tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56736166448407065522024-02-07T02:57:06.853-05:00holding beautyA beauty blog by a small-town girl with an adoration of all things beauty. Makeup, nail polish, hair.Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837626189597652245noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673616644840706552.post-33559137737799797612013-02-19T14:19:00.002-05:002013-02-19T14:19:34.217-05:00Roaring 20sI've been away for a while again, but things have been hectic with school! A little announcement: I got into a law school! I am officially going back to school in September to become a lawyer!<br />
But anyway. I was on Pinterest the other day and saw this gorgeous photograph:<br />
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It made me want to do a '20s inspired look so badly that I decided to put aside a little time today to do just that. I only have two pictures since eye close-up shots would be boring, but here we go:</div>
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And a little bit of photoshopping to make it look all vintagey or something :)</div>
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<li>Makeup Geek Eyeshadow in Bitten (blush)</li>
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<li>Stila Luster</li>
<li>NYX JEP in Black Bean</li>
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In addition, here is my look from Valentine's day which I posted on Instagram (jessk4)</div>
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Happy New Year everyone! 2013! We made it through another end of the world and get to live on. 2013 will be the best yet, right ; ). </div>
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Anyway, so here is what I did for last night; New Year's Eve is about shimmer and sparkle and dazzle and glamour, but I don't have any glitter! So I reached for Sugarpill's Goldilux since it is the glitteriest (I make up words now, too) and most dazzling gold eyeshadow ever. I could have gone gold + black or gold + navy (MUG's Nautica is beautiful), but this combination just sat there screaming my name. It turned out amazing, I got compliments on it all night. </div>
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I had the most difficult time getting good pictures, though; the sparkles didn't show and the huge eyelashes kept make the camera focus wrong! But here's what I got and some additional pictures from my iPod.</div>
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Funny story before the pictures; I ended up taking the eyelashes off before going out. Lesson learned: Don't nap with falsies on if you don't have any glue with you to fix them when you wake up and they're half falling off.</div>
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<li>Sephora 8hr Oil Control Foundation Primer</li>
<li>Revlon Colorstay Combination/Oily foundation in 180 Sand Beige</li>
<li>Maybelline Fit Me Concealer in 20 Sand Sable</li>
<li>Bare Minerals Original SPF 15 Foundation in Light W15</li>
<li>Benefit Hoola Bronzer</li>
<li>Tarte 12 hr Amazonian Clay blush in Splendor</li>
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Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837626189597652245noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673616644840706552.post-48509693685205176762012-12-28T16:29:00.000-05:002012-12-28T16:31:54.010-05:00Collaboration Part 3 with Nikki from Makeup Junkie Nikki!Nikki from <a href="http://www.makeupjunkienikki.com/" target="_blank">Makeup Junkie Nikki</a> and I decided to continue on our collaboration with parts 3 and 4. Part 3 is a colour palette of my selection using some new Makeup Geek eyeshadows that I recently received. Makeup Geek's eyeshadows are just amazing and getting increasingly better with new releases. They're amazing!<br />
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This part includes the eyeshadows: Drama Queen (a dark purple), Bitten (dark blood red), Country Girl (a muted pinky red), and Glamorous (a bronzey gold). Enjoy!<br />
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Rimmel Lasting Finish by Kate lipstick in 11 with Sugarpill Goldilux Chromalust patted in the centre of the lips.</div>
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Here is post number two of the day with look number two! Two posts to celebrate the 1 year birthday of my blog!!</div>
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This look is from a card that comes with the Too Faced Sweet Indulgences kit; the look is called "Brown Sugar" but I think it looks more like Copper Pennies, so there!</div>
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Here is the look I created from the colours on the card:</div>
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And on the left you can see the look from the previous post! :P</div>
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<br />Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837626189597652245noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673616644840706552.post-3809338539522397782012-12-26T17:49:00.000-05:002012-12-26T17:49:03.278-05:00Chocolatey Purples LookHello Everyone!<br />
