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: Purple Mystery

Midnightish, a deep mystery of purple....its a color that seems to make sense for the upcoming season :)

Easy to do, I used both the shimmer and the original matte palette for this look....

As always I used my own highlight since the ones in the palettes aren't that great

pat on 1. all over the lid

I used the MAC 217 and applied 2. but with the 217 damp- all over the contour area and on the outer eyelid or outer 'v'

I used 3. only on the crease and outer V

blend, blend, blend.....

1. on the inner tear duct

2. on the lower lashline

Line stiletto on upper lashline, and Loreal Voluminous mascara.....

For highlight I used the lightest white color from the Traditional palette by LA Colors

88 Palette Monday: Smoky Vine

Dark and sultry....I wanted to try something more smoky since fall and winter are on their way...I hope you all like it.

A smoky mixture of blacks and forest green:

Sweep #1 over outer V and contour area first

Pat #2 all over the lid and on the lower lashline and afterwards apply #1 only on the outer lower lashline

#3 is the highlight and inner corner

I used Lash Stiletto for lashes

:)

88 Palette Monday: Salsa Heat

(with flash)

Today's eye was inspired by the golden bronze and hot pink in the shimmering and matte palettes. I am quite bummed that I couldn't retrieve a great snapshot of the vibrancy of the look, giving no justice to the bright colors. Bummer. However, the look in person is bright and gorgeous! 

(natual light, no flash)

From the 88 shimmer palette (above) I used 1. All over the lid and on the inner lower lashline

Then used the matte palette:

2. is on the outer 'v' and crease blended upward. 2. is also on the outer lower lashline and blended with 1.

3. on only on the outer 'v' and blended a bit on the crease

I used 4. as highlight

No falsies this time, here I used Lancome mascara.

Blending is key with the 2. since this color can travel everywhere! I made sure to wipe my brush often when using this color....

I hope you have enjoyed this look!

88 Palette Monday: 'Let's Party!'

I decided to create something a little bit more exciting for those nights out dancing! I love this look for 1. because it includes alot of my favorite eyeshadow colors (blue, teal, green) and secondly because it is shimmery and dramatic!

This is the look I came up with, I think I have done something like this similiar but I'm not sure....

I started to use MAC Soft Ochre paintpot as a base but quickly realized that the shadow wouldn't stick, bleh!

So I ended up just using an eye cream to prime my eyelid, it worked nicely....

Blend blend blend away, all the colors should run together :)

It is really simple:

1. All over the lid

2. On contour and outer contour area

3. only on crease blended upward to mix up with the 2.

I used 1. on the lower inner lashline, 4. on the middle part of the lower lashline and then 3. on the outer lower lashline, all blended at the seams

In this palette most of the light colors are, how can I say, terrible....so you can use your favorite highlight color....I used MAC Vanilla :)

I used fake lashes from the dollar store, geeze these lashes are long!

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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

88 Palette Monday: 'Holographic'

Welcome to the first creation of my new 88 eyeshadows palette eyes weekly...I'll be creating quick looks using the wonderful 88 eyeshadows palette among other things! I'm super excited about this because a majority of all those gorgeous colors are just sitting around not being used, I felt this was a great way to let them out of their shell! haha

Today's eye is called 'Holographic', thanks to my husband that suggested it, which is not holographic but I see where he was coming from :) I started with a bronzy base eyeshadow, I used mischievous marissa in the Shady Lady palette but any frosty bronze color will do....

now the fun part....

I hope you all can read the markings on the picture!

2. I added the light green color from the palette along my inner contour area.

3. I added the purple mauve color right next to it.

4. I then added the bright blue on the outer area of my lid right next to purple mauve.

5. next I added lightest blue, a color right below the highlight color.

6. I then added the highlight color.

7. afterwards I used a MAC brush 217 and blended in the Dark blue on my outer v and crease for depth.

8. the dark blue was used on my outer lower lashline then medium green for the rest.

9. Temping Tara from the Shady lady palette is what is on my inner corner.

And of course lots of blending!

Used ELF Dramatic false eyelashes for a finishing touch