While I was away

Your's truly has a damned good excuse for being MIA. I was getting a move on with my life and getting ready to start Cosmetology.

I start the 30th... I will probably be posting more of those fun adventures here since it will finally apply. Yay!

Naked2: The Spike to my Buffy

Smeagol had his ring, the squirrel from Ice Age had his acorn, Buffy had Angel... I have my Naked Palette. A tried and true palette that I use pretty much every day. I have a backup for my dwindling first palette because I was unsure of it's permanency and in a frenzied panic I bought it again when they re-released it! Can't let that beautiful palette get away from my collection.. you know how it is.

Extreme nerdiness is about to ensue.. so if you are of the non-nerd kind please try to keep up! If I were Buffy, the Naked Palette is my Angel. Something I didn't know of before it came into my life but I cannot picture my life (fine, maybe just my makeup routine) without it. It is near and dear and I like to molest it daily (it never turned evil on me though). And though for Buffy, Angel had to leave to ensue a not as good television show, my Naked palette isn't going ANYWHERE. Fast forward a couple craptastic love affairs for Buffster, Spike comes along. He is a bit rough around the edges and not Angel by any means.. but in his own way he is good and amazing, a worthy companion. He is worth fighting for and he was also fun to molest. This is what the new Naked2 Palette is for me.

Now onto an easier to follow over all review.

I do REALLY like the packaging for this palette. I feel that maybe they heard that us makeup chicks liked to throw the first naked palette into our bags and that they may or may not have gotten a beating from being jumbled around all day. I do not know which one I like more, as the first one seems sleeker and more subdued.. the Naked2 palette is not any bigger, it is pretty much the same size as the first but it seems bulkier to me (probably because it is in a metal tin). The other thing I like about this palette is that it came with a mini GLOSS as opposed to a UD Primer Potion. I am filled to my ears with Travel Primer Potions, so the gloss is a very nice deviance from the norm. The color is alright... it is a bit too terracotta colored for my liking on it's own but I can pair it with a lighter lipstick which is the wonderful thing about glosses!

We open up the palette to reveal twelve neutral colors. None of which (that I have seen or swatched) have any chunky glitter like the last palette which may come as a relief to some people. I personally never really minded the glitter in Sidecar, I kind of liked it for a glamorous neutral. The Naked2 palette consists of only 3 mattes (which is a let down to a few) and 9 beautiful shimmery/satiny shades and a few of those have a metallic base. Five of these colors are new colors (Bootycall, Tease, Snakebite, Pistol & Busted) and the rest are repromoted shadows. I think the important thing to remember is that though many of these are repromoted and may not seem like the most UNIQUE shadows, they are all together in one package and you can create many looks with one palette that you can wear for every day OR spice it up for a night on the town. It is versatile and the shadows are an amazing quality, the kind that only Urban Decay can deliver! This palette also comes with a dual ended brush which I will mostly use when I take this palette to go, or throw it into my naked 1 palette if that is the poison I pick for the day.

I did swatch the colors in the order they are in the palette. I wanted to show you how it looks over two different primers. The top half is swatched over Urban Decay Primer Potion in Eden and the bottom half is swatched over Urban Decay Primer Potion in Greed. I do not know if you will be able to tell the difference in the lighter shades but you can definitely see that Greed let's a little bit of it's golden tone shine through on the darker colors. I also swatched the Naked lip gloss so you could see the color payoff it has.

I would say overall I do enjoy this palette, I would give it 4/5 stars. I will use it to it's fullest potential and enjoy every swipe of glorious shadow it has to offer... however the original Naked palette will always have my six!

Impressive Curling Mascara.

The review will be coming soon with pictures and all!

I just had to mark it down that this is pretty awesome! I am talking about the Supercurl Curling Mascara by Urban Decay! It DOES curl and oh-my-gosh is is black!

I will try to post this by tomorrow! See you then!

xoxo

A Mini MAC Haul

I indulged... but just a little.

MAC is always one of those things that I "treat" myself to. It isn't uber expensive, it just is a "treat". I pay for more expensive things at Sephora but I justify it with the fact I get points there. I originally was just going to go down to the MAC store and pick up fluidline (lost my blacktrack) and be done with it. That of course, went out the window when I browsed some of their newer collections. So.. I picked up some goodies.

Like I said, I originally picked up fluidline, so its nothing fancy just basic and necessary.

Then I saw these paintpots. They are so pretty that they also became necessary...
And... well... lipstick is always necessary... right?

I love the colors I picked up, especially the mattene lipstick in "Delectable".

Have you picked up any new MAC lately?

Super SHWING!

Yeah. I made the Wayne's World reference. WHAT ABOUT IT CHUMP?!

I should start rating my mascaras with "shwing"s.

Lights, Camera, Splashes has stolen my heart. Despite it's packaging I am in love with this mascara! And it is waterproof! I always think of waterproof mascaras as utterly disappointing. This is the exception... and it is quite exceptional!