I know I've been gone for so long, but I have had lots going on. Since the last post I made, I received my score for the LSAT... and registered to write again in February. I spent a long month doing all of my course work and trying my best to get excellent grades. I wrote 4 exams and completed my Fall semester in my fourth year of university. I started and finished my Christmas shopping, followed my an excellent last couple days of Christmas. And finally, I realized writing this post that it is my 1 year birthday for my blog!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Happy Birthday, Holding Beauty!</span></div>
And thank you to all my followers for being loyal and beautiful and supportive! Couldn't have done it without you.<br />
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So my plan for today is to post two looks. I got some makeup and new brushes for Christmas and wanted to play today since I wasn't doing anything else (we're basically the only city in Ontario... Canada...that still has Boxing Day off). So, I put a different look on each eye and I am going to devote 1 post to each look :)<br />
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Here is look 1, which I am calling: Chocolatey Purples!<br />
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<li>Maybelline Color Sensational Lipstick in Blissful Berry</li>
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Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837626189597652245noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673616644840706552.post-60219074371350423122012-10-21T20:30:00.001-04:002012-10-21T20:30:18.084-04:00Collaboration Part 2 with Nikki from Makeup Junkie Nikki!Here we go again with part 2 of my collaboration with Nikki from <a href="http://www.makeupjunkienikki.com/" target="_blank">Makeup Junkie Nikki</a>! This second part is with the colours that I chose for the look, which ended up having a purple theme because I love MUG purples! <3<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">See Nikki's look <a href="http://www.makeupjunkienikki.com/2012/10/wild-harvest-makeup-geek-challenge.html" target="_blank">here</a></span></div>
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I had an idea for this look for a while now and I waited til the last minute to persecute so I was actually extremely happy with how this turned out. I wanted to go for a purple smokey eye winged out in a cat-eye manner with a crease blended out with orange (or in this case with Chickadee - an orange-yellow). I am very pleased with how this came out and I hope you will all like it as well. :)<br />
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<li>Physicians Formula 2-in-1 Eye Booster Eye Liner in Ultra Black</li>
<li>Urban Decay 24/7 Glide On Eye Pencil in Perversion</li>
<li>Lime Crime liquid liner in Orchidaceous</li>
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Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837626189597652245noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673616644840706552.post-34430967153486830872012-10-16T17:54:00.000-04:002012-10-16T18:01:47.170-04:00Cervical Cancer Awareness lookI am writing a special post today in dedication to one of my best friends. She was recently given an unexpected diagnosis of Cervical Cancer at 21 years old. Fortunately, the early diagnosis of cervical cancer is a very good thing as cervical cancer ends up being very curable; one of the most curable cancers.<br />
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This look is for cervical cancer awareness done for my friend because she means a lot to me. So let's look at some facts with regard to awareness:<br />
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<li>cervical cancer is the third most common type of cancer in women</li>
<li>cervical cancer is largely preventable and curable with REGULAR Pap tests and pelvic exams;</li>
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<li>when discovered as precancerous cells during a pap smear, it is 100% treatable</li>
<li>early cervical cancer has no symptoms, so regular pap smears are extremely important</li>
<li>sexually active women should undergo Pap tests starting at 21 and should be done every one to two years</li>
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October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, but let's face it ladies: We have other female parts which are extremely susceptible to cancer as well; so let's take the moment to learn a thing or two about cervical cancer today in addition to making sure we're getting regularly screened for early detection! Extremely treatable upon early detection.<br />
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So here's the look I did; the ribbon for Cervical Cancer awareness is teal and white so this look reflects that. I hope everyone likes it; this look and cause are very important to me.<br />
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<li>The Body Needs Shimmers Teal (on top of Bootycall and in the inner corner of eye)</li>
<li>Sugarpill Mochi</li>
<li>Makeup Geek Sea Mist</li>
<li>The Body Needs Aquamarine</li>
<li>MAC Shroom</li>
<li>Makeup Geek White Lies</li>
<li>L'Oreal Color Infallible Eternal Black</li>
<li>Makeup Geek Fame</li>
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Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837626189597652245noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673616644840706552.post-18304627561814661782012-09-30T08:53:00.000-04:002012-09-30T09:01:13.919-04:00Collaboration with Nikki from Makeup Junkie Nikki!So as you can see from the last week, I have been trying to find some time between school and studying to get this blog active again. In my attempt to do this, fellow Canadian blogger Nikki from <a href="http://www.makeupjunkienikki.com/" target="_blank">Makeup Junkie Nikki</a> and I have been corresponding about doing a collaboration! I'm really excited about this collaboration as I think Nikki is very talented and the theme is just awesome.<br />
