Sigma Mrs. Bunny Travel Collection Video

For my first ever beauty blog video I filmed my opening of this lovely brush collection, which I've come to rely upon quite heavily on all of my summer travels. Not only are these brushes adorable with their pale pink ferrules and powder blue handles, but they are high quality synthetic softness, usable with cream and powder products.

Please forgive my face frighteningly clean of makeup, and my hair, which is a total sick day bedhead bonanza.

Enjoy!

Joe Fresh New Neutrals Palette: Pics and Video with Swatches

A few days ago I was in NYC on business and came upon a Joe Fresh store. This Canadian retailer hasn't made it to L.A. yet, so I had to check it out. I had been seeing their makeup displays on beauty blogs and admired the design.

The clothes are reasonable, and come in lots of bright colors, which look great in the clean white retail space. It's got an early Gap feel, but feels modern and young. I love the rainbow of polo shirts and shorts on white mannequins in the display windows.

I bought me a black tank top with little matte sequins for $24. Score!

And this palette. Ain't it purrty? I love the caramel and chocolate glosses with the bright pinky-coral blush shade. The eye shadows look matte at first but have just a tiny bit of shimmer. I really love the highlighter, which fills a void in my makeup collection. After watching Lisa Eldridge's latest video on face contouring, I'm very excited about what it can do, but I didn't have a nice creamy highlighter like this!

If I was doing a weekend away at the beach, I could see bringing this face palette and very little else.

Here are the rest of my closeups of the palette, and a little video in which I swatch it. Please forgive the poor quality--I was using my iPad to record so that I could edit it in iMovie for iPad and upload it from there. Trying to work out how to travel light and still blog and vlog on my London/Rome trip in August. Traveling light is so important for me or I get very cranky lugging all that stuff around. More on this as the trip gets closer.

What do you think of this palette? What are your bare bones summer beach essentials?

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Happy Summer!

:)BeautyJones

Perry the Platypus Mani for Phineas and Ferb

Working on a special event for this show!

Shameless plug: Watch Phineas and Ferb on Disney Channel.

Products used:
• Butter London Slapper
• Spoiled bright yellow
• Milani Nail Art Orange - great little striper brushes in these
• Seche Vite Quick Dry Top Coat

The Value of Good Service

As a result of an internet outage at my house, I'm way behind on my blogging, YouTube video uploads, and blog surfing.

Remember when companies actually had good service? Apparently that time has passed for AT&T Local Phone Service and Earthlink. So has my time as their customer for home phone (who needs that anyway?) and DSL (since we are now switching to cable modem service, we don't need phone service). Note to big corporations. Stop wheeling and dealing and get you some customer service. Laissez-faire economics and capitalism means we have choices. The customer is always right. So long suckaz!

Turns out this is actually a pretty appropriate post for the week of Independence Day. Let me, everyone I know and love, and all of you lovely readers be free of the tyranny of bad business practices and companies that don't care about the customer experience.

Here are the products I used for my 4th of July manicure. Pictures, too!

I love my Julep America. It's so pretty and the stars are so cool. I also love the Nicole for OPI Kardasshian Courtney needs a Pedi red I used in this mani. It's so candy-like. Kind of jelly-ish and a bit sheer. But yummy with the 3 coats I gave it. I also adore the OPI designer color I used for the navy blue. It's like a soft sparkly paint you could maybe get on your Schwinn Stingray bike back in the 70s. And lots of folks have been admiring the Milani gold glitter polish I put on the end of the white.

Hope you enjoy!

I say long live competition and anti-trust laws. May we start enforcing them better soon in this country. Like, for instance, maybe individual companies shouldn't own local phone lines, since that is like water and other utilities, and is more of a public service.

God Bless America!

:)BeautyJones

July 4th Manicure and FOTD

Products to follow. Happy 4th, everybody!

<3BeautyJones

FOTD Darling Girl Cosmetics

Take that, phone company that cut off my Internet for no earthly reason, leaving me without WiFi for the holiday! I can blog from my phone, suckazz!


Face:

Embryolisse Lait-Creme Concentree
Skyn Iceland Eye Pen
Skin79 Hot Pink Super+ Beblesh Balm
Dermablend Concealer in Sand
Bare Escentuals Bare Minerals Mineral Veil to seal BB Cream
Bare Escentuals Bisque to seal concealer under eyes

Cheeks:

NYX "butt naked" palette, pink highlighter, and contour under cheekbones at temples and around forehead

Eyes:

UDPP
Darling Girl Watercolor Pot in Sunrise from lash line to brow
LA Splash eye shadow base/sealer along lash line
Darling Girl Comet in cat-eye shape along lash line
NYX slide on pencil in Sunrise Blue

Lips:

Darling Girl Cosmetics Holographic Gloss in Fenix

I love Darling Girl!

:)BeautyJones

Swatch Sunday: Crown Brush Palette Panel #2

Here's panel number 2 of my Crown Brush mega 180-shadow palette.

I love the color scheme of this one, even if the shades are mostly tough to wear. I think it will be fun to play with them and see which ones play well together.

I got very un-excited about using letters and numbers to name the shades like I did with panel #1, so I took a header and decided to name the shades myself. Here's what I came up with:

As you'll see, not all of these swatch like a dream. There is not a lot of consistency here. Goldenrod and Happy Birthday are very intensely pigmented, whereas Eos is much brighter in the pan than on the skin.

I mentioned last time how I think the bottom row with the speckles is kind of a cheat. But I do like Rattler, Orange Comet and Blacktop, so I kind of have to take that back.

What do you think? I think these are really fun! I'm going to try leaning on the neutrals and adding pops of the bright colors.

Let me know what you think, or even suggest a look, and if it sound neat, I'll try it, photograph and post it on this blog!

Cheers!

:)BeautyJones