The Daily Grind

Day in, day out, my look can best be summarized as...my Default.
I've been doing this thing lately where I actually spend time studying, so I don't linger so much over my makeup...despite using the same shades for about two weeks, there hasn't been much of a decrease in my eyeshadows.
I'll just have to keep using them til they finally disappear!

Homemade Beauty Goodies

Is this an obscene photo?  No indeed, it's my homemade lotion! 
So my dad orders tons of beeswax for his metal working dealies, so I decided it'd be awesome if I nabbed some and tried to make my own beauty goods!
So here are some of the results: two different colored lip balms (which I love incidentally), and a runny lotion.
The lotion was creamy when I made it originally - at home, in a cold environment.  When I brought the bottle back to school however, it became a much more gooey liquidy consistency. 
Conclusion?  Lotion making will require more practice, but lip balm is full of win.  The hyper-moisturizing nature of both of these seem to be working great with my oh-so touchy skin, so I'll probably try to refine my recipe over the summer.

Month of absence

Well I've been missing for quite a while.  Between final projects, exams, health issues, and insane pedestrians, I have just been too stressed to really bother with this.  It will definitely pick up over winter break, but until then, the blog will have to endure my absence.  Oh the horror!

Have a fantastic December everyone!

Teal Dream

 So this Teal Dream pallet from ELF is really nice....I like the blue color, it's kind of glimmery gold and stuff. 
The green is really nice too, but yeah.  This is the most color I've worn in awhile, so I'm kind of nervous about wearing it.

You can see the two tones in this picture here, the green is on the inner have of my eyelid and the blue on the outer half and tried to blend the middle part. 
You can also see my Nyx Diamond Sparkle lipstick in Nude here and it looks great :D  Typically does not look so glossy in real life, but it made for a really nice picture.

So here's my product list for the look:
ELF Eyebrow kit in Dark
ELF Eyeshadow quad in Teal Dream
Lancome eyeliner in Coffee
ELF Shimmer eyeliner in green and teal
Maybelline The Colossal Volum' Express
Nyx Diamond Sparkle lipstick in Nude

Rocker pallet

 This is me wearing my new ELF Rocker pallet eyeshadow (it came in with my Cranberry nailpolish a little while ago, I've been enjoying all the new goodies).
So this is definitely my new favorite pallet.  The purple is such a pretty color and it doesn't end up as some washed out lavender (as I expected).  Of course you can't see the purple in this picture, but yeah.

 So now you can see it here.  I also used the elf shimmer pallet blue shade to overlay the purple today to add a little extra shimmer to it.  Now that you can't see in this picture, but I'm just psyched the purple shows.  I'm usually so mild with my colors.  Ohwells.

So right to left are the colors.  Silver highlighter, a beige-y gold base color (it kind of just blended into the skin color on my hand, sorry about that), then purple, and then the black color.  Shimmery black is good eyeling :) yes it is.







So I scrapped the Avon idea.  I'm really an ELF girl through and through anyways, and I don't have the money to burn to just get an inventory.  Where would I keep it anyways?  My room is packed solid with utter crap.  Ohwells.  No money for me :( 
Emma Frost costume fell through too, but that was kind of a stretch anyways.  Will work on it this break with mom :D mwaha

Avon

Doesn't she look psyched?
Well, next Thursday I'm going to talk to the headperson around here about becoming one of the infamous Avon ladies. 
Do I use Avon products?  Unfortunately no, not so much.  Have I wanted to?  Hell yes.
For the past decade or so I've lived in a pretty rural area where you don't see the catalogues much though so I rarely saw them.  Plus, money's always tight in my family and I really didn't want to bring it up and have me and mom spend all kinds of cash on fun goodies when the house needed repairs.
However!  That is all going to change.  I've been wanting to do this for awhile and hopefully the meeting with the headperson/director person will go well.  I'd really like to do this and get some business practice on a topic I actually know semi-well: Beauty products.
Of course I realize I'll probably spend more than half of the $$ I make on products that will clutter up my already packed dorm room.  Do I care?  Not so much.  They have cool stuff, and now I'll be able to access it much easier than just trying to contact some stranger via phone.
So yes.  I am pretty psyched :D
It also means I may make enough money to offset my  Christmas spending....am hoping to gift myself with a lovely lovely kindle this year :D  Yaaay!

ELF Haul: Shimmer Eyeliner and Eyeliner/Shadow stick

So.  I got my ELF stuff in record time.  BUT I was missing one of my shadow quads and two of my nailpolishes :/  I think they ran out of the Royal Purple shade or something between me ordering it and them sending me my order because they circled it on the reciept and sent me a random Liquid Lipstick.  BUT.  They sent me the wrong nail polish - I ordered Cranberry but they sent Smoky Brown.  Imagine a deep, rich red with some shimmer.  That's what I was supposed to get.  I got nail polish the shade of chocolate milk.  Who wants nails that color?  WHO I ASK???
And I was missing my quad in Rocker.  Dammit.  So I sent in a complaint and hopefully they won't give me too much crap.

Black Bandit, Grassy Green, Boldly Bronzed, Twinkle Teal

Today though, I will be reviewing my Shimmer Eyeliner and the Eyeliner/shadow stick I got.
The Shimmer Eyeliner is SO much better than the eyeliner in their normal line!  It's ridiculous.  The formula is creamy and the color payoff is great!  As you can see from my fuzzy pictures.  Though you can't really tell from them, there's kind of a shimmer to each color, which makes sense.

Glow/Pearl

And this is the one Studio line Eyeliner/Shadow stick I bought.  It's in Pearl/Glow, but I did the eyeshadow on the left as you can see.  Glow is kind of a shimmery pearly pink and pearl is well, pearl.  I think it's going to be a very nice highlighter.  I haven't used highlighters much so I'm trying to get into using them.

There's more to this haul, but I won't be reviewing them all at once.  I was hoping to get my missing items soon, maybe in the next week or so.  Then I can do some swatches of the eyeshadow stuff.
That's all for now then.  Peace :D