ColourPop Lippie Stix Swatches and Easter MOTD

Happy Easter, Lovelies! I realize it’s not until tomorrow, but my family and I are celebrating tonight. In fact, I was able to make a special call to the Easter Bunny to make sure he was able to make an early trip! Thankfully he was willing to oblige. Before the festivities begin, I wanted to show you a quick and easy makeup look I’ve been loving. It’s simple, heavy on the lashes, and requires very few products. Have a look!





I always feel ridiculous posting pictures of myself. Anyway, here are the products used:



Face:

-Covergirl’s “Ready, Set, Gorgeous” Foundation

-Maybelline’s “Age Rewind” Concealer

-Corn Starch (not pictured/used as setting powder)

Cheeks:

-Urban Decay’s Original Naked Flushed Face Palette (blush only)

-Too Faced Candlelight Glow Highlighter (applied to tops of cheekbones and center of face)

Eyes:

-Urban Decay’s Original Flushed Face Palette (bronzer used in crease)

-Too Faced “Perfect Black” Eyeliner (used on upper waterline only)

-L’Oreal Voluminous Butterfly Mascara (whoops! Looks like I forgot to put this in the photo..)

Brows:

-Benefit’s Gimme Brow in “Light/Medium”

Lips:

-ColourPop’s Lippie Duo in “Westie”

There you have it! A quick, ten minute face.

So…I placed yet another ColourPop order. I bought a few more of their Lippie Stix and pencils because I obviously have a problem. As you can tell from my moniker, I am admittedly addicted to makeup. But hey, you can’t beat the price! Plus, some of their new, Spring shades were just too pretty to pass up. I tried to take individual pictures of each shade, but the lighting was just not working in my favor. I do plan on doing a lip swatch post of them in the future. That is, if you’re interested. Let me know! Here is my collection thus far:







Lippie Stix swatches from left to right: Lumiere, Pepper, Frida, Westie, Button, I Heart This, Monkey, Bound



Lippie Pencil swatches from left to right: Lumiere, Pepper, Frida, Westie, I Heart This, Monkey, Bound

I’ve had half of these for a while, and have been a big fan of all the shades! My current favorites of the bunch are Lumiere, Westie, and Bound. They’re just fantastic, every-day colors.

Thanks for stopping by, and have a great Easter weekend!

Stay weird!

-Rachel



This little kiddo is about to get spoiled by the infamous bunny…

Creepy Ventriloquist Dummy Tutorial

Halloween is just around the corner, and I know that sexy costumes are all the rage these days.  Sexy doctor, sexy fireman, sexy nurse…you name it!  The only problem is, they have all been done before.  I mean, talk about unoriginal!  Ladies, have I got you covered because I can guarantee you that nobody has ever tried to dress up as a sexy ventriloquist dummy!  Ha!  You’ll be the talk of the party, for sure!  You can thank me after this quick tutorial…

1. Make your face GHOST white.  This was not hard for me to achieve.

Oooh!  So hot already!

2. Apply light blue eyeshadow on your lids, blending out through the crease.  Then, make a rounded shape with your eyes using black eyeliner.  Leave a space between the lower eyelashes.  Fill in the negative space with white, including the lower water line.

Sultry!

3. Fill in your eyebrows, unnaturally, using a brown liquid liner.  Round the front of the brow and taper to a point.

Ow ow!!

4. Carve out your nose, cheeks (especially apples), and smile lines using grey eyeshadow.  Also, shade around your temple, hairline, and jaw using the same shadow.  Apply a pink blush in a circle on the apples of your cheeks.

I can feel the other girls getting jealous…

5. Create a creepy sultry over-drawn pout with red lip liner. 

6. Lastly, add your finishing touches!  This includes your freckles, fake hair, and moveable jaw lines. Simply ravishing!  Good luck fighting the fellas off with this getup!  Anyway, I said you could thank me after the tutorial…so, you’re welcome.

I actually used to have a dummy when I was a kid.  I went through a weird stage (one of many) where I wanted to be a ventriloquist.  My parents got me Lester, the dummy, for Christmas one year and I practiced with him every night.  I was actually getting pretty decent at my act until this one fateful day when I read a certain Goosebumps book called Night of the Living Dummy.

It was about a kid who found a dummy that came alive at night and tried to kill him and his family.  Fantastic reading material for a 10-year-old.  Well, after that…Lester had to go.  I couldn’t handle his creepy gaze from atop my bookshelf any longer!  R.I.P, Lester.  I was such a strange child…

Well, anyway, I hope you found this tutorial useful.  Psh, who am I kidding?  You’re going to love this costume!  Happy Halloween, sexy mamas!

Stay weird!

-Rachel

4-Year-Old Makeup Artist

I had the idea today to let my 4-year-old do my makeup.  He loves art and is always trying to get his hands on all the colorful things in my collection.  Little did I know, I had been raising a tiny prodigy.  His work is more on the editorial/runway side of the spectrum rather than the commercial side.  He chose to do a bold, blue eye paired with an autumn berry lip.  So vogue.

I feel these pictures do not do the finished look justice, but at least you have a little glimpse of his masterpiece.

I was lucky enough to get my picture taken with the artist afterwards.  I’m honored and humbled that he took the time to pose with me.  He is a busy, busy little man, after all.

I did get the whole process on video.  So if you’d like to watch the art unfold, then click the link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YyjGMiFsIc

Warning:  WORST video quality EVER.  Sorry.

Enjoy!

Naked Basics 2 Review

Do you ever have those makeup days when you’re like, “Oh!  Hey there, me!  You’re looking quite snazzy today!”  And every time you catch a glimpse of yourself in the mirror, you give yourself a little flirty wink?  Well, today was one of those days.

*Side note!*  A small fly literally just flew in my shorts a minute ago, and I had to stop writing and do a frantic dance to try and get him out.  I never actually saw him fly out, so he might still be hanging around.  If that doesn’t make you lose your train of thought, I don’t know what will!  I digress….

ANYWAY, yes, I was pleased with my makeup today.  Would you like to see it?  Great!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The makeup isn’t anything special, but I loved how it turned out.  I used a mixture of the Lorac Pro Palette 2 (because I’m obsessed) and the Naked Basics 2 Palette.  Apparently I was feeling the “2’s” today.  This brings us to my next portion of this post. 

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The Naked Basics 2 Review!

I do have to say, I wasn’t as pleased with this palette as I’d hoped I would be.  I’ll get into that more in a minute.  Let’s take a loat some pictures first.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Colors from left to right: Skimp, Stark, Frisk, Cover, Primal, Undone

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My first instinct is to rant about the things I dislike about this product, but I’m going to try and channel my inner Pollyanna and begin with the positives.  I do enjoy the colors.  That’s….yep, that’s about it.  I love that they’re matte, I love that they’re on the cooler spectrum of the color scale, and I love the dark gray instead of a black.

Whew!  That was a stretch for me, because I was pretty disappointed in it.  The eyeshadows create a lot of fall out and are slightly difficult to blend.  It takes more work than I’d like to create an eye look that I’m satisfied with.  Also, take a look at my swatches.  Go ahead, I’ll wait….  Did you see how “skippy” they are?  Before I swatched them, I applied an eyeshadow primer and allowed it to set.  Even still, I had to go over each color multiple times to get a half-way pigmented and even swatch. 

I was quite shocked at my own opinion of this product, because Urban can usually do no wrong in my eyes.  They just missed the boat/goal/whateverthecorrectphraseis this time around.

 

Goodnight, my fellow Awkward Annies!

Stay weird!

-Rachel