grape madness!

This look was inspired by xsparkage's video on youtube. I absolutely loved the look and did my own spin on it. And I love the way it turned out. It reminded me on neon green and purple grapes! So I recreated it this morning before work and got a ton of compliments on it! These pics were taken AFTER work, I was sitting in the car waiting for my mom to get out of a store. So keep in mind I was pretty tired in these pics, and the make up wasn't freshly applied (was applied around 9 a.m. and these pics were taken around 4:30 p.m.). But here ya go:

Here is the link to 120 palette code: 

I started of using Urban Decay's Primer Potion all over the lid and under the eye. I then started off applying colors D6 and C9 (a mix) to give it a bright color with just a tiny bit of shine. I packed that on the lid to get the brightness I wanted and made sure it was applied evenly. I then moved on to number F4 which is a bright blue and applied it to the crease, making sure to blend it slightly into the green so I don't have a harsh line. Above that I took L7 and used it as a highlight under the brow bone.I then lined my upper lash line with a pen style liquid liner then on the bottom waterline I used a black gel liner. On the lower lash line I used a bright purple, number J2, I used this wet to create an intense purple liner look. To finish off the eye look I applied mascara and filled in my brows with a matte brown eyeshadow.

To do my face, I started off with my Hard Candy face primer, followed by my Revlon Colorstay foundation. I applied both using my hands. After that I applied blush to the apples of my cheeks swept up towards my temple. I applied I tiny bit of concealer under my eyes and blended with my fingers. To finish off my face I applied my setting powder. It comes with this akward sponge on top, so I just dab it on my face then blend out with a fluffy face brush. And finally I added Elf's lip stain in Fashionista (without the gloss side) and Avon's lipstick in a twinkle pink.

Products Used:

EYES

Urban Decay Primer Potion (original formula)

120 Eye palette (1st Edition)

L'oreal Lineur Intense in Carbon Black #H200 (upper lash line)

Maybelline Gel liner: black (waterline)

Urban Decay's SuperCURL mascara

NYX Champagne and Caviar: darkest matte brown to do my eyebrows

FACE

Hard Candy Face Primer

Foundation: Revlon ColorStay in 150 Buff

Blush: elf's blush and bronzer duo

NYC liquid Concealer in light

Urban Decay's Razor Sharp Ultra-Definition Finishing Powder

LIPS

Elf's Lipstain in Fashionista (without the gloss)

Avon's Ultra Color Rich Lisptick in Twinkle Pink

Brushes Used:
Elf essential eyeshadow brush to pack color on everywhere and do light blending

Elf eyeshadow brush (studiol line) brush for the highlight

Elf blending brush (essential line) to blend all the colors seamlessly together.

Elf blush brush (studio line) to apply blush and contour with elfs bronzer

Elf Concealer Brush (essential line) to apply purple liner to lower lash line

Elf concealer brush (essential line) to fill in my eyebrows

Recreation of: Lisa Frank Penguins By vintageortacky

I was watching through Vintageortacky's videos and found a look I just had to try and recreate it for myself. I absolutely adore her and she is one of the few youtube guru's that got me started with this blog-but even more so to be more confident in using bright colors! My first attempt at this look went horribly wrong. But that didn't stop me, so I took it all off and started again. I think it turned out quite nice the second time around! So anyway, here ya go!

*See this link for code for the 120 palette

I started off with my Urban Decay Primer Potion. My first eyeshadow color I used was the light blue from my physicians formula on the inner 2/3rds of my eye, on the outer 3rd I used Urban decay's electric eyeshadow and blended it with the other. I then took my new (awesome!) 120 eyeshadow palette, first edition. I took color J8 and applied it to my crease and blended it up, making sure that I got a nice opaqueness and to make sure I bring it up evenly on both eyes. Above that I took the color I2 and blended it down into the purple and up towards my highlight area, in the video I watched she layed the pink color down first-but I found that to be a bit too muddy when I blended them out. Finally I took G9 as my highlight and blended it down into the pink to get rid of any harsh lines. I then lined my upper lash line  with a marker style eyeliner pen and used a gel liner to line my lower waterline. Under my lower lash line I applied Urban Decay's electric eyeshadow. I used a tiny concealer brush and got it wet so the color would apply more brightly. To finsih off the eyes I curled my lashes and added mascara, and filled in with my brows with a matte brown eyeshadow.

