There are the locks of blackness.. just as I promised. I was actually taking a picture of me with my fiancee, Steve, and he accidentally was cut from this photo. =( But anyway, I took my hair from platinum blonde streaks and burgundy hair to this black velvet, Priscilla & Elvis wedding hair.
Yeah.. she was my inspiration for this hair color and after looking at my split ends and damage, I figured it was time to put some life back into my hair. I did not use permanent dye, ohh no! The last time I used permanent black dye, my hair came out more damaged than I started out with. I used Natural Instincts by Clairol with very good results. I’ve used this dye before and really love how it conditions your hair.
Yeah.. I did leave a few blonde streaks in my hair just for the hell of it and added a few blonde extensions myself.
I am using a lot of brown neutral makeup with my new hair.. I want to go bold with a fuchsia lipstick and see what happens. I’ll keep you posted.
Words from the wise… don’t ever rush your downward dog yoga pose, or you will end up like me: at home, laying sideways on the couch with an ice pack on your neck, in a mini Vicodin coma. I am slowly creeping out from behind my comforting Vicodin coma.. I don’t have any more pills left. Luckily, I know drug dealers.. I mean.. people with a lot of prescriptions on-hand.
Anyway, on Friday, when my neck pain was just starting to set in, I dyed my hair jet black. I am pretty happy with the results and my hair feels nice and healthy. I left a few blonde streaks in, just to give my hair some texture. I know if I would have taken my highlights out, I would have looked like I was wearing a big black wig. Promised pictures to come..just NOT right now. Ugh..
I am in pain right now, I can’t type. Ow. Ok. bye.
Is it just me who believes that the “D” in Dior represents DIVINE? No.. not Divine as in Mrs. Turnblad rocking the high arched brows Divine.. I mean.. the definition of the word Divine. Luscious, lovely.. OMG.
My best friend Kat and I crawled away from the kids for a moment to lavish ourselves in the Pleasanton Stoneridge Mall’s only gem.. the Nordstroms cosmetics department, where fresh, bright white teeth are there to greet us, and flawlessly concealed skin is just a few feet in front of us. This is heaven. Ahhh yes, not even the man above (baby Jesus) could understand the feeling of sitting in the makeup artist’s chair, being pampered and petted with a squirrel hair brush.
I floated over to the Dior counter, where amazing airbrushed photos of models were whispering to me, “This lipgloss was made for YOU.” I believed it. Every word. Sixty dollars later, I was holding a bag of two of the finest Dior glosses known to woman.
Diorshow Gloss Show. $27 dollars each. .21 oz.
Wow. So these are actually worth 30 bucks each. No freaking kidding! Even the packaging was impressive. If you want high shine and a shitload of shimmer, then these beauties are for YOU. I recommend them all.. if you can afford it, get them all. I was only able to purchase Sofia Silver, which is like snow for your lips and perfect for adding a highlight over dark colors or adding shimmer to a matte shade. Charlotte Moka is shown above. It’s a coppery shimmer that is very sheer, and looks really good with a mahogany lip liner.
Do me a favor and at least go try these on. They should be available at Sephora and Nordstroms (and that shitty place called Macys)
I scurried over to the NARS counter before I ended up handing my paycheck over to Dior.. which I would gladly do if I won the lottery. (I actually forgot that I had a Lottery scratcher in my purse until I just typed that. I just scratched it off and I just won $10.. no joke)
Anyway, I headed over to NARS and met a lovely makeup artist by the name of Ben. He knew my correct foundation shade the minute the slimming Nordstrom lighting hit my face. He just knew I was newly crowned Miss. Deauville the moment he set his eyes on me. Deauville is my shade from now until forever. I wasn’t a fan of powder foundation until Ben slapped me in the face with it.
Can you believe this stuff has UVA and UVB protection? SPF 12 and PA++ to boot.
$45 dollars, mirror, velvet application pad, refillable compact.. pricey but very much worth it. Years ago, I was loving MAC Studio Fix, but I broke out within minutes of use. Deauville is my new best friend (sorry, Kat) it’s better than Studio Fix and doesn’t throw a pimple party all over my face.
I didn’t want to walk away from NARS without making a two item purchase… hahah (Salesperson lingo) My wallet saving tip of the day is: only buy the products that made the biggest difference. The blush that Ben showed me clearly helped chisel my features and bring out my cheekbones without looking like I just worked in the coal mines for a week. The color is called Zen and it’s perfect for fair skinned ladies like myself.
See the blush list here: http://www.narscosmetics.com/Blush-C39_category_7.aspx
I also got a GWP.. gift with purchase.. and I think it’s supposed to be some sort of sex oil (hahah) because it really made me think naughty thoughts when I rubbed it on. Let’s just say that the day ended with an Orgasm.. and we are NOT talking the most popular shade of NARS blush.
