When Sparkles Fly - EOTD

I did this look a couple weeks ago. I think this could maybe be a look to go out clubbing or something. It's very shiny. :) I couldnt come up with a clever name for this. My friend at work said it reminded her of the clouds on a cover for He-man or She-ra.  My eyebrows are yikes. I finally found my tweezers tonight when I was cleaning house.


Items Used:
*BFTE Lava Momma
*BFTE Sugarplum
 *BFTE Peacock
*BFTE Meteor Shower
*Mon Ennui Hyponostatic
*BFTE Very Vanilla
*Inglot Gel Liner 77
*Maybelline Falsies Mascara

with Flash
Without Flash

*Primer
*Apply a cut crease with UD Zero Liner
*Fill in lid with NYX Milk
*Apply BFTE Lava Momma to inner third of lid.
*Apply BFTE Sugarplum to middle of lid.
*Apply BFTE Peacock to outer third of lid.
*Apply BFTE Meteor Shower to crease.
*Using Mixing Medium I applied Mon Ennui Hypnostatic to lower lashline.
*Lined eyes with Inglot Gel Liner #77.
*Highlighted with BFTE Very Vanilla
*2 Coats of Mascara.

BFTE Mermaid (Duochrome)

Autumn at the Daily Glamour was having a contest to win some BFTE Cosmetics and you won by being the first person to name all 3 products she was wearing in her eye look. I got 2 of them on my first try. I didnt realize she had said it was between me and another girl to guess the remaining one. I was off playing with makeup during the time. It ended up being Mermaid from BFTE. I hadn't used my sample in forever so I decided to do a quick look the next day using it. 

I remember first seeing this color in a video from Xsparkage and knew I had to have it. Im hoping one of these days they will put a duochrome for the color of the week because I would like to have this one fullsize (as well as whisper). Its a shiny paleish yellow with a green a duochrome.




Applied Dry with Fingertip, NYX Milk, and UD Liner Zero



Items Used:
*BFTE Mermaid
*BFTE Dragonslayer
*BFTE Meteor Shower
*BFTE Poison Ivy
*BFTE Very Vanilla
*UD 24/7 Liner Zero
*Elf Black Cream Liner
*Maybelline Illegal Length Mascara





*Applied Eye Primer
*Applied UD Liner Zero to Lid, smooth out a little with fingers.
*Patted on some Mermaid and blended in with black to bring the green out.
*Applied Meteor Shower into crease and outer edge of Mermaid.
*Blended Poison Ivy in with Meteor Shower.
*Applied UD Liner in Junkie to lower lashline.
*Applied Poison Ivy over Junkie.
*Applied Dragonslayer into inner corner of lid.
*Patted and blended Mermaid on top to lighten.
*Highlighted with Very Vanilla.
*Applied UD Zero to waterline.
*Applied Black Liner.
*2 Coats of Mascara



My hubby ordered me 2 mustache earrings. I dont really care for facial hair like mustaches, goatees, and beards. But I do think the mustache thing is cute!! My friend from High School and the rest of her family must love that they can now find mustache things. They were obsessed with it before this craze for years. Her dad has a mustache that is similar. I think I might have maybe only seen him once without the mustache. Met them in Germany back in 1997 when we moved there. My dad was stationed at a base there. 



I like the 2nd pair more which I will be posting in my St Patty's Day Look Post. I believe he bought this for me off of ebay. If you would like to purchase Mermaid you can find it at the BFTE Cosmetics website. Its $6.50 for a Full Size and $2.00 for Sample. They always have a color of the week that is full size with 3 samples of your choosing for $6.00. So you could also go that way and choose mermaid for one of your 3 samples. :)

Purple Smoke

I did a quick smokey purple look on Monday before I went out shopping. My work every few months gives us a double discount. Us Ross workers go crazy during this time. Ive actually was only looking for work clothes, but I did get me a cute Hello Kitty Bag!! This wasnt applied perfectly since I was in a hurry. Did my whole face and eye makeup in like 20 minutes. Then I quickly snapped some pics and only had a few that came out.

