Meow St. Patty's Day Swatches, Looks

Hi!
I just wanted to share this rather pic heavy post showing the swatches and looks I did using (most of) the Meow St. Patty's Day Collection.  I swatched over Urban Decay Primer Potion on my arm; the top row is patted dry and the bottom row is foiled w/water.

L-R: gaelic, leprechaun, shamrock, get lucky, celtic, blarney stone, sun disc, or, lunulae

Rainbow's End Collection L-R: sun disc, or, lunulae

L-R: gaelic, leprechaun, shamrock, get lucky, celtic, blarney stone

get lucky, celtic, blarney stone

gaelic, leprechaun, shamrock

Using the "beauty" setting on my camera :P  This is get lucky on inner half of lid, shamrock on outer half, blarney stone in crease and lower lashline (over UD 24/7 shadow pencil in Mercury) Panache Blush in Pizazz, Fyrinnae Lip Lustre in Very Berry Happy

lunulae on lid, celtic in upper crease, gaelic in lower crease and outer lower lashline & or on inner lower lashline (over UD covet), leprechaun wetlined on upper lashline... whew. Hope that wasn't too confusing! 

taken w/flash

The second look shown here was done yesterday and there wasn't much sunlight out for picture time. 

I am loving the shades blarney stone, lunulae, celtic and gaelic. I'm thinking many of these, Shamrock in particular would prob look better over Pixie Epoxy, I shall try that at some time.  This collection is available on Meow's website till April 1st.

St. Patrick's Day FOTD & a Bathtub Cat Picture

Hey everyone!  I hope you all had an awesome St. Patty's Day weekend!  Mine was good... I went to our local AOH with the family on Saturday to celebrate.  They do the whole corned beef and cabbage dinner thing (which I passed on, yuck) every year.  It was crazy!  It hasn't been that crowded in years, I suppose because it fell on a Saturday this year.  It was cool to get all dressed up in green, see a bunch of friends I haven't talked to in awhile, drink, sing and party with everyone. Good times! :D
This was the look I did.  I was pretty happy with how it came out! I was not as happy with how my pics came out however, lol.

Stuff I used:

*Eyes

~UDPP
~Sugarpill Tako on lid
~Sugarpill Midori in crease
~Fyrinnae Pixie Epoxy all over Tako and Midori
~Fyrinnae Electric Stardust over Midori
~Fyrinnae Polar Bear over Tako
~Another layer of Pixie Epoxy and Electric Stardust/Polar Bear
~Sugarpill Tako under brows
~UD 24/7 pencil in Covet on waterline
~Sugarpill Midori over Covet
~Fyrinnae Polar Bear under Covet on lower lashline/tearduct area
~Meow Feliner in Cat Burglar wetlined on upper lashline
~Buxom mascara
~Too Faced Brownies in Blondey

*Face

~Prescriptives All Skins Liquid Makeup in Level 1 Warm Light
~Prescriptives All Skins Powder in Level 1 mixed with a little Aromaleigh Glamoured Finishing Power in Triteleia
~Meow Sugarplums blush in Ballerina


*Lips

~Venomous Cosmetics Lip Poison in Trouble
~Urban Decay Lip Junkie in Wallflower
At first I used the Lip Poison, but thought it was a bit too bright-ish for this look so when it faded I used UD Wallflower instead. :)


And here I give you a picture of my cat Isabelle hangin' out in the bathtub/shower curtains:

Hi!

I hope everyone has a lovely week! <3

A Couple Random EOTD's

Hello!  I'm back!  Ya know after my team lost the Super Bowl I had to hide out in my cave for about a month and cry myself to sleep every night (not really).
But for realz I just have not been wearing makeup much at all lately.  Sad times.  Anywayz I have a couple EOTD's from back in January that I never posted, so here they are!

Here I am wearing Persephone Minerals Vixxen from the holiday collection.  This one was super duper difficult to photograph!  It has a really awesome pinkish-lavenderish sheen that I tried to capture on camera using different lighting, angles etc.  This was the best I could do :/  I used Silent Night (from same collection) to wetline, and I fail to remember what else.  Sorry.