This is a wet formula with a not very exciting brush, it looks pretty standard, not huge and not tiny.. just very standard. I think the formula is what really stands out in this mascara. It seriously adds length to my lashes! It is a super black mascara and it doesn't budge or flake or run. It is waterproof. I wore this to my friend's wedding and it lasted! I cried. A lot. This has been the best investment I have made towards mascara. I have the original (non waterproof) mascara coming in the mail shortly. I had ordered it in a Hautlook event. I am pretty excited to get it. Have you tried this mascara? What do you think?

I love the dramatic look it gives my lashes! Makes them look so much longer than they are!

Yes. Those are my lashes creepily close to my eyebrow. Amazingly dramatic.

In other words.. SHA-WING!!!!!

xoxo

Urban Decay Haul- My Pre-Sale experience

The Urban Decay Master Class that was held September 3rd at Valley Fair Mall. It was not so much of a class as it was a pre-sale event (which was obvious prior to buying into the class) and they featured all the products that would be available for the holidays with the exception of the HD foundation that they will be coming out with and the Naked Palette II.

From the pre-sale I had picked up the Book of Shadows vol IV and the two 24/7 liner travel sets which were Naked and Electric.

The Book of Shadows vol IV is not getting much love from the mass majority but I think it is a nice enough palette. It doesn't have very many "wow" colors but it does include very rich velvety shadows. This was a box of gimmicks and I am not complaining. This is a nod to the digital age with a funky butterfly design on the front and card with the QR codes to check out how to achieve the looks. I have not yet used this feature but I did play with the portable speaker that it came with a little bit, it is a decent portable speaker but nothing out of the ordinary. Love the color though! I have included pictures of the box open and swatches of the colors..

Overall I am happy with the book of shadows, it is full of colors that work well together and I can achieve simple and dramatic looks easily!

I also bought the Electric liner set which included Perversion, Ransom, Woodstock, Radium and Junkie. I have to admit that I mostly bought this kit for Perversion. I love black liners and I did not buy the anniversary liner set which included this precious pitch black gem! I do like the other colors that it comes with, very vibrant and I am excited to try out Woodstock in a look.

Finally, I decided on the Naked pencil palette. I have been enjoying brown liners for toned down looks. I am very happy with this set of liners. They browns are all so very different going from brownish black to a taupe color.

I made a video featuring this haul and I also showed the gifts with purchases (Makeup Meltdown & Rollergirl Nail Polish set) it came with for the pre-sale. I should also mention that during the "master class" I went home with an Urban Decay Quinceanera bag, in it was a full size Primer Potion in Greed, a sample size Lip Junkie in Wallflower, a pair of falsies and I think another sample of something... I cannot remember right now. I think I would do it again if the opportunity arose but I was a bit disappointed that I got my stuff after these items hit shelves.

Did you pick up anything from the new Urban Decay collections?

xoxo

Better than Waterproof? Part II

Let me start this off by saying I am a mascara JUNKIE. I am obsessed with different mascaras and often wish I had 10 eyes to use my mascaras on. I am not over picky on high end or drug store, I mainly focus on formula and brush. For instance, this mascara was a disappointment for me all around. I can't really express to you how sad this makes me. I'd cry but this "better than waterproof" mascara would smudge all over my eyes.

I tried to like this. I used it for 2 weeks. I tried curling and then applying it... I tried applying it then curling my lashes. I even tried curling, applying and curling again. I just cannot do anything with this mascara! It is a very dry mascara, and flakes quite easily. Which is strange because I could have sworn in the store is was a much more wet formula... which is why I thought I bought it in the first place. However, it was late and I was desperate for a mascara for my friend's wedding and maybe just wanted to find a mascara and picked this one up out of convenience of being at CVS (Beauty 360).

Ok, dry mascaras. People love them.. I do not. They do not stick to my lashes as well, although it gives you nice "I'm not wearing mascara" look which is never what I am looking for. I want ridiculous length, volume and curl holding power. This just does not deliver.

I can even deal with a crap formula if they give me a decent brush. This is very basic and large. It doesn't get where I would like it to go, I can't "define" my lashes because the fiber bristles are so tightly together in a spiral brush that it can't grab individual lashes. Especially because the formula was so dry. I do not want to hate on Cargo... but I am starting to not have much faith in their products. Maybe I will find something to prove me wrong. Probably not anytime soon though, this was much too much money ($19.99 USD) to waste on a product that I will never EVER use again.

As for removal of the product, supposedly comes off in tubes with warm water. I apparently have no idea how to do this so I go for the try to "slide" the "tubes" off but actually just get it all over my eyes and face approach. It is not working well for me. I am going to retire this mascara to the garbage can now, since I did my review. As I said I would. Now for the lack luster pictures. By the way, my eyelashes are not short. So if it looks like there is length, that is just my eyelashes and has nothing to do with this mascara. It did nothing but make them kind of black.

I am working on my face routine posts, so check back for those shortly. Hope you are having a wonderful day!

xoxo