Swatch Alert MAC Mini Haul:Lippie Time!

Check out my recent haul that I did when I stumbled into MAC recently. I have a love hate relationship with MAC... hating that I love their lip colors so much. What I love most though is my ability to create unique new colors, often mixing lip tars by Obsessive Compulsive cosmetics and lip sticks or even lip glasses. I'm a true artist at heart. Check out the swatches and a look I created using a lip tar and gloss together

Bare Lipped

SPICE

Girl About Town

Funtabulous Dazzleglass

Im Passioned lip Stick

Here I used Girl About Town and layered it over Anime Lip Tar by OCC Here with the fabulous Marie Denee of The Curvy Fashionista she's amazing in MAC's All MY Purple Life Created by Afrobella and sold out! Bring it back MAC!

Happy Shopping Ladies

Illamasqua's Human Fundamentalism Collection FOTD: Smoked Purple Look

 Hello Beautiful People,

 Feeling a little purple today. So I decided to translate that into a beautiful look using Illamasqua's Fundamental Palette and gloss in Fierce. I'm certainly in love with the pigment in Illamasqua that is no surprise what you see is certainly what you get. Check out the rest of the collection below (which I'm tempted to get the rest God help me) as well as another purple look that Illamasqua created for their campaign.

So to  subdue the brightness of the Fierce Lip gloss on my lip I first lined and filled in my lips with the Inception shadow (purple) that is in the palette then I layered a thin layer of the Fierce lip gloss in the middle of both the top and lower lip and pressed them together.

For my eyes I put Inception all over the lid using my eye shader brush (Royal and Langnickel Silk Pro) and in the crease I used liquid metal Surge from the palette and with my smudge brush and blended it half way into my crease and up just a smidgen. I then lined my eyes with MAC Graphblack pencil and finished my eyes off with MAC False Lashes Extreme Black.

 For my face I used the usual suspects Make Up For Ever Primer #4, HD Foundation in color 178 and HD concealer in #365. I didn't use powder on my face as the weather is wreaking havoc on my skin, but on a normal day I'd finish everything off with Kevyn Aucoin Gossamer powder and Make Up For Ever Mist spray.

Neutral Palette, Fundamental Palette, Nomad Nail Varnish, Stance Nail Varnish, Burst E/S, Pivot E/S, Cancan E/S, Sex E/S (Behind) Precision Ink in White, Intense Lipgloss in Fierce and Box Lipstick

Revlon's PhotoReady 3D Volume Mascara Review

Hello Beautiful People,

      So I wanted to share with you my newest love affair... its with Revlon's PhotoReady 3D Volume Mascara, and oh my is it doing fabulous things to my lashes. So what sets it apart? For one the brush is AMAZING it has so many benefits as if a spa in a bottle for your eye hairs. The bristles comb through every single lash making double or triple layers of mascara not cakey but a piece of cake.The formula is also great not becoming to brittle and flaking or even clumping up. I love love love this mascara and totally recommend this for the masses of ladies out there looking for lengthening and volumizing without the clump and the fuss.

Check out the bristles all over the head to get the smallest hairs and really plump up your lower lashes

Before Photo

After Revlon PhotoReady 3D Mascara 

Sunday Styles: Houndstooth Dress

Hello Beautiful People,

         You know a girl like me doesn't dumb down the fashions no matter where I go. I believe fashion is a creative representation of you and I take that very seriously. So church is no different of course I'm conscious of the things I wear so I wanted to share with you my choices that  I make and how I supplement sometimes too short situations. Check it out.

Pretty in Purple FOTD

Hello Beautiful People!
   
    Oh how I've missed you guys and MAKEUP! Yes I feel like I've been away from it if only for a week but on the internet for so much longer. Any who in the coming months I'm going to make it my business to get more looks up on the blog to share with you guys because at the end of the day thats what I love. So first up I wanted to share a pretty purple look that I came up with, for some this will be only for special occasions and evenings. For people like me who wear full face makeup daily, its a pretty everyday look. Without further delay here it is...

What products I used:

MAC Pencil Just Wonderful

MAC Lipglass Comfort & Joy

NARS Danmari All About Cheek Palette  (Check your local sephora or ebay)

MAC Vintage Grape Blush

Kat Von D Poetica Palette

Urban Decay 15th Anniversary Palette

Ardell Lashes 116

Kevyn Aucoin eye pencil in Black

EVE Pearl  HD Liquid Foundation 

EVE Pearl  HD Dual Foundation in DEEP (Darker Color)

Eyebrows  Anastasia Beauty express for Brows and Eyes

MAC Prep and Prime Transparent Finishing Powder Compact

And Here is the Video...

Monday Purple Look

Hello Beautiful People!

I figured before I fail myself at the 30 day blogger challenge (Day 8 I think I've lost count :) that I would post some of the things that keep me from blogging sometimes. On my MUA Community Chat line we are doing a color themed week and today is PURPLE! I love purple and happen to forget all about it this morning and did the look in purple rocked it all day fiercely in the 95 degree heat so when I got home I jumped in the shower... So at 11pm when I go on facebook and realize what color today was I was thoroughly mad with myself. Longstory short I redid the look. Here it is in all its glory.

Live,Laugh,Love and Learn

Miss Merli

Here is an old purple look that I did a while back... I still love it

For the looks I used the following
Urban Decay Palette
MAC Mineralize powder
Revlon Black liner
Loreal voluminous mascara
Stila jewel lip glaze in amethyst
Covergirl lipstick in Divine