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As you may know about me, I absolutely love the products coming from Makeup Geek. If you read Nikki's blog, you'll know that she also totally loves Makeup Geek, so building off our idea for a colour palette theme, we decided to choose colours coming from the Makeup Geek eyeshadow line that we both owned and use those in our look. This will be a two part collaboration - part 1 using Nikki's colour palette and part 2 using mine!<br />
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Today I will be showing you part 1. Nikki chose this really wonderful colour palette with a camouflage feel. Her colours were:<br />
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I originally did a mostly green look with a burgundy undereye but it was more of a test try that I wanted to eventually redo in good. Then my eyes got infected. I'm on day 4 of eye infection right now and wearing makeup is a no-go. But I really wanted this collaboration to have my heart and soul in it, so I chose the least infected eye and decided to do my look in good!</div>
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I remembered this look that I had done in February that I never posted (because it wasn't up to par) that used Shimmermint and Burlesque. So using that idea, I redid my look much different than my original idea. This look had a Burlesque cut-crease blended out with Preppy; it has a Shimmermint lid with the outer corner darkened with Poison Ivy. Finally, the undereye has some Mocha to darken the lashline. I like this look much more than my previous one, so I hope you do too!</div>
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Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837626189597652245noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673616644840706552.post-27028641074634651962012-09-26T19:26:00.001-04:002012-10-12T23:59:36.290-04:00EOTD: Autumn Round 2I felt like trying another autumn look today. It's a little brighter and less smokey than the other one (which I absolutely loved). I used a Makeup Geek gel liner which were released recently that I have had mixed reactions about! The colours are fabulous, but the formula on some of them is a bit tricky.<br />
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Here's the look!<br />
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<li>Makeup Geek Glamorous mixed with Chickadee</li>
<li>Makeup Geek Poison</li>
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<br />Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837626189597652245noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673616644840706552.post-18279364582517832082012-09-03T14:50:00.001-04:002012-09-03T14:50:50.697-04:00FOTD: Naked 2 and a Red Lip + HiatusHi Everyone!<br />
I hope you enjoyed my review yesterday of the Maybelline Superstays! It may be clear that lately I have not been posting at all, and there is a good reason for that... and that reason means that I am going to have to take an official hiatus so that I don't end up abandoning this blog because I love it so much.<br />
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As you may know if you read my very first post in this blog, I'm in university going towards my B.A. in Law and Justice and this year I'll be graduating. School starts on Wednesday (2 days away!) and 1 month from tomorrow I'm writing my LSATs (Law School Admission Test). This is basically the most important test of my life thus far (I imagine the Bar exam will be up there too :P) and I need to be spending any minute I have that isn't spent at work or at school studying for it. On top of that, in the next 2 months I need to have my applications for law schools finished! It is going to be a crazy 4 months and I don't imagine I'll have time for blogging, if I even have time in the morning to put my face on!<br />
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So, I am going to hiatus this blog and hope that my loyal followers will stick around til my next post because I love you so!<br />
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On that note, I will leave you with my FOTD; I bought a Gosh Long Lasting Lip Marker on Saturday and I've worn it twice and it is officially my favourite colour lipstick to wear. It is not as long lasting as the Maybelline ones I reviewed yesterday but I am LOVING the colour <3<br />
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<li>Crease: Snakebite</li>
<li>Blend out crease: Foxy</li>
<li>Darken Crease: Busted</li>
<li>Lid Colour: Suspect</li>
<li>Lower Lashline: Tease</li>
<li>Waterline: Foxy (on top of NYX Jumbo Pencil in Milk)</li>
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I recently discovered this little makeup gem a few weeks ago. My biggest thing about lip colours is that I have to constantly reapply during the day - that I'll never get through talking to customers all day at work or eating lunch with these magnificent red lips lasting. So when I tried these Maybelline Superstay 24 Color that my friend had purchased I was amazed and impressed and in love. Nothing is perfect, but these little gems are close. </div>
