Quick Taupe FOTD a la Lisa Eldridge

I haven't been wearing as much makeup lately since I started my job (a combination of laziness and sleepiness) but have been rewatching lots of makeup videos instead to spur inspiration. One of my recent favorites is from Lisa Eldridge where she showed how to do a quick smokey eye using black liner and cream eyeshadow.

I tried doing the technique today but I was a little too heavy handed with the cream eyeshadow so it was more a block of taupe than a smokey blended eye. I might have to try using a creamier liner to darken the color at the lashline but otherwise, I really like the look.

I've got just about a month left of summer vacation before school starts. On the bright side, my birthday is coming up in a few days (August 5th!) and I'm in the midst of getting a few giveaways set up for my birthday week so stay tuned for that!

Products Used:

Face
Cover FX Powder FX in M40
Too Faced Sun Bunny Bronzer on the cheeks
Too Faced Chocolate Soleil Bronzer to contour

Eyes
Urban Decay Perversion Liner
Maybelline Tough as Taupe 24hr Color Tattoo Eyeshadow
Maybelline The Colossal Volum' Express in Glam Brown

Lips
Revlon Colorburst Lipstick in Soft Nude
Too Faced Glamour Gloss in Flirt

My Current Favorite Nude Lipcolor

This is a content lite post but I just wanted to show off an awesome "my lips but better" color I got from Silk Naturals. This is Maiden, supposedly a clone of MAC Bare Slimshine but since I don't own Bare I can't compare the two.

Forgive the no makeup face, I took this picture before I hurried off to work and I didn't want to bother with any real makeup this morning! I got three Silk Naturals lip products in a recent order and I'll be swatching them soon so until then, enjoy Maiden.

Darling Girl Blogger Glosses

This is slightly belated but the Bloggers Glosses from Darling Girl Cosmetics are finally available! This was a mini collab of sorts with Susan where she made glosses for a few bloggers including me, Swatch Storm, Judixo, Makeup Junkie, The Beauty Spot, and Rock, Roll, Glam! I've linked to their respective blogs but here are their corresponding lip glosses: Judikins, Mai, Makeup Junkie, McSwatchy, Rach, and Rock, Roll, Glam!

I'll be swatching all of them soon but I would snatch them up now, especially since you can use the code DGCHEARTSU for 15% off now through 7/27/12 at 11:59 CST. By the way, I don't get compensated in any way by you purchasing "my" lip gloss, it just feeds my ego that you like the color enough to purchase something with my name.

Are any of the glosses catching your eye?

Zodiac Collaboration: Leo

I had so much fun doing the Sailor Moon Collaboration that when Amy asked if I was interested in doing another one, I jumped at the chance to do it. We went back and forth on what topic to do and finally decided on a Zodiac Collaboration and I called dibs on Leo (since that's my Zodiac!) I know that some people don't hold much stock in Astrology and their opinion falls along the lines of this while others are big believers but it's still nice to do a look on it anyway.

I drew my inspiration for the colors for the look from the element, symbol, metal, and look of the lion. The Zodiac Element is Fire and I figured it was apt to use bright orange (specifically Sugarpill's Flamepoint) and the metal is gold so I had to use Sugarpill Goldilux. Its symbol is the Lion so I was inspired by their eyes to try to do cat eye liner and also to emulate the flaxen mane of a lion with a pale gold.

I went through a few renditions of the look before I settled on this one and it was starting to get super hot in my room so that may explain my expression in this picture. I feel like I look all surly but this was a mixture of me becoming overheated and wanting to get a good picture.



I just adore the metallic sheen of Goldilux, it's easily my favorite gold eyeshadow to use.

Face
Cover FX Powder FX in M40

Eyes
Too Faced Shadow Insurance
Fyrinnae Pixie Epoxy
Aromaleigh Fidelius on the inner half of the lid
Sugarpill Goldilux on the outer half of the lid
Inglot 108R, the lightest and darkest shade in the crease
Sugarpill Flamepoint in the crease
Urban Decay Naked and Buck as a transition color
Make Up For Ever Waterproof Eyebrow Corrector in 3
NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk on the waterline
e.l.f. Cream Eyeliner mixed with Inglot Duraline to do the liner

Lips
Silk Naturals Kisser Slicker in Maiden

Be sure to check out the other bloggers in the Zodiac Collaboration (all of whom did much better jobs than I did!)

Alicia: Libra

Amy: Aquarius

Angela: Sagittarius

Anna: Scorpio

Kassie: Taurus

Mandy: Capricorn

Phyrra: Gemini

Soo: Cancer