CCO Mini Haul!

Today I went antique shopping with my mom, her friend, and sister. I have heard that there was a Cosmetics Company Store around where the antique shop was - so I looked it up & we went there as well!

Me being broke, I only got 2 things & my total was $28.62.

For people who don't know - CCO sells high-end brand name makeup / skincare for less. It also has some limited edition products that the actual store may not have anymore!

I got:

Mac Venomous Villains Carbon Eyeshadow - $11

Bobbi Brown Creamy Concealer in ivory - $15.50

As most of you may know, the Mac Venomous Villains was a limited edition thingy they had going on.. and they still have some of the collection! They also had the Hello Kitty Mac Palette and some of the Wonder Woman collection - and some of the collection with the shell on the eyeshadows & powders? I'm not sure what that collections called. Oh wells! 

Carbon is still available at Mac - just not the Venomous Villains one (same color - just different packaging). It's a matte black color :) I'm not too sure how much these cost when they sold them at Mac - but I looked them up on EBay & they were going anywhere from $17-25!

Moving on - I also got the Bobbi Brown Creamy Concealer in Ivory - which they do still sell at Bobbi Brown. I paid $15.50 for mine & in the actual Bobbi Brown store they are $22. So I got a little bit of a discount :)

I can't wait to try this! Hopefully they work good.

I'm really 5, not 21.

A couple of weeks ago, I went to Target and I was in need of some new shampoo. I don't really like to splurge on shampoos just because I don't want to spend my whole paycheck on hair products! So I was looking, and i've already tried all the other brands - and I stumbled upon this wonderfullllll kids shampoo! It's the Suave 3-n-1 Shampoo, Body Wash, and Conditioner! I got the Wacky Melon kind & it smells just like Hubba Bubba bubblegum! I got it mainly because it was less than $3, and it smelt good of course!

( Why am I using all of these exclamation points?! )

 I've been using it for the past couple of weeks, and my hair is extremely soft?! -- From a kids shampoo! I'm not sure if it was just the shampoo, because if you've read my previous blog entries - I've also been using the Palmer's Protein Pack Mask as well - but that's only every or every other week. 

But my hair feels really soft & smells delicious - my boyfriend even compliments on how my hair smells. Plus you can also use this as a body wash?! Woohoo! Less money spending for meeee! This bottle is HUGE too - it's 22.5 fl oz! It also has a fun fact on the back - 

"A lizard uses its tongue to smell by sticking it in the air to catch different scents, and then pulling it back into it's mouth!"

Yay for fun facts! .. I like them at least. I like reading them when I bathe. Bahaha, I'm a loser, I know.

I want to get all of the kids products now & try them!

HALLOWEEN TUTORIAL: Sugar Skull !

I am just going crazy with all these Halloween looks! I can't help myself. I'll probably end up heading to Party City after Halloween to get all the Halloween makeup for 50-75% off! :) Anywayyy - I wanted to do a Sugar Skull because I love them & think they are neat! However, I didn't do all the artwork on my face like the normal sugar skulls have because it would look horrible if I would have. So I just made a simple, yet pretty one.

  

Here is what you'll need:

Brushes - Foundation brush, Eyeliner Brushes, Blush Brush, and an Eye Crease (or shadow) Brush

Nyx Jumbo Eye Pencil in Black Bean

Halloween Cream Makeup in White & Black ($.97 at Wal-Mart)

Jesse's Girl Eye Dust in Antique Green

my own Thirtyonewest Eyeshadow in Octopus Ink

Lime Crime Lipstick in Great Pink Planet

1.) Apply the White Cream Makeup all over your face with your Foundation Brush. You at least have to do two layers of this - maybe even three.

2.) Draw an outline with your eyeliner brush of the eye sockets around your eyes (including your eyebrows) with the Black Cream Makeup and then fill them in.

* You may want to start out drawing the sockets at the eyebrows - it's easier that way.

