FOTD: DARK DARK Smokey Brown and Purple

Awww. I am FINALLY and OFFICIALLY done with my finals or presentations. I just have one more class on Wednesday next week for a fellow classmate's presentation. In graduate school, finals are not like undergrad courses that the students have to take tests such as multiple choices, fill in the blank, answer in short paragraphs, or just general examinations. In grad school, finals are more like presentations and writing 10-15 page papers for the class. This was one of the reasons why I haven't updated much of my blog. I have beeen stressing out during the last weeks because everything was just all packed at the end of the semester. Fortunately, I pulled it off all the papers... whew! I'm still alive!... *taking a deep breath*. I hope you guys understand!

I'm so anticipated about my thesis year which starts this fall. I'll have so much writing to do and especially putting together my thesis will be more hectic. Anyway, I'll try to update as much FOTDs/EOTDs as possible.

Here is a dark dark brown and purple smokey eye look. I don't think you can see my lip colors very well because I licked it all, but the neutral lip colors were really beautiful. Also, I used one of the eye shadows (Meet the Fleet) from the Naughty Nauticals line. MAC Meet the Fleet e/s is such a dark dark color that really intensify a smokey eye look when use it on the outter corner. It is more of a matte navy blue purplish color and it's buildable too. Love it!

Also, I didn't line my bottom lashes because my eyeshadow was already so dark and intensifying so I kept the bottom very neutral to make my eyes look a bit alive.

Sorry about the t-shirt! I was so tired and ready to wash off my makeup.

(All items are MAC)
FACE:
Strobe Cream
Prep+prime skin
NC40 Studio Fix Fluid
Medium+ MSF
Peachtwist blush

EYES:
Naked Launch e/s all over lid to brow, inner corner, & 1/2 inner lower lashline
Meet the Fleet e/s eyelid and 1/2 outer lash line
Sketch e/s on crease
Blacktrack f/l
Spiked eyebrow pencil
Plushblack Plushlash
#7 Lash

LIPS:
Cream O' Spice cream stickliner
Hue l/s
Prr l/g







I also entered this look for a celebrity-look contest at MakeupGeek site.

Prom Look

My sister went to her senior prom and she asked me to do her makeup and hair. So here are few photos of the prom look done on my sister. Oh, this prom look was done two weeks ago. Sorry for the lagging!

I don't remember the names of the eyeshadows I used on my sister's eyes but I know it was all MAC products. I believe two of the eyeshadow colors were pigments. On her face, I used MAC Select Cover-Up in NC42, Select SPF-15 foundation in NC40, and Blot Powder in Medium-Dark. For the cheeks, I used Trace Gold, some gently dabs of Sunbasque, and Everyday Mineral Waffle Cone blushes along with MSF Light Flush. For the lips, I used Gingerroot l/l, Barely Lit l/s, and Uberpeach c/g. To add details to my sister's closed and small eyes, I added some random Ardell falsie lashes and lined the upper lashes with Blacktrack f/l and the waterline with Graphblack.

I love my sister's prom dress!! It was so silky! The orange color of the dress was to die for. I also love the fluffy details on the side of the dress.

I hope you guys like the hairstyle I did on my sister because she and I absolutely loved it! BTW, I got the hair flowers at Target.

Love the matching outfits!

FOTDs: Golden Lemon Pigment

Whoah! It's been a while since I have blogged here. Sorry guys! I have been really busy and even more busy this weekend because all my finals/presentations are compacted together the next two weeks. However, summer break is coming up soon and I will be able to post up more and more FOTDs/EOTDs.

Finally, I was able to squeeze in some of my busy time and did a look using my MAC pigments that I bought at Las Vegas CCO two months ago. So, here are the pictures:

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(All products are MAC)
FACE:
Select Cover-up NW30
MSF Foundation NC35
Buff blush
Fix +

EYES: (Pigments are foiled with Fix+)
UDPP
Golden Lemon p/g on inner 2/3 of lid and inner lower lashline
Copperized p/g on outer half of lid and outer half lower lashline
Viz-A-Violet p/g on outer corner and blended over crease to inner crease & lower lashline
Rose Blanc e/s on brow highlight
Graphblack to line half of upper and water line
Spiked on brows
L'oreal Voluminous mascara

Lips:
Mattene 40's Pink l/s
Propagate l/s

EOTD: Goin' Smokin' Blue

The title says it all.

