Errrr...Sorry About That!

Apparently I haven't posted since April, so I guess I need to get on that!

Just a quick summary of how things are going:

I've solved my eyeliner woes.  I was recommended Stila's waterproof eyeliner marker pen thingie, and holy moly it has changed my life!  It is so easy to use and goes on so perfectly and doesn't smudge or smear.  I can literally sleep on it and wake up and wear it again the next day!

Birchbox is still going strong.  I'm especially excited that I got to pick my own nail polish for the July box!

May 2014 Birchbox.  Traded that lipgloss with my BFF for a bright pink instead of coral!

June 2014 box.  Pretty decent stuff!

I tried Ipsy...and after receiving my third bag and the eyeliner explosion that ruined one of my shirts, I promptly cancelled my subscription.  They did send me a new eyeliner and a bonus item, but it was too little too late, and the eyeliner was a cheap imitation of the the Stila featured above anyway.

In OTHER NEWS!  I've decided to give StitchFix a go!  I love shopping, but hate styling myself and I've never felt that I'm good at coordinating accessories/outfits, so I'm super stoked to have someone do that for me!  If you don't know what the service is, you pay $20 and fill out a style profile and someone picks five items of clothes for you, and you keep what you like.  The $20 styling fee can be used towards the purchase of an item from your fix.  If you keep all five items, you get them at a discount.  I'm a little nervous, as I'm scared my clothes will be pricey, but I'm excited at the same time.

If any of you are interested, please feel free to use my referral code!  And of course I'll blog my fix when I receive it!

Also...I HAVE PINK HAIR!!! YAY SUMMER BREAK!!!

And I got my septum pierced.

Eyeliner on point!  Thanks Stila!

Until next time! :)

Eyeliner Overkill

I swear...it's always something.  The struggle goes on...

Today I actually had time to do my makeup at home, so I decided to go for some eyeliner.  It started off okay, but then after I messed up my left eye, then I tried to wipe some off and smudged it, then I started trying to make it even...and I just ended up with way too much.  And then it's not even really nice looking and THEN on top of that I have the messiest hair going on today...and it's raining.  And it's only Tuesday.  And and and...

Le sigh.

What color are my eyes, even?  They aren't blue, they aren't green, they aren't grey...and what is that little brown spot that has recently appeared there?  Am I dying?  Eyeliner poisoning?!

So I think I'm ready to try something different.  I have an eyeliner pencil that I am going to try next time, and then I'm also looking into getting the Mary Kay gel eyeliner, so there's that.  Anywho, I can relate so much to this graphic right now:

Messy hair, messy eyeliner don't care.  Happy Tuesday.

Also, just in case anyone was wondering, the eyeliner I've been using since I started this adventure is Hard Candy's Walk the Line.  The brush isn't very fine, so maybe that is part of the reason for my struggle?

Image from KraseyBeauty.com.

EDIT: Okay, in hindsight, and not looking so CLOSE UP AT MYSELF IN THE MIRROR, I don't think my eyeliner looks all THAT bad.  Right...?  I think maybe it is too much without enough of anything else.  I really need to start experimenting with my eyeshadow palette!

Told you my hair was messy - I'm in disguise as a student today.

Alert! Serious Beauty Purchase Made!

Oooooh my goodness.  I am GIDDY WITH EXCITEMENT!  Today I purchased my first extra fancy eyeshadow palette!  Do I have any idea what I'm doing or how exactly to use it?  No!  Do I have the first idea about blending or primers? No!  Do I have a single clue when it comes to wet-dry shadows? No!  But eeeee, I'm so excited!

I was shopping at Sephora today, and my BFF has been considering the Urban Decay Naked 3 Palette for a while.  We were checking it out, and I was pretty interested in purchasing, but realized that I wasn't really into a fully-neutral palette, especially one that was so pricey.  I really like eyeshadows that are brown and purple, so I was hoping to find a palette that had both of those shades and a little bit of shimmer.

And THEN!  I stumbled upon Too Faced Return of Sexy...and oh me oh my I fell in love.  It was so pricey, but the colors were so beautiful.  I stroked the shadow with my finger tips and almost fainted with happiness at the sparkly softness, and it came with a black eyeliner and sample primer (NEVER used that before).  So I bought it.  It will definitely be a learning experience, but I'm excited!  If anyone has any tips or tricks for BEGINNERS, I welcome them!

Here is my picture of the palette; I tried to get the colors as true to life as possible.

I randomly searched instagram's #toofaced tag...and I stumbled upon this:

I cannot even count how many different steps were used to create her makeup look, and while I think it looks good, that is just WAY over the top for me.  My goal is to stay low maintenance, but feel pretty.  I feel like I can accomplish that without 700 steps and 9852 different products.  Right?!

I also got a lipstick today!  I have never been big on lip color (I have a hot Barbie pink I wear when I play roller derby...post about bout day makeup another time!), but my BFF gave me her MAC Angel today and it looks so pretty on me!  She didn't like it, so I was lucky to inherit it!  Hooray me! (WHHHHHY does MAC lipstick smell so good?!)

Look, I'm a grown up!  I left a lipstick smudge on my coffee cup. ;)

Eyeliner Part 2

I just wanted to report that today's eyeliner came out MUCH BETTER!

So happy!  This time I did it before leaving the house, but then I was almost late to work.  Sigh.  The life of a girly girl.

My Crush With Eyeliner

I've got 99 problems...and messing up my eyeliner seems to be 85% of them...

I LOVE liquid eyeliner.  I love the look of a good cat-eye.  I don't know if any makeup trend is prettier to me than a girl who wears eyeliner.  My BFF is always rocking the most gorgeous eyeliner and I have envied her.  It just seemed like a skill that was beyond me and the limits of my patience.

I realize, though, after buying some and trying it out (once), that I was kind of okay with drawing a line across the top of my lashes.  I'm decent at drawing and I've always been good at making lines, but translating that to your face can be somewhat difficult.  The first day I wore my liquid eyeliner (on a weekend while on a playdate/movie outing with a friend), I noticed that it transferred to my upper lid.  I supposed that was because I didn't let it completely dry before looking up/forward.  I also noticed that it was extremely difficult to remove (I guess it is waterproof?!), so I had to scrub it off the best I could throughout my outing before using makeup remover to take it off when I got home.

SO THIS YEAR, I made the weirdest New Year's Resolution ever. I wanted to wear MOAR EYELINER!  After the clock struck twelve, I grabbed my liquid eyeliner, and I made the most BEAUTIFUL and PERFECT application of eyeliner ever.  It was marvelous.

And then...it seems to have all gone downhill from there.  Some days, I pull it off and it looks perfect.  Other days, I mess up and end up rushing out the door sans makeup because I couldn't fix it before I had to leave for work.  Recently I realized I could draw a thin line and make it look okay and I had a series of good eyeliner days.

AND THEN....Today happened.

What HAPPENED, Today?

I mean, I know I shouldn't have done my eyeliner in the car*.
In the dark.
In the rain.
But...I thought we had figured this out. I thought we had worked past all this.  I thought we were GOOD!

...Fingers crossed things go better tomorrow.  I don't think I'm going to do my eyeliner in the car anymore.

*I was parked at work when I started doing my eye makeup.  I would NEVER try to apply makeup while driving.  Just sayin'.