 Ahh, my face looks so fat here! Bahaha.

3.) Next, we're going to draw our nose! Using your eyeliner brush & Black Cream Makeup - draw half circles on each side of the front of your nose (does that even make sense?!). It's okay if it isn't even or is sloppy. Mine was very sloppy & uneven. Just dab some white on your finger and go over the uneven black marks.

4.) Color in your nose!

5.) I did my lips next. Some may want to wait and do this at the end -- but I wanted to do them now because I didn't want to have horrific looking ashy white lips for the rest of my pictures :)

Using your Lime Crime lipstick in Great Pink Planet - apply it to your lips (duh). Add a few coats to make it very vibrant so it'll stand out (& last longer).

Next, with your eyeliner brush, draw lines going out of the corners of your lips. After doing that - add little lines vertically through the horizontal line. Do this to your lips as well.

6.) We're going to contour our cheeks with black eyeshadow! I used the black eyeshadow out of my collection (Thirtyonewest) called Octopus Ink. Take your Blush Brush & start out at your ear and go down like 1-1.5 inch. Blend this well.

7.) Next, take the other end of your eyeliner brush & dab it into your White Cream Makeup like this:

& go around inside the corners of the black sockets you made.

8.) Do the same thing with the outer part of the sockets with the Black Cream Makeup.

9.) Now, using your Eye Crease Brush (or Eyeshadow brush) use the Jesse's Girl Eye Dust and pat (Yes, PAT - no blending or rubbing!) the green dust all over the inner corner of your eyelid.

After doing that, last thing you'll need to do is use your Nyx Black Bean Eye Pencil & apply it as eyeliner at your waterline.

Finished! :)

You like?! 

I chose the antique green eye dust for the eyeshadow because - they're sockets. So there not suppose to be all bright and pretty. I just wanted to add a darker shadow on the inner corner to make it a bit prettier & glittery.

That's all for today. Adios fellerzzz!

Want a good hair conditioning mask?

I've got the answer! And it's...

 Palmer's Coconut Oil Formula - Deep Conditioning Protein Pack !

A little background history on my hair:

I use to have extremely long hair - and only used a quarter size amount of conditioner when washing. A few months ago I decided to chop off all my hair - and now I use no conditioner. I feel like it makes my hair greasy. So I just shampoo. 

After washing my hair with shampoo, I applied this mask. I left this on my hair for about 3 minutes (it says 10-20 minutes on the back - but I don't even take baths for that long!) and washed it out. It made my hair feel extremely soft - especially since I don't condition my hair regularly. My hair feels this soft for about a couple of days after using as well! This does leave your hair smelling like coconuts, obviously. I don't really care for the smell of coconut scented things, so I don't really care for that too much - but if you like coconuts - you'll love it!

My hair has been feeling really soft lately - and I'm not sure if it's just from this conditioning mask or from the new shampoo I got as well? Hm! I guess I'll have to experiment.

On the front of the packaging it says 'Restores and replenishes dry, damaged hair'.

 This contains Pure Coconut Oil, Coconut Milk, and Vitamin E.

I purchased this at Target for $1.24 (they may have it cheaper at Wal-mart - I'm not sure). I thought this item was a one time use thing - so when I first used it - I used a TON of it at once. So I got a total of 3 uses of this product - when I could have really gotten 4 uses out of it. You're suppose to use this every week or every other week - not daily. 

I haven't really tried any high-end masks - just because when I have extra money to spend - I don't really sit and think 'Hm, I'd really like to spend $25 on this hair mask'. Lol. So I normally just get cheap shampoo, body wash, and masks from Wal-mart and Target. But for only $1.24 - this product works great.

REVIEW: Thirtyonewest Eyeshadows & Blushes

I have added a whole ton of new stuff to my cosmetics line since the last post I did about my Thirtyonewest cosmetics. I have a total of 19 eyeshadows now & 5 blushes (soon to be 7 - I've just been lazy and haven't uploaded the other 2 yet!).  I wanted to show you a few photos of some of my new eyeshadows & blushes - as well as a few ways on how to wear them!

