Spring FOTD Pinks, Lavenders and Raspberries

Here's a springy FOTD look using a Mac Holiday Glamor Daze palette I got for Christmas. It's got some lovely shimmery mauves, taupes, purples and pinks. I used the Sleek Makeup eye primer palette, the frosty pink shade, to anchor this, and Face:

 

• Embryolisse Lait Creme Concentrée
• LaRoche-Posay Primer SPF 50+
• Revlon Colorstay Oily/Combination Foundation in Natural Beige
• Maybelline Fit Me Concealer under eyes
• Dermablend Concealer in Sand on blemishes

Cheeks:

• Sleek Makeup Face Form in Light

Eyes:

• Base: Pink Shimmery Shade from Sleek Eye Primer Palette (top row second from right)
• MAC Fabulousness Smokey Eyes Palette, which contains the shades from left to right: Love Spice (frosty pink), Satin Taupe (frosty taupe with silver shimmer), Taupleless (lustre mauve) Spellcaster (Matte bluish purple black) Black Slip (shimmery plummy black). Love spice on Lid; Satin Taupe in crease. Spellcaster deep in crease and on upper and lower lash line. Black Slip to deepen in crease and along lash line
• Smashbox Eye Tech to Go in Taupe on Brows
• L'Oreal Voluminous Mascara in Carbon Black
• Urban Decay 24/7 Pencils in Rockstar and LSD. LSD is that crazy bright purple. I put it just under the eyes in the center, and rimmed the rest with Rockstar, which is a softer bronzier purple.
• Maybelline Eye Studio Eye Precise black liner pen. Gotta use this for the right finish. My favorite eye liner.

Lips:

Revlon Colorburst Lip Butter in Raspberry Pie - such a fun rich fuchsia shade!

NOTES:

• The Sleek eye primer creased. I have tried the purple one and, unfortunately, it creased after about four hours. This makes it a no-go for me. For my upcoming trip to France, I'm going to depot several of my Make Up For Ever Aqua Eyes shades and some Maybelline Color Tattoos into some Cinema Secrets welled palettes so I have some nice colorful bases for me. What would Paris be with out a dark shimmery smokey eye, I ask you? Answer: Unimaginable.
• I do like the colors in the MAC Palette. I still don't see what's so great about MAC shadows that I should pay fifteen bucks for each one, rather than five to seven bucks for one equally lovely Inglot or Makeup Geek one. Or four bucks for an amazing drugstore palette like Wet n' Wild Color Icon in Comfort Zone. Still, it's pretty and such cute packaging

Thanks for visiting my blog! Please feel free to comment below.

Love, BeautyJones!

 

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FOTD Cool Shimmery Neutrals

Here's a Face Of The Day with some subtle shades of pink, taupe and rose. I used pigments from two amazing indie brands you might want to check out: Darling Girl Cosmetics and Madd Style Cosmetics. Both of these have such magical subtle interesting shades. The colors go way beyond what you'll find at department stores or drugstores. They are reasonable and so much fun. Like many folks, when I'm pressed for time in the morning, I tend not reach for the loose pigments as often as I'd like, but when I reach for these, I'm always rewarded. The colors are inspiring.

Face:

• Jojoba Oil
• Revlon Colorstay for Oily/Combination in Natural Beige
• Cinema Secrets Light Peach Color Corrector under eyes
• Dermablend Concealer in Sand on blemishes
• Rimmel Stay Matte pressed powder in Sand
• All products applied and blended with damp Beauty Blender

Cheeks:

• Sleek Makeup Face Form in Light (contour, highlight and blush in one awesome palette!)

Eyes:

• Too Faced Shadow Insurance in Lemon Drop - Watch out how you apply this! I put it under my eyes today and it got patchy at the edges. Make sure to blend this in!
• Maybelline Color Tattoo in Tough as Taupe on lids between crease and lash line. It went on well over the Too Faced Shadow Insurance. I love this medium taupey brown shade on my skin and I think it will be fun to try under other shades.
• Madd Style Cosmetics pigment in Seedless, a pink with green duochrome shimmer, on lids up to crease
• Madd Style Cosmetics pigment in Honey Rose in crease - this is a warm brown-based pink
• Darling Girl Cosmetics Cute de Grace pigment in Winter Solstice (alas, this was a Limited Edition Collection and it is now sold out). This is a warm burgundy with a little shimmer. I put just a touch at the outer edges of my crease for depth.
• Sleek Makeup Palette Face Form highlight on brow bone
• Maybelline Eye Studio Master Precise black eye liner pen. This is still my favorite! It's much blacker than others I've tried from the drugstore.
• L'Oréal Voluminous Mascara in Carbon Black. This one is starting to get clumpy on me, so I have to brush off a lot of the product onto the tube before I use it, but I still love how well it covers and how blackest black it is!
• Ofra brown brow pencil
• Anastasia clear brow gel

Lips:

• Revlon Just Bitten Balmstain in Darling - a lilac-pink. I thought this would be a nice contrast with the super-warm shimmery blush from that Sleek Face Form palette.