I used some BFTE colors again. Ive been neglecting my body needs lately and using my BFTE colors. They have such a wide selection of colors from matte to shimmer to satin to duo chromes and every color you could probably think of. Every week they have a color of the week. For $6.00 ($10 after shipping)you get a full size of COTW and then you get to choose 3 samples of your choice (each sample is regularly $2.00). Ive been liking the COTWs lately so I keep purchasing.



Items Used:
*BFTE Tinker
*BFTE Aphrodite
*BFTE Midnight Kisses
*BFTE Meteor Shower
*BFTE Very Vanilla
*UD Tornado (Glinda Palette)
*UD Aura - Light Lavender (Glinda Palette)
*UD 24/7 Liner Rock Star
*NYX Jumbo Pencil Milk
*Elf Liquid Liner
*Bare Minerals Flawless Definition Mascara




*Applied Primer. (Mon Ennui Prime Time)
*Applied NYX Milk to lid and blended out with fingers.
*Applied Tinker to inner 1/3 of lid.
*To lighten it a bit, I applied UD Aura over.
*Applied Aphrodite to mid lid.
*Blend
*Apply Midnight Kisses to outer 1/3 of lid.
*Blend
*Blend Meteor shower into midnight kisses and up into crease.
*Applied Very Vanilla as a Highlight.
*Applied Rockstar liner to lower lashline.
*Applied UD Tornado over liner.
*Applied Elf Black Liquid Liner.
*2 coats of Mascara

Sea Smoke EOTD

Sorry for the lack of posts. Ive been busy with work and just tired lately. Either I haven't liked the looks I did or the pics didnt turn out. Also got the head cold that was going around, so felt pretty much blah the last week. In my face pic im going to post you might be able to tell. :p 

I've been really liking the seafoam color lately. We have been getting items at work lately and a fellow coworker of mine, we keep admirincg the color. I decided to do a look using the color from BFTE and TBN. The crease  needs a little work but im going to post anyway. :)



Items Used:
*TBN Irish Dreams
*BFTE Green Apple
*BFTE Walking on Water
*BFTE Meteor Shower
*BFTE Very Vanilla
*UD South (Glinda Palette)
*UD 24/7 Liner Junkie
*Eye Kandy Cosmetics Spearmint
*Bare Minerals Flawless Definition Mascara







*Applied Primer (Mon Ennui Prime Time)
*Applied NYX Milk to lid.
*Applied TBN Irish Dreams to inner half of lid.
*Applied BFTE Green Apple to middle of lid.
*Blend
*Applied Walking on Water to outer lid.
*Blend
*Applied UD South to crease.
*Blend
*Blended Meteor Shower to South to darken.
*Applied BFTE Mermaid as a inner corner highlight.
*Highlighted with BFTE Very Vanilla
*Applied UD 24/7 Liner Junkie to lower lashline.
*Using Eye Kandy Liquid Sugar Applied Eye Kandy Cosmetics Spearmint over the junkie liner. 
*Applied UD 24/7 Liner Perversion to waterline.
*2 coats of Bare Minerals Flawless Defintion Mascara

Cheshire Cat/VDay Look

I decided to use some of my new colors that I got from BFTE Cosmetics. I originally did this look on Tuesday. But I didnt like how it turned out. I then saw that Easymakeup makeupblog on FB had some Cut Crease Picture Tutorials. I used it yesterday and decided to recreate my tuesday look using the same tutorial.



The colors reminded me of Valentine's Day. Vday is one of my favorite Holidays. Probably because of the colors, hearts, love, etc... I love romantic stuff. I just find it to be so cute. :) I love chick flicks and of course my hubby hates them. I love Pretty Woman, The Notebook, Grease, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Clueless, Dear John, Bridgit Jones's Diary, Sweet Home Alabama, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Breakfast at Tiffanys, When Harry Met Sally, Devil Wears Prada, etc...



Next month Ill start having a chick flick marathon. Have a favorite girl movie you love to watch?? I have some I havent watched in a few years like Legally Blonde, 27 Dresses, The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, and many more.



