Last Night's Venture (Face of the Night!)

So lately I haven't been much into putting on makeup. Yes, I seemed to have let myself go since I came back from Vegas--my makeup muse must have been kidnapped!

Yesterday my friend Tina was having a get together which we used to have every Wednesday night but lately everyone has been so busy, it was put on the back burner. While texting what time she wanted everyone over I asked if she was up for a makeup challenge. Mind you, her and I used to be major Aromaleigh addicts back in the day and would challenge each other with different color schemes or inspiration and show up at the grooming shop the next day with our eye shadow decked out.

So she said she was up for a challenge so I picked blue, orange, and yellow as our colors. I went with an artsy mod style complete with geometric shapes :)

EvilShades HAUL

Alright, so I had to find a mattifying powder (my Aromaleigh one finally ran out :[ ) so I started hunting one night.
I decided to try EvilShades Matte Silk since I hadn't ordered from Andrea in a while, and saw a few eyeshadows I wanted to try out too! I got the blogger sampler pack and colors I had not tried out yet since she's released new collections.

Here's my haul :)



I think the new packaging for the samples is nice, although it can be a little messy if the product seeps into the little grooves. Plus I prefer baggies because of the ability to have a sample binder :) Other than that, I think they are adorable.

Here are the swatches!!
Since these are so time consuming editing pictures and putting their names on, I only did it to one picture =/
I swatched on bare skin, indelible primer, and Pixie Epoxy

In order from wrist to forearm is
Potion
Incantation
Atomic Blush
Backtalk Blush
Illusive
Nightshade
Heartless Queen












I swatched the blush before I realized it was blush or else those two would have been separate from the other eyeshadows.

I love the blush Atomic, it's hard to tell from the pictures but it has a slight fushia duochrome which makes it gorgeous as not just a blush but even highlight!

I LOVE Incantation. Potion and Incantation are pretty close, although I noticed Incantation seems to have slight blue sparkles, but as you can tell, they are pretty close in color.

I also like Heartless Queen, as that will replace my Aromaleigh Rocks! in HelterSkelter in due time.

Obviously Pixie Epoxy does not do well with mattes, so Illusive and Nightshade don't look to well. I am curious to try them out with just a creme primer though--usually purples are hard to use because they don't seem to stick on my eye, I'm guessing it's just the color itself because I had trouble with some purple Aromaleigh shadows back in the day.

ONTO THE LIPS
In the EvilShades sampler pack, I got to choose two lip colors, so I chose Fearless and Roue.

Fearless is a cute hot pink, leaning closer to magenta. It lasts pretty long too and does not dry my lips.




Roue is every vampires dream. Although my camera doesn't show it well, it is dark deep blood red with high shine.






I left to run some errands and blotted it off to be more as a lip stain and it had pretty nice staying power. And it smells like
cherry =D


I did try the mattifying powder last night and it makes my face feel SO soft--it almost reminds me of the same texture as Meow Cosmetics' Equilibrium Balanceing Powder. It did mattify it, but made my face dry =/ I'll need to experiment because a little definitely goes a long way!

Anyway, enjoy! I have some not necessarily swatches, but makeup "looks" with BeautiControl eyeshadows to give you a look at their colors and vibrancy.

A Slideshow Trial Run

Alright, so I'm trying to get back into the mode of loving makeup and this week I am doing a slideshow for the whole week of each days' makeup. Therefore, I am forcing myself to get up earlier in the morning to actually DO my makeup so that I don't have an empty day :]

FOTD Extravaganza!

Since I am too lazy to post everything into individual posts, and I don't know the dates of when I did these (nor do I remember some of the colors I used!) I will post this solely for makeup ideas for you gals out there!

I think I'm going to start a Photobucket weekly slideshow of my makeup for the day...maybe it'll get my creative streak back into play!


Lid: Aromaleigh Fawn
Crease: Aromaleigh Solange
Browbone: Aromaleigh Air and Light

BACK FROM THE DEAD!

I know, I'm such a bad girl. Lot's of stuff happened from when I FIRST started this blog.

I was living in Vegas with my boyfriend, and things didn't end to well with my relationship there, so I had to move back to good ol' Bakersfield, CA at the end of May. OR maybe it was April. I forgot. Hah.

Not happy that I moved back, I locked myself in my cave room and refused to be social for a couple of months. Anyway, things are much better now! I'm getting ready to start beauty school (YAY!) and get my future rolling. This will TOTALLY help my beauty blog, as I will have tips and random reviews from school and such. Not to mention I met a beautiful boy named Zack thanks to one of my ex-bandmates and things are very good between us two.



