Ok, it's raining again today! I swear I'm getting really tired of this. It's been raining non stop since last Monday here. I feel kinda depressed in general and the rain is not helping.

We saw the movie Hangover last night finally and I loved it. It was pretty funny so that helped lift my spirit a little bit. I also made some yummy Mexican soup and spicy quesadillas (sp?) so I'm excited for my lunch. How was everyone's weekend?

I experimented with my Steel Blue pigment after re-discovering it during my swatching session yesterday. It looks gorgeous over a dark blue base. I'm mad you can't see the gold glitters in it, stupid rain! Damn you rain!

Face
Same as usual
Nars Deep Throat blush

Eyes
Cashflow p/p - base for lid
Dark blue colour from Mehron Paradise AQ - base for crease
OCC Auric loose pigment - lid
Steel Blue p/m - crease
Freshwater e/s - above crease
Your Ladyship p/m - highlight
Creme de Miel e/s - tear duct
UD Baked 24/7 liner - lower lashline
Lise Watier Marin liner - to line

Lips
3N l/s
Live n Dye l/g - wow, I'm really low on this! I should have got a backup :/

So here we are with part 2 of my makeup collection, which also happens to be my favourite part, Eye products! This will include all my eyeshadows, pigments, eyeliners and bases. Again please let me know if you have any question about any of the products.

Below is a quad I've made of the colours I use frequently as highlight, plus my white eyeshadow:

Top row - left to right: Solar White, Creme de Miel
Bottom row - left to right: Blanc Type, Gesso

My blue/teal MAC palette:

Top row: Cliamte Blue, Clarity, Freshwater, Tilt
Middle row: Prussian, Blue Flame, Jewel Blue, Cool Heat, Aquadisiac
Bottom row: Plumage, Gulf Stream

My green/gold palette:

Top row: Humid, Mink n Sable
Middle Row: Lime, Biogreen, Amber Lights
Bottom Row: Warm Chill, lusterleaf, Gorgeous Gold, Bright Sunshine, Goldmine

My purple/gray/pink palette:

Top row: Stars n Rockets, Illegal Cargo, Posion Pen, Top Hat, Graphology
Middle row: Post Haste, Copperplate, Smut, Beauty Marked
Bottom row: Sunset B, Silverthorn, Smoke n Diamonds, Mothbrown, Print

My "warm" palette:

top row: All that Glitters, Satin Taupe, Cork, Bronze, Embark
Middle row: Evening Aura, Cranberry, Star Violet, Coppering
Bottom row: Sweet Lust (I hate this one!), d'Bohemia, Expensive Pink, Mythology

My MUFE palette and a single eyeshadow (I could take this out of it's pot, and ended up denting the surface, I'm sad)

Top row: No.39, No.2, No.5 and single eyeshadow No. 49
Bottom row: No.26, No.9, No.92

My random single colours:

Top row: BB Pink Bronze, NYX Black, NYX Antique Gold
Bottom row: Pupa purple, Lancome Silver

My mix palettes:

Too Faced, Lancome, Elizabeth Arden and an old Dior one

Pigments 1:

Lark About, Platinum, Vanilla, Your Ladyship, Blonde's Gold

Pigments 2:

Top row: Smoke Signal, Heritage Rouge, Violet, Pink Pearl
Bottom row: Rose, Tan, Melon

Pigments 3: Greens and Blue

Top row: Emerald Green, Chartreuse, Pastoral, half jar of Blue Brown
Bottom row: Deep Blue Green, Mutiny, Clear Sky Blue

Half Jar and big sample (1 tbs) pigments:

names on jars, not pictured: Blue Brown

Lot of sample pigments and glitters, too lazy to name all, but the big jar is my half siz of Blue Brown.


MAC paints, paintpots and one chromaline:

Tope row: Pure White chromaline, Painterly, Fresco Rose
Middle row: Delft, Greenstroke, Artifact
Bottom row: Stilife paint, Bare Canvas paint, Cashflow

Mix bases:

NYX Jumbo Pencils in Purple, Pots n Pans, Horse Radish, Sky Blue, Rust and my Mehron Aqua Tropical palette

Gel eyeliners:

Stila Black and Bronze Smudge Pots, MAC Delphic f/l and Clinic Smokey Gray gel liner

Pencil liners:

I don't want to name these ones. But I already have in this post and included swatches as well

woohooo, done with this part! Lip products coming up this weekend!

I remembered that I hadn't used my beloved Mehron Tropical palette for a while. So I decided to use the red colour as the base for my Beauty Marked today. Here's a look I came up with:

Face
Same as usual
Stark Naked bbp
Pearl Blossom bp

Eyes
Mehron Tropical Palette (red colour) base for lid colour
Painterly p/p - base for red of eye
Beauty Marked e/s
Star Violet e/s
Solar White e/s
Stila Black Smudge Pot
Gosh Funky Violet e/l

Lips
Please Me l/s
She Loves Candy l/g





don't know why I look so pale when I take pics w/o flash

Ok, so I'm on a row with my warm colours. I think the wonderfully cold and -26 deg weather we're having these days is making me want to wear warm toned makeup. I also used my Mehron Palette again today. It's the first time I'm using it under eyeshadows as opposed to pigments and there's still no creasing. I'm so going back after x-mas to get the Pastel Palette! Oh, and I'm not too happy with the blending above the crease, but I kinda got lost admiring the colours and then was running late for work so I just left it as is!

Face
Same as usual
Eversun bpb - to contour
Alpha Girl bp as blush

Eyes
Mehron Tropical Palette - mango and red colours
Goldmine e/s
Amber lights e/s
Cranberry e/s
Embark e/s
Melon p/m
Solar White e/s
UD 24/7 liner in Baked

Lips
Strange Hybrid l/s

I've been having a lil bit of a rough week. First the stupid burn I got and after that, I caught the flue. I spent the entire yesterday in bed with all the annoying signes of cold; earache, headache, sore throat....:(

But I'm a little bit better today so I decided to do a review of my beloved Mehron Palette. I got the Tropical Palette from a stage makeup/clown store here in Ottawa. I start with the swatches:

top to bottom: dark blue, red, yellow and grass green

Top to bottom: lime green, gray (i don't know why this photographed blue :/), deep purple and a salmon colour.

I'm in love! Thes colours are all water activated and I've been using my fingers (wet) to apply them to my lid as a base for my eyeshadows and pigments. There is a tiny brush provided in the palette but I haven't used it yet. These colours definitely make your eyeshadows pop! I'm in love with the purple, red and the two greens. One advice I would give is to definitely let these dry once you applied them before packing on the eyeshadow/pigment. If they dry properly, they make an awesome base for even the dullest colours and do not crease (well, at least not on me). The one thing you want to be careful is not to wear these if it's raining outside. The same way they're activated with water, they're also de-activated with water and will start to run.

I'm extremly hppy with these though. The palette was about $45 Canadian which will make each colour about $7. I think this is an awesome price compared to MAC coloured bases (paints, paint pots, shade sticks). I still love my MAC but the Mehron Palettes are great products for those who love colour as they come in a great rainbow of shades. I'm already thinking about getting the Pastel palette as well :)