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FOTD Touch O' Teal

I just love going all neutral and then sneaking some color in at the end, and yeah, just a touch of sparkle. Witness today's face. Here are the details.

Face:

• Olay SPF 15 Sensitive Skin
• Revlon Colorstay Oil Free in Natural Beige
• Rimmel Stay Matte Pressed Powder in Sand

Cheeks:

• Sleek Face Form in Light (Contour, Highlight and Blush a la Orgasm in one palette!)

Eyes:

• Primer: MAC Soft Ochre Paint Pot
• All over lids: Mehron Natural Palette, Wheat
• Crease: Mehron Java
• Lash Line: Mehron Black
• Outer V: Java
• Center of Lids: Sleek Glory Palette in District Line (Teal Green)
• Inner Third of Lids: Sleek Glory Palette in Overground (Shimmery Light Camel)
• Eye Liner: Physician's Formula Eye Booster 2-in-1 Lash Boosting Felt Tip Liner
• Tightline: MAC Technakohl Liner in Graphblack
• Eyebrows: Smashbox Brow Tech to Go in Taupe

Lips:

• Neutrogena MoistureSmooth Color Stick in 30 Sweet Watermelon

Sleek i-Divine Glory Palette, Alas, Limited Edition

Let me know how you like this look. Do you also sneak in a bit of color into your wearable day look? Do tell below!

Love, BeautyJones!

Long Time No See

I've been sick and very very busy at work, so that's my excuse. Sorry I've been away for awhile. I'm preparing for a trip to France for two weeks.

Going to Paris and cycling the Loire Valley. Please comment below and let me know what you'd like to see. I'm thinking of doing a simple travelogue, and, of course, in Paris, there will be some makeup and some fashion, because that place is modelopolis twenty-four seven - lots of eye candy everywhere.

Here is a collection of looks from the last two weeks, and some products I hadn't gotten around to photographing, and my little depotted palette of lippies for your viewing enjoyment!

 I've had this Sleek cream base palette for a while and am finally getting around to using it. Thinking of taking it to Paris, but I'll be test driving it first. Planning on putting it over my MAC Soft Ochre paint pot to see if it will crease or not. I love the variety of colors in there!

 On this day I was wearing a cherry-colored cardigan, so I thought I'd pull the blue out of it and onto the center of my lids with some irridescent Naked Cosmetics Twilight action. This Twilight collection has lovely iridescent cool tones. I used the darker periwinkle in this set. These pigments are lovely and I haven't heard enough about them. Go check them out at nakedcosmetics.com.

 This was a burgundy eye look using Naked Cosmetics Urban Rustic collection. I just love using burgundy on my eyelids for a bold look. It's a strong look, and yet takes fewer steps to achieve. This kind of round filling in of the eyelid reminds me of the look of silent film stars. It has some mystery and romance. I did very little else on my face, but I think this would look so cool with a similar lip shade for evening.

 Hooded eyes hide the burgundy when I'm looking at you.

 I love this black velvet jacket. I got it at TJ Maxx a million years ago, but it's going to Paris with me.

 This aqua blue shade on my eyes is also from the Naked Cosmetics Twilight set. It's a warmer blue, slightly dreamy and tropical, but I just use it as a sheer wash here. I'm pretty sure I used the NYX jumbo eye pencil in Milk to get this look.

 And here's a neutral eye look with some warm browns in the crease. These kinds of shades are easy to find, but I must say, I'm still totally in love with my Mehron naturals palette. The shades are so true, matte, pigmented and blendable, and I can do an entire eye look with one brush - my bdellium 776 in the yellow bambu collection, which is a dupe for the MAC 217 brush.

 A warm pink lip shade brings out the warmth of this neutral eye look.

 Here's my Zpalette with all, and I mean ALL of my Revlon Just Bitten Balmstains depotted into it. Each of these little tins is metallic, so you can rearrange the shades to your heart's content. And I used a candle to gently melt the product into the tins, once I'd scraped them gently out of the tubes.