First up - I have a mini Fall collection - which includes: Naked Study, Cranberry Sauce, and Pumpkin Spice!
Here are the swatches of those colors:

^ Naked Study ^

 ^ Pumpkin Spice ^

 ^ Cranberry Sauce ^

I really really love these colors - and i'm not just saying that because I made them lol. When I wear these, I will wear Naked Study in the inner corner of my eyelid & either Pumpkin Spice or Cranberry Sauce on the outer edge of my eye! You could actually wear all three at the same time - like Naked Study in the tear duct part of the eye (inner corner <- my definition), Pumpkin Spice in the middle of the eyelid, and Cranberry Sauce on the outer corner of the eye.

These colors look great for fall, and will go with a lot. I actually wore my Cranberry Sauce when I was picking up a few things from Mac Cosmetics - and the makeup artist there complimented my eyeshadow! I wanted to be like, 'Oh, thanks. I made it myself!' - but I didn't want to sound cocky or conceded. :P haha. So I just said thanks :)

Another color I really like to mix - or I should say - wear with Cranberry Sauce is Two of Hearts. Two of Hearts is a bright pinkish red color. It's a really unique color - and I love it! I like to wear this color on my cheeks as well - and yes, I did a blush of this as well! The only difference between the blush & the eyeshadow is that the blush has 3 more ingredients in it than the eyeshadow. I added Kaolin Clay, Silica, & Kosher Rice Powder to the blushes.

Here's Two of Hearts :

I also have 2 more eyeshadows that I have converted to blushes as well which are: Babydoll & Queen Bee.

Queen Bee is a pastel peachy orange color. I normally do not wear peachy/orange coral colored blushes - but I do wear this one! I love the color of this one - it reminds me of creamsicles.

Babydoll is one of my new  favorite blushes! It's of course - a babydoll pink color. It's very shimmery as well - so it can be worn as a highlight too! I wear this one mostly everyday that I do wear blush. My friend purchased one of these from me, and she loved it ! Here's what she said:

 Yayyy!! I marked out her last name for privacy reasons :)

She also purchased the Birthday Suit blush:

 This is a very nude shimmery blush. This can also be worn as a finishing powder if you have a beige colored skin tone. I know this because my friend (the one in the text above) is the one who wears it like that. She told me she wears it as a finish & wears Babydoll on her cheeks.

I have a ton of more products that I need to review that are new - but I just do not have time to do it all! :(
So I will just be posting pictures of all the others - and if you'd like me to review them in the future - please let me know & I will gladly do so! :) I will probably end up doing tutorials with these shadows as well in the future anyway.

This really has nothing to do with reviewing my products - but I am currently working on moving my cosmetics to my own Big Cartel site :D I just feel like it will do better if I move them away from my vintage/handmade items because I feel like my Etsy is cluttered with randomness and I hate it. So I'm currently getting someone to design me a banner for my new site & what not, and hopefully here shortly, I will have my own site for my cosmetics :)

Here are some other new eyeshadows I've created:

 ^ Hocus Pocus ^

Swatch:

 ^ Silver Lining ^

Swatch:

& my other blushes :

 ^ Bubblegum Thief ^

^ Pink Dust ^

* Pink Dust is more of a highlighter than a blush. It's very shimmery/glittery & has a pinky coral tint to it. 

I hope you enjoy all of these new products! :) I haven't listed all of my blushes in my shop yet - so if you're interested in a product that I do not have listed, just shoot me an e-mail or comment below & let me know! :)

Zelda: Twilight Princess - Midna Inspired Eyeshadow Tutorial

On a roll again with this 2 blogs in 1 day! Woohoo! Anyway, I'm off work today & got bored and decided to do a Halloween makeup look. I want to paint my face or do some kind of crazy makeup for Halloween & go out - so I was just testing a few that I'd like to do! If you've read my other blog posts, you know that I loooove Zelda! So I googled a bunch of the Zelda characters & tried to find one that had makeup on that I could try to mock. I came across Midna from Twilight Princess & decided on her!