2 people at work today said my look reminded them of my favorite character from Alice in Wonderland, the Cheshire Cat.



This is the tutorial I used to create this look. I didnt follow it completely but I did the basics. :)



Items Used:

BFTE Cosmetics Midnight Kisses
BFTE Cosmetics Passion
BFTE Cosmetics Meteor Shower
BFTE Cosmetics Big Ego
Mon Ennui Cosmetics Cupcake Addict
The Body Needs Siren
Elf Liquid Liner
NYX Jumbo Pencil Milk









*First Applied Primer (Elf Primer)
*Applied a cut crease with Purple Liner. (UD 24/7 Liner Ransom)
*Filled in lid with white base. (NYX Jumbo Pencil Milk)
*Applied Matte Pink Shadow to Lid. (Mon Ennui Cupcake Addict)
*Applied Bright Midtone Pink over Matte Pink (BFTE Passion)
*Applied more Purple Liner .
*Blended some Purple Shadow over Liner. (BFTE Midnight Kisses)
*Blended Pinkish Red Shadow to the edges of Purple Shadow. (The Body Needs Siren)
*Applied Dark Purple to lower lashline. (BFTE Big Ego)
*Applied Sparkly Dark Grayish Black over Dark Purple. (BFTE Meteor Shower)
*Applied White Shadow to Highlight (Elf 100 Pc Palette)
*Applied Liner. (Elf Liquid Liner)
*Coat of Mascara (Bare Minerals Flawless Definition Volumizing Mascara)


Other Notes:


My hubby got me the Samsung DV300 Dual View Camera for Vday/Anniversary. I'm still trying to figure out the right settings to have it on to take pictures for my blog. Sorry if my pictures above are dark. Everytime I use the flash im whited out in the picture. I like that this camera includes a Beauty Shot setting which will be good for full face pics once I get the settings right. 

BFTE Sample Sale Haul

Last weekend BFTE Cosmetics was having a sale on their samples. Instead of being $2, they were only a dollar. I wasnt at home to have my list of colors I wanted. These were just colors I saw I liked while looking through the colors on my kindle. I thought I ordered a couple more but I guess not.



Some of the colors I got were the Pro Colors. (Okul, Kraz, and Hydrobius).  Pro Colors differ from BFTE's normal line because they are made with dyes, silicones, waxes, etc. which are supposed to make them more pigmented, vibrant, and blendable. They cost the same as normal eyeshadows: $6.50 for full size and $2.00 for sample jars.



Each jar I believe has 1/4 a tsp of product. (This is pretty standard for indy brand samples)





These give you an idea of the amount of product that can come in them. I actually asked about how much product should be in the samples. The lovely Crystal gave me this reply:

"We measure each color using a scoop. Some colors are lighter and do not pack down in the scoop like others. We also had to use a different type of jar to fill some orders. The newer jars make it appear that there is less in the jar."



Hydrobius (Pro Color): Bright Medium Blue with Shimmer 



This pic was blurry. :/ I  need to retake it.



Midnight Kisses: Deep blue-toned purple with subtle pink shimmer. 





My first couple pics are blurry. :/



Big Ego: Rich, deep dark royal purple with subtle shimmer.







Isis: Blackened blood red, with red-bronze under tones.







Blue Bird: Very Bright Blue







Meteor Shower: Grayish Black with rainbow sparkles. This is the one I most excited to try out. Its gorgeous!! <3 Im going to have to order a full size.







Passion: Bright mid-tone pink with slight blue-violet sheen.







Kraz (Pro Color): Shimmery Kelly Green (This is on the website as Kras)







Walking on Water: Teal blue with multi-colored sparkles. I've seen many looks posted using this color. I finally have a sample, and its gorgeous!!







Okul (Pro Color): a sunny yellow with shimmer.





I really need to retake pics in the daylight. I took all these pics with the bad lighting in my apt. 









I cant wait to play with these. I already have an idea in mind for isis, midnight kisses, meteor shower, and passion. :)