The slow death

I am not trying to kill this blog. I just have no time what so ever. I graduate Cosmetology on the 20th of this month though! So I hope to have more time soon.

To line or not to line.. with what line?

Pencils, liquids, gels, kohls, autosharpen or felt tips. What are the best? And why?!

I think that everyone can agree that when they think of eyeliner their first thought is probably going to be a black winged eye. There are so many ways you can use eye liners and there are so many ways that you may wear them. What is the best formula? Are high end brands REALLY better than drugstore?

It is hard to go into a post and address all the aspects of different liners... So I shall break it up into sections for different posts. I guess I should come up with a cutsey name for the series? We will go with the Liner Days of Summer.

I know when I get ambitious I fail, so I shall aim for a post a week. Starting this upcoming Thursday.

By the way, I got a job at Ulta as a prestige makeup consultant and it is pretty much the best job I have ever had so far. Very excited about it! I get to analyze brands from Smashbox to Urban Decay to find the best make up fit for customers. Pretty dang awesome.

Tinted Lip Balms, the hype

What is it with people going crazy of tinted lip balms? Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a tinted balm just as much as the next girl.. but.. really? I wouldn't say that the balms out on the market are THAT hydrating compared to a regular lip balm. The most hydrating is probably Burts Bees brand. I suppose their downfall is not coming in pretty packaging like the Revlon lip butters.

I am not saying that they are bad, in fact, they are quite nice. I don't know if they are worth getting your panties in a bunch if they are sold out. I am honestly surprised they are still selling like hot cakes. I have the ones that I want, and I don't really intend on buying more. Maybe to replace cupcake when I run out, but that is only because that color is just so darn cute. Or is is strawberry short cake? I can't really remember right now.

These are three of the few I have. I have two others. For the most part I am happy with all of them.  I feel I lucked out in a sense that I guessed the pigmentation these were going to have. I would take other pictures of my other tinted lip balms, however it is getting late and I don't like the camera quality on my phone (which is what I am using right now). I have one of the Hello Kitty Sephora tinted lip Balms, a sample Tarte one and a Burt's Bees in Tiger Lily... which has no color pay off for my lips!

My original goal was to swatch them on myself so you could see, but I got a shiner right under my nose... so I am just not feeling up to it. I am starting spring break this week. My goal is a post a day. We will see.

What about you? Do you like the Lip Butters? Do you like tinted moisturizer? Or do you just use balm then apply lipstick?

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?