Forgive me for I am late...

In just a few minutes I will be working on my incoming 88 Palette Monday EOTD in hopes that I will not revive my forgetfulness from this past 2 weeks!I'm late but all for a good reason - my baby is growing super fast and while I catch up with her, feeding her sweet potatoes and squash, I've been working on her language skills, and my son got ill just this past week, yep super busy...

Anywho, I'm glad to be back and in the saddle again :) Here is what I've been working on, hope you all like it..........

EOTD #1 88 Palette Monday: 'Sugarplums'

Believe it or not but the purple that is on the crease and contour is actually a blue color that has changed since layered over the coral color, I used the purple upper eyeliner from the Punk Funk ELF quad....

1 all over the eyelid and blended upward towards the highlight area

2 only on crease and contour area blended

3 on lower lashline only.

Stilleto Volume mascara and MAC Vanilla as highlight

EOTD #2 88 Palette Monday: 'Earthday'

This EOTD was quite easy, I got some colors that I'd never really played with before....

1 all over the lid and past the crease, used 2 to blend out edges of 1 and blended upward toward highlight area, used 3 only on lid blended upward.

1 on lower lashline

Stiletto volume mascara and Stiletto eyeliner

MAC Vanilla as highlight

88 Palette Monday: Blueberry Sky

I'm not sure what convinced me to play around with blues today...but I'm glad I did. Here is today's look which reminded me alot of blueberries and mint, nevertheless the gradient sort of reminded me of the sky. So please enjoy my rendition of Blueberry Sky :)

I used plenty of colors but it was rather easy to complete

Not much blending is necessary since most of the shadows were frosted. I used MAC's Vanilla as a highlight....

#1 on inner corner of lid

#2 right next to it covering 2 thirds of the lid

#3 on the rest of the lid

#4 on outer V and contour area but not all the way

#5 and 6 mixed together put on outer V for depth

I mixed #3 , 4 , and 6 for the lower lashline, smudged out softly

Revlon Colorstay on the lower waterline

Covergirl Mascara

I hope you all enjoy!

88 Palette Monday: Pastel's Cotton Candy

For some reason I just wanted to add in the lashes at the bottom...I have very tiny lashes so the effect would not look correct, but for those that have great lashes at the bottom the idea is to slather on the mascara for that baby doll look :)

anywho, you get the idea, this is an example of how it would look, blend away as usual :)

Prime the skin surrounding the eye with NYX shadow stick 'Milk'

#1 for inner lid

#2 next to it

#3 next to the green (much on the outer contour area)

#4 on the outer v area

#5 on crease blended very well

#6 under the highlight color

#7 highlight color and inner corner

I used #3 on outer bottom lashline, #2 near the middle of lashline, #1 on inner lower lashline

Maybelline line stiletto upper lashline

and drew in lashes on bottom, haha

Loreal Voluminous mascara

Shady Lady look

Using my Shady Lady palette was awesome due to the fact that the shadows are easy to manage and are true in color. I just wanted to clarify that this palette is mostly for earthy or neutral looks...whatever color you fancy you can use to your liking.....You can use only 1 color by itself or dress it up by adding color in the crease or adding a contour color, etc.

Sure you can't really identify a bright, funky color in the palette but you can also spike it with the darkest shade for a dramatic look.

Anywho, here is the Soft greenish Taupe look I came up with:

I remember briefly talking about the palette in my May Haul posting but just to reiterate the palette can be found at Sephora.com, I'm not sure about Sephora stores, I have checked but found nothing. I found that buying The Balm products from their website are cheaper since Sephora.com will charge you tax and shipping.

The Balm also offers a few other beauty products such as lipstick, blush, and tinted moisturizer to name a few...and the packaging is quite cute as it echos a similarity with Benefit cosmetics!

Sorry...I had to!

The palette has plenty of neutral colors....and they are very versatile.....

What I used:

Eyes:

On the lid - Insane Jane

Contour area and lower lashline - Makeout Mary

Crease and outer V - Bossy Bobbi

Highlight and inner corner - Devilish Danielle

Upper lashline - Maybelline Line Stiletto

Mascara - Loreal Voluminous, Carbon Black

Lower lashline liner - MAC Smooth Blue Technakohl liner

Face:

Revlon Colorstay foundation makeup Natural Tan

Prescriptives camo concealer

Physicians Formula bronzer

MAC blush Peachtwist

Lips:

NYX Ever liner

Sally Hansen moist and matte lip color Linen

LADY GAGA TELEPHONE VIDEO MAKEUP

*Message from Lali Amora, 8/31/10,

Hi everyone! I was excited to see that most of you have been brought to my blog, specifically the Lady Gaga Tutorial post whether it be from a Google search, or Yahoo search or otherwise. I am so glad you decided to drop by! I ask of you, pretty please, to leave a comment after reading the Lady Gaga post, it helps me decide whether these are the kinds of tutorials readers like you are interested in and would like to see....yes your input is important to me! Thanks again for visiting my blog, and welcome! 

