Blog sale results!

 

 
When Dee aka Miss Prissypants held a blog sale recently I may not have made it in time to grab some of the more coveted items (staring down Stacey and Celeste...) I still grabbed some of the items that I knew I had to have for my daily wear collection.

 

Everything came so securely sealed! Dee is so amazing for ensuring all items came safely and I thank her to no end for doing so. It really made my day to get this package....

...and to find that not only with the lipsticks and eye shadows I got off the blog sale, Dee had also thrown in four loose shadows! I was so ecstatic over that, they're neutral colors and will be so loved.

 

First off is the Revlon matte eye shadow in 009 which is a very dark looking brown but the color is not as intense as I thought it would be.

I was a little disappointed but at the same time I quite liked it nonetheless since I can see it being a good softer dark shade for day looks and I am quite fed up of using only very light colors during the day and looking like a wannabe vampire when I use darker shades that are better suited for the night. So this will probably work out better for my day looks.

Next is the Revlon Colorstay in 02 Coffee Bean which is literally all the neutrals you would ever need. I rarely find - if not rarely, never - a good highlight shadow to use under my brows so I was pretty excited when the lightest shade in this turned out to be the perfect highlight.

The intensity of colors is the same as the matte so nothing exciting but I found it quite lovely when worn, it was nice having a soft, subtle dash of make up on and still feeling pretty without needing primers and bases and what have yous in order to make colors pop.

The claim is that it is a 12 hour eye shadow and I can see how it would be but at the same time I wonder whether it would fade. I will definitely test it out on a day I run around university a lot and come back to this claim...

Too much flash (:

I was so very glad I got to pick up the final NYX colors! I think everyone might have been intimidated by how dark they would be but I am in love! I think it is also because I have tanned considerably so it is certainly easier to pull off these colors (also, Mummy who is much darker in skin tone than I am would always be able to wear these so I might actually give these to her since she loves lipsticks). They are beautiful colors in their own way.

Saturn  is a pretty metallic reddish-brown, I feel it might be a bit too drying though so I am working out ways to wear it without destroying its true color since I find even clear glosses or Vaseline makes it a bit duller. I might have to get a good balm under it but I find balms tend to make these lipsticks move around a bit making application that much more tedious. Hmmm...

Fusion is definitely my going out, having a wild night of clubbing (er...if ever) color - it is such a gorgeous purple-pink! I love it, it is very retro and the best pop of color you can use to brighten up a dark outfit.

Gardenia is just your average color...neither here nor there and I do not have much to say about it really. Enough said as it is. But it is a good lipstick.

I love the extras I got, especially since Femme Fatale is my first Sassy Minerals product ever, even if it is a sample! And of course, Heatheresque is always awesome so I'm quite pleased!

The swatches speak for themselves really, I did these with Evil Shades Evil Eyes in Naked as a primer. The matte color was not as partial to the primer but the shimmery shades held well. I think the matte color (which is Dream Big Dreams) will hold up well just applied on its own as long as it is patted on rather than swiped. Very pretty array of neutrals that are definitely good additions to my growing neutrals collection!

LOTD: New Year Look

If I were able to do a proper new years eve celebration, I would welcome 2011 with a completely purple look! Purple has fast become my favorite color this year and I loved using a million different purples in this look.

Sorry these photos are super quick and almost frazzled but today has been SUCH a hectic day!

LOTD: Mummy Calls It My Peacock

This look I did yesterday originally started off rather light and I did not want to do a heavy look but there was some black pigment in my Fyrinnae Boy Toy that kept smudging whenever I patted it onto my right lid so I had no choice but to darken up my look. It worked out rather well and as I had spent the whole of yesterday out and about town getting some shopping done it attracted  a lot of attention! Here in Sri Lanka when a girl wears a lot of make up she is generally referred to negatively (if you know what I mean) but for one, I am mixed and for another I love scandalizing my own people - there is nothing like ruffling feathers and what better way than to get my inner peacock on?

 

Galaxy and beyond?

 

I look almost like an elf in my opinion...or maybe just Cousin It. My hair drives me nuts these days, there is too much of it!

Looks Of The Week

Looks of the week

This week has passed by in a bit of a blur as I have been in and out of Colombo going on road trips with my parents to Anuradhapura which is the central city in Sri Lanka for stoopas and Buddhist temples, etc. It's a beautiful, serene place and I'm beginning to appreciate the trips there with my parents again. The peace I gain from these trips helps me keep my temper (which flares over the slightest thing) in check and as I don't intend on returning home for at least a year and a half I'm getting the most I can while I am here.

Enough rambling, here are the looks I've done over the past few days.

A usual purple-y combination, I can't seem to stray away from my purples really! Nothing exciting and as usual it didn't come out the way I intended.

Purples are harder in my opinion unless you use them with a very bold and opposing color. I guess you can count this as a daily look.

I'm pretty proud of this look - blues! I used to fear blues with a passion and dislike the "cheap" look it gives reminiscent of the 70s and what should be kept in the past.