EYES: (All MAC unless stated otherwise)
UDPP
Moon's Reflection on inner 1/2 lid
Moonflower on outer 1/2 lid and inner 1/3 of lower lashline
Carbon on outer corner (blend in to crease and over Moonflower) and lower lashline
Zonk Bleu! on middle lid and blended up and toward Moonflower
Flashtrack over Carbon and lower lashline
Tilt over Flashtrack and crease and blend in towards 2/3 of inner eyes
Milania's Atlantic to line upper lashline
Shroom to highlight
Blacktrack to line
Spiked for brows
Ardell random false lashes

WARNING: HUGE & UGLY ZIT ON RIGHT EYE/PHOTOS! PLEASE EXCUSE!
With Flash
Without Flash

EOTD:Day-time Dark Brown Smokey Eye

This look is very wearable for a day-time smokey eye look. It is very pretty and quick. You can make this look more dramatic by adding more darker color to the corner eye and add false lashes. I don't usually wear false lashes because my contacts (clear) don't really last long on me. To end the look, go with nude lips as you want your eyes to stand out the most.

I finally had time to play around with my camera and was able to change the light exposure back and forth to capture the true colors of my eye shadows.

Eyes: (All MAC products)
-Bare Study p/p
-Saddle e/s
-Typographic e/s
-Brule e/s
-Graphblack e/l
-Spiked
-Estee Lauder MagnaScopic mascara

FOTD: Simple Brownish-Green

I don't know what to call this look so I'm going to call this a "simple brownish-green" look. It's very subtle and the green olive color is very pretty in person. I got tons of comments today about this eye look. I really like it!

I am still working on how to take a good eye or close up picture so that the eyeshadow colors will show up vibrantly. Also, I use the macro mode but it seems like every picture I took was always not as vibrant as I wanted to be. I am very frustrated that most of my FOTD photos did not really capture the true eyeshadow colors I would like you guys to see. I seriously need some photo-taking methods. Please!!!

Face:
-Smashbox Foundation Primer
-Studio Fix powder
-Blot Powder
-Trace Gold blush
-Buff blush

Eyes:
-UPDD
-Sumptious Olive 2/3 of lid
-Kid to crease
-Nylon to inner corner and lower corner/lash
-Rose Blanc to highlight
-Spiked to brows
-Blacktrack f/l to line uppper lash
-Mystery to trace over Blacktrack f/l
-Graphblack to line lower lash
-L'Oreal Voluminious mascara

Lips:
MAC Barely Lit
NYX Megashine l/g in Natural

um...My sexy pose... eh? behind my husband

Hauls: Back-2-Mac and Fafi

So, today the hubby and I drove the kids and went to Sacramento Arden Faire Mall. I took 60 emptied pots to do the 'back to mac' and received 10 eyeshadows. On the way back home, we stopped by Modesto Vintage Faire Mall and grabbed the Fafi Eyes 1. I know, it took me a while to get that quad because I did a lot of thinking. Don't ask me why, I wasn't really interested when it first came out. Now, I think I kind of like it after one of a MAC MA tried it on me.

Top L-R: Antiqued, Plum Dressing, Flourishing, Velvet Moss, Bronze
Low L-R: Mythology, Jest, Knight Divine, Brule, Club

MAC Fafi Eyes 1 quad.
I decided to get the Fafi quad after two months of thinking!

Tag: Camera I use for my FOTDs/EOTDs

Hi guys! I don't know if anyone has already started a tag similar to this one but I'm going to tag my fellow bloggers for their camera types used for their blog photos.

The camera I use to take my blog photos are:

(I don't have any camera photo b/c I'm at work while typing this so I'm stealing from some sites)

Nikon SLR D40 for swatches, hauls photos, and full/half body shot
This camera is my hushand's! He loves to take pictures and he's good at it too!
Picture from: www.nikonusa.com
Canon Powershot 8.0 for close-up face/eye photos
Picture from: www.usa.canon.com

I tagged:
Christiana Divine
Vanessa
Lynne
Anne
Confessions of a Makeup-Addict
Christy Too Addicted
Lizz

Sorry if I didn't get to anyone but I would still love to see/read the camera(s) you guys use for your blog. Thanks!