30-Day Makeup Challenge Day 3 - Glitter

This is how I show my glitter, Baby!

Busted out my Chanel Illusion d'Ombre on the lids, which is frankly, some pretty astounding stuff. My shade is called Épatant, and I looked it up, and, loosely translated, in English, it means, 'Awesomeballs.' Seriously.

This shade is silvery, and has lots of superfine glitter, and sticks very well, and has this spongey texture. I guess all of these Illusions d'Ombre have that. The color at first looks silvery gray, but it also has a bit of cool blue and green in there, which is very refined. It just does not disappoint.

I put some NYX glitter cream palette glitter over the top, which did flake off a tiny bit, but most of it stayed very well. I used the red gold and yellow gold glitter colors, just in the middle of my eyelids.

Considering how glitter is usually considered way too glam to work for day, I'm super-pleased with how today's glitter challenge went. I even got compliments on the look from coworkers.

Here are the other products I used to get this look:

skin79 Triple Function BB Cream, Orange - too light, so I add some Dr. Jart BB Cream in super medium dark.

Sleek makeup Face Form in Light - this is all you need for the cheeks - highlight, Nars Orgasm dupe blush, and neutral contour.

Revlon Just Bitten Kissable Balmstain Endlessly Named in Honey - love this stuff, but really, brevity is the soul of wit, people. Edit your product names, wontcha?

Maybelline Super Plushy Plush Mascara - this does clump a bunch now that I've had it a while and it's setting up a bit.

StarLooks December Palette. I used the matte burgundy shade, middle row, second from the left, in the crease.

So I'm having fun with this challenge. Tomorrow, smoky eye look. Okee dokee!

Love, BeautyJones

 

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Random Weekly Faces

Here are a few looks from this and last week, including todays simple classic look with a neutral eye, cherry glossy lip and winged out eyeliner.

I used It Bye Bye Under-Eye with Embryolisse Lait Creme Concentrée for foundation, a neat trick I learned from Wayne Goss's latest video. Check out Goss Makeup Artist on Youtube for more of his really helpful tips. Bit of a focus problem on these. Sorry. :(

For this eye I used my Tarte We Wish You Wealth palette, and I'm sorry, I don't know the shade names. You can't get this palette anymore, but on the lid it was a pinky shade with a bluish shimmer. Top row left on the lid. Bottom row second from right in crease. Second from top row second from left on tear duct. I love love love this palette, and I'm sorry because you can't get it. Every shadow except the medium and dark brown seems to be a duochrome. So subtle, though. This palette has some really nice glosses in it, too.

My skin is a mess. Stress? Hormones? Who knows. Yeesh.

This is Urban Decay Naked Palette Toasted on top of a whole bunch of matte neutrals from the Pixi Soft Focus Fresh on my lids. I love that bronzey taupey shimmer. This big palette has so many fun pretty neutrals. I love the gloss, and the blushes, too. Here's a picture of it.

Here's another of my faces from this week. Lots of fun neutrals from the Sedona Lace 28 Neutral palette. Kind of a fifties look with the winged liner and rosy cheeks. I love a minky brown shade on the crease like this!

And finally, here's a Burgundy eye look based on Maybelline Color Tattoo Pomegranate Punk. Yay for smokey eyes!

 

 

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Backlog, and Catch-Up Time!

Today, I wanted to try a matte neutral eye with a black cat-eye liner look, and some bright coral lipstick, so here's what I used. I have a bunch of photos from last week and Monday, so I'm going to do some quick FOTD posts to get up to date. Gonna work my way backwards.

Face:

• Embryolisse Lait Creme Concentrée
• MUFE HD Primer
• Tarte Maracuja Foundation in Light mixed with
• skin79 Orange Triple Function BB Cream
• Revlon Photo Finish pressed powder

Cheeks:

• Sleek Face Form palette in Light

Eyes:

• Urban Decay Primer Potion Original
• Sedona Lace Neutral 28 Palette (see my photo with my fab made-up names above!) Muslin from lash line to browbone, Po in crease and along lash line; Coco on outer third of lid; Lazarus in the middle third; Citrine on inner third
• Eyebrows: Anastasia Eyebrow Express kit
• Maybelline Eye Studio Line Precise eye liner pen
• Clinique High Impact Mascara in black
• Under eyes: Cinema Secrets light peach concealer
• Laura Mercier Concealer in SC-3
• Tarte Smooth Operator loose powder

 

Lips:

• Revlon Just Bitten Balmstain in Rendezvous

So, tomorrow, an all purple eye shadow look? What do you think of all this O faithful Beauty Fans? Please comment below and let me know.

