Icy Blues

Hey guys!

The weather here in the midwest is ridiculous!  As I'm prepping this blog post, temperatures here are increasing from the mid 30's and expected to be above 60 tomorrow!  I have never been a fan of the weather here but I was recently inspired to create this icy blue look.  The first day I tried to film this look the sun was bright and warm but it was still cold enough to see my breath.  So I sat down to film and of course the sun was setting before I even finished one eye.  I finally got around to re-filming this look and tweaked the original just a bit.  I hope you guys enjoy this look!

Peacock Eyes with Sugarpill's Heartbreaker Palette

Lately I've been doing my videos "on the fly" so-to-speak.  I wanted to see what I could come up with if I just picked some products and built the look around them (or it if I have just one product in mind).  I'm really loving these new colors from Sugarpill.  The textures are AMAZING!  So smooth and easy to work with.  I think my favorite so far is Mochi.  I've been using it as an inner corner highlight with almost all my looks!!  Anywho, here is the look 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

Make Up By Siryn: 1000 Follower Giveaway!!!

So, if you don't know who Dawn from Make up by Siryn is, you need to educate yourself!!  She does crazy creative and colorful looks!  She is a self-professed geek, loves comic books, video games, and anime.  She expresses her love for these things through make up. You should check out her recent Spiderman-inspired look here!!!

Dawn recently hit 1000 followers on Facebook and in celebration of that, is hosting an awesome giveaway!  There are multiple ways to enter (under "1000 follower Giveaway on FB) click here to see how.

For the prizes, Dawn has chosen things that she herself adores and wants to share with her fans.  There are 5 trade paperback comics and two AWESOME palettes from Sugarpill cosmetics!!  I would really like the Dark Phoenix Saga trade paperback.  Her story was always one of my favorites in the cartoon!

Even if you don't want to enter the giveaway, I highly suggest checking out her blog for some very colorful and bold make up looks.  She is always an inspiration to me!!

Congratulations Dawn and here's to 1000 more!!!!

Shiny Shine Shine with Inglot AMC Shine #20

This look came from me wanting to use a cream liner that LilPumpkinPie05 uses in a lot of her looks.  It is one of L'Oreal's HIP Color Truth Cream Eyeliners in the shade "Teal".  I wanted to use #20 as a sort of highlight for the lid color and just set the outer corners with one of the new colors from Inglot, #317.  I decided to use MUFE #92 in the crease and blended that out with a little pink, and I used Sugarpill's Dollipop for that.  Here is the look:

Teal Waters with New Inglot Eyeshadows

If you read my previous post you got to see a picture of the look I filmed using the new eyeshadows from Inglot.  You can also see swatches and comparison photos with some other Inglot shadows that I already owned.  I wanted to do a look that included all of the shadows (which I did) but I also want to do looks in the future that highlight individual colors.  The new eyeshadows are teals, a blue, and greens so the look I came up with was very water-y (hence the name).

Sugarpill Swatches

Here are swatches of the products I picked up during Sugarpill's Anniversary Sale.  They had their anniversary sale I belive Feb. 14 (cute right??).  It lasted 24 hours and they also had a little disclaimer for the palettes that said your order might not ship until Feb 20.  I still ordered because I didn't care how long it took I just wanted the palettes!!  I placed my order Feb. 14 at 9 or so in the morning.  I think I received a confirmation shortly after that.  My package didn't actually ship until Feb. 21 but it got here a day or so later.

There was a little mix up with my shipping confirmations (I had one in my order confirmation email and another on my Sugarpill account).  I emailed them in regards to my order and a wonderful lady named Trista responded within a couple of days (I'm sure they were receiving a lot of emails in regards to orders at this time).  She was very sweet and answered my question as best she could.  I received my package not too long after that.  Amy even signs all of the invoices!!  The only thing I regret is that I didn't order the Sugarpill cat sticker :(  I cannot believe I forgot that!  Oh well, there is always next time ;) Amy has been hinting to the release of a new palette next month!!  I can't wait!!!

I was finally able to get ahold of both palettes!!  I was terribly excited about this as I have been regretting not picking these ups while at IMATS LA last year!  There are two palettes (so far, although Amy has said they are releasing another palette next month!!):  the Burning Heart and Sweetheart palettes.

