Christmas Eve Eyes: Cinderella Look with Aromaleigh

I used this tutorial by a Disney World CM, more or less. I think next time I'll forego the Darling Girl glitterglue. 

Inner corner out: Sylph, Tangled Tinsel, Pherenice, Late for Work. For the "real" look I would need a neutral brown along the crease, thick black liquid eyeliner, and a crapload of mascara, but I didn't want to do any neutral and I find liquid eyeliner intimidating. And well. Yeah. 

FotD: BRM Stardust

WHY DO I ALWAYS HAVE AWFUL HAIR IN THESE PICTURES???? It's actually adorable in person. =/ Maybe I'll start croppping them.

FOTDs: Two by two, EYES of blue!

Once again I didn't have to post yesterday's so I'm throwing it in with today's.

Yesterday's look was BRM Lioness, Rapunzel, and Indy with Ocean Potion as a liner. O.P. matched the scarf.

 

  And for today, I decided to sample the mattes. I was really surprised how much better they blend than the other colours I'm used to using. I blended Bonehead and Giza because on it's own Giza was too yellow. I have Cairo along the crease, and Indy on the outside. I really love how it looks, but I learned a very important lesson today: Corbyjane is not a "matte" person. They'll still work really well for performances, though. Which is what I bought them for! =D

2 FOTDs for the price of one!

I'm not really sure what's up with my bangs yesterday and today... but it was NOT attractive. The makeup shows nicely though.

All over DG primer and glitter glue/sticky base/mixing medium (I feel like just calling it "glitter glue" gives a false impression...)

YESTERDAY: (from inside out) BRM Lioness, Rapunzel, and some AL Frumious for good measure. Uhmmm and Bonehead right under the brow.
Remind me to swatch Lioness with Biscotti, because they are VERY similar.

Today: AL Butterfly Kisses, BRM Titania and Oraculum. Really liking both of those last ones.

I need some lighter shades from BRM... almost everything I purchased was in the midtone to dark range.

In summary: my hair sucks but my makeup is FIERCE. I can't wait to try out the glitters soon!

Black Rose Minerals

EEEEE! The long dramatic rant on why I didn't get this Saturday (MY MAIL MAN DIDN'T COME I MEAN WTF) isn't really necessary at the moment, so in short.... my BRM order came today. I'm too excited for all this to really do a long post, but here are swatches and initial impressions. :)

My order was too cute... not pictured is the personalised silver and black card in a little cute envelope with her business card and a BUTTLOAD of stickers. The My Little Pony glitter sticker is now on my laptop (it's silver and glittery, too), we gave the turtle sticker to my mom, the sushi sticker to my sister, and I gave one to my cat to play with... he got it stuck on the end of his whisker and FREAKED out, it was hysterical.

So I got Night Sky, Pacific Oil Slick, Lioness, Gargle Blaster, Titania, Magic, Rapunzel, Peritwinkle,  A Forest, Stardust, Giza, Cairo, Indy, and Bonehead for me. My sister got Sweet Pea and Basilisk and I got Lady for miNao. My freebies were Ocean Potion and Oraculum.

Onto the SWATCHES:

Remember Aromaleigh?

This will be crossposted to Farfalla but I want to make sure the word gets out. AROMALEIGH IS BACK ISH.
Kristen is selling off remaining stock at Dormant Dream. Looks like she's got Mythos, Spells, Wonderstruck, and Astronomical. You can see my swatches of the first three on T&S: Spells!, Mythos, Wonderstruck.

See all my Aromaleigh looks here.

What didja buy? =D

I've no idea if it's common knowledge outside the states, but this past weekend was Labour Day and so we had a three-day weekend. In true commercialism style, this is a time of retail sales--that is, thousands of stores had sales and forced all their employees to labour, thus defeating the whole purpose of a holiday dedicated to workers. Oy.

Anyways. My sister and I got quite a lot done! I "supervised" the cleaning and reorganisation of our bedroom, touched up my glitter shoes (which got kind of destroyed in Minnesota), we went through our closets and I finally accepted that I am no longer an XS or a size zero in anything, and it is highly unlikely I will ever have a 28" waist ever again. So we also dropped off some of our dearly departed clothing at miNao and Audreeeeeeey's and a few other places, and hopefully they will get much use out of them, because some of them have been sitting in my bottom drawer since like summer 2009.

I got bored of watching Hannah cleaning the room so in between cleaning we went shopping.

We went to Whole Foods and I got cheese and ice cream and yogurt. We went to Borders and I got Sutton Foster's new CD. We went to Forever 21 and I bought nothing, but the next day we went to Forever 21 and I got a teal sweater with glitter in it (it was amazing... and like $7). We went to Wet Seal and I got bored. We went to Hot Dog On A Stick and I got CHERRY LEMONADE IT'S LIKE THE BEST STUFF EVER and I had my first ever interaction with a mentally challenged person without freaking out (long story that makes me sound like an evil awful person but I was basically followed around by a person with Down's from age 11 to 17 and have kind of a complex and I KNOW it makes me a terrible person but you know what, you'd be frightened too) which is progress. And then we went home and had ice cream. The next day we went to the SPCA and I fell in love with all the kittens but didn't buy any (your time will come I swear!!!).

Aaaaaaand online shopping!!! I placed an order with BlackRoseMinerals and hopefully at some point will place one with OHWTO *coughcough*

I got the 15 sample baggies for $9 from BRM. And I couldn't narrow it down to 15 so Hannah ended up buying the 2 she was interested in. Uhhhhhhhm we got Lady (for Naomi, I cannot tell a lie), Sweet Pea (Hannah... has a thing for sweet peas), Cairo, Bonehead, Indy, and Giza (matte browns), A Forest and Stardust (glitter!!!!), Night Sky, Peritwinkle, and Pacific Oil Slick (teal, blue sparkly, and tealy oily thing I'm super excited to see IRL), Rapunzel (pink and gold and yeah, maybe I bought it for the name...), Titania (omg mauves... I love mauves), and finally, Lioness and Gargle Blaster, because I need more gold in my life and yeah, maybe I have a thing for anything that reminds me of Narnia ("Now you are a lioness"?). Oooh, a Narnia inspired collection... hmmm... ;)

I've been a seriously ADD and Bi-Polar moods this weekend (both labels applied tongue-in-cheek, as I'm not diagnosed as either of those) and focusing has been difficult. This is partially because I'm having some complications with the whole wisdom teeth thing and sleeping/eating have been an issue, and I think partly I'm not a very stable personality even in the best of times. I mention this because I realise this post is kind of all over the place. I'm still trying to fall into a routine with school and it's not working out so well. Ugh.

Anyways. Did you hit any sales? Did you get any "spring cleaning" done?