FOTD / EOTD: A Smokey Day In the Skies

I am out there, colorful and bold when it comes to my makeup day to day.  I work in a corporate setting, but I wear my makeup the way I want to.  *shrugs*  If I’m cool with it then my boss is cool with it.  No worries.  Here is my FOTD and EOTD…I hope somebody, besides me, likes it.  I call this, “A Smokey Day In the Skies”, which is a bright and smokey blue look.  Hey to all of my baby goth girls out there!  We rock!

FACE PRODUCTS USED
Primer: MAC Prep & Prime
Foundation: MAC Studio Fix Fluid in NC50 and NC45 (mixed with Fix+)
Concealer: MAC Studio Finish Concealer in NW45
Powder: MAC Mineralized Skinfinish in Dark
Highlight: MAC Mineralized Skinfinish in Smooth Merge
Contour: MAC Blush in Blunt
Blush: MAC Blush in Raizin
Brows: Revlon Brow Fantasy pencil in Dark Brown
Lips: Naked Honey Skin Salve

FACE BRUSHES USED
MAC 134
MAC 165
Borghese Angeled Contour
Eco-Tools Duo Fiber Finishing
Sonia Kashuk Brow/Comb
Essence of Beauty Foundation
Eco-Tools Eye Shader (I use it for concealer)

EYE PRODUCTS USED
Primer: Urban Decay Primer Potion
Base: NYX Jumbo Pencil in Milk
E/S Inner: MAC eyeshadow in Haunting
E/S Middle: MAC eyeshadow in Clarity
E/S Outer: MAC eyeshadow in Star by Night
E/S Crease: MAC eyeshadow in Star by Night
Blending: MAC eyeshadow in Saddle
Brow Highlight: MAC eyeshadow in Love Lace
Tear Duct: MAC eyeshadow in Ricepaper
E/L Upper Lash: Urban Decay 24/7 Pencil in Zero
E/L Waterline: MAC Kohl Power Pencil in Feline
Lower Lash Line: MAC eyeshadow in Star by Night
Mascara: Maybelline Lash Stiletto in Very Black

EYE BRUSHES/TOOLS USED
MAC 239
MAC 227
MAC 224
MAC 219
MAC 217
Sonia Kashuk Small Shader
Borghese Lash Curler

That’s it!

Late Posting this CCO Haul

I think I got this haul about six weeks ago! I was very sick and even in the hospital so I haven’t been able to post to any of my blogs. I am feeling quite better and I return to work on Monday. I didn’t feel as excited about going to the CCO, but of course I found stuff to buy anyway. Here is my haul in a bunch.

I picked up a bottle of Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturizing Gel. I’ve been wanting the gel for a minute now and I’m glad I was able to get it. I think I paid about $21 for 4.2 fl. oz. ?? I can’t remember, but it was around that. I have the lotion kind and I really like the gel one better.   All you need is about 1 or 2 pumps for your entire face.  When I feel my face is very dry I use two pumps.

OK and for the goodies, the MAC stuff:

Although I have not really played around with my two new quads yet, I’m SO glad I didn’t bend to the pressure and buy these at full price when they came out.  The green quad (Photo Realism), when I swatch them out, the color pay off is low – wasn’t happy with that, but I haven’t done a look with it yet so I may just love it, but I doubt it.  The neutral quad (Notoreity) is OK and when I compare it with all of my MAC neutral eyeshadows  and I just find that Notoriety’s neutrals are shimmery and I can work with that.  The color pay off is also low-medium and I’m OK with the quad, I just don’t love it.   Whatever quads the CCO has I just buy them by habit and plus I love having quads available to me when I running late for work.

The one palette I was so excited to see at the CCO was Smoke and Mirrors.  Love love love love!  I can see myself just taking this palette with me on vacation and using it for day and night looks.  No need to take anything else unless I want some color and in that case I will just pop in four colors into my empty quad.  Some people were saying they can just go to their Fascinating quad, but I think the two are very different…there are silvers in the Fascinating.  Smoke and Mirrors has all neutrals.  Some shimmery, some matte and stain.

I was also happy to get a Mineralized Skinfish Trio in Smooth Merge because I wanted it when it came out in the Colour Craft collection.  I really like this MSF.  I use it for highlight and overall as a blush.  I don’t think the shimmer is too much in this MSF.  I love it!

Fever blush is a matte and I love love love it.  I have been eyeing this blush at the CCO since three trips ago and I finally bought it.  I think it’s the only red based blush I’ll wear.  It is beautiful!  And not too much for me.  Love!