For this one I used Rhea from the Aromaleigh Mythos collection.  I am very fond of this shade.  If I were you I'd go get one now on sale for $3.  It has a nice glossiness to it when foiled lightly.  Pretty. And I also figured out a little trick for this look!  I've been really wanting Urban Decay's new 24/7 eyeliner pencil in Demolition...I've been waiting FOREVAH for them to come out with a non-glittery dark brown pencil liner.  Since I am broke as hell I figured instead of spending $19 (WTF is up with the price increase UD?! I know it's only a buck more but still..) on a new pencil, I'd use Zero and then Whiskey over that and Ta-dah!!! Dark brown liner.  Aren't I the clever one ;P  Once I run out of those two I'll probably cave and go buy Demolition. But that will take awhile.

I hope everyone is ready to get their Green on tomorrow!  I know I am, been wearing it all week!  HAPPY SAINT PADDY'S!!!! XD

SUPAH BOWL SPARKLIES!!!!

It's jumpin' around these parts today so this will just be a quickie FOTD post!
My football team the New England Patriots are playing in the Super Bowl tonight! W00T!!!
So of course I have to get all sparkled up for the occasion!  This is my first time doing "themed" makeup.  It didn't come out exactly how I envisioned (it never does).  I overdid it on the silver foiling action (but that's how I do) and I should've done another wing on the outer crease so it'd better resemble the Flying Elvis logo but overall I'm happy with the end result. :)

Stuff I used:

~Eyes

*UDPP
*Fryinnae Pixie Epoxy
*Urban Decay Shadow in Vapor all over lid
*Urban Decay 24/7 liners in Binge and Yeyo
*Urban Decay liquid liner in Sabbath for wings
*Sugarpill pressed shadow in Tako, just in between the wings
*Meow Egyptian Treasure Tutankhamun, wetlined above the blue on upper lid
*Meow Aurora Borealis on lid, browbone
*Aromaleigh Glitter in Holla Glow on inner corners
*Buxom Mascara

~Face

*Prescriptives All Skins Liquid Makeup in Level 1 Warm Light
*Prescriptives All Skins Powder in Level 1
*Meow Pink Inc Blush in Dolphin

~Lips
*Fresh Sugar Lip Gloss in Sugar Angel

GO PATS!!!!!! XD

Aqua Blue, Green, Purple :)

All my favorite colors! :D
This was my makeup for last night.  My sister got married... she married the guy she had a crush on in 4th grade! Too cute! XD   It was a simple ceremony with family only.  They're gonna have the big fancy party wedding stuff next summer. 
I wanted to wear something pretty and sparkly but not too disco ball crazy.  This is what I came up with.  It's similar to a look I did in this post, but these pics came out clearer.  I do love these colors together!  Please pardon the smudgies and overall ickyness... I neglected to use my makeup setting spray and took these pics way later at night after a few drinks hee hee. :P  It looked better earlier but my camera's battery was dead.  Boo.

Stuff I used:

~Eyes

* UDPP
*Fyrinnae Pixie Epoxy, on lid and just over crease
*Geek Chic in Mana Battery all over lid and on browbone
*Fyrinnae Arcane Magic in Faerie Glamour in crease and outer V
*Fyrinnae Arcane Magic in Electric Stardust on inner lid and just over crease
*Prescriptives Longwear Kohl Liner in Blue Khol
*Urban Decay Sabbath shadow from The Black Palette (just a bit blended into the liner)
*Prescriptives Lash Builder
*Prescriptives False Eyelashes Mascara in Plush Black
*Too Faced Brownies in Blondey to fill in brows

~Face

*Meow Combination Skin Primer
*Meow Purrfect Puss Foundation in Sleek Siamese
*Meow Sugarplums blush in Ballerina

~Lips

*Prescriptives Moonbeam Gloss in Jupiter


Happy Saturday peeps.... and if all goes well I will have something special for tomorrow!!! XD

Downtown Brown... and Silver

When I first started wearing eye makeup the only color I'd ever wear was brown.  I though it was the only color that would look good with my eye color.  Since then I've enlightened myself... though for whatever reason I wanted to do a light pretty sparkly brown eye look today. At first I though I may have overdone it with the frosty shadows but it seemed to work out. :)

Gotta luv my eyebrow scars when I don't fill them in XD

And later on in the evening before leaving for my Tuesday night family dinner I changed it up a bit and put on Evil Shades lipstick in Caged Gypsy. 

Stupid face is stupid, but I didn't have a lot of time to take a better pic :P

Stuff I used:

~Eyes

*Urban Decay Primer Potion
*Fyrinnae Pixie Epoxy
*Aromaleigh Holly Days shadow in Naughty or Nice (frosted slate cocoa taupe with festive sparks of gold and violet) Applied all over lid up to and above crease
*Aromaleigh Starry Night shadow in Sirius (pale, cool metallic silver frost with brilliant sparks of gold and copper) Blended onto inner lid, tear duct and browbone
*Urban Decay 24/7 liner in Bourbon, upper & lower waterline
*Urban Decay Darkhorse, just a bit blended over Bourbon
*Diorshow Lash Primer
*Cover Girl Lashblast mascara in Brown

~Face

*Meow Combination Skin Primer
*Meow Purrfect Puss Foundation in Sleek Siamese
*Benefit Coralista for blush

~Lips

*Evil Shades lip gloss in Feline's Kiss
*Evil Shades lipstick in Caged Gypsy (last pic)

I really should've done my eyebrows, but I didn't feel like it. :P  It really would've pulled this look together and given it some extra polish though.  Oh well.
If anyone is interested in the Aromaleigh shadows I suggest you head on over to their website as they are having a massive sale to make room for new stuff. :D   I am thinking about getting Sirius in the full size.... I have a million silver shadows but this one is unique because of the contrasting gold and copper sparklies.  Me likey!!!!

Work Look with Naked Palette & Liquid Liner

Happy Friday! :D
This was a makeup look I did last week for work.  Until recently I usually would not wear makeup to work; the work I do is very physical, I sweat a lot and makeup simply felt uncomfortable.  I've found mineral foundation to be especially uncomfortable... but since then I've discovered mineral foundation without bismuth oxychloride as one of the ingredients and it's made a world of difference.
I've also decided to start wearing makeup more often at work for a couple other reasons... one being that I own so damned much of it that I really feel kind of ridiculous not wearing it.  Another being that according to some fairly recent studies conducted by Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston University and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Proctor & Gamble too but they don't count since they are part of the mass market cosmetics industry) women who wear makeup in the workplace are seen as more competent and likable.  I am in the process of building a business and I figure it could only help me to start wearing makeup at work.  Also I find makeup fun and it gives me stuff to blog about. :)
I took a risk and wore liquid eyeliner. Yep, I live right on the edge.  It's not too terrible considering I haven't worn liquid liner since I was a teen. (about a decade ago!)  Back in the day I was a liquid liner freakshow, it was crazy!  If I ever dig up some pics of that I will have to share, it's quite funny.

Stuff I used:

~Eyes

*UD Primer Potion
*UD Single Shadows in Foxy and and Blunt mixed together on lid.  This Foxy I got as one of their eyeshadow singles in mattes.  It's not from their Naked 2 palette; from the swatches I've seen online they seem like slightly different colors to me.  The Foxy single seems more peachy as opposed to the one in Naked 2.
*Naked (Naked Palette) and Foxy (single) mixed together in crease
*Vigin (Naked Palette) on browbone
*UD Liquid Liner in Sabbath on upper lashline
*UD 24/7 pencil in Yeyo on lower waterline
*Dior lash primer
*Buxom Mascara
*Too Faced Brownies in Blonde-y to fill in my wonky brows

~Face

*Meow Combination Skin Primer
*Meow Purrfect Puss foundation in Sleek Siamese
and that's all folks.  I don't wear any blush or luminizer or anything like that for work cuz my face gets flushed enough naturally from doing work :P

~Lips

~Fresh Sugar Plum Tinted Lip Treatment



I did not realize how warm/peachy my eyeshadow looked until after I snapped these pics.  I would tone down the peachy shades and used a more warm toned lip color if I were to do this look again.
I'd like to hear other people's thoughts on wearing makeup at work. :)