 

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Tarte Carried Away Palette First Look!

Thought I'd try out the Tarte Carried Away palette today. The result was a stronger look than any I did this week. I wore this with a bright red blouse and the reddest of the Maracuja glosses that came in the kit.

I put Georgia Peach all over the lid from crease to brow, then did a gradient from inner to outer edge of the lid: Tuscan Sun on the inner third, Coral Reef in the middle third, then Acai Jungle on the outer third, and in the crease, blended up into Georgia Peach on the browbone.

Was a touch disappointed with the pigmentation of the Coral Reef shade. It looked so bright and pretty in the pan, but took some building to get impact on my eye. Maybe it's better wet, or over a base cream like the NYX jumbo eye pencil in Milk. Acai Jungle had a bit of green in it, which was a surprise, and it made for a more strong, makeup artisty type look. I think that Acai Jungle has a color shift from brownish burgundy to deep forest green. Definitely psyched to try more of these quads, so thanks to my sister Mary for getting me this awesome kit!

What do you think?

The rest of the products were pretty much the same things I used on the rest of the looks this week. The Tarte Maracuja foundation in light is still shockingly yellow to me, but just a touch of my skin79 BB cream lightens it enough to match my skin better.

Didn't have time to do my brows. Eek! My bangs hid it, mostly.

The Maracuja red gloss wore off within an hour, so I put on my new L'Oréal Colour Caresse Wet Shine Stain in Endless Red. Have you tried these yet? I really like these! They go on wet, and once they set, they feel kind of like gelatin, lots of staying power, but they feel emollient. I think there's some alcohol in there, which evaporates and leaves that long-wearing soft slick feeling stuff. Once even that wears away, there's a stain left on your lips. Really interesting product, not like anything I've tried. Go check them out! I have the Lilac one, the Caramel one, the Red, and the the Coral.

Doing the Tinker Bell Half Marathon in ten days, People!

Hope you had a nice Thursday!

Love, BeautyJones

 

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Loreal Infallible Endless Pearl Eyes FOTD

I had some CVS coupons, so on the recommendation of several YouTubers, thought I'd try the L'Oreal Infallible Eyeshadows. Got Endless Pearl and Amber Rush, since these were pretty close to Maybelline Color Tattoo shades I'd failed to score because some other more obsessed shopper had got there first.

I wonder, are drugstore makeup marketers aware of how some products become cult objects and get snapped up at CVS right on the Friday they go onto shelves? Target has had lots of success publicizing this kind of thing with their own designer capsule collections. I still feel like many folks I know don't know how amazing certain drugstore products can be. I think, down the road, I'll do a post listing my favorites. Hmmm.

Anyway, also thought I'd check out that nice brown shade from my MAC runway Spring Forecast palette. It's cool, and it blends pretty nicely with a synthetic concealer brush. I used a bdellium one I got at The Makeup Show LA.

I'm going to IMATS weekend after next on January 19th. If you're coming, too, comment below.

So here's what I used for this FOTD

Face:

• Anthelios Primer with Sunscreen - Got this because I was worried I needed more coverage now that the sun's out again here in LA.
• skin79 Orange BB Cream mixed with Dr. Jart BB cream to get my shade. Gotta go back to the Hot Pink version of skin79's BB cream. I actually liked that it started out gray and oxidized to match my skin tone. The orange one is way too light for me, and ends up looking, I don't know, a little Crypt Keeper? by the end of the day. The Dr. Jart helps tone down the whiteness, but this is a stopgap for now.
• Applied BB cream mixture with a moistened Beauty Blender. It really does leave the smoothest finish
• Milani Stay Matte pressed powder in Sandstorm
• Concealer under eye: Cinema Secrets light peach shade sealed with Tarte Smooth Operator -- this stuff works very well and doesn't look cakey! This was from my Tarte Carried Away kit, which I got for Christmas - Yay! I'll be buying a full sized one when this runs out.

Eyes:

• Lids: L'Oréal Infallible in Endless Pearl
• Crease: MAC Runway Spring Forecast 2013 palette, the bottom one, a nice warm brown cream shadow
• Lash lines: Same shade from above MAC palette
• Milani brow pen in blonde on eyebrows
• Maybelline Eye Studio felt-tipped liquid liner on upper lashline
• NYX Slide-On Pencil in Tropical Green tightlined on top lashline, and over liquid liner to make that mutha green!