However I've learned to appreciate the different ways you can use blue without looking tarty or overly bright.

I'll definitely be experimenting with blues more in the future! It helps that Fyrinnae makes some stunning shades of blue.

A quick photo of a fairly...nothing there look? Yes and yes! I was due to leave to A'pura and just wanted to snap a shot of my "traveling" make up. While I don't wear foundation or concealer (besides, in the tropics you're better off without a whole layer of make up on your face, it just melts off!) I like to have some blush, mascara and a slick of eyeliner for when I'm traveling. Maybe not for my +10 hour journey up and down from Adelaide to Colombo (planes and make up is a no-no) but on 6 hour road trips? Sure, why not.

It's Christmas eve today! This is my look for today - reds and greens but then I chose to do a twist on my waterline with some "bauble" colors. So I guess you can say I'm trying to channel a Christmas tree look today. It's so dark today because it's going to rain so you can't see very much unfortunately...

I'm off to A'pura tomorrow as well so I won't be able to do a Christmas day look but I'll do one on Sunday hopefully (:

Fyrinnae's Dinosaur Plushie is to die for! I absolutely love it, not only because of its name!

Thank goodness for flash so you can see the colors a little better!

Forgotten LOTDs: Fails Of Purple

Looks of the Day that I strive to forget

I tried and failed with my first look: believe it or not, there are three different purples but it merged into one (even without the editing - which I do for fun on failed looks by the way - the purples were unidentifiable). I need to learn how to differentiate between similar shades and blend/combine accordingly.

With the second look I went for a "sunset transition", going from a blue-orange on my waterline to a dusky purple-dark blue combination on the lid. I think today was too humid though for make up, blending and being artistic in general so it didn't work out or have the intensity I wanted. It might be because of the primer as well which I will do another post on once I test out another primer...

Look away, these are edited (advance warning) because they are failed. Cam-whoring is always fun though.

In Between: As Usual, A Life Update (P.S. My 100th Post!)

Just a little filler, just whiling away my days

Oh readers, it feels as though every time I get a start on my blog something happens and I get so distracted with real life and neglect to post. I am so proud of the followers (you!) I have accumulated throughout this year and I am grateful my blog has been relatively constant since I decided to start blogging again. I definitely feel like I need to change up some of my posts and will be looking into a new post structure for the rest of this year and hopefully by 2011 I'll have The Suki Chronicles the way I want it to be.

So what has been going on in my world?

Since Pebbles passed away - exactly a week today - I have been trying to keep myself occupied and not mope. I have wonderful memories of Pebbles and she is the last part of my childhood having been in my life for 14 years. We rescued her from a drain in Singapore and from there we took her with us to Hong Kong along with our other cat Jessica and then from there to Sri Lanka - alas, without Jessica who passed away from a tumor in Hong Kong. Pebbles was the old crone in our family and everyday I think of her, missing her usual presence in her usual spots.

Mummy and I have caught up with my Aunt (Mummy's sister) and gone to see a play as well as a jewelry exhibition. The latter added a new lust to my wish list and that is green diamonds which are very, very rare and also extraordinarily expensive but decidedly my new future investment.

And along the lines of diamonds is one of my favorite advertisement tag lines: Mummy says if he cannot afford diamonds then he cannot afford me. So true! Something to consider, ladies.

My grandmother arrives tonight and will be staying here with us for a while. I leave for Adelaide in about eighteen days though and unfortunately due to certain circumstances I won't be attending summer school as planned but instead will be pursuing several job opportunities. I'm not sure where this all will take me but I'm hoping fervently that there will be a happy ending to all of this and 2011 will be a happy year for me.

So I leave you with two looks I forgot to post from last week. Not very exciting but I promise to try to come up with some outrageous looks come next week.

I hope you all are doing well!

Does anyone know what's up with bloggers refusal to rotate?! I'm going to find a way to override this in my next posts! Grrr...

P.S. How adorable is this?

Suki Challenge: Cerberus vs. Coffins and Killer Bees

I like it rough

(I kind of look like I've come out of a horror movie...)

Today was insanely hot and I was unprepared for the heat! I've forgotten how humid it can be over here in Sri Lanka. In comparison, Adelaide's summer heat is more dry than humid. I don't know which I prefer to be honest: scalding sun or sweaty days?

Anyway, since I had errands to run today I thought I'd go for a darker look and wondered how different Cerberus and another Evil Shades shadow, Coffins, would be from one another. Coffins is considerably lighter, in the jar, swatched, in person but not in photos evidently.

To also make the look more suitable for sunny Colombo (and judgmental locals) I added She Space's Killer Bees as my water line color which completed the look in my opinion.

My verdict? I quite like them together but I don't think Coffins manages to stand out more than Cerberus. They're more like amicable companions. Coffins could easily be one of Cerberus' three heads. I wonder who the third head would be...?

There I go again, storytelling. I say this is a draw.

Cerberus 4       Opponent 2