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What I admire most about Lady Gaga is that she is not shy when it comes to her fashion and makeup. Many of her looks come out as amazing and outlandish, which are looks that I love.

Lady Gaga 'Telephone' Video...One of my favorite videos....Here today, I've tried my best to re-create her gorgeous look, as she was the inspiration...It may not be exactly as hers but it is my own take on it, hope you all enjoy it. The video featured many different looks and provided a vast array of color....The remake of my look was from the kitchen scene at the diner, provided with just a few screen shots of her makeup. Original makeup artist, Billy B. for Lady Gaga, created an amazing blackened blue smoky eye.

Tutorial-

I applied foundation eye level and above, I colored in my brows and put MAC Gesso e/s as highlight...

Apply tape from outer last lash to almost edge of eyebrows, like shown below...

Apply the dark blue color by starting at inner contour area and glide it in a straight line to outer 'v' area...

Apply dark navy color near outer edge of eye and outer 'v'

apply the dark navy color as a cut crease and blend...

apply a lighter blue color on entire center lid and blend in...

afterwards, remove the tape...

Apply liquid eyeliner on upper lashline and apply the purple shadow on lower lashline, I used Beautyrush, Plum Crazy...the purple eyeshadow will only serve as a base for now, we will add on more purple shadow after a few more steps...

Apply the inner corner color, here I used Gesso again...

now apply the black eyeliner on lower lashline & lower and upper waterline...

Apply liquid eyeliner on edge of the shadow you placed earlier, connect it with your upper lashline liner...at this point as well, you can apply a more vibrant purple shadow to your lower lashline and afterwards clean up any fallout...

In this pic, I've already applied my concealer, mascara, foundation and started contouring and adding blush to my cheeks...

Last but not least, apply a vibrant pink lipstick such as MAC Girl About Town...

For finishing touches, I've lightly blended harshlines and lightly swept Gesso e/s under the outer liner line to make it stand out...

My mis-matched earrings provided a hopeful tinge of Gaga's creativity.

Products used:

Eyes-

MAC Gesso

MAC Deep Truth

MAC Contrast

MAC Submarine

Maybelline line stiletto eyeliner Black

Beautyrush, wet/dry shadow Plum Crazy

Sallygirl Baked eyeshadow color 'purple' or #388127

Almay intense i-color eye pencil 01 Midnight Black

Loreal Voluminous Mascara carbon black

Face-

Revlon Colorstay foundation 360 golden caramel

MAC transparent finishing powder

Prescriptives camo concealer med. 04

Maybelline expertwear blush Plushed Plum

Lips-

NYX lip liner 835 Pinky

MAC Girl About Town lipstick

Glistening Gold and Blue, Dramatic FOTD

I'm here today with another FOTD which I think came out pretty good under the circumstances that I really wanted a more medium turquoise blue rather than a royal blue like the way this came out, but it is just fine, I really liked the color I used...but anyways, I hope you all like it!

Please don't mind my stray hairs on my head, I always have something out of place! lol

Tools I used:

Sonia Kashuk blush brush

Sonia Kashuk buffer brush

Essense of BEAUTY smoky Wide

MAC #263

MAC #217

MAC #109

HiP pigment brush

ULTA sponge tipped applicator brush

Face:

Cosmedicine Honest Face

MAC Studio Fix Fluid NC40

MAC Transparent powder

EDM Multi-tasking concealer

Maybelline Mineral blush True Peach II

Eyes:

CG eyeslicks Glistening Gold

NYX Jumbo e/s pencil Milk

UDPP

Cinema Secrets Hollywood Lights Gold

no name brownish bronze eyeshadow

Loreal Deep Mocha e/s for brows

MAC e/s Submarine

MAC e/s Ricepaper

ULTA e/s Galaxy

UD 24/7 eye pencil Zero

Almay Intense i-color Midnight Black

Loreal Bare Naturale mascara Blackest Black

Lips:

MAC Pink Plaid lipstick

Electric Eel Eyes EOTD

Hi everyone! By now you're probably wondering why I've gone like EOTD crazy over the past weekend...Well my left eye has pink eye! Gah! I'm always super careful being a germaphobe about touching my eyes except when I've just washed my hands and evidently it crept up on me. So, for the past 3 days I've been makeup-free and nothing to do. I hope you all enjoyed your weekend! So, here is a really easy Electric Eel eye that I did, I love the colors, I'm thinking about wearing this as soon as my other eye gets better, Enjoy!

Here's what I used:

UDPP

NYX Milk

MAC Delft PPot

MAC Electric Eel e/s

MAC Lavender Sky e/s

MAC Gesso e/s

MAC Contrast e/s

MAC Vanilla e/s

Optional: Lightly pat on eyeshadow 'Peace' by Urban Decay on top of Electric Eel for a little sheen.