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The Maybelline Superstay lip colours have a gloss-like lip colour on one end and a lip balm like gloss stick on the other end.<br />
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I'm in love with this system, the gloss end dries on your lips to stay lasting and the balm end creates a shiny and moisture enriched lip.</div>
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Of course, because this is long-lasting and dries onto your lips, it will be rather drying for your lips. When I first started wearing them, I wore them basically every day and by the end of the week my lips were so dried out. I'd keep to wearing them once in a while or exfoliating your lips every night. </div>
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You have to do thin layers with these and I find that the pigmentation is perfect. They're pigmented and not streaky, easy to use.</div>
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I would not say 24 hours, but for me, they're wonderfully lasting. I can talk, eat, and even kiss ;) without them coming off. Don't get me wrong, like I said they're not perfect and they will flake around the centre of the lips after a few meals or more than like 6 hours of wear. Easy enough to touch up around the centre of your lips with a gloss like product though. </div>
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The competition this time around is to be inspired by Shu Uemura's new Chocolate Donna Fantasy collection. I decided to look through the products in this collection and found the Mint Vanilla palette which inspired this look. I loved the colours together and the idea of mint chocolate since it's my favourite kind. I think I could have made it look a bit more chocolatey and probably even added some more mint colour in it, but I love how it turned out and I hope you do to!<br />
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Again, if you like it you can vote <a href="https://www.makeupbee.com/look.php?look_id=55297" target="_blank">HERE</a>, you can make an account or sign in with Facebook or Twitter and just click "LUV" ! Thanks guys!<br />
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<li>Urban Decay Naked Palette (Buck, Naked, Virgin, Darkhorse)</li>
<li>Makeup Geek Eyeshadow in Mocha</li>
<li>Sugarpill Eyeshadow in Mochi</li>
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<br />Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837626189597652245noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673616644840706552.post-54220088144410994742012-07-15T20:29:00.001-04:002012-07-15T20:29:25.127-04:00FOTD: Classic StarletI saw today that Makeup Bee was hosting another competition and I actually had time on Day 1 to do my entry rather than half way through the competition like all the other ones I've done, so as soon as I got home from work I got on my entry. I ended up absolutely loving this look. I finally got to use my Gosh Holographic Silver effect powder which is sparkly and amazing and I used my Sugarpill Saint lashes which are the best lashes I've ever seen!<br />
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P.S. If you want to vote for me, just go <a href="https://www.makeupbee.com/look.php?look_id=50263" target="_blank">here </a>and click "LUV" :D<br />
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<li>L'oreal Infallible Eyeshadow in Eternal Black</li>
<li>Sugarpill Chromalust in Tiara</li>
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<li>NYX JEP in Milk (on lid)</li>
<li>Sugarpill Velocity</li>
<li>Sugarpill Royal Sugar</li>
<li>Sugarpill Mochi</li>
<li>Sugarpill Tako</li>
<li>The Body Needs Shimmers Teal</li>
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<li>Lime Crime Uniliner in Lazuli</li>
<li>Sugarpill Fake Eyelashes (Stormy? I think..)</li>
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I got home the other night and I had two packages waiting for me that I had been anticipating. One from Sugarpill and one from Lime Crime. I had to wait in anticipation for the morning to try any of the products, unfortunately, because it was passed midnight and I didn't think it was worth it to try to do my makeup so late at night! </div>
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So in the morning I came up with this look using my new products and I loved it. I didn't really have any inspiration besides having the Heart Breaker palette open beside me (which is honestly inspiration enough!), but when I got to work later that day a favourite customer of mine asked me why I had peacock eyes and I realized just how peacocky the look turned out to be!</div>
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<li>MAC Shroom (inner corner)</li>
<li>Sugarpill Goldilux (inner half of lid)</li>
<li>Sugarpill Mochi (outer half of lid)</li>
<li>Sugarpill Velocity (crease)</li>
<li>Makeup Geek Corrupt (to darken crease)</li>
<li>Prestige Teal eyeliner (waterline)</li>
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Onto the review! (I'll discuss the colour/pigmentation of each colour separately and then review the products as a whole at the end.)<br />
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<b>Pigmentation</b>: 7.5/10<br />
(Hard to generalize for all the colours, but if I have to, they are decently pigmented dry and amazing foiled).<br />
<b>Price</b>: 9/10<br />
($1.99 for the 5 gram jar or $3.79 for a 10 gram jar. Like I mention in the review, the 5 gram jars have enough product that they'll last me forever, so $1.99 is excellent).<br />
