Geek Faerie

After seeing the Maleficent movie last night I was inspired to do a work appropriate face of the day (FOTD). What I used: Urban Decay Naked 2  palette eye shadows in Snakebite, Suspect, and Blackout Julep Eyes All A Glow gel liner in Black Shimmer L'Oreal Miss Manga mascara MAC Venomous Villains Maleficent blush in Briar Rose Rimmel Lasting Finish by Kate Moss lipstick in 10 MAC Venomous Villains Maleficent lipglass in Revenge Is Sweet How to apply: Start by applying your moisturizer, primer, and foundation.  Sweep Suspect across your entire eye lid.  Pat Snakebite on the outer 2/3 of your eye lid.  Pat Blackout on the order corner of your eyelid.  With an angled liner brush press Blackout along the outer 2/3 of your lash line.  Apply a thin line of  Black Shimmer onto the outer 2/3 of your lash line.  Sweep Miss Manga on your lashes with a few extra sweeps to your outer lashes.  Dust the apples of your cheeks with Briar Rose....

I've recovered from my pink eyes but I'm still being overly cautious, no eye makeup and glasses this week.  In keeping with my bold lip trend I have another for you all.  Bare Escentuals Pretty Amazing Lip Color in Ambition, a full on punch of pink to knock away these winter doldrums. Just what the doctor order for cabin fever!

Since I've been recovering from pink eyes, yes eyes plural, I've been hiding my lack of eye makeup behind bold lip colors. Today I lined and filled my lips in with Urban Decay's Gash liner and topped it with Butter London's Come To Bed Red lippie. Very bold for casual Friday don't you think?

Don't you love it when you stumble across an awesome little well priced find.  I do!  A few months ago I hauled some fabulous items from Ulta and among them were these little gems.

I shared a few of these pix last week from my Nordstrom haul and I am IN LOVE!  An entire collection devoted to those that wear glasses.  How can I not be head over heels for this? Aren't these lovely?  A mix of matte, sparkle, metallic, and shimmer wash shadows.  Perfect for any eye color and just the right amount of color for eye glass wearers.  Above is the Limited Edition Bronze eye palette.  The second shelf slides out to reveal the 4 shadows.  When closed up this palette is purse and travel friendly.  Bonus!  And this is the lovely Limited Edition Sand Palette.  Each palette is designed for your skin tone.  The Bronze palette is perfect for medium to dark skin tones.  The Sand palette is perfect for light to medium skin tones.  Both palettes can be used for work or play, sheered on or dark and smokey, you're choice!

Most would pass on this shade at first glance.  I understand, it's a tube of white lipstick, who would wear white lipstick?  But what you don't see is the potential blank canvas that it actually is.  Just a bit on your lips gives the lack of pigmentation to let a layered on gloss stand out.  Think about it, most glosses get lost on lips based on your level of color.  But with a white nude shade like Naturally Eccentric you can give that gloss what it deserves, the ability to stand alone as well as some hang 10 time.  Of course you could wear it by itself, but why would you?  Go crazy and start layering your gloss on top and see where that takes you.

I'll admit I was hesitant to wear this shade to work.  In the tube it reminded me of MAC's Violetta, which is an amplified color (and when I say amplified I mean surround sound base thumping loud).  If Violetta is the hard rocking bad girl then Bust Out is her more demure and quiet sister.  Don't get me wrong she still packs quite a color punch but in a wearable shade that won't have your boss putting on his sunglasses when he comes to talk to you.  The color was rich with full coverage that also could be blotted down to a lighter shade.  I found for touch ups I could just tap the lipstick on my lips and then press them together to distribute.  If you're tired of red and pink every week, toss in a day with Bust Out!  I promise you won't be disappointed.

Hot Mama Monday spotlights one item that I feel is a must have in your beauty bag.  If you only pick up one item this week have it be a Hot Mama item! I am loving this color so much.  It is vibrant and a perfect pop of color on my lips.  The formula is creamy, rich and feels soft when I press my lips together.  The downside is it does transfer to everything that even brushes against your lips.  While enjoying my hotpocket for lunch every bite resulted in Hibiscus all over it not matter how hard I tried to avoid it.  It's like these sorts of lipsticks just want to be all over everything.  I also noticed the barest hint of bleeding, but it was so very minute that only a microscope will pick it up.  I did like that Hibiscus left a nice stain behind on my lips.  I probably could have gone all day without a touch up but I did my usual lunch time ritual any way.  It still packed quite a punch despite fading to a stain.

I love MAC's satin finish lipsticks the most.  Imagine a cloud in lipstick form, now imagine said lipstick cloud came in a rich color with smooth application and a non-drying finish.  Make that color Mocha and you have this lipstick.  Not too dark, nor too light, Mocha is the right shade of brown for summer.

Hot Mama Monday is a new series that spotlights one item that I feel is a must have in your beauty bag.  If you only pick up one item this week have it be a Hot Mama item! NARS Fire Down Below Lipstick is the perfect shade of red.  No blues, no oranges, just beautiful blood red lips.