Purple Lashtastrophe

I tried my Sleek Drama Eyes purple mascara and it was so goopy! I tried to declump a bit with Anastasia Lash Genius, bit it didn't really fix the issue. Oh, well.

Check out this purple eye look done with my depotted Phyician's Formula Shimmer Strip Pop for Green eyes. These shades are lots of fun. I used my purple Eyeko eye liner pen, which is great at helping me make quick, clean defined cat eye flick. I also used the Urban Decay 24/7 pencil in Psychedelic Sister to tight line the upper lash line. Monochromatic all the way!

How do you wear purple eye shadow?

 

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Dr. Brandt BB Cream with Flexitone from NewBeaty Testtube - SUCCESS!

So much better without that pilling. Now I like this BB Cream!

 I had to try this fancy BB Cream again, and this time it worked.

See more in my Results section below.

For the Epic Fail Moment I had yesterday by layering this BB Cream over a night cream...argh, pilly face...see yesterday's Epic Fail Post by scrolling down and looking on the right.

Here's what I used for these looks:

Face:

•  Skyn Iceland Soothing Eye Pen from my BeautyBar Sample Society March Box
• Neutrogena On-the-Spot Acne Cream
• Embryolisse  Lait Creme Concenté
• Dr. Brandt BB Cream
• Under Eyes and around nose: Dermablend concealer in Sand

Cheeks:

• What, no NYX? I changed it up with: La Femme Blush in Coral Spice
• No contour, because the deeper shade of the BB Cream was dark enough, I thought.

Revlon Persian Melon Moondrops Lipstick...love this color

 Unfortunately, I think adding any gloss to the Revlon Persian Melon makes it dissolve within minutes, even with the Too Faced Lip Insurance. I have yet to try just the lipstick with the primer.  Maybe today. The gloss I used to top it here is Vincent Longo in Cherros, which is a gorgeous magenta shade with a great not too sticky consistency.

See how the Persian Melon and the Cherros are almost gone later?

Not my best hair day. I blame the chlorine from the pool swim. 
I need to find some products to help with this.

Eyes:

• Urban Decay Primer Potion
• Maybelline Color Tattoo Cream Eye Shadow in Pomegranate Punk on lid to crease
• Physician's Formula Shimmer Strips Pop Green Eyes the middle purple on outer edge of lids
• Physician's Formula Shimmer Strips Pop Green Eyes the right-hand purple defining crease
• NYC Purple Eye Shadow on Lash line
• Smashbox Glitter Cream Eye Liner Palette the black shade along lash line above and one third the way from the outside on lower lash line 
• Blended the whole thing together with highlighting shade from my old Pixi palette, which I depotted into my Unii white palette. It's a soft peach pink with some multi-colored glimmer

on Left in white Unii Palette—Physician's formula Shimmer Strip Green Pop Colors. I used the light purple towards the top and the deeper purple toward the middle on my eyes. I also used that deep violet pan on the right, which is an NYC shade. And above the brightest pink in this picture is the soft peachy highlighter from my old Pixi Palette, which I used to blend the whole eye look together.

Lips:

• Too Faced Lip Insurance
• Revlon Moon Drops Lipstick in Persian Melon
• Vincent Longo Gloss in Cherros

Results:

•  The Dr. Brandt BB Cream did start to have those weird red and brown streaks in it as I applied it, but when I buffed it in, it smoothed out.  This has to be that Flexitone stuff in action, and the final tone was a bit darker than my skin, which you can see in the blue-tinged office shots above, if you compare my pale pale chest with my face. This will be great by summer.
• Seems like the Revlon Moon Drops formula dissolves slowly if you apply a gloss over the top, so not doing that no more.
• Need a real conditioning treatment to help me deal with that evil chlorinated pool water. Any suggestions?  Comment below.
• All that purple manages to look neutral on me. But I think it also brings out the dark circles under my eyes.  But I love purple! Boo!

Cheers, and Happy Friday to all!

:)BeautyJones

Quick FOTD - Physician's Formula Shimmer Strips for Green Eyes

Physician's Formula Shimmer Strips for Green eyes in white Unii Palette on Left

Sunset in Pasadena, and some nice 80s pastels on my face

 Saturday night we were going out, and I'd finished my Tangerine Tango week, so I thought I'd go pastel and blue on the eyes for some fun. Again, one of my missions is to banish the notion that women over forty can't wear bright colors, or glimmery shimmery ones. You lose enough when you get older, so why should you have to give up all of those pretty shades?

The teal blue in my crease matched my shirt--which is supposed to be another makeup no-no.  Have I mentioned I like breaking rules? This shade set off the rosy pinks from my Inglot Rainbow hue #119R, which I used as a base all over my lids. It is a highly pigmented trio of pinks, and for all that, amazingly wearable. It brightens up the eyes.

Cool tones work well together, and play against the warm shades in my skin and hair

 On my lips I used Revlon Colorburst Lip Butter in Pink truffle, which is a nice Your Lips But Better shade on me, but in the cool range. I was experiencing warm shade fatigue from all that Tangerine!

Pasadena is lovely. Nice Weather. Great friends.

