Using glows and blush as eye shadow

 

For the 2nd day of Chinese New Year, I wanted a simply defined eye. Nothing too drama.

There’s been quite a few video tutorials on defined neutral eyes so with the tips I picked up… here’s my version.

Monistat – base
NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Yoghurt – all over lid; smudged up to crease
SilkNaturals Perfecting Glow in Splendid – patted all over eye area up to brow bone
SilkNaturals Cocoaberry blush (discontinued) – crease
TSS The Doll House (LE grab bag) – brow highlight; inner 1/2 lower lash line
NYX Jumbo Eye pencil in Blackbean – upper lash line
TSS Bit by Glitz (LE Something Twinkling ‘08) – patted on top of blackbean); outer 1/2 lower lashline

    

finally got eyeshadow to look nice on my lower lash line… and its all thanks to my lovely new ELF small angled brush… look out for my review coming up :)

TSS Grab Bag eotd #1

This is gonna be an on going eotd series until I finish using up every last one of my grab bag colors. So you’ll be seeing bags with little purple dots on them (my way of keeping track what I’ve used already).

This first posted look was using colors from this post.

  

Monistat – base – all over lid
NYX JEP in French Fries – lid up to crease and smudged up
TSS Steam Dream – patted on lid and used as highlight
TSS Frenzied Freefall – on crease blending upwards
TSS Extreme Ribbons – on outer crease/V
TSS Built on Matchsticks – lightly blended on the upper outer crease… if that makes any sense. Got the idea from one of Petrilude’s YT videos. Gave a little pop of color which unfortunately doesn’t show up in the pics.
MM liquid liner in sparkly black

the rest of the NYX swatches…

ok… here’s a sad story… I wrote down all the names of the various e/s on a piece of paper… and that piece of paper has gone totally awol soon after I posted the earlier swatches… so… I’m left basically not really knowing what color goes with what swatch… and I’ve no time or energy to go through the whole lot again.

so Ann tells me to just go ahead and post the pics… so here they are…

*interrupts*

*bang head*

I’ve posted this now four times… photobucket’s slide show eats up anything I have got to say after it… so I’m gonna say what I wanna say one last time here…

ok ok vent over… relax… deep breath…

my impressions of NYX e/s are that they are less pigmented than my normal mineral eye shadow. I had to swipe my brush over the e/s quite a few times to get the color intensity you see in the swatches. (ooo.. forgot to say that I used monistat as a base for all of them). In comparision to a Japanese brand like Marjolica, the texture wasn’t as soft and blendable… but I think that’s true of most brands when you compare them to japanese formulations.

Thinking a little more, I feel that using a darker, creamier base may make them work better and I will be trying that theory out sometime.

hope these swatches didn’t aggravate you too much cos of they’re lack of names… the colors are pretty.

More JH finds…

Japan Home is one of the shops that I’m always frightened/eager to visit… reason? inevitably I *will* find something that I itch to buy… sigh…

it was no different this visit…

 

aren’t they lovely… so pretty… so appropriate to add to my m/u area… prices were reasonable. From right to left – USD$5.10/$4.45/$3.16 (SGD$7.90/$6.90/$4.90)

I also found these cute *purple* sharpeners… the single one was a mere USD0.58/SGD0.90 while the double was USD$0.84/SGD$1.30.

    

it was tempting… oh so very very tempting… but I resisted and held on to my “no buy”… after all, I already have a perfectly functioning storage system and a sharpener that is working very well for me. :P

BUT then, a good friend mentioned Cherryculture’s NYX 50% sale… eeeekkk!!! After much looking and “ahh…ing and oooo…ing”. Searched for swatches on different forums and blogs… honestly, Pursebuzz was the most horrid enabler… finally caved and placed an order for 3 more jumbo eye pencils… its a case of “gotta have them all!” Again, I restrained my urge to just order everything I didn’t already have… plus those lippies… *groan*… I was good… I was… *sobs*

The sale is only til the 15th and the code is NYX50… go! go! go!

NYX Swatches – brown, greys, pinks

Ok… here’s the long awaited, asked for swatches of the NYX e/s I got from my last big haul. Its gonna be in two parts just because its so picture heavy.

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ES131 Dust, ES84 Toffee, ES39 Slate

ES152 Latte Foam, ES72 Walnut Bronze, ES129 Meditteranean, ES150 Eutopia, ES36 Chocolate

 

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ES83 Skin, ES90 Apricot Moose, ES85 Sunset, ES50 Salmon, ES58 Peach

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ES67 Shimmer, ES130 Wild Flower, ES147 Pink Oleander

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ES119 Cream Cheese, ES140 Snow Cone, ES146 Egg White

ES132 Alaska, ES63 Platinum Silver, ES78 Beanie, ES42 Grey

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watch out for part 2… coming soon :)