<b>Overall</b>: 7.5/10<br />
(I would most likely buy more - especially mattes(!), but mineral eyeshadows are still my weakness; I'm sure it'll get better! :) )<br />
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<b>Aquamarine</b>: This was probably the colour I was most excited about; it's a muted minty green/blue colour that just shines in the jar. I've had the most trouble getting really good pigmentation out of this one so far, but it's still a gorgeous colour. (I used it in the previous two looks on my blog, so you can see that it is possible to get better pigmentation out of it with layering).<br />
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<b>Envious</b>: I feel like this colour is a hidden gem. It's so much more than just a dark green pigment. You can see better in the picture of the shadow in the container that it has so much sparkle in it and I just couldn't pick it up in the swatch picture. This colour applied wet is amazing.<br />
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<b>Shimmers Teal:</b> Since I have neither, I'm only guessing but I think this is what Sugarpill Lumi or MAC Reflects Transparent Teal would look like. It's a translucent white shadow that reflects teal. I really want to be head over heels for this colour because I have been wanting a shade like this for a longg time, but it really needs to be layered. I used this is my look 2 posts back as the lid colour without a colour underneath(and dry) and I had a very hard time getting pigmentation (as you can tell by the dry swatch), but if you look at what it looks like over the black base, it's magical!<br />
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I don't have much else to say about this look, so here it is!<br />
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<li>TBN Aquamarine (Foiled with Lise Watier Metamorphix on lid)</li>
<li>TBN Matte Violet (In crease)</li>
<li>Sugarpill Poison Plum (to define crease)</li>
<li>Sugarpill Tako (as highlight and in inner corner)</li>
<li>Physicians Formula 2 in 1 eye booster eyeliner pen</li>
<li>Clinique High Lengths Mascara</li>
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As a head's up, me and this look were extremely(!) unphotogenic today, so there's only 3 looks and even then they don't show it the greatest...<br />
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<li>The Body Needs Shimmers Teal</li>
<li>The Body Needs Aquamarine</li>
<li>88 Palette (Browns)</li>
<li>Sugarpill Tako</li>
<li>Physicians Formula 2 in 1 Eye Booster Eyeliner Pen</li>
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<br />Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837626189597652245noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673616644840706552.post-35841898592816076782012-06-11T12:55:00.001-04:002012-06-11T12:55:57.498-04:00Flower Series: Forget-Me-Nots<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The wearers of these flowers will not be forgotten by their lovers.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Forget-me-nots have always been my favourite flower. There is just something so spectacular about their teensy tiny beauty. I'd recognize them anywhere by their vibrant blue hue, which is why when I went for a walk with the boyfriend yesterday and we were crossing a bridge over a river, I knew immediately that the field of blue at the river's edge was forget-me-nots. </span><br />
I had full intention to do a look based on forget-me-nots some time during this series, but seeing all those flowers last night inspired me to do it right now. I didn't have a plan for this look, so I just went for it and I didn't mind how it turned out.<br />
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However, please not that it's scalding out and with the wild flowers sitting on my desk while I did this look, my allergies were acting up and I wanted to get this done, over with and off my face ASAP :P<br />
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<li>Urban Decay Primer Potion</li>
<li>NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk</li>
<li>Makeup Geek White Lies</li>
<li>Sugarpill Buttercupcake</li>
<li>mix of grey-blues in 88 palette & Sugarpill Afterparty</li>
<li>Sugarpill Chromalust in Royal Sugar (LOVE)</li>
<li>Ardell Demi Whispies</li>
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<li>Rimmel Match Perfection Blush in 002 Light/Medium</li>
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</div>Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837626189597652245noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673616644840706552.post-53218058843395591072012-06-06T15:15:00.000-04:002012-06-06T15:15:18.858-04:00Flower Series: ChrysanthemumAs you may know if you read my intro post on this blog, I have another passion other than makeup; I have always had a love for photography. So a while back when I was looking through my photography folder and came across all these beautifully coloured flowers, I decided to meld my two passions together into a series of makeup looks inspired by the flowers I have photographed. I have 5 looks planned, and this is the first of those five.<br />
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This one is inspired by a flower that I don't think is actually a Chrysanthemum but I don't know what it is, so I'm going with Chrysanthemum :P. If anyone can correct me, I'd be grateful!<br />
