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Fall FOTD and Tigi Review November 7, 2008

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In the Fall I’m seeing a trend of deeper lip shades like plum, wine or deep red colors. I don’t really have any, but this looked dark on me [it looks deeper in person]. It’s NYX lip pencil in Iced Coffee which is supposed to be a nude but I was playing around with dark lipsticks last night and I guess when they mix together, it looks like this!

I used Adorned with Grace Captivating [chestnut brown] all over lid and AwG Pure [almost matte cream] as highlight and layered NYX Sahara as highlight too.

TiGi Fashionista Color Safe Conditioner
~ 12.99 for 8.5 oz

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This was my first foray into higher end hair products, and it worked ok. Mostly I wanted something that was safe for color and would be good at detangling because my hair is really fine and long too so it turns into a birds nest sometimes! The Tigi conditioner was sufficient at detangling, but it didn’t seem to be extra moisturizing or anything like that.

I don’t know if i got a bad batch or something, but it’s supposed to be grape scented, but mine..it smells like rotten grapes! or something..it smells off, I don’t know how to describe it. Like grapes mixed with poo…I dont know.

And if that wasn’t enough, look what I found the after the first night of using it….

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Part of the conditioner changed colors! To a yellowish brown…that part that is brown used to be at the very top and its now covered by some more regular colored conditioner. The only reason I could think of that it would change colors is because the first night I placed it on the window sill in the shower so maybe exposure to the sun changes it color? I don’t know…but I have to say I’m disappointed. I would think that they charge higher prices for a reason and that I would be gettin my money’s worth, but not with this. I wouldn’t repurchase. I would rate it a 1.5 out of 5.

Did anyone else experience this with Tigi Fashionista or any of their other products?

 

Adorned with Grace Blushes November 5, 2008

Filed under: Adorned with Grace Minerals, Swatches — nuts4makeup @ 6:06 pm
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1. Illuminated
2. Gentleness
3. Sultry
4. Beautiful
5. Sassy
6. Curious
7. Vibrant
8. Radiant
9. Breathtaking
10. Serene

The blushes are even cuter in person! Gentleness [beige pink] isn’t normally that shimmery but I swatched it wet cuz its hard to photograph. Illuminated is a highlight color that’s why it’s very faint.

Now that I look at all the swatches…I want to buy all of them, crap! I also have Awg eyeshadows that I’ll swatch later!

Oh yeh, story about the second and third pictures…I put my arm and the counter to steady it and the counter was friggin cold! So I got goosebumps haha, but I took the picture anyway.

 

Pink Smoky FOTD October 31, 2008

My professor pushed back our paper deadline so now I can blog! Yayyy!

My inspiration:

My attempt:

Anna gave me some makeup that she didn’t use anymore [thanks again!] and a lot of the shadows were pink or purpley-pink. I don’t usually use pink shadows so I didn’t really know what to do until I found this video on youtube! Of course I don’t have the same shadows that Misschievous uses, so I improvised and did a budget friendly version of it.

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Products used:
Eyes

Covergirl 4 shadow pallete with pinks for highlight and crease
Adorned with Grace Happiness [cool pink] on crease
Rimmel medium green color
Ulta Galaxy [Black with micro glitter]

I used both the darkest pink from CG and Happiness in the area above the crease. Since I don’t have a gunmetal kinda that Misschievous uses, I layered Galaxy and the Rimmel green color because the green provides the iridescence while the Galaxy makes it smokey and dark. On my lips I used Milani Secret [a sheer milky color] lip gloss and NYX lip pencil in Iced Coffee.

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In other non makeup related news…I got a fish!

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He’s a Ryukin goldfish, that’s how we got the name Ryu, remember Streetfighter? I know Christiana does! haha. I originally wanted a Pearlscale goldfish, but I saw this guy at the pet store and I fell in love! He’s beauutiful!

 

Lemming October 22, 2008

This is random, but Anna got me thinking about stuff I want…

- brushes

kabuki

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crease brush

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blending brush

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flat top buffer

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, more eyeshadow brushes

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duo fiber brush

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…i want all that [if you mouseover the pic i put prices for most of them...it only occured to me to put the price later on, woops]

- stuff from Adorned with Grace minerals
eyeshadows

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and blushes

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maybe foundation too

- cupcakes, donuts, candy and pumpkin spice latte!
It helps me study! :P