Here is just a quick price comparison between a couple of brands and their single eyeshadows in some sort of compact or case:

• Sugarpill
• 4 g/0.14 oz per eyeshadow single, $12
• MAC
• 1.5 g/0.05 oz per eyeshadow single, $15
• Inglot
• 2 g/0.07 oz per eyeshadow single (matte, pearl, and DS finish), $12
• 2.4 g/0.08 oz per eyeshadow single (AMC, and AMC Shine finish), $12

Clearly you are getting way more for your money with Sugarpill and you are not sacrificing quality by any means, instead experiencing similar quality if not better!  The only thing other brands have over them is color range, but don't mistake that for lack of color because let me tell you, Sugarpill is definitely not lacking in this department!

Meredith Gentry Character Inspired Series: Doyle

Doyle (pronounced like Dole fruit) is the Captain of the Queen's Ravens, the Queen's guard.  He is sent by the Queen to fetch Merry.  In the books he is described as having black skin (not brown, or dark brown, or chocolate...black) with blue highlights.  There is a point in the story where he tries to bespell Merry and she she's a rainbow of colors, not necessarily a rainbow, but lots of colors.  Doyle has pointed ears (a distinct characteristic that marks his as not full-blooded Sidhe royal) and he has no shame in showing them, keeping his long black hair braided so his ears show all the time.  In his ears and one nipple he wears silver jewelry, always.

I used those three things to create this look:  black skin with blue highlights, rainbow colors when bespelling, and silver jewelry.  I didn't want to use navy blue as I felt it would be more, well, blue than anything so I went with blue then black over that.  I used a chromalust from Sugarpill called "Stella" for the lid.  Stella has a jet black base with rainbow glitter mixed in.  And for the silver I used Sugarpill's "Tiara" applied wet to the inner corners.  Here is the look (warning - this will be picture heavy to show different aspects of the look):

Meredith Gentry Character Inspired Series: Queen Andais

Ever since I got into makeup I've wanted to do looks inspired by the characters from Laurell K Hamilton's Meredith Gentry series.  The series is told from the viewpoint of the mortal Princess Meredith, who fled from Cahokia, IL to Los Angeles, CA because people were trying to kill her.  She has been called back to Cahokia by her aunt, Queen Andais, for reasons unknown.  Merry herself appears "human" enough but her race of faerie, the Sidhe (pronounced "she") tend to look very exotic and one characteristic of Sidhe royals is tricolored irises.  For this look I chose to do Queen Andais whose irises are described as being charcoal, stormy grey and a very pale grey.  Here is the look I came up with:

Smokey Neutral Work Look

Here lately I've been opting for a slightly more dramatic neutral look for work.  My bosses don't really mind when I wear color but I tend to lean more toward neutral colors because our population of patients tends to be older and not everybody is so open to color.  So to be neutral but a tad more dramatic, I've been taking Sugarpill's Bulletproof and adding a touch of that to the outer corners.  I'm planning on doing a video of my "tried and true" long wearing products (most of which are drugstore) because I reach for the same stuff over and over again for work.  Here are some photos the products that I used for this look:

2-1 Daytime to Evening Greens

My boyfriend's brother recently got married and they chose a camo color scheme: them men wore camo vests and the bride's maids wore different shades of green gowns.  I had originally wanted to do AliciaD372's Berry Blast makeup then I remembered the camo theme.

During Mardi Gras, Magnolia Makeup had 50% off all of their green, purple and gold pigments.  I took major advantage of this sale!  I'll hopefully have swatches of everything up eventually.  Anywho, one of the pigments I purchased was Reptile.  Sadly this is already one of the pigments that's on their "last chance" list!!  It's a gorgeous medium, yellow-green with some green and gold flecks of glitter in it.  Green is my favorite color but I can honestly say I don't own any other color like this!  It's so unique, sparkly and pretty and bright and...anyways.  On to the look:

Katniss Everdeen-Girl on Fire-District 12-The Hunger Games Inspired Look

If you've never read these books (I highly recommend them) they are a series of 3 books about a post-apocolyptic world, Panem, which is composed of 12 Districts and the Capitol.  Each district has a different specialty to generate revenue for themselves and ultimately provide luxury for the people of the Capitol.  Anywho, Katniss Everdeen is from District 12 and their specialty is coal mining.

I'm not quite sure if I will take this through all 12 districts (xsparkage has done this on her YouTube channel), but I definitely have looks for other characters in mind.  We will see.  In the book/movie, Katniss is known for being "the girl on fire" which is a reference to her dress (you'll have to read the books or watch the movie to find out why ;) ).  I tried to incorporate both the look and colors of fire as well as smoldering coals (orange, red, yellow, black).  This look also gave me a chance to use my Sugarpill Burning Heart palette!!  I am absolutely in LOVE with this company, from their products to their look (I will post a review/haul/photos later).

There were a few bumps in the road while filming this tutorial.