Minty Blue Green eyeshadow look

As promised, a look featuring the Kryolan eyeshadow. I'm weird about posting; I tend to have a big inspiration streak that makes me impatient to wait days between posting or times where I have a lull in between posts. I can't just be patient and inspired at the same time I guess.

Off topic post first, I had a returning deaf customer on Wednesday at work, it was so so exciting :) I love being able to sign and it's nice to be able to actually use what I've learned. I think some of the other customers at the booth where I work at were a little bit intrigued due to my signing and the fact that it was quiet.

Normally where I work it gets loud because there's a cooking demonstration diagonal to us along with other vendors so it was a bit interesting to be the silent one in the middle while it was busy with my coworkers. My coworker complemented me when I was done saying it was amazing because I speak Vietnamese and know Sign :)

I should have tried harder to put Electric Eel on on my lower lash line.

Gah that Kryolan eyeshadow looks awesome.

I didn't actually use an eyeshadow base with this; I found that the matte eyeshadow showed up better on white eyeliner instead. I got this tip about putting matte pigments and shadows on white eyeliner from Dustyohunter in this video about pigment use with regards to eyes.

NYX White Eyeliner
Kryolan TK2 eyeshadow (I did not see any other name for it and I didn't see it on the back)
MAC Electric Eel in the crease and lower lash line
MAC Provence Pigment as the highlight
Essence No Limits WP Mascara

Indie Makeup Store Haul+Birthday Dinner

Just to warn you, this is photo-heavy!

I got paid on Wednesday plus got some birthday money so I thought I'd just spend a bit of it on something nice for myself. My birthday was pretty nice and simple, I got a free Daphnes Greek Cafe plate and soda and got my boyfriend lunch because he happened to be working for most of the day. I'm planning on getting a free Cold Stone's ice cream creation soon

I went shopping with my sister but didn't end up getting anything. I also went out to eat Korean BBQ and became too full to eat the ice cream cake we had gotten, haha. Pictures of my dinner at the end :)

Woo Woo Haulage. I had gotten one of the Graftobian foundations a week ago and wanted to include the new one I got. I also got a Kryolan eyeshadow in TK2 in addition to a free bottle of silicon to mix with my foundation to make it a bit lighter. The metal plate at the end is just an Essence Stampy plate turned upside down to act as a palette for me to mix my foundation in.

I paid 12 bucks for each foundation and guess how much is in that wee pot? .5 oz! If you actually look at some of the labels of higher end brands, you'll notice that they usually contain less than .5 oz of product, ex. Benefit's Some Kind of Gorgeous has only .35 oz, ditto for MAC's Studio Tech.

This color looks to be very similar to MAC's Newly Minted which was discontinued ages ago. It has such a nice texture for a matte, I've got a look featuring it coming up soon :)

By the way, the pans are about the size of MakeUpForever's eyeshadows and contain 3.5 grams. Bombdiggity because it means I paid 10 bucks for an eyeshadow that is 2 1/2 times the size(MAC's being 1.5 grams)
Desert Sand on the left, Temptress on the right. You can see that Desert Sand is looking a bit more peachy than Temptress which is a bit more yellow/neutral toned.

My cheeks are lighter than my forehead which is not even the same color as my neck so I've been mixing Temptress and Desert Sand together. Even with that, my face does look a bit lighter than my neck but if I go any darker, I turn super orange so I'll just live with it. I really do love this foundation, my face looks amazingly poreless it's kind of shocking.

Korean BBQ pictures ahead! This is the end of the beauty related business :)

With Korean BBQ, you have a big grill installed into the center of the table and it has a grill plate that you cook the food on. There's chicken in the back, spicy pork and pork belly on the grill. There's also Gyeran jjim served with it, which is the eggy casserole thing to the left. Deliciousss

Along with this, you get several side dishes that you eat along with the K BBQ. Starting from the left and going clockward in, there's steamed/boiled(?) broccoli with hot sauce, cucumber kim chi, cellophane noodles with something, bean sprouts, potato salad, beans and then kim chi radishes.

The best part was the ice cream that you could self serve at the end. Fabulous

Konad of the Day, Claires Wild/Calm

I've got a canker sore on my tongue and it really really hurts. I should be used to them (I had tons when I had braces plus I get them around once every month or two) but I've only had one on my tongue once before. It not good.

I really like the Claires Mood Polishes, especially Wild/Calm. It's probably the most dramatic and very shimmery. I was inspired by a manicure SayAnythingBr00ke with one of the new color changing Claires colors and a Fauxnad plate so I thought to recreate it with what I had, this is plate M3.

As it is, because of work I've been trying to do a new manicure each week so potential returning customers can see how nice it looks. One of my coworkers is actually an old customer that I had dealt with two weeks ago! She liked Konad so much she talked to my boss about selling it and then she got the job. Super super awesome but my job ends in less than 2 weeks which makes me sad :( I'll need to go job hunting again.

Big Lots Haulage and Thanks to my new followers :)

I'm so so grateful for A Polish Problem and Positively Polish for recently featuring on the new blog roundups/alerts :) It's really nice being able to have an audience for my odd ramblings. I highly highly recommend you guys check out all the blogs that were featured!

I wanted to post about something I got at Big Lots

Hells yeah for Count Chocula. During Count Chocula season I ate so many bowls of Count Chocula the roof of my mouth went a bit raw :X

The best part about me getting Count Chocula?

By the way, it's technically still edible, for the date says Best By August 24th 2010 which means it doesn't expire then but that it is best to eat by that time. I can't wait for Count Chocula season, I've missed chocolate-y cereals. Does anyone else remember Nesquik or Oreo-Os? My favorite cereals always get discontinued :(