Another Eye Of The Day

I've been wearing a lot of glitter lately. There's just something about glitter that makes me feel.... sparkly? And I've found my favorite of all time, hands-down holy grail status glitter liner: Too Faced Starry Eyed Glitter Liner. I have tried them all, and the Too Faced liner beats them all. The glitter is dense, it doesn't crack like MAC glitter liner, you don't have to spend an hour layering it like you do with Urban Decay's glitter liner and the glitter colors in the Too Faced line are just really freakin' cool. Some even have a little HOLO glitter thrown in. HOLO, people, HOLO!!!

Anyway, here's a couple looks I did using the Too Faced Starry Eyed liner.





I can't remember everything I used, but I know that I used MAC Magenta Madness, Urban Decay Peace and Too Faced liner in Ooh & Aah.





This one was pretty similar, I used MAC Acid Orange and Electric Coral, Urban Decay Peace and Too Faced liner in Super Freak over MAC Blacktrack.

Hot pink holographic glitter eyeliner. It doesn't get much better than that.

I'm a makeup junkie, too...

I thought it would be fun to post a couple "Eye of the day" pictures to break up to monotony of having only nail pictures. What do you think?

I love makeup of all types. Playing with color is so much fun!




This is Ben Nye Aztec Gold, Tangerine and Azalea, MAC Goin' Bananas and Vanilla, Urban Decay Peace and Fishnet, and 24/7 liner in Electric. There might have been some other stuff, but I can't remember what.





This was a fun look- antique looking. MAC Nanogold, Off The Radar and Mega Rich, Urban Decay Peace, and liner in Honey.


Nice change of pace from posting nail polish all the time, right?

Some requests and some nail art.

I don't have a whole lot of time to post this morning, but I'm really behind on my requests and I wanted to make sure I got these posted!

Here are a couple reader requests:

(As always, click the images to view full size. These puppies are huge!)


Index to pinkie: OPI Parlez-Vous OPI?, China Glaze Who's Wearing What, China Glaze Channelesque, Pure Ice Taupe Drawer.

They all look really similar in the bottle, but they're much different than I expected when you apply them! And, in all my infinite wisdom (*snort*), I forgot to include OPI You Don't Know Jacques and Sephora By OPI Call Your Mother and Metro Chic in the comparison! D'oh.


Thumb: (left) OPI Tickle My France-y (right) Rescue Beauty Lounge Grunge
Index and middle: OPI Tickle My France-y
Ring and pinkie: Rescue Beauty Lounge Grunge

Another great request for a comparison I wouldn't have thought of myself! These look nearly identical in the bottles, but as you can see, they're quite different on the nail. Both are gorgeous, do I don't know if I'd ever be able to pick between the two!




Urban Decay Book Of Shadows.

The eyeshadows are excellent. Absinthe is the standout color, a very bright golden green with shimmer. No complaints there. The packaging, however, is really crappy. The eyeshadows are in a pull-out drawer that fits so tightly it's a struggle to open. You have to open it by a tiny little ribbon, and since you have to pull so hard to get the drawer open, I can imagine that delicate little ribbon getting torn off pretty easily.

The brushes are floppy and useless. Bah. And, my major irritation with this is the stupid "pop-up" top flap.... WTF are you supposed to do with that?? It doesn't stay open so you can't use it as a mirror.... It's just.... useless! They should have put the shadows up there instead of in the stupid drawer!

So, final verdict: Awesome shadows, crappy packaging.


Chanel Rouge Noir.

I tried taking the picture in a different part of the house, but I think the lighting turned out weird. Hm.


Chanel Tulipe Noire.

That's it as far as requests go- I'm working on a really big project right now, but I think it will help me respond to requests a lot quicker! I know a lot of you are still waiting on requests, but I didn't forget about you, I promise!


And, for fun, here's a little nail art.





China Glaze Gypsy Girl, China Glaze Fairy Dust, Art Club Black Hologram. This was a touch darker in real life, and it looked awesome. Sparkly and eye-catching!

For some reason I can never photograph reds. They always come out looking weird and too bright and glowy. Reds, oranges and neons. I don't know what it is! Argh.



China Glaze Blue Sparrow, China Glaze Emerald Sparkle and Art Club Black Hologram.

I really like this shape- it's not quite a french but it's not quite half-and-half either. I love the way this looks when the light catches it too- tons of sparkle.

New Urban Decay Items!

Sadly, no nail polish.

When I talked to the Urban Decay sales representative earlier this year (or was it late last year? I don't remember!) she had mentioned something about new lipsticks with charms on them, and 24/7 lipliners. I was excited, so I made a post about it and then I forgot all about them until now!

