Follow Your Nose

Hola peeps! So I entered yet ANOTHER MakeUp Bee contest, this time Inglot is hosting a tropical theme. Initially I wanted to do a look based on all of the awesome flowers I had seen on my trips to Ecuador and Costa Rica.

I had such high hopes! :(

Alas, my first attempt at that had disastrous results (in my opinion) and I decided I needed to go another route. I decided to find another means on inspiration, and being that I am an animal lover, that's the way I went. First I was gonna go with a fish, but then I decided on a toucan. Since my name is Sam, why not base my look on Toucan Sam, the mascot of Froot Loops? So I googled pictures of toucans and pick out an awesome one to gather inspiration from. And here goes a pretty much step-by-step of how it went:

• Slather my eyes with e.l.f. primer and NYX eyeshadow base with my finger. My face is also covered in Hard Candy bronzer, I figured if it's tropical, you gotta be tan and golden (bronzed, if you will). My lips are left over from the first look, and by the time I finished my makeup the second time, I decided not to changed them. Initially I was going to paint them black. This is Maybelline's Coral Crush with a bit of MAC's Magenta Madness pigment (which i then accidentally spilled all over myself and my bed) in the middle

• With my MUFE Flash palette, add yellow detailing across my upper eyelid, then went over it with Sugarpill's Buttercupcake and another yellow from the BH Cosmetics' 120 palette, 1st edition.

• I then went in and added the rest of the colors: Sugarpill's Asylum, NYX's Jade Pearl and Baby Blue Pearl. As you can see I applied it really messy, I was only careful with the edges where the colors met.

• I then went in with my Maybelline Master Precise eyeliner pen and UD's Perversion and added black details/eyeliner to make it look more like a toucan. I think it was at this point that I forgot so take more step by step pictures. Whoops! I also took the black from the flash palette and drew a black line down the middle of my lips. Then I just added mascara and cleaned up the edges with a makeup wipe! TADA, I'm done!

Don't the plants just scream "TROPICAL!" ? Instead of "my front yard!"

I hope you guys like this look! If you do and you're on Makeup Bee, go vote for me!!! https://www.makeupbee.com/look.php?look_id=49073

HASTA LUEGO!

Happy Fourth

So, this is a few days late, but I decided to share my Independence Day look with everyone. No pix of me doing it, but I'm thinking of revisiting it soon for a night out in the near future, and maybe a few tweaks on the execution. Hope you guys enjoy!

Products Used:
Sugarpill Cosmetics shadows in Tako, Velocity, Love+, and Royal Sugar
UDPP
MAC lipstick in Ruby Woo
Maybelline Masterprecise eyeliner
pixi eyeliner in No 1 Black
NYX eyeshadow base in White

And here are the results!!!

My nails got into the act!

My mom saw my in this makeup and my sky high blue suede heels and commented that I was my own Lady Gaga... While I was marveling at the fact that she knew who that was, she went on to say that I looked crazy, hahaha!!! Oh well, everyone's a critic.

Hasta Luego!!!

Let Them Eat Cake

Yo peeps! It's been a while, but as I start to unwind from my difficult week, it seemed to be the perfect opportunuty to head to my local hookah bar and pop out a blog or two. This one is gonna be about the MakeUp Bee/Lime Crime contest I entered. With the release of their newest D'Antoinette collection, Lime Crime decided to host a contest. They wanted whimsical looks based upon the life and style of Marie Antoinette. I was really excited about this contest, especially since I had played Marie Antoinette in a class project. I had it made until I was "beheaded" during our reenactment of the French Revolution.

After researching her more carefully and looking at tons of painting of her, I decided to go with a wild child modern day look. I had a lot of fun with this and hope you guys enjoy it too. I didn't take any pictures during application, but I took tons of picture afterward for everyone to see. I call this look 'Cake Eater', although it is not believed that she ever told anyone "Let them eat cake."

Here's my official entry pic:

I figured I would go with an extremely girly color scheme: pink, white, and silver. Fortunately the white wasn't too much of a stark contrast against my skin, I guess I'm getting better at my blending, YAY! :)

Products Used (most of them):
 Sugarpill shadows in Dollipop, Tako, Love+, and (accidentally) Bulletproof.
Wet N Wild palette in Spoiled Brat
Mac pigment in Fuchsia


I also did my nails for this and thought they looked awesome, which is why I made sure to include a pic of them. Here are some others as well...

A picture of my nails close up

This is before I added the hat,

And here with the hat, which I love!!!!

For this one I was going for "My head's about to be cut off"

Until next time,


HASTA LUEGO!

I'm a Heartbreaker!

Hola, peeps!!!

So last Friday, Sugarpill Cosmetics released the last palette of their "Heart" line. This one is the Heartbreaker, featuring bright colors that are sure to make your eyes pop and make heads turn! Needless to say, I stayed up until 2am to order as soon as it was available. I got my shipment super quick, and it was waiting for me on Monday morning. At first I wasn't sure if I felt that they were as bright as what I was hoping for, but after trying them out I would say I am definitely satisfied and can't wait to try new looks with it in the future. Individually, the shadows are $12, but if you buy it in palette form, they're only $34, which is a savings of $14.

Amy, being super sweet as usual!

New color packaging

All of my goodies, including a sample of Junebug

New sticker design

THE PLAYERS:

Acidberry: Bright lime green, similar to Sugarpill's Loose shadow in Absinthe, but a little less yellow and a little darker. Swatched pretty sheer, but was easy to work with on my lid.

