Pixie Dust feat. MakeupGeek Eyeshadows

Hello lovelies!  I'm finally back with another tutorial!!  I was thinking yesterday that ever since I lost my "makeup room" I have been in a funk with filming tutorials.  The lighting just wasn't as good in my old bedroom (we have since moved) and my lighting isn't that good in my new bedroom and it's more cramped.  I am thinking about doing my own softboxes (don't know where I'm going to put them yet) to have more consistent lighting with my videos.  I also plan to purchase a smaller point-and-shoot camera because I just can't take pictures of my own eye with the big Nikon...it just doesn't happen.  Anywho, on with the look...

During MakeupGeek's winter clearance sale I went ahead and purchased some of their eyeshadows.  I have been wanting to try them for a while now so I figured "why not?".  I will do a separate post with the eyeshadows that I purchased, with proper swatches.  For this look I chose two eyeshadows from MUG: Pixie Dust and Peacock.  I based my look off of those two eyeshadows and went from there.  Here is what I came up with:

Smokey Calypso feat. Sugarpill and Glamour Doll Eyes

I know it has been a LONG time since I have uploaded a tutorial.  I haven't been wearing makeup as much because it's been so hot and humid in the midwest!  For some reason my skin has been more oily and I just don't like the fact that I HAVE to touch up my makeup at work.  It's easier to just wipe my face with a wet rag or something.  And work has been so stressful and busy that I haven't had the energy to do makeup on my days off.  I really wish I could get on some sort of regular uploading schedule!  I would do photo tutorials on my blog but I don't have a point-and-shoot camera, just a big honkin' Nikon and it's takes me forever to take a decent close-up picture!  Anywho...on to the look :)

My birthday was a little over a week ago and the lovely AliciaD372 sent me an eyeshadow as a present!! <3

Makeup Monday

So the gorgeous Jacqueline from abrilliantbrunette has come up with Makeup Monday (read about it by clicking the link).  I was tagged by Mandy (@ladymandyisms).  At first I had no idea what it was and I replied back with "and to you as well".  Yeah, I know...should've checked up on it first lol.  Anywho, upon further investigation I now know what Makeup Monday is :).  Today is the first day for MM and the theme for June is "Blue".  Now I hadn't planned on wearing much today because I have to work but I made an exception for MM.  Here is the look I came up with (no tutorial though):

Misc thoughts...

I already have a website/blog:  www.beautybytaime.com  I haven't really kept it up to date though because I don't really find wordpress to user friendly for someone who isn't really tech-saavy.  I was using blogger before with my old username and I really liked how easy it was for me to navigate and personalize.  I really wanted a .com (who knows why!!) so I purchased a domain from wordpress.  I don't really want to renew something that I don't use on a regular basis.  So here we are, on blogger, again!