Stargirl's World

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

More pix from Mondays NOTD

Sooo, I tried to get some better pix of Monday's NOTD.

I was sad for you because you didn't get to see the awesomeness of my glittery blue nails. So, I tried taking some more. These are all w/o flash:

Monday, March 16, 2009

For this NOTD, all I really did was add WnW Wild Orchid over my existing nail color (Claire's Rocker Blue). This is two coats of Wild Orchid, a glittery purple. The photos don't pick up the glitter that well. My nails look like the night sky or something. Except a little brighter. It looks pretty cool.

FOTD: Sunday March 15 2009

Products used:
Covergirl Advanced Radiance Pressed Powder in Classic Beige
Avon True Color Blush in Earthen Rose
Estee Lauder All Day Lipstick in Starlit Pink
ELF Plumping Lip Glaze in Ruby Kiss
Rimmel Extra Super Lash Mascara in Black
ELF Brightening Eye Color in Drama (only sparkly black)
Jesse's Girl Color My World Shadow in Volcanic

Very simple. I swirled a fluffy brush through the JG Volcanic and swept it all over my lid. Turned into a lovely iridescent pink! (forgive the brows). Then I lined my lower lash with the sparkly black shadow from ELF Drama

Applied the Estee Lauder lipstick and then used the red side of the ELF gloss. WOWZA! Talk about bright!

Then, of course, I camwhored.

Eye Primer

I don't own Urban Decay Primer Potion or Two-Faced Shadow Insurance. It's a bit to pricey for me right now. I use Mary Kary Signature Eye Primer. Sometimes I use a cream shadow. Well, on Saturday night, I used both. How did it hold up? This is after 8 hours.

Open eye:

I see some minor creasing.

Not as good at UDPP or TFSI, but good enough for now.

What do I think? If you can afford it, get those pricey primers, because they work amazingly well, however, this is after 8 hours! I think that MK did pretty well for herself, for the price. (I got it on e-bay for $5.)

Sunday, March 15, 2009

NOTD: Saturday March 14 2009

For the manicure today, I picked blue, because it is the boyfriend's favorite color and it was his birthday.

Okay, the pic says "Rocker Blue by Icing" but it is really by Claire's. Po-tay-to Po-tah-to. Same thing

Without flash

With flash

(Also, he thought it was a really cool color.)

FOTD: Saturday March 14 2009

On Saturday, Kevin and I went out to sushi with a bunch of friends for Kevin's birthday! Happy 22! Also, it was Pi day. I guess we would've gotten pie for desert, but they didn't have any. :-) Anyway, here is the makeup I did for the evening. Trying to do a tutorial here, so I took pictures as I did my makeup. Pic heavy!

Before I started taking photos, I had applied Mary Kay Signature Eye Primer and ELF Cream Shadow in Berry Mix (the lighter one) all over my lids.

Apply the HiP Crayon along the lower lash line (not terribly sure why I chose to do this first)

Using ELF eyeshadow in Drama, pick up some of the light gray. I'm using an "Eye Contour" brush from Face Secrets, carried at Sally Beauty Supply.

Apply all over lid

Pick up some of the sparkly black. I'm using a small eyeshadow brush (unknown brand)

Apply to the outer 1/2 of lid

Looks like this (sorry for blurriness)

Blend. Should look like this. You can make the outer 1/2 darker if you like, just pick up more of the sparkly black and blend it in.

Using the same black, with an angled eyeshadow brush:

Apply over the HiP Crayon liner

Looks like this:

On second thought, I decided to do the same to the upper lid. Lined in with the HiP liner and applied the ELF sparkly black shadow over top of that.

So far:

Next, apply mascara. I'm using Jane Max Lash² in Black

First, use the white side, the primer:

When that dries, do two coats of the black side.

Finished eye look:

Next: highlight and bronzer

Apply the highlight along your cheek bones (in this it is the lighter two shades, I run the brush through both colors)

Next, apply the bronzer (darker two shades) to the hollows of your cheek. You can find this by sucking in your cheeks (which I'm doing, but you can't really tell).