Swatches are FUN! *NEUTRAL/ BLACK & WHITE!*

Hey Zombies!

Happy Sunday. My day is full of grochery shopping. When shopping for 5 people, (including a 16 month old who can pack food away) it's usually an all afternoon 'thing.' We try to only go once a week to avoid the chaos of the store. So what do we do, head to Wal-Mart AFTER lunch on a Sunday. Busiest time of the week.ever. We're glutton's for punishment. Why not leave the kids home with Daddy you ask? Because..it's fun for ALL of us to be together on the weekly shopping extravaganza. FAMILY TIME PEOPLE! lol

Anyway, I am almost done swatching all of my minerals. I know to some of you my collection may not seem big, but to me (and my husband) it's pretty gigantic. I adore every single on of my minerals and have so much fun with them. I shutter to think what my collection will look like in another year.

The contenders today (in no particular order) swatched over Hi-Fi Shadow Fix:

High Voltage Cosmetics
Darling Girl Cosmetics
Evil Shades
Hi-Fi Cosmetics
Orglamix
My Pretty Zombie
MAC
Fyrinnae

Make sure you click images for maximum (in your face) goodness!

Swatches are FUN! *PINK AND RED*

Zombies!

Another swatch post. Below are my pink, red, and orange, shadows. As I was swatching, I realized that I don't give my pinkies enough love. I have some really NICE colors. Especially NYX: Sunny Day, Evil Shades: Living Dead, Panic, and Heartless Queen, Orglamix: Geranium, and Hi-Fi: Raid the King. I also LOVE High Voltage: Mr. Wrong.

The Contenders this evening (in no particular order) all swatched over Fyrinnae Pixie Epoxy:

Hi-Fi Cosmetics
High Voltage Cosmetics
Evil Shades
Orglamix
My Pretty Zombie
Concrete Minerals
Fyrinnae
NYX

Good night my beautiful Zombies!

Swatches are FUN! *GREEN*

Swatches are fun, but swatching is NOT!

Tonight is a beautiful rainy night here in Albuquerque. It rained for a good hour earlier with TONS of lightning and thunder. My kids were troopers and actually slept through most of it! I wanted to stay offline as much as possible, so decided to do some swatching. I'll be swatching all my eyeshadows by color. YAY! I remember before starting my blog how I liked to Google certain shades before buying. I thought swatches were extremely helpful, so this is a 'sharing is caring' post.

So tonight I bring you my "green" swatches. This is mainly ONLY mineral eyeshadow. I didn't want to do through my palettes, cause, well...MEH. It became abundantly clear that I do not own enough green shades. I must fix that, and SOON! lol


The contenders this evening: (in no particular order)

Fyirnnae
Hi-Fi Cosmetics
NYX
Evil Shades
High Voltage Cosmetics
OrglamixMoi Minerals
Concrete Mineral



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 I hope you're all having a fantastic evening. I'm off for a little R&R and then bed.

Red Hot in a Coffin!

 Zommmmbies!

This look was a total FAIL, except for my lips. It was fun wearing a bit of Red today. I had really good intentions for this look, but I didn't let the Pixie Epoxy dry enough (because I was in a hurry) and my lower lid stuck to the top lid WITH product on it. I do love the two colors I used- Coffin looks more Orange in pictures than it was in real life. And of course the black glitter in my crease didn't show up. Anyway, we can't have good makeup days every day. What do you think?

 Kicked the contrast up a but in the photo to show off the colors.

The goods:

Eyes:
UDPP
Pixie Epoxy
Evil Shades "Coffin" all over lid below crease
Orglamix "Saffron" above lower lid and in crease and lower lash line
Just a tad bit of Fyrinnae "Immortality" in crease
Maybelline cream liner in "Charcoal"
UD "Zero" in waterline

Cheeks:
Fyrinnae Glow Blush in Hypnotize (I LOVE their blushes!)

Lips:
Revlon  Colostay Liquid Lipstick in Top Tomato

Red and Black Look for the WIN!!!!

Hello Zombinites!

Happy Ass Saturday! <3

Wooot another makeup look! I adore adore ADORE this look. Heartless Queen from Evil Shades just rocks my SOCKS OFF! I love that it's basically matte with a little bit of shimmer. And the staying power, pigmentation, and color of this shadow, let's just say, I'm lemming for a full size as I just have a sample. (Which I'm hording.)

What I did:

UDPP entire lid (DUH!)
NYX Pots and Pans on entire lid- blended with clean finger
Orglamix Cherry Blossom all over lower lid
Evil Shades Heartless Queen on top of that- (made the red in Heartless Queen POP!)
Orglamix Brimstone in crease
Evil Shades Zombie over Brimstone (I'm a Zombie girl..in a Zombie Worllllld!)
Orglamix Moonstone as a highlight base and on lower lash line
Basic black pencil liner for water line and upper lash line

Lips:
Rimmel Bordeaux
Evil Shades Guilty as Sin over Bordeaux

And here you have it folks: Black and Red my staple colors and fit me to a tee! I LOVE EVIL SHADES!

Kicked the contrast up to show off the pigmentation of Heartless Queen!




Lid only- loook at that RED:








(Listening to Super Sexy Swingin' Sounds- White Zombie)

Pink/ Chocolate Look

NOT happy with my camera that decided to run out of batteries as I was taking these pics. So these are the best I got of the look. My friend Maria at work tells me what colors I should wear on my eyes every Friday- yesterday it was pink and brown. So I did a subtle look to throw her off. LOL




Used:

UDPP
NYX Jumbo pencil in Milk as base
NYX Runway Collection pallet in "Champagne and Caviar." I used the soft pink and the darker brown from the pallet. Darker brown in crease
Orglamix Roselle on top of the soft pink from NYX
NYX Chrome pigment in Geisha (can I say..I'm actually really disappointed in this shadow. It wore off about an hour after I'd applied it, even with a primer and a base.)
Black gel liner from Avon (don't recommend this either)
Glitter liner in Midnight Cowboy from Urban Decay over black liner
Rimmel Chocolate Shimmer and Paradise on lips



Please excuse my lower lashes here. This was prior to me getting them sorted out. LOL

Mineral Eyeshadow ORGY!

Just for fun, I thought I'd post this picture. This is my sea of minerals. Not all, but most. I think it's just a fun picture. Can you spot your favorite?

Rock Band Look using Orglamix

Last night my husband and 2 of our 3 kids went over to our best friends house to play a little Rock Band. (It wasn't really planned to play RB but 3 "Zombie" drinks in and that's how it ended up.) Anyway, I coherched my best friend Megan to become a victim..I mean "model" for a makeup look. Since she's a pretty neutral gal, I wanted to go bright with the shadow. And we're both in lust with Orglamix minerals, so I used ALL Orglamix products. Oh and, this was the very first time EVER that I've applied makeup to someone else. Not too shabby for my first try.

First I applied Urban Decay Primer Potion to the entire lid, once set, I applied a white cream base. I then covered the entire lid in Slate. (One of my FAVORITE shades.) In the jar it is a Slate color, but in the light shifts to gold and pink. (Eyeshadow images property of: Orglamix Cosmetics with the exception of the final look photos.)

Slate:



I then added Neroli to the middle of the lid and blended. In real life, this shade is a lot more vibrant. Reminds me of Stars and Rockets by MAC.

Neroli:



Because Megan doesn't really wear bold colors, I HAD to use Geranium in the inner corners.

Geranium:



And finally, I added Brimstone to the crease and blended it all together, adding a little more Slate over the entire lid and as a highlight on the brow bone. Again this picture does not do Brimstone justice. There are great blue and silver reflects in it.

Brimstone:




Added a little black liner to the top and lower lash lines and the white cream eyeliner to the water line. I then added Neroli to the bottom lash line. A little mascara and BAM! Megan did look fantastic after all was said and done! If I do say so myself...BUT, she was an excellent victim...I mean sport..I mean model.

Final look:





And yes...we both still love Orglamix. Probably more than ever now! Thanks bro for letting me use your face!