Velocity: A nice medium blue color, similar to Royal Sugar, but not sparkly. It's also darker than Afterparty.

2am: A medium reddish purple, it's lighter and more red than Poison Plum. When swatched, it was the sheerest color, but shows up on the lid just fine. Love the name of this one, and can't wait to use it more.


Mochi: A light aqua blue, the most opaque of the quad, I feel like it's a bit light for me to use on a regular basis. I guess only time will tell. Swatches super easy, so if you love the color, it will be easy to work with. In the pan it appears similar, but light than Midori, but I don't think they are really comparable in usage.

Right after this, I accidentally stuck my fingernail into Velocity :(

The fingers I used to swatch

Velocity, Acidberry, 2am, Mochi

I put all three of my quads from this series next to each other for comparison since a few would appear to have similar colors. Here they are for comparison.

Sweetheart, Burning Heart, and Heart Breaker

So after all of the tedious swatching, picture taking, and captioning came the fun part, PLAYTIME!!!


Please indulge me with all of my angles, face making, etc. Just wanting you to get all of the Heartbreaking goodness! :)



Products Used:

Tear duct- Absinthe
Inner Corner- Acidberry
Center- Velocity
Outer Corner- 2am
Crease- Poison Plum
Lower Lid- Mochi
(All shadows are by Sugarpill, my mascara is Hard Candy's Lash Call in Peacock)

The world is sad... they can't all be Heartbreakers

Who are you telling I don't look good?

Side view

I give this palette 2 thumbs up, as usual for Sugarpill. I hope this review helps someone, and inspires you guys to get this awesome palette. Brighten up your world, it's the only one we've got! :)

HASTA LUEGO!

Colorful Fun-EOTD

So, after watching an awesome video on Youtube, I was inspired to dust off my makeup collection and go bright for no reason at all. I did my own spin on a colorful 80s-inspired look. Here are some pics, and I may sit down, repeat this look and make a tutorial.

Products used:

• Sugarpill Cosmetics eyeshadow: Afterparty, Absinthe, Buttercupcake, Flamepoint, Dollipop
• tokidoki cosmetics eyeshadow: Killer Candy
• BH Cosmetics eyeshadow: yellow from 120 palette, 1st edition
• Urban Decay Primer Potion
• pixi cosmetics eyeliner: Black
• NYX Cosmetics eyeshadow base in White

Hope you guys enjoyed!

HASTA LUEGO!

Sugarpill Contest Entry... Colorful Winter

Hola, peeps!!! This look came about by me finally getting the guts to actually enter a makeup contest for once. I came close once before when I saw a cool contest that would be inspired by candy, but after I saw my final product...I chickened out! :(  Well this time, I decided to give myself a real shot, and I must say that fairly satisfied with the outcome! Here's a rough step-by-step of how it turned out! (I took pictures along the way, in case I messed up, lol). For my "Colorful Winter Wonderland", I decided to draw a New Years' scene from my hometown, New Orleans. It's fireworks being shot over the St. Louis Cathedral...

First, I drew a rough sketch of my picture in white pencil eyeliner. 

After I was satisfied with the white sketch, I went over the cathedral in black liquid liner.

Since the building is white, I went in with my MUFE Flash color palette and added a white base for the white and gray shadows. For a first try, I started off BIG!!! Imagine trying to draw a white building AT NIGHT! That leads to needing all sorts of shading of white and gray for all the shadows.

To finish the cathedral, I colored in the steeples, colored in the front door, added shutters, and went back over some of the outlines that got smudged. (I forgot to go back over the steeples though... next time.)

After I finished the cathedral, I started on the night sky background. I started at the bottom with a sparkly black to simulate the dark, star-filled sky...

As I got closer to the fireworks on the other side of my face, I switched to a dark blue/black. Both of these darker blues came from the Wet N Wild palette, Blue Had Me At Hello.

Right next to the fireworks, I made the sky the lightest, since the sky would be lit up due to the pyrotechnics. I got 2 lighter blues from NYX, even though I am still mad about their 12th anniversary sale fiasco and will NEVER order anything from their site!!! After I finished the night sky, I went over my original white firework sketches with the NYX jumbo pencil in Milk. This was to help the fireworks standout as much as possible once I colored them in.

I colored in my the biggest starburst with a holographic gold glitter. Unfortunately the flash washed out the color so it mostly looks white still, but if you look closely you can still see some of the gold flecks. Too bad I did this in the middle of the night! :( With natural daylight, I think I could have picked up how awesome it looked in person. Maybe a better camera would have worked too, but I'm working with what I've got.

Since the gold holographic glitter didn't work out too well, I decided to nix the silver glitter I had for another of the bursts. Instead I went in with 3 different Sugarpill colors: Absinthe, Flamepoint, and Asylum. I LOVE Sugarpill, it's so bright, and was perfect for this look. After I touched up the cathedral and night sky again, I was content to say that the pictures below are the final product!!!! Hope you enjoy my efforts! Wish me luck!

TADA!!!

I did pretty well on this side considering it was hard to reach with my left hand! 

Added a festive hat!

Strike a pose!

Products used:

Wet N Wild palette- Blue Had Me At Hello

NYX jumbo pencil, milk

NYC liquid eyeliner, black

NYX eye pencil, white

Sugarpill- Flamepoint, Asylum, Absinthe, Tako

NYX ultra pearl mania- baby blue pearl, space pearl

NYX glitter mania-Hot gold

NYC lipstick- Ruby

MUFE flash color palette- black, white

BH cosmetics 120 palette, 1^st edition

HASTA LUEGO!