare people off just looking for swatches and instead getting a freakin' life story.