Sugarpill Electrocutes

I'd been wanting the Sugarpill Electrocute sparkling neon pigments since they came out a year ago but I honestly haven't bought a lot of makeup in that period. I finally gave in and bought all the Electrocutes and the Heart Breaker palette and I'm super excited!

Now, lets be honest: Neon and glitter are tough things to work with and the combination in the Electrocutes is no exception. They're a pain! But since I can't think of anything else with a similar look, I'm willing to work with it ;)

Right now, my biggest problem is that with all the hard work of applying the colors, I still can't seem to get good pictures of it!

Contrasts

I've done variations of this color combination several times. Yellow+Orange eyeshadow and some sort of blue liner.
For some reason , I just really like this combination of contrasting colors and I'm quite happy with the way it turned out this time :)

Grande Lumiere

I used to use my Ben Nye Grande Lumiere palette all the time. Probably because I got it when I was first getting into makeup and wanted everything BRIGHT and SHINY.
Looking at that palette really makes me think about how much my makeup style has changed. I'm still head over heels in love with bright colors and glitter but it seems to be in a very different way.
At least I like to think that there's more attention to the details in the looks that I do now compared to the "one bright color on the lid and another bright color in the crease and I'm done"-type of looks that I used to do.

And so I give you a quick look inspired by the 17-year-old me* with the help of my beloved Ben Nye palette!

And it was all yellow

I didn't get any good full-face pictures but I really wanted to share the eye look anyway.

It's simple, yellow and I think it's a quite nice way to make super bright colors wearable :)

Colorful fun :)

 I've been in such a terrible makeup rut lately. I've done bold lips and black liquid liner a lot and even a couple of basic smokey eyes but that's about as fun as it's been. I've really missed doing bright colors :)

I did feel a bit rusty when doing this, but at least I finished the look, so here you go! ;)

S/S Trend tutorial: Pop Classic

"Better late than never" seems to have become an increasingly popular sentence for me to start my posts with. But it's true, isn't it? :)
In any case, here goes the pictures and tutorial for the Pop Classic summer trend that I wrote about a couple of weeks ago :)

Playing with colors, glitter and lip tars!

Bright colors are awesome!
I finally had the time to play around with some fun makeup today, and this is what I ended up with! :)

FOTD w/ Glamour Doll Eyes' 80s Child

I mostly did this look because I wanted to use some of the colors from the 80s Child collection from Glamour Doll Eyes :)
If you haven't seen them yet, I have swatches of four of the ten colors here.

Dare To Wear!

Brights!

Bright makeup is always fun, isn't it? :D

FOTD: Sunset/rainbow/something fun :)

More NEON! :D

It seems like this is my first post in... Forever?
And it probably is.
I need to get back into blogging daily! :)

I'm not going to be home all weekend though, so it's not looking too good, haha! ;)

MAC Trend S/S '10: Dye-A-Tribe Tutorial

As promised, here's a tutorial for the MAC Dye-A-Tribe trend for spring and summer 2010! :)

Keep reading to see more pictures, the tutorial and list of products used :)

Swatches: Yellow eyeshadows!

I got a request to swatch Suarpill's Buttercupcake next to MAC Chrome Yellow eyeshadow and Primary Yellow pigment.

When I had swatched those three I figured I might as well swatch all of my yellow eyeshadows for good measure! ;)

Another Telephone tutorial: Beyoncé in the Diner Scene

Another Telephone inspired look, but this time it isn't Lady Gaga! It's Beyoncé :)

Keep reading to see tutorial, pictures of Beyoncé, more pictures of the look and a list of products used :)

A fun spring look! :)

I got a request to do a look using yellow, green and teal, so here it is! :)

FOTD: Orange-y look using MAC Spring Colour Forecast

For once, I actually had time to take pictures before work!
Not a lot of time though, so these were all taken in a terrible hurry, haha :)

 

Burning Heart look + tutorial

So, this is actually my very first look using Sugarpill!
Make sure to check out my swatches and review if you haven't :)

 

Keep reading to see tutorial, more pictures and list of products used :)

FOTD

This is just a really quick look that I did before going shopping with my sister :) She needed to return some Christmas presents and I (of course) ended up getting some new makeup which I'll share with you in another post :)

Happy New Year! + NYE makeup

I hope everyone had a great and safe New Year's Eve!

I don't usually get the whole concept of New Year's eve parties though. It's like everyone thinks that that party is going to be the most amazing one of the year, but it rarely turns out to be like that when you have such high expectations.
Sure, NYE is a great opportunity to dress up in way over-the-top glittery clothes and makeup without anyone thinking it's weird, but I wear makeup and clothes like that a lot on normal days as well, haha :)
I think every Friday and Saturday night have the potential to be just as good a party as NYE could ever be and I wish people would remember that, 'cus that would mean a lot more great parties throughout the year! ;)

That being said, I did have a great time! I spent the night with three of my lovely coworkers from MAC :) We had some great food and a lot of great things to drink, and we had an awesome little party all by ourselves, haha! Even though it wasn't a huge party, it was one of the best New Year's eves I've ever had :)

And with all the rambling aside, here is my NYE makeup!
I was in a hurry when I took these pictures, so they're not the best, but I hope you'll like them anyway :)