Facial Fridays

Even though it's actually Saturday...it sounds better though! I've been planning on doing these posts for awhile now, but the procrastination bug not only caught me but seems to have taken up residence. School and tutoring just burns me out and by the end of the day I just want to sleep, or do something mindless before sleeping.

Anyways! I got a face mask sampler pack from Simply Sweet Skin (link to her facebook page) and so far I've tried out three; the rosehips mask, the sea kelp mask, and the milk & honey mask.

I'm loving these things! So far I like the rosehips mask best, even though it makes me look very politically incorrect..I only took pictures of the steps for the rosehips mask, but I've been doing the same thing with the other two masks I've tried.

My kitties were very curious about what I had. 

So here we go! I have been doing a honey+baking soda mask for awhile, I just mix everything up in a glass top. So I just used the same process for these masks.

I took out a small spoonful and dumped it into the middle top.

 Mixed up a glob of honey, which totally looks gross.

 Swirl it all around and make a paste.

 Then I use the spoon to smoosh it around my face, oh yeah, I look so attractive here :). I left it on about 15 minutes, and then gently rinsed with cold water.

 Same thing goes for the sea kelp mask, except it looked like baby poo. XD

I personally have combo skin, I tend to have dry cheeks and an oily T-zone. The rosehip mask felt the best to me, the sea kelp left me slightly dry on my cheeks so I think it'd be good for more oily skin. The milk & honey mask didn't leave me feeling too dry, but it didn't get me as soft as the rosehips mask did. :) I can't wait to try out some of the others, and I'm even splitting a few to bring to a friend at school who wanted to try some out on her mom. :)
So how many of you like to do facial masks, has anyone else tried out SSS? :)

Also, here are some benefits of the ingredients in the masks. Now these are benefits of the individual ingredients, there is no guarantee or scientific proof, it's just things the ingredients are known for. :) (under the cut due to the list being really long!)

EOTD: Second week of school 8/29. 8/30 +8/31

8/29 I wore Princes Zelda from Facebomb Cosmetics, and then Sick from VIE.

8/30 I wore Mew, Love Bite, and Wicked Kisses from VIE.

8/31 was just Radar Love by Facebomb Cosmetics. :)

EOTD: First week of school 8/22 8/23 8/25

8/23 Inner eye-TKB color, outer crease-Plaid is Rad VIE, edge of crease and along the bottom lash line-Sick VIE

Lookin' super cute for the first day of classes this year :).

8/24 Just Knife Party by Facebomb Cosmetics.

8/25 Just Virtual Insanity by Facebomb. :)

Tutorial- Rainbow Gradients part 1

So recently I went over to my moms house for food and pool time, and had two of my best friends over. We splashed around and one complimented my makeup and was curious how to do it, so I decided to make a tutorial on it, since it's another one of those looks I do all the time. I like having rainbow eyes :) So here I have a pink to blue gradient, and a yellow to red gradient. We'll start off with the pink-blue for part one, and the yellow and red for a part two. Here we go!

I have no photo for my first step, but I clean my face up, and then I apply a layer of Candy's Sweet Treat's  Foiling Jazz. I know that's not how most people use it, but since my shadow stick ran out a few weeks ago, that's what I've been doing and it seems to work fairly well, so I'm gonna keep on until I get a base/primer! I let it set until it feels just the slightest bit tacky, then I go to work. If something gets too tacky before I get to it, just the tiniest bit of dampness on a pinky lets it get sticky again. Allright, so then..

I started out with VIE Mew, it's light, but you should be able to see that I followed the contour of my eye and I wanted this look to be big, so I went much further over my crease than I normally do. I pulled this color out to cover about half my lid, I'll be blending on top. 

In a fan shape I spread out a second darker pink, Swoon by Facebomb Cosmetics. I try and blend into the lighter pink. I pull the dark pink along the edge, creating a very slight crease line above the light pink.

On top of Swoon I start brushing on Vicious, also by FC. Again, I'm following a sort of boomering shape in my blending, I didn't want straight lines between the colors, but a soft curve that sort of mimics natural shadows.

Again, I add a darker color, this time Harlette by VIE, just along the edge of Vicious. Still following my boomerang curve. I also keep curving the outside edge in a similar shape to my eye with a more rounded, flared outer corner. 

Finally I add The World by VIE to the corner, finishing the shape around my eye and blending down around the corner of my eye. Then in the same order as on my lid, I spread the colors below my eye, blending out into The World. 

Product; I could have blended more, but I was trying to show the basic shapes I apply before I go in and blend the crap out of it. :)

Virus Insanity Swatches, part 2!

I recently acquired six more amazing VIE eye shadows, this time in a neutral variety! :) I decided to swatch and share, and I also included one shadow that I missed in the last round of swatches, Insanity.

The package arrived wrapped up tightly, in a bright blue bag! As always there are labels with the name, and an ingredient list on the bottom, with sifter stickers that didn't budge! :) I got Simple Highlight, Warm Highlight, Tenderheart Bear, Friend Bear, Mew, and Wicked Kisses.
Simple highlight is amazing, you can pack it on to get a bright white, or blend it out to get a subtle shimmer.

Above; Simple Highlight blended out some.

Below (top to bottom, left to right); Simple Highlight, Warm Highlight, Insanity (I failed to swatch this last round! This is not a new one :) ), Wicked Kisses, Tenderheart Bear, Friend Bear, Mew.