And then I picked up three eyeshadows.  Can’t leave a CCO without any eyeshadows so I picked up MAC’s Pagan (a hot green color) in the McQueen packaging (RIP Alex), Clarity (a hot blue color) and Flourishing (an army medium green color).  I was thinking about buying Make Up For Ever’s palette and filling it up with bright eyeshadows, but I thought about all of the bright colors the CCO has in MAC so I opt now for those.  I’m not sure I can see myself wearing Clarity, but I’ll see what I can do with it.  I know I will rocking Pagan and Flourishing is such a beautiful beautiful green matte2 eyeshadow.  I’m in love with Flourishing.

And that’s it ya’ll.  I didn’t swatch because my camera wasn’t acting right as usual and I will post prices up once I can find my receipt!  I know everybody wants to know what CCO around the country are charging.

MAC Spring Colour Forecast & Other Stuffs Part III

And lastly in this bunch…

…I picked up some MAC staples which I’ve never had before, but really needed in my personal collection.

I picked up the ever so beautiful Up The Amp lipstick.  I also picked up two permanent eyeshadows in Saddle and in Bronze.

Here is a close up of my Up The Amp lipstick and a swatch.  I saw it on a girl on Specktra.net in an FOTD recently, who said it was her favorite MAC lipstick, whose skin tone was around an NC45 so I immediately added this lipstick to my shopping list.  I’ve seen Up The Amp on other girls, but not on women of color (where have I been?) so I was amazed at how beautiful it looked on her.  Price $14.00

Swatch!

Here are close ups of my eyeshadows (left is Saddle and on right is Bronze) and swatches (top is Bronze and bottom is Saddle).  And I was in desperate need of a blending eyeshadow so I finally picked up Saddle.  I bought Bronze by accident meaning I swatched it and immediatley like it because it caught my eye.  It’s a GREAT all over eyeshadow for when I need to go out in the evening and don’t have time to do my eye look properly. I  also do that with NARS Galapogos too, but that’s another story.  Price: $14.50 each

MAC Spring Colour Forecast & Other Stuffs Part II

And in this bunch…

…I picked up a few things from the MAC Spring Colour Forecast collection.  I got two lipsticks in Radiccio (lustre finish) and Bronzilla (frost finish). Two lipglasses in Gold Dust and Kumquat.  I also picked up Vintage Grape ombre blush.  I didn’t get any of the single eyeshadows or quads because none of them looked unique to me. I went in wanting  Straw Harvest eyeshadow, but when I swatched it it came out more corally pink than orangey pink so I passed!

Here is a close up of my lipsticks (left is Radiccio and right is Bronzilla) and swatches (top is Radiccio and bottom is Bronzilla).  I love both of these lipsticks a lot and they were the only ones I liked from the entire collection. Bronzilla makes a great nude lip for me that gives some sheen to my lips so I’m in love with it.  Radiccio is such a sweet, frosty, pink purple that is so pretty! Price: $14.00 each

I do not know what happened, but I was so mad when I got home.  I was missing a lipglass.  I asked the MA at my counter to get me Lavender Wind lipglass and she did…it just never made it into my bag. Grrrrrrrrrrrr!  I know they are all sold out now so no need to cry over spoiled milk.  I wanted to put Lavedar Wind over Radiccio and Faultlessly, but oh well.

I, however, am not missing my Kamquat and Gold Dust lipglass and I’m happy about that.  I find that these two lipglasses are very pigmented and show their true colors on my lips.  I really love these two lipglasses a lot and they are unlike any other MAC lipglasses I own.

Here are close ups of my lipglasses (left is Gold Dust and on right is Kumquat) and swatches (top is Gold Dust and bottom is Kumquat).  Price: $14.00

Last, but not least, I picked up three blushes and the reason why you only see Vintage Grape in the picture below is because I ended up taking Azalea Blossom because it came out too light on my skin and I guess I’m too dark for it.  I also gave away Ripe Peach, which I totally regret now because it’s sold out everywhere, because it only gave my cheeks sheen.  I have a lot of MSFs that can do the same thing so I dumped it right away.  I should have kept it because the shimmer was light and it probably could have looked nice over another blush (I’ll never know).

I kept my Vintage Grape because it shows up on my skin and it’s beautiful.  It is my first purple blush and I love it.  I’ve been wearing it a lot recently.  It’s really hard to swatch so I didn’t because I find that I have to build up the color to get pay off, but the pay off is well worth it.  Price: $25.00