A very neutral eye look.

Hey everyone-

Just decided to do a quick eye look for you. In the pics the shadows barely show up at all, so it sorta just looks like the eyeliner.

Here you go:

I started with a layer of the original Urban Decay Primer Potion.

Next I mixed the color Sake from the Stila Trendsetting in Tokyo palette with Skimp by Urban Decay. I packed the color all over my lid.

Afterwards, with a fluffier brush, I mixed my tarte bronzer in Park Avenue Princess with an ancient bronzey color from a really old palette my mom gave me. hehe. I think it's called Bronze Notte. I added this color to my crease and outer V and blended the colors with an even FLUFFIER brush. lol.

Next I added Skimp under my brow and to my inner corner as a highlight. Skimp is lighter than Sake.

The best step! Applying eyeliner. I loooove this eyeliner. I think I'll wear it to school tomorrow! It's the POPBeauty Cat Eyes Eyeliner in No. 1 Black Onyx. I put it on my upper lash line and a little on the outer third of my lower lash line. On my bottom waterline (I don't bother tightlining with this), I used my Cargo Reverse Lip Liner (a nude lipliner I'll be posting about soon).

Next I curled my lashes and applied a coat of Cargo blu-ray Extreme Definition Mascara in black to my top and bottom lashes.

Since these eyes are a bit boring and neutral, I recommend a pop of color on either the cheeks or lips. I might put the NARS Orgasm Illuminator for a subtle shimmer on my cheeks with a coat of my Yves Rocher Framboise Sorbet lipstick (the one on the left).

Or the other way around! I might put NYX Cream Blusher in Glow (review to come next week) on my cheeks with a nude gloss or lipstick.

If anyone tries the look, PLEASE send me pics here: thebeautygeekblog@gmail.com

You can also send requests, questions, and of course advice or anything to help me improve!

With your permission, I would post them on the blog!

Thanks soooo much for reading, I hope you liked my first real eye look. I'll try something brighter or crazier soon!

I hit the 250 mark faster than I expected!

Send the blog to your friends if you like it! I want to keep this sudden spike in activity going!

xx,

beautygeek0

WOW

WOW! I just tried my first cat eye with the POPBeauty cat eyes eyeliner and it is soooooooo easy. I also got a very good picture! Double win!

Other than the liner, I curled my lashes with my crappy Sephora lash curler (must replace, I want an elf one) and applied one coat of my black Cargo blu-ray Extreme Definition Mascara on my top lashes. Sorry that I'm looking off to the side in the second pic. I was just trying to align the camera (there was a mirror I was using to see the screen of my camera). It was very easy to draw the line and then I just flicked my wrist. The only problem was the wing wasn't quite dark enough. My mom was calling me, but if I had more time, I would have filled it in more.

I really like this liner, I think with practice it might even replace my 24/7.

:O

*GASP*

Keyword: might.

xx,

beautygeek0

Hehe...

So I just talked to my friend and she asked me to pick her up a stila palette. I got her the floral chic one because it was the cleanest...and her name is Flora. Anyways...while I was at Urban Outfitters, I noticed the POPBeauty Cat Eyes eyeliner that I wanted (retails for $16), had a $3.50 tag on it! I obviously got it! I think the sticker was from a NYX eyeliner, so now I feel sorta guilty. Their mistake, right? Anywho...it's very nice. It has tiny, tasteful flecks of shimmer and a beautiful, creamy, smoky, blendable look and feel. This color is No. 1 Black Onyx.

Pics:

The first line is drawn with the tip of the rectangle, the second two the whole surface area of the rectangle, and the fourth one I used the rectangle horizontally.

Meow. Haaa- thanks for the cute idea Marin from your Physician's Formula post.

Also, I went to CVS for kicks and decided as a pick-me-up to grab one of those wet n wild $1.99 glosses. I bought the brightest pink, without sparkles or glitter. I just wanted shiny lips, and these are called mega slicks (not a very good name...ha.) I got home and wanted to try it on. I was happy because it smelled deliciously sugary and was very very bright in the tube. When I pulled the doe-footed applicator out of the tube completely I was extremely disappointed. Zero pigment. I think had I bought the clear gloss or wanted a clear gloss I would've been happy but this was really quite lame. *RAWRR-MEWANTLIPGLASS* Sorry.

One thing that cracked me up is a lot of French designer brands have the names of the products in French and English on American products and cheap brands imitate them to seem classier or pricier. The name of this gloss is "Cotton Candy". Not classy. The funny part is that in French Cotton Candy is called "Barbe à Papa" (Daddy's Beard). Classy. :P By the way, I tried to take a picture of the product on my lips but I'm having lighting issues. I'll work on it.

Pics:

It looks even brighter than that (in the tube) in real life!

*sigh*

I totally looooove the eyeliner though!

xx,

beautygeek0

POPbeauty Cat Eyes Eyeliner and Beauty360

Hello everyone!

Like I said in my last post, Urban Outfitters is basically my life. Yesterday when I went I saw that the POPbeauty eyeliners with rectangular tips to facilitate cat eyes were on sale. I also mentioned that the UO website is an utter fail so I'll link the product here. I would be getting No. 1 Black Onyx, because that's the only one they have. Besides, I'm not a very colorful eyeliner person anyways. These are normally $16 but they were on sale for $9.99. I can't decide whether to try and buy one now or if I should wait until they have one of those "all sale #% off sale" sales. I think I will because I have a black eyeliner and this is just an experimental product rather than a necessity, like running out of mascara or something. Speaking of which, I can't decide what mascara I should get when I run out. I either want the Eyeko squeezy tube one or a MAC one. MAC has surprisingly inexpensive mascaras. I like liquidy mascaras because I feel that they elongate without clumping. I'm not really looking for volume. But my mascara (CARGO) still works fine.

Also, the other day I noticed a store called Beauty360. (It's about 15mins from my house walking, that's why I had never noticed it before. It's basically a high end makeup store created by CVS. I checked out the site and it is pretty expensive, but I think one of these days I'll go in. Has anyone ever looked? They have stuff like POPbeauty and Paula Dorf and CARGO, which is nice because CARGO has been discontinued by Sephora.

xx,
beautygeek0