I also mixed together 2/3 Revlon Cherries in the Snow and 1/3 Revlon Fire and Ice for the one in the upper right hand corner. Top Left is Milani's new lipstick in Red Label.

I don't think you can do Paris without a few Red Lip days, do you?

Anyway, thanks for dropping by. Please let me know what you are up to in the comments below, and see you sooner than later, this time, Lovely Peeps!

Love, Beautyjones!

Neutral FOTD with IMATs Stuff

I created this simple elegant look with my new IMATs purchase - the Mehron E.Y.E. palette of eight neutral shades. The subdued cat-eye look uses Make Up Geek's gel eye liner in Mobster, another IMATs buy.

Cheeks - Sleek Face Face Form in Light:

• I love the contour in this palette, which is only slightly warm in tone.
• The blush is a really gold-kissed coral peach which looks a bit crazy bright in the pan, but which blends like a dream with a light touch.
• The highlighter is a bit gold, a bit pink, and very pretty. I love how easy it is to do all three of these steps with this pretty little palette.
• If I lived in the UK, Sleek would be my favorite drugstore brand, by far.

Foundation:

• Neutrogena On-the-Spot Acne Treatment - Ah, spots, will I have you in the old age home? Maybe. But this stuff can definitely reduce you, as long as I use it regularly. It has 2.5 percent benzoil peroxide, which is just enough to dry out the problems areas, but not enough to turn them into a flaky mess. That's what 5 percent would do, so I don't recommend that you use products that have that much.
• LaRoche-Posay Age Defying Primer - I love that this primer has an SPF of 50, and it goes on very smoothly.
• Tarte Maracuja Miracle Foundation in Light: The girl at Sephora said I have golden toned skin, so she recommended this, but I find it's just a touch too yellow. So I mix it with the following product:
• skin79 Triple Function Beblesh Balm in the Orange Packaging: This one is too white for me, so it benefits from mixing it with other products.
• Rimmel Stay Matte Powder in 004 Sandstone: Since I really got into makeup again around this time last year, I have only used a few powders. This one goes on easily and makes my skin matte right away. I got this on a Tanya Burr YouTube recommendation. I do notice I usually need to use it in two coats, probably because I'm using a lot of creamy products for my base.

Eyes:

• This was my first time using the MAC Soft Ochre Paint Pot, and right away, I'm sold! Instant coverage, sets up right away, and made all of the shadows I put on top much more vivid, yet easier to blend.
• Mehron Palette: Natural Wheat all over lid - this is the second lightest shade. White on brow bone and tear duct. Fawn in crease and on outer third of lid. Espresso in the crease to define it more strongly. I used Toffee to blend the crease color up into the brow bone color. This was my first time using this palette, and I have to say, it is fabulous. I had compared this one to the Viseart #1 palette, which is Nikkie Tutorials' favorite, and that one does have more colors, a few more corally neutrals and more grays, but this one was $40, and that one seems to average twice that online, partly because it's a European brand. I love this one. I'll probably buy that Viseart palette in Europe, if I can find it, but this one will probably go with me.
• Makeup Geek Gel LIner in Mobster: I was inspired to use this after watching Continuum on SyFy the night before. What a great show! The lead girl, Rachel Nichols, has these amazing pale blue eyes, and on the show they seem to simply line them with brown all around. So gorgeous on her. If you like Science Fiction, definitely check this show out. So about this liner. I love the consistency. I love the color and pigmentation. But under it eyes, like everything else, it moved around a lot in about two hours, so I am going to have to powder it with a matching shade of eye shadow and see if that helps. That's a bit disappointing, but not a deal breaker. I don't know of any products that don't need to be sealed under the eyes in order to not migrate.

IMATs was amazing, people! I saw so many of my favorite beauty gurus, got to say hi and take pictures! Thanks, Phyrra, Marlena and EleventhGorgeous!

I wasn't ready for how much cool special effects makeup there was to check out at IMATs, and I saw what seemed to be the entire cast of Face Off from all the seasons. Very cool! The Makeup Museum had some pretty darned cool stuff!

So I keep promising myself I'll do a video on my IMATs Haul, so look for that.

Oh, and I also did the Tinker Bell Half Marathon on that same day! So it was kind of a biggie for me. I probably would have bought more at IMATs if I hadn't done that. As it was, I couldn't believe I made it through that MAC line. I would have probably done the same at Sigma, but I was starting to crash.

I really want that Paris Palette, darn it. No, I don't need it, but I want it!

Well, it's raining here in L.A. and spring is coming. I'm going to France in April, and to Paris for the first time since 1998, so get ready for some great stuff!

Cheers, Beauty Fans!

 

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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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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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