I was checking out the MAC artists page for Victor C. (see here) because I have taken a pro training class from him before.. I think it was for Fall 2007, and I just was curious to see what his profile said about him. He mentioned that his favorite makeup artist was Val Garland, and surprisingly enough, I had not really heard of her before, so I did a search on one of my favorite search engines.
I found an awesome video of Val, talking about the smokey eye that will be popular in Summer of 09′. This ain’t just any smokey eye.. this is pretty insane! I definitely got the impression that this makeup is inspired from a Robert Palmer video:
OR Robert Smith?
Well, whoever the inspiration was for the look, I think it’s pretty bold for summer. I believe this for a few reasons:
1. Black eyeshadow is normally difficult to master. Imagine standing in a bathroom at 80 degrees trying to pat and blend black eyeshadow for 15 minutes.
2. It’s hot outside.. eyeshadow doesn’t like to stay on when you are all hot and sweaty. Even with the best of eyeshadow primers, it’s going to be difficult.
3. Red lips in the summer? Again.. red lipstick likes to bleed, especially when it’s hot out, so be sure to get a lipstick sealant. I will be reviewing my most favorite makeup sealant in the near future.. stay tuned for that.
4. I like makeup that’s light and airy in the summer.. sorry!? hah.
If you want to see the video, which is pretty awesome, although I still disagree with the black shadow for summer, it would be an awesome look for a night on the town.
Val Garland: Summer 2009 Preview
Yes, I’ve been crapped on by a bird before. It was in Jr. High school, where if you tripped over your Nike Cortez shoelaces, the kids would be laughing for months about it. So getting crapped on during lunch hour and returning to class with a green substance stained into your white peasant shirt blouse was mortifying. Right now, people in New York are “flocking” to get bird crap facials…remember the fish pedicure post I made a while back.. well this is probably just as bad.
The dried Nightingale bird crap is sanitized under a UV light, then mixed with rice bran to create some sort of super expensive and hyped up facial. Women are claiming that they are glowing like J. Lo after the treatment. ::sigh::
After I did some research, I found out that the bird crap contains a substance called guanine, which is basically the shimmery stuff you find in cosmetics and shampoos. Guanine is found in fish scales, and that is the source where most of those shimmery cosmetics get that from. So why not just get a fish scale facial instead?
My theory is that the guanine is slightly abrasive, so when it’s massaged into the skin, it’s sloughing off dead skin cells. It probably contains a little bit of acid, so that also could help with smoothing out the skin’s surface. I actually think that you could get the same results using an organic scrub with the finest granules of abrasive you can find. If I find anything, I’ll let you know.. but I am very loyal to Proactiv, so I may not go too far with my investigation.
What is your favorite facial scrub?
I love tranny makeup. LOVE LOVE how beautiful a high – arched brow and false lashes could look on a man. When I say man.. I mean aMANda Lepore.
Well, she is coming out with her own makeup line, and I think I would totally buy some of it.
Traci Lords? NOOO!! Amanda Lepore, damn it!
It’s a limited edition line of cosmetics, put out by CAMP cosmetics starting in 2009. I really want the red lipstick!
Once in a while, I like to grace Yahoo! Answers with my presence. The website could be a waste of my time, but it’s a great place to promote my blog.. so I will probably continue to answer 15 year old girls with questions about eyeliner as long as I am still getting hits to my blog here.
I thought I would share some of my “Best Answers” and just some random answers with everyone.
| Eyeliner Help Please??? is NYC a good brand for eyeliner. and does gray eyeliner look as good as black eyeliner and does it show up as much as black???Please Answer!! |
I haven’t had much luck with NYC eyeliner in the past. It seems that it’s really hard to draw on (you have to press hard and go over the same areas a few times). I really like the Prestige eyeliners and the Jordana eyeliner in the automatic twist up pencil. If you can, drop by Sephora and try out the Urban Decay 24/7 gel pencil liners. They are the BEST in my opinion. Although they cost more, you will only need to apply it once everyday and not have to deal with it every time you look in the mirror.
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Foundation that doesn’t melt in hot weather? where I live it can get up to 115 degrees! although it isn’t always that hot, my make-up always ends up melting I stopped using liquid foundation because it didn’t cover anything, it just got in my pores and made my skin look dry, but my bare naturals powder is running out (it also comes off easily) so im going to go make-up shopping this weekend. I have mild acne/oily skin and I’m on a budget (being fifteen) |
Try a tinted moisturizer instead of liquid foundation or powders. It’s just like a moisturizer, but it has a slight sheer tint to help even out the skintone. There is an awesome one that Almay sells, also I hear that the ones from Neutrogena are great. They usually contain SPF, so you will have sun protection!