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^ Midna, of course.

Here's the products you'll need:

Elf Cream Eyeliner in Black ($3)

Beauty Rush Wet/Dry Eyeshadow in Plum Crazy ($7)

Maybelline Line Stiletto in Black ($6-7)

Neutrogena Makeup Remover Wipes ($5)

& eyeliner brushes & an eyeshadow brush!

* The only reason you'll need the makeup wipes is for mess ups - which I happen to make a lot of.

Okay..

1.) You'll need to cover your whole eyelid in the Plum Crazy eyeshadow. Go all over & up to the beginning of the eyebrow. Be sure to get up high in the inner corner of your eyelid too! -- Sorry, I don't know the correct eye terms :P

2.) Get your gel liner & draw an outline of a really high winged eyeliner look.

You'll be making it go a little higher than the outline - but that's what the liquid liner is for :)

3.) Fill in the outline with your gel liner.

4.) Starting at the outter corner of your eye (be sure to connect the top wing to the bottom line) - go along the bottom of your waterline with the gel liner.

^ My oh my, I'm so horrible at giving directions! I hope this makes sense :/

5.) Fill in your eyebrow with the gel liner.

Don't mind my overly hairy brows. I know I need to trim them, okay? lol

6.)Touch up the rough edges with your liquid liner. You'll also want to go in the corner of your eye with the liquid liner. Also, draw the eyebrow down a bit with the liquid liner. Extend the wing of your outer gel eyeliner just a little farther as well!
Make your drawn in eyebrow a bit thicker than your normal eyebrow.

Finished! 

You like? I hope so! Sorry I only took one-eye pictures. I got lazy and only ended up doing just one eyeball just to test it out lol. Lazy bones, I know!

Also, this look will look better with some mascara. I just didn't add any because I knew I'd be wiping it right off as soon as I did this post. The only kind of mascara I have is a high-end mascara & I don't want to waste it :P 

I'm not too sure why I put my blog name on all of the pictures? Like everyone is going to steal them or something haha. I'm sure people would love to take my hairy eyebrow pictures. I guess I did it out of habit from where I do it on my Tumblr. Oh wells! 

That's all for today! I hope you all (whomever may be reading) liked this post!

REVIEW: Maybelline Baby Lips!

Before I start, I'd just like to say, that I am just going to be using this blog for reviews & etc! I've decided it's just too stupid to start a whole other blog dedicated to just reviews & what not. And partly because I wanted it to be the same URL as this one :P haha. I couldn't think of another one that I really liked. But yeah, hopefully I'll be posting on here way more than I have been.

Anyway, onward with the review:

 There are 6 total colors (well, Baby Lips) but I only purchased 2 to see how I liked them. I got the Peach Kiss - which is a nude/peachy color & Quenched - which is a sheer lip balm.

Quenched:

I really like this one. It's good to wear alone or on top of your favorite lipsticks! It also smells great - like Fruity Pebbles! :) It makes your lips feel soft & smooth.

Peach Kiss:

I haven't really used this one too much. It smells good as well - I like wearing this one just alone. It's barely even tinted - so it's kind of a sheer nude-ish color.

I got these at Wal-mart for $2.97 each. I think at drugstores they cost about $1 more each. I really like these! On the back of the packaging (which I would post if I still had) it has a study of different percentages of how it made peoples lips feel after 4 weeks of use & such stuff as that. Maybe my lips will feel 'renewed' in 4 weeks? Who knows! Guess we'll see.

But I would recommend these -- esp. if you're like me & love wearing lipsticks! These would look great and make your lips feel good when wearing lipsticks as well. Of course, if you wear the tinted ones over lipstick - wear it with the matching (or somewhat matching) color!