My blush was Precious Plum La Femme powder blush. I still adore all the shades of these I have! This is a cool lavender-ish pink, which played well with all the other cool pastel shades.

To mess with the rules a bit more and, let's be honest, because I hadn't cleaned the brush since my last use, I picked the green shade from my Smashbox Cream Liner palette, and finished the eyes off with black mascara.

Happy Saturday out in Pasadena!

Face of the Day with OCC Lip Tar

Who says mature faces can't wear color?

Face:

• Embyolisse Lait Creme Concentre'
• Skin79 Super Beblesh Balm

Eyes

• Urban Decay Primer Potion on upper and lower lids
• Inglot Rainbow shadow, 119R lightest shade on lids up to brow bone, and medium pink shade in crease
• Physician's formula Eyestrips for Green Eyes, Eyepop, the lavender gray shade along lashes
• Inglot Rainbow shadow 120R, darkest charcoal matte shade along lash line
• Michael Marcus concealer wheel mixed shades on dark areas on inner tear duct area and under eyes
• MAC graphic pencil in black along upper lash line and tightlined on upper lids
• Stila waterproof mascara
• Anastasia brow wiz in Ashe Blonde

Cheeks

• Center pink blush color and Contour from Stila palette bought at Costco--sorry-don't know names of shades!

Lips

• Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Lip Tar in Memento
• Gloss it up with Revlon Colorburst Lip Butter in Tutti Frutti (Hello Pantone's Tangerine Tango!)

Depotting Adventure with Unii Cosmetics Palettes

Unii Cosmetic palettes are beautiful, solid, packable, and come in pretty resin colors with a bit of sparkle.

When you travel, if you're like me you want to bring along the most fun makeup options so you can change it up, say from day to night, or from warm and tropical to cool and overcast, but with all of these little palettes and compacts, it's hard. They take up too much room, you have to dig in your bag to find what you want. With Unii palettes you can organize what you have, and swap pieces an and out as needed.

I got my sisters and Mom one Unii palette each for Christmas. I told them about depotting and how to do it.  I even did a little demo. Every palette also comes with instructions on this, and Unii's site has instructions, and there are many videos on Youtube showing how to do it. The other ladies in my family opted to go to Aveda and MAC and buy new refills, which you can pop in without attaching the magnetic strips.

For my first palette, I used the flatiron technique to depot 2 Loreal quads, a Cinema Secrets blush, and a Clinique brow shadow pan. Then I bought an Aveda bronzer.

This time around I thought I'd try Goss Makeup Artist's oven technique.  For non-brits, start with your oven at 220 degrees F.  Cover a cookie tray with aluminum foil. You don't have to pop out the inner plastic casing as you do with the flatiron method. Just put your pieces in for about 5-6 minutes.

Steps:

1. Before putting the makeup in the oven, set up your work area with the following: Xacto blade, 90% rubbing alcohol and makeup pads, q-tips for fine work, small clean white towel with one nice smooth side
2. Lay your white towel flat with smooth side up.
3. Pop the pans out of the container using the Xacto blade as a lever--be careful and patient
4. Lay each pan of makeup product-side down on the smooth towel, soak a pad in the rubbing alcohol, and gently scrub the back and sides of the pan until all, and I do mean all of the glue is gone.
5. You can use the Xacto to scrape off stubborn bits of glue, but clean it off again before using it as a lever to pop out more pans.
6. Once your pans are clean, use a scissors to cut magnetic strips the size of your pans, and stick them on the back.  If you need to know the color/brand of your makeup for future replacement, you an use a fine sharpie to write that info on the magnetic strip, but wait for it do dry completely so when you pop it into your palette it won't stain the bottom of it.
7. Voila--your makeup is exactly where you want it, and you are Master of the Universe!

Some tips:

• Work fast and pull the pans out of their compacts right away.  The glue will harden and stiffen again as it cools
• While using an Xacto blade to get in between the metal pan and the plastic housing, be patient and careful about this.  It's easy to make a boo-boo and then that blade is scraping at your precious product, flaking it away
• It's OK to be pushing your product into the towel a bit as you scrub off the glue--this means your product will be pushed in their even more firmly than before, which you want, since you may now be packing it to go places.
• Don't try this with paper-based palettes, as I did with my Pixi palette. The paper gets pulpy and doesn't come off, and it's a mess.
• Some makeup is domed and thicker than others, like the little blue, black and white Sephora trio I depotted.  At first it may hit the mirror on the top of the Unii palette a bit.  But it just fits.  Be careful you stay within the height spec of these palettes so you don't have any accidents.
• The oven method works best with big long pans like the Physician's formula Green Pop eyes strip I depotted here, and the Bobbi Brown Shimmer Brick. The shimmer brick was also thick and tall, but it fit with a bit of room to spare into the Unii palette.
• Without the oven method I never could have depotted the tiny little pans in that Lancome gift with purchase palette, so I'm glad I discovered this technique--Thanks, Wayne Goss!
• Depotting lots of makeup at once from different kinds of packaging may take you longer than you think, so set aside some time.
• You may need to pop your makeup back in the oven if you take too long and the glue re-dries.
• It can be messy, but it's fun, and the result is worth it.  Check out my photos.

That's it, Thanks for reading, now go have fun!