Cheeks:

• Tarte Amazonian Clay blush in Adventurous

Lips:

• Tarte Maracuja gloss in Jena. Ugh--when companies give their products girl's names, I just cringe. Do you feel the same way? Comment below. Anyway, this gloss has a gentle minty feel, and the colors are so gorgeous. This one's a kind of pinkish terra cotta that is like a Your Lips But Better for me. It seems to last a few hours, which is pretty long for a gloss.

Hope you enjoy, Beauty Fans!

 

 

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FOTD Navy Smoky Eye

I really liked the jumbo crayon tight lined yesterday, here is a navy version with some rich bronzed neutrals. Complete list of products below!

Face:

Vichy Age Defying Primer
skin79 Orange Triple Function Beblesh Balm mixed with
Tarte Miracle Maracuja Miracle Foundation in Warm Beige
Milani Stay Matte Pressed Powder in Sandstorm

Eyes:

Maybelline Color Tattoo Cream Shadow in Bad to the Bronze on lids to crease and under eyes
Sephora Jumbo Liner 12HR Wear Waterproof in Marine tight lined on upper and lower waterlines, and sealed with navy shade from Sleek i-Divine Matte v.2 Palette
Sleek Face Form in Light, the contour shade in the crease
Concealer: Light Peach from Cinema Secrets, sealed with Tarte Smooth Operator Finishing Powder

Cheeks:

Sleek Face Form in Light, blush, highlighter and contour
Lips:
17 from Boots Lip Gloss from the Be Bronzed Kit

October Favorites, A Bit Tardy

Hello, there, Beauty Fans!

Here's a video I finally got around to editing last night.

Writing a novel in one month is no joke, let me tell you, but that's what I decided to do when I took up the challenge of NaNoWriMo. NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month, and it's really fun to finally be hitting this lifetime list item! 1667 words per day, people! For a month! I'm doing it, and I think it's altering the pathways in my brain because I really feel different. For more info on this amazing process and how you can be a part of it, click here.

Enjoy my October Favorites!

Happy Thanksgiving Week! Do you think this video upload is a little late? Well, since I probably need to film my November Favorites like next week, pretty much, yeah. Oh, well!

Love, BeautyJones

Neutrals and a Strong Brow Bring out my Eyes

This morning, I used the Nuance Medium Blonde
Brow Pencil to really emphasize my brows

 Heavy dramatic brows, carefully sculpted, seem to really make my green eyes pop.

I started the look with Make Up Forever's Aqua Color in 13, a shimmery pale peach all over the lids. I used this as a base. It anchors powders very well, but creams, not so much. The concealer I put in the inner corners of my eyes creased a bit.

I kind of went to town with my Sedona Lace 28 Neutral palette, a palette full of subtle neutrals.

• Lids: Make Up Forever Aqua Cream in 13
• Outer half of lids: Sofia, which has some shimmer
• Crease: Po
• Lash Line: Fresco
• Crease, center to the edge: Fresco
• Lower Lash Line: Fresco
• Browbone: Puck (it's got a goldy-green shimmer!)
• Black liner gel from Tarte We Wish You Wealth palette pushed into lash line
• Smashbox Full Exposure Mascara

 Face:

• Embryolisse Lait Créme Concentrée moisturizer
• Olay Wrinkle and Line Filler as primer
• 2 BB Creams mixed together: skin79 Triple Function Orange and Missha BB Cream in Beige
• Concealer: It Cosmetics Bye-Bye Under Eye, and Cinema Secrets light peach concealer

Cheeks:

• Palest and brightest of the 4 Tarte cheek stains in my We Wish You Wealth palette 

Tarte We Wish You Wealth Cheek Stains, Lippies, Eye Base, Liners and Highlighter

Lips:

• Revlon Just Bitten Balmstain in Cherish

What do you think? Do you do strong brows sometimes? How do you like it?

Cheers!

<3BeautyJones

Tinkerbell Halloween

Had some fun on Halloween as Tinker Bell. Got a costume at Ozzie Dots in Los Feliz (Hollywood Blvd. just east of Vermont, north side of the street) in no time because they are so organized and well set up for Halloween.

Used my Anastasia brow stencils to do an eyebrow with teal and green colors from my Wet n' Wild party palette and my Crown Brush 180 palette.

Put on my blue-spotted feathery eyelashes. The eye look overall was gold and teal blended carefully into the crease with a neutral matte faun brown shade. The lip was Revlon Just Bitten Balm Stain in Honey with some highlighter from my NYX "butt" naked palette, the pinky-white shade.

Used Skindinavia's fix spray to keep the whole thing lasting all day long!

The best thing was talking to the kids during trick or treating. They were so cute. It felt like really being Tinker Bell!

Happy Halloween!

:)BeautyJones