Blix (Sparkle is My Crack) is Having a Giveaway!

Blix, AKA The Moon Maiden, owner of the Sparkle is My Crack blog, is having a giveaway for one lucky follower of her blog! The goodies come from Morgana Minerals (two eyeshadow sets), and also up in the grab bag are two of Blix's own jewelry creations. She has some really cool steampunk/gothic pieces on Ebay too for sale...check her out!

Here's the link to her blog giveaway: Morgana Mineral Giveaway
Link to her Ebay store: Moon Maiden Jewelry

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

EOTN (eye of the night!)

I went to one of many of Zach's indoor soccer games tonight. I asked him to pick a color before I did my makeup and he said hot pink to match his leagues shirt color. Come to find out they changed their teams' color to lime green (I'm thinking Aromaleigh Estranged here!!) when we got there, but this was still fun.

Morgana Minerals Druscilla's Sister in inner and half of eyelid
Fyrinnae Immortality in crease, outer vee and winged
Aroamleigh Mattes Ice on browbone
Aromaleigh Les Papillons Flying Flower on outer part of browbone
Aromaleigh Rocks! Whitewedding on lashes
Indelible Liner in Blackout lined
Aromaleigh Mattes Willow in brows.

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!

Sunday's FOTD!

I was actually able to SLEEP last night.

That is, until the 2nd youngest in the house decided to scream at the foot of the stairs (right next to our bedroom) at two in the f*cking morning!

>:[


So I woke up around 7 and couldn't fall back asleep. I figured I'd run by the apartment office we're renting from next month and drop off our proof of income to get things rolling a day earlier. So you know what that means....

MAKEUP TIME!

Morgana Minerals Lipstick Swatches PT. I

I promised I would have the Morgana Minerals vegan lipstick swatches up soon, so here's Part I. These are all of the bright/colored lipstick samples I have. Some of them are a little on the dried-out side since I've had them for a while, so they might not look TOO good in the pictures. But I assure you, when I first got them, they were moist and went on beautifully.

Morgana's vegan lipsticks are long-lasting, some are very opaque, and all are VERY moisturizing--even the black lippies!! They are priced at 50 cents for a sample, and $10.00 for a fullsize, which I thought was overpriced at first, but that's when I didn't know much about "vegan/all natural" products--they're a bit more expensive to produce! You figure MAC crap is over $15 for a lipstick, amirite? And MAC isn't vegan!

Plus you can get unusual colors at anytime of the year at Morgana Minerals that you would normally have to wait 'til Halloween to buy!

Melissa of Morgana Minerals is also working on vegan lipglosses, due to be released sometime this month, in which all of us in the beauty world that know of Morgana Minerals are itching to try!


Onto the swatches!

Morgana Minerals mini-review and eyeshadow swatches

Hello again everyone!

Today I am blogging about Morgana Minerals. Morgana Minerals is a small little company based in Arizona and is run by a woman named Melissa. The company's website is pretty easy to navigate, and you can make a wish list of all the pretty-sparkly-omgiwant stuff. There is also a forum, but it is rarely active :/

I was posting a bunch of reviews one night of the lipsticks on Morgana's website and I got an email the next morning from Melissa thanking me for the good reviews and asked if I wanted to pre-order the Azaela Blue vegan lipstick. Ooohhh I SOO wanted it (and it was very nice of her to have contacted me from my 3498439 reviews on her site!), but didn't have the money, so a lucky person stole/bought my potential lipstick :(

That's as far as I've gotten with customer service. She was really nice when I talked to her for that brief time. I don't think I've seen a bad review of MM yet, so don't be scared to try them! Even if you have all the eyeshadows in the world, at least TRY THE LIPSTICKS! THEY'RE AMAZING!

Anyway.

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