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My first Morgana haul!

Thursday, October 28th, 2010

I’ve been eyeing Morgana Minerals for a while, and after the name switch to Morgana Cryptoria I finally placed a small order, consisting of six eyeshadow samples and two vegan lipsticks. So here’s my crappy try at photographing the products:

I just had to show the business card, since it’s got some Poser art on it. I doodle with that myself and I love seeing works of it outside the Poser community =)

I’ve been quite interested in trying Morgana’s lipsticks, and the choice fell on the two new shades Cotton Candy and Otherworldly. I also ordered the following eyeshadow samples (same order as in pic):

Cryptic, Harbinger, She Creature
Shining Armor , Winifred, LE#7

I haven’t tried these yet, but at first sight they look lovely!

What I do have is some more photos of the lipsticks. First some close-ups (click for bigger version):

These are taken with flash, and Otherworldly looks a little lighter than it really is here.

Cotton Candy is a medium pink with silver sparkles in it, I love it! This is a shade that’s pretty much “work safe”.

I’ll be wearing this a lot!

And then we have Otherworldly, which is a dark purple with blue sparkle in it. On the site it says that this has a grape scent, but I associate it with some kind of incense, like the scent in a random new age store. Anyone know what I mean? =) Anyway, here’s what it looks like on my lips:

This photo is taken on another day in different lighting (ah I look creepy!)

The lipsticks don’t dry out my lips, which I was a bit afraid of since I have pretty dry lips to begin with. So thumbs up for that!

Maleficent

Saturday, October 9th, 2010

Purity is having a theme with Disney Villains right now, so I thought I’d try one of them. I have to confess that I haven’t seen Sleeping Beauty, but after discovering this cool character I think I have to see it =) So this is my interpretation of Maleficent. I was going for a dewy green skin, but that failed miserably! I just look seasick and oily =)

Click for bigger version of this photo.

I’ve used the following for this look:
Nyx – Jumbo eyeshadow pencil Milk all over eyelid and up to eyebrows
Coastal Scents – Hi light Green pigment all over face and on lids.
Coastal Scents – Purple color from the 88 matte palette in crease and up to eyebrows
Mad Minerals – Love on top of the CS purple near the crease
Isadora – Dark purple from eyeshadow duo “Frosty lilacs” on top of the CS purple
Yves Rocher – Luminelle lipstick (don’t know the exact name)
Lancome – Hypnose Precious Cells Mascara
ELF – Liquid eyeliner
Viva la Diva – Mix & match eyebrow  color

Evil Eyed Goblin

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

I felt like doing a dark look, and pulled out some of Meow’s Halloween collections. I’ve mainly used pigments from the Halloween Zombies collection, but also Dance of Death and Friday the 13th. When it comes to the colors I’ve used plum shades on the lids, and a dark green/teal in the crease.

Here’s what I’ve used:
Urban Decay – Primer Potion
Nyx – Jumbo Eye Pencil Black Bean smudged on lid
Meow – Goblin (Zombies) on entire lid except outer third
Meow – Evil Eye (Zombies) on outer third of the lid
Meow – Zombie (Zombies) in the crease and along lower lash line
Meow – Spellbinding (Dance of Death) as highlight on the brow bone
Meow – Broken Mirror (Friday the 13th) on top of Zombie in the crease to blend out, and in the inner corner of my eye
Nyx – Jumbo Eye Pencil Cottage Cheese in the inner corner of my eye
Urban Decay – 24/7 Eye liner in Zero on upper lash line
Isadora – Inliner kajal in Blonde on lower water line
Lancome – Hypnose Precious Cells Mascara

Photos are taken with flash. I hope you like it!

I love Halloween so I’ll try to do some more looks this month, and hopefully a little more interesting than this one.

Meow’s Pleasures

Monday, September 27th, 2010

I love Meow’s Pleasures collection, and especially the Simple Pleasures. So many beautiful and soft colors to choose from! The shadows are for sale until September 30th, so if you haven’t checked these out yet its definitely time to do so. I did two quick looks with this collection, one on each eye.

So here you have the schizophrenic me:

Without flash.

With flash.

The purple eye was done with this:

Urban Decay – Primer Potion
Meow – Barefoot (Simple Pleasures) on the entire lid
Meow – Karaoke (Simple Pleasures) on outer half of lid and in the crease
Meow – Funky Dance (Simple Pleasures) in outer v
Meow – Bubble bath (Simple Pleasures) on brow bone
Urban Decay – 24/7 eyeliner pencil in Lust on upper lash line
Urban Decay – 24/7 eyeliner pencil in Gunmetal on outer half of lower lash line
Isadora – Inliner kajal Blonde on water line
Lancome – Hypnose Precious Cells Mascara on upper lashes
Claudia – Wonderlash Mascara on lower lashes

The green look on my left eye was made using this:

Urban Decay – Primer Potion
Meow – Sale! (Simple Pleasures) on the entire lid
Meow – Soft Porn (Guilty Pleasures) in the crease and outer v, and lower lash line
Meow – Bubble bath (Simple Pleasures) on brow bone
Everyday Minerals – Smokey as eyeliner on upper lash line
Isadora – Inliner kajal Blonde on water line
Lancome – Hypnose Precious Cells Mascara on upper lashes
Claudia – Wonderlash Mascara on lower lashes

Boy do I need to practice more on photographing my eyes..

First EOTD

Monday, September 13th, 2010

I thought I’d start out small with my first EOTD (Eye of the Day), hence the small photos =) It’s a pretty neutral makeup with a little bit of color.

Here’s what I’ve used:
Urban Decay – Primer Potion
Everyday Minerals – Good China  on the lid
Mad Minerals – Love on outer half of lid, but doesn’t really show
Aromaleigh – Imperial in the crease
Brite Bird – Cream Cat on browbone
Urban Decay – 24/7 Glide-on eye pencil in Lust on upper lash line
Claudia – Wonderlash Mascara
Viva la Diva – Mix & Match Eyebrow Colour

Photos are taken with flash.