Onto what we've all been waiting for:
TODAY'S FOTD! O.O
The pics aren't very good because I was using my phone for the shots...I'm too lazy to put batteries into my camera =/ but you get the idea:



^^^ This was an in-the-making pic I took for my friend Tina :] ^^^








Eyes:
Lid: Aromaleigh Amarante
Crease: Aromaleigh Pique on inner half; Morgana Minerals Glitter Ghoul on outer half into vee
Browbone: Aromaleigh Estranged!
Liner: Indelible Liner in Blackout on lashline and waterlines
Aromaleigh Rocks! Lookinforakiss lined along bottom lashline
Black mascara
Indelible Liner in Venomous to make design; Black Cherry for dots; Aromaleigh Rocks! glitter in Masshysteria sprinkled over design

Brows: EvilShades Coffin (omfg I think I FINALLY got my eyebrow shape right I'm sooooo happy. [lol I'm a tard] :/)

Face: Aromaleigh Glissade 2N and Voile 1N applied with flocked sponge

Blush: Fyrinnae Temptation Glow Blush

Lips: Nude lipliner with Aromaleigh botanicals lipstick in Perfect


Using Pique makes me sad. I wish I could've gotten a full size now, and picked one up of Amarante! Aromaleigh's going out of business sucks =[

Anyway, I have a bunch of other pics uploaded to my photobucket of FOTDs that I will be uploading soon. I may not remember the colors I used, but I'm sure they'd be good makeup inspiration photos for you readers to use!

TODAY'S FOTD

Today I decided to try out my sample of Fyrinnae's Dressed to Kill.

I LOVE THIS COLOR! its a shimmery olive green with golden and lime-y green sparks.

For today's look, I used:

Face:
Fyrinnae Silica Gel face primer for dry skin (It seems like I used so much less foundation using this!)
Aromaleigh Pure Cover Concealer #3 under eyes and over a few pimples
Aromaleigh Glissade foundation in 2N

Cheeks:
Aromaleigh Divine Radiance in Cherry Blossom on apples of cheeks
Aromaleigh Pure Rouge in Scarlet in hollows of cheeks and blended with the cherry blossom

Willow on brows

Eyes:
Indelible Creme Shadow in Bare Necessities as base all over eye to browbone
Fyrinnae's Pixie Epoxy on lid up to crease
Fyrinnae's Dressed to Kill all over lid to crease (PATTED ON!)
EvilShades eyeshadow in Devil's Bonfire in crease and vee
Aromaleigh Rocks! eyeshadow in Estranged above crease for a glowy green (my favorite green/color of ALL TIME)
Aromaleigh limited edition shadow in Butterscotch on browbone and blended into Estranged
Indelible gel liner in Black Out on upper lashline and a little bit on the lower lashline

Avon Astonishing Lengths Mascara in black on upper lashes

Lips:
Indelible Lip liner in Heather to line lips
Fyrinnae's Lip Lustre in Trickster (I love the mint taste!)

These were taken this morning at about 11AM:









These were taken about 15 minutes ago (8:10-8:15PM):






OVER 9 HOURS OF WEAR AND NO CREASING!!!

(these might look like fake pics since I'm wearing the same night dress >.< but you can tell I'm a bit shiny in these pics since I've taken a shower and my foundation and lippie has washed off!)

EvilShades Cosmetics mini-review and swatches

Alright, well I placed an order with EvilShades in November of December of last year. I remember it didn't take long to ship to me, and I fell in love with the colors.

But I only wore this brand (don't remember which color!) once.


Why?

Because I have an endless stash of Aromaleigh, of course!


A few days ago I decided to break out my sample binder and play with these shadows! The samples are very generous, and do not cost that much. I'd recommend getting the sample set and try all the colors--they are all beautiful. I didn't think I'd wear something like Mysteria of the Illusions shadows, but it would be a very pretty highlight color!

I'm wearing Banshee and Venom today, and so far so good, they haven't creased on me!

Today, I am giving you swatches galore of the shadows I have, as well as the four lipglosses I own. I bought a sample set of shadows back then, and I believe these are her current colors right now. I believe the only ones I don't have is the wonderland eye shadow set.

I'm BLUE a-ba-dee-da-buh-diee

So this morning my boss texts me at 6:30 saying to come in around 9:45 since there was nothing on the books today. I decide to wash my face, throw some clothes on, and see if I could beat everyone in line at the DMV because I still need to get registration on the car we bought last week. I got there at about 7:05 (they open at 8!) and there were about 80 people standing outside.

Screw that! Guess I'll have to go in one morning at about 6AM!

So I went by Sam's Club and got some socks and a book, then headed home.

I texted my boss asking her if things had picked up yet, and she said I could just take the day off. Praise the lord! WOOHOO!!

So in celebration, I put my face on. =]

Excuse the headband and shirt, they don't match anymore now that I went "blue" for the day. xD