Anyway, they look really awesome. I hope they are as good as the old Urban Decay lipsticks were. The packaging isn't half as cool- I miss the old bullet shaped ones!

24/7 Glide-On Lip Pencil, which I'm pleased to see comes in CLEAR! I love clear lipliner!

New Urban Decay Lipstick, which comes in tons of colors and also contains Hyaluronic Spheres and is Caramel scented!

I hope they do a really good shadow palette this year, too.

And nail polish. Lots of nail polish. A little wishful thinking never hurt, right?

Random Swatches: OPI, Zoya, Misa and Urban Decay

Following up on a couple requests, here's OPI Mod About You for Tabe-Chan:


As you can see, it's a milky "white out" pink, very stark but also very cool. I like the way this stands out.

For Kittylamour, here's Misa Passion 4 Fashion:

It's a deep dark espresso shade that looks super rich. It also doesn't make my hands look red! Bonus.

And, here's some random swatches just because.


Following the brown trend, here's Borghese Espresso Brown F. I love the brush in this, it's the perfect shape! Maybe if the OPI Pro Wide brushes were shaped more like this they'd be easier to use. It's apparently two small brushes next to each other, but it's slightly rounded on the ends. It fans out perfectly at the cuticle and makes just the right shape.



Misa Moody Model. Like melted milk chocolate, right?



Zoya Pasha. I'm not sure what color this is, but I love it! Is it grey? Taupe? I have no idea. Whatever it is, it has this fine silver frost running though it that in certain lights gives the illusion of a blue reflection. Extremely unique, in my opinion.


Here's Pasha with a thin coat of Zoya Sparkle Gloss topcoat. Sparkle gloss is really interesting, it has very fine flat flecks of shimmer that look white. It's really sparkly but it doesn't look glittery at all. It almost reminds me of the edible glitter I used to use when making cakes.




Urban Decay Id. I tried to capture the green reflection in this, but I don't think I did a very good job. This color is amazing, it changes from gold reflection to green reflection depending on the light. Lots of pretty gold shimmer, and it has a "jelly" finish to it. Why on earth did they discontinue these?!?! They were awesome!


Petites Dare. This is another polish that has those flat glitter flecks. They look like tiny pieces of chopped up cellophane or something. I'm growing fond of these flaky-looking glitters.

What other brands have some good "flaky" glitter polishes? I have CND Limelight, but I need MORE!! What are your favorites?

Swedish Days

Today my family and I went to Swedish Days- the Midsommar festival that happens every year where I live. There are a lot of Swedish immigrants and Americans of Swedish heritage where I live, so every year they have a festival where all the Swedish businesses and restaurants and groups set up booths with food and games. It's a lot of fun!

This year I was inspired to do "Swedish" themed makeup, inspired by Sanna of MakeupMyLack.
Mine's not as good as hers, but it was still fun to do in honor of all the wonderful Swedish bloggers I've met through this blog. You guys are great!



(Flash, because it made my eyeball look cool. LOL)

I used:
MAC Painterly Paint Pot
MAC Chrome Yellow
MAC Orange
MAC Crystal Avalanche
Urban Decay Liquid Liner in Radium
Urban Decay 24/7 Liner in Zero
Cover Girl Lash Blast Mascara

How did I do?

Urban Decay Twisted, Misa Persian Carpet and a little layering.

Thanks to Makeup Alley's wonderful Nail Board, I went on a little nail polish binge this weekend. Oops. Everyone's awesome pictures made me lose all self control and practically forced me to get more nail polish. Now there will be some Lippmann Collection, Rescue Beauty Lounge and Nubar added to my collection.

In anticipation of new things, here's a few old but beloved polishes, and one old one made new.




Urban Decay Twisted. I love this color so much. I don't know what Urban Decay was thinking when they discontinued their amazing nail polishes. I sincerely hope they re-release them all.






Misa Persian Carpet. This is a really beautiful color that has a golden orange duochrome. It's difficult to capture on camera, but you can see a bit of the duochrome effect in the bottle on the second picture.





An old color made new. Misa Persian Carpet layered with various polishes.

Misa Sweet Pleasure, Orly Fifty-Four, Misa Confection Section, Misa Candy Girl, Misa Sun Kissed.

I think my favorites out of those are Orly Fifty-Four and Misa Candy Girl. Fifty-four and Candy Girl both enhance the duochrome effect of the original color and also add more colors to the reflection. Candy Girl is especially neat because it transforms the color into a metallic purple-pink-orange-blue glitter. Beautiful.

As always, click the image for larger pictures. I mention this because the last layering picture is especially huge and shows a bit more detail.