A little quickie for humpday, oo er!

My wore it Wednesday was OCC's Harlot Lip Tar. I'm wearing it in my picture to the right and I wore it to salsa on Monday and got a tonne of compliments on it.

So yeah I jinxed myself posting that eyeliner tutorial because my eyeliner was a hot mess Monday night! Hence no eye close up hahaha.  So I thought I'd distract from that with a bright lip.

Sorry bout the lighting, it was almost 9pm when I took this so the sun light was almost gone!

<3

Love & Stuff
Sal xXx

21:01

Wearable orange eyeshadow.

Orange looks totally awesome on blue eyes, so I wanted to do a look with orange shadow that was bright but still wearable. I think I did ok and in real life it looked good, but I was having a total camera fail day (and a bad eyeliner day, but let's not go there), so my pics pretty much suck.  My hair was also pretty hilariously high, I have no idea what was going on so I cropped it out! hahaha.

I used the bright neon orange from the Revolution Redemption Matte Brights Palette. It's an awesome shade but being matte it does need a sticky light base. I used OCC RO concealer for this.  I really couldn't get a good pic of it though, because it was too late for daylight when I took these. So it looks a bit muddy, it's way brighter in real life.

I also patted a bit of ELF glitter glue over the top of it and added some Sugarpill Supercharged pigment from the Elektrocute collection over the top, for some spangle!

Lips are OCC Zhora lip tar that I'm maybe just a little bit in love with!

Hopefully next time my pics will suck less! Happy humpday all.

Love & Stuff
Sal xXx

18:43

Random mix & match nails!

My nails were a hot mess and as I want them to grow for my holiday in a couple of months, I went with something fun with Nubar's Gelicure gel polish.

Happy humpday all!

Love & Stuff
Sal xXx


If you're in the Surrey/North Hants area and want a funky Gelicure mani or pedi, check out my salon's Facebook Page! or Website :)

09:43

Saturday night was our salsa club's annual spring ball and it's a great chance to get dolled up (not that I need an excuse) and so I went with a dark smokey eye.  I decided at the last minute to add some sparkle to it also, so after putting down a matte black base, I patted Sugarpills gorgeous Soot & Stars (from the Cold Chemistry collection) on top. I also used Diamond Eyes (the white from the same collection) on the inner corner.  The lower lashline and waterline are also both Sugarpill; it's Tiara loose pigment over Barry M's silver gel liner.

I think the sparkle shows up better in the crappy fake light picture, than the daylight one above.

Unfortunately it also shows that the black gel liner I used to tightline with transferred a bit onto the waterline. Pah, no one's  perfect! :-)

I also added some short & medium individual lashes, instead of strip lashes for a more subtle, flirty look.

Full face + hair crimpage and a bit of the dress I wore!

Full List of Products Used:

Eyes

MUA Eye Primer (AV)

B. Eyeshadow, Cinnamon (crease/transition colour) (V)

Makeup Geek Gel Liner, Immortal (as a base on the lid) (CV)

Matte Black Shadow from one of my Sleek Palettes (AV)

Makeup Revolution Matte Palette (pinky shade to blend out the crease and lightest show on the browbone) (AV)

Sugarpill Soot & Stars Pressed Eyeshadow (lid) (V)

Sugarpill Diamond Eyes Pressed Eyeshadow (inner corner) (V)

Barry M Gel Liner, 2 Silver (waterline/lower lashline) (V)

Sugarpill Chromalust, Tiara (waterline/lower lashline) (V)

Eyeko Skinny Brush Mascara (V)

Ardell Short & Medium knot-less individual lashes

Duo Eyelash Glue (AV)

GOSH Brow Pencil, Grey/Brown (CV)

Face

No.7 Stay Perfect Superlight Foundation in Calico (CV)

SEVENTEEN Skin Wow Highlighter (CV)

ELF HD Blush, Headliner (V)

B. Cheeky Blusher, Candy Cane (V)

Sleek Contour Kit, Light (just the highlighter)

ELF Full Coverage Concealer, Porcelain (V)

Autograph Invisible Finish Loose Powder (CV)

Lips

Limecrime Lipstick, Babette (V)

Happy humpday all! 

Love & Stuff

Sal xXx

20:04

My Wore it Wednesday this week is an eye look I did last night with the new palette from Sleek. I'm not sure if you can even buy this online, I got it in Superdrug and the packaging mentions that it is to celebrate 50 years of Superdrug. If you can find it, it's definitely worth picking up.

The Limited Edition Showstoppers Palette (AV*)

Here are some swatches; I apologise for the lighting, it was late afternoon when I took these and these are the best I could get.

Top Row

L-R: Paraguaya, Sunset, Me, Myself & Eye, Bad Girl, Noir, Ultra Mattes V2

I know it looks like there's only 5 shades here, but the far left shade (Paraguaya) doesn't show up in the pic  because it's almost the same shade as my skin - so great for blending! :o)  

Bottom Row

L-R: Oh So Special, Bohemian, Storm, Sparkle, Au Natural, Graphite

This palette is lovely. I love Graphite, it's a gorgeous bronzey brown and sparkle is a beautiful frosty highlight colour.  

Here's the look I created. I used a light concealer as a base as I don't have a white that'd work and I wanted to make the pink brighter. I think Bohemian (the peachy pink) shows up a little truer to it's actual colour in the swatch above; my camera washed the whole eye makeup look out. Fail.  I used Sparkle for the highlight under my badly-need-to-be-done brows and the inner corner. The waterline is Sleek's Eau La La pencil in Cobalt Blue (V). Gel liner is Makeup Geek's Immortal (CV).

Happy humpday!

Sal xXx

*As always, I have to mark this as appears vegan, because Sleek's customer services are pretty rubbish and do not answer emails, messages, tweets .... etc! I can never find anything in the ingredients lists of the iDivines that is suspect but they are not listed as vegan on Sleek's website (or the list they sent me) and they won't answer why this is.  But when I asked a couple of years ago they said it was due to possible cross-contamination.   FACEPALM!!  

So unless hell freezes over and Sleek actually bother to answer an email/tweet; I will continue to assume this is the case and that makes the palettes vegan to me.

20:16