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Makeup consultants in Macy’s? |
They are not board certified makeup artists, but they are trained either by corporate trainers of the brand they work for or by other makeup artists within Macy’s. I worked for Benefit Cosmetics for 5 years, and every 6 months we were sent to training at the corporate office.
I would say that the best makeup artists in Macy’s would be the girls and guys at MAC. They are extensively trained and they have to go through rigorous testing before they are hired.
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How do you take mascara off with vaseline? |
I don’t like to put Vaseline near my eyes.. ever. If it gets into my eye, my vision is clouded for about 15 minutes. Please use an eye specific makeup remover like Almay makeup remover pads. Vaseline leaves a film that could clog your pores. I don’t care what Tyra Banks says about Vaseline!
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Why do men claim to prefer women who don’t wear make-up…? |
That’s a mystery that I have always pondered.. then I asked a man.. and I think that his answer makes sense. What men desire is something wayyyy different than the woman he wants to spend his life with. Men’s hormones/brains, etc. are programmed to jump at attention when they see a woman who looks like she’s trying to get sexual attention: makeup, short skirts, dripping lip gloss, etc. But the woman they want to live with on a daily basis is someone who is nurturing, kind, and loving. My fiancee loves makeup on me, but he loves also the innocent non-makeup me that he wakes up next to in the morning.
Sooo.. what did you guys think? Should I have my own show?
I really think that putting together my own show for YouTube is a priority. It will be fun, entertaining, and educational. I totally need to save up for a digital video camera first. I’ll let you guys know what’s going on.. I think there’s a 75% chance this will be happening soon.
Well, I knew if I bugged the “Queen of All Media” about that Nadja / Kate photo, that he would post it. Check out the screen shot I took this morning:
Yes , people.. I never get credit for doing Perez’s work for him. =(
Trust me.. I KNOW my 1990s supermodel trivia. I know the faces very well.. names sometimes slip my aging mind, but I know that the 90s are where the best supermodels were born like Linda Evangelista, Shalom Harlow, Amber Valetta..basically the skinniest and hottest models to ever to dare touch a Chanel suit.
Today on Perez Hilton, I was shocked to see that on the cover of W magazine, the face of Kate Hudson was done up exactly like Nadja Auerman on the cover of BAZAR magazine from like 1995.
I’m sorry.. but people need to run this shit by ME first before they start ripping off other covers of magazines. Trust me.. I know my hottest covers of the 1990s. They used to be plastered on my bedroom walls at my parent’s house. Especially THIS cover. This was the hottest cover I had ever seen.. it was those hypnotic eyes of Nadja’s that really captured me.. and one of the covers that made me want to be a makeup artist. The funny thing about this cover is that it’s SOOOO obvious that they were ripping it off. Look at the barely there eyebrows, head tilt forward with the cat eyeliner, red lips. I am.. appalled. You can rip off a legend… you can’t rip off the woman who held a record for having the longest legs!
I emailed Perez immediately this morning after I saw his post. I am sure he will have something to say about this.
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Wow..there comes a time when I really crave a new lip color. Call me crazy.. but after seeing the new promotion for MAC cosmetics Lustre Twins, I am having one of those lip color cravings as I type this!
Totally freaking awesome ad , right? Totally reminds me of those 90s ads with Shalom Harlow:
Yeah.. Dita Von Teese wishes she was half this hot.
Anyway, Shalom was notorious for her perfect red-painted lips and she was known as “the best walk in the biz”. She had the best catwalk strut the modeling world has ever known. Where the HELL is she now?? I have no idea, I must Wikipedia the bitch up and see what she’s doing.
Yes.. so these MAC lip colors are Pro Longwear.. which means it’s that stuff you paint on and it doesn’t come off. Well, out of all of those “long-wear” lip colors I’ve tried, I really do like MAC’s the best.
Here’s what MAC has to say about it:
Nine new shades of Pro Longwear Lustre Lipcolour featuring an exclusive sheer pigment top coat, with three Nail Lacquers. Separate if you must, but these Lustre Twins shouldn’t live without each other. Codependent couture colour and shine starts here!
What is also a cool tip about these Pro Longwear colors, you can actually use them on your EYES. Yup. You heard it here. I went to a MAC training class a year ago and we learned about doing these types of dramatic runway looks, and using Pro Longwear on your eyes was one of those tips.. but you will need a really oily makeup remover to get it off your eyes. Maybe just baby oil. The girl was having a really hard time getting the color off her eyes… but it looked really hot when she had it on. Probably a good idea for a night out clubbing… sweat proof!
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