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I did one version of this look a while back (posted <a href="https://www.makeupbee.com/look.php?look_id=39150&qbt=userlooks&qb_lookid=39150&qb_uid=7890" target="_blank">here</a>), but I didn't think it was good enough to make official, so I made a face chart and today I produced the look I had planned.<br />
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So here we go!<br />
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First, the photograph I was inspired by:<br />
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<li>Urban Decay Primer Potion</li>
<li>NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk</li>
<li>88 Palette (the darkest pink)</li>
<li>Sugarpill Dollipop</li>
<li>Clinique Strawberry Fudge duo</li>
<li>Sugarpill Tako</li>
<li>Sugarpill Buttercupcake</li>
<li>Makeup Geek Corrupt</li>
<li>Phsycian's Formula 2-in-1 Eye Boost eyeliner</li>
<li>NYX white eyeliner pencil</li>
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<li>Revlon Lip Butter in Sweet Tart</li>
<li>Sugarpill Goldilux</li>
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</div>Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837626189597652245noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673616644840706552.post-88883300315708177392012-06-04T13:39:00.000-04:002012-06-04T13:39:16.270-04:00FOTD: Waves at SeaI was looking through my Makeup Geek eyeshadows last night, which you all know I love, and realized how well Sea Mist and Shimmermint went together. So getting ready for work today, I decided to do a look with these two gorgeous colours.<br />
I'm actually really loving this look, and I hope you enjoy it too :)<br />
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<li>Makeup Geek Sea Mist (inner & outer corners)</li>
<li>Makeup Geek Shimmermint (centre of lid)</li>
<li>Makeup Geek Poolside (crease)</li>
<li>Makeup Geek White Lies (highlight)</li>
<li>NYX White Eyeliner pencil</li>
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<br />Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837626189597652245noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673616644840706552.post-4385211506166862862012-06-03T22:22:00.005-04:002012-06-03T22:22:55.956-04:00FOTD: Dinner dateI do have an excuse for being absent lately - I finished exams, got busy at work and then lent out my memory card for my camera over 2 weeks ago and just got it back. So here is some content until I can get something better up. This was the look I wore tonight out for dinner with some old friends. I really wanted to use MUG's Poolside, but I didn't want it to be in your face, so I darkened the crease with a dark taupe from the 88 palette and ended up with this!<br />
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If you want to see more looks that I've posted recently that haven't made the cut for blog posts, like my page on Facebook!<br />
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<li>88 palette (dark taupe colour in crease)</li>
<li>Makeup Geek Shimmermint (blended out taupe)</li>
<li>Physician's Formula 2-in-1 Eye Booster eyeliner pen</li>
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<br />Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837626189597652245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673616644840706552.post-28247165153663138232012-04-29T23:04:00.000-04:002012-04-29T23:04:02.533-04:00EOTD: Celebration with Sugarpill SweetheartSo my dry spell of posts should be mostly over now, since I just finished my third year of university and will be on summer vacation for the next 4 months! As a result, I felt that it was time to celebrate. But an even better reason to celebrate is getting the Sugarpill palettes. I'm sure all of you have heard just as wonderful things as I have about these palettes, but as someone who fears colour a little bit too much, I've not bothered until now. I decided I was going to take the plunge and purchase these palettes (plus Goldilux, because WHO can resist Goldilux!). I'm going to skip on the review because there are thousands upon thousands out there, but if you'd like to see some looks that I've been doing with these palettes, please like my Facebook page!
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Now, onto the eye. I only have eye pictures because I didn't bother with the full face (I spent 5 hours cramped up in a vehicle today, I didn't feel much like wearing makeup after that!).<br />
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I just got these idea in my head and proceeded with it, but didn't get many pictures because no matter how blended it looked on my face, in the pictures it ended up looking terrible. I loved this look and I don't want it to come out as being terrible because of the pictures! Enough of my blabbing, onto the look:
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<li>NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk</li>
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<li>88 Palette dark blue (liner) + Lise Watier Metamorfix Transformer</li>
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Thank you to everyone who follows me. Not in my wildest dreams could I imagine that even this many people would be following me. Every person who follows, every comment just drives me and inspires me and I'd like to thank you all so dearly. <br />
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If you ever have any requests, shout them out! I'd be happy to oblige.Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837626189597652245noreply@blogger.com1