Holiday kits: MAC

I stumbled upon the MAC Holiday packages in Macy's today on my usual Tuesday lunchtime trek through my local mall. Many things were available: brush sets, eye sets, lips sets.  

Brushes

Entire brush selection. 

Mineral Brush Set

Essentials Brush Set. 

(I believe I might get this one)

Smoky Eyes Brush Set

Lip Sets

Viva Glamourous Duo

Lip Bag (Nude)

Lip Bag (Violet)

Eye Sets

Entire Eye Selection

Eye Bag (Nude)

Eye bag (Gold)

Face Sets

Entire face selection

Face Palette (Warm)

Face Palette (Cool)

Lookbook: vamping up the place

I simply love the classic pinup look. Enough said.

Lookbook: I wanna be your superhero

Season Finals for WAKA was no exception for Purple Rain & our crazy costume antics. My brother in law who plays on the team came up with the idea to dress up as superheros & I gotta say for once in life, I agreed with him. My first challenge was the mask since I couldn't see myself ruining & catching in one... & I wanted something very Batgirl & Robin. I decided to create the look with makeup so it would be both vibrant & easy to play in. Enter Urban Decay. superhero makeup - Google Search My inspiration. My team is Purple. That was the basis for color. I also wore blue tights so it was only appropriate to use that as the other color.

My "Mask" using Urban Decay Book of Shadows III

Dead on Look of Mask.

Lookbook: A patriotic tribute.

This is my Fourth of July getup for kickball. The lovely part is that I'm posting in October. The star earring were perfect for the occasion. I forgot I even had them. Rouged lips were a must. I used the blue on my eyelids as the cherry on topic of a very patriotic sundae.

Lookbook: Daytime Smoky Eyes

Urban Decay, I love you.

For work today I figured I would go the whole nine & spring for eyeshadow. My face has the usual, MAC Studio Fix Pressed Powder in NW 45 & lips are Maybelline (the Moisture lipstick) in Barely There, with the shine provided by Victoria's Secret. Eyebrow (that I have to draw in) Pencil from Black Radiance.

The eyes.
The Urban Decay palette I bought is my playground. I decided to go for the simple smoky eye but to lighten it up for the sake of daytime. Blending & applying a light silver to it after I finished with the initial application transformed this sex kitten night shadow into a daytime friendly option.

Lookbook: Green streak

Urban Decay
MAC

Halloween 2010: Hair & Makeup fit for a Ringleader

Driving to Work

The way I did it for the club

For the overall makeup, I knew that I wanted to have the red lips- that was a given. For the eyes, I wasn't sure whether to go with a smoky eye for a candy colored eyelid. I went with the smoky eye because I was afraid that paired with the red lips, the candy colored would make me look more circus... Like a clown. Luckily, I have a smoky pallette in my Caboodle so the challenge was the lips. I had to find a red lipcolor in CVS because my job screwed up my schedule so that I couldn't go to MAC like I wanted to. So I started looking through the brands and after ending up with a red sticky hand, I just ended up getting the color from the collection Beyonce endorses.

For the hair, I wanted ringlet curls, but since I'm pretty much only handy with a flat iron I ended up side sweeping it into a slicked back ponytail with a sidepart. That worked for Saturday night because it was hot as  hell in the club. On Sunday, to work I attempted to curl it with my sister's curling iron but that also proved to be an epic fail. Lol at least my hair was decent enough to be let down.

Eyes
Shadow. Physician's Formula Baked Smokes Pallette
Liner. Revlon ColorStay in Black
Mascara. combo between Smashbox Lash DNA (for girth) & Urban Decay Mascara. (to lift & separate/also on bottom lashes)

Lips
Loreal Infallible Lipcolor in Rebel Red

Face
MAC StudioFix in NW 43

Lookbook: simple

Eyes
Inner corner/lid- Victoria's Secret Beauty Rush Luminous eyeshadow in Glow Nude
Crease- Victoria's Secret Beauty Rush Luminous eyeshadow in Plum Passion
Browbone- Victoria's Secret Beauty Rush Wet/dry eyeshadow in Crystal Ball
Eyeliner- Revlon Color Stay Eyeliner in Teal
Mascara- Tarte Mascara in Waterproof Black

Lips
MAC Lipglass in Fancy Cat (Feline Collection.)

Face
MAC StudioFix Powder in NW 43
Applied with brush

Lookbook: A full face of Makeup

A smile for a job well done.

A side view of the eyeshadow

Full face including concealer.

Face

MAC StudioFix in NW43 or NW45

Concealer in the same color.

Eyes

Did a smoky eye on my shadow. 

Inner Lid- MAC Custom shade (created by a friend who works there) the color is a bronzish pink.

Corner- MAC in a custom shade. This color on the corners is a greenish copper (almost like a oxidized penny)

Browbone-Victoria's Secret Wet/Dry eyeshadow in Cappuccino

Eyebrows- Revlon Eybrow Pencil in Dark Brown

Mascara- Smashbox Lash DNA in Blackest Black

Lips

MAC Lipglass in Jealous

Lookbook: (Aqua/silver motif)

There are days when I get a Chance to explore & this was one of them.
My brown skin makes it incredibly challenging to get any type of pigment to last on my eyelids. (Except for MAC- I'm trying to build on that collection but they are pretty damn expensive).

Eyes.
The colors on my eyes are actually all from Victoria's Secret's wet/dry Beauty line. I'll take pics & upload them soon but this whole having a BlackBerry thing is working against me right now!
Mascara is from Supernova called Fresh (got that from the Sephora Deluxe Mascara Sampler- which was a great purchase & I'd reccomend to everyone).
Eyebrows & liner are Maybelline.

Lips.
The color on my lips is from MAC's feline collection called Jealous (its the green one, rightly so. I also have Fancy Cat with is the dark one)

Powder is also from MAC (they're the only ones that carry a powder with enough yellow undertones for my face. All the other companies assume all black people have red undertones. )

The headband is from none other than Forever XXI. I purchased it along with a white one. It's great for days when I feel like just throwing it into a bun.