To finish the rest of my look I applied my primer along with my foundation directly after. I then swept some blush from the apples of my cheeks up towards my temples. To complete my overall look, I applied a lipstain and gloss. I first applied the lipstain and allowed it to dry to a matte finish--they say you can wear this alone, but it's quite drying, so I went ahead and applied the clear gloss that came with it.

Products Used:

EYES

Urban Decay Primer Potion (original formula)

Physicians Formula Shimmer Strips Custom Eye Enhancing Shadow (for green eyes)- light blue color for inner half of lid

Urban Decay: Electric eyeshadow matte (outer half of lid and under the lash line)

120 Eye palette (1st Edition) for 2 crease colors and highlight

L'oreal Lineur Intense in Carbon Black #H200 (upper lash line)

Maybelline Gel liner: black (waterline)

NYC Skyrise lengthening Mascara in Extreme Black #842

NYX Champagne and Caviar: darkest matte brown to do my eyebrows

FACE

elf face primer

Foundation: Revlon ColorStay in 150 Buff

Blush: elf's blush and bronzer duo

LIPS

Elf's Lip stain/gloss in fashionista

Brushes Used:
Elf essential eyeshadow brush to pack color on everywhere and do light blending

Elf eyeshadow brush (studiol line) brush for the highlight

Elf blending brush (essential line) to blend all the colors seamlessly together.

Elf blush brush (studio line) to apply blush and contour with elfs bronzer

Elf concealer brush (essential line) to fill in my eyebrows

Rainbow Sherbert! (and a preview of Freaky Friday- my new weekly look!)

So I wore this look to work yesterday and one of my coworkers told me that it reminded them of Rainbow Sherbert..so that's the name of the look! Hope you enjoy! Also, continue to the end of this post to see a preview and explanation of the new weekly look I'm starting!

I started off with my Urban Decay Primer Potion, then I applied a white face cream (the kind for halloween) as my white base and let it dry for a few seconds. I then packed my pink eyeshadow to the inner half of my eyelid, and my blue to the outer half of my lid. I blended them lightly using a back and forth motion (be VERY light with this).in the middle to be sure there wasn't a harsh line in the middle. It turned into a nice purple color. I then took my purple eyeshadow and added it to my crease, being sure to blend it nicely and create the shape that I wanted. I applied my white highlight color then blended it with the purple, adding more purple and continuing to blend as needed. Lastly, I added a light blue shimmer from my Physician's formula palette to my tear duct to open up my eyes. I then filled in my brows and added my gel liner to my lower water line and underneath the lash line on the outer 3rd of my eye. To finish my eye-- I added a couple coats of my mascara.

I then moved onto my face. I started off with my primer, then I applied my foundation. This time I decided to apply it with a wet sponge. I noticed that my brand of foundation tends to dry REALLY quickly, so I thought maybe applying it wet would help it blend out and not set before I had then chance to really blend it. I did notice that it helped, but I don't think I got quite as good of coverage as I normally do, but it did blend a lot easier. I then moved on to applying my blush. I started on the apples of my cheeks and blended it up towards my temples. I didn't do any highlighting or contouring (was in a bit of a hurry--I even forgot my setting powder!). I then sprayed my face makeup with Urban Decay's setting spray. And last I applied my lipstick straight from the tube. I don't like using the setting spray after my lipstick because it makes it feel a bit goopey, so I always I apply my lipstick last.

Products Used:

EYES

Urban Decay Primer Potion (original formula)

Urban Decay: Electric eyeshadow matte (outer half of lid)

L.A. COLORS: Purple #BME498 (for the crease)

Urban Decay: Supercurl Mascara

Maybelline Gel liner: black

NYX Champagne and Caviar: darkest matte brown to do my eyebrows and white for a highlight

Physicians Formula Shimmer Strips Custom Eye Enhancing Shadow (for green eyes)- light blue color for inner corner (tear duct) highlight

NYC duo shadow, Island Sunset #811B (pink for inner half of the lid)

FACE

Hard Candy Face Primer

Foundation: Revlon ColorStay in 150 Buff

Blush: elf's blush and bronzer duo


All Nighter Setting Spray


LIPS

Avon's Ultra Color Rich Lipstick in Sheer Light Peach #U300

Brushes Used:

Elf Concealer Brush(studio line) to pack color onto the lid

Elf Crease Brush (studio line)to apply color to the the crease

Elf eyeshadow (essential line) brush for the highlight

Elf blending brush (essential line) to blend all the colors seamlessly together.

Elf blush brush (studio line) to apply blush and contour with elfs bronzer

Elf concealer brush (essential line) to fill in my eyebrows

Elf's Concealer brush (essential line--I have 2 of these) to apply color to my inner tear duct


 FREAKY FRIDAY- My new weekly look!

Also wanted to let everyone know that I'm starting a new weekly look! It's called Freaky Friday! So every Friday I'm going to be doing a look that is a bit less wearable then my other looks. It might be a little bit more colorful or more dark, but it'll definitely be a bit freaky! So look for that starting next week. Here's a preview of what my first look will incorporate:

Party at Midnight!

Was bored so I did a new eye look today. You'll have to forgive me, I didn't do full face makeup. My family has been sick, so I've been busy taking care of everyone. But I still wanted to do a new eye look at least! It's a dark yet sparkly look. Would be great for going out at night, or if you're a bit daring (like myself) for a daytime look too! Here ya go:

I didn't even use a primer today (Bad bad bad..haha). I did start off by using Urban Decay's cream eyeshadow in Delinquent as a base. Over that, I applied Urban Decay's loose pigment in Rockstar. It's a purple pigment in a black base with lots of sparklies! It's a beautiful color and this is my first time using it! Anyway I applied Rockstar to my lower lid up to the crease. In the crease, I used a dark teal color from my Physician's formula Palette (bottom color). It didn't blend very nicely (should have used a primer!!) but I got the general gyst of the look! I then applied a white matte for my highlight under my brow. I used Maybelline's gel liner in black to line my lower waterline and under my lash line. To finish the look off I used some black mascara from NYC.

I didn't do anything to my face except a primer to even out my skin a bit, and filled in my brows. On my lips I just used a lip gloss from L.A. Colors.


Products used:

EYES

Eyeshadow: Physicians Formula Shimmer Strips Custom Eye Enhancing Shadow (for green eyes)

Urban Decay's cream eyeshadow in delinquent

Urban Decay's loose pigment in Rockstar

NYX Champagne and Caviar palette (white for the highlight, and dark brown to fill in my brows)

Maybelline Gel liner: black

NYC: Showtime volumizing mascara in Extreme Black #844

FACE

Hard Candy: Face Primer

LIPS

LA colors Moisturizing lip gloss: Pink Pearl

Brushes Used:

Elf Crease Brush (studio line)to apply color to the the crease

Elf eyeshadow (essential line) brush for the highlight

Elf blending brush (essential line) to blend all the colors seamlessly together.

Elf concealer brush (essential line) to fill in my eyebrows

Nerd's Candy!

I had to run some errands today and decided to post my look for today. I've worn this look a couple of times now and I REALLY love it. So I figured I'd give everyone a look!

This mascara creates some AMAZING lashes!

love the hint of green at the bottom there.

I started off with Urban Decay's Primer Potion. I then applied a white cream (it's actually that white halloween makeup) to my eyes and let it dry a bit, this stuff actually works REALLY nicely as an eyeshadow base. You MUST use a primer underneath though because it WILL crease on its own. I got the tube for 67 cents, and its gonna last me for a LONG time *score!*. I then took a paddle brush and started to pack on the teal blue (Urban Decay's, Electric). I then worked on the crease using the a mix of the two purples from the Physician's Formula POP Eyez collection (for green eyes). And to blend it out and brighten them up a little I added a mineral eyeshadow from L.A. Colors in Purple. I made sure to blend all these colors nicely. I then added a bit of the light blue shimmery color (from the Physician's Formula palette) to the middle of the lid to add a bit of dimension because the Electric eyeshadow is a matte color. Lastly I just took a white color from my NYX palette as my highlight. I then took my Maybelline gel liner in black to my waterline and set it with the black from my NYX palette. I then took a tiny bit of the light blue eyeshadow again (from the physicians formula palette), and added to my inner eyes (tear duct), and to tone it down I added a bit of the white shimmer from the same pallete to open up the eyes. To add a little bit of flare , I then took the bright green towards the bottom of the palette to line my lower lash line and bring out a wing. To finish off the eyes I added Urban Decay Supercurl mascara and filled in my brows with darkest brown in my NYX palette.

I then got started on my face. First I applied my Hard Candy primer and my foundation over top. I then added blush to the apples of my cheeks. I finished off the face with Urban Decays finishing powder and blended it in with a fluffy brush. And I set all my face make up with Urban Decay's setting spray. Lastly I added a bit of lip color to finish off my entire look! I hope you enjoy it!


Products Used:

EYES

Urban Decay Primer Potion (original formula)

Eyeshadow: Physicians Formula Shimmer Strips Custom Eye Enhancing Shadow (for green eyes)

Urban Decay: Electric eyeshadow matte

L.A. COLORS: Purple #BME498

Urban Decay: Supercurl Mascara

eyebrows: NYX Champagne and Caviar brown color (3rd from color bottom row)

FACE

Foundation: Revlon ColorStay in 150 Buff

Blush: elf's blush and bronzer duo

Urban Decay's Razor Sharp Ultra-Definition Finishing Powder

All Nighter Setting Spray

LIPS

Lipstick: NYC Ultra moist Lipwear in Blossom #316

Brushes Used:

Elf Concealer Brush(studio line) to pack color onto the lid

Elf Crease Brush (studio line)to apply color to the the crease

Elf eyeshadow (essential line) brush for the highlight

Elf blending brush (essential line) to blend all the colors seamlessly together.

Elf blush brush (studio line) to apply blush and contour with elfs bronzer

Elf concealer brush (essential line) to fill in my eyebrows

Elf's Concealer brush (essential line--I have 2 of these) to apply color to my inner tear duct

blueberry frosting!

Got a new look for you today, it's called Blueberry Frosting! Its a beautiful frosty light blue on the lid and a darker teal blue in the crease, and a white with green duo chrome as a highlight. I used the Physician's Formula palette for the "green eyes" for this tutorial today. So here's all the complete pics and what I did and used:

I started off with Elf's eyelid primer potion (I save my Urban Decay for when I'm going out).  I then used my my Elf concealer brush from the studio line to pack the lightest blue color (4th one down) onto the lid. I then took a crease brush and applied the darker teal color (under the light blue, 5th color down) into the crease. I had to keep adding more to the color to get the desired color payoff and just continued to blend. I made sure the lid color and the crease color blended nicely together . I then added the white (with green duo chrome) from the top of the palette as my highlight color on my brow bone. I then took a dark brown eyeshadow color from my NYX (champagne and Caviar) palette, and filled in my brows. Next, I applied black eyeliner to my waterline and 1 coat of black mascara to my upper lashes only (anything on the lower lashes smudges almost immediately). To finish off the eyes, I took the lightest color from the Physicians formula (top color) and applied it to the inner corner/tear duct area of my eyes.

I then applied my foundation using my fingers, making sure to get nice even coverage. Finally I took my blush/bronzer duo and contoured my cheeks and applied blush to the apples and swept it up to my temples. My last step was to apply my lipstick.

Products Used:

EYES

Elf's eyelid primer (nude)

Eyeshadow: Physicians Formula Shimmer Strips Custom Eye Enhancing Shadow (for green eyes)

Eyeliner: Avon glimmersitck in Blackest Night #G04

Mascara: Avon SuperFULL in Black #S21

FACE

Foundation: Revlon ColorStay in 150 Buff

Blush: elf's blush and bronzer duo

eyebrows: NYX Champagne and Caviar brown color (3rd from color bottom row)

LIPS

Lipstick: NYC Ultra moist Lipwear in Blossom #316


Brushes Used:

Elf Concealer Brush(studio line) to pack color onto the lid

Elf Crease Brush (studio line)to apply color to the the crease

Elf eyeshadow (essential line) brush for the highlight

Elf blending brush (essential line) to blend all the colors seamlessly together.

Elf blush brush (studio line) to apply blush and contour with elfs bronzer

Elf concealer brush (essential line) to fill in my eyebrows

Elf's Concealer brush (essential line--I have 2 of these) to apply color to my inner tear duct