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Friday, June 1, 2012

Meow Cosmetics Caribbean Escape Swatches part 3: funky colours

And the second half of Meow's Caribbean Escape collection! The funky shades! Go back 2 posts for part 1 if you want. And go back 1 post for the eyeliners and blushes. Or not. I'm not forcing you. Except that I am. Feel the urge. FEEL IT!

Top row L-R: Mai-Tai, Starfruit, Ocean Spray, Seafoam, Surf, Papaya
Bottom row L-R: Atlantis, Kiwi, Cayman, Aruba, Dolphin, Jerk
Far right: Blood Orange

Top row L-R: Mai-Tai, Starfruit, Ocean Spray, Seafoam, Surf, Papaya
Bottom row L-R: Atlantis, Kiwi, Cayman, Aruba, Dolphin, Jerk
Far right: Blood Orange

Top row L-R: Mai-Tai, Starfruit, Ocean Spray, Seafoam, Surf, Papaya
Bottom row L-R: Atlantis, Kiwi, Cayman, Aruba, Dolphin, Jerk
Far right: Blood Orange
No flash

Top row L-R: Mai-Tai, Starfruit, Ocean Spray, Seafoam, Surf, Papaya
Bottom row L-R: Atlantis, Kiwi, Cayman, Aruba, Dolphin, Jerk
Far right: Blood Orange
Kitchen light

Top row L-R: Mai-Tai, Starfruit, Ocean Spray, Seafoam, Surf, Papaya
Bottom row L-R: Atlantis, Kiwi, Cayman, Aruba, Dolphin, Jerk
Far right: Blood Orange
Windowlight

Top row L-R: Mai-Tai, Starfruit, Ocean Spray, Seafoam, Surf, Papaya
Bottom row L-R: Atlantis, Kiwi, Cayman, Aruba, Dolphin, Jerk
Far right: Blood Orange
More window :)

Top row L-R: Mai-Tai, Starfruit, Ocean Spray, Seafoam, Surf, Papaya
Bottom row L-R: Atlantis, Kiwi, Cayman, Aruba, Dolphin, Jerk
Far right: Blood Orange
Bathroom light

ATLANTIS!

Blood Orange

Dolphin

Papaya

Ocean Spray

Meow was one of the very first indie companies I bought from so these samples are a couple of years old. The colours should be just the same though. I feel like a dummy for not swatching them sooner!

If I'm in the swatching mood tomorrow I'll do the Lost Rainforest shades.

And here's Justin Timberlake singing. In a wifebeater. Almost decade and a half ago. Feel old now.

What does that have to do with makeup?

Absolutely nothing!

You're welcome :)

Meow Cosmetics Caribbean Escape Swatches Part 2: Eyeliner/Blush

6 pictures for 3 eyeliners is a lil excessive no? TOO BAD!

Here are the eyeliners for the Meow Caribbean Escape collection. At the bottom is my attempt at swatching blushes.

L-R: Typhoon, Seasick and Pirates (on primer then wet with each colour)

I don't love them as much as I love the Coffin eyeliner but that's only because I don't wear dark blues/greens often, I usually stick with my black gel liner. I will have to try Typhoon by itself. I think it would look pretty cool with my hair now :D

And the blush L-R: Limbo, Soka, Calypso, Bel Air

Meow Cosmetics Caribbean Escape Swatches part 1 Neutrals

More swatches! Hopefully I can do part 2 today before my patience ends. And you do have to be patient when doing these posts. I do them my own little way which is lay them all out, light to dark colours, try to put the same colour families together, prime my arm up and try to get these lines as straight as I can the whole way down my arm. Half way through I'm always like "HOW MUCH MORE!?" Then take a billion +3 pictures, crop crop crop crop, name, arrange, type and post. TAKES FOREVER MANG!

Enough rambling, I have for you Meow Cosmetics Caribbean Escape swatches PART 1!: Neutrals.

Caribbean Escape is made up of 25 shades, 3 eyeliners and 4 blushes. The eyeliners will be in a separate post because this post is already going to have uber picture spam. Not sure if I'm swatching the blushes. I'm not good at blush swatches. MAYBE! HOLD YOUR PONIES!

Top row L-R: Cat Island, Uncharted, Reggae, Passion Fruit, Bermuda Triangle, Barbados
Bottom row L-R: Beach, Pink Sand, Coconut, Purple Puff, Stingray, Shipwrecked

Top row L-R: Cat Island, Uncharted, Reggae, Passion Fruit, Bermuda Triangle, Barbados
Bottom row L-R: Beach, Pink Sand, Coconut, Purple Puff, Stingray, Shipwrecked

Top row L-R: Cat Island, Uncharted, Reggae, Passion Fruit, Bermuda Triangle, Barbados
Bottom row L-R: Beach, Pink Sand, Coconut, Purple Puff, Stingray, Shipwrecked
No flash methinks (hovering over the pics should say what lighting it was)

Top row L-R: Cat Island, Uncharted, Reggae, Passion Fruit, Bermuda Triangle, Barbados
Bottom row L-R: Beach, Pink Sand, Coconut, Purple Puff, Stingray, Shipwrecked
Kitchen lighting

Top row L-R: Cat Island, Uncharted, Reggae, Passion Fruit, Bermuda Triangle, Barbados
Bottom row L-R: Beach, Pink Sand, Coconut, Purple Puff, Stingray, Shipwrecked
Windowlight

Top row L-R: Cat Island, Uncharted, Reggae, Passion Fruit, Bermuda Triangle, Barbados
Bottom row L-R: Beach, Pink Sand, Coconut, Purple Puff, Stingray, Shipwrecked
More windowlight

And my favs! Bermuda Triangle lookin' all smexxxy

And Uncharted Y U SO PRETTY!

For a bunch of neutrals they are super pretty. Unless you like neutrals then they are VERY SUPER PRETTY! There's some good writin's there...

Oh man. Serious people and grammar police must just shake their heads at my posts.

SHAKE HARDER!

Ugggh my eyeballs hurt. I thought darkish pink font on black wasn't too hard on the eyes but my preview shows that is not the case! I would change my whole setup but I like black and pink. So I won't! hahaha. I amuse myself.

Now to amuse myself with some old Canadian boy band videos. Eat it Bieber. Dear Serial Joe, if you come back, you can have all my smores poptarts.

SWEET! I like this new blogger layout publishing thing. I remember trying to link Robyn videos months ago and couldn't figure it out.

IMMA LINK THOSE NOW!

Oh hey awesome song

HAHAHA Looks NSFW. It is though. Kinda.

That Robyn is this Robyn FYI

PRE-TEEN MEMORIES!

K I stop.

BUH BYE NOW!

Meow Cosmetics Summer Carnival Swatches

Oh hello rainbow arm. What's your name? Ya wanna go see a movie or somethin'?

The next set of swatches I bring to you today is Meow's Summer Carnival collection. As I type this post, they are currently not available but keep checking their site, "like" the fb page or sign up for Meow's newsletter. Most of their collections make reappearances (like right now Caribbean Escape is back in action) so hopefully this one comes back also.

There aren't any colour descriptions for these so hopefully my pictures describe then good enough :) I am crap at describing so I'll save you the awkwardness.

Top row L-R: Tunnel of Love, Freak Show, Cirque du Meow, Fortune Teller, Firework, Gypsy
Bottom row L-R: Oddity, Carny, A-la-ga-zam, Fire Eater, Tattooed Lady, Side Show
Far Right: Midnight Madness

Top row L-R: Tunnel of Love, Freak Show, Cirque du Meow, Fortune Teller, Firework, Gypsy
Bottom row L-R: Oddity, Carny, A-la-ga-zam, Fire Eater, Tattooed Lady, Side Show
Far Right: Midnight Madness

Top row L-R: Tunnel of Love, Freak Show, Cirque du Meow, Fortune Teller
Bottom row L-R: Oddity, Carny, A-la-ga-zam, Fire Eater

Top row L-R: Firework, Gypsy
Bottom row L-R: Tattooed Lady, Side Show
Far Right: Midnight Madness

Some shades of Pixie Epoxy. Clockwise from upper left: Oddity, Side Show, Freak Show

And above is my favourite all on it's own Oddity. It's like a glowy icy blue. It was hard to capture it's awesomeness so you'll just have to believe me. It rocks.

Firework is also a pretty cute shade. I don't own any Meow pinks. Actually I don't own very many pinks in general, not sure why, but Firework is a very ownable pink :D It has pink sparkles in it too.

So as I said, right now (June 1 2012) you can't get these but hopefully you can at a later date.

But you can always check out this new collection Joys of Summer released today. No swatches for these right now, because it's brand spankin' new so I haven't ordered any samples yet. I SHALL!

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Back to Red

Around 3 years ago I was tired of buying box dyes to try to get bright red hair because it was just a huge waste of money. The red never lasted very long, and it was never as bright as I wanted it to be. Then I went to a salon! If you can call the mall hair dressers a salon.

Well I will!

Anywhodles $200 later I had the hair I wanted. Not cheap AT ALL but it did last longer than box dye. I tried to find a pic from day one but it seems I mostly took pictures much later :/ I think this was before I even blogged when I didn't take pictures of everything.

It took 2 units of red bleach (I think each bleach unit was $80 each) and 2 bottles of Fudge Red Corvette ($20/tube). I got to keep most of the 2nd bottle of colour for a future touch-up. I didn't have a spare $200 again so this time around I decided I was going to do this myself. And I saved a buttload. I've had the bleach and Special Effects dye for a long long time now and only this week I grew some lady balls to do this myself. I have the week off so if I messed up, I could hide my shame for a few days still!

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT! I don't know what I'm doing.
You can try this if you want but I'm telling ya right now, I only learned by watching youtube and remembering what my hairdresser did, I didn't actually learn how to do any of this in school and such. 99% of the time I was just praying I wouldn't go bald.

I bought the Blood Red Special Effects dye from Morgana Cryptoria for $9 I think (it was a very very long time ago, my memory sucks on a good day, don't ask me to think past today!) Then last summer or fall I bought a 4oz bottle of Salon Care 30 Cream Developer for $2 and 2 packets of Clairol BW2 Powder Lightener for a little over $3 each. I also bought a brush and gloves but that was less that $20 total! Screw you $200.

Now had I gone to the salon she/he would have been able to do my whole head without missing spots. I totally missed some spots... But it's okay, mostly just some roots but as long as the wind doesn't blow, I'M COO!

After I bleached my hair and sat with conditioner in it (nothing fancy, just Got2B Hottie) I went to youtube just to see how others got their bright red hair and this video made me feel like a dummy. She didn't even need to pre-bleach! I must remember this for the future! I still have a bottle of Blood Red and a bottle of Nuclear Red so I'll use those 2 up before hunting down this Majicontrast stuff of awesomeness.

So here's my hair in pictures

The start! My hair was washed the day before. It's all wonky because I had an elastic in it.

BLEACH TIME! I think when my whole head was covered I kept it in for 30 minutes.

Just chillin with a head full of conditioner. I believe I left it in a half hour.

Oh hai blondie

Throw a filter on that pic for a new facebook picture.

I forgot to take a picture of the messy madness that was the red dye but this is it now! I put a bottle onto clean dry hair and I sat with it in for 1.5 hrs

Outside light!

I was a bit disappointed because at first it reminded me of Raggedy Ann hair. It's not nearly what I assumed Blood Red would look like. I think if I had light brown hair and used the Blood Red I probably would have gotten what I wanted but oh well. YOU LEARN!

:)

Rotten Peaches

Most of these pics today turned out blurtastic but I didn't notice at the time because I was too excited to take pictures of my hair instead!

IT'S SO BRIGHT AND AWESOME DUDES!

But here are my eyeballs for day 1 of insanely awesome bright red hair.

I used the Sleek Paraguaya palette from the Avoir la Peche collection that came out last year. I think I bought it before I thought they were shitheads and this is my first time using it because, well, they are shitheads. See? Being a shithead makes me not wanna use your makeup, so stop being turds Sleek Makeup pls kthx.

I used:
UDPP
Inner corner/Highlight: Sandstone
Middle lid: Redstone
Outer lid: Tangelo
Crease: Bittersweet
Darken crease: Stone
Lower inner lashline: Bellini
Above crease/lower lashline: Sugarpill Buttercupcake
Lower lashline: MAC Black Line Pearlglide Intense liner
Liner: Urban Decay Zero liquid liner
Rimmel Glam Eyes mascara

Cheeks: Mark. Sun Love Glo

